The Seven Good Years

Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698166000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life. What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar’s three-year-old son’s impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There’s Lev’s insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar’s siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father’s shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This wise, witty memoir—Etgar’s first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable style—is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.

Fly Already

Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698166116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
From a "genius" (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection. "There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better." --George Saunders There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move... In "Arctic Lizard," a young boy narrates a post-apocalyptic version of the world where a youth army wages an unending war, rewarded by collecting prizes. A father tries to shield his son from the inevitable in "Fly Already." In "One Gram Short," a guy just wants to get a joint to impress a girl and ends up down a rabbit hole of chaos and heartache. And in the masterpiece "Pineapple Crush," two unlikely people connect through an evening smoke down by the beach, only to have one of them imagine a much deeper relationship. The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive.

Seven Years

Author: Peter Stamm
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590513940
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women—and he can’t make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside him to open their architecture firm and to build a life of luxury. But when the seven-year itch sets in, their exhaustion at working long hours coupled with their failed attempts at starting a family get the best of them. Alex soon finds himself kindling an affair with his college lover, Ivona. The young Polish woman who worked in a Catholic mission is the polar opposite of Sonia: dull, passive, taciturn, and plain. Despite having little in common with Ivona, Alex is inexplicably drawn to her while despising himself for it. Torn between his highbrow marriage and his lowbrow affair, Alex is stuck within a spiraling threesome. But when Ivona becomes pregnant, life takes an unexpected turn, and Alex is puzzled more than ever by the mysteries of his heart. Peter Stamm, one of Switzerland’s most acclaimed writers, is at his best exploring the complexities of human relationships. Seven Years is a distinct, sobering, and bold novel about the impositions of happiness in the quest for love.

Tales from the Radiation Age

Author: Jason Sheehan
Publisher: 47north
ISBN: 9781477848913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Seven Year Summer

Author: Anna Byrne
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781793482433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Finalist for the Whistler Independent Book Awards. Part memoir, medical guide and spiritual text, Seven Year Summer is the story of two women destined for death. While in her early 30s, Anna was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma and spent over 2000 hours in Canadian hospitals. Seven years later, she met Eleanor, a woman in her 70s dying of renal failure. The two formed an unlikely friendship. Written largely while sitting bedside during the four weeks of Eleanor's dying, Seven Year Summer seeks to uncover how a person can remain emotionally, psychologically and spiritually intact when bodily survival seems improbable. Explored through the nuances of individual illness, the narrative arcs towards the pattern of life, loss and renewal that is the structure and sequence of the natural world and human life. https://annabyrne2.wixsite.com/mysite

The Seven Good Years

Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399576002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Sermons You Can Preach

Author: W. Herschel Ford
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780310469711
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
For pastors and Bible students alike, here is a compendium of Ford's 'Simple Sermons' that have proved meaningful for so many. This book is four volumes of sermons in one.

The One Year Bible NIV

Author: Tyndale
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414359918
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1245

Book Description
The entire New International Version arranged in 365 daily readings.

NCV The Everyday Bible

Author: Thomas Nelson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1418533610
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 3811

Book Description
If connecting with the heart of God brings pleasure, then reading the Bible can be a pleasure. The Everyday Bible is the Bible to use every single day of the year. With a new and contemporary look, The Everyday Bible line will meet the needs of every Bible reader.

The One Year Chronological Bible KJV

Author: Tyndale House Publishers Staff
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 141437206X
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1860

Book Description
The One Year Chronological Bibleis ideal for anyone who wants to take a fresh look at the Bible by reading it in the order the events actually happened. You can read the entire Bible in as little as 15 minutes a day with this One Year Bible, the best selling daily reading Bible brand.