Little Bird Of Heaven

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061959691

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Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America. In this novel, Oates returns to the Buffalo, New York, region to brilliantly explore the dangerous intersections of romance and eroticism, guilt and obsession, desire and murder. Little Bird of Heaven, a soaring work by the New York Times bestselling author and a nominee for the 2009 Man Booker Prize—one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards—is as powerful and unforgettable as Joyce Carol Oates’s previous acclaimed novels The Gravedigger’s Daughter and We Were the Mulvaneys.

Author : Suzanne Bray,Gérald Préher
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443864107

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Fatal Fascinations by Suzanne Bray,Gérald Préher Pdf

What is crime? What constitutes violence? What is it permissible to talk about or describe in cultural depictions of crime and violence? What is the impact of portraying crime and violence on an audience? How are crime and violence presented to make them culturally acceptable for educational or entertainment purposes? This book examines representations of violence and crime both historically and in relation to contemporary culture across a wide range of media, including fiction, film, art, biography, and journalism, to interrogate the issues raised. While some articles here analyze the ethics invoked by different representative frameworks, the danger that violence will be treated as spectacle, and the implications of using violence as a polemical device to shift public sentiment, others address the relationship between coercive power, crime and violence that is not necessarily primarily physical, and the political or ideological contexts in which narratives of good and evil are constructed and crime defined.

Author : Gregory Benford,Larry Niven
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429988223

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Bowl of Heaven by Gregory Benford,Larry Niven Pdf

SF masters Gregory Benford and Larry Niven spin a tale of alien encounters and strange technologies on an epic scale In Bowl of Heaven, the first collaboration by science fiction authors Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths...and it's on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship. A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—the mystery of the Bowl's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : James D. Houston
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307388087

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Bird of Another Heaven by James D. Houston Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Snow Mountain Passage comes this richly evocative novel that follows a half-Indian, half-Hawai'ian woman and her complex relationship with the last king of Hawai'i.When talk show host Sheridan Brody finds the journals of his great grandmother Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), he uncovers a mythic, unknown tale. Nani, a shy girl from a remote Indian village, met the Hawai'ian king, David Kalakaua, on his grand progress by train across the United States in 1881, eventually returning with him to Honolulu. There, as his young ally and protégée, ever more assured and charming, she played an integral role in his attempt to revive the monarchy and spirit of his people and, eventually, witnessed the mysterious circumstances surrounding his downfall. Deeply engaging through its vivid portrayal of California and Hawai'i at the end of the nineteenth century, Bird of Another Heaven is a masterful portrait of an era long past.

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cranes
ISBN : 0099447045

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The Birds of Heaven by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

Once regarded as messengers from heaven, presaging longevity and good fortune, cranes appear in the ancient myth and legend of many cultures. Today, they evoke the retreating wilderness, the vanishing horizons of clean water, earth and air upon which their species - and ours too - depends for survival. In The Birds of Heaven, Peter Matthiessen has woven his accounts of journeys undertaken over more than a decade in search of the fifteen remaining species of crane. From the scarcely populated Amur Valley in Siberia, he travels gradually west and south across Asia, through Australia, Africa and Europe (where the crane population has made a resurgence), ending up in the American Gulf Coast. He is joined by conservationists, scientists and enthusiasts of all nationalities, along with indigenous people - from Mongolian herdsmen to Aboriginals in Australia - whose fates are entwined with the cranes. Illustrated with colour plates by the renowned Canadian wildlife artist Robert Bateman, The Birds of Heaven captures the beauty of an endangered species and the dilemma of a planet in ecological crisis.

Author : Deborah Wiles
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152051139

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Each Little Bird that Sings by Deborah Wiles Pdf

Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : English literature
ISBN : IND:30000080761467

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All the Year Round by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXTAQ2

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All the Year Round by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher LOVE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023259076

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Heaven's Glory; Hell's Terror, etc by Christopher LOVE Pdf

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781668014967

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The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

With a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award-winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man’s dreams rewrite the future. During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George’s dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George—with some surprising help—must resist Haber’s attempts, which threaten to destroy reality itself. A classic of the science fiction genre, The Lathe of Heaven is prescient in its exploration of the moral risks when overwhelming power is coupled with techno-utopianism.

Author : Christopher Love
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1721
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019712796

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Heaven's Glory; Hell's Terror. Or Two Treatises: the One Concerning the Glory of the Saints with Jesus Christ as a Spur to Duty: the Other of the Torments of the Damned, as a Preservative Against Security. By ... Christopher Love .. by Christopher Love Pdf

Author : Kent Kunefke
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781503525108

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The Time Before Time by Kent Kunefke Pdf

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. But God created many things before that. This is the story of what happened in the beginning before that beginning and of why the beginning happened at all. This is the story of God and creation. This is a story of the angels, demons, mythical creatures, and animals of all kinds. God has existed for all eternity and shall exist for all eternity. Time to God is completely irrelevant. Millennia can seem as a single moment to her. Heaven is where God is. But heaven has not always looked the way it does now. God created everything and everything in heaven as well. God created the archangels Gabriel, Lucifer, Michael, and many more. God created all manner of creatures that crawl, walk, and fly. In the beginning before the beginning, the time before time, everything was perfect. God loved all creation with the whole of her heart. She wants all her creations to love her too. God is perfection, but her creations are not; therefore, God has a rule. No one breaks Gods rule. Not animals, not angels, and not even archangels can break Gods rule. If anyone breaks God rule, they will be punished.

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
ISBN : 1857995937

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Birds of Heaven by Ben Okri Pdf

Author : James McBride
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594486340

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The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner) by James McBride Pdf

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, the region a battlefield between anti and pro slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an arguement between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town with Brown, who believes Henry is a girl. Over the next months, Henry conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. He finds himeself with Brown at the historic raid on Harper's Ferry, one of the catalysts for the civil war.

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026894933

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An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Pdf

Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.