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E. M. Forster A Room with a View By E. M. Forster

Literary Collections
English
66457 Words
Ages 16 and up
554
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A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young [more]

Keywords: A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1, A Room with a View, E. M. Forster

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Jennifer Juo Seeds of Plenty

A Novel

History
English
1546 Words
Ages 16 and up
447
4

Sylvia Soong, a young Chinese woman, finds herself in a rusty-tin roof town of West Africa, where the jungle meets the savannah and spirits cavort in baobab trees. In 1972, she marries Winston Soong, an aid worker on his way to Africa. But life in Africa is not the adventure she imagined. Instead, Sylvia spends her days in their white tiled house trapped behind compound walls. Even though she longs for companionship, it arrives in an unwelcome form. She soon discovers she is not alone: spirit children prey on her newborn's life, and when her daughter is bitten by a snake, she meets Ayo, an African-English doctor who provides a window into a world previously out of reach. While Sylvia is increasingly drawn to Ayo, Winston travels the countryside bearing miracle seeds that promise to triple harvests. Yet as he works with village farmers, he begins to wonder if the seeds do more harm than good. When a juju witch casts a spell on Winston's life, he is caught in a trap, and the forest canopy suddenly seems claustrophobic. As the country becomes increasingly violent, dangerous forces threaten all of their lives. Set against the troubled and mesmerizing landscape of Nigeria, SEEDS OF PLENTY paints a vivid portrait of a country in transformation, rooted in a magical and menacing past full of bush-souls, python-mermaid spirits, military coups, juju black magic, airport pirates, and sacred forests. Chinese and West African spiritual beliefs collide in this richly imagined story about love that crosses oceans, identity that spans continents, and well-intentioned development aid gone wrong. [more]

Keywords: fiction, historical fiction, literary fiction, chinese literature, ebook, award winning author, Africa, romance, cultures

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A.R. Taylor Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion

Humor
English
2501 Words
Ages 16 and up
298
1

Prepare to meet physicist David Oster, a big thinker, a charming cad who flees Caltech and his three [more]

Keywords: kindle, ebook, satire, humor, physics, literary fiction, award-winning author, AR Taylor, fusion

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Enid Harlow Good To Her

History
English
1482 Words
Ages 16 and up
265
1

Good to Her is a historical literary novel set against the backdrop of the famous New York City restaurant, Dinty Moore’s, which stood at the corner of 46th Street just off Broadway for some 50 years. Enlivened by the irascible character of the restaurant’s real-life proprietor, James “Dinty” Moore, the novel takes readers back to the days of Prohibition and the police raids foisted on Moore’s establishment, often resulting in his compulsory appearance in court. The novel moves forward through 1964, exploring the changing political and social life of the times, and focusing on the marriage of Nate Neumann, a successful New York City businessman, and Sallie, his much younger wife. Having fled the confines of small-town Indiana, Sallie comes to New York with dreams of becoming an actress. She meets Nate in Dinty Moore’s. Sallie is 20 and fresh off the farm. Nate is 46 and instantly smitten. The story is brightened by appearances or references to celebrities who frequent the place such as Walter Winchell, Lauren Bacall, and Humphrey Bogart. Sallie is prone to telling Nate how Good to Her he is. Nate wonders, Is he really? [more]

Keywords: Dinty Moore's, New York City, Historical Fiction, America, award winning author, literary fiction, sixties

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Max Zimmer Journey (If Where You're Going Isn't Home)

Fiction
English
2431 Words
Ages 14 and up
585
0

Journey is the first book of the groundbreaking coming-of-age trilogy If Where You're Going Isn't Home, the story of a boy growing up Mormon in America with a dream to play jazz trumpet. It is the recipient of a coveted ForeWord Clarion Five Star Review. It begins in 1956. Young Shake Tauffler hears a line of music on the radio of a cattle truck that changes his life forever. The music is jazz. The instrument is a trumpet. His family is moving one last time - from a southern Utah ranch to a town outside Salt Lake - on his father's quest to bring his family from Switzerland to the heartland of the Mormon church. In two months, when Shake turns twelve, he'll join his buddies on a shared journey through the ranks of his father's take-no-prisoners religion. At the same time, armed with a used trumpet and his bike, he'll start another journey, on his own, to a place whose high priests aren't his father's friends but the Negro greats of jazz, men he's been taught to believe are cursed but from whose music he learns everything he dreams of being. Shaded with Huck Finn and James Dean, Shake Tauffler is an American kid we all recognize, a kid who responds to bigotry, abuse, repression, hypocrisy, and death with courage, humor, heartbreak, often pain, and always wonder. His rites of passage are keenly drawn and vividly familiar, his dream to play jazz shared by most any musician. But his ten-year story of growing up Mormon in America takes us to an altogether different place. Journey, the first book of the trilogy If Where You're Going Isn't Home, is for those of us who long to hunker down and lose ourselves in a big American story, one whose narrative canvas takes us from Switzerland to a southern Utah ranch, to Salt Lake and its outskirts towns, into the secret holy places of the Mormon Church, across the landscapes of Nevada, California, Las Vegas, Kentucky, Austria, the Mojave Desert. Lyrical, rowdy, unflinching, Journey follows Shake across the first four years of his search for the clarity and flight of a trumpet line to lift him like a steel bird out from under the iron sky of his faith and guide him to sexual, moral, and musical consciousness. It is a search that resolves - for now - in startling and extraordinary tenderness. Michael Strong, literary agent and co-founder of Zola Books, describes the book this way: "Max Zimmer has written The Great American Mormon Novel. For decades, readers have depended upon a few extraordinary writers to understand fully what it means to be an American - Philip Roth, Julia Alvarez, Ralph Ellison, Erica Jong, John Updike. Zimmer has added a critical new dimension to our shared national understanding of who we are and how we got here in this sweeping narrative. Twelve-year-old Shake Tauffler's decade-long journey through the Mormon Church and beyond will resonate with all Americans who ponder their soul and place in our changing national portrait." [more]

Keywords: fiction, series, coming of age, jazz, mormon, religion, american fiction, award winning author, racial conflict, trumpet, music, lessons

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Max Zimmer Of the World (If Where You're Going Isn't Home Book 2)

Fiction
English
1610 Words
Ages 14 and up
320
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"Of the World" is the second book of the groundbreaking coming of age trilogy "If Where You're Going Isn't Home," the ten-year story of a boy growing up Mormon in America in pursuit of a dream to play jazz trumpet. At sixteen, licensed to drive, armed with his trumpet and a talented band, Shake Tauffler begins to slip the harness of his home and neighborhood to test himself in the raw world of the streets and nightclubs of Salt Lake and its outlying towns. His threatened parents intensify their attacks on his emerging sexual and moral consciousness. Jazz and its negro heroes still define him, but his church takes off its gloves to teach him that in God’s eyes Negroes are anything but heroes. His Huck Finn days are over; this is the rebel Shake, conflicted, haunted by the faceless mystery of never being good enough and a hunger he can’t name, roaming the night alone or with his hoodlum pals, looking for refuge in hot cars, chance girls, violence, the cry of his trumpet, the faces of the American night. In the epic second book of the trilogy "If Where You’re Going Isn’t Home," the Shake we knew in "Journey" takes on tougher obstacles, extends his reach, but continues to meet the senseless forces of his life with courage, wit, and wonder. He leaves Utah to become a tanker in the Army where he embraces the break from his past and the chance to define himself from scratch. But his past comes out of hiding when he falls in love with a breathtaking girl and comes face to face with the ruthless racial dogma of his faith. He returns home, a man and a hero, to a family and church who are quick to remind him who and where he is. A foreign mission when he turns nineteen lies just ahead. The road is ending. One last defiant self-affirming act takes him across the American West to close it down his way. From Michael Strong, co-founder and COO of Zola Books: “Max Zimmer has written the Great American Mormon Novel. For decades, readers have depended upon a few extraordinary writers to understand fully what it means to be an American – Philip Roth, Julia Alvarez, Ralph Ellison, Erica Jong, John Updike. Zimmer has added a critical new dimension to our shared national understanding of who we are and how we got here in this sweeping narrative. Twelve-year-old Shake Tauffler’s decade-long journey through the Mormon Church and beyond will resonate with all Americans who ponder their soul and place in our changing national portrait.” [more]

Keywords: mormon, award winning author, fiction, jazz, american fiction, music, lessons, religion, racial conflict, racism, hot cars, hoodlums, domestic abuse, religious oppression, utah, army, tanks, street fights, night clubs, jazz band, coming of age, series [more][Less]

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Frances Keinzley ILLUSION (English Edition)

New Zealand's Crime Classic!

Mystery & Crime
English
77634 Words
Ages 16 and up
272
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On a raw, wet, winter's day, as Eloise watches her daughter Deborah's coffin being lowered into the cold ground of the little country churchyard, her over-riding emotions are those of hatred and revenge. To Eloise, Steven appears a cold-blooded murderer, in that by forcing Deborah to agree to an abortion, he has caused her death as surely as if he had killed her with his own hands. Driven by grief and the desire for revenge, Eloise determines she will contrive somehow that Steven shall meet a murderer's rightful end at the hands of the Law. Illusion tells the story of Eloise's ingenious scheming; of how she uses her simple- minded twin sister as, together, they leave their life of self- imposed, strangely old-fashioned seclusion, for the romantic setting of a luxury liner; and of how, on the voyage taking them halfway round the world, strange and entirely unforeseen complications arise, over which Eloise realises she has no control... This spine-chilling mystery is one of the most exciting novels by Frances Keinzley (1922 – 2006), winner of the Literary Award in New Zealand in 1960. Keinzley is more than a talented and intelligent storyteller; she is a subtle psychologist who is able to create believable characters. Ingenious and inventive, with a surprise solution, the book is most cleverly and sensitively worked out. It is both powerful and memorable! [more]

Keywords: Apex-Verlag, crime, thriller, mystery, novel, New Zealand, murder, murderer, dark, award-winning, excitement, suspense, entertainment, mysterious, classic, english, ebook, Ebook, E-Book, drama, new edition 2020, new publication 2020 [more][Less]

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DC Green The Haircut

Travel
English
591 Words
No Age Recommendation
2142
12

East meets west in a head-on collision in a remote Indonesian village. By award-winning journalist, DC Green.

Keywords: travel, humor

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Mulayam Singh Photography Guide

Film in the 21st century

Photography
English
3284 Words
No Age Recommendation
66
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Keywords: photography, camera, shooting, creative, fashion, makeup, lifestyle, photo, kit, display, photographer, shoot, set, picture, closeup, professional, hobby, make-up, photograph, glamor, creativity, beauty, profession, photographing, screen, reflector, studio, computer, reflective, production, photographic equipment, equipment, photo shoot, assistant, light, light modifier, art, studio lighting, artistic, tripod, production ma, close-up, glamour, photoshoot, production manager, product shoot, women, adjusting, product, product photography, camera crew, production assistanat, helping, work, noise, artifact, post production technique, model release, property release, title, composition, focus, blured, portrait photographer, professional photography, photography services, photography studio, event photography, wedding photography, family photography, new born photography, engagement photography, landscape photography, fine art photography, commercial photography, fashion photography, real estate photography, travel photography, best photography, photography gallery, creative photography, color photography, outdoor photography, candid photography, artistic photography, photography packages, affordable photography, top photography services, award winning photographer, photo editing services, photography workshop, photography tips, photography blog, camera equipment, photography training, photography techniques, maternity photography, graduation photography [more][Less]

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Hendrik Van Loon The Story Of Mankind

Fiction
English
126517 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and award-winning [more]

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