Wonder Boys

2011-12-20 Fiction

Author : Michael Chabon
Release : 2011-12-20
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 101/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Wonder Boys written by Michael Chabon. This book was released on 2011-12-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “wise, wildly funny story” of a self-destructive writer’s lost weekend by a Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling author (Chicago Tribune). A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn’t grown up. He’s now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer. During one lost weekend at a writing festival with Leer and debauched editor Terry Crabtree, Tripp must finally confront the wreckage made of his past decisions. Mordant but humane, Wonder Boys features characters as loveably flawed as any in American fiction. This ebook features a biography of the author.

The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop

2020-10-27 Fiction

Author : Fannie Flagg
Release : 2020-10-27
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 854/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop written by Fannie Flagg. This book was released on 2020-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartwarming novel about secrets of youth rediscovered, hometown memories, and the magical moments in ordinary lives, from the beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe “A gift, a blessing and a triumph . . . celebrates the bonds of family and friends—and the possibilities of recovery and renewal.”—The Free Lance–Star Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop with his mother, Ruth, church-going and proper, and his Aunt Idgie, the fun-loving hell-raiser. Together they ran the town’s popular Whistle Stop Cafe, known far and wide for its fun and famous fried green tomatoes. And as Bud often said of his childhood to his daughter Ruthie, “How lucky can you get?” But sadly, as the railroad yards shut down and Whistle Stop became a ghost town, nothing was left but boarded-up buildings and memories of a happier time. Then one day, Bud decides to take one last trip, just to see what has become of his beloved Whistle Stop. In so doing, he discovers new friends, as well as surprises about Idgie’s life, about Ninny Threadgoode and other beloved Fannie Flagg characters, and about the town itself. He also sets off a series of events, both touching and inspiring, which change his life and the lives of his daughter and many others. Could these events all be just coincidences? Or something else? And can you really go home again?

A Wonder-book for Girls and Boys

1866 Mythology, Classical

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Release : 1866
Genre : Mythology, Classical
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Wonder-book for Girls and Boys written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book was released on 1866. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pack of Thieves

2011-07-27 History

Author : Richard Z. Chesnoff
Release : 2011-07-27
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 942/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Pack of Thieves written by Richard Z. Chesnoff. This book was released on 2011-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the largest organized robbery in history: the systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis, in cooperation with most of the nations in Europe?Axis, Allied, and neutral. Award--winning journalist Richard Z. Chesnoff, one of the first reporters to break the story that Swiss banks had hoarded the assets of Holocaust victims, traveled to fourteen countries to research this heartbreaking, compelling story of human greed. Through exclusive interviews and information from hitherto classified files, Chesnoff tells a tragic tale, the vast scope of which is only beginning to be known. Revealing new details that many would prefer remained secret, Pack of Thieves describes the detective work used to trace Holocaust assets that continue to be hidden inside the financial systems of such Allied nations as France and the Netherlands. Daring, insightful, and necessary, Pack of Thieves is at once a fascinating piece of investigative journalism and an enraging account of one of history's greatest crimes.

Tales from the Radiation Age

2014-02-25 Fiction

Author : Jason Sheehan
Release : 2014-02-25
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 913/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tales from the Radiation Age written by Jason Sheehan. This book was released on 2014-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a post-apocalyptic America that has shattered into a hundred perpetually warring fiefdoms, anyone with a loud voice and a doomsday weapon can be king (and probably has been). Duncan Archer--con man, carpetbagger, survivor--has found a way to somehow successfully navigate the end of the world, with its giant killer robots, radioactive mutants, mad scientists, rampant nanotechnology, armed gangs, sea monsters, and 101 unpleasant ways to die. But when he meets Captain James Barrow, a former OSS agent and the most wanted man in the world, Duncan finds himself a reluctant hero caught up in a whole new level of weird, rollicking adventure... And the second most wanted man in the world. Tales from the Radiation Age is a throwback to the pulp-origins of science fiction, painting a vision of the future that's richly detailed, wildly imaginative--and altogether too easy to imagine.

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