Honed Virtue, A Coming of Age Story

Honed Virtue, A Coming of Age Story
Author: David Radmore
Publisher: Top Reads Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1970107219

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In this coming of age memoir, we follow young Danny Davis living in rural Oregon during the Great Depression and see through his hopeful eyes what he believes is the path to simply living a good life. Early tragedy orphans him, but the love and support of a multinational extended family leads him to a remarkable invention at thirteen years old, that sets the entire family up for life financially. The characters woven through Danny’s story will make you laugh, cry, and at times shock you, but one thing's for sure—once you start reading this book, you will want to keep reading and see how life’s twists and turns shape Danny and prepare him for future adventures. Written adeptly by the author, you are the fly on the wall and can’t help feeling you are part of the scene, wondering if this story can really be true. “... this story grabbed me from the first page. The amazing adventures and accomplishments of this young protagonist were a thrill to read.” —A. Glass, Five-Star Review Honed Virtue is Volume 1 of The Saga of Danny Davis.

Honed Virtue

Honed Virtue
Author: David Radmore
Publisher: MCP Books
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781545625644

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This is a coming of age story that follows a five-year-old boy living in rural Oregon during the Great Depression and beyond, through puberty. Early tragedy orphans him, but the love and support of a multinational "family" leads him to a remarkable discovery at 13 years old, that sets the entire family up for life financially. The characters and woven story will make you laugh, cry, and at times "shock" you, particularly if you are a female, but one thing's for sure, once you start reading this book, you won't be able to put it down. You are the fly on the wall watching and listening as this story unfolds.

Beauty of the Broken

Beauty of the Broken
Author: Tawni Waters
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481407090

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As if her parents' heavy drinking and her father's abuse--which nearly killed her half-brother, Iggy--were not enough, fifteen-year-old Mara is caught kissing her girlfriend, Xylia, by the preacher's son and becomes terrified that her own life is at risk.

The Last Weynfeldt

The Last Weynfeldt
Author: Martin Suter
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2017-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0857301012

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A well-to-do bachelor, who sees no more promise in love. A beautiful young woman with a mysterious past. A picture and its price. An auction, which causes an uproar in the art community - and a few who come up short in their desire for the big money. Adrian Weynfeldt, mid-fifties, bachelor, upper middle class, art expert at an international auction house, lives in an expansive apartment in the city centre. He is done with love. Until one day a younger woman persuades him - against his customary practice - to take her home with him. The next morning, she is holding on to the balcony... and threatening to jump. Adrian is able to dissuade her, but from now on she makes him responsible for her life. Weynfeldt's settled life becomes untracked - until he finally realizes that nothing is the way it appears.

We Are What We Pretend To Be

We Are What We Pretend To Be
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780306822780

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Kurt Vonnegut's first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.

Wilbur's Story

Wilbur's Story
Author: Donald B. Holmes
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2008-04-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1409201007

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2008 is the Centennial of Wilbur Wright's key flights in France - flights that gave birth to modern aviation. It is a story little known in the English-speaking world; this 180pp, budget, B&W version of the lavishly-illustrated, full-colour first edition tells the remarkable story behind the Le Mans celebrations of 2008, and the 2009 Pau centennial of the first pilot school in the world. Includes over 150 antique French postcards; also newspaper reports and posters of these and other events of the Belle Epoque period of flightin France.

The Age of Em

The Age of Em
Author: Robin Hanson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198754620

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Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think that the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or "ems." Robin Hanson draws on decades of expertise in economics, physics, and computer science to paint a detailed picture of this next great era in human (and machine) evolution - the age of em.

New York Magazine

New York Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1972-07-17
Genre:
ISBN:

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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Land and Water

Land and Water
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1918
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

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There She Goes Again

There She Goes Again
Author: Aviva Dove-Viebahn
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2023-12-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1978836139

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There She Goes Again interrogates the representation of ostensibly powerful women in transmedia franchises, examining how presumed feminine traits—love, empathy, altruism, diplomacy—are alternately lauded and repudiated as possibilities for effecting long-lasting social change. By questioning how these franchises reimagine their protagonists over time, the book reflects on the role that gendered exceptionalism plays in social and political action, as well as what forms of knowledge and power are presumed distinctly feminine. The franchises explored in this book illustrate the ambivalent (post)feminist representation of women protagonists as uniquely gifted in ways both gendered and seemingly ungendered, and yet inherently bound to expressions of their femininity. At heart,There She Goes Again asks under what terms and in what contexts women protagonists are imagined, envisioned, embodied, and replicated in media. Especially now, in a period of gradually increasing representation, women protagonists demonstrate the importance of considering how we should define—and whether we need—feminine forms of knowledge and power.