Teaching a Stone to Talk
Teaching a Stone to Talk

Author: Annie Dillard

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0061843172

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"A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world." — Kirkus Reviews Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings. Veering away from the long, meditative studies of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek or Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard explores and celebrates moments of spirituality, dipping into descriptions of encounters with flora and fauna, stars, and more, from Ecuador to Miami.

American Radical
American Radical

Author: D. D. Guttenplan

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2012-05-08

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 0810128314

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Popular Front columnist and New Deal propagandist, fearless opponent of McCarthyism and feared scourge of official liars, I. F. Stone (1907–1989)—magnetic, witty, indefatigable—left a permanent mark on our politics and culture. A college dropout, he was already an influential newsman by the age of twenty-five, enjoying extraordinary access to key figures in Washington and New York. Guttenplan finds the key to Stone’s achievements throughout his singular career—not just in the celebrated I. F. Stone’s Weekly—lay in the force and passion of his political commitments. Stone’s calm and forensic yet devastating reports on American politics and institutions sprang from a radical faith in the long-term prospects for American democracy. In an era when the old radical questions—about war, the economy, health care, and the right to dissent—are suddenly new again, Guttenplan’s lively, provocative book makes clear why so many of Stone’s pronouncements have acquired the force of prophecy.

Stone Guardian
Stone Guardian

Author: Danielle Monsch

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781938593109

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It is a new world after the Great Collision, Gryphons fly past skyscrapers, wizards battle it out in coffeehouses and women riding motorcycles with large swords strapped to their backs are normal sights. Human only city dweller, Larissa Miller is attacked by zombies and rescued by the leader of the gargoyles. They find out why Larissa is being targeted by the Necromancers and are running against time to save Larissa and the fate of the new Realm as well.

The First Stone
The First Stone

Author: Helen Garner

Publisher: Picador Australia

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780330355834

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Bestselling title in which the author examines the issue of sexual harassment through the true story of two women who accused the master of Ormond College, University of Melbourne, of indecent assault. The book focuses on Garner's personal response to the event and greater issues of sex and power. The author has written many acclaimed novels and short stories, including 'Monkey Grip' and 'The Last Days of Chez Nous'.

A God in Every Stone
A God in Every Stone

Author: Kamila Shamsie

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1408847213

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A stunning new novel from the Granta Best of Young British, Orange shortlisted author of Burnt Shadows

Highland Fire
Highland Fire

Author: Tanya Anne Crosby

Publisher:

Published: 2019-03-23

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781947204393

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Offered in marriage by David of Scotland as a guise for peace and cursed by Aidan's people for the sins of her father, Lìleas MacLaren is the one woman Aidan believes he is immune to. Alas, she is also the one woman who might bring the fierce chieftain to his knees.

The Fall of the Stone City
The Fall of the Stone City

Author: Ismail Kadare

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2012-08-30

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 0857863339

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Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013. In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokastër, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the townsfolk wonder if they might have dreamt the events of the previous night, rumours circulate of a childhood friendship between a local dignitary and the invading Nazi Colonel, a reunion in the town square and a fateful dinner party that would transform twentieth-century Europe. A captivating novel of resistance in a dictatorship, and steeped in Albanian folklore, The Fall of the Stone City shows Kadare at the height of his powers.

The Stone Carvers
The Stone Carvers

Author: Jane Urquhart

Publisher: Emblem Editions

Published: 2010-10-29

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1551994275

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Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of a master carver, a seamstress haunted by a love affair cut short by the First World War, and by the frequent disappearances of her brother Tilman, afflicted since childhood with wanderlust. From Ontario, they are swept into a colossal venture in Europe years later, as Toronto sculptor Walter Allward’s ambitious plans begin to take shape for a war memorial at Vimy, France. Spanning three decades, and moving from a German-settled village in Ontario to Europe after the Great War, The Stone Carvers follows the paths of immigrants, labourers, and dreamers. Vivid, dark, redemptive, this is novel of great beauty and power.

House of Stone
House of Stone

Author: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Publisher: Atlantic Books

Published: 2018-06-07

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1786493179

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Winner of the Edward Stanford Prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place, 2019 Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, 2019 Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, 2019 __________ 'Extraordinary' Guardian __________ Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has run away, rather than been murdered by government thugs. Only the lodger seems to have any idea... Zamani has lived in the spare room for years now. Quiet, polite, well-read and well-heeled, he's almost part of the family - but almost isn't quite good enough for Zamani. Cajoling, coaxing and coercing Abed and Agnes into revealing their sometimes tender, often brutal life stories, Zamani aims to steep himself in borrowed family history, so that he can fully inherit and inhabit its uncertain future.

Highland Steel
Highland Steel

Author: Tanya Anne Crosby

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781540777454

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Defying her laird and brother, Lael of the dun Scoti clan takes up her sword to fight beside the MacKinnons to return Keppenach to its rightful heir-to Broc Ceannfhionn. She'll risk everything to keep the stronghold out of the hands of King Henry's Butcher... even her life. They call him The Butcher, but not even Henry's henchman would hang a woman. Riding into the gates on winged fury, Jaime Steorling cuts the raven-haired beauty down from the gallows only to find himself a willing prisoner of Lael's heart. In the end, only a bond of love between bitter enemies can bring healing to broken nations. HIGHLAND STEEL continues the tale that began with HIGHLAND FIRE.