Blinding Light

Author : Julie Lawson
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 177108541X

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A Blinding Light by Julie Lawson Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618711963

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Blinding Light by Paul Theroux Pdf

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

Author : Brent Weeks
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316215817

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The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks Pdf

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.

Author : Shane Ford
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,9 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.

Author : Stuart Evers
Publisher : Picador
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760981778

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The Blind Light by Stuart Evers Pdf

‘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.

Author : Steve Bavister,Lee Frost,Rod Lawton,Andrew Fleetwood,Patrick Hook
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0811860507

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The New Photography Manual by Steve Bavister,Lee Frost,Rod Lawton,Andrew Fleetwood,Patrick Hook Pdf

In the tradition of the Artist's Manual series comes the definitive illustrated guide to all things photography-related.A veritable bible for beginners as well as an invaluable reference for accomplished photographers, this volume covers the ins and outs of photography equipment and techniques. Comprehensive and easily referenced, The New Photography Manual clearly explains all the essential tools and tricks of the tradefrom choosing cameras and lenses, through composition and lighting, to developing and printing. With tips from professional working photographers and hundreds of color and black and white images, this guide offers everything photographers need.

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Pdf

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Author : Robert Desjarlais
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780823281138

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The Blind Man by Robert Desjarlais Pdf

The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert Desjarlais reflects on a few pictures that show the features of a man, apparently blind, who begs for money at a religious site in Paris, frequented by tourists. In perceiving this stranger and the images his appearance projects, he begins to imagine what this man’s life is like and how he perceives the world around him. Written in journal form, the book narrates Desjarlais’s pursuit of the man portrayed in the photographs. He travels to Paris and tries to meet with him. Eventually, Desjarlais becomes unsure as to what he sees, hears, or remembers. Through these interpretive dilemmas he senses the complexities of perception, where all is multiple, shifting, spectral, a surge of phantasms in which the actual and the imagined are endlessly blurred and intertwined. His mind shifts from thinking about photographs and images to being fixed on the visceral force of apparitions. His own vision is affected in a troubling way. Composed of an intricate weave of text and image, The Blind Man attends to pressing issues in contemporary life: the fraught dimensions of photographic capture; encounters with others and alterity; the politics of looking; media images of violence and abjection; and the nature of fantasy and imaginative construal. Through a wide-ranging inquiry into histories of imagination, Desjarlais inscribes the need for a “phantasmography”—a writing of phantasms, a graphic inscription of the flows and currents of fantasy and fabulation.

Author : Renae Kaye
Publisher : Dreamspinner Press LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Families
ISBN : 1627988122

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The Blinding Light by Renae Kaye Pdf

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?

Author : Bob Tait
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475972115

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Blind Revenge by Bob Tait Pdf

Julian Reichert stared in disbelief as the woman who called herself Angeline Reichert walked into the courtroom. It was as if time was moving one frame at a time; click, click, click when he watched this woman, an image from his past, walk to the plaintiffs table and sit next to her attorneys. It was his sister Angeline, the Angeline he saw lowered into her grave more than thirty years earlier. Julian sat stunned and numb. This could not be! It was only when Gavin McGowan, the Veterinarian and friend of his father, took the witness stand that Julian learned of the bizarre chain of events that dropped this sister into his life where she would challenge his role as the heir to the Reichert empire. Conspiracy and murder, including two attempts on his own life, awaken Julian to the realization that his father has harbored a diabolical secret, a secret known only to the charismatic vet who stuns the court with his story.

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Mississippi River
ISBN : UCAL:$B77589

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The Middle and Upper Mississippi River by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : UOM:39015023155487

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Code of Federal Regulations by Anonim Pdf

Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064180594

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The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America by Anonim Pdf

The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

Author : Arnold A. Gibbs
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781410792969

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The Ties That Blind by Arnold A. Gibbs Pdf

The Ties That Blind is quite appropriate to the time in consideration of the present growth of interest in religious and spiritual matters. Additionally, much of the storys prophetic content is extremely relevant to the events of September 11, 2001, although the book was completed prior to that date. The author skillfully depicts the realities of racial prejudice; much of the violence being recounted from his experience, while driving home the point that love always conquers hate. It is a true inspiration to people of faith, criminal justice practitioners, and those who fight for racial equality and brotherly love Arnold Gibbs is a Vietnam veteran and a of the Miami Police Departments Medal of Honor. He was raised in the Liberty City projects and knows, first hand, of the realities depicted in his novel. He has been a Christian for 25 years and is dedicated to his faith. All of these factors combine to provide the ingredients for a story that is a must read for people of faith, criminal justice practitioners, war veterans and activists for racial equality and harmony. There are not many authors who are as qualified and capable to bring to the reader such compelling drama as in The Ties That Blind.

Author : Karl Sir Popper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136320743

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The World of Parmenides by Karl Sir Popper Pdf

With a new foreword by Scott Austin 'I hope that these essays may illustrate the thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem situations, and that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocratics and other thinkers of the past. The essays also try to show the greatness of the early Greek philosophers, who gave Europe its philosophy, its science, and its humanism.' - Karl Popper, from the preface The World of Parmenides is a brilliant exploration of the complexity of ancient Greek thought and science by one of the twentieth century’s leading philosophers. It reveals the great importance of Presocratic philosophy to Popper’s thought as a whole and shows the profound enlightenment he experienced reading not only Parmenides but the wider world of Greek science and philosophy including Xenophanes and Heraclitus. Edited by Arne F. Petersen, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.