[PDF] Delight eBook

Author : Ross Gay
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1643755471

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From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

Author : Jan Wolkers
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941040489

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The story of a tempestuous love affair—and the basis for Paul Verhoeven's Oscar-nominated film—Wolkers's controversial masterpiece comes alive in a new translation. Upon its original publication in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was its frank, colloquial style. The more straightlaced critics condemned the book, but readers saw a novel that reflected the way that they spoke, thought, and felt. Turkish Delight opens with a screed: a sculptor in his studio, raging against the love he lost and describing, in gory detail, the state of his life since she left him. Our narrator alternates between the story of his relationship with Olga—its passion and affection, but also its obsessiveness and abuse—and the dark days that followed, as he attempts to recapture what they had when they lived together, “happy as beasts.” The two only reunite during Olga’s inexorable and tragic decline into cancer—the chemo having taken her hair and rotted her teeth, she will only eat the soft, sweet Turkish Delight that her ex-lover brings to her bedside. In a new translation by Sam Garrett (Herman Koch’s The Dinner), readers get a sense of Wolkers’s revolutionary style and musical prose, Turkish Delight’s particular balance of naked impulse and profound longing. Tin House Books gratefully acknowledges the support of the Dutch Foundation for Literature, whose generous subsidy made this new translation possible.

Author : Per Nilsson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0689876777

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As a sixteen-year-old looks at and systematically destroys each of his mementos of Ann-Kathrin, he replays scenes from their relationship and realizes that it was not the great romance he believed it to be.

Author : Henry S. Warren
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0321842685

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Compiles programming hacks intended to help computer programmers build more efficient software, in an updated edition that covers cyclic redundancy checking and new algorithms and that includes exercises with answers.

Author : J. B. Priestley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0008585717

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‘An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.’ Dolly Alderton ‘J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.’ Dame Judi Dench

Author : Fracaswell Hyman
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1454923334

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“Mango is as delightful as her middle name indicates, and middle-grade readers will easily recognize their own experiences in her friendship struggles.” —Booklist (starred review) What happens when your BFF becomes your EFF . . . EX-Friend-Forever? When seventh-grader Mango Delight Fuller accidentally breaks her BFF Brooklyn’s new cell phone, her life falls apart. She loses her friends and her spot on the track team, and even costs her father his job as a chef. But Brooklyn’s planned revenge—sneakily signing up Mango to audition for the school musical—backfires when Mango not only wins the lead role, but becomes a YouTube sensation and attracts the attention of the school’s queen bee, Hailey Jo. Hailey Jo is from a VERY wealthy family, and expects everyone to do her bidding. Soon Mango finds herself forced to make tough choices about the kind of friend she wants to have . . . and, just as important, the kind of friend she wants to be.

Author : Teri Maxwell
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Marriage
ISBN : 9781941183076

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Teri Maxwell directs women to build their marriage God's way. Her conversational style and candid illustrations make this an enjoyable, applicable, and often convicting read. Writing from personal experience as well as from a Titus2 woman's point of view, Teri is straightforward as she teaches and connects with women. No matter how long you've been married or what your marriage has been like to this point, in My Delight you'll find insight for loving your husband.

Author : John Piper
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1576738833

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Strengthen your relationship with God by enjoying Him and His creation! Discover just how to delight in the Lord in this compact version of Piper's classic Desiring God.