Sunbreaks

Author: Greg Messel
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426935447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
After losing his beloved wife to a drunk driver, fifty-three year old Tom Walker retreats into dark clouds of depression, isolating himself from friends, family, and the things he loves. Gloomy days turn into years and just when it seems there will be no break in the clouds, a light appears, in the form of a dazzling young woman named Erika Stevens. Tom is old enough to be her father, but he refuses to let their chance encounter in a rain-soaked city parking lot go to waste, and as the two strangers move from public coffee dates to something more, they make a surprising Valentines Day pact friendship at all costs. But can men and women really be just friends? And is age really, as Erika says, just a number? Set in the vibrant (and famously rainy) city of Portland, Oregon, Tom and Erikas story serves as a potent reminder that even the seemingly endless storm clouds of life have breaks sun breaks that seem to come in the most unexpected places.

Until the Sun Breaks Down: A Kunstlerroman in Three Parts

Author: Joseph Nicolello
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725269775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Written when the author was in his early and mid-twenties, Until the Sun Breaks Down is a contemporary American Künstlerroman modeled on Dante’s Divine Comedy. In three parts and one hundred chapters that mirror Dante’s classic poem, Nicolello takes the reader through present-day American towns and cities: infernal, purgatorial, and paradisal aspects with nothing left off the table. In this, the second volume, or Purgatorio, William is delivered from disquieting Jerusalem into the kaleidoscopic world of San Francisco. Here the text's cast of characters extends considerably, taking on issues of the visible and invisible, chemical indulgence in an empire in decline, the fall of irony and the limits of nihilism, and modern concepts of liberation and bondage. Here the surface of things is immeasurably more satisfying than the small town of the preceding volume—but the hollow nature of the visible in time leads the pilgrim to perpetually consider and reconsider issues raised and expand issues introduced in the first volume. At the same time, The Recluse Finds a Way is a celebration of the Bay Area, and a way of life that, for all its purgatorial excesses, leads young William closer to developing a sense of aesthetic mysticism with which to constructively reject the modern world.

As the Sun Breaks Through

Author: Ellie Dean
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473539811
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
************** THE FIFTEENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN Cliffehaven, June 1944 As the planes continue to circle over Cliffehaven, Peggy Reilly’s sister Doris must seek refuge after a V-1 blast destroys her home. Rita, Sarah and the other residents at Beach View Boarding House quickly find their peace disturbed and it’s not long before even Peggy loses her patience. But with more bad news to come, will Doris finally be forced to swallow her pride? Meanwhile Peggy’s father-in-law Ron Reilly is delighted when his sweetheart Rosie returns home. Until a heart-breaking confession suggests things may never be the same between them. With loved ones scattered far and wide across the globe, and tensions running high, the end of the war feels somehow further than ever. And yet with the long-awaited Allied invasion in sight, a glimmer of light is starting to break through... A fabulous, heart-warming Second World War novel in Ellie Dean's bestselling Cliffehaven series (previously called the Beach View Boarding House series).

Until the Sun Breaks Down: A Künstlerroman in Three Parts

Author: Joseph Nicolello
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725269791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Written when the author was in his early and mid-twenties, Until the Sun Breaks Down is a contemporary American Kunstlerroman modeled on Dante's Divine Comedy. In three parts and one hundred chapters that mirror Dante's classic poem, Nicolello takes the reader through present-day American towns and cities: infernal, purgatorial, and paradisal aspects with nothing left off the table. In this, the second volume, or Purgatorio, William is delivered from disquieting Jerusalem into the kaleidoscopic world of San Francisco. Here the text's cast of characters extends considerably, taking on issues of the visible and invisible, chemical indulgence in an empire in decline, the fall of irony and the limits of nihilism, and modern concepts of liberation and bondage. Here the surface of things is immeasurably more satisfying than the small town of the preceding volume--but the hollow nature of the visible in time leads the pilgrim to perpetually consider and reconsider issues raised and expand issues introduced in the first volume. At the same time, The Recluse Finds a Way is a celebration of the Bay Area, and a way of life that, for all its purgatorial excesses, leads young William closer to developing a sense of aesthetic mysticism with which to constructively reject the modern world.

To My Annie

Author: Wade Powers
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438905432
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description

Visiting College Campuses

Author: Janet Spencer
Publisher: The Princeton Review
ISBN: 9780375764004
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
"Includes profiles of 299 colleges and universities."--Cover

Letters to a Loving God

Author: Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781580511209
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
LIke his previous best-selling journals, virtually every entry bespeaks a depth of relationship with the Beloved that is inspiring to all readers. Page after page we encounter a man of great faith as he wrestles with the divine by sharing his hopes and fears, his greatest joys and his deepest sorrows. Father Greeley's honest approach to his inner struggles is refreshing and calls us to be honest with ourselves, especially when asking where God is in our lives. By entering into this personal prayer experience, we cannot help but to be touched and transformed.

Collocations as a Language Resource

Author: Sonja Poulsen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027257981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 366

Book Description
Are collocations problems or solutions to problems? If you take the perspective of the foreign learner, as in traditional phraseology, they are certainly challenging, and they have therefore been categorized as arbitrary, or even defective, deviations from an assumed norm of full compositionality. This is a paradox because their ubiquity in language and their importance for language proficiency are undisputed. The book provides a critical review of the traditional phraseological approach to collocations with its classical categories and its roots in structural and generative linguistics as well as traditional Russian phraseology. Instead, it proposes a theory of collocations as an independent functional domain, no longer characterized as “odd comings-together of words” that are neither fully compositional nor fully idiomatic. It fills a research gap and should appeal to phraseologists and cognitive linguists as well as psycholinguists, neurolinguists, corpus linguists, PhD-students and other advanced students of linguistics who are interested in exploring collocations as a language resource and may be interested in contributing to it.

Digestive Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs

Author: Isaac Livingstone Asamoah
Publisher: Partridge Africa
ISBN: 1482825260
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 488

Book Description
Digestive Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs contains the real or actual definition of a phrasal verb in relation or comparison to idiomatic expressions. It has some examples of support as far as the meanings are concerned with the three principles of their formation as well as their respective meanings in a very compiled and alphabetical form, which would, to a large extent, help readers for easier identification and the search for their meanings likewise. Ideally, these compilations have been the first of its kind in the whole wide world as far as the field of English is concerned, which, to a larger extent, would inarguably attract buyers attention for reading not only for leisure but also as reference for academic purposes.

When the Bough Breaks

Author: Tom West
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504997123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139

Book Description
This story will enthral you from the first page to the last as the plot unravels at a speedy pace. It is about the syndicate of art crimes, the life as a cat burglar, and the romance between two professional people within high-class society filled with crime, sex, secrets, surveillance tactics, motorcycles, and murder with a twist, with clues to a secret meeting place. It will cost you 1p for the fun of it.