The Sirens Of Soleil City
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The Sirens Of Soleil City
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Author : Sarah C. Johns
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-07-09
The Sirens Of Soleil City written by Sarah C. Johns and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-09 with Fiction categories.
Three generations of women learn to own their mistakes and rebuild their bonds as they prepare to compete in the South Florida Senior Synchronized Swimming Competition. “A witty, touching story of resilience, forgiveness, complicated family dynamics, and second chances.”—Deepa Varadarajan, author of Late Bloomers West Palm Beach, 1999. A phone call summons fifty-eight-year-old Cherie Anderson from a frozen Minnesota to help her two mothers: Dale, the mother who left her when she was five and is facing eviction from her budget-apartment complex, Soleil City, and Marlys, the mother who raised her from that moment on—and who’s now dying, but won’t admit it to her daughter. Cherie seeks a reason to stay in town long enough to give Dale the help she’s finally asked for and Marlys the help she clearly needs. And she must find a project to distract her pregnant daughter, Laura, whose marriage has fallen apart just weeks before her due date. The South Florida Senior Synchronized Swimming Competition seems to be the answer. The publicity from winning the contest, along with the ten-thousand-dollar prize money, could help save Soleil City. With Laura, who used to captain a dance team, as their coach, they’ve got a fighting chance. And with everyone else preoccupied by the competition, Cherie can focus on saving Marlys before it’s too late. Over the course of a month in an apartment complex filled with feisty, funny, strong-willed women in their seventies, four women who make up an uneasy family will realize that in life, and motherhood, there isn’t good and bad. There’s only trying to get it right.
The Unwinding Of The Miracle
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Author : Julie Yip-Williams
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-02-14
The Unwinding Of The Miracle written by Julie Yip-Williams and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Julie Yip-Williams conquered blindness and adversity only to be struck down. Her book is heartbreaking and necessary.' Guardian 'Eloquent, gutting and at times disarmingly funny ... a magnificent writer.' New York Times Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to have to flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at the age of thirty-seven, with two little girls still at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. Growing out of a blog Julie kept for the last four years of her life, The Unwinding of the Miracle is the story of a vigorous life told through the prism of imminent death, of a life lived vividly and cut too short. With glorious humour, bracing honesty and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, her story is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. More than just a tale about cancer, it's about truth and honesty, fear and pain, our dreams, our jealousies. And it's about how to say goodbye to your children and a life you love. Starting as a need to understand the disease, it has evolved into a powerful story about living - even as Julie put her affairs in order and prepared to die. 'A searing memoir ... I didn't know Julie, but in these pages I grew to love her.' Lucy Kalanithi
Casino City S Global Gaming Almanac
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Casino City S Global Gaming Almanac written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Casinos categories.
Carnival Noir
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Author : Rene Pierre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-04
Carnival Noir written by Rene Pierre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04 with categories.
Author and Mardi Gras float designer Rene Pierre highlights African-American participation in New Orleans Mardi Gras and how that involvement has helped shape the annual celebration. With family photos from two generations of float builders, Pierre gives an insiders view of it all. Explore the artistry and history behind the floats, costumes, and customs of the oldest and the most prominent Black Carnival clubs including the Original Illinois Group, the Exclusive Twenties, the Black Pirates, and the Zulu Social Aide & Pleasure Club. With one-on-one interviews with carnival royalty and artisans, stories from krewe elders, and glimpses of pivotal moments in the African-American carnival community, Pierre has created a unique testament to a community that has often been overlooked.
Paris Echo
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Author : Sebastian Faulks
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-09-06
Paris Echo written by Sebastian Faulks and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Fiction categories.
A Times Fiction Book of the Year 'Superb . . . weaves winningly between the present and the second world war, between Tangiers and Paris.' Observer Here is Paris as you have never seen it before – a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris. Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women who were present under the German Occupation; in her desire to understand their lives, and through them her own, she finds a city bursting with clues and connections. Out in the migrant suburbs, Tariq is searching for a mother he barely knew. For him in his innocence, each boulevard, Métro station and street corner is a source of surprise. In this urgent and deeply moving novel, Faulks deals with questions of empire, grievance and identity. With great originality and a dark humour, Paris Echo asks how much we really need to know if we are to live a valuable life. ‘Faulks captures the voice of a century’ Sunday Times ‘The most impressive novelist of his generation’ Sunday Telegraph
Leeds City Art Galleries Concise Catalogue
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Author : Leeds (England). Leisure Services Committee
language : en
Publisher: Leeds City
Release Date : 1976
Leeds City Art Galleries Concise Catalogue written by Leeds (England). Leisure Services Committee and has been published by Leeds City this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Art categories.
Crystal Pegasus
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Author : Tom Marcoux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Crystal Pegasus written by Tom Marcoux and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with categories.
Imaginary Cities
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Author : Darran Anderson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-04-06
Imaginary Cities written by Darran Anderson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with Architecture categories.
How can we understand the infinite variety of cities? Darran Anderson seems to exhaust all possibilities in this work of creative nonfiction. Drawing inspiration from Marco Polo and Italo Calvino, Anderson shows that we have much to learn about ourselves by looking not only at the cities we have built, but also at the cities we have imagined. Anderson draws on literature (Gustav Meyrink, Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, and James Joyce), but he also looks at architectural writings and works by the likes of Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, Medieval travel memoirs from the Middle East, mid-twentieth-century comic books, Star Trek, mythical lands such as Cockaigne, and the works of Claude Debussy. Anderson sees the visionary architecture dreamed up by architects, artists, philosophers, writers, and citizens as wedded to the egalitarian sense that cities are for everyone. He proves that we must not be locked into the structures that exclude ordinary citizens--that cities evolve and that we can have input. As he says: "If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined as well.”
Lady Of The Cosmos
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Author : Abby Staniek
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-07-20
Lady Of The Cosmos written by Abby Staniek and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-20 with Poetry categories.
A collection of free-verse poetry written by an angsty and passionate teenage girl over the course of her adolescent years. The topics of the writing include childhood, growing up, love, heartache, eating disorders, self-love and acceptance, learning how to embrace a dysfunctional family, and hope for future years. The poems are segregated into eight sections, depending on their theme-- each of the sections is named after one of the planets in our solar system. The planets remind us that we are all ultimately interconnected and composed of tiny, magical molecules of stardust, making each and every one of us ladies or men of the cosmos, capable of accomplishing anything and overcoming any struggle-- big or small. And as ladies and men of the cosmos, it is our duty to find beauty and pixie dust even in the dark because a glimmer of light and a glimpse of a rainbow can be found where it is least expected. So, crack open this book to find your sense of wonder and to accept your perfectly imperfect qualities.
The Mirage
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Author : Matt Ruff
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2012-02-07
The Mirage written by Matt Ruff and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-07 with Fiction categories.
A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East 11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers. The United Arab States declares a War on Terror. Arabian and Persian troops invade the Eastern Seaboard and establish a Green Zone in Washington, D.C. . . . Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the world they are living in is a mirage—in the real world, America is a superpower, and the Arab states are just a collection of "backward third-world countries." A search of the bomber's apartment turns up a copy of The New York Times, dated September 12, 2001, that appears to support his claim. Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story. The president wants answers, but Mustafa soon discovers he's not the only interested party. The gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee—a war hero named Osama bin Laden—will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafa and his colleagues venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems. Acclaimed novelist Matt Ruff has created a shadow world that is eerily recognizable but, at the same time, almost unimaginable. Gripping, subversive, and unexpectedly moving, The Mirage probes our deepest convictions and most arresting fears.