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Get the Summary of Jim Harrison's The Search for the Genuine in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Search for the Genuine" by Jim Harrison is a rich tapestry of personal reflections, anecdotes, and musings on nature, hunting, fishing, and the human condition. Harrison intertwines his experiences with broader philosophical considerations, emphasizing the importance of genuine connections to the natural world and...
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Often sentimentalized as nurturing through food, Italian American women have struggled against this stereotype to speak of the realities of their lives. In this unique collection, they speak in voices that are loud, boisterous, sweet, savvy, and often subversively funny. Drawing on personal and cultural memory rooted in experiences of food, more than fifty writers dissolve conventional images, replacing them with a sumptuous, communal feast of poetry,...
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"Stirring action, appealing character growth, and shocking, vivid violence. . . . Series readers will be pleased with this return to the Secret World." -Publishers Weekly
In the late 1930s something fell from the sky and landed in an area of the Atlantic not yet known as the Bermuda Triangle. After that event, part of the world irrevocably changed . . . and the mysteries began. Something else would change as well-seemingly ordinary men and women...
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Fortress:1. A well-protected place, which is intended to be difficult for enemies to enter2. A place of refuge or support3. A person or thing not susceptible to outside influence or disturbance Each author in this anthology was given a single word 'fortress' and asked to write a story around it. Take it in any direction you want, but run with it. And run they did. This diverse group of award-winning authors varies as much as their exploration of the...
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Freeman's anthologies volume 7
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We live today in constant motion, traveling distances rapidly, small ones daily, arriving in new states. In this inaugural edition of Freeman's, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when we arrive. Strange encounters abound. David Mitchell meets a ghost in Hiroshima Prefecture; Lydia Davis recounts her...
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The zephyr of an urban city attracts people.
For those who stay on, adapting to the hubbub, is inevitable.
The cycle of experiences can be broadly shown in three phases.
The Brahma Stage, is the learning phase which is full of zest and bliss, spiked with creativity.
The Vishnu Stage, is the peak, where the feeling of knowing everything there is to learn, plateaus.
The Maheshwara Stage, is when realities dawn upon the self as bitter they...
27) Mugby Junction
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En 1865, Charles Dickens sufrió un accidente cuando descarriló el tren en el que viajaba. Un año después, vivió una mala experiencia con el servicio de la estación de Rugby, donde tuvo que quedarse durante un día entero. Fue a partir de estos sucesos que Dickens decidió, junto con sus colaboradores Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday y Hesba Stretton, escribir una serie de relatos repletos de humor negro que encuentran su punto...
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The emotional intensity of our post-pandemic anthology has given way to a more reflective mood as many of the finalist entries explore, explain, or challenge beliefs. While nonfiction took the Grand Prize, the fiction, children's/YA, and poetry authors were likewise interested in digging deeper into perspectives on culture and humanity. If you enjoy discussing life, the universe, and everything with a stranger, you'll love this. There's a proverb...
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Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear-and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread. In Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath, twenty-three talented authors, including New York Times bestsellers Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, and Jody Lynn Nye, have stood on the shores of their psyches and looked out over...
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ETHAN LAUGHMAN is a recruitment, marketing, and communications specialist at the University of Georgia's College of Environment and Design. Among the few who have read every Flannery O'Connor Award—winning volume, he has collaborated closely with the series' authors in compiling these new anthologies.
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New Stories from the Midwest presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive regional literature. The editors solicited nominations from more than 300 magazines, literary journals, and small presses and narrowed the selection to 19 authors. The stories, written by Midwestern writers or focusing on the Midwest, demonstrate that the quality of fiction from and about the heart of the...
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A collaborative effort between poets from all corners of the world and all walks of life, The Central Avenue Poetry Prize presents a collection of poetry like no other. Rife with heartache, longing, laughter, and life, this book captures the spark of creativity and the vastness that is the human soul within its pages. This collection contains stories that are funny, some that are sad, some that are beautiful-and all that are true.
Diverse in content...
34) Love Wows
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Love Wows Engr Dr Naila Hina Affectionate Wows, promises of love and chances of destiny in one single file.
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Stories by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, Booker Prize winner Su Tong, and more.
Includes contributions by Shi Tiesheng, Hong Ying, Su Tong, Wang Meng, Li Rui, Duo Duo, Chen Ran, Li Xiao, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Ai Bei, Cao Naiqian, Can Xue, Bi Feiyu, Yang Zhengguang, Ge Fei, Chen Cun, Chi Li, Kong Jiesheng, Wang Xiangfu
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TO THE FORTUNATE READER: In days gone by, the men who penned their words of wisdom to MUSIC were known as 'Singin' Cowboys. In our time, we have men like Brian W. Woodward and others like him who wear their hearts on their sleeves as they pen their heartfelt words on sheets of paper for all to read and enjoy. Brian, Is not just a member of the Dead Poet's Society, he is probably the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of this esteemed club: and yet,...
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Die Menschenfrau verliert ihre Stimme.
Über den Schmerz tritt sie in einen inneren Dialog mit der Sprachmelodie imaginärer Tierwesen.
Ihre Klause befindet sich ein Stockwerk über der Galerie Zottel mit Gemälden aus allen Zeitepochen, die zu Traumgeistern geworden sind. Eine alte Hyäne, Wächterin der unterweltlichen Geschicke, verbindet sie gleichzeitig mit der astralen Welt.
Für die Menschenfrau ist dieser Ort das Tor zur Anderswelt, ein Übergangsort...
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Aus dem Vorwort von Rüdiger Nehberg: Ich habe das vorliegende Buch in einem Rutsch durchgelesen. Es hat mich gepackt vom ersten bis zum letzten Wort. Ein bunter Strauß Geschichten aus verschiedensten Lebensbereichen. Die Erzählungen haben eines gemeinsam: sie sind berührend und authentisch, erschreckend und bewegend zugleich. Ein Plädoyer gegen die Gleichgültigkeit. Sie schildern das Unberechenbare des Menschen und seine Grausamkeit, wie auch...
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Food. We use it to celebrate, to provide both comfort and energy, and to show our love. There's something about mixing a pinch of this and a dash of that to create something new. And when you pair it with the perfect drink . . . *chef's kiss* Stories can do the same thing. They can be a celebration, bring us comfort and energy, and help us express our love. And when the perfect character is paired with the perfect plot . . . well, then you have something...
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The world's first UNESCO city of literature, Edinburgh is steeped in literary history. It is the birthplace of a beloved cast of fictional characters from Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter. It is the home of the Writer's Museum, where quotes from writers of the past pave the steps leading up to it. A city whose beauty is matched only by the intrigue of its past, and where Robert Louis Stevenson said, 'there are no stars so lovely as Edinburgh's street-lamps'....