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Long for This World

2010-06-22 Science
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Release : 2010-06-22
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 217/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Long for This World by : Jonathan Weiner

Download or read book Long for This World written by Jonathan Weiner. This book was released on 2010-06-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow.” —Timothy Ferris Jonathan Weiner—winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and one of the most distinguished popular science writers in America—examines “the strange science of immortality” in Long for This World. A fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure from “one of our finest science journalists” (Jonah Lehrer), Weiner’s Long for This World addresses the ageless question, “Is there a secret to eternal youth?” And has it, at long last, been found?

Long for This World

2010-03-02 Fiction
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Release : 2010-03-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 71X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Long for This World by : Sonya Chung

Download or read book Long for This World written by Sonya Chung. This book was released on 2010-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushcart Prize nominee Sonya Chung has displayed her stunning talent in her award-winning short fiction and essays. Now, she renders the compelling story of a troubled family straddling cultures, fleeing and searching, in her piercing and profoundly humane first novel. In 1953, on a small island in Korea, a young boy stows away on the ferry that is carrying his older brother and his wife to the mainland. Fifty-two years later, Han Hyun-kyu is on a plane flying back to Korea, leaving behind his own wife in America. It is his daughter, Jane a war photographer recently injured in a bombing in Baghdad and forced to return to New York who journeys to find him in the small town in South Korea where his brothers have settled. Here, father and daughter take refuge from their demons, flirt with passion, and, in the wake of tragedy, discover something deeper and more enduring than they could have imagined. Just as Monica Ali's Brick Lane introduced readers to a world that is both exotic and immediate, Long for This World illuminates the complexities and the richness of family bonds and establishes Chung as an exciting new voice in fiction.

Long for This World

2004-05-21 Fiction
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Release : 2004-05-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 483/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Long for This World by : Michael Byers

Download or read book Long for This World written by Michael Byers. This book was released on 2004-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wise and richly symphonic first novel by the award-winning author of "The Coast of Good Intentions" is a thoroughly contemporary family drama that hinges on a riveting medical dilemma.

Long For This World

2014-08-12 Poetry
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Release : 2014-08-12
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 985/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Long For This World by : Ronald Wallace

Download or read book Long For This World written by Ronald Wallace. This book was released on 2014-08-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long for This World features the best of Ronald Wallace's work from his previous collections of poetry—Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks (1981), Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1983), People and Dog in the Sun (1987), The Makings of Happiness (1991), Time's Fancy (1994),and The Uses of Adversity (1998)—along with a generous selection of twenty-six new poems. If Wallace's recent poems sometimes seem darker and deeper, more meditative and complex, less sanguine about the tragedies of daily life, they never sacrifice the comic sense, the synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, and the sensory immediacy that have become his hallmarks.

Not Long for This World

2012-04-17 Fiction
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Release : 2012-04-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 789/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Not Long for This World by : Gar Anthony Haywood

Download or read book Not Long for This World written by Gar Anthony Haywood. This book was released on 2012-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lawyer hires Gunner to help her prove that her gangland client is not a killer Darrel Lovejoy doesn’t owe South Central anything. By all accounts, he is lucky to escape this desperate corner of Los Angeles, to go to college and graduate into a well-paid advertising job. But something compels him to return. He dives into social work, attempting to mediate between the gangs which have brought hell to the streets he grew up on, and he makes slow but steady progress up until the day a shotgun blast cuts him down. After an unusually forthcoming witness swears she saw a car of Imperial Blues kill Lovejoy, the police arrest Blue soldier Toby Mills. Suspecting a frame-up, Toby’s lawyer hires private detective Aaron Gunner to vet the woman’s story. To find out why South Central’s favorite son had to die, Gunner will turn gangland upside down.

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