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When Toronto Star reporter Hanoch Bordan was a single father he wrote a series of guest columns for the Star inspired by living with his teenage children. He wrote the stories (they were all "fiction," he insists) in order to, as he puts it, "help preserve my sanity." Readers loved the columns and laughed their heads off. Some even said they cut out the columns and started scrapbooks, other said they put them on their refrigerators with magnets. Now, years later and happily retired he says he still keeps getting asked about the columns. So he has assembled all these columns and added other of his writings in the same vein that have not been previously published. The result is Beautiful Daughter - Dutiful Son, which is sure to delight you. Hilarious, Priceless, Refreshing, Say Readers "Thank you for brightening my day." E. G., Bracebridge, Ont. "Absolutely priceless." B. T., Willowdale, Ont. "Congratulations. . .most enjoyable and meaningful." S. S., Toronto "It's been a long time since anything made me laugh out loud on the subway . . . I thought I was the only one with kids like yours and a house that looked like yours." D. P., Scarborough, Ont. "A damn good giggle . . . You must be a great Dad!" H. B., Rosedale, Ont. "Beautifully refreshing and humorous." S. P. , Toronto "The column on the a-t-e words is a masterpiece. . . Keep up the good work!" T. A., Orillia, Ont. "You really hit home . . . thanks." B. R., Toronto
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When Toronto Star reporter Hanoch Bordan was a single father he wrote a series of guest columns for the Star inspired by living with his teenage children. He wrote the stories (they were all "fiction," he insists) in order to, as he puts it, "help preserve my sanity." Readers loved the columns and laughed their heads off. Some even said they cut out the columns and started scrapbooks, other said they put them on their refrigerators with magnets. Now, years later and happily retired he says he still keeps getting asked about the columns. So he has assembled all these columns and added other of his writings in the same vein that have not been previously published. The result is Beautiful Daughter - Dutiful Son, which is sure to delight you. Hilarious, Priceless, Refreshing, Say Readers "Thank you for brightening my day." E. G., Bracebridge, Ont. "Absolutely priceless." B. T., Willowdale, Ont. "Congratulations. . .most enjoyable and meaningful." S. S., Toronto "It's been a long time since anything made me laugh out loud on the subway . . . I thought I was the only one with kids like yours and a house that looked like yours." D. P., Scarborough, Ont. "A damn good giggle . . . You must be a great Dad!" H. B., Rosedale, Ont. "Beautifully refreshing and humorous." S. P. , Toronto "The column on the a-t-e words is a masterpiece. . . Keep up the good work!" T. A., Orillia, Ont. "You really hit home . . . thanks." B. R., Toronto
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In these stories, the narrators are individuals hapless in the face of some kind of trouble. An over-worked doctor, a returning soldier, a worried husband, or an ambushed lawyer; in each case, the supernatural is an unwanted guest that comes a-knocking. Whether it is for better or worse, however, is only revealed at the end, keeping the reader in suspense as the plot unfolds. Even in this modern age of science, there are many episodes that are simply beyond our ken. The Dalvey Estate Midnight Visitor, for instance, recounts the strange events in a ward that lead a medical man to wonder if there may be something else at work to aid him in his noble calling. Similarly, the husband in The Eerie Guardian prides himself on his no-nonsense attitude, easily dismissing his colleagues’ warnings as flights of fancy. Yet, it is only when he becomes trapped in a living nightmare that he begins to seek the truth behind his misfortunes. At the same time, these are more than dime-store pulp horror. Though the stories tell of grisly figures and tragic pasts, at their very heart, they are about fundamentally human emotions. The lingering memory of safety that a parental figure evokes in The Robin Road Peanut Seller. The violent anger at familial betrayal and stolen love in The Ghostly Bride. Look beyond the tattered rags and chilling voices that these spectres wear like armour, and you may find something that is not so different from you and I after all.
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All wedding types will be catered for: big, small, religious, second marriage, atheist, straight, same-sex, church, field... All speakers will be addressed: bride, groom, father, mother, best woman and literally everyone in between... All eventualities will be planned for: mic failures, drunk guests, missing brides, smashed glasses, weeping FOBs, forgotten words... All of which will be delightfully and wittily illustrated, with a mix of little-known wedding facts and a whole host of inspirational (or not) quotations.
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From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women - some carried by wings, others by rainbows, floating scarves, or flying horses - reveal both fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly,Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, expressed in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She introduces a wide range of such figures, including supernatural women like the Valkyries ofNorse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi, airborne Christian mystics, and wayward women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines theextraordinary mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch.Throughout, the book Young traces the inextricable link between female power and sexuality and the male desire to control it. This is most vividly portrayed in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brunnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked intogiving up her virginity. Centuries earlier the theme is seen in Euripides' play Medea, in which the title character - enraged by her husband's intention to marry a younger woman - uses her divine powers in revenge, wreaking chaos and destruction around her. It is a theme that remains tangible evenin the twentieth-century exploits of the comic book character Wonder Woman who, Young argues, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited.The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly is an exciting, fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions around the world.
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'The beautiful illusion, when reading Tolstoy, is that one is looking directly at the world, as opposed to a depiction' Andrew O'Hagan from his preface to Childhood, Boyhood and Youth Published in 1852, when he was just twenty-four, Childhood was Tolstoy's first published work, and the first of a trilogy of stories that evoke the upbringing and traditional education of a Russian aristocrat in a world that vanished with the revolution. In this self-portrait, narrated by its protagonist Nikólya, the young Tolstoy captured the textures of adolescence with a psychological insight and subtlety of analysis that look forward to his mature achievements; while his matchless objectivity - summoning the smells, sights and sounds of early childhood - is already fully present in these pages. The riverrun edition reissues the translation of Louise and Aylmer Maude, whose influential versions of Tolstoy first brought his work to a wide readership in English.
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