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Author: John Barnes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-03-15
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780812551617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel on the Thousand Cultures, as Earth's colonies are known. Comprising more than a thousand planets, each has a unique civilization. The protagonists are two Earth agents--a married couple--sent to negotiate peace between warring Tamils and neo-Mayan Indians.
Author: Robert Edric
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexia Ford
Publisher: Alexia Ford
Published: 2023-12-14
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHer life was mosaic of broken pieces of colored glass. Built by her own destruction. Her brown the eyes, the windows to her soul. Her heart’s castle was sinking deep in her own ash. She saw herself shattered. Her shards sprinkling across her bedroom floor. The girl stained by pain and brokenness, left standing on the bank of life’s open shore. Bleeding from her own pain, forming a new beauty. A glass girl in search of something more.
Author: Peter Kemp
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2023-08-29
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0300275021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with form have produced everything from verse novels to Twitter-thread narratives. This is truly a golden age. But what unites this kaleidoscopic array of genres and styles? Celebrated writer and critic Peter Kemp shows how modern writers are obsessed with the past. In a series of engaging and illuminating chapters, Retroland traces this novelistic preoccupation with history, from the imperial and the political to the personal and the literary. Featuring famous names from across the United Kingdom, United States, and the wider Anglophone world, ranging from Salman Rushdie to Sarah Waters, Toni Morrison to Hilary Mantel, this is a work of remarkable synthesis and clarity—a wonderfully readable and enjoyably opinionated guide to our current literary landscape.
Author: John Barnes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-04-03
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0765342243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe climactic conclusion of the epic begun in A Million Open Doors
Author: Jolyon Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-04
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1136512209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from posters, cartoons and stained glass to websites, radio and film - and draws on diverse examples from around the world, including Iran, Rwanda and South Africa. Part One considers how various media forms can contribute to the creation of violent environments: by memorialising past hurts; by instilling fear of the ‘other’; by encouraging audiences to fight, to die or to kill neighbours for an apparently greater good. Part Two explores how film can bear witness to past acts of violence, how film-makers can reveal the search for truth, justice and reconciliation, and how new media can become sites for non-violent responses to terrorism and government oppression. To what extent can popular media arts contribute to imagining and building peace, transforming weapons into art, swords into ploughshares? Jolyon Mitchell skillfully combines personal narrative, practical insight and academic analysis.
Author: Julia Bekman Chadaga
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2014-10-31
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0810130033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChadaga's ambitious study proceeds from the idea that glass - in its uses as a material object and as it was depicted in works of art - is a key to understanding the evolution of Russian identity from the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth.
Author: Scarlett St. Clair
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2023-03-07
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 172829083X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Could you love me?" he whispered. The question stole my breath and burned my lungs in the silence that followed. I wanted to answer, to whisper yes into the space between us, but I was afraid. All Gesela's life, her home village of Elk has been cursed. And it isn't a single curse—it is one after another, each to be broken by a villager, each with devastating consequences. When Elk's well goes dry, it is Gesela's turn to save her town by killing the toad that lives at the bottom. Except...the toad is not a toad at all. He is an Elven prince under a curse of his own, and upon his death, his brothers come for Gesela, seeking retribution. As punishment, the princes banish Gesela to live with their seventh brother, the one they call the beast. Gesela expects to be the prisoner of a hideous monster, but the beast turns out to be exquisitely beautiful, and rather than lock her in a cell, he offers Gesela a deal. If she can guess his true name in seven days, she can go free. Gesela agrees, but there is a hidden catch—she must speak his name with love in order to free him, too. But can either of them learn to love in time?
Author: Ami Polonsky
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2023-01-17
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 031646225X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn “inspiring” (Kirkus, starred review), “heartfelt” (The Horn Book, starred review) coming-of-age novel about a girl finding her way to activism in the early years of the AIDS pandemic, from award-winning author Ami Polonsky. Iris tries to act normal at school, going through the motions and joking around with her friends. But nothing is normal, and sometimes it feels like she’ll never laugh again. How can she, when her dad is dying of a virus that’s off-limits to talk about? When she knows that soon all she’ll have left of her kind, loving dad are memories, photos, and a binder full of the poems they used to exchange? In a sea of rage and grief, Iris resolves to speak out against the rampant fear, misinformation, and prejudice surrounding AIDS—and find the pieces of Dad that she never knew before. Along the way, Iris might just find new sides to herself. Critically-acclaimed author Ami Polonsky has crafted a lyrical, tender, earth-shattering novel that will stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page.
Author: Βασιλική Τσολάκη
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2024-05-24
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 139842000X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne night, in the Realm of the Moon, in the middle of the central plaza came and stood a house entirely made from transparent frozen glass. Behind its glass walls that are completely transparent and yet solid, lives a girl. She is a beautiful girl, and more beautiful inside. Many blink at her and call her to come outside to talk to her, to help her, even to take her with them if she wants, but she seems not to listen. She continues her life in an invisible universe where everything is transparent, almost unreal – unreal for those who believe only what they can see with their eyes. But how did she end up here? Many have said they love her and it is probably true as they stood behind her wall for days, even months trying to find the way to enter. Knights and princes, a poet and a painter, a wizard and an astronomer, the twin firewalkers, all make a try. Will there finally be someone to succeed in saving the girl?
