Work in Progress and Other Stories
Title | Work in Progress and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | New Internationalist |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1906523142 |
Short stories from the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize - awarded to an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. The collection includes the five shortlisted stories along with 12 stories written by the Caine Prize Writers' workshop. The Caine Prize is patronised by the four African winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soynika, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz and J.M. Coetzee.
Be a Work in Progress
Title | Be a Work in Progress PDF eBook |
Author | John Cena |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 0593356411 |
A beautifully illustrated book of encouragement from the beloved entertainer and #1 New York Times bestselling author John Cena “Each day, try to become a little less perfect and a little more brave.” For years, John Cena has been using his popular Twitter feed to uplift his followers with his unique brand of positivity. Now, he collects his favorite words of wisdom on the benefits of being bold and open-minded, embracing discomfort, and making the most of every opportunity. Heartfelt and hopeful, Be a Work in Progress is the pick-me-up readers will turn to again and again.
My Last Eight Thousand Days
Title | My Last Eight Thousand Days PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Gutkind |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2020-10-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0820358061 |
As founding editor of Creative Nonfiction and architect of the genre, Lee Gutkind played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy. A longstanding advocate of New Journalism, he has reported on a wide range of issues—robots and artificial intelligence, mental illness, organ transplants, veterinarians and animals, baseball, motorcycle enthusiasts—and explored them all with his unique voice and approach. In My Last Eight Thousand Days, Gutkind turns his notepad and tape recorder inward, using his skills as an immersion journalist to perform a deep dive on himself. Here, he offers a memoir of his life as a journalist, editor, husband, father, and Pittsburgh native, not only recounting his many triumphs, but also exposing his missteps and challenges. The overarching concern that frames these brave, often confessional stories, is his obsession and fascination with aging: how aging provoked anxieties and unearthed long-rooted tensions, and how he came to accept, even enjoy, his mental and physical decline. Gutkind documents the realities of aging with the characteristically blunt, melancholic wit and authenticity that drive the quiet force of all his work.
Still a Work in Progress
Title | Still a Work in Progress PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Knowles |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2016-08-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763688592 |
In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life when his older sister is in crisis. Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring, and even his friends are starting to bug him. Not to mention that his older sister, Emma, has been acting pretty strange, even though Noah thought she’d been doing better ever since the Thing They Don’t Talk About. The only place he really feels at peace is in art class, with a block of clay in his hands. As it becomes clear through Emma’s ever-stricter food rules and regulations that she’s not really doing better at all, the normal seventh-grade year Noah was hoping for begins to seem pretty unattainable. In an affecting and realistic novel with bright spots of humor, Jo Knowles captures the complexities of navigating middle school while feeling helpless in the face of a family crisis.
A Work in Progress
Title | A Work in Progress PDF eBook |
Author | Connor Franta |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2016-05-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1501145932 |
YouTube personality Connor Franta shares the lessons he has learned on his journey from small-town boy to Internet sensation
Back to Moscow
Title | Back to Moscow PDF eBook |
Author | Guillermo Erades |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2016-05-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0865478376 |
"Martin came to Moscow at the turn of the millennium hoping to discover the country of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and his beloved Chekhov. Instead he found a city turned on its head, where the grimmest vestiges of Soviet life exist side by side with the nonstop hedonism of the newly rich. Along with his hard-living expat friends, Martin spends less and less time on his studies, choosing to learn about the Mysterious Russian Soul from the city's unhinged nightlife scene"--
Work in Progress
Title | Work in Progress PDF eBook |
Author | Michael D. Eisner |
Publisher | Disney Electronic Content |
Pages | 589 |
Release | 2011-03-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0786870915 |
Disney CEO Michael Eisner's legendary self-reliance comes through in his narration of Work in Progress. He takes you with him as, again and again, he plunges into uncharted waters and comes up a stronger swimmer than he was before.