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Author | : William Saroyan |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486490904 |
"Marvelously captivating." — The New York Times. First published in 1940, Saroyan's international bestseller recounts the exploits of an Armenian clan in northern California at the turn of the 20th century. Based on the author's loving and eccentric extended family, the characters in these 14 related short stories provide humorous and touching scenes from immigrant life.
Author | : Larry Gragg |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700619038 |
When Elvis crooned "Bright light city . . . gonna set my soul on fire," he voiced and embraced the siren call of a glittering urban utopia that continues to mesmerize millions. Call it Sin City or Lost Wages, Las Vegas definitely deserves its rapturous "Viva!" Larry Gragg, however, invites readers to view Las Vegas in an entirely new way. While countless other authors have focused on its history or gaming industry or entertainment ties, Gragg considers how popular culture has depicted the city and its powerful allure over its first century. Drawing on hundreds of films, television programs, novels, and articles, Gragg identifies changing trends in the city's portraits. Until the 1940s, boosters promoted it as the "last frontier town," a place where prospectors and cowboys enjoyed liquor, women, and wide-open gambling. Then in the early 1950s commentators increasingly characterized Las Vegas as a sophisticated resort city in the desert, and ever since then journalists, filmmakers, and novelists have depicted a city largely built by organized crime and featuring non-stop entertainment, gambling, luxury, and, of course, beautiful-and available-women. In Gragg's narrative, these images form a kaleidoscope of lights, sounds, characters, and ultimately amazement about this neon oasis. In these pages, readers will meet gangsters like Bugsy Siegel, Tony Spilotro, and Lefty Rosenthal, as well as Las Vegas's most popular entertainers: Elvis Presley, Sinatra's Rat Pack, Liberace, and Wayne Newton, not to mention the Folies Bergere showgirls. And Gragg's skillful interweaving of fictional and journalistic accounts of organized crime shows just how mutually reinforcing they have become over the years. Vegas will always make people's eyes light up as bright as the Strip, witness the new TV show Vegas or the recent film The Hangover. For everyone entranced by its glitter and glamour, Bright Light City is a must read boasting color photos and bursting with insider details: an eclectic blend of stories, people, sights, and sounds that together make up this desert city's extraordinary appeal.
Author | : Michael Hodjera |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2006-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595394590 |
A visitor from beyond the solar system is planet shopping. A member of a dying species, he is looking for new real estate to annex. He finds it on planet earth. The task of preventing the total annihilation of the human species falls to two unlikely people-- an entertainer and a recovering vampiress. The entertainer is none other than the King himself, Elvis Presley, who is alive and well and currently living incognito on the Big Island of Hawaii. The vampire is his sultry and mysterious longtime girlfriend, Desdemona.
Author | : Philippa Berry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134920040 |
By illuminating the striking affinity between the most innovative aspects of postmodern thought and religious mystical discourse, Shadow of Spirit challenges the long established assumption that western thought is committed to nihilism. This collection of essays by internationally recognised scholars explores the implications of the fascination with the `sacred', `divine' or `infinite' which characterizes much contemporary thought. It shows how these concerns have surfaced in the work of Derrida, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Kristeva, Irigaray and others. Examining the connection between this postmodern `turn' and the current search for a new discourse of ethics and politics, it also stresses the contribution made by feminist thought to this unexpected intellectual direction.
Author | : Rose Daniels |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2011-06-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1456893327 |
This action packed drama is set in the harsh desert of ancient Egypt. Her brother Jonas is missing! The unexpected news sends Egyptologist Anina Shapiro on a journey into the desert and to historical sites. Connor O’Hearn, Jonas’s best friend accompanies her. He is in love with her and hopes that this trip will bring her closer to him. Anina is unaware of this. To her, he is just her brother’s friend. By coincidence Anina meets the mysterious Bedouin, Shekhar Fahir. He takes over the search when Connor is unable to continue. During their troublesome journey, a deep bond between Shekhar and Anina develops. But when the search ends, Shekhar realises that his tradition and culture would not allow a future for them. Will Connor make Anina his bride or is fate going to play another hand?
Author | : Mark C. Taylor |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780226791333 |
Disfiguring is constructive or, perhaps more accurately, reconstructive. By exploring the religious dimensions of twentieth-century painting and architecture, he shows how the visual arts continue to serve as a rich resource for the theological imagination.
Author | : Cindy Nichols |
Publisher | : Prickly Pear Press |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2022-06-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
*** Heartfelt Women's Fiction Beach Romance Series - A Journey of Rediscovery, Love, and Finding Happiness! *** Megan Lewis, a woman at a crossroads... ...and must choose between her business and her heart. Facing the harsh reality of her sinking business, Megan Lewis needs to make tough decisions quickly. Amidst the turmoil, her daughter Cassie's inspiring achievements—establishing a sanctuary for endangered species and falling in love—spark a desire for change within Megan. Drawn to the same picturesque beaches that captivated her daughter, Megan wonders if she, too, could find happiness and peace in the warm embrace of Vaquita Beach. As she helps plan Cassie's wedding and contemplates her own future, a chance encounter with the enigmatic British gentleman, James, shows her the true meaning of happiness. Can Megan find a way to help others while embracing her own happiness? Experience the magic of Vaquita Beach and uncover the answer. Join Megan on her transformative journey as she navigates love, family, and the pursuit of happiness in this heartwarming beach romance series.
Author | : Jeffrey L. Kosky |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0226451062 |
Kosky focuses on a handful of artists - Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy - to show how they introduce spaces hospitable to mystery and wonder, redemption and revelation, and transcendence and creation.
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Author | : Ernesto Quiñonez |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984897489 |
A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel rife with urban magical realism, love, and redemption, from the author of Bodega Dreams When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the conception of Taina’s baby as a revolution in nature). After meeting Taína's uncle, "El Vejigante", an ex-con with a dark past, he accepts his proposal to support her during her pregnancy and becomes entangled in a web of crime that, while taking him closer to Taína, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.