Nothing On Earth

Author : Conor O'Callaghan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473540378

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Nothing On Earth by Conor O'Callaghan Pdf

The critically acclaimed psychological chiller from a powerful new voice in Irish literary fiction. SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2017 'As fine as it is frightening' JOHN BANVILLE 'This one will stay with you like your shadow' Guardian 'Extraordinary . . . pitch-perfect' Irish Times 'Strange, beautiful and quietly terrifying' DONAL RYAN, author of The Spinning Heart 'Like many great works, it could so easily have all gone wrong if it hadn’t been done exactly right' Sunday Independent It is the hottest August in living memory. A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her in, his world will never be the same again. She will tell him about her family, and their strange life in the show home of an abandoned housing estate. The long, blistering days spent sunbathing; the airless nights filled with inexplicable noises; the words that appear on the windows, written in dust. Why are members of her family disappearing, one by one? Is she telling the truth? Is he? In a world where reality is beginning to blur, how can we know what to believe?

Author : Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1742589243

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Like Nothing on this Earth by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth Pdf

During the twentieth century, the southwestern corner of Australia was cleared for intensive agriculture. In the space of several decades, an arc from Esperance to Geraldton-an area of land larger than England-was cleared of native flora for the farming of grain and livestock. Today, satellite maps show a sharp line ringing Perth. Inside that line, tan-colored land is the most visible sign from space of human impact on the planet. Where once there was a vast mosaic of scrub and forest, there is now the Western Australian wheatbelt. Tony Hughes-d'Aeth examines the creation of the wheatbelt through its creative writing. Some of Australia's most well-known and significant writers-Albert Facey, Peter Cowan, Dorothy Hewett, Jack Davis, Elizabeth Jolley, and John Kinsella-wrote about their experience of the wheatbelt. Each gives insight into the human and environmental effects of this massive-scale agriculture. Albert Facey records the hardship and poverty of small-time selection in Australia. Dorothy Hewett makes the wheatbelt visible as an ecological tragedy. Jack Davis shows us an Aboriginal experience of the wheatbelt. Through examining these writings, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth demonstrates the deep value of literature in understanding the human experience of geographical change. [Subject: Non-Fiction, Environmental Studies, Agricultural Studies, Literary Criticism]

Author : Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781451624458

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A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence Maxwell Krauss Pdf

This is a provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical question: Where did the universe come from and how will it end?

Author : Conor O'Callaghan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473573109

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We Are Not in the World by Conor O'Callaghan Pdf

'Stylish, deft...an absolutely fascinating novel' Guardian 'Haunting, mesmerising, and so deeply intelligent' Kamila Shamsie, author of Women's Prize for Fiction winning Home Fire 'Powerful...compelling and profoundly moving' Irish Times 'Heartbreaking, sweetly logical and tentatively hopeful' Spectator Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man drives a haulage lorry from England to France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger - his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails. With a week on the road together, father and daughter must restore themselves and each other, and repair a relationship that is at once fiercely loving and deeply scarred. As they journey south, down the motorways, through the service stations, a devastating picture reveals itself: a story of grief, of shame, and of love in all its complex, dark and glorious manifestations. ______________ What readers are saying: ***** 'The prose is sublime and deeply moving . . . a stunning novel' ***** 'Beautifully written, lyrical and unsettling in its exploration of human frailties, family, love, and loss, grief' **** 'A haunting, tragic and highly original story of a father and daughter travelling across England and France in a haulage truck, and discovering more about their relationship and past in all its raw candour' MORE PRAISE FOR WE ARE NOT IN THE WORLD: 'Unusual, utterly original and mysterious . . . a must read' Elaine Feeney '...the book stays with you, a haunting presence you cannot - and do not want to - escape...astounding.' Ruth Gilligan Extraordinary...achingly sad and tender and sexy, and the writing is very beautiful.' Louise Kennedy 'Wonderful, wrenching . . . full of enormous feelings very precisely rendered' Sara Baume 'Elusive, unsettling, beautiful, haunting. This is a complex, devastating study of human relations; a portrait of intense love and damage in equal measure.' Lisa Harding 'A whirlpool of memories, regrets and hopes' Tim Pears 'An uncanny ability to turn the seemingly insignificant into something monumental' Jan Carson

Author : Eric Frank Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036213242

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Like Nothing on Earth by Eric Frank Russell Pdf

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0743203178

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Nothing Like It In the World by Stephen E. Ambrose Pdf

The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

Author : Roy Kesey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0979312329

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Nothing in the World by Roy Kesey Pdf

Kesey's award winning novella sold out of original publisher's print run.

Author : Rob Bowden
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836877543

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Earth's Water Crisis by Rob Bowden Pdf

Discusses how millions still have unclean water, how global warming and faulty irrigation deplete water supplies, how future wars about water can be avoided, and what we can be done to protect water.

Author : Julia Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525520429

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Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips Pdf

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester "A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, moving--evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world--this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska--and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.

Author : Lisa Kleypas
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061793196

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It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas Pdf

Headstrong American heiress Lillian Bowman has come to England to find an aristocratic husband. Unfortunately, no man is strong enough to tame the stubborn beauty's fierce will. Except, perhaps, the powerful and arrogant Earl of Westcliff—a man Lillian despises more than anyone she's ever met. Marcus, Lord Westcliff, is famous for his icy English reserve and his supreme self-control. But something about the audacious Lillian drives him mad. Whenever they're in the same room, they can't stop themselves from battling furiously to gain the upper hand. Then one afternoon, a stunningly sensuous encounter changes everything . . . and Lillian discovers that beneath the earl's reserved façade, he is the passionate and tender lover of her dreams. What neither Westcliff nor Lillian suspect, however, is that a sinister conspiracy threatens to destroy any chance of happiness. After a shocking betrayal endangers Lillian's safety—and possibly her life—will Marcus be able to save her before it's too late?

Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229296

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Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada Pdf

A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): “homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language.” As she searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue, Hiruko soon makes new friends. Her troupe travels to France, encountering an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra-nationalist named Breivik; unrequited love; Kakuzo robots; red herrings; uranium; an Andalusian matador. Episodic and mesmerizing scenes flash vividly along, and soon they’re all next off to Stockholm. With its intrepid band of companions, Scattered All Over the Earth (the first novel of a trilogy) may bring to mind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or a surreal Wind in the Willows, but really is just another sui generis Yoko Tawada masterwork.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498439

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385232563

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Hymns for Divine Worship by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Abraham Adams
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781947447752

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Nothing in MoMA by Abraham Adams Pdf

Nothing in MoMA is a series of photographs captured in areas of Manhattan museums in which there are no artworks, written words, or people. Addressing the "grammar that organizes and secures our scene of looking," in the words of art historian David Joselit's introduction, the book imagines a composite empty museum or a narrative of marginal attention. Originally displayed in partial prototype as a children's board book at Artists Space in 2015, Nothing in MoMA is here collected for the first time in the series' entirety. Evoking the history of indeterminacy as much as that of institutional critique, the deadpan composition of Adams's photographs likewise recalls François Jullien's theory of bland aesthetics, in a playful reductio of socio-institutional space to a bare literality. Both a visual essay on museum phenomenology and a performance document, Nothing in MoMA describes a choreography of avoidance, in which a conceptual constraint becomes a means of seeing and navigating concrete space.

Author : Tammy Feil
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300134732

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Journey with Jesus Part 1: At The Teacher's Feet by Tammy Feil Pdf