Picnic on the Fault Line

Picnic on the Fault Line

Author: Julia E. Tanner

Publisher: Crippled Beagle Publishing

Published: 2018-10

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781732155596

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Julia Tanner was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1949. Though a cellist by profession, she has been writing poetry most of her adult life. This collection of poems includes musings on life, love, music, faith, and what makes us human. She presently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.


Fault Lines

Fault Lines

Author: Nancy Huston

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2008-10-14

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0802198686

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A brilliantly written family epic that won France’s Prix Femina and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. “An immaculate novel” (The Guardian). In a profound and poetic story, internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Nancy Huston traces four generations of a single family from present-day California to WWII-era Germany. Fault Lines begins with Sol, a gifted, terrifying child whose mother believes he is destined for greatness partly because he has a birthmark like his dad, his grandmother, and his great-grandmother. When Sol’s family makes an unexpected trip to Germany, secrets begin to emerge about their history during World War II. It seems birthmarks are not all that’s been passed down through the bloodlines. Closely observed, lyrically told, and epic in scope, Fault Lines is a touching, fearless, and unusual novel about four generations of children and their parents. The story moves from the West Coast of the United States to the East, from Haifa to Toronto to Munich, as secrets unwind back through time until a devastating truth about the family’s origins is reached. Huston tells a riveting, vigorous tale in which love, music, and faith rage against the shape of evil. “Huston’s powerful novel combines the pacing of a thriller with the emotional intricacies that are the hallmark of the best family stories.” —Booklist, starred review


The Body and the Blood

The Body and the Blood

Author: Charles M. Sennott

Publisher: Public Affairs

Published: 2008-08-05

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 0786724641

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As the Middle East has gone up in flames, no image so captured the clash of cultures as did the siege at the Church of the Nativity, where Christian monks were trapped inside the fortress-like church, as Palestinian gunmen faced off against the Israeli military for five weeks. As Muslim and Jew battled for control, the Christians were caught in the crossfire: endangered and largely forgotten, victims of somebody else's war. In The Body and the Blood, Charles M. Sennott examines the dwindling Christian communities of the modern Middle East in search of answers to the following questions: Why is Christianity dying out in the land where it began? And what are the consequences, not only for the future of Christianity but for the Middle East itself? From Israel to Lebanon to Egypt to Jordan to the ancient cities of the West Bank, Sennott finds that the themes resonating today are the same as those that convulsed the region at the time of Christ. His frontline reporting is powerful and provocative, as he shines a new light on the Middle East.


Fault Lines

Fault Lines

Author: Meena Alexander

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781558614543

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This Indian American writer builds upon her acclaimed memoir, named a PW Best Book for 1993.


Horrible Geography: Earth-Shattering Earthquakes (Reloaded)

Horrible Geography: Earth-Shattering Earthquakes (Reloaded)

Author: Anita Ganeri

Publisher: Scholastic UK

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1407198955

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CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HORRIBLE GEOGRAPHY! Discover what it takes to be an earthquake expert, learn how to survive when an earthquake hits, and discover how rats and snakes can predict tremors. Filled with hilarious illustrations by Mike Phillips, HORRIBLE GEOGRAPHY is the perfect escapism from miserable maps, rotten rock piles and dire diagrams. Hold tight!


The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars

Author: John Green

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-01-10

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1101569182

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The beloved, #1 global bestseller by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down “John Green is one of the best writers alive.” –E. Lockhart, #1 bestselling author of We Were Liars “The greatest romance story of this decade.″ –Entertainment Weekly #1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller • #1 USA Today Bestseller • #1 International Bestseller Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. From John Green, #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down, The Fault in Our Stars is insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw. It brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.


1906 San Francisco Earthquake Centennial Field Guides

1906 San Francisco Earthquake Centennial Field Guides

Author: Carol S. Prentice

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0813700078

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The twenty field trip guides in this volume represent the work of earthquake professionals from the earth science, engineering, and emergency management communities. The guides were developed to cross the boundaries between these professions, and thus reflect this diversity: trips focus on the built environment, the effects of the 1906 earthquake, the San Andreas fault, and other active faults in northern California.


Fault Lines

Fault Lines

Author: Johanna Wagstaffe

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 145981245X

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Earthquakes are a terrifying yet fascinating force of nature. Seismologist Johanna Wagstaffe takes you through her own journey of understanding the earth beneath our feet. Along the way you’ll learn the science behind what makes the earth rumble and hear from kids around the world who have experienced the wonder, and terror, of an earthquake.


Roadside Picnic

Roadside Picnic

Author: Arkady Strugatsky

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2012-05-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1613743440

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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a &“full empty,&” something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems. First published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel's publication in Russia.