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Earl in the Yellow Shirt
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From a new literary star and acclaimed author of Pawpaw Patch, Necessary Lies and Dark of the Moon comes the haunting and poignant novel of a family in crisis, set in the backwoods of Georgia.Meet the Scurvy family, an impoverished clan who are the scourge of their small white-trash community. Mother has died in childbirth, leaving behind her newborn and four uneducated children. Father, a toothless and slothful man, cannot muster the money for her funeral. Their 15-year-old daughter, the only girl among three brothers, realizes that the newborn infant is now hers to raise; something that will finally put meaning into her life. And the brothers find themselves enlisted by the town's corrupt bigwig to run moonshine -- a risky venture, but the only way they'll be able to earn the money to bury their mother.Written in a powerful voice unique to Daugharty, Earl in the Yellow Shirt is narrated in alternating chapters by each of the main characters, their voices corning to the story with different nuances of hope and despair. It is a compelling work that solidifies Daugharty's versatile storytelling talents.
Zymurgy: Best Articles
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Since 1978, Zymurgy magazine, official journal of the American Homebrewers Association, has served homebrewers with recipes, practical tips, debates, lore and entertainment. Now Charlie Papazian, founder of the magazine and first name in homebrewing, has combed through classic issues of Zymurgy for this unprecedented collection, packed with popular, timeless homebrewing wisdom for beginners and advanced homebrewers alike--Award-winning homebrew recipes, and recipes that use your brew as a cook ingredientWhats in your water--and why finding out can make all the difference to your beerHow to make exotic brews like stone beer, Swedish gotlandscrika or Dusseldorf AltbierSwitching to gain brewing--all you need to know about malts and malt extractHow to make authentic English bitters and serve it properly at homeHow to construct a homemade bottle fillerExperimenting wit herbs, spices and different strains of yeast for new tastes in your home brewAnd, much, much more!
Test Pattern
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A dazzling and strikingly original fiction debut from an exciting new talentFrom the moment a new TV set arrives at the Palmer household in 1954 in Newport News, Virginia, change is in the wind. Eleven-year-old Cassie glimpses snapshots of the future in the hypnotic test pattern. Mesmerized, Cassie sees snippets from Kennedy's assassination, the Beatles' debut, man's landing on the Moon, and the O. J. Simpson trial. Her starstruck mother, Lorena, delights in the magical images flickering on the screen too, and finds the strength to pursue her dreams of becoming a professional dancer. Lorena soon plunges into an affair with an old flame, whose cousin turns out to be a talent scout for Arthur Godfrey, and risks her marriage to Cassie's dad, an accident-prone, depressed construction worker. As Lorena learns that the path to fame and fortune is strewn with obstacles, Cassie's own eyes are being opened to the world outside of provincial Newport News-and to the even richer world within herself.Brilliantly re-creating the innocence and energy of the '50s, Test Pattern is a tour de force of wit, spirit, and imagination. From the moment a new TV set arrives at the Palmer household in 1954 in Newport News, Virginia, change is in the wind. Eleven-year-old Cassie glimpses snapshots of the future in the hypnotic test pattern. Mesmerized, Cassie sees snippets from Kennedy's assassination, the Beatles' debut, man's landing on the Moon, and the O. J. Simpson trial. Her starstruck mother, Lorena, delights in the magical images flickering on the screen too, and finds the strength to pursue her dreams of becoming a professional dancer. Lorena soon plunges into an affair with an old flame, whose cousin turns out to be a talent scout for Arthur Godfrey, and risks her marriage to Cassie's dad, an accident-prone, depressed construction worker. As Lorena learns that the path to fame and fortune is strewn with obstacles, Cassie's own eyes are being opened to the world outside of provincial Newport News-and to the even richer world within herself.Brilliantly re-creating the innocence and energy of the '50s, Test Pattern is a tour de force of wit, spirit, and imagination.
Old Man in a Baseball Cap
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Conceived in a storytelling workshop given by Spalding Gray, Old Man In a Baseball Cap is not your typical story of World War II. Rochlin recounts in gritty detail how he--an ordinary young man--was thrust into outrageous circumstances during an extraordinary time. Whether he's bumping up against the army's bigotry because he's Jewish, aiding in the delivery of a baby by cesarean section, being ordered to obliterate a Hungarian village, or parachuting from his plane in the middle of Yugoslavia and then walking 400 kilometers to safety with an amorous guide, Rochlin captures the Intensely powerful experience of a teenager away from home for the first time. Old Man In a Baseball Cap is an astonishingly fresh, candid look at "the last good war." At once naive, candid, and wise, Fred Rochlin's voice is unforgettable.
Family Life
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In Family Life, Russell Banks's first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom. Life inside this kingdom includes the king (dubbed "the Hearty" or "the Bluff"), who squeals angrily as is his wont; the queen, who, while pondering the mirror in her chambers, decides to write a book; three adolescent princes who are, respectively, a superb wrestler, a fanatical sports car driver, and a sullen drunk. Then there are the mysterious Green Man with a thing for princes; the Loon, who lives in a tree house designed by Christopher Wren; and a whole slew of murders, mayhem, coups, debauches, world tours, and love and loss and laughter.
Relation of My Imprisonment
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The Relation of My Imprisonment is a work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines. Designed to be exemplary, works of this type were aimed at brethren outside the prison walls and functioned primarily as figurative dramatization of the test of faith all true believers must endure. These "relation," framed by *ure and by a sermon explicating the text, were usually read aloud in weekly or monthly installments during religious services. Utterly sincere and detailed recounting of suffering, they were nonetheless highly artificial. To use the form self-consciously, as Russell Banks has done, is not to parody it so much as to argue good-humoredly with the mind it embodies, to explore and, if possible, to map the limits of that mind, the more intelligently to love it.
My Goat Ate Its Own Legs
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In a voice so unfailingly chipper it's suspicious, Alex Burrett poses in fiction some disturbing yet certainly possible futures for the human race (and other ambitious, earthbound mammals). Always ready with an impeccable phrase or a sly wink, he shares stories of the most darkly ironic sort, including a field report from a human abattoir, a chronicle of dating Death, and, of course, the tale of the goat that ate its own legs. These thirty brilliant, bizarre, and morbidly hilarious "tales for adults" will delight anyone who doesn't take life (or death) too seriously.
Women
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‘A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth’ Lena Dunham ‘I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.' A young woman moves from the countryside to the city. Inexplicably, inexorably and immediately, she falls in love with another woman for the first time in her life. Finn is nineteen years older than her, wears men’s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile – and a long-term girlfriend. With precision, wit and tenderness, Women charts the frenzy and the fall out of love.
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today – written as a letter to a friend. I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometimes life just does its thing. What matters is that you try. In We Should All be Feminists, her eloquently argued and much admired essay of 2014, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie proposed that if we want a fairer world we need to raise our sons and daughters differently. Here, in this remarkable new book, Adichie replies by letter to a friend’s request for help on how to bring up her newborn baby girl as a feminist. With its fifteen pieces of practical advice it goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century.
Αρχαιοελληνικ? Ασκημ?θεια
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Φιλοδοξ?α του γρ?φοντο? ε?ναι να αποτελ?σει το εγχειρ?διο αυτ? ?να πολ?τιμο εργαλε?ο για τον μαθητ?, τον φοιτητ? αλλ? και τον καθηγητ? που θα θελ?σει να εμβαθ?νει στο πρακτικ? σκ?λο? τη? Αρχα?α? Ελληνικ?? Γλ?σσα?. Προσαρμοσμ?νο στι? διαδικτυακ?? απαιτ?σει? των καιρ?ν, εμπερι?χει στοχευμ?νε? ασκ?σει? Γραμματικ?? (χωρ?? να δ?νονται οι λ?σει?) και Συντακτικο? (με τι? λ?σει?), που καλ?πτουν επαρκ?στατα τι? σχολικ?? και πανεπιστημιακ?? αν?γκε?. Στο corpus του βιβλ?ου ?χουν επ?ση? ενταχθε? πρ?τυπα διαγων?σματα με αδ?δακτα κε?μενα κλιμακο?μενη? δυσκολ?α? (με τι? λ?σει? του?), εν? στο τελικ? Παρ?θεμα ο αναγν?στη? θα βρει χρηστικ?τατου? π?νακε? με τη Σ?νταξη βασικ?ν ρημ?των τη? Αρχα?α? Ελληνικ??, με τη σημασ?α των προθ?σεων, με ενδεικτικ? αλλ? πλο?σιο λεξιλ?γιο κτλ. Αν η εξειδ?κευση – ιδ?ω? σε ?να μ?θημα ?πω? αυτ? των Αρχα?ων Ελληνικ?ν – ε?ναι προαπαιτο?μενο για τη σ?γουρη επιτυχ?α, ο αναγν?στη?-λ?τη? του πον?ματο? που κρατ? στα χ?ρια του, μπορε? να νι?σει ?τι βαδ?ζει σε ασφαλ?? ?δαφο?!
Κρ?σταλλοι IV: 4η Τιτανομαχ?α
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Η σειρ? ?Κρ?σταλλοι? ε?ναι μια μυθιστορηματικ? σειρ?, η οπο?α ξεκιν?ει απ? τι? απαρχ?? τη? δημιουργ?α? του σ?μπαντο?, διαπερν? ολ?κληρο τον πανανθρ?πινο πολιτισμ?, φθ?νει στο παρ?ν και θα συνεχ?σει στο μ?λλον, παρακολουθ?ντα? περιληπτικ? την εξελικτικ? πορε?α του ανθρ?πινου πολιτισμο?.Στο πρ?το μ?ρο? τη? Σ?γκρουση? Υπερφυσικο? – Φυσικο? περιηγηθ?καμε την εξελικτικ? πορε?α τη? ζω?? απ? 50 εκατομμ?ρια χρ?νια με 200 χιλι?δε? χρ?νια πριν, παρακολουθ?σαμε τι? πρ?τε? συγκρο?σει? Υπερφυσικο?-Φυσικο?, την δημιουργ?α τη? βαλκανικ?? χερσον?σου, την κυριαρχ?α των θηλαστικ?ν, αλλ? ακολουθ?σαμε το ξεχωριστ? φυλογενετικ? δ?ντρο του ανθρ?που. ?γινε μια ευσ?νοπτη αναφορ? στο μορφωτικ?/εκπαιδευτικ? σ?στημα για την καλλι?ργεια των νοημ?νων ?μβιων ?ντων στα τρ?α πνευματικ? επ?πεδα, στα δ?κα ?πρ?σωπα?, στι? τρει? επιγν?σει?, στα τ?σσερα μονοπ?τια και στι? π?ντε πληγ??, που επηρε?ζουν ?μεσα και ?μμεσα τη ζω? του?. Στο δε?τερο μ?ρο? τη? Σ?γκρουση? Υπερφυσικο? – Φυσικο?, 200 με 100 χιλι?δε? χρ?νια πριν, παρακολουθο?με την αργ?συρτη μεταλλαγ? του Homo sapiens-sapiens, κατ? την οπο?α η ζω? αρ-χ?ζει να αποκτ? πλ?ρη αυτογνωσ?α. Γ?νεται η τελικ? δοκιμασ?α και η ορκωμοσ?α του Δ?α ω? Πο-λεμιστ? του Φωτ??, η αναζ?τησ? του, η αν?ληψη τη? ευθ?νη? του αγ?να τη? παλιν?ρθωση? των Φυσικ?ν Δυν?μεων. Κυριαρχο?ν οι επικ?? συγκρο?σει?, τιτανομαχ?ε? και μονομαχ?ε? μεταξ? των Τιτ?νων και Ολ?μπιων Θε?ν.Η 4η Τιτανομαχ?α παρακολουθο?με τη μεταστροφ? τη? φ?ση? στο λογικ?, την ενσ?ρκωση τη? φ?ση? με τη ζω? και την εκλογ?κευσ? τη? με τον Homo sapiens-sapiens. Ε?ναι το νο?μον ?μβιο ον με το οπο?ο προσπαθε? το σ?μπαν να αποκτ?σει αυτεπ?γνωση και αυτοπραγμ?τωση. ?τσι λοιπ?ν, απ? την μ?α παρακολουθο?με τι? δυσθε?ρητε? και ανυπ?ρβλητε? δυσκολ?ε? με τι? οπο?ε? ο Λευκ?? Κρ?σταλλο? θα φθ?σει τελικ? στον ?λυμπο στα χ?ρια του Δ?α, εν? απ? την ?λλη την ευκολ?α με την οπο?α ο Μα?ρο? Κρ?σταλλο? θα φθ?σει στην ?θρυ στα χ?ρια του Κρ?νου. Παρακολουθο?με κατ’ ουσ?α τη διαμ?χη του ορθολογικο? με το ανορθ?λογο και παρ?λογο και το π?ρασμα του ανθρ?που στο λογικ?. Π?λεψε ο ?νθρωπο? στην προσπ?θεια τη? μετ?βαση? αυτ??. Φωτι? π?ρε το μυαλ? του επ? σειρ? χιλι?δων ετ?ν, προσπαθ?ντα? να απαντ?σει στα τ?σο δ?σκολα και αναπ?ντητα ερωτ?ματ? του. Στο τ?λο? ν?κησε, προχ?ρησε, μα ?ταν μια π?ρρειο? ν?κη, αφο? διολ?σθησε σε μεταφυσικ?? και υπερφυσικ?? διαφυγ??. ?τσι, το μεταφυσικ? και ανορθολογικ? υποβ?σκει στην καθημεριν?τητα σε κ?θε σκ?ψη του, και αναδεικν?εται σε κ?θε δυσκολ?α. Για τ?τοια? μορφ?? τιτανομαχ?ε? συν?βησαν μ?σα στο ανθρ?πινο μυαλ?.
Blind Faith
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The distraught daughter of an artist who committed suicide, Mia first meets Karna in London.Mesmerized by the charismatic young guru, she resolves to follow him to India, even if she must marry Vik, a suave corporate businessman, to do so.Once in India, Mia is drawn to Vik's mother, Indi, an accomplished, inordinately attractive woman who rages unceasingly against her blindness, her beauty, and her clinging son. Troubled by Indi's anguish, and by her own strange journey into duplicitous love, Mia realizes she must travel even further to the Kumb Mela religious pilgrimage for a different perspective on her clouded and confused life.Brilliant, bold, heartfelt, and transcendent, Blind Faith is a provocative reexamination of the human condition, of reason that binds, hate that liberates, and love that strangles.
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
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Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must … and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty. The old gods have no power in the south, Stark’s family is split and there is treachery at court. Worse, the vengeance-mad heir of the deposed Dragon King has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities. He claims the Iron Throne.
The Death of Eli Gold
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The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes. In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying. Witnessing his death are his precocious 8-year-old daughter by his present (fifth) wife, his anxiety-ridden 44-year-old son from his third marriage, and his 89-year-old first wife, watching on TV from a care home in London. And also, secretly, his fourth wife's fundamentalist Mormon brother, who has never got over his sister's death in a suicide pact with Eli, a suicide pact that Eli survived. The Death of Eli Gold is a comedy, a thriller, and a meditation on love, death, aging, sex, fame, and the idea - the dying idea - of The Great Man.
Blind Faith
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A stunning and sumptuous tale of the boundaries between love and hate, truth and deception, set against the anticipation for the Kumbh Mela: the biggest festival in India. When Mia, acutely depressed by the suicide of her artist father, meets Karna, a young and mesmeric guru who bears a startling resemblance to a figure in her father’s painting, she feels compelled to follow him all the way from London to India. And if marrying Vik, the suave businessman her mother so approves of, is the way to get there, so be it. Once in India, Mia learns about Vik’s mother, Indi. She is a figure of great power, inordinately beautiful and gifted, but blind. Her rage ensnares and yet rejects anyone who tries to come close. Mia must travel to the Kumbh Mela, the festival on the banks of the Ganges, to make sense of everything: her own confused love for two men, Indi’s anguish, her own family’s history. And yet when she arrives, nothing is as she thought it would be; through a change in perspective, she comes to realise the limitations of vision… This is a remarkable tale of hope, destruction and ultimately of rebirth, as one young woman explores the shifting sands of illusion and truth.
Wolf Hall
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.
While My Sister Sleeps
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Issue led women’s fiction in the bestselling vein of Jodi Picoult. When a woman in her early thirties, oldest of three siblings and an avid runner, has a heart attack that leaves her brain-dead and on life support her family has to make the painful decision of when to pull the plug. Her mother Kathryn is devasted. An excellent runner herself she had sacrificed her career to marry and have a family, and lived vicariously through Robin her favourite child. She cannot accept the truth of Robin’s condition. Molly, Robin’s little sister has grown up in her shadow. But as the family starts to disintigrate she becomes Robin’s voice and in doing so finds her own. Jonathan, Robin’s brother is a scientist. Emotionally disconnected and wedded to the facts, he is the first to call for the machines to be switched off. But his marriage is in crisis, and the issues raised around Robin’s life or death may bring the emotional breakthrough he needs to save his relationship. Robin’s father lives for his family, and defers to them rather than voicing his own opinion. More than anyone he stuggles with the definition of ‘brain-dead’ and the religious and moral issues of the right to life.
Smith of Wootton Major
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A charming new pocket edition of one of Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of The Lord of the Rings. What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into this charming short story, so named by Tolkien to suggest an early work by P.G. Wodehouse. Composed almost a decade after The Lord of the Rings, and when his lifelong occupation with the ‘Silmarillion’ was winding down, Smith of Wootton Major was the product of ripened experience and reflection. It was published in 1967 as a small hardback, complete with charming black and white illustrations by Pauline Baynes, and would be the last work of fiction to be published in Tolkien’s own lifetime. Now, almost 50 years on, this enchanting tale of a wanderer who finds his way into the perilous realm of Faery is being published once again as a pocket hardback. Contained here are many intriguing links to the world of Middle-earth, as well as to Tolkien’s other tales, and this new edition is enhanced with a facsimile of the illustrated first edition, a manu* of Tolkien’s early draft of the story, notes and an alternate ending, and a lengthy essay on the nature of Faery.
Beautiful Losers
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One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint. Revolving around four central – and intrinsically flawed – characters, ‘Beautiful Losers’ is the frank and humorous story of a nameless narrator, his wife Edith, their domineering friend and mentor ‘F’ and Catherine Tekakwitha, a mythic 17th-century Mohawk virgin saint. The complexities of this three-way love, pain and lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith and ‘F’ at the novel’s start, leading the damaged narrator to question the nature of love, sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks. The extraordinary and inimitable singer-songwriter’s classic novel, this is Leonard Cohen’s most critically acclaimed literary work, echoing the dark poetry and wry humour of his timeless songs of loss, love, sex and religion. Not just an extremely funny novel, but an incredibly original and explicit examination of friendship, sex and spirituality.
The Lost Landscape
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Britain’s World Scrabble Champion reveals the secrets for mastering the world of competitive Scrabble. If you play at home, online, in a club or in competitive tournaments this is the ideal insight into the mind of a Scrabble World Champion. Craig analyses opening positions, middle game scenarios and of course the end game. Walk through common rack and board problems encountered by Craig and other top players so you are ideally prepared for your next match. With an attractive design, and grids and diagrams throughout, this is an invaluable reference for all keen Scrabble? players. Contains complete lists of all the latest valid two and three letter words and their definitions from Collins Scrabble Words 2015.
The Cask：A Detective Story Club Classic Crime Novel (The Detective Club)
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From the Collins Crime Club archive, the seminal first novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’ and recognised as one of the ‘big four’ Golden Age crime authors. The unloading of a consignment of French wine from the steamship Bullfinch is interrupted by a gruesome discovery in a broken cask leaking sawdust and gold sovereigns. But when the shipping clerk returns with the police, the cask and its macabre contents have gone. Following the clues to Paris, Inspector Burnley of Scotland Yard enlists the help of the genial French detective M. Lefarge to check motives and alibis in their hunt for evidence of a particularly fiendish murder. This Detective Story Club classic is introduced by Freeman Wills Crofts himself in a unique preface from 1946 about The Cask’s origins.
