Phantoms of Life
Author : Luther Dana Waterman
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1883
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Luther Dana Waterman
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1883
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Susan Kay
Publisher : Llumina Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 1990
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ISBN : 1605948454
An imaginative and sensitive story of the life of the Phantom of the Opera; winner of the Boots Romantic Novel Award.
Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440620172
“Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen King They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...
Author : Luther Dana Waterman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2024-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385336015
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Christian Kiefer
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871408872
Kirkus Reviews • Best Historical Fiction of 2019 The Millions • "Most Anticipated" Books of 2019 Torn apart by war and bigotry, two families confront long-buried secrets in this haunting American novel of World War II and Vietnam. Ray Takahashi’s return from the battlefields of World War II should have been triumphant, but the fragrant, budding orchards of his rural Northern California home hide a secret that has destroyed everything he holds dear. With his hair now trimmed short and his newly broadened shoulders filling in his uniform, nineteen-year-old Ray approaches the small house in which he grew up, tucked behind rows of plum trees he planted with his father, only to find it occupied by a family he has does not know, a white family. Two decades later, John Frazier adjusts to his own homecoming. Detoxing from a dope addiction acquired in the barracks of Vietnam, yet still aching to write the next great American novel, he struggles to silence the phantoms that have trailed him from the muddy jungles. Frazier’s ambitions are put on hold when he finds himself an unwitting witness to a confrontation, decades in the making, between two steely matriarchs: his aunt, Evelyn Wilson, and her former neighbor, Kimiko Takahashi. From the halcyon days of pre–World War II Newcastle, when fruit trees glowed like jewels, through the dusty, cramped nights of Tule Lake, and the wayward years of the post-Vietnam era, Phantoms weaves the splintered stories of two families as they seek an impossible closure. A jarring examination of the personal cost of American exceptionalism and imperialism, and the ghosts that haunt us today, this saga affirms Christian Kiefer’s expanding place in contemporary literature.
Author : Jacques Bonnet
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0857382195
This enchanting study on the art of living with books considers how our personal libraries reveal our true nature: far more than just places, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings. The author, a lifelong accumulator of books both ancient and modern, lives in a house large enough to accommodate his many thousands of books, as well as overspill from the libraries of his friends. While his musings on the habits of collectors past and present are learned, witty and instructive, his advice on cataloguing may even save the lives of those whose books are so prodigiously piled as to be a hazard... The Phantoms on the Bookshelves ranges from classical Greece to contemporary Iceland, from Balzac and Moby Dick to Google, offering up delicious anecdotes along the way. This elegantly produced volume will be a lasting delight to specialist collectors, librarians, bibliophiles and all those who treasure books.
Author : Luther D. Waterman
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 2019-12-14
Category :
ISBN : 9783337882082
Author : LUTHER DANA. WATERMAN
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781033425596
Author : Gwendoline Riley
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681376814
A hostile mother-daughter relationship stands at the center of this astonishing, blackly humorous novel by the acclaimed author of First Love. Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places, a twice-divorced mother of two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen (known to her acquaintances as “Hen”) has always haunted Bridget. Now, Bridget is an academic in her forties. She sees Helen once a year, and considers the problem to be contained. As she looks back on their tumultuous relationship—the performances and small deceptions—she tries to reckon with the cruelties inflicted on both sides. But when Helen makes it clear that she wants more, it seems an old struggle will have to be replayed. From the prize-winning author of First Love, My Phantoms is a bold, heart-stopping portrayal of a failed familial bond, which brings humor, subtlety, and new life to the difficult terrain of mothers and daughters.
Author : V. S. Ramachandran
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 1999-08-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0688172172
Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in God, how we make decisions, deceive ourselves and dream, perhaps even why we're so clever at philosophy, music and art. Some of his most notable cases: A woman paralyzed on the left side of her body who believes she is lifting a tray of drinks with both hands offers a unique opportunity to test Freud's theory of denial. A man who insists he is talking with God challenges us to ask: Could we be "wired" for religious experience? A woman who hallucinates cartoon characters illustrates how, in a sense, we are all hallucinating, all the time. Dr. Ramachandran's inspired medical detective work pushes the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier -- the human mind -- yielding new and provocative insights into the "big questions" about consciousness and the self.