Author : Gillian Harding-Russell
Publisher : Ekstasis Editions
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781896860831
Candles in My Head rips the cover off a woman's experience of family life to expose the turbulent undercurrents hidden beneath the placid family portrait. Here is a poet exploring daily life with a magnifying glass, revealing shades of what remains out of sight the way an ultrasound reveals what lies within.
Author : Aline Kilmer
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 1919
Category : History
ISBN :
Candles that Burn by Aline Kilmer, first published in 1919, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Tabitha King
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440621799
“A mix of magic realism and Southern gothic, this stunning collaboration between King and McDowell…moves at a hypnotic pace, like an Alabama water moccasin slipping through black water.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Calliope “Calley” Dakin is no normal little girl. She hears things that maybe a little girl shouldn’t hear—and knows things a little girl should never know. Just seven when her beloved father is tortured, murdered, and dismembered by two women with no discernable motivation, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile them to Pensacola Beach. There—in a house that’s a dead ringer for Calley’s late great-grandmother’s house—another woman awaits their presence. A woman who understands what Calley is, but can’t begin to imagine just how strong her bond is with her father—even after death... Known for his chilling Blackwater series, author Michael McDowell left behind the unfinished manuscript for Candles Burning on his death in 1999. In the spirit of the ghost stories that Michael loved, Tabitha King has taken up where he left off.
Author : Maud Diver
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230284361
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... futility; but the best type of modern parent is chary of needless intrusion into a temple built for two. "Since Gwen has set the example," she said cheerily, " I authorize a 'general post'l It's waste of good material letting you two men drive down together. You come with me in the victoria, and let your nice friend drive Mrs. Videlle in the cart. He won't mind, will he?" "Don't much look as if he would," Finlay remarked drily, with a glance at the two who seemed absorbed in their subject or each other. Then his gaze reverted to Gwen's vanishing figure. "Is that really coming off?" he asked as the curtains fell behind her. "Why? Are people already discussing cheap and effective wedding presents?" Finlay winced. "There or thereabouts. May I discourage them? "Certainly. On principle!" "Not on the strength of facts?" Question and tone seemed to plead for fuller confidence; and this woman of the bravely smiling face was too intimate with the ache of suspense not to respond. "My dear man, I know no more of the facts than you do," she said kindly. "I believe in respecting the reserve of the young; and in some things, my outspoken lass is almost as 'inward' as her own father. What's more, she's got his head on her shoulders; and has been reared not to look upon marriage as an end in itself, but simply as a condition to be accepted for the sake of the one man she could not endure to lose. If she is going to feel that way about Frank Eve-ett, --well--one must put up with it. But at least I have safeguarded her to the best of my power; and she knows she is supremely needed at home. I couldn't bear that any girl of mine should be driven to accept a man as a means to an end. It is bad enough seeing other people's daughters--" She broke off abruptly;...
Author : Anna Quindlen
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0679604006
“[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise, commonsensical, irresistibly quotable take on life. . . . What Nora Ephron does for body image and Anne Lamott for spiritual neuroses, Quindlen achieves on the home front.”—NPR Includes an exclusive conversation between Meryl Streep and Anna Quindlen! In this irresistible memoir, Anna Quindlen writes about a woman’s life, from childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, using the events of her life to illuminate ours. Considering—and celebrating—everything from marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, parenting, faith, loss, to all the stuff in our closets, and more, Quindlen says for us here what we may wish we could have said ourselves. As she did in her beloved New York Times columns, and in A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen uses her past, present, and future to explore what matters most to women at different ages. Quindlen talks about Marriage: “A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn’t believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.” Girlfriends: “Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends. ” Our bodies: “I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come.” Parenting: “Being a parent is not transactional. We do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: We are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.” Candid, funny, and moving, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake is filled with the sharp insights and revealing observations that have long confirmed Quindlen’s status as America’s laureate of real life. “Classic Quindlen, at times witty, at times wise, and always of her time.”—The Miami Herald “[A] pithy, get-real memoir.”—Booklist
Author : E.P. David
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
When death hits the rewind button on your life, what would you change? For Sarah Jane Ashford it would be her passionate but tumultuous marriage to her high school sweetheart Sam. Her life meets a tragic end when the impact from a car accident dislodges her soul and propels her into the past. Sarah dies on Cahill Expressway in her thirties, and reawakens under the watchful eyes of her Boys II Men poster at age seventeen. Believing this sojourn into 1994 was an opportunity to rebuild her flawed relationship with Sam, she attempts to address the issues that began in the early days of courtship. A simple plan – if it weren’t for a celestial gag on topics regarding time travel; an ex-best friend with a life altering secret; and a rekindled friendship with Marcus, a boy she had dismissed as a mere acquaintance in high school. It is only by reliving her teen years through adult eyes that Sarah can confront her own shortcomings, alter her destiny and become the woman she was...
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN :
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 10716 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The War of the Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man... Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth 20.000 Leagues under the Sea The Mysterious Island... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Last Man Edgar Wallace: Planetoid 127 The Green Rust... Otis Adelbert Kline: The Venus Trilogy The Mars Series Malcolm Jameson: Captain Bullard Series Garrett P. Serviss: Edison's Conquest of Mars A Columbus of Space The Sky Pirate... Arthur Conan Doyle: The Professor Challenger Series Francis Bacon: New Atlantis Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland Jack London: Iron Heel The Scarlet Plague The Star Rover... Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde George MacDonald: Lilith H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines She William H. Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land... Edgar Allan Poe: Some Words with a Mummy Mellonta Tauta... H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond the Wall of Sleep The Cats of Ulthar Celephaïs Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward: 2000–1887 Equality... Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Owen Gregory: Meccania the Super-State Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels William Morris: News from Nowhere Samuel Butler: Erewhon Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race James Fenimore Cooper: The Monikins Hugh Benson: Lord of the World Fred M. White: The Doom of London Ernest Bramah: The Secret of the League Arthur D. Vinton: Looking Further Backward Robert Cromie: The Crack of Doom Anthony Trollope: The Fixed Period Cleveland Moffett: Richard Jefferies: After London Francis Stevens: The Heads of Cerberus Percy Greg: Across the Zodiac David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus Stanley G. Weinbaum: Stories from the Solar System Abraham Merritt: The Moon Pool The Metal Monster... Hyne: The Lost Continent
Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466822821
Turing Option is written by Harry Harrison who is also the author of Deathworld, Make Room! Make Room! (filmed as Soylent Green), the popular Stainless Steel Rat books, and many other famous works of SF. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Mara Purnhagen
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1426887760
It's taken a long time for me to feel like a normal teenager. But now that I'm settled in a new school, where people know me as more than Charlotte Silver of the infamous Silver family paranormal investigators, it feels like everything is falling into place. And what better way to be normal than to go on a date with a popular football star like Harris Abbott? After all, it's not as if Noah is anything more than a friend…. But my new life takes a disturbing turn when Harris brings me to a party and we play a game called One Hundred Candles. It seems like harmless, ghostly fun. Until spirits unleashed by the game start showing up at school. Now my friends and family are in very real danger, and the door that I've opened into another realm may yield deadly consequences.
