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Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1524748838
Size: 53.16 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2021-03-09
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Ghost Variations eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers. A spirit who is fated to spend eternity reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, ghostly trees that haunt the occupant of a wooden house, specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead: these are just a few of the characters in this extraordinary compendium of one hundred ghost stories. Kevin Brockmeier’s fiction has always explored the space between the fantastical and the everyday with profundity and poignancy. As in his previous books, The Ghost Variations discovers new ways of looking at who we are and what matters to us, exploring how mysterious, sad, strange, and comical it is to be alive—or, as it happens, not to be.

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Author: Jessica Duchen
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783529830
Size: 69.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2016-09-20
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Ghost Variations eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The strangest detective story in the history of music – inspired by a true incident. A world spiralling towards war. A composer descending into madness. And a devoted woman struggling to keep her faith in art and love against all the odds. 1933. Dabbling in the fashionable “Glass Game” – a Ouija board – the famous Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi, one-time muse to composers such as Bartók, Ravel and Elgar, encounters a startling dilemma. A message arrives ostensibly from the spirit of the composer Robert Schumann, begging her to find and perform his long-suppressed violin concerto. She tries to ignore it, wanting to concentrate instead on charity concerts. But against the background of the 1930s depression in London and the rise of the Nazis in Germany, a struggle ensues as the “spirit messengers” do not want her to forget. The concerto turns out to be real, embargoed by Schumann’s family for fear that it betrayed his mental disintegration: it was his last full-scale work, written just before he suffered a nervous breakdown after which he spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. It shares a theme with his Geistervariationen (Ghost Variations) for piano, a melody he believed had been dictated to him by the spirits of composers beyond the grave. As rumours of its existence spread from London to Berlin, where the manuscript is held, Jelly embarks on an increasingly complex quest to find the concerto. When the Third Reich’s administration decides to unearth the work for reasons of its own, a race to perform it begins. Though aided and abetted by a team of larger-than-life personalities – including her sister Adila Fachiri, the pianist Myra Hess, and a young music publisher who falls in love with her – Jelly finds herself confronting forces that threaten her own state of mind. Saving the concerto comes to mean saving herself. In the ensuing psychodrama, the heroine, the concerto and the pre-war world stand on the brink, reaching together for one more chance of glory.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400095956
Size: 55.58 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2007-01-09
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Brief History Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307429725
Size: 10.48 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2007-12-18
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Things That Fall From The Sky eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told “These Hands,” a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away. In “Apples,” a boy comes to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of love, and the bizarre death of his Bible coach. “The Jesus Stories” examines a people trying to accelerate the Second Coming by telling the story of Christ in every possible way. And in the O. Henry Award winning “The Ceiling,” a man’s marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending. Achingly beautiful and deceptively simple, Things That Fall from the Sky defies gravity as one of the most original story collections seen in recent years.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307379582
Size: 20.48 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2011-02-01
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Illumination eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? From best-selling and award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier: a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we bear and the light that radiates from us all. At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination commences. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a private journal of love notes, written by a husband to his wife, passes into the keeping of a hospital patient and from there through the hands of five other suffering people, touching each of them uniquely. I love the soft blue veins on your wrist. I love your lopsided smile. I love watching TV and shelling sunflower seeds with you. The six recipients—a data analyst, a photojournalist, a schoolchild, a missionary, a writer, and a street vendor—inhabit an acutely observed, beautifully familiar yet particularly strange universe, as only Kevin Brockmeier could imagine it: a world in which human pain is expressed as illumination, so that one’s wounds glitter, fluoresce, and blaze with light. As we follow the journey of the book from stranger to stranger, we come to understand how intricately and brilliantly they are connected, in all their human injury and experience.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lisa Taddeo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982122188
Size: 32.94 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2022-06-14
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Ghost Lover eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A collection of nine short stories includes the tale of hard partying friends crashing into life's responsibilities and of a dating service that handles the task of flirting via text message for its clients

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephanie Springgay
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351866486
Size: 19.60 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-12-22
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Walking Methodologies In A More Than Human World eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. As a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in the social sciences and humanities, underscoring its value for conducting research that is situated, relational, and material. Building on the importance of place, sensory inquiry, embodiment, and rhythm within walking research, this book offers four new concepts for walking methodologies that are accountable to an ethics and politics of the more-than-human: Land and geos, affect, transmaterial and movement. The book carefully considers the more-than-human dimensions of walking methodologies by engaging with feminist new materialisms, posthumanisms, affect theory, trans and queer theory, Indigenous theories, and critical race and disability scholarship. These more-than-human theories rub frictionally against the history of walking scholarship and offer crucial insights into the potential of walking as a qualitative research methodology in a more-than-human world. Theoretically innovative, the book is grounded in examples of walking research by WalkingLab, an international research network on walking (www.walkinglab.org). The book is rich in scope, engaging with a wide range of walking methods and forms including: long walks on hiking trails, geological walks, sensory walks, sonic art walks, processions, orienteering races, protest and activist walks, walking tours, dérives, peripatetic mapping, school-based walking projects, and propositional walks. The chapters draw on WalkingLab’s research-creation events to examine walking in relation to settler colonialism, affective labour, transspecies, participation, racial geographies and counter-cartographies, youth literacy, environmental education, and collaborative writing. The book outlines how more-than-human theories can influence and shape walking methodologies and provokes a critical mode of walking-with that engenders solidarity, accountability, and response-ability. This volume will appeal to graduate students, artists, and academics and researchers who are interested in Education, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Affect Studies, Geography, Anthropology, and (Post)Qualitative Research Methods.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307429474
Size: 54.42 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2007-12-18
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Truth About Celia eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. While playing alone in her backyard one afternoon, seven-year-old Celia suddenly disappears while her father Christopher is inside giving a tour of their historic house and her mother Janet is at an orchestra rehearsal. Utterly shattered, Christopher, a writer of fantasy and science fiction, withdraws from everyone around him, especially his wife, losing himself in his writing by conjuring up worlds where Celia still exists—as a child, as a teenager, as a young single mother—and revealing in his stories not only his own point of view but also those of Janet, the policeman in charge of the case, and the townspeople affected by the tragedy, ultimately culminating in a portrait of a small town changed forever. The Truth About Celia is a profound meditation on grief and loss and how we carry on in its aftermath.

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Book Detail:
Author: H. D. Kingsbury
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557003016
Size: 54.13 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2008-09-16
Category: Opera
Language: en
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Download PDF Phantom Variations eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For nearly a century, the legend of the Opera Ghost has thrilled readers around the globe. But there's much more to his story than the brief chapter of his life written by Gaston Leroux. Here, you will find thirteen tales that explore Erik's childhood, his romance with Christine, and his life - before and after - becoming the Phantom of the Opera. These are tales of what might have been, and what never was. They are Phantom Variations: Tales from the World of the Opera Ghost. All proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the American Porphyria Foundation.

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Book Detail:
Author: Yau-Woon Ma
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui
ISBN: 9780887270710
Size: 63.96 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1986
Category: Literary Collections
Language: en
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Download PDF Traditional Chinese Stories eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For centuries the Chinese referred to their fiction as xiaoshuo, etymologically meaning roadside gossip or small talk, and held it in relative disregard.

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Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307377105
Size: 74.93 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2008-03-04
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The View From The Seventh Layer eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life, Kevin Brockmeier has been consistently praised for the originality of his vision, the boundlessness of his imagination and the command of his craft. Once again, in this new collection of fiction, Brockmeier shows us a fantastical world that is intimately familiar but somehow distant and beautiful. From the touching title story, where a young, antisocial woman imagines her escape into the sky with an apparition only she can see, to the haunting story of a pastor tempted by something less than divine, Brockmeier moves effortlessly from the extraordinary to the everyday, while challenging us to see the world anew. Stunning, elegant, profound, and playful, The View from the Seventh Layer cements Kevin Brockmeier's place as one of the most creative and compassionate writers of his generation.

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Book Detail:
Author: William Montell
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813190075
Size: 67.19 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2000-08-24
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF Ghosts Across Kentucky eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A collection of ghostly tales from across the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lincoln Michel
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226634
Size: 28.39 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2020-10-13
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Tiny Nightmares eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A collection of horror–inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder. In this playful, inventive collection, leading literary and horror writers spin chilling tales in only a few pages. Each slim, fast–moving story brings to life the kind of monsters readers love to fear, from brokenhearted vampires to Uber–taking serial killers and mind–reading witches. But what also makes Tiny Nightmares so bloodcurdling—and unforgettable—are the real–world horrors that writers such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Lilliam Rivera, Kevin Brockmeier, and Rion Amilcar Scott weave into their fictions, exploring how global warming, racism, social media addiction, and homelessness are just as frightening as, say, a vampire’s fangs sinking into your neck. Our advice? Read with the hall light on and the bedroom door open just a crack. Featuring new stories from Samantha Hunt, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Rion Amilcar Scott, and more!

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Book Detail:
Author: John Daverio (musicoloog)
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195091809
Size: 22.45 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1997
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Robert Schumann eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This work focuses on the work of the romantic composer Robert Schumann.

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Book Detail:
Author: D. T. Max
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101601116
Size: 56.86 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2012-08-30
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The acclaimed New York Times–bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) In the first biography of the iconic David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max paints the portrait of a man, self-conscious, obsessive and struggling to find meaning. If Wallace was right when he declared he was “frightfully and thoroughly conventional,” it is only because over the course of his short life and stunning career, he wrestled intimately and relentlessly with the fundamental anxiety of being human. In his characteristic lucid and quick-witted style, Max untangles Wallace’s anxious sense of self, his volatile and sometimes abusive connection with women, and above all, his fraught relationship with fiction as he emerges with his masterpiece Infinite Jest. Written with the cooperation of Wallace’s family and friends and with access to hundreds of unpublished letters, manuscripts and journals, this captivating biography unveils the life of the profoundly complicated man who gave voice to what we thought we could not say.

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Author: John Scalzi
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429914726
Size: 18.65 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2007-04-01
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Ghost Brigades eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human qualms. The universe is a dangerous place for humanity—and it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF's biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did. Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers -- a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared's brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades. At first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin's memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason's for Boutin's betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his "father," he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity's mere military defeat... Old Man's War Series #1 Old Man’s War #2 The Ghost Brigades #3 The Last Colony #4 Zoe’s Tale #5 The Human Division #6 The End of All Things Short fiction: “After the Coup” Other Tor Books The Android’s Dream Agent to the Stars Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded Fuzzy Nation Redshirts Lock In The Collapsing Empire (forthcoming) At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Book Detail:
Author: Tim J. Kelly
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822211969
Size: 68.93 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 1979
Category: American drama
Language: en
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Download PDF The Uninvited eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. THE STORY: Seeking to escape the demands of life in London, Pam Fitzgerald and her brother, Roddy, an aspiring playwright, discover a charming house in the west of England, overlooking the Irish Sea. The house, Cliff End, has long been empty, and t

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Book Detail:
Author: Jessica Duchen
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1789651166
Size: 56.18 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-10-29
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Immortal eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Who was Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved'? After Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a love letter in his writing was discovered, addressed only to his ‘Immortal Beloved’. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claims to have been the composer’s lost love. Yet is she concealing a tragic secret? Who is the one person who deserves to know the truth? Becoming Beethoven’s pupils in 1799, Therese and her sister Josephine followed his struggles against the onset of deafness, Viennese society’s flamboyance, privilege and hypocrisy and the upheavals of the Napoleonic wars. While Therese sought liberation, Josephine found the odds stacked against even the most unquenchable of passions...

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Book Detail:
Author: Bobbi Holmes
Publisher: Robeth Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Size: 79.25 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2018-01-19
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Ghost Of Marlow House eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Marcus LiBrizzi
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 0892728248
Size: 11.86 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2007-09-04
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF Dark Woods Chill Waters eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Forgotten somewhere between Bar Harbor, Maine, and New Brunswick, Canada, lies the most remote and mysterious section of the Eastern Seaboard. It is a region rich in stark beauty—and supernatural lore. The harsh landscape, with its rocky seaside cliffs and thundering surf and miles of dark, mysterious forest farther inland, lends itself to the ghost story. Overlaying the ghost tales gathered in this book is a sense of unspeakable horror and malice.

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