Peter's Quotations
Title | Peter's Quotations PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence J. Peter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 628 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Quotations, English |
ISBN | 9780553143072 |
A Collection of Familiar Quotations
Title | A Collection of Familiar Quotations PDF eBook |
Author | John Bartlett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 660 |
Release | 1856 |
Genre | Quotations |
ISBN |
Respectfully Quoted
Title | Respectfully Quoted PDF eBook |
Author | James H. Billington |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 546 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0486472884 |
A treasury of thought-provoking declarations and observations features a splendid variety of political, scientific, social, and literary voices. Quoted historical figures include Paine, Milton, Emerson, Marx, Napoleon, Dickens, and Churchill.
Detransition, Baby
Title | Detransition, Baby PDF eBook |
Author | Torrey Peters |
Publisher | One World |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2021-01-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593133390 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in “one of the most celebrated novels of the year” (Time) “Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.”—Vulture One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Named one of the Best Books of the Year by more than twenty publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Time, Vogue, Esquire, Vulture, and Autostraddle PEN/Hemingway Award Winner • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Gotham Book Prize • Longlisted for The Women’s Prize • Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • New York Times Editors’ Choice Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese—and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby—and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it—Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family—and raise the baby together? This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.
Free Dress for Success
Title | Free Dress for Success PDF eBook |
Author | Kent Welton |
Publisher | Pandit Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2006-11-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0944361307 |
Free Dress For Success - A Businessman's Guite To Sartorial Disarmament
Peter's Quotations
Title | Peter's Quotations PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 548 |
Release | 1993-03-29 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 0688119093 |
Collects ancient and modern quotations that reflect the author's humanistic-futuristic philosophy and relate to present and prospective problems.
The Quote Verifier
Title | The Quote Verifier PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Keyes |
Publisher | St. Martin's Griffin |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2007-04-01 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1429906170 |
Our language is full of hundreds of quotations that are often cited but seldom confirmed. Ralph Keyes's The Quote Verifier considers not only classic misquotes such as "Nice guys finish last," and "Play it again, Sam," but more surprising ones such as "Ain't I a woman?" and "Golf is a good walk spoiled," as well as the origins of popular sayings such as "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings," "No one washes a rented car," and "Make my day." Keyes's in-depth research routinely confounds widespread assumptions about who said what, where, and when. Organized in easy-to-access dictionary form, The Quote Verifier also contains special sections highlighting commonly misquoted people and genres, such as Yogi Berra and Oscar Wilde, famous last words, and misremembered movie lines. An invaluable resource for not just those with a professional need to quote accurately, but anyone at all who is interested in the roots of words and phrases, The Quote Verifier is not only a fascinating piece of literary sleuthing, but also a great read.