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The Last Days of Lacuna Cabal

Author : Sean Dixon
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590513304
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Lacuna Cabal written by Sean Dixon and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The girls of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club are at a crossroads. One of their founding members is dead, they’ve made a few unfortunate compromises to their membership, some of them aren’t getting any younger, and they’ve been stuck on a single weepy tome for six long months. Resident maverick Runner Coghill decides to shake things up by introducing a cherished family heirloom to the group — ten pristine stone tablets, carved in cuneiform, telling the oldest story in the world: The Epic of Gilgamesh. Because their new book is written in an ancient language, the group must take the unprecedented step of allowing Runner to translate the whole story for them. But Runner’s narration is not of a common vein. Before they know it, the Cabalists have been thrust out to sea, on a journey in search of answers that extends halfway across the world to the war-torn land of this oldest story’s birth. The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal is an offbeat rites-of-passage novel whose characters live out literature with ferocity and passion. It is a funny, quixotic debut that follows the members of a shallow, squabbling, time-wasting, protracted-adolescent book club as they find themselves transformed through the alchemy of the storyteller’s art.

A God in Need of Help

Author : Sean Dixon
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770563814
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book A God in Need of Help written by Sean Dixon and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1606 and Europe is at war over God. At the behest of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, Venice’s four strongest men are charged with transporting a holy painting — Albrecht Dürer's The Brotherhood of the Rosary — across the Alps to Prague. In the small Alpine village of Pusterwald, they are set upon by Protestant zealots; their escape is attributed to a miracle. The strongmen and their captain are summoned to an inquiry, led by the magistrate of Venice and the cardinal archbishop of Milan, to determine whether something divine did indeed occur. Each man's recounting adds a layer of colour to the canvas. Through this vividly painted mystery, inspired by true events, Sean Dixon challenges the role of faith at the dawn of the Age of Reason. Sean Dixon is a playwright, novelist, and actor. His plays are collected in AWOL: Three Plays for Theatre SKAM. Sean's novels are The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal and The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn.

The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn

Author : Sean Dixon
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 177056280X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn written by Sean Dixon and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Sean Dixon: “Energetic. . . . Full of sound and fury.”—Kirkus Review “Reminiscent of the kind of irrepressibly mischievous and literary novels that John Barth used to write. Call it populist poindexterism.”—Quill & Quire It all started with a black rose and a rich young man. And a house with a creek running through it. And then there she was, Kip Flynn, standing beside her boyfriend's dead body and agreeing to take a large sum of money from the young man's father to keep quiet. As if she could have done anything else, being so scared and grief-stricken and maybe pregnant. But that's not the end of it. You see, there's some kind of connection between Kip and this rich developer's son that keeps them tight in one another's orbit. So when Kip awakens from her grief, intent on revenge, they find themselves pursuing one another with a ferocity they can barely understand, one that spirals outward, with subway accidents and arson and drainpipes and backhoe wars, to envelop roommates, two guilty fathers, a window-cleaner or two, landlords, family secrets, a Vietnamese gangster, a stand-up bass player and an activist tour guide. And concluding in the subterranean heart of Toronto itself, which, like Kip, is torn between vengefulness and growth. Sean Dixon is a novelist, playwright, and banjo player. He's the author of the novel The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal; two novels for young readers, The Feathered Cloak and The Winter Drey; and several plays, including those collected in AWOL: Three Plays for Theatre SKAM.

Toronto Noir

Author : Janine Armin
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617750999
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Toronto Noir written by Janine Armin and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stories of murder, passion, betrayal . . . grounded very firmly and specifically in Toronto—Dundas Square, The Beach, Dufferin Mall, Yorkville, etc.” —BlogTO A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities that provide fertile backdrops for crimes of passion and perfidy. Toronto Noir proves that Ontario’s clean-cut capital hides an underworld of sin, scandal, and everyday evil. This anthology features stories by RM Vaughan, Nathan Sellyn, Ibi Kaslik, Peter Robinson, Heather Birrell, Sean Dixon, Raywat Deonandad, Christine Murray, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Andrew Pyper, Kim Moritsugu, Mark Sinnett, George Elliott Clarke, Pasha Malla, and Michael Redhill. “With the help of some very skilled local writers, they’ve shown Toronto Noir is no oxymoron . . . Our authors also come up with rattling good and dark yarns from such yuppie hangouts as the Beach, Bloor West Village and the Distillery District.” —Toronto Reads “The collection by no means neglects the multi-racial, multi-ethnic character of the new Toronto . . . a most successful anthology.” —ReviewingTheEvidence.com

Library Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The British National Bibliography

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1922 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Girls who Saw Everything

Author : Sean Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554353781
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book The Girls who Saw Everything written by Sean Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2010* with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Woman's Book Club loves to bring to life tableaux from the books they read. But when they begin to enact the Epic of Gilgamesh, in the early days of the Iraq War, the book begins to enact them instead. And, as it does, the Cabal starts to splinter, driving our narrators out of their own tale. Cross-dressing Aline becomes obsessed with the Baghdad Blogger, Anna with dabbling in prostitution, and Emily with the maker of the Fitzbot, an ambulatory artificial-intelligence experiment. In the centre of it all is Runner Coghill, who is still mourning her twin sister and who brought to the group the ten priceless cuneiform Gilgamesh stones. Underlying it all is the tale of telling the tale, the convolutedness and self-consciousness of our delightful narrators, Jennifer and Danielle, as they reconstruct the tangled story to bring us a novel that is cryptographically charming and eruditely engrossing. 'A sort of Tristram Shandy for the twenty-first century, Sean Dixon's first novel is an intellectual, sexual, logorrheac, bibliophilic, cryptological, political and archaeological rant of the first order. It'll change your idea of what "written in stone" means, and itll blow your mind too.' - Michael Redhill

The Girls who Saw Everything

Author : Sean Dixon
Publisher : Coach House Press
ISBN 13 : 9781552451847
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Girls who Saw Everything written by Sean Dixon and published by Coach House Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club is not content simply to read and discuss books. Their process is a little more involved. They once kidnapped Irving Layton and took him for an excursion up a mountain. They attempted to recreate a scene of a nun swinging from a bridge-builder's broken arm in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion . But when they begin to re-enact the Epic of Gilgamesh , in the early daysof the Iraq War, the book begins to enact them instead, sending the Cabalists across the globe and driving the narrators out of their own tale. Cross-dressing Aline becomes obsessed with the Baghdad Blogger, Anna with dabbling in prostitution, Missy with the ticking of her biological clock, Romy with Emmy, and the striped (yes, striped!) Emmy with the maker of the fitzbot, an ambulatory artificial-intelligence experiment. In the centre of it all are Runner Coghill and her little brother Neil, who are still mourning their sister and who brought to the group the ten priceless cuneiform Gilgamesh stones. Underlying it all is the tale of telling the tale, the convolutedness and self-consciousness of our delighted narrators, Jennifer and Danielle, as they reconstruct the tangled story - with more than their fair share of asides - to bring us a novel that is cryptographically charming and eruditely engrossing. The Girls Who Saw Everything presents a bizarre book club like no other, and a story so delightfully allusive to literature that it may very well become a book club favourit itself - though only among the slightly strange. 'A sort of Tristram Shandy for the twenty-first century, Sean Dixon's first novel is an intellectual, sexual, logorrheic, bibliophilic, cryptological, political and archeological rant of the first order. It'll change your idea of what "written in stone" means, and it'll blow your mind too.' - Michael Redhill ( Consolation, Martin Sloane )

Cabal

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0006176666
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Cabal written by Clive Barker and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1989 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The nightmare had begun!. Boone knew that there was no place on this earth for him now; no happiness here, not even with Lori. He would let Hell claim him, let Death take him there. But Death itself seemed to shrink from Boone. No wonder, if he had indeed been the monster who had shattered, violated and shredded so many others' lives. And Decker had shown him the proof -- the hellish photographs where the last victims were forever stilled, splayed in the last obscene moment of their torture. Boone's only refuge now was Midian -- that awful, legendary place in which gathered the half-dead, the Nightbreed!"-- Publisher description.

The Works of Cornelius Tacitus; with an Essay on His Life and Genius ... by Arthur Murphy ... A New Edition, with the Author's Last Corrections

Author : Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Cornelius Tacitus; with an Essay on His Life and Genius ... by Arthur Murphy ... A New Edition, with the Author's Last Corrections written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works...

Author : Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Works... written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Murphy's Tacitus

Author : Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Murphy's Tacitus written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dog of the South

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590206584
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Dog of the South written by Charles Portis and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Charles Portis] understood, and conveyed, the grain of America, in ways that may prove valuable in future to historians trying to understand what was decent about us as a nation.” --Donna Tartt, New York Times Book Review Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they've gone. He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple's spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten up and broken down bus, who needs a ride to Belize. The further they drive, in a car held together by coat-hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. But they're not going to give up easily.

The Market Mafia

Author : Palak Shah
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 164951848X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book The Market Mafia written by Palak Shah and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, the then SEBI Chairman C B Bhave’s detachment from his Dharma as ‘the market watchdog’ opened the door for data theft at the National Stock Exchange (NSE), India’s largest asset pool. It also led to the installation of defective Co-location (COLO) trading infrastructure at NSE, by an unofficial decree, which gave a select few brokers preferential access to equity derivatives. Fast-moving trading bots, deep-rooted nexus between enterprising PhD scholars Ajay Shah and Susan Thomas, economists, top dollar earning executives, politicians, bureaucrats and salivating brokers were at play. In 2015, SEBI was woken up by a whistleblower, who described the contours of a front-running market operation perpetrated for over five years involving the use of COLO and High-Frequency Trading. Surprisingly, SEBI never scrutinized NSE’s COLO grid – an omission of duty – before the whistleblower highlighted the skulduggery. Harshad Mehta and Ketan Parekh are considered the ‘formidable villains’ for exploiting the systemic loopholes to manipulate share prices. Once the Demigods of Dalal Street, the rogue stock traders attracted such severe crack-down from government investigative agencies that could shock even the most hardened criminals. But a scandal of much larger magnitude involving data theft at NSE and the Multi Commodity Exchange, that Mehta and Parekh could ever rev-up, has largely remained a mystery. The author’s path-breaking investigative journalism fleshes out the meticulous planning and organization behind the COLO scam, the dark drama involving SEBI probe and its loosely-knit final verdict.

Inheritance

Author : David Mulwa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Inheritance written by David Mulwa and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The School Gates

Author : Fiona Snyckers
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1928433200
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The School Gates written by Fiona Snyckers and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We know what's best for our children." Burnt out after years as a professional dancer, Ella Burchell moves to a small town on the KwaZulu Natal north coast hoping to rebuild her life. Things look up when she gets a job teaching dance to children at a for-profit private school. But Ella hasn't reckoned with the cabal of private-school mums who run the Pines Academy as their own personal fiefdom. Circling into cliques at the school gates every morning, the mums are a force to be reckoned with. Soon Ella is too busy fielding their demands to concentrate on her own troubles. Distraction arrives in the form of an attractive cricket coach, but Ella hardly has time to pay attention. Fun, fast-paced and hilarious, this novel by an award-winning author skewers the world of private-school privilege.

The Family Tree

Author : Sean Dixon
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 0735267677
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Family Tree written by Sean Dixon and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family tree assignment leads an adopted girl to discover the different ways to be a family. When her teacher gives her class a simple family tree assignment, Ada is stumped. How can she make her family fit into this simple template? Ada is adopted. She can see where to put her parents on the tree, but what about her birth mom? Ada has a biological sister, but her sister has different adoptive parents — where do they go on the tree? But with the help of her friends and family, Ada figures it out. She creates her family tree . . . and so much more. Loosely based on the author's own experience, this moving story explores the different ways families are created and how the modern family is more diverse and welcoming than ever before.