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Author | : Gwen Bristow |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2022-08-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 150407551X |
Guests at a New Orleans party face a mysterious and deadly host in the widely suspected inspiration for Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. When eight guests arrive for a party at a luxurious New Orleans penthouse, their unknown host is nowhere to be found. Then, speaking to them through radio broadcast, he informs them of the evening’s chilling theme: every hour, one of them will die. As the host’s prophecy comes horribly true, the dwindling band of survivors grows desperate to escape their fate. To discover their tormentor’s identity, they must each reveal their darkest secrets and find the common thread—but confessions may not be enough when they realize that one of them may be the killer. First published in 1930, this classic mystery was adapted into the Hollywood film, The Ninth Guest. It bears a striking resemblance to Agatha Christie’s bestseller And Then There Were None—which appeared nearly a decade later.
Author | : Gwen Bristow |
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Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
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Author | : Terry Burrows |
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Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 1985-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780863320729 |
Author | : Elizabeth Schleber Lowry |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2017-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438465998 |
Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit mediums autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian-era America. Invisible Hosts explores how the central tenets of Spiritualism influenced ways in which women conceived of their bodies and their civic responsibilities, arguing that Spiritualist ideologies helped to lay the foundation for the social and political advances made by women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As public figures, female spirit mediums of the Victorian era were often accused of unfeminine (and therefore transgressive) behavior. A rhetorical analysis of nineteenth-century spirit mediums autobiographies reveals how these women convinced readers of their authenticity both as respectable women and as psychics. The author argues that these womens autobiographies reflect an attempt to emulate feminine virtues even as their interpretation and performance of these virtues helped to transform prevailing gender stereotypes. She demonstrates that the social performance central to the production of womens autobiography is uniquely complicated by Spiritualist ideology. Such complications reveal new information about how women represented themselves, gained agency, and renegotiated nineteenth-century gender roles.
Author | : Sabrina Oxford |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2009-12-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0557146828 |
This book is about the 2nd 100 people to have a Karma Chip reserved for them in their name. many listed in this book are known, some are "unknown", and others are rising up to be more. However each of them have something to share with the world and that is why I write about them.Brightest Blessings,Sabrina Oxford
Author | : Roman Mars |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : ARCHITECTURE |
ISBN | : 0358126606 |
A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast
Author | : Mike Marais |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9042027134 |
How do individuals, who are part of a community, respond to the stranger as a stranger: i.e. without simply positioning this outsider in opposition to the community in which they are located? How may individuals receive something unknown and therefore surprising into their world without compromising it by identifying it in the terms of that world? In this study, Mike Marais traces the various ways in which Coetzee’s fiction, from Dusklands through to Slow Man, repeatedly poses such questions of hospitality. It is shown that the form of ethical action staged in Coetzee’s writing is grounded not in the individual’s willed and rational achievement, but in his or her invasion and possession by the strangeness of the stranger. This ethic of hospitality, Marais argues, has a strong aesthetic dimension: for Coetzee, the writer is inspired to write by being acted upon by a force from beyond the phenomenal world. The writer is a secretary of the invisible. She or he is responsible to and for the invisible. Marais maintains that this understanding of writing as an involuntary response to that which exceeds history is evident from the first in Coetzee’s fiction. In readings of the novels of the apartheid era, he traces this writer’s rueful, ironic awareness of the limited, even incidental, form of political engagement that may emanate from such an aesthetic. He then goes on to argue that if it is the writer’s obligation to render visible the invisible, writing must be a task that can never be completed. What is more, such writing is thus bound to be iterative in form. With this in mind, he traces the structural similarities between Coetzee’s writing of the apartheid period and his post-apartheid and Australian writing, arguing that the later texts are self-reflexively aware of their endlessly repetitive nature. These contentions are developed incrementally through close readings of the individual novels that focus on recurring metaphors of hospitality – visitor, the stranger, the house, the castaway, the invisible, the dream, and the child.
Author | : Robin Cook |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2016-07-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0425279685 |
Coma—reimagined for the twenty-first century from the undisputed king of medical thrillers. Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina’s Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death. Devastated by Carl’s condition, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there’s more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, Lynn uses all her resources at Mason-Dixon—including her initially reluctant lab partner, Michael Pender—to hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice. What she uncovers, however, is far more disturbing. Hospitals associated with Middleton Healthcare, including the Mason-Dixon Medical Center, have unnervingly high rates of unexplained anesthetic complications and patients contracting serious and terminal illness in the wake of routine hospital admissions. When Lynn and Michael begin to receive death threats, they know they’re into something bigger than either of them anticipated. They soon enter a desperate race against time for answers before shadowy forces behind Middleton Healthcare and their partner, Sidereal Pharmaceuticals, can put a stop to their efforts once and for all.
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Publisher | : EQUATIONS |
Total Pages | : 24 |
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Author | : Thomas Maxwell |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1977-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0889200289 |
Since the Second World War, Toronto's image as a rather staid, predominantly British community, has been transformed through massive immigration into what has been aptly described as a "salad bowl" of identifiable ethnic communities with their characteristic languages, neighbourhoods, shops, newspapers, radio programs and sporting events.