Author: Eva Ibbotson
Publisher: Speak
Keywords: heiress, reluctant
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0142412775
ISBN-13: 9780142412770
Being an heiress in 1920s Austria with nothing but a broken-down castle to your name and nary a penny in your purse could be frustrating for anyone but the Princess Theresa-Maria of Pfaffenstein. Tessa, however, is thrilled with her situation, as it allows her to concentrate on her love of the artsand no one in the Viennese opera company need know that their delightful and charming under-wardrobe mistress is really a princess. But when the dashing self-made millionaire Guy Farne arrives at the opera in search of suitable entertainment for his high society guests, Tessa realizes that there m
Author: Mohsin Hamid
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: fundamentalist, reluctant
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-04-14
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156034026
ISBN-13: 9780156034029
Mohsin Hamid’s first novel, Moth Smoke, dealt with the confluence of personal and political themes, and his second, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, revisits that territory in the person of Changez, a young Pakistani. Told in a single monologue, the narrative never flags. Changez is by turns naive, sinister, unctuous, mildly threatening, overbearing, insulting, angry, resentful, and sad. He tells his story to a nameless, mysterious American who sits across from him at a Lahore cafe. Educated at Princeton, employed by a first-rate valuation firm, Changez was living the American dream, earnin
Author: Brigitte Hamann
Publisher: Ullstein Tb
Keywords: empress, reluctant
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 1994
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 3548354793
ISBN-13: 9783548354798
Author: Lynda Eymann
Publisher: Violet Hill Press
Keywords: traveler, time, reluctant
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2008-04-10
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0977818691
ISBN-13: 9780977818693
With no memory of her former life in the 21st century, a woman in 17th century England is taken to market early one morning and auctioned off to the highest bidder. The mysterious gentleman that purchases her is a complete stranger, but something about him seems so familiar. . . . Who is this harsh, forbidding man? Where has she seen him before? What does he want from her? If only she could remember. . . . Time traveler Susan Jaymes is about to remember everything, including a murder (or possibly two) that she would rather forget. THE RELUCTANT TIME TRAVELER by Lynda Eymann is a stand-alone
Author: Richard Bach
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Keywords: messiah, reluctant, adventures, illusions
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-03-12
List price: $12.04
ISBN-10: 0099427869
ISBN-13: 9780099427865
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda--former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard’s imagination soar....In Illusions, the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls
Author: Richard Bach
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: messiah, reluctant, adventures, illusions
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1989-10-10
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0440204887
ISBN-13: 9780440204886
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda--former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard’s imagination soar....In Illusions, the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls
Author: Peter J. Bailey
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: allen, woody, art, film, reluctant
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-04-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 081319041X
ISBN-13: 9780813190419
For three decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific -- or as paradoxical -- as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) through Celebrity (1998) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Allen has produced an average of one film a year, yet in many of these films Allen reveals a progressively skeptical attitude toward both the value of art and the cultural contributions of artists. In examining Allen’s filmmaking career, The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen demonstrates that his movies often question whether the projected illusions of magicians/artists benefit audience or artists. Othe
