Books with title Confessions of a Quack

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One of the classics of modern Japanese fiction.Confessions of a Mask is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety. Christopher Isherwood comments—"One might say, 'Here is a Japanese Gide,'....But no, Mishima is himself—a very Japanese Mishima; lucid in the midst of emotional confusion, funny in the midst of despair, quite without pomposity, sentimentality or self-pity. His book, like no other, has made me understand a little of how it feels to be Japanese. I think it is greatly superior, as art and as a human document to his deservedly praised novel, The Sound of Waves."

Twelve-year-old Cooper Barnes believes nothing exciting ever happens in Danville, Texas--until the First National Bank of Danville is robbed! The suspects are captured, but the money somehow disappears. It takes a busted bike and a lump on the head, but Cooper finds the missing money, and he's named a hero. His boring life explodes into a media storm after his local interviews are picked up by every major network. Within hours his face appears on the internet with an article entitled Texas Teen Shows Amazing Honesty. He's even flown to New York City to appear on Good Morning America!The trouble is nobody knows that when Cooper found the money, he slipped two hundred dollar bills into his pocket. And after the media storm has passed, Cooper must decide if it's too late to do the right thing---knowing it will mean going from hero to zero.

“It was just a simple computer prank. How could I have known that it would almost get us all killed?”When sixteen year old Cai Peterson poses as an online troll to relieve the boredom after being grounded for drinking at a party, he tangles with a cyberstalker who’s not only willing to make his virtual life miserable, but his real life as well. As Cai searches for the stalker, it seems like nearly everyone in his sleepy Texas town has something to hide. Surrounded by suspects, Cai has to navigate a shifting landscape of treachery and truth to uncover a hidden enemy before he and his family pay the ultimate price.

The story is set in contemporary secondary school Nigeria. It mirrors the typical travails of a teenage Christian girl who is torn between two worlds and has to make choices that contradict her beliefs. Suzy-Beverly is a seventeen-year old teenager whose benign infatuation leads her to a place torn between two worlds and alienated from the one she has always known. She struggles with loss, neglect, inferiority complex and losing her way. But she gets to understand that she was never really far away from her path, because of the love that sustained her and is always present.

Excerpt from Confessions of a WifeNow it chanced that there appeared upon the river a new oar, being the oar of a prince who did disguise himself, but could not disguise his stroke; nor did he row like these others, the knights who rowed upon the river for her sake who disdained them, and this the princess, being expert in such matters, perceived. But the prince did not seek to overtake the princess, whereat she marveled; and she glanced backward over the river, and observed him that he rowed not to overtake her, but drifted at the leisure of his heart.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Meet Bun Bun. She may look like your grandmother's vintage bunny, but that's just what four years of devoted companionship looks like on pink polyester. She is the faithful sidekick to her equally charismatic and lovable person, Reagan. Bun Bun shares her life experiences with us as only she can. Told through the eyes of the stuffed friend that your child can never leave behind, Bun Bun lets us in on the one-of-a-kind devotion, sweetness, and love that a child shares with their number one stuffy. Told with humor and a tender heart, you can't help but fall in love with Bun Bun.

Excerpt from Confessions of a MediumIt is with no feelings of exultation or pride that I view the publication of this work. The pictures of fraud and faith revealed in it are not pleasing; the first indicates the depths to which a man may sink; the second that though there are more generous people in the world, of whom the world has little or no conception, it is easy for faith to degenerate to folly. I would infinitely prefer that the power to publish these records had never been given to me. I would rather that every fraud had been a fact, and every display of faith lost in a truthful sight.I have endeavoured, assisted by my diary, to reproduce each scene in the order in which it passed before my eyes, and as faithfully as is consistent with my settled purpose of veiling from an unpleasant curiosity the names and places of abode of those at whose hands I received undisguised courtesy and unvarying hospitality. And this is the only reason why I withhold my name from the title page.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Unlike the malicious bravado of Dan Yack, Confessions is a bittersweet memoir of love and loss in which the typically earthy, reckless Blaise Cendrars surface is shot through with profound melancholy and a palpable sense of psycho-sexual disturbance. Yack tells the story of his tender love for the young Mireille (daughter of one of his many mistresses) whom he meets in a Paris gone mad on Armistice night, 1918. This love transforms him; he abandons his women, gives up fast cars and debauchery to marry this convent-educated girl of his dreams. To indulge her fantasies he launches her as a film star by creating films for her and casting her in wraith-like roles inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. But she's struck by a mysterious and fatal illness that raises some disturbing questions about the nature of their relationship. Poet, lover, war hero, and adventurer, Cendrars led a life as glamorous as Hemingway tried to make his seem, and this novel reads like the original black-and-white original of which A Moveable Feast was the glossy re-make.""--Michael Dibdin