A Nameless Place

A Nameless Place

Author: Pallavi Hallur

Publisher: Pustak Mahal

Published: 2009-10-26

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 8122310931

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My life was like a jigsaw puzzle with a vital piece missing from it and something had inspired me to think that I could find that missing piece again. Based on this hope, I made the decision to go on this journey. A Nameless Place is the story of a British Indian girl, Laxmi Gupta, who is desperately searching for a sense of cultural identity. Having lost her parents in a car accident when she was only two, and later losing her grandmother when she was still a child, Laxmi was sent to a boarding school in London. Now she is 26, single, and frustrated with her life in London. After an intense relationship which fell apart, Laxmi is left broken and confused. She decides to go back to India to resolve some of the questions that have been haunting her for years, but going back to her birthplace unleashes deep secrets, and creates new entanglements that she had not anticipated.


The Nameless City

The Nameless City

Author: Faith Erin Hicks

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1626721564

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Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives in is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers, and the two must somehow work together if the City is to survive.


The Nameless City: The Divided Earth

The Nameless City: The Divided Earth

Author: Faith Erin Hicks

Publisher: First Second

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1250224896

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The Nameless City—held by the rogue Dao prince Erzi—is under siege by a coalition of Dao and Yisun forces who are determined to end the war for the Nameless City once and for all. And the people of the city—the "Named"—are caught in between. Meanwhile, Rat and Kai must infiltrate Erzi's palace and steal back the ancient and deadly formula for napatha, the ancient weapon of mass destruction Erzi has unearthed—before he can use it to destroy everything Rat and Kai hold dear! In her third and final installment in the Nameless City trilogy, Faith Erin Hicks delivers a heart-thumping conclusion. With deft world-building, frantic battle scenes, and a gentle and moving friendship at its heart, the Nameless City has earned its place as one of the great fantasy series of our time.


Nameless

Nameless

Author: Jessica Sorensen

Publisher: Jessica Sorensen

Published:

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13:

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I live in a world where freedom doesn’t exist, and most people aren’t allowed to have names. I had a name once—Allura—but then I was captured by Wardens, creatures that hunt humans, and I became a Nameless. I spent years imprisoned underground beneath the city, dreaming of being outside again until Blaise rescues me. Finally, I’m free again. But the outside world isn’t how I remember it. The city has become extremely dangerous. To survive, I’ll have to learn how to fight and trust Blaise. But as I discover a new world, I also learn a secret about myself that could put me in grave danger.


The Wild Places

The Wild Places

Author: Robert Macfarlane

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-06-24

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1440638659

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From the author of The Old Ways and Underland, an "eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface." --Bill McKibben Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book Award Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago's most remarkable landscapes. He climbs, walks, and swims by day and spends his nights sleeping on cliff-tops and in ancient meadows and wildwoods. With elegance and passion he entwines history, memory, and landscape in a bewitching evocation of wildness and its vital importance.


Nameless

Nameless

Author: Grant Morrison

Publisher: Image Comics

Published: 2017-02-08

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 163215840X

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NAMELESS tells the story of a down-at-heel occult hustler known only as –Nameless” who is recruited by a consortium of billionaire futurists as part of a desperate mission to save the world. When Nameless and his teammates inadvertently unleash a malignant soul-destroying intelligence, the stage is set for a nightmarish, nihilistic journey to the outer reaches of human terror. Collects NAMELESS #1-6.


All Those Wonderful Names

All Those Wonderful Names

Author: J. N. Hook

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-06-10

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1497611865

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Ever wonder what the most popular and unpopular baby names are? And how certain people and places got their names? Or are you just looking for guidance in choosing your child’s name? ALL THOSE WONDERFUL NAMES is an amusing exploration of names, familiar words, phrases, and the stories behind their origins. From the common to the confounding, this book has it all. Hear the true stories behind the naming of tropical storms, cars, fictitious characters, major league baseball teams, and more. Find out the real names of celebrities, such as Elton John, Cher, Rip Torn, Cary Grant, Liberace, and Conway Twitty. Discover counties, towns, and cities with strange names like Difficult, Tennessee; Jiggs, Nevada; Virgin, Utah; and Bosom, Wyoming. Learn unusual names for newborns—and perhaps the origin of your own surname as well.