The Blurry Years
Title | The Blurry Years PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Kriseman |
Publisher | Two Dollar Radio |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2018-07-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 193751272X |
*A Best Book of 2018 —Entropy “Kriseman’s is a new voice to celebrate.” —Publishers Weekly The Blurry Years is a powerful and unorthodox coming-of-age story from an assured new literary voice, featuring a stirringly twisted mother-daughter relationship, set against the sleazy, vividly-drawn backdrop of late-seventies and early-eighties Florida. Callie—who ages from six to eighteen over the course of the book—leads a scattered childhood, moving from cars to strangers’ houses to the sand-dusted apartments of the tourist towns that litter the Florida coastline. Callie’s is a story about what it’s like to grow up too fast and absorb too much, to watch adults behaving badly; what it’s like to be simultaneously in thrall to and terrified of the mother who is the only family you've ever known, who moves you from town to town to leave her own mistakes behind. With precision and poetry, Kriseman's moving tale of a young girl struggling to find her way in the world is potent, and, ultimately, triumphant.
The Blurry Years
Title | The Blurry Years PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Kriseman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781937512712 |
Callie navigates her teenage years while living with her mother in late 1970s and early 1980s Florida. It is a scattered childhood, moving from cars to strangers' houses to the sand-dusted apartments of the tourist towns that litter the Florida coastline. As Callie watches adults behaving badly, she is simultaneously in thrall to and terrified of the mother who is moving from town to town to leave her own mistakes behind.
A Time Outside This Time
Title | A Time Outside This Time PDF eBook |
Author | Amitava Kumar |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2021-10-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593319028 |
A blistering novel about a writer’s creative response to the daily onslaught of fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth gives over to fiction “An absorbing portrait of an inspired artist in the midst of our maddening cultural moment” —Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies When Satya, a professor and author, attends a prestigious artists' retreat to write, he finds the pressures of the outside world won’t let up: the president rages online; a dangerous virus envelops the globe; and the twenty-four-hour news cycle throws fuel on every fire. For most of the retreat fellows, such stories are unbearable distractions, but for Satya, who sees them play out in both America and his native India, these Orwellian interruptions begin to crystallize into an idea for his new novel, Enemies of the People, about the lies we tell ourselves and one another. Satya scours his life for instances in which truth bends toward the imagined and misinformation is mistaken as fact. Mixing Satya’s experiences—as a father, husband, and American immigrant—with newspaper clippings, the president’s tweets, and observations on famous works of art, A Time Outside This Time captures a feverish political moment with intelligence, beauty, and an eye for the uncanny. It is a brilliant interrogation on life in a post-truth era and an attempt to imagine a time outside this one.
Blur
Title | Blur PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Kovach |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2011-09-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1608193012 |
Two journalists provide a guide for navigating through the Internet Age's viral and opinion-based news sources, explaining how to discern what sources or facts are reliable and how to think like a journalist and unearth the truth.
Motel of the Mysteries
Title | Motel of the Mysteries PDF eBook |
Author | David Macaulay |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 1979-10-11 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0547770723 |
It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.
The Lost Years
Title | The Lost Years PDF eBook |
Author | Kristina Wandzilak |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780977761814 |
This riveting memoir of survival and transformation reveals the brutal details of the worst that can happen to an ordinary family and how they triumphed over adversity. It describes the true story of a daughter's decline into alcohol and drug addiction, prostitution and homelessness, and her mother's attempts to rescue her yet protect herself and her other children. Written as a dual narrative, mother and daughter give their first hand accounts of the years lost to addiction and despair, and the subsequent recovery and reconciliation. formation reveals all the brutal details of the worst that can happen to an ordinary family and how they triumphed over adversity.
Just One Year
Title | Just One Year PDF eBook |
Author | Gayle Forman |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2013-10-10 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1101621494 |
The compelling companion title to the much-lauded Just One Day follows Willem's transformative journey toward self-discovery and true love, by the author of If I Stay. Picking up where Just One Day ended, Just One Year tells Willem's side of the story. After spending an amazing day and night with Allyson in Paris that ends in separation, Willem and Allyson are both searching for one another. His story of their year of quiet longing and near misses is a perfect counterpoint to Allyson’s own as Willem undergoes a transformative journey, questioning his path, finding love, and ultimately, redefining himself. * “The complexity of Willem’s character, the twisting plot, and far-flung settings (including the Netherlands, Mexico, and India) create an alluring story that pushes beyond the realm of star-crossed romance.”— Publishers Weekly starred review “As much a travelogue as it is a romance, this novel will appeal to fans of the movie Before Sunrise or Maureen Johnson's 13 Little Blue Envelopes (HarperCollins, 2005).”—School Library Journal “As [Willem] becomes engaged personally and professionally, readers will find their interest quickening, right up to the satisfying denouement.”—Kirkus Reviews