Nightwanderers

Author : Wojciech Jagielski
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609803612

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The Night Wanderers by Wojciech Jagielski Pdf

Fleeing the aggressive reach of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and their brutal leader Joseph Kony, on an average night in northern Uganda tens of thousands of children head for the city centers to avoid capture. They find refuge on the floors of aid agencies or in the streets. In recent years, the civil society was almost completely destroyed by the LRA, itself made up almost entirely of kidnapped children. Piecing together what has been broken is proving to be a nearly impossible task. Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski inserts himself into this hellish landscape and finds a way to speak of these children and their wounded world. In The Night Wanderers, Jagielski shows his readers the horror of children who have been abducted from their homes and forced to kill their own family members; children who, even after they have escaped the LRA, carry the weight of their own acts of murder on their young shoulders. Jagielski portrays Uganda through their eyes as well as his own. Carrying on the rich tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, Jagielski digs himself deep into the Ugandan landscape and emerges with a compassionate, incisive, painful, magisterial account of a world that is just starting to pull itself out of the horrors of war. The original Polish edition of The Night Wanderers is shortlisted for the Nike Prize, considered to be the most prestigious literary award in Poland.

Author : Paul Doherty
Publisher : Headline
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755350513

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An Ancient Evil by Paul Doherty Pdf

As the travellers gather in the Tabard Inn at the start of a pilgrimage to Canterbury, they agree to amuse themselves on each day of their journey with one tale and each evening with another - but the latter to be of mystery, terror and murder. And so begins the Knight's tale. It opens with the destruction of a sinister cult at its stronghold in the wilds of Oxfordshire during the reign of William the Conqueror, and then moves to Oxford some two hundred years later where terrible murders are being committed. The authorities seem powerless but the Abbess of the Convent of St Anne's, believes the murders are connected with the legends of the cult and she petitions the King for help. As the murders continue unabated, special commissioner Sir Godfrey Evesden uncovers clues that lead to a macabre world sect, which worships the dark lord. But he can find no solution to a series of increasingly baffling questions and matters soon worsen...

Author : C. J. Flood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857078063

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Nightwanderers by C. J. Flood Pdf

A stunning, sad and darkly funny story about intense female friendship, from award-winning author, C. J. Flood. It all started with a poo in a flowerbed. Rosie and Titania are as close as sisters - closer, in fact. While Rosie is shy, red-faced and passive, Ti is big, tough and daring. They shouldn't be friends, but they are. Creeping out at night, the girls love to secretly wander through their coastal town, exploring empty streets and sharing their frustrations about school and their different, but equally difficult, families. But when Rosie betrays Ti, the two girls run in different directions - making decisions that could do irreparable damage to both of their lives. As Rosie confronts harsh truths, she must find a way back to Ti, and to herself. Whenever I heard the word kindred, I thought of me and Ti. ‘Flood has a talent for contemporary detail, voice and atmosphere’ The Sunday Times 'Emotionally powerful' Guardian ‘Brilliantly evocative…sharp and funny’ The Scotsman ? Praise for Infinite Sky: 'Extraordinarily powerful . . . brilliantly visual and full of feeling' Guardian 'Every character is drawn with sympathy, economy and assurance' Amanda Craig, The Times 'Loved by young adult journalists, CJ Flood's debut novel is also a burgeoning hit among adult readers' Stylist 'A beautiful, delicate debut' Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall 'Infinite Sky is terrific - moving, original and heartfelt. I loved it.' Terence Blacker 'A beautifully written, poignant account of first love, so full of delightfully recognisable moments, it will have grown-ups welling up too' Irish Times magazine 'Strong debut . . . one to watch' The Bookseller

Author : Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1554510996

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The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor Pdf

Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reservation. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her father is renting out her room, she's deeply upset. Sure, their guest is polite and keeps to himself, but he's also a little creepy. Little do Tiffany, her father, or even her astute Granny Ruth suspect the truth. The mysterious Pierre L'Errant is actually a vampire, returning to his tribal home after centuries spent in Europe. But Tiffany has other things on her mind: her new boyfriend is acting weird, disputes with her father are escalating, and her estranged mother is starting a new life with somebody else. Fed up and heartsick, Tiffany threatens drastic measures and flees into the bush. There, in the midnight woods, a chilling encounter with L'Errant changes everything ... for both of them. A mesmerizing blend of Gothic thriller and modern coming-of-age novel, The Night Wanderer is unlike any other vampire story.

Author : Richard Edwin Day
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B3136900

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Poems by Richard Edwin Day Pdf

Author : Suganya Anandakichenin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110773231

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For My Blemishless Lord by Suganya Anandakichenin Pdf

For my Blemishless Lord presents the text and translation of the exquisite poem Amalaṉ Āti Pirāṉ by Tiruppāṇ Āḻvār, which is part of the Śrīvaiṣṇava canon, the Nālāyira Divya Prabandham (6th – 9th centuries CE), together with the three Śrīvaiṣṇava commentaries in Tamil-Sanskrit Manipravalam (13th – 14th centuries) by key figures in the medieval religious history of South Asia, namely, Periyavāccāṉ Piḷḷai, Aḻakiya Maṇavāḷa Perumāḷ Nāyaṉār, and Vedānta Deśikaṉ. Offering the first fully annotated, complete translation of these exegetical writings, this volume analyses the language, commentary techniques, and theological positions of the commentators. Looking also at cultural, religious, and other allusions made by them, it places them in their literary, social, and religious backgrounds during a period of budding dissent within the Śrīvaiṣṇava community, to which they contributed at least in part. This rich resource is made available in English for the first time for students of Tamil and Manipravala, theology, religious history, and philology.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Classic Books Company
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Wordsworth classics
ISBN : 9780742653030

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Henry V by William Shakespeare Pdf

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000027535

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The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Sue Gedge
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803812700

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The Practical Woman's Guide to Living with the Undead by Sue Gedge Pdf

What can you do when your home is invaded by two of your ex-mothers-in-law in spirit form, you suspect your ex-husband of selling his soul to a demon, your colleague has been attacked by a werewolf and, worst of all, you have a job as a supply teacher at the comprehensive school from hell? Single mother Dora Harker hopes that the charming elderly gentleman she's met in a strangely gothic pub can provide some answers to these perplexing questions. Unfortunately, Lord Ralph Dunglass de Marney, otherwise known as Bobbity, is harbouring a dark and Wildean secret of his own... The Practical Woman's Guide to Living with the Undead is a scintillating romantic comedy with a paranormal twist; prepare to meet vampires, ghosts and demons, and face the real horrors that reside in an inner-city classroom.

Author : Erin Bernstein,Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783748791508

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The Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling by Erin Bernstein,Kisari Mohan Ganguli Pdf

"In this rather brief volume we read of the seemingly final violent deed of the war. Now, we begin the harsh reality many war widows face even today, bidding a fond farewell to a loved one yesterday and burying him today." -- The Author

Author : Barbara B. Heyman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190863739

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Samuel Barber by Barbara B. Heyman Pdf

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century. An unabashed Romantic, largely independent of worldwide trends and the avant-garde, he infused his works with poetic lyricism and gave tonal language and forms new vitality. His rich legacy includes every genre, including the famous Adagio for Strings, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, three concertos, a plethora of songs, and two operas, the Pulitzer prize-winning Vanessa, and Antony and Cleopatra, the commissioned work that opened the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in 1966. Generously documented by letter, sketches, autograph manuscripts, and interviews with friends, colleagues, and performers with whom he worked, this ASCAP-Award winning book is still unquestionably the most authoritative biography on Barber, covering his entire career and interweaving the events of his life with his compositional process. This second edition benefits from many new discoveries, including a Violin Sonata recovered from an artist's estate, a diary Barber kept his seventeenth year, a trove of letters and manuscripts that were recovered from a suitcase found in a dumpster, documentation that dispels earlier myths about the composition of Barber's Violin Concerto, and research of scholars that was stimulated by Heyman's work. Barber's intimate relations are discussed when they bear on his creativity. A testament to the lasting significance of Romanticism, Samuel Barber stands as a model biography of an important musical figure.

Author : Paul Hammond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198810117

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Milton's Complex Words by Paul Hammond Pdf

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work. This book explores the specific meanings which Milton develops around key words in Paradise Lost. Some of these are theological or philosophical terms (e.g. 'evil', 'grace', 'reason'); others are words which shape the imagined world of the poem (e.g. 'dark', 'fall', 'within'); yet others are small words or even prefixes which subtly move the argument in new directions (e.g. 'if', 'not', 're-'). Milton seems to expect his readers to be alert to the special semantic field which he creates around such words, often by infusing them with biblical and literary connotations, and activating their etymological roots; alert also to the patterns created by the repetitions of such words, and particularly to their diverse use (and often their blatant misuse) by different characters. To understand the migrations and malleability of key words is part of the education of Milton's reader.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015073310453

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The Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry VI, pt.II-III. King Henry VI, condensed by Charles Kemble. The taming of the shrew. A midsummer night's dream. King Richard II by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Charles John Tibbits
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465604613

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Folk-lore and legends: English by Charles John Tibbits Pdf

ÊIn Vienne, in Dauphiny, is Le puit des fŽes, or Fairy-well. These fays, it must be confessed, have a strong resemblance to the nymphs of the ancients, who inhabited caves and fountains. Upon a little rock which overlooks the Rhone are three round holes which nature alone has formed, although it seem, at first sight, that art has laboured after her. They say that they were formerly frequented by Fays; that they were full of water when it rained; and that they there frequently took the pleasure of the bath; than which they had not one more charming (Chorier, Recherches, etc.). Pomponius Mela, an eminent geographer, and, in point of time, far anterior to Pliny, relates, that beyond a mountain in ®thiopia, called by the Greeks the ÒHigh Mountain,Ó burning, he says, with perpetual fire, is a hill spread over a long tract by extended shores, whence they rather go to see wide plains than to behold [the habitations] of Pans and Satyrs. Hence, he adds, this opinion received faith, that, whereas, in these parts is nothing of culture, no seats of inhabitants, no footstepsÑa waste solitude in the day, and a mere waste silenceÑfrequent fires shine by night; and camps, as it were, are seen widely spread; cymbals and tympans sound; and sounding pipes are heard more than human (B. 3, c. 9). These invisible essences, however, are both anonymous and nondescript. The penates of the Romans, according to honest Reginald Scot, were Òthe domesticall gods, or rather divels, that were said to make men live quietlie within doores. But some think that Lares are such as trouble private houses. Larv¾ are said to be spirits that walk onelie by night. Vinculi terrei are such as was Robin Goodfellowe, that would supplie the office of servants, speciallie of maides, as to make a fier in the morning, sweepe the house, grind mustard and malt, drawe water, etc. These also rumble in houses, drawe latches, go up and down staiers,Ó etc. (Discoverie of Witchcraft, London, 1584, p. 521). A more modern writer says ÒThe Latins have called the fairies lares and larv¾, frequenting, as they say, houses, delighting in neatness, pinching the slut, and rewarding the good housewife with money in her shoeÓ (Pleasaunt Treatise of Witches, 1673, p. 53). This, however, is nothing but the character of an English fairy applied to the name of a Roman lar or larva. It might have been wished, too, that Scot, a man unquestionably of great learning, had referred, by name and work and book and chapter, to those ancient authors from whom he derived his information upon the Roman penates, etc.

Author : David Hartley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317827115

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Re-schooling Society by David Hartley Pdf

This text describes and explains the sense of uncertainty faced by educators as the millenium approaches. It highlights the many transitions taking place in all aspects of public life and education during the postmodern phase of late capitalism by using examples from the study of childhood, curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and organization of education. It also considers attempts made so far by policy makers in the western industrialized nations to come to terms with rapid cultural and social changes whilst, at the same time, trying to maintain competitive economies to meet the growing challenge of the emergent Pacific Rim nations.