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Robert Stone

    August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015

    Robert Stone crafted seven novels, his work distinguished by psychological complexity, political concerns, and dark humor. He possessed a profound affinity for outsiders, particularly those who brought hardship upon themselves. Stone masterfully transformed his characters' follies into art, exploring themes through figures like an adulterous teacher, a fraudulent seafarer, or a besieged journalist. His narratives spanned diverse settings, from the American South to the Far East, revealing a unique talent for portraying human frailty.

    Robert Stone
    Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction
    The Secret Life of Your Cells
    Julio Medem
    The Big Rock Candy Mountain
    Old-Fashioned Health Remedies that Work Best
    The Silva Mind Control Method for Business Managers
    • Safe, all-natural, and inexpensive home remedies for a wide range of common ailments and disorders are presented with step-by-step instructions in their use

      Old-Fashioned Health Remedies that Work Best
      5.0
    • The Big Rock Candy Mountain

      • 656 pages
      • 23 hours of reading

      Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifing from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks outhis fortune--in the hotel business, on new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the threacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Bo chases after the promise of the American dream through Minnesota, the Dakotas, Saskatchewan, Montana, Utah and Nevada, but ultimately there is no escaping the devastating reach of the Depression and his own ruinous fate. In this affecting narrative, a defining masterpiece by the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times), Wallace Stegner portrays more than three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survivle during the lean years of the early twentieth century. With an introduction by Robert Stone.

      The Big Rock Candy Mountain
      4.3
    • Julio Medem

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Focusing on the life and cinematic contributions of Julio Medem, this comprehensive account delves into the works of the acclaimed Spanish-Basque filmmaker. It explores his notable films, including Vacas, La ardilla roja, and Lucía y el sexo, highlighting his unique storytelling style and thematic explorations. As the first English-language book dedicated to Medem, it offers insights into his artistic vision and the cultural context of his films, making it an essential read for fans and scholars alike.

      Julio Medem
      4.0
    • The Secret Life of Your Cells

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      In the Secret Life of Your Cells, Robert B. Stone, Ph.D., explores the latest research of Cleve Backster, who by attaching a lie-detector to the leaf of a plant discovered that it had feelings and the ability to read our thoughts. Now this ability - primary perception - has been traced over to disconnected single cells of our own bodies. What millions of Americans saw reported on TV's Incredible Sunday, Dr. Stone now shares in depth in The Secret Life of Your Cells. The implications and possibilities of that discovery, and the difficult struggle it has had in finding acceptance in the tradition-bound scientific community makes exciting, challenging, mind-expanding reading.

      The Secret Life of Your Cells
      4.2
    • Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      The definitive collection of nonfiction--from war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writing--from the "legend of American letters" (Vanity Fair) Robert Stone was a singular American writer, a visionary whose award-winning novels--including Dog Soldiers, Outerbridge Reach, and Damascus Gate--earned him comparisons to literary lions ranging from Samuel Beckett to Ernest Hemingway to Graham Greene. Stone had an almost prophetic grasp of the spirit of his age, which he captured with crystalline clarity in each of his novels. Of course, he was also a sharp and brilliant observer of American life, and his nonfiction writing is revelatory. The Eye You See With--the first and only collection of Robert Stone's nonfiction--was carefully selected by award-winning novelist and Stone biographer Madison Smartt Bell. Divided into three sections, the collection includes the best of Stone's war reporting, his writing on social change, and his reflections on the art of fiction. This is an extraordinary volume that offers up a clear-eyed look at the twentieth century and secures Robert Stone's place as one of the most original figures in all of American letters.

      Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction
      4.2
    • Fat Destroyer Foods

      The Magic Metabolizer Diet

      Good reading copy. Some wear from normal use and age.

      Fat Destroyer Foods
      3.0
    • Chasing the Moon

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap forward. A companion book to the landmark documentary series on BBC TV.

      Chasing the Moon
      4.1
    • Day Hikes Around Big Sur

      99 Great Hikes

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      The book presents an updated guide to Big Sur's breathtaking coastline, featuring over 300 miles of well-designed trails that offer stunning views where mountains meet the ocean. It includes 99 memorable hikes, highlighting a mix of shoreline adventures, wilderness treks, and scenic overlooks. The carefully selected routes cater to various hiking abilities, ensuring an enjoyable experience for all nature lovers. With its diverse landscapes, from isolated beaches to majestic redwood groves, this guide is perfect for exploring the natural beauty of the region.

      Day Hikes Around Big Sur
      4.0
    • In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story . It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in the words of The Washington Post —with stories by Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, and forty others demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest narration. In the years since, Ford has been reading new stories and rereading old ones and selecting new favorites. This new collection features more than forty stories, including some he regretted overlooking the first time around, as well as many by a new generation of writers—among them Sherman Alexie, Junot Díaz, Deborah Eisenberg, Nell Freudenberger, Matthew Klam, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Z. Z. Packer. None of the stories (though a few of the writers) were in the first volume. Once again, Ford’s introduction is an illuminating exposition of how a good story is written by a master of the craft.

      The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
      4.0
    • This book teaches people to utilize the enormous power of the brain's creative right side, and learn to strengthen their natural insight, banish negative thoughts, improve relationships, get rid of fatigue and stress, and much more. Original.

      The Silva Mind Control Method for Getting Help from Your Other Side
      4.0
    • Bear and His Daughter

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      A collection of short stories includes Miserere, in which a widowed and childless librarian becomes an avid participant in the anti-abortion movement, and the title story, about the relationship between a father and his growing daughter.

      Bear and His Daughter
      4.0
    • The Best American Short Stories

      • 424 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      A compilation of twenty American short stories by authors such as Rick Bass, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tobias Wolff. Includes a list of 100 additional notable stories from 1991.

      The Best American Short Stories
      3.9
    • A Flag for Sunrise

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      A Flag for Sunrise is a novel of Americans drawn into the maelstrom of Tecan, a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. At a mission on the coast a priest is lapsing into alcoholic mysticism, while a young American nun is veering towards commitment to the cause. In a bar in Brooklyn, Frank Holliwell is lunching with an old CIA friend who is begging for a favour. On the Tex-Mex border, Pablo, a Coast Guard deserter, loco on speed, is about to take a job carrying mysterious contraband to Tecan. As these lives converge, as this small, crowded world erupts, the novel builds to an electrifying climax.

      A Flag for Sunrise
      3.8
    • Rheinhardt, a disc jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans in the aftermath of Mardi Gras looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman named Geraldine who is physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past, and a job that involves him with a right-wing political movement.

      A Hall of Mirrors
      3.8
    • Why I Write

      Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (A Back Bay Book)

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      In this anthology, 26 writers illuminate the motivations at the heart of their creative lives in original essays that are as surprising and varied as their fiction. The contributors include Pat Conroy, Norman Mailor, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace.

      Why I Write
      3.7
    • Dog Soldiers

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

      Dog Soldiers
      3.7
    • Outerbridge Reach

      • 409 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      A novel of a man pitted against the sea, society, and himself, depicting the drama unfolding from a single fateful moment of decision

      Outerbridge Reach
      3.6
    • Damascus Gate

      • 528 pages
      • 19 hours of reading

      On the cusp of the millennium, Jerusalem has become a battleground in the race for redemption. American journalist Christopher Lucas is investigating religious fanatics when he discovers a plot to bomb the sacred Temple Mount. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a race through riot-filled streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze—as Lucas follows his leads, he uncovers an attempt to seize political advantage that reveals duplicity and depravity on all sides of Jerusalem’s sacred struggle. Ambitious, passionate, darkly comic, Damascus Gate is not only Robert Stone’s biggest and best novel to date, but a timely and brilliant story of belief, power, salvation, and apocalypse.

      Damascus Gate
      3.4
    • In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is “one of our greatest living writers” (Los Angeles Times). The stories in this new collection share the signature blend of longing, violence, and black humor with which Stone illuminates the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid bare with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion in the hills; a scuba dive guides uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return.Fun with Problems showcases Stone’s great gift: to pinpoint and make real the impulses—by turns violently coercive and quietly seductive—that cause us to conceal, reveal, and betray our truest selves.

      Fun with Problems
      3.3
    • Prophetic Treasure

      Revealing Hidden Secrets to the Holy Spirit's Transforming Presence

      • 246 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      The book explores the emergence of a transformative spiritual experience that promises to reveal the abundant treasures of heaven. It delves into the concept of a new dimension of glory, inviting readers to anticipate and embrace this divine revelation that can enrich their spiritual lives. Through this journey, the author encourages a deeper connection with the heavenly realm, emphasizing the potential for profound personal and communal growth.

      Prophetic Treasure
    • Personal Investments

      • 200 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      This Revised edition of A Guide To Personal Investments is a comprehensive guide to the complexities of personal finance in 2021. Written against a backdrop of low interest rates, high inflation and low returns overall the information contained in the book will be particularly invaluable. The book is suitable for small investors in all markets and also covers personal pensions, healthcare and education. It will prove an invaluable guide for all who are concerned to maximise returns from their investments.

      Personal Investments
    • This Revised edition of A Guide to Personal Investments is a comprehensive guide to the complexities of personal finance in 2023. Written against a backdrop of low interest rates, high inflation and low returns overall the information contained in the book will be particularly invaluable. The book is suitable for small investors in all markets and covers personal pensions, healthcare and education. It will prove an invaluable guide for all who are concerned to maximise returns from their investments, and also protect investments.

      A Straightforward Guide To Personal Investments
    • Michael Ahearn ist in den besten Jahren, Familienvater und lehrt Literatur an einem College im Mittleren Westen. Sein scheinbar glückliches Leben gerät aus den Fugen, als die Politik-Professorin Lara auf dem Campus auftaucht: kosmopolitisch, erotisch und geheimnisvoll. Sie führt Michael in Versuchung, und er ahnt, dass er mehr riskiert als einen Seitensprung. Im Sog dieser »amour fou« folgt Ahearn seiner Geliebten in ihre karibische Heimat, wo er in eine Spirale aus Voodoo und Gewalt gerät.»Was zunächst nach einem der üblichen Campus-Romane aussieht, entwickelt sich schnell zum spannungsreichen Zusammenprall zweier Kulturen.«Kieler Nachrichten

      Die Professorin
      3.0
    • Schimmenbaai

      • 253 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Een Amerikaanse professor volgt zijn nieuwe, mysterieuze minnares naar een Caraibisch eiland en raakt daar betrokken bij politieke en voodoo-achtige praktijken.

      Schimmenbaai
    • Sme schopní liečiť

      • 211 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Ako využívať Silovú metódu kontroly mozgovej činnosti na sebaliečenie a liečenie druhých? Do týchto tajov ťa zavedie táto kniha pomocou 40 cvičení. Z jej obsahu: začínaš si pomáhať; pomáhaš svojmu lekárovi; špeciálna frekvencia liečiacej ruky; vedomie ako zázračný lekár; bolesť a hypnóza; rôzne techniky liečenia i sebaliečenia; ...

      Sme schopní liečiť
      5.0
    • Přináší autorovy vzpomínky na 60. léta. Robert Stone se zde vrací k poválečné éře, kulturní revoluci v 60. letech i ke svému přátelství s Kenem Keseym. Díky bohatým osobním prožitkům se mu podařilo vytvořit poutavý portrét významné části amerických dějin.

      Zelená mládí. Vzpomínky na šedesátá léta
      3.0
    • The Silva Mind Control Method

      • 239 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Since The Silva Mind Control Method was first published in hardcover, over one million people (including top celebrities) have graduated from Mind Control training to use their minds at a deeper and more effective level, even in their sleep!Based on the extraordinary 4-day course pioneered by Jose Silva, this life-transforming book shows how people have learned to overcome tension, bad habits, emotional insecurity, and even illness with the techniques of Mind Control.

      The Silva Mind Control Method
      3.9
    • Použijte celou svou mysl pro nový rozměr tvůrčí síly. Pouze deset procent z nás používá obě poloviny mozku vyrovnaným způsobem. Většina lidí kultivuje levou, logickou polovinu svého mozku a ignoruje obrovský potenciál kreativní pravé strany. Nyní ale máte přístup k plné síle své mysli – a úžasné transformaci svého života! SILVOVA METODA OVLÁDÁNÍ MYSLI PRO ZÍSKÁNÍ POMOCI Z DRUHÉ STRANY vám ukazuje, jak aktivovat pravou stranu svého mozku – a získat přístup ke své vyšší inteligenci, kreativitě a energii. Objevíte osvědčené techniky Silvova ovládání mysli, které vám pomohou: - zaměřit se na smysl svého života – a realizovat ho, - prožívat život s novým nadšením – cítit se klidní, energičtí a ovládat se, - posilovat váš přirozený vhled – nacházet správnou cestu ke klíčovým rozhodnutím, - naladit svou mysl tak, aby pro vás víc pracovala – i když spíte, - zažehnat negativní myšlenky a postoje – tři kroky k pozitivnímu životnímu postoji, - zlepšit vztahy – s rodinou, přáteli a kolegy v prac

      Silvova metoda ovládání mysli pro získání pomoci z druhé strany
      2.7