Author : Krysten Ritter
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524759848
Successful environmental lawyer Abby Williams is forced to confront her small-town past while investigating a high-profile corruption case back home.
Author : Adrienne Celt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1635571510
Selected by Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Oprah.com, and MSN.com as one of the best books to read this summer! The seductive story of a dangerous love triangle, inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage, with a spellbinding psychological thriller at its core. In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and her new country's paranoia about Russian spies. When she meets the visiting writer and fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov--whose books Zoya has privately obsessed over for years--her luck seems to have taken a turn for the better. But she soon discovers that Leo is not the solution to her loneliness: he's committed to his art and bound by the sinister orchestrations of his brilliant wife, Vera. As the reader unravels the mystery of Zoya, Lev, and Vera's fate, Zoya is faced with mounting pressure to figure out who she is and what kind of life she wants to build. Grappling with class distinctions, national allegiance, and ethical fidelity--not to mention the powerful magnetism of sex--Invitation to a Bonfire investigates how one's identity is formed, irrevocably, through a series of momentary decisions, including how to survive, who to love, and whether to pay the complicated price of happiness.
Author : Caleb Caudell
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 2021-05-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780645066425
Jessie Clemons is out of cash and on the run, from his job, his neighbors, the cops and his life. The Neighbor is a Middle American odyssey in which truck stops and farmhouses stand in for the Aegean Islands and the neon signs of convenience stores are the sirens of dissipation. Told in a unique double-narrative form, with sardonic humour and grim realism, Caleb Caudell's debut novel is an unflinching look at the desolations and consolations of the hidden people of the heartland.
Author : Wendy Lawless
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451675364
Biography.
Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429960566
Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) “A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy.” (The New Republic) Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.
Author : Danusha Laméris
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822987287
Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man’s land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, “bee-stung, drunk” in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake. Excerpt from “Bonfire Opera” In those days, there was a woman in our circle who was known, not only for her beauty, but also for taking off all her clothes and singing opera. And sure enough, as the night wore on and the stars emerged to stare at their reflections on the sea, and everyone had drunk a little wine, she began to disrobe, loose her great bosom and the tender belly, pale in the moonlight, the Viking hips, and to let her torn raiment fall to the sand as we looked up from the flames.
Author : Pamela Freni
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2000-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0595130682
In the dark moments after the Bonfire accident, Texas A&M University, its graduates, and the people of the State responded with spirit and dedication.
Author : James Charles Collins
Publisher : Business & Professional Division
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This inspiring and yet eminently practical guide shows entrepreneurs how to steer a company to enduring greatness. Leadership style, vision, corporate strategy, innovation, tactical excellence and other key elements are all explored in depth.
Author : Braden Kelley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470621672
Essential strategies to transform your organization and boost your profits Want to recapture your organization's original innovative spirit? Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire helps you remove the obstacles that have crippled the innovation superpowers that made your organization successful in the first place. Helps you identify the blockages hindering innovation within your organization Reveals the fundamental changes that will help your business rebuild its hidden or lost innovation capabilities Explores leading innovation theories you can apply right away-without expensive consultants Get the strategies you need to remove innovation barriers, increase profits-and change the way you do business.
Author : Nickolas Butler
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1447238222
Young couples gather to participate in an annual 'chainsaw party', cutting down trees for firewood in anticipation of the winter. A group of men spend a weekend in the wilderness where they grew up, and where some still find themselves trapped. An ageing environmentalist takes out his frustration and anger on a singular, unsuspecting target. A woman helps another get revenge against a man whose crime extends to an entire community. In these ten stories, Nickolas Butler demonstrates his talent for portraying a place and its people with unparalleled tenderness, evoking an American landscape that will be instantly recognizable to readers enchanted by his debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs.
