Book Description
Ryan Cosgrove and Liliana Delgado are on a collision course with destiny. They don't know it yet, but before the night is over their lives will be forever changed.
Author : Marie Hall
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2013-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492722632
Ryan Cosgrove and Liliana Delgado are on a collision course with destiny. They don't know it yet, but before the night is over their lives will be forever changed.
Author : Mathias Nilges
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810143445
In How to Read a Moment, Mathias Nilges shows that time is inseparable from the stories we tell about it, demonstrating that the contemporary American novel offers new ways to make sense of the temporality that governs our present. “Time is a thing that grows scarcer every day,” observes one of Don DeLillo’s characters. “The future is gone,” The Baffler argues. “Where’s my hoverboard!?” a meme demands. Contemporary capitalism, a system that insists that everything happen at once, creates problems for social thought and narrative alike. After all, how does one tell the time of instantaneity? In this moment of on-demand service and instant trading, it has become difficult to imagine the future. The novel emerged as the art form of a rapidly changing modern world, a way of telling time in its progress. Nilges argues that this historical mission is renewed today through works that understand contemporaneity as a form of time shaping that props up our material world and cultural imagination. But the contemporary American novel does not simply associate our present with a crisis of futurity. Through analyses of works by authors such as DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Charles Yu, and Colson Whitehead, Nilges illustrates that the novel presents ways to make sense of the temporality that controls our purportedly fully contemporary world. In so doing, the novel recovers a sense of possibility and hope, forwarding a dazzling argument for its own importance today.
Author : John Sayles
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 1293 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936365707
It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail that recall Doctorow and Deadwood both, A Moment in the Sun takes the whole era in its sights—from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in the Philippines. Beginning with Hod Brackenridge searching for his fortune in the North, and hurtling forward on the voices of a breathtaking range of men and women—Royal Scott, an African American infantryman whose life outside the military has been destroyed; Diosdado Concepcíon, a Filipino insurgent fighting against his country’s new colonizers; and more than a dozen others, Mark Twain and President McKinley’s assassin among them—this is a story as big as its subject: history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.
Author : Catherine Polan Orzech
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2021-01-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1684035201
If you could do one thing for yourself today, why not do a quick mindfulness ritual? In our busy, high-stress lives, sometimes we all need to slow down, breathe, and just be. But, as easy as that sounds, many of us are intimidated by the practice of meditation. Fortunately, you don’t have to experience a divine awakening or reach profound enlightenment to take advantage of this ancient practice. The simple rituals in this take-anywhere guide can help you get started—right now! In A Moment for Me, you’ll learn to create a personal and well-rounded mindfulness practice to last you all year long. Featuring 52 satisfying and easy rituals, you’ll find quick inspiration to help you make mindfulness a regular part of your routine. The best part? You can use this book as a weekly dose of spiritual insight, or use each chapter as a standalone ritual. Whatever feels comfortable and meaningful to you! So, why not get started today? Mindfulness meditation has never been so simple.
Author : Jennifer Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1416978763
As the partition of India nears in 1947, bringing violence even to Jalandhar, Tariq, a Muslim, finds himself caught between his forbidden interest in Anupreet, a Sikh girl, and Margaret, a British girl whose affection for him might help with his dream of studying at Oxford.
Author : Ronne Randall
Publisher : Igloo Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781786703118
Some memories are too precious to forget. Whether it's cuddling, snuggling, giggling, tickling, or tucking in at bedtime, this heart-warming story is full of beautiful moments that express the love between parents and their children.
Author : Brahma Kumaris
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781886872004
Author : Aram Goudsouzian
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1469651106
The presidential election of 1968 forever changed American politics. In this character-driven narrative history, Aram Goudsouzian portrays the key transformations that played out over that dramatic year. It was the last "Old Politics" campaign, where political machines and party bosses determined the major nominees, even as the "New Politics" of grassroots participation powered primary elections. It was an election that showed how candidates from both the Left and Right could seize on "hot-button" issues to alter the larger political dynamic. It showcased the power of television to "package" politicians and political ideas, and it played out against an extraordinary dramatic global tableau of chaos and conflict. More than anything else, it was a moment decided by a contest of political personalities, as a group of men battled for the presidency, with momentous implications for the nation's future. Well-paced, accessible, and engagingly written, Goudsouzian's book chronicles anew the characters and events of the 1968 campaign as an essential moment in American history, one with clear resonance in our contemporary political moment.
Author : Joelie
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1512763519
Moving upstate New York seem to be a good choice for widow, and grandmother, Carly Gannon, when a situation presented itself, which included her new friend Jonathan, and which she could not have resolved at that particular moment, she decided upon a getaway weekend, to a Bed and Breakfast in New Jersey, hoping to find a solution before heading back home, but than, out of the clear blue sky, she experiences another conflicting dilemma, after she meets Gable, the gift shops proprietor, whose elder sister, Victoria, manager of the Inn, is informed of their close relationship, disapproves, and takes it upon herself to separate them. Will all the adversity Carly encounters unfold into a happy ending?
Author : Edith Coleman
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2008-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1602477450
Includes practical greetings and poems to be used in speeches for special occasions.