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Author |
: David Rieff |
Publisher |
: Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780522855449 |
ISBN-13 |
: 052285544X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Swimming in a Sea of Death by : David Rieff
Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it means to confront death in our culture. David Rieff confronts his feelings in relation to his motherandmdash;the guilt, the self-questioning, the sense of not having done enough. And he tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, and to try almost anything in order to go on living.
Author |
: Vi Khi Nao |
Publisher |
: University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2022-02-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781573661935 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1573661937 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Swimming with Dead Stars by : Vi Khi Nao
"Swimming with Dead Stars by Vi Khi Nao is a novel that follows adjunct literature instructor Maldon on a cross-country journey to undergo a medical procedure to repair a heart condition. The novel is a hallucinatory meditation on the stars and planets, the precariousness of human existence, the cruel inequities of labor and healthcare, chickens and ice cream, and the grace that comes from enduring the physical and psychic pain wrought by pernicious social forces that enslave us all"--
Author |
: Peter Guttridge |
Publisher |
: Severn House Publishers Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2019-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781448302208 |
ISBN-13 |
: 144830220X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Swimming with the Dead by : Peter Guttridge
A body found stabbed repeatedly outside the local lido leads DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap into an intriguing new case. With an art deco lido under threat of closure by a ruthless property developer, the Save the Salthaven Lido campaigners are fighting a desperate battle to keep it open. When the lead campaigner is discovered dead, suspicion falls on the developers. No sooner have DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap begun to investigate that there is a second death during a pre-qualifying event in Brighton Bay for potential Cross-Channel swimmers. This time it’s a local millionaire businesswoman with radical plans to reorganise the family business. When another endurance swimmer dies during an event with links to the property developer, Gilchrist and Heap flounder. Are all the deaths connected to the Salthaven development? Is someone targeting open-water swimmers? Gilchrist and Heap race to uncover the truth before more victims come to the surface.
Author |
: Matthew Campbell |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2022-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593329245 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593329244 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dead in the Water by : Matthew Campbell
A Financial Times Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year “A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale “A fascinating read. Highly recommended!”-John Carreyrou, bestselling author of Bad Blood "Truly one of the most nail-biting, page-turning, terrifying true-crime books I've ever read." —Nick Bilton, New York Times bestselling author of American Kingpin From award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy—and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all. In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for Lloyd’s of London, inspected the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. How had the pirates gotten aboard so easily? And if they wanted to steal the ship and bargain for its return, then why did they destroy it? The questions didn’t add up—and Mockett would never answer them. Soon after his inspection, David Mockett was murdered. Dead in the Water is a shocking expose of the criminal inner workings of international shipping, told through the lens of the Brillante hijacking and its aftermath. Through first-hand accounts of those who lived it—from members of the ship’s crew and witnesses to the attacks, to the ex-London detectives turned private investigators seeking to solve Mockett’s murder and bring justice to his family—award-winning Bloomberg reporters Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel piece together the astounding truth behind one of the most brazen financial frauds in history. The ambitious culmination of more than four years of reporting, Dead in the Water uncovers an intricate web of conspiracy amidst the lawless, old-world industry at the backbone of our new global economy.
Author |
: Claire Fuller |
Publisher |
: Tin House Books |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2017-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781941040522 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1941040527 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Swimming Lessons by : Claire Fuller
An Oprah Editor's Pick and NPR Best Book of the Year From the author of the award-winning and word-of-mouth sensation Our Endless Numbered Days comes an exhilarating literary mystery that will keep readers guessing until the final page. Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he’s getting older and this unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her father and to try to finally discover what happened to Ingrid. But what Flora doesn’t realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her. Scandalous and whip-smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious truths of a passionate and troubled marriage.
Author |
: Phillip Finch |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2008-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0312383940 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780312383947 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Diving Into Darkness by : Phillip Finch
Finch chronicles the harrowing true story of two friends who plunge 900 feet into the water in South Africa--and only one returns. What happened that day is the stuff of nightmarish drama, but it's also a compelling human story of friendship and of coming to terms with loss and tragedy. 8-page color photo insert.
Author |
: Penny Farmer |
Publisher |
: Diversion Books |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2019-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781635765762 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1635765765 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dead in the Water by : Penny Farmer
An “intimate” account of a double murder by a man once suspected as being the Golden State Killer (O, the Oprah Magazine,“20 Best True Crime Books”). In 1978, two tortured corpses—hooded, bound, and weighted down with engine parts—were found in the sea off Guatemala. Junior doctor Chris Farmer and his girlfriend, Peta Frampton, were still clinging to life when they were thrown from the yacht they’d been crewing. Here is the gripping account of how Chris’s family worked alongside police, the FBI, and Interpol to gather evidence against the boat’s Californian skipper, Silas Duane Boston. Almost four decades later, in 2015, Chris’s sister, Penny, used Facebook to track down Boston. Following the detailed, haunting testimony of his own two sons—who also implicated their father in a string of other killings—Boston was finally arrested and charged with two counts of maritime murder. A story of homicide on the high seas, Dead in the Water is also a tale of a family’s fortitude and diligence in tracking down a monster. “A real-life page turner more intriguing than anything on Netflix.”—Mail on Sunday “A heartbreaking tale of familial love and a sister’s hunt for justice. There are numerous twists and turns which would be disturbing if they were woven between the pages of a novel let alone as part of a true story.”—The Tattooed Book
Author |
: Stuart Woods |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 591 |
Release |
: 2009-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061801945 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0061801941 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dead in the Water by : Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington only wants a winter getaway from the chill of New York in the beautiful, tropical Caribbean paradise of St. Mark's. But what the lawyer and ex-cop gets instead is the chance to defend Allison Manning. The beautiful young woman stands accused of killing her rich husband on board their luxurious yacht and then burying him at sea. Stone isn't exactly conversant with the island country's law, but this much is clear to him: Allison is being railroaded by the perverse sense of justice of a prosecutor who will do anything to stay in office. Donning the robe and wig of a British barrister, Stone does everything he can to save Allison—from publicizing the case all over the American press to conducting the kind of smart, tough investigation that money can't buy. Just when he has the jury in the palm of his hands, a shocking reversal of fortune changes everything. And what was once a sure thing begins to look a lot like a death sentence.
Author |
: Jay J. Silverberg |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2021-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1637421575 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781637421574 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dead Fish Don't Swim Upstream by : Jay J. Silverberg
Business academia offers an excellent entrepreneurial foundation. Then reality sets in. This book bridges the gap between academia and real business, to counsel by example, and to deliver timely, actionable recommendations to capitalize on opportunities, or to sidestep hidden business grenades. Advice is best delivered by those who have successfully walked the entrepreneurial trail, but not without incurring some scars along the way. That's us. For the university instructor or professor, this book adds another dimension to what is being taught, and facilitates the lecturers' ability to convey important business lessons in bite-size morsels.
Author |
: Dan Egan |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2017-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393246445 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393246442 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by : Dan Egan
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.