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A Blinding Light

Author : Julie Lawson
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 177108541X

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It's 1917 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The First World War is raging, and despite its distance from the conflict, the Halifax Harbour is bustling with activity. Anti-German prejudice is rampant, and though 12-year-old Livy Schroeder and her 15-year-old brother Will are still mourning the loss of their father, who died in a mysterious boating accident just six months before, his German heritage doesn't merit them much sympathy. The rumours he'd been a German spy are only flamed by his disappearance. On the morning of December 6, while Livy is in Richmond begging forgiveness from the Schroeders' former housekeeper, Will is atop Citadel Hill reporting for the school paper, when he sees two ships collide. A flash of light, then thunder from underground: the Halifax Explosion hits. Instantly, the city is unrecognizable. Lost and separated in the dark, destroyed city, will the siblings find each other again? Where is their mother? And who is to blame for the catastrophe? In A Blinding Light, award-winning author Julie Lawson (No Safe Harbour) tells a riveting story of the Halifax Explosion and its aftermath, exploring the concepts of guilt, blame, and taking ownership, the divide between the rich and poor, locals and immigrants, as well as the human bonds that arise in times of tragedy. Young readers will be spellbound, and teachers and librarians will find plenty of topics for discussion in the book's historical and cultural lessons.

Blinding Light

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618711963

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Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.

The Blind Light

Author : Stuart Evers
Publisher : Picador
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760981778

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‘The Blind Light reads like a British Don DeLillo, telling the social history of Britain through two generations of a family.’ Alex Preston, Observer In the late 1950s, during his National Service, Drummond meets the two people who will change his life: Carter, a rich, educated young man sent down from Oxford; and Gwen, a barmaid with whom he feels an instant connection. His feelings for both will be tested at a military base known as Doom Town – a training ground where servicemen prepare for the aftermath of an Atomic Strike. It is an experience that will colour the rest of his – and his family’s – life. Told from the perspectives of Drum and Gwen, and later their children Nathan and Anneka, The Blind Light moves from the Fifties through to present day, taking in the global and local events that will shape and define them all. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the War on Terror, from the Dagenham strikes to Foot and Mouth, from Skiffle to Rave, we see a family come together, driven apart, fracture and reform – as the pressure of the past is brought, sometimes violently, to bear on the present. The Blind Light is a powerful, ambitious, big yet intimate story of our national past and a brilliant evocation of a family and a country. It will remind you how complicated human history is – and how hard it is to do the right thing for the right reasons.

The Blinding Knife

Author : Brent Weeks
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316215817

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Gavin's powers are fading and his end draws near as war rages across the satrapies in the second novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week. Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought he had five years left -- now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiance who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole sixteen years ago. If you loved the action and adventure of the Night Angel trilogy, you will devour this incredible epic fantasy series by Brent Weeks.

Shine A Light: My Year with "Blind" Willie Johnson

Author : Shane Ford
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781458371553

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Shine A Light: My Year with "Blind" Willie Johnson by Shane Ford Pdf

Meant as a companion piece for those already familiar with Johnson's music and myth - journey through Texas with Shane Ford as he leads the way to honor the legend, Blind Willie Johnson. Included is new research and pictures, never-before-seen.

The Blinding Light

Author : Renae Kaye
Publisher : Dreamspinner Press LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Families
ISBN : 1627988122

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Jake gets a kick out Patrick, and wonders if it's time to start a relationship. Is there room in his life for his family and Patrick?

Switched on Pop

Author : Nate Sloan,Charlie Harding
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190056650

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Switched on Pop by Nate Sloan,Charlie Harding Pdf

Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits. Through close studies of sixteen modern classics, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding shift pop from the background to the foreground, illuminating the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. In 1939, Aaron Copland published What to Listen for in Music, the bestseller that made classical music approachable for generations of listeners. Eighty years later, Nate and Charlie update Copland's idea for a new audience and repertoire: 21st century pop, from Britney to Beyoncé, Outkast to Kendrick Lamar. Despite the importance of pop music in contemporary culture, most discourse only revolves around lyrics and celebrity. Switched on Pop gives readers the tools they need to interpret our modern soundtrack. Each chapter investigates a different song and artist, revealing musical insights such as how a single melodic motif follows Taylor Swift through every genre that she samples, André 3000 uses metric manipulation to get listeners to "shake it like a Polaroid picture," or Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee create harmonic ambiguity in "Despacito" that mirrors the patterns of global migration. Replete with engaging discussions and eye-catching illustrations, Switched on Pop brings to life the musical qualities that catapult songs into the pop pantheon. Readers will find themselves listening to familiar tracks in new waysand not just those from the Top 40. The timeless concepts that Nate and Charlie define can be applied to any musical style. From fanatics to skeptics, teenagers to octogenarians, non-musicians to professional composers, every music lover will discover something ear-opening in Switched on Pop.

Out of the Darkness into Light

Author : E. Michael Lorance,Patricia W. Floyd
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449758530

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Out of the Darkness into Light by E. Michael Lorance,Patricia W. Floyd Pdf

Americas first blind professional fisherman, Mike Lorance shares the intimate details of his amazing life, from the national acclaim he garnered for saving a family of four from drowning while he was a child to learning to cope with the personal and professional challenges of going blind. His successes and failures and eventual peace within his life are shared here in his own words.

Antony Gormley

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Applied art
ISBN : 1350912492

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Antony Gormley by Anonim Pdf

An internationally acclaimed artist, Antony Gormley is best known for his monumental sculpture Angel of the North. This earth-bound figure with its massive wings shares with all of Gormley's work a preoccupation both with the human form and with our shared spiritual potential. Antony Gormley's early lead and iron figures were cast from his own body. They demand a physical and emotional response, but they also raise profound philosophical questions about memory, the mind and our senses. Some of his sculptures, such as the tiny sleeping figure modelled on his infant daughter Still IV, are intensely private. Other works, like Field and Allotment II, are sweeping social and architectural explorations on a grand scale. Many of Antony Gormley's most significant works are illustrated in this film profile, including Bed, made from hundreds of loaves of sliced white bread, and the spectacular Quantum Cloud created alongside the Millennium Dome in London. Antony Gormley offers a reflective commentary on these and other works and on the central investigations and imperatives of his art. .

And There Was Light

Author : Jacques Lusseyran
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608682706

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And There Was Light by Jacques Lusseyran Pdf

The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published.

This Blinding Absence of Light

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143035725

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This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun Pdf

An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by internationally renowned author Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the Prix Mahgreb. Crafting real life events into narrative fiction, Ben Jelloun reveals the horrific story of the desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies in underground cells with no light and only enough food and water to keep them lingering on the edge of death. Working closely with one of the survivors, Ben Jelloun narrates the story in the simplest of language and delivers a shocking novel that explores both the limitlessness of inhumanity and the impossible endurance of the human will.

The Blinding Light

Author : Howard Brenton
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848427069

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'You - miserable, mean, scribbler of a man. You're quoting from that play you put me in.' Abandoning theatre, living a life of squalid splendour, August Strindberg practises alchemy. In his hotel room, he attempts to make gold by finding the philosopher's stone, the secret of creation. As his grasp on reality weakens, his first two wives visit him to bring him to his senses. But their interventions spin out of control. For four years in fin-de-siècle Paris, Europe's most famous playwright vanished. Most people thought he had gone insane. When he reappeared, his new plays changed theatre forever. Howard Brenton's play The Blinding Light tells the astonishing story of August Strindberg's 'Inferno' period. It premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2017, directed by Tom Littler.

Blinded by the Lights

Author : Jakub Żulczyk
Publisher : Legends Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789559855

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The bestselling crime thriller - now a major HBO series

Leading You Out of the Darkness Into the Light

Author : Maxwell Ivey, Jr.
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1505867797

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Leading You Out of the Darkness Into the Light by Maxwell Ivey, Jr. Pdf

Leading You Out of the Darkness Into the Light: A Blind Man's Inspirational Guide to Success is a motivational guide book in which blind man Max Ivey shares the 11 steps of his success as a blind entrepreneur and the lessons he has learned from his journey. It also provides 11 exercises readers to do, complete with email support from the author, whose sincerest desire to help you succeed in accomplishing a big goal or achieving your dreams! Stop the excuses and get started on your journey today! This is more than just a book; it's a chance to change your life.

Attracted to Light

Author : Mike Starn,Doug Starn
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Insects in art
ISBN : 1576871894

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Attracted to Light by Mike Starn,Doug Starn Pdf

A sumptuously large and exquisitely produced book, Attracted to Light showcases the Starns' extensive conceptual portrait series of the nocturnal moth's mysterious journey and the seemingly gravitational pull that light has on it. Features ninety full-colour photographs.