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The Bend of the World

Author : Jacob Bacharach
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1631490001
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Bend of the World written by Jacob Bacharach and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bacharach has a great comic voice— shrewd, deadpan, and dirty—and The Bend of the World fears no weirdness.”—Sam Lipsyte “Mighty strange doings” mark the Pittsburgh of Jacob Bacharach’s audacious and hilarious debut novel, a town where “yeti, UFOs, rumors of orgiastic rites, intimations of the Mayan apocalypse and ‘psycho-temporal distortions’ add that extra zing to the bustling night life” (James Wolcott). On the edge of thirty, and comfortably adrift in life, Peter Morrison finds his personal and professional life taking a turn for the weird as his attempts to transition into adulthood are thwarted by conspiracies both real and imagined. In this madcap coming-of-age novel, where no one quite comes of age, Bacharach brings an “immensely entertaining” and “Vonnegut-like sensibility” (Library Journal ) to the “aptly surreal satire” (Dan Chaon) of hipsters, corporations, and American life in the adolescent years of the twenty-first century. “A disarming, intelligent and seriously funny debut,” The Bend of the World “marks the arrival of Jacob Bacharach as a writer to watch” (Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

Bend, Not Break

Author : Ping Fu
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1591846811
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Bend, Not Break written by Ping Fu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born on the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping Fu was separated from her family at the age of eight. She grew up fighting hunger and humiliation and shielding her younger sister from the teenagers in Mao’s Red Guard. At twenty-five, she found her way to the United States; her only resources were $80 and a few phrases of English. Yet Ping persevered, and the hard-won lessons of her childhood guided her to success in her new homeland. Aided by her well-honed survival instincts, a few good friends, and the kindness of strangers, she grew into someone she never thought she’d be—a strong, independent, entrepreneurial leader. “She tells her story with intelligence, verve and a candor that is often heart-rending.” —The Wall Street Journal “This well-written tale of courage, compassion, and undaunted curiosity reveals the life of a genuine hero.” —Booklist (starred review) “Her success at the American Dream is a real triumph.” —The New York Post

The Bend of the World: A Novel

Author : Jacob Bacharach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871408147
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book The Bend of the World: A Novel written by Jacob Bacharach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bacharach has a great comic voice— shrewd, deadpan, and dirty—and The Bend of the World fears no weirdness.”—Sam Lipsyte “Mighty strange doings” mark the Pittsburgh of Jacob Bacharach’s audacious and hilarious debut novel, a town where “yeti, UFOs, rumors of orgiastic rites, intimations of the Mayan apocalypse and ‘psycho-temporal distortions’ add that extra zing to the bustling night life” (James Wolcott). On the edge of thirty, and comfortably adrift in life, Peter Morrison finds his personal and professional life taking a turn for the weird as his attempts to transition into adulthood are thwarted by conspiracies both real and imagined. In this madcap coming-of-age novel, where no one quite comes of age, Bacharach brings an “immensely entertaining” and “Vonnegut-like sensibility” (Library Journal ) to the “aptly surreal satire” (Dan Chaon) of hipsters, corporations, and American life in the adolescent years of the twenty-first century. “A disarming, intelligent and seriously funny debut,” The Bend of the World “marks the arrival of Jacob Bacharach as a writer to watch” (Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

A Bend in the Stars

Author : Rachel Barenbaum
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1538746271
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book A Bend in the Stars written by Rachel Barenbaum and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Light We Cannot See meets The Nightingale in this literary WWI-era novel and epic love story of a brilliant young doctor who races against Einstein to solve one of the universe's great mysteries. In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision. Since their parents drowned fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But now, with fierce, headstrong Miri on the verge of becoming one of Russia's only female surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Before they have time to make their choice, war is declared and Vanya goes missing, along with Miri's fiancé. Miri braves the firing squad to go looking for them both. As the eclipse that will change history darkens skies across Russia, not only the safety of Miri's own family but the future of science itself hangs in the balance. Grounded in real history -- and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914 -- A Bend in the Stars offers a heart-stopping account of modern science's greatest race amidst the chaos of World War I, and a love story as epic as the railways crossing Russia.

Round the Bend

Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1667602799
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Round the Bend written by Nevil Shute and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Round the Bend follows the life of Tom Cutter, an Englishman who becomes a pilot and settles in the Middle East after World War II. Tom starts an air freight business and becomes fascinated by the spiritual beliefs of the local Muslim population, which leads him to start his own religion called "The Way." Through his travels and teachings, Tom attracts a group of devoted followers and becomes a spiritual leader. However, his unconventional beliefs and practices lead to conflict with some of the more traditional religious and political authorities in the region. Despite the challenges he faces, Tom remains committed to his beliefs and the pursuit of a more peaceful and harmonious world. The novel explores themes of religion, spirituality, cultural differences, and the clash between tradition and modernity.

A Bend in the Road

Author : Nicholas Sparks
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 075952582X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book A Bend in the Road written by Nicholas Sparks and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall in love with this small-town love story about a widower sheriff and a divorced schoolteacher who are searching for second chances -- only to be threatened by long-held secrets of the past. Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.

Going to Bend

Author : Diane Hammond
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0385512546
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Going to Bend written by Diane Hammond and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the small coastal town of Hubbard, Oregon, your man may let you down, your boss may let you down, life may let you down . . . but your best friend never will. Welcome to Hubbard, where Petie Coolbaugh and Rose Bundy have been best friends since childhood. Now in their early thirties, both are grappling to come to terms with their age and station in life. As they struggle to make ends meet and provide for their children and the good-hearted but unreliable men in their lives, they take jobs cooking for a brand-new upscale restaurant, Souperior's Cafe, starting from scratch every morning to produce gallons of fresh soup from local recipes. The proprietors of the cafe, Nadine and Gordon, are fraternal twins from Los Angeles with adjustments of their own to make, but Rose’s warmth and the quality of the women’s soups quickly make them indispensable despite Petie’s abrupt manner and prickly ways. The strains of daily life are never far, however, and the past takes its toll on the women. Petie’s childhood as the daughter of the town drunk—a subject she won't talk about—keeps her at a distance from even her best friend, until an unexpected romance threatens to crack her tough exterior. And despite Rose's loving personality, the only man in her life is a loner fisherman who spends only a few months of the year in town. In this fishing village, friends are for life and love comes in the most unexpected ways. As the novel draws together lovers, husbands, employers, friends, and family, each woman finds possibilities for love and even grace that she had never imagined.

Shadows Bend

Author : David Barbour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780441014415
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Shadows Bend written by David Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original debut novel, two real-life legends of fantasy fiction--Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, and H.P. Lovecraft, inventor of the Necronomicon--team up to stop an inhuman infant child from opening the gates to the most dangerous force in the cosmos.

The World is Just a Book Away

Author : James J. Owens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999134801
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The World is Just a Book Away written by James J. Owens and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Bend in the River

Author : V.s. Naipaul
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9781529014099
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book A Bend in the River written by V.s. Naipaul and published by Picador. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new

The Bend of the World

Author : Jacob Bacharach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871406829
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book The Bend of the World written by Jacob Bacharach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Morrison's comfortable life takes an odd turn after his best friend begins seeing UFOs hovering over the city and a promotion at work puts him in touch with an author whose mysterious book seems to be coming true.

World of Tomorrow

Author : Brendan Mathews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1925640620
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book World of Tomorrow written by Brendan Mathews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the opening scene of a shameless Irish charmer posing as a wealthy Scottish lord, this rollicking tale of love, blackmail and betrayal in 1930s New York takes you captive. Only ten days before Sir Angus McFarquar, aka Irish scamp Francis Xavier Dempsey, had been released from a Dublin prison for his father’s funeral when he and his brother were whisked to a getaway car bound for an IRA ‘safe’ house. When the house explodes and cash rains from the sky, the boys take the money and run … When Tom Cronin, a former hitman forced into one last job, tracks the Dempsey brothers down in New York, their lives collide spectacularly. From the smoky jazz joints of Harlem to the mobster warehouses in Hell's Kitchen, The World of Tomorrow delivers superb storytelling, unforgettable characters, and a thoroughly good time. It's easy to see why it was picked as of the top six debuts novels for 2017 at Book Expo’s ‘Buzz Panel’.

The Stars at Oktober Bend

Author : Glenda Millard
Publisher : Old Barn Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910646172
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Stars at Oktober Bend written by Glenda Millard and published by Old Barn Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017, this is a powerful and captivating story about Alice, reaching out to express herself through her beautiful-broken words, and Manny, running to escape his past. Published as a novel for teens, but with writing and themes that reach well beyond those years.

The World's Story

Author : Eva March Tappan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The World's Story written by Eva March Tappan and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World's Story

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The World's Story written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World Book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The World Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Way in the World

Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307789292
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Way in the World written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning author—and "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angeles Times)—spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian … a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."—The New York Times “Most of us know the parents or grandparents we come from. But we go back and back, forever: we go back all of us to the very beginning: in our blood and bone and brain we carry the memories of thousands of beings.” So observes the opening narrator of A Way in the World, and it is this conundrum—that the bulk of our inheritance must remain beyond our grasp—which suffuses this extraordinary work of fiction. Returning to the autobiographical mode he so brilliantly explored in The Enigma of Arrival, and writing here in the classic form of linked narrations, Naipaul constructs a story of remarkable resonance and power, remembrance and invention. It is the story of a writer’s lifelong journey towards an understanding of both the simple stuff of inheritance — language, character, family history — and the long interwoven strands of a deeply complicated historical past: “things barely remembered, things released only by the act of writing.” What he writes — and what his release of memory enables us to see — is a series of extended, illuminated moments in the history of Spanish and British imperialism in the Caribbean: Raleigh’s final, shameful expedition to the New World; Francisco Miranda’s disastrous invasion of South America in the eighteenth century; the more subtle aggressions of the mid-twentieth-century English writer Foster Morris; the transforming and distorting peregrinations of Blair, the black Trinidadian revolutionary. Each episode is viewed through the clarifying lens of the narrator’s own post-colonial experience as a Trinidadian of Indian descent who, during the twilight of the Empire, immigrates to England, reinventing himself in order to escape the very history he is intent upon telling.