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Chance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Chance

"In an intense tale of psychological suspense, a San Francisco psychiatrist becomes sexually involved with a female patient who suffers from multiple personality disorder, and whose pathological ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective--from a Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author. Dr. Eldon Chance is a brilliant, lonely, forensic neuropsychologist with a long track record of getting involved with damaged, complicated women. While apartment hunting after separating from his wife, a series of bad decisions leads to Chance sleeping with a patient named Jaclyn Blackstone. Unfortunately her ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective and the jealous type. Meanwhile, Dr. Chance meets a y...

The Book of Charlie
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

The Book of Charlie

One of our nation’s most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in this “original and highly readable account of a splendid American life” (The Wall Street Journal). When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship—and a profound lesson in the meaning of life. Charlie White was no ordinary neighbor. Born before radio, Charlie lived long enough to use a smartphone. When a shocking tragedy interrupted his idyllic boyhood, Charlie mastered survival strategies that reflect thousands of years of human w...

Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In France, a major terrain of this intellectual debate, the chance hypothesis engaged writers coming from many different horizons: the ancient philosophies of Epicurus, the Stoa, and Aristotle, the renewed reading of the Bible in the wake of the Reformation, a fresh emphasis on direct, empirical observation of nature and society, the revival of dramatic tragedy with its paradoxical theme of the misfortunes that befall relatively good people, and growing introspective awareness of the somewhat arbitrary ...

A Study Guide for August Strindberg's
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 30

A Study Guide for August Strindberg's "Miss Julie"

A Study Guide for August Strindberg's "Miss Julie," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Congressional Record
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1414

Congressional Record

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1966
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Saturday's Child
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Saturday's Child

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-16
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

This story covers 47 years of physical, sexual, and spiritual abuse, yet the author leaves the reader with a feeling of hope and spirituality. It also gives a personal glimpse into two other lives, one who was able to express the family secret and receive counseling, return to college and receive a degree and certification in family counseling, and one young lady who could not receive help even though she tried and has been institutionalized. The book tells of the difficulties of being a victim and the success in becoming a whole and emotionally well and productive individual.

The Encyclopedia of Country Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 665

The Encyclopedia of Country Music

Immediately upon publication in 1998, the Encyclopedia of Country Music became a much-loved reference source, prized for the wealth of information it contained on that most American of musical genres. Countless fans have used it as the source for answers to questions about everything from country's first commercially successful recording, to the genre's pioneering music videos, to what conjunto music is. This thoroughly revised new edition includes more than 1,200 A-Z entries covering nine decades of history and artistry, from the Carter Family recordings of the 1920s to the reign of Taylor Swift in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Compiled by a team of experts at the Country Mu...

Lloyd’s Register of Yachts 1938
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1036

Lloyd’s Register of Yachts 1938

The Lloyd’s Register of Yachts was first issued in 1878, and was issued annually until 1980, except during the years 1916-18 and 1940-46. Two supplements containing additions and corrections were also issued annually. The Register contains the names, details and characters of Yachts classed by the Society, together with the particulars of other Yachts which are considered to be of interest, illustrates plates of the Flags of Yacht and Sailing Clubs, together with a List of Club Officers, an illustrated List of the Distinguishing Flags of Yachtsmen, a List of the Names and Addresses of Yacht Owners, and much other information. For more information on the Lloyd’s Register of Yachts, please click here: https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/archive-library/lloyds-register-of-yachts-online

Chicago Historical Society's Collection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 604

Chicago Historical Society's Collection

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1890
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  • Publisher: Unknown

CONTENTS.--I. Flower, G. History of the English settlement in Edwards County, Illinois. 1882.--II. Reid, H. Biographical sketch of Enoch Long. 1884.--III. Edwards, N. The Edwards papers. 1884.--IV. Mason, E. G., ed. Early Chicago and Illinois. 1890.--V. Boggess, A. C. The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830. 1908.--VI-IX. Polk, J. K. The diary of James K. Polk ... 1845 to 1849 ... ed. ... by M. M. Quaife. 1910.--X. Putnam, J. W. The Illinois and Michigan canal. 1918.--[XI] Ingraham, C. A. Elmer E. Ellsworth and the zouaves of '61. [1925]--XII. Knight, R. and Zeuch, L. H. The location of the Chicago portage route of the seventeenth century. 1928.

Death of a Jester
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Death of a Jester

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05-18
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  • Publisher: Lion Fiction

The police cannot decide if the clown sightings reported around Grambling pose a threat or are just a hoax. That is, until a young homeless boy is lured away from his parents in the dead of night. Malachi has been dreaming of the little boy he could not save in Afghanistan. He is pulled between the deep need to drink and drown his past and his desire to try and help save the little boy who was snatched from Tent City, under his nose. Then a man dressed in a clown's outfit is found bludgeoned to death. Brangian reports and watches in horror as the crime is connected to her property and members of her own family are once again suspects. Can Branigan and Malachi help to bring the truth to light before the little boy is harmed, and before the wrong person is convicted of murder...