Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced

Other books that might interest you

  • The Wonderful World of Bernies - An Irish-Italian Adventure in Queens - cover

    The Wonderful World of Bernies -...

    Bernard M. Patten

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Before he became the world’s foremost expert on Myasthenia Gravis... 
    Before he had the largest neurology practice in the known Universe... 
    Before he solved some of the most difficult and often bizarre medical cases ever known... 
    He was...young Bernie Patten(#1 but really the 3rd), idiot savant(?) and sometimes just an idiot. 
    Who isn’t when they are growing up? 
    Chaotic at times - but never boring - life constantly flowed for a boy whose namesakes included his murder solving father(#2 and the 2nd) that would become a famous District Attorney, and his Great- Uncle(#3 and the 1st), a prominent, first generation, silver tongued Senator - a true Irish politician and master of elocution. (not electrocution, e-lo-cution). Confused? You won’t be soon, all will become clear we assure you! 
    Introducing Dr. Bernard M. Patten (#1 but really the 3rd), Neurologist extraordinaire. Before he became all that (and much, much, more!) he had a lot of growing up to do. With his politician patriarchs grooming him for future governorship, what could go wrong for our young,budding, basement chemist? 
    Meet the Bernies (and Owens, and Tommies) and many others that influenced Dr. Bernie, growing up in the land of egg creams, devil dogs and Asses Up.
    Show book
  • Beneath the Sands of Egypt - Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist - cover

    Beneath the Sands of Egypt -...

    Donald P. Ryan

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    A real-life "Indiana Jones," Donald P. Ryan, PhD, offers a breathtaking personal account of his adventures in archaeology in Beneath the Sands of Egypt. Fans of The Lost City of Z will thrill to the exploits of this "unconventional archaeologist" as he retrieves the remains of Egypt's past—including his breakthrough discovery in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt's famous female pharaoh, Hatshepsut.
    Show book
  • A Rare Recording of Alexander Fleming - cover

    A Rare Recording of Alexander...

    Alexander Fleming

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881 – March 11, 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. The following is from a 1950 talk he gave on the development of antibiotics.
    Show book
  • Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War - cover

    Selections from Battle-Pieces...

    Herman Melville

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems are inspired by second- and third-hand accounts from print news sources (especially the Rebellion Record) and from family and friends. A handful of trips Melville took before, during, and after the war provide additional angles of vision into the battles, the personalities, and the moods of war. In an opening note, Melville describes his project not so much as a systematic chronicle (though many of the individual poems refer to specific events) but as a kind of memory piece of national experience. The "aspects" to which he refers in the title are as diverse as "the moods of involuntary meditation—moods variable, and at times widely at variance." Much of the verse is stylistically conventional (more so than modern readers perhaps expect from the author of Moby-Dick), but the shifting subjectivities and unresolved traumas that unfold in the collection merit repeated contemplation. Melville's Battle-Pieces do not offer a neatly versified narrative of the Civil War but rather kaleidescopic glimpses of shifting emotions and ambivalent reflections of post-war America
    Show book
  • Little Known Facts: Mary Stuart Masterson - Interview With Mary Stuart Masterson - cover

    Little Known Facts: Mary Stuart...

    Ilana Levine

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Mary Stuart Masterson’s film, TV and theater career, includes roles in At Close Range, Some Kind of Wonderful, Immediate Family [National Board of Review Award] Fried Green Tomatoes, Benny and Joon, and the Broadway musical, Nine [Tony Award nomination]. Mary Stuart directed, The Cake Eaters, starring Kristen Stewart, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007 and was released in 2009. It was awarded audience and jury prizes at numerous film festivals. She also produced, Tickling Leo, released in 2009Currently, after a long hiatus to “produce” her family (4 children 6 and under), Mary Stuart is launching Stockade Works (www.stockadeworks.com) a net zero media arts complex and production company in Kingston, New York whose mission is: Making Local Work.  Through their annual Crew Boot Camp, Stockade Works will offer training to diverse, underemployed Hudson Valley residents in motion picture and new media production.  Their first Crew Boot Camp is slated for late Summer 2017 in preparation for their first TV pilot, Kids Like Us.  With her husband, Jeremy Davidson, she is co-founder of Storyhorse Documentary Theater: a collection of multi-media theater pieces based on transcribed interviews focusing on topical issues in the Hudson Valley. www.storyhorsetheater.comLittle Known Fact: Mary Stuart Masterson has been in front of the camera since the age of 8.
    Show book
  • Summary of Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's Peril - cover

    Summary of Bob Woodward and...

    Falcon Press

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's Peril 
      
    One of the most perilous moments in American history was the transitioning from President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden. 
    But, as #1 New York Times bestselling author Bob Woodward and renowned journalist Robert Costa disclose in Peril (2021), it was far more than a national political crisis. This study takes readers deep into the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 election, the Pentagon, and Congress, with vivid, firsthand descriptions of what transpired. Peril is reinforced throughout by never-before-seen information from secret instructions, transcripts of phone calls, journals, emails, meeting minutes, and other personal and government data, resulting in an unprecedented historical account. 
    The remarkable story of the end of one presidency and the start of another is told in Peril.  
     
    Show book