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Book Synopsis The End of Absence by : Michael John Harris
Download or read book The End of Absence written by Michael John Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? Those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare opportunity. We can still recognize the difference between Before and After. We catch ourselves idly reaching for our phones at the bus stop. Or we notice how, midconversation, a fumbling friend dives into the perfect recall of Google. In this eloquent and thought-provoking book, Michael Harris argues that amid all the changes we're experiencing, the most interesting is the end of absence-the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished. There's no true "free time" when you carry a smartphone. Today's rarest commodity is the chance to be alone with your thoughts. Michael Harris is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Western Living and Vancouvermagazines. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
Download or read book Absence written by Peter Handke and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Book Synopsis In the Absence of Light by : Adrienne Wilder
Download or read book In the Absence of Light written by Adrienne Wilder and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years Grant Kessler has smuggled goods from one end of the world to the next. When business turns in a direction Grant isn't willing to follow he decides to retire and by all appearances he settles down in a nowhere town called Durstrand. But his real plan is to wait a few years and let the FBI lose interest, then move on to the distant coastal life he's always dreamed of. Severely autistic, Morgan cannot look people in the eye, tell left from right, and has uncontrolled tics. Yet he's beaten every obstacle life has thrown his way. And when Grant Kessler moves into town Morgan isn't a bit shy in letting the man know how much he wants him. While the attraction is mutual, Grant pushes Morgan away. Like the rest of the world he can't see past Morgan's odd behaviors Then Morgan shows Grant how light lets you see but it also leaves you blind. And once Grant opens his eyes, he loses his heart to the beautiful enigma of a man who changes the course of his life.
Book Synopsis In Her Absence by : Antonio Munoz Molina
Download or read book In Her Absence written by Antonio Munoz Molina and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] translucent novel of passion, illusion and social class....slyly witty and luminous." —Francine Prose in O, The Oprah Magazine During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the impassioned lover of Blanca, the beautiful, inscrutable wife he saved from the brink of personal crisis. For the love of Blanca, Mario eats sushi and carpaccio, nods in feigned understanding at experimental films, sits patiently through long conversations with her avant-garde friends, and conceals his disgust at shocking art exhibits. Then, little by little, a strange and ominous threat begins to weigh on the marriage. How can love survive its own disappearance? The desperate answer that Antonio Muñoz Molina proposes in this short, circular novella is a model of literary strategy and style, a splendid homage to Flaubert.
Download or read book Absent written by Katie Williams and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old Paige dies in a freak fall from the roof during Physics class, her spirit is bound to the grounds of her high school. At least she has company: her fellow ghosts Evan and Brooke, who also died there. But when Paige hears the rumor that her death wasn't an accident—that she supposedly jumped on purpose—she can't bear it. Then Paige discovers something amazing. She can possess living people when they think of her, and she can make them do almost anything. Maybe, just maybe, she can get to the most popular girl in school and stop the rumors once and for all.
Book Synopsis A Cry of Absence by : Martin E. Marty
Download or read book A Cry of Absence written by Martin E. Marty and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the Psalms and adding the distilled wisdom of years of study and writing, Martin Marty offers a meditation marked by insight, strength, and a sure, sober faith. Throughout A Cry of Absence, he pursues the metaphor of the "winter of the heart." Marty bases his concept of the wintry way to God on a passage from the theologian Karl Rahner, describing a "wintry sort of spirituality." It refers to movement toward faith that grapples with pain, uncertainty, evil, loss, and the mystery of death to discover "hope on the winter-fallow landscape."
Book Synopsis The Book of Disappearance by : Ibtisam Azem
Download or read book The Book of Disappearance written by Ibtisam Azem and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who converses with his dead grandmother in the journal he left behind when he disappeared, and his Jewish neighbor, Ariel, a journalist struggling to understand the traumatic event. Through these perspectives, the novel stages a confrontation between two memories. Ariel is a liberal Zionist who is critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, but nevertheless believes in Israel’s project and its national myth. Alaa is haunted by his grandmother’s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland. Ariel’s search for clues to the secret of the collective disappearance and his reaction to it intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question. The Book of Disappearance grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory for the Palestinians. Presenting a narrative that is often marginalized, Antoon’s translation of the critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel.
Book Synopsis Felon: Poems by : Reginald Dwayne Betts
Download or read book Felon: Poems written by Reginald Dwayne Betts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize “A powerful work of lyric art.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of post-incarceration existence in traditional and newfound forms, from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion.
Download or read book Literary Tourism written by Ian Jenkins and published by CABI. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary tourism is a nascent field in tourism studies, yet tourists often travel in the footsteps of well-known authors and stories. Providing a wide-ranging cornucopia of literary tourism topics, this book fully explores the interconnections between the written word and travel. It includes tourism stories using guidebooks, films, television and electronic media, and recognises that stories, texts and narratives, even if they cannot be classified as traditional travel writing, can become journeys in themselves and take us on imaginary voyages. Appealing to a wide audience of different disciplines, it encompasses subjects such as business literary writing, historical journeys and the poetry of Dylan Thomas. The use of these different perspectives demonstrates how heavily and widely literature influences travel, tourists and tourism, making it an important read for researchers and students of tourism, social science and literature.
Download or read book Absent Children written by Tim Wenzell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Shemanki is a paranoid seventeen year old boy who had built a secret room in his closet to hide from kidnappers who have already taken his baby brother Benjamin from his crib. Fearing their return and tiring of the incessant wailing of his mother,Eddie runs away from home and begins a journey that will lead him into to a quest to find Benjamin. Hiding in a cave and working in a restaurant, Eddie's solitude leads him into encounters with a variety of eccentric characters, from a friend who is allergic to dust to a Vietnam vet to an old woman who worships her dead husband like a God. Then Eddie meets "The Men of Fire," Good Samaritans who will help him in his quest to bring Benjamin home. Behind everything are the Philadelphia Phillies and their perpetual losing seasons, along with Eddie's past, filled with his days of Catholic school and the memorizing of saints and Eddie's unfilled desire to own a giant monitor lizard,all of which propel the novel to Eddie's inevitable destiny.
Book Synopsis Absent Friends (The Witch Who Came in from the Cold Season 2 Episode 11) by : Max Gladstone
Download or read book Absent Friends (The Witch Who Came in from the Cold Season 2 Episode 11) written by Max Gladstone and published by Serial Box. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 11th episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this genre-defying serial created by Lindsay Smith and Max Gladstone. In Season 2, Episode 11, Edith's untimely death leaves her discovery a mystery but Gabe in a cell as her suspected murderer. After a long chase through the shadows, Frank and Sasha finally come face to face. With his number of allies swiftly dwindling Josh crosses the curtain to ask for help. Welcome to Prague, 1970: the epicenter in a Cold War of spies and sorcerers. The streets are a deadly chessboard on which the CIA and KGB make their moves, little dreaming that a deeper game is being played between the Consortium of Ice and the Acolytes of Flame, ancient factions of sorcery. Praise for The Witch Who Came in from the Cold: "Those who like to mix magic, spycraft, and secret history should enjoy this—it may please fans of Stross’s Laundry series." —Locus Magazine "Full of fast-paced, high-intensity action paired with magic at a level that has not been seen until now, with a cliff-hanger that lets readers know that the game is not over and has only just begun." —The San Francisco Book Review "The Witch Who Came in from the Cold is a chilly evocation of a different kind of Cold War." —Charles Stross, author of the Laundry Files series “Take a double shot of Le Carré, a dash of Deighton, a twist of Quiller, a splash of Al Stewart’s The Year of the Cat, throw in a jigger full of elemental magic, mix well ... and voilà! The Witch Who Came In From The Cold.” —Victor Milán, author of The Dinosaur Lords "The occult love child of John le Carre and The Sandbaggers." —Marie Brennan, author of A Natural History of Dragons "As soon as I saw that, I was instantly hooked, and the pilot jacked the intrigue to the max. Two female Soviet spy witches, an American spy with something weird drilling magical holes in his head, and a world of secrets within secrets in a locale where old-world myth and the Cold War face off, pedal to the metal . . . it’s awesome. Or as we said in 1970, Far out. " —Sherwood Smith, author of Crown Duel "The installments are easy to read one at a time, but the tangles of alliances, secrets, and shocking double-crosses will have readers up all night mumbling, “Just one more.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Download or read book Absent Friends written by S. J. Rozan and published by Dell. This book was released on 2008 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner Rozan, set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11.
Book Synopsis Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks by : Sarah Czerny
Download or read book Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks written by Sarah Czerny and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a comparison of everyday practices surrounding dairy production and breastfeeding in Croatia, this book explores the way that humans work to transform milk into human or animal milks.
Book Synopsis Token of Remembrance from a Mother to Her Absent Children, by :
Download or read book Token of Remembrance from a Mother to Her Absent Children, written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters from an Absent Brother, Containing Some Account of a Tour Through Parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland, Northern Italy, and France, in the Summer of 1823 by : Daniel Wilson (Bishop of Calcutta.)
Download or read book Letters from an Absent Brother, Containing Some Account of a Tour Through Parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland, Northern Italy, and France, in the Summer of 1823 written by Daniel Wilson (Bishop of Calcutta.) and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters from an Absent Brother, Containing Some Account of a Tour Through Parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland, Northern Italy and France, in the Summer of 1823 by : Daniel Wilson
Download or read book Letters from an Absent Brother, Containing Some Account of a Tour Through Parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland, Northern Italy and France, in the Summer of 1823 written by Daniel Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin by : Wisconsin. Supreme Court
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin written by Wisconsin. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: