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The Deposition of Father McGreevy

"In a London pub in the 1950s, Editor William Maginn is intrigued by a mention of the strange--and reputedly shameful--demise of a remote mountain village in Kerry, Ireland, where he was born. Maginn returns to Kerry and uncovers an astonishing tale: both the account of the destruction of a place and a way of life which once preserved Ireland's ancient traditions and the tragedy of an increasingly isolated village where all the women mysteriously die--leaving the priest, Father McGreevy, to cope with insoluble problems. As war rages through Europe, McGreevy struggles to preserve the remains of his parish, against the rough mountain elements and the grief and superstitions of his people, and the growing distrust of the town below. [The book] explores the locus of misfortune and the very nature of evil." (Validator's note - Shortlisted for the Booker prize, this beautifully written , unpredictable, unforgettable novel grips, moves, and shocks.

The Deposition of Father McGreevy

'B' format edition of bestselling Booker shortlisted novel. 'Enthralling, chilling and memorable' - Sunday Telegraph 'So original that the text is illuminating' - The Times 'This priestly deposition develops into a grand examination of blind faith. The shiver at the end chills right down to the soul' - TLS 'Magical to the core. Read it and be smitten by this masterpiece as I was' - Walter Abish

The Deposition of Father McGreevy

"It should have won all the prizes" DORIS LESSING"Enthralling, chilling and memorable" Sunday Telegraph"So original that the text is illuminating" The Times"Remarkable and haunting" Guardian In a London pub in the 1950s, editor William Maginn is intrigued by a reference to the reputedly shameful demise of a remote mountain village in Kerry, Ireland, where he was born. Maginn returns to Kerry and uncovers an astonishing tale: both the account of the destruction of a place and a way of life which once preserved Ireland s ancient traditions, and the tragedy of an increasingly isolated village where the women mysteriously die leaving the priest, Father McGreevy, to cope.McGreevy struggles to preserve what remains of his parish, and against the rough mountain elements, the grief and superstitions of his people, and the growing distrust in the town below. Rich in the details of Irish lore and life, and a gripping exploration of both the locus of misfortune and the nature of evil, its narrative evokes both a time and a place with the accuracy of a keen unsentimental eye, and renders its characters with heartfelt depth.Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

The Depositions: New And Selected Essays On Being And Ceasing To Be

A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed author of The Undertaking. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His life’s work with the dead and the bereaved has informed four previous collections of nonfiction, each exploring identity and humanity with Lynch’s signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions provides an essential selection from these masterful collections—essays on fatherhood, Irish heritage, funeral rites, and the perils of bodiless obsequies—as well as new essays in which the space between Lynch’s hyphenated identities—as an Irish American, undertaker-poet—is narrowed by the deaths of poets, the funerals of friends, the loss of neighbors, intimate estrangements, and the slow demise of a beloved dog. In “Gladstone,” from The Undertaking, Lynch reflects on his then twenty-five years as an undertaker at the Midwinter Conference for Michigan funeral directors, which incongruously takes place on an island in the Caribbean. With brutal, generous honesty, “The Way We Are,” from Bodies in Motion and at Rest, grapples with Lynch’s time as a single parent coming to terms with generations of his family inheritance of alcoholism and recovery. The press of the author’s own mortality animates the new essays, sharpening a curiosity about where we come from, where we go, and what it means. As Alan Ball writes in a penetrating foreword, Lynch’s work allows us “to see both the absurdity and the beauty of death, sometimes simultaneously.” With this landmark collection, he continues to illuminate not only how we die, but also how we live.

The Depot Master

The Depot Master

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Depraved Heart: A Scarpetta Novel (The Scarpetta #23)

(1883)Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a highly suspicious death scene in a historic home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages, immediately begins playing . . . and seems to be from her niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. <P><P>As Scarpetta watches she comes to grips with frightening secrets about her niece, whom she loves like a daughter. That first clip and others sent soon after raise dangerous implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, alarmed, and not knowing where to turn. She doesn't know whom she can tell--not her FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, or her investigative partner, Pete Marino. Not even Lucy. Cornwell launches these unforgettable characters on an intensely psychological odyssey that includes the bizarre death of a Hollywood mogul's daughter, wreckage on the bottom of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a grisly gift left in the back of a crime scene truck, and videos from the past that threaten to destroy Scarpetta's entire world and everyone she loves. <P>The diabolical presence and singularly "depraved heart" behind what unfolds seems obvious--but strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that's the message they send when they start harassing Lucy and begin building a case that could send her to prison for the rest of her life. In the latest novel in her bestselling series featuring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell captivates readers again with the jolting twists, high-wire tension, and cutting-edge forensic detail for which she is renowned, proving yet again why she is the world's number one bestselling crime writer.

Depraved Indifference: No Lesser Plea, Depraved Indifference, And Immoral Certainty (Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi #2)

A prosecutor defies the FBI, CIA, and Mafia to bring terrorists to justice in this thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Justice Denied. After hijacking a flight to Milwaukee, a group of Croatian terrorists inform the FBI of bombs they&’ve planted across the country. If their demands are not met, the bombs will explode. The plan goes perfectly until one of the weapons goes off in the Bronx, killing a police officer—in assistant district attorney Butch Karp&’s jurisdiction. Prosecuting a few terrorist cop killers should be a slam-dunk, but Karp and his assistant, Marlene Ciampi, are getting resistance from unexpected quarters—including the NYPD itself. The Archdiocese of New York hires a top lawyer to defend the accused. And when the FBI, CIA, and Miami Mafia team up to undermine the case, it&’s clear these Croatians are no ordinary terrorists. As Karp and Ciampi uncover powerful ties, and secrets that reach from anticommunist Cuba to Nazi war crimes, they realize their fight for justice has become a fight for their lives. From the New York Times–bestselling author and former Manhattan assistant district attorney, Depraved Indifference is an insider&’s &“damning indictment of our court system and an entertaining exposé of the DA's office&” (Publishers Weekly). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert K. Tanenbaum including rare photos from the author&’s personal collection.

Depraved Indifference

"I love the dry wit of Teller's work. Nelson Demille meets Turow or Grisham!" --Goodreads review of Overkill A Jaywalker Case: Book 4 (originally published in 2011) It was a court-appointed case, and Jaywalker knew going in that his client was guilty of the drug deal he'd been arrested for. But there are degrees of guilt, as Jaywalker knew all too well from personal experience. Sometimes people made the wrong move for the right reason, and it was the degree of Alonzo Barnett's guilt that would drive Jaywalker's defense strategy. If that strategy failed, Alonzo, an otherwise-redeemed ex-con, would be back in prison for years. And that was an outcome Jaywalker couldn't stomach, not when his belief in his client was unshakable and the right verdict could lead to redemption for them both. Don't miss a single one of Joseph Teller's award-winning Jaywalker novels: The Tenth Case Bronx Justice Depraved Indifference Guilty as Sin Overkill

Depraved Indifference

A DRUNK DRIVING CASE IS ONLY A DRUNK DRIVING CASE... UNTIL SOMEONE DIESAn Audi sports car, speeding in the wrong lane, forces an oncoming van off the road. The van bursts into flames, killing all nine occupants...eight of them children.Criminal defense attorney Harrison J. Walker, known simply as Jaywalker, is trying to keep his nose clean while serving a three-year suspension. But when a woman seduces him into representing the "Audi Assassin," a man who also happens to be her husband, things get messy.Struggling with the moral issues surrounding this case, Jaywalker tries to stay focused on his goal--limiting the damage to his client by exposing the legal system's hypocrisy regarding drunk driving. But when he rounds a blind corner in the case, he collides with a truth that could turn his entire defense into disaster.

Los depredadores

Jerry Cooper descubre el sexo a los 13 años con una vecina de escalera que le consuela de la trágica muerte de sus padres en un accidente de tráfico. Queda al cargo de un tío que ha hecho de la delicuencia su profesión. Hurtos, estafas, un fugaz paso por el ejército, contrabando de coches... La vida de Jerry es la crónica del rocambolesco ascenso al olimpo del poder, el sexo y el dinero.

Depression and Dysphoria in the Fiction of David Foster Wallace

Depression and Dysphoria in the Fiction of David Foster Wallace is the first full-length study of this critically overlooked theme, addressing a major gap in Wallace studies. Wallace has long been recognised as a ‘depression laureate’ inheriting a mantle previously held by Sylvia Plath due to the frequent and remarkable depictions of depressed characters in his fiction. However, this book resists taking Wallace’s fiction at face value and instead situates close reading of his complex fictions in theoretical dialogue both with philosophical and theoretical texts and with contemporary authors and infl uences. This book explores Wallace’s complex engagement with philosophical and medical ideas of emotional suffering and demonstrates how this evolves over his career. The shifts in Wallace’s thematic focus on various forms of dysphoria, including heartache, loneliness, boredom, and anxiety, as well as depression, correspond to an increasingly pessimistic philosophy underlying his fiction.

Depression and Other Magic Tricks

<P>Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem "Explaining My Depression to My Mother" has become a cultural phenomenon with over 50,000,000 views.<P> Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. <P>It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. <P>Benaim's wit, empathy, and gift for language produce a work of endless wonder.

Depression Glass: Documentary Photography and the Medium of the Camera-Eye in Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Deprivation

After a mysterious, silent child is found abandoned on the beach clutching a handheld video game, residents and tourists alike find themselves utterly unable to sleep. Exhaustion impairs judgment, delusions become hysteria, and mob rule explodes into shocking violence. Told from three perspectives: Chief of Police Mays tries to keep order, teenaged tourist Cort and her friends compete in a dangerous social media contest for the most hours awake, while local physician and former Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Sam Carlson battles his guilt over a student's suicide and the blurriness of his own insomnia, to try to treat the sleepless—until he and the child must flee the violent mob that blames the child for the epidemic.

Deprivation

On a razor' s edge between speculation and reality, Freirich' s psychological horror Deprivation tracks the spread of the next epidemic — insomnia. Over a week, as sleeplessness engulfs a New England summer resort island, thehapless Chief of Police struggles to keep order, a blurry doctor searches for the cause and the cure, and a teenage girl competes with her friends in an online game: who can stay awake the longest? Impaired judgment spirals into delusions, the island is cut-off, and hysteria descends into mob rule and murder. For some, suicide is the only way to close their eyes. The new novella features cellist Sarah, caring for her comatose, former symphony conductor husband, Jeremiah. As sleeplessness spreads, Sarah is not immune — nor Jeremiah, who awakens, weak, hoarse, but grateful. Suspecting he will relapse into coma if and when the strange epidemic of insomnia ends, they slowly make their way through the chaos of Carratuck to the far cove where he proposed to her, to dance in the shallows and make love a last time before sleep can find them again.

Deprivation House: Book One in the Murder House Trilogy

ATAC Briefing for Agents Frank and Joe Hardy MISSION: To join the cast of a new reality show called Deprivation House - featuring a group of teens competing to see who can survive the longest without modern luxuries - and to determine who's behind the death threats received by other contestants. LOCATION: A huge villa in Beverly Hills, CA. POTENTIAL VICTIMS: All the contestants and crew of the show. SUSPECTS: The show's million-dollar prize offers strong motivation to each contestant, and some members of the crew are hiding big secrets.

Deprivers

Imagine never touching another human being… Robert Luxley has a biological problem he does not understand and cannot control: one touch from his bare skin and you&’re paralyzed for fifteen minutes. Lonely and isolated, he&’s turned his &“special trick&” into a lucrative career as a hired killer. He thinks he&’s one of a kind—until one day he&’s confronted by a young girl named Cassandra, who tells him he&’s not alone. She has it too, and the two of them are not the only ones. Carriers can render anyone they touch blind, deaf, or otherwise senseless, in seconds. Fearing discovery, Luxley follows Cassandra through a dark underground network of &“Deprivers&” in a desperate hunt for her missing brother Nicholas, taken hostage by a radical group of carriers with a terrifying agenda. Luxley doesn&’t know who to trust, or who is safe to touch, but he needs to learn Cassandra&’s secrets fast. &“A book that gets under your skin and on your nerves. The science is impressive; the fiction is haunting. It has a lot on its mind; and it will touch you.&”— Mark Frost, co-creator of Twin Peaks &“Deprivers is the ultimate paranoia thriller—emphasis on the word thriller. Fans of everything from The Hot Zone to The X-Files take note, THIS BOOK IS GOING TO BLOW YOU AWAY!&”— Rockne S. O&’Bannon, creator of Alien Nation, Farscape, Defiance and Cult &“Deprivers will take you to a terrifying and disturbing tomorrow and make you feel like you live there.&”— David Brin, Scientist and science fiction author, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Campbell and Locus Awards

Dept. H Omnibus Volume 1

From New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator Matt Kindt comes an exciting undersea sci-fi mystery.Mia is a special investigator hired to uncover possible sabotage taking place at a deep-sea research station, where a bitter and paranoid crew try to keep the base functional. What she uncovers is a mind-blowing crime scene filled with suspects with terrible secrets, strange deep-sea creatures, and an impending flood! This Omnibus Edition collects Issues #1-12 of Dept. H!

Dept. H Omnibus Volume 2

From New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator Matt Kindt comes an exciting undersea sci-fi mystery.With the deep-sea base on the brink of destruction, Mia is getting closer and closer to discovering the culprit behind the murder of her father. However, as the crew struggles to survive, revelations of the Dept. H project comes to light that will alter the lives of the crew, if they survive. Life on the surface hangs in the balance as Mia races against time.This Omnibus Edition collects Issues #13-24 of Dept. H, as well as a sketchbook section and bonus material!

Dept. H Volume 1: Pressure (Dept. H #1)

From New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator Matt Kindt comes an exciting and new undersea sci-fi mystery. Mia is a special investigator hired to uncover possible sabotage taking place at a deep-sea research station. What she uncovers is a mind-blowing crime scene filled with suspects with terrible secrets, strange deep-sea creatures, and an impending flood!Praise for the previous work of Matt Kindt:"Kindt is a storyteller so fully in control of his gifts that his graphic novels read like quietly compelling arguments for the comics medium's narrative potential." -NPR"Kindt has developed into one of the most exciting and original talents in the business" -The LA Times"Kindt breaks all pre-conceived notions of what comic books are." -IGN

Dept. H Volume 2: After the Flood (Dept. H #2)

Six miles below the surface of the ocean, Mia has to solve a locked-room murder mystery before the crime scene is completely flooded. As the crew tries to save the Dept. H base from destruction, some of them start to take matters into their own hands. But the bottom of the ocean is full of unknown dangers, and with time running out, rescue is almost impossible.From New York Times bestselling author Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT, PastAways, Superspy)! Written and Drawn by Matt Kindt, with colors by Sharlene Kindt. Intricate mystery stories perfect for any fan of crime and sci-fi fiction! A complete arc: a perfect jumping-on point for new readers!"Kindt is a storyteller so fully in control of his gifts that his graphic novels read like quietly compelling arguments for the comics medium's narrative potential."--NPR"Kindt has developed into one of the most exciting and original talents in the business"--The LA Times"Kindt breaks all pre-conceived notions of what comic books are."--IGN

Dept. H Volume 3: Decompressed

Confronted with a deep-sea base that is slowly imploding, Mia gets one step closer to solving the murder of her father. But things won't be that easy, as our small team of survivors but grapple with psychic jellyfish and exposure to mind-altering and potentially lethal pathogens that might just drive them insane before they can reach the surface.But even if they can survive all of this? The bigger question still remains--why aren't they allowed to surface? The events above the waterline are starting to have major consequences for those that are trapped below. Mia may have figured out who murdered her father . . . but the motivation for the crime may prove even more devastating. • Featuring content exclusive to the single issues! • From New York Times bestselling author Matt Kindt (MIND MGMT, PastAways, Superspy)! • Written and drawn by Matt Kindt. • Intricate mystery stories perfect for any fan of crime and sci-fi fiction! • Collects Dept. H issues #13-18.

Dept. H Volume 4: Lifeboat

Contains the exciting series conclusion!The remaining survivors of Dept. H abandon the deep-sea base and prepare for their long-awaited ascent. But life above the waterline remains uncertain for the team, and the pressure to solve Hari's murder continues to strengthen its grip on Mia. Secrets and memories begin to surface, but before Mia can unpack the mystery, she must decide the fate of those still stuck six miles below sea level. As the water rises, Mia's time runs out in this last volume of the aquatic sci-fi mystery from New York Times bestselling creator Matt Kindt.

Dept. of Speculation (Vintage Contemporaries)

Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes--a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions--the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art. With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation is a novel to be devoured in a single sitting, though its bracing emotional insights and piercing meditations on despair and love will linger long after the last page.