Once On A Moonless Night

Author : Dai Sijie
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307456731

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Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie Pdf

A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra—once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China—is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul d’Ampere, who is imprisoned as a result. In jail, he devotes himself to studying its ancient text. A young Western scholar in China hears this account from the grocer Toomchooq, whose name mysteriously connects him to the document. She falls in love with both teller and tale, but when d’Ampere is killed in prison, Toomchooq disappears, and she, pregnant with his child, embarks on a search for her lost love and the scroll that begins, “Once on a moonless night . . .”

Author : D. SIJIE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1409075109

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Once on a Moonless Night Kindle by D. SIJIE Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733497307

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Once Upon a Moonless Night by Anonim Pdf

Follow the journey of a falling star across the sky, through constellations, and into a father's arms.

Author : Kiyash Monsef
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781665928519

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Once There Was by Kiyash Monsef Pdf

When fifteen-year-old Iranian American Marjan discovers her murdered father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures, she realizes she must take up his mantle, despite the many dangers.

Author : Sharon Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199831548

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Once and Future Giants by Sharon Levy Pdf

Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas, these Ice Age giants vanished forever. In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history--and our part in it--is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face the threat of another great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history. Deftly navigating competing theories and emerging evidence, Once and Future Giants examines the extent of human influence on megafauna extinctions past and present, and explores innovative conservation efforts around the globe. The key to modern-day conservation, Levy suggests, may lie fossilized right under our feet.

Author : Joan Smith
Publisher : Belgrave House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610843041

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The Moonless Night by Joan Smith Pdf

Marie Boltwood shared the neighborhood excitement about Napoleon being imprisoned aboard ship just outside Plymouth harbor. When two dashing gentlemen—the thoughtful Mr. Benson and the arrogant Lord Sanford—arrived to stay at Bolt Hall, she knew one was a British agent. But who was the other? With intrigue heavy all around her, Marie desperately needed to find out. Regency Romance by Joan Smith writing as Jennie Gallant; originally published by Fawcett Coventry Romance

Author : Peter Kraker
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490870755

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Once There Was a Cowboy by Peter Kraker Pdf

Gaunt and hollow-eyed, Jack had passed the limits of his endurance. There, lost in a fierce storm on a mountain far from home, for the second time since Utah had died, he prayed. His prayer was one of desperation- God, do what you will with me, but please get this horse off the mountain His voice held no power though, and the howling of the winds rose to a shriek, blowing his words back in his face, as though the very mountains themselves took voice in the elements to taunt and mock him. Once There Was a Cowboy gives us all pause to reconsider the brutal storms of our own lives and to take heart that perhaps the very God of the universe loves us enough to destroy the very things we cherish that we might come to Him- ravaged but cleansed, broken but uncompromised. Sifted.

Author : Phil Tomkins
Publisher : Memoirs Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781861511775

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Once A Soldier by Phil Tomkins Pdf

Travis’ father was a failed soldier, a coward and a heartless bully who tried to disown his son. Now Travis is determined to shame him by becoming the soldier his father could never have been – through joining the Parachute Regiment, the élite of the British Army. His restless urge to prove himself takes him from country to country and from army to army, where he battles with enemies both external and internal until he is finally able to put horror and tragedy behind him and find honour, love and peace. ‘The sounds of the battle were like some crazy symphony, orchestrated by a mad composer and led by an even madder conductor who had decided to play all his heavy brass instruments at the same time and all of his percussion, bass drums pounding amid the deafening clashes of cymbals. His instruments were automatic rifle fire, hand grenades, grenade launchers, claymore mines, light and heavy machine guns and mortars. For vocals he had the screams of the wounded and dying.’ ‘A killer story, with a strong emotional core, powerful themes that will touch hearts and a believable protagonist’ - Kaye Jones, History in an Hour

Author : Alexis Okeowo
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316382915

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A Moonless, Starless Sky by Alexis Okeowo Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD "A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism. In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary--lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lily Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1774220113

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Saturn Peach by Lily Wang Pdf

In Saturn Peach, Lily Wang establishes a distinctive voice that is part heartbreak and part wise witness chronicling the strangeness of a technologized world. When asked to describe her book, Wang answered in her quintessential way, "There are things I never want to know but always know. Every day I live with them. Every day I live. I am like a young fruit. Like a peach, common, not the popular kind but oblate, saturn. I live and inside me this pale fruit, yellow and white. I take bites out of myself and share them with you. Maybe you taste like me. Maybe you hold this fruit and become a tree." If ever there were a book that disarmingly - and seemingly effortlessly - encouraged its reader to become a metaphor, then Saturn Peach is it.

Author : Edessa Ramos
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philippine fiction (English)
ISBN : 971232687X

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Alone on the Road at Night by Edessa Ramos Pdf

Author : Bernard Evslin
Publisher : Graymalkin + ORM
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781631683657

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Monsters of Greek Mythology, Volume One by Bernard Evslin Pdf

This first volume of Bernard Evslin’s award-winning series introduces the monsters, demons, gods, and heroes of Greek mythology Athena, wise and powerful daughter of Zeus, is the most feared of all the goddesses. Poseidon, the “earth shaker,” rules the sea with his thunderous wrath. Each wants to control Olympus absolutely. Obsessed with destroying Poseidon, Athena summons her crows by day and owls by night to spy on his vast water realm. The long-simmering feud spawns a multitude of monsters, the most terrifying of which is the brass-headed colossus Amycus. This classic work features a sprawling cast of gods and mortals waging battle on land and by sea, from Zeus to the Titan god Prometheus, from Hades, who guards the gates of hell, to Circe, immortal weaver of spells, to the great war chief Ulysses, who sails in search of his long-lost home. Monsters of Greek Mythology brings to life fearsome creatures like giant, flame-spitting wingless dragons, a spider named Arachne, goats and swordfish endowed with magical properties, and the Cyclopes—one-eyed male and female goliaths even more powerful than the Titans.

Author : Thomas J. C. Martyn
Publisher : Susan Gabriel
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Aviation Adventures: The True Story of the World War 1 Royal Flying Corps Pilot Who Founded Newsweek by Thomas J. C. Martyn Pdf

“Here I was with less than an hour of instruction, about to take off on my solo flight. There was nothing else to do. I was totally committed to success or disaster.” On February 17, 1933, Newsweek magazine published its very first issue. Thomas J.C. Martyn had envisioned a national weekly news magazine for a decade and had worked to accomplish that goal with the tireless zeal and dedication of a true entrepreneur. What kind of man has the vision, creativity and dedication to accomplish such a big dream? Aviation Adventures contains some answers to that question. Nineteen years earlier, when World War One broke out in 1914, Martyn was a bright eyed 18 year old, full of romantic and patriotic ideas. He joined the British Royal Air Corps, an elite fighting organization that garnered the respect of an entire nation. The air battles he participated in, the respect he earned from his commanding officers and fellow pilots and his behind-the-scenes contributions reveal the character of the man and journalist who would go on to found Newsweek. Aviation Adventures: The True Story of A Royal Air Corps Pilot Who Became Newsweek’s Founder is Martyn’s personal account of how he was able to wrangle a much coveted acceptance into the Royal Flying Corps. It then details the bombing raids and other contributions he made to the war effort. Written in the detailed and colorful language of the journalist Martyn was to become, Aviation Adventures provides an up close and personal look at one man’s World War One wartime experience.

Author : Prakash Trivedi
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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SEEMA AND HER SKY by Prakash Trivedi Pdf

"Seema and Her Sky" is a translation of Prakash Trivedi's second Gujarati novel "Seemanu Aakash". It was translated earlier by Ashok Dholabhai for Shaadi.com in a simplified, abridged form. It is a love story and more. It is story of confronting one's own limitations and inhibitions and thereby getting matured, attaining adulthood and casting one's demons aside. It is story of a country boy Nikhil and New York City bred Seema. It is a story of their match making and their falling in love ever so slowly. It is also story of exhilarating, exciting and yet exhausting New York City, which is both inspiring Nikhil to reach it's sky while posing myriad challenges when he attempts that. This is finally also a story of experiencing survival, which gets translated into love!