One Shadow On The Wall

Author : Leah Henderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481462976

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An orphaned boy in contemporary Senegal must decide between doing what is right and what is easy as he struggles to keep a promise he made to his dying father in this “stirring” (School Library Journal) debut novel laced with magical realism. Eleven-year-old Mor was used to hearing his father’s voice, even if no one else could since his father’s death. It was comforting. It was also a reminder that Mor had made a promise to his father before he passed: keep your sisters safe. Keep the family together. But almost as soon as they are orphaned, that promise seems impossible to keep. With an aunt from the big city ready to separate him and his sisters as soon as she arrives, and a gang of boys from a nearby village wanting everything he has—including his spirit—Mor is tested in ways he never imagined. With only the hot summer months to prove himself, Mor must face a choice. Does he listen to his father and keep his heart true, but risk breaking his promise through failure? Or is it easier to just join the Danka Boys, whom despite their maliciousness are at least loyal to their own? One Shadow on the Wall is about love and loss, family and friendship, and creating your own future—even when it’s hard to do.

Author : Jonathan Aycliffe
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597805575

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Some things are best left undisturbed . . . In the countryside of Victorian England, Edward Atherton, rector of Thornham St. Stephen, has taken on the arduous task of restoring the ancient church. But he should never have meddled with the tomb that lay beneath the church’s crumbling walls. The moment the workman raised the tomb lid, an unspeakable horror escaped. At a loss to explain the unsettling noises and frightening visions that begin to plague the church, Atherton calls upon fellow antiquarian and Cambridge professor Richard Asquith to help investigate the strange events that began in the wake of the tomb’s disturbance. The two discover tantalizing hints of whom and what may have been laid to rest in the tomb, but the unforeseen circumstances force Asquith to give up his inquiries and leave the small village of Thornham behind. Asquith tries to put the frightening experiences behind him and focus on his new wife and family. But death and disappearances abound, and Asquith soon has no choice but to confront the darkness that has followed him from that ancient church into his own home. English novelist Jonathan Aycliffe has mastered the classic English ghost story, and A Shadow on the Wall, nominated in 2000 for the International Horror Guild Award, is sure to both mesmerize and haunt you. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Author : Christa Laird
Publisher : Random House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781446478790

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Shadow Of The Wall by Christa Laird Pdf

It's spring 1942, and life in the Warsaw ghetto is hard and often brutal with the Jews subject to beatings and execution at the lands of the hated SS. Young Misha lives at the Orphans' Home run by the heroic Dr. Korczak. But the time is fast approaching when Misha must prove himself a hero too. . .

Author : Keith B. Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
ISBN : 0985555327

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Shadows on the Wall by Keith B. Payne Pdf

"Shadows on the Wall: Deterrence and Disarmament examines and contrasts the three alternative philosophical positions about the nature of the international system and patterns of human behavior that underlie three competing narratives seen in U.S. public debate regarding nuclear deterrence and disarmament. For over six decades, these three competing narratives, built on contrary philosophical traditions, have been the basis for contending positions regarding U.S. nuclear policy-ranging from advocacy for complete global nuclear disarmament to advocacy for the maintenance of robust U.S. nuclear capabilities for deterrence. Each of these three different narratives is based on different speculative expectations about developments in the international system and future patterns of human behavior. Given the inherent uncertainties about future developments in the international system and human behavior, none of these narratives can be deemed to objectively correct, or certainly wrong. They may, nevertheless, be judged to entail different levels of prudence for U.S. and allied security"--

Author : Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher : Blue Box Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781952457487

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A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. Armentrout Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout returns with book one of the all-new, compelling Flesh and Fire series—set in the beloved Blood and Ash world. Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel’s future has never been hers. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania—she’s not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission—one target. Make the Primal of Death fall in love, become his weakness, and then…end him. If she fails, she dooms her kingdom to a slow demise at the hands of the Rot. Sera has always known what she is. Chosen. Consort. Assassin. Weapon. A specter never fully formed yet drenched in blood. A monster. Until him. Until the Primal of Death’s unexpected words and deeds chase away the darkness gathering inside her. And his seductive touch ignites a passion she’s never allowed herself to feel and cannot feel for him. But Sera has never had a choice. Either way, her life is forfeit—it always has been, as she has been forever touched by Life and Death.

Author : Timothy Young
Publisher : Schiffer Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 076434224X

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Shadows on My Wall by Timothy Young Pdf

The street lights make shadows on Kevin's wall In those shadows, he sees monsters, dragons, and all sorts of frightening creatures. Does he let them scare him or does he find imaginative ways of dealing with these creepy shadows? Find out in this frightfully fun book. Through 15 creative illustrations of silhouetted shadow characters, contrasting with night-time colors, Kevin's room and his imagination come to life Illustrations also show how you can create your own shadow figures From Kevin's experience, children will learn how to deal with their own shadowy fears. Picture book-ages 0-6.

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : HMH
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547537986

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The Cave by José Saramago Pdf

An unassuming family struggles to keep up with the ruthless pace of progress in “a genuinely brilliant novel” from a Nobel Prize winner (Chicago Tribune). A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Marçal in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices. Marçal works there as a security guard, and Cipriano drives him to work each day before delivering his own humble pots and jugs. On one such trip, he is told not to make any more deliveries. People prefer plastic, apparently. Unwilling to give up his craft, Cipriano tries his hand at making ceramic dolls. Astonishingly, The Center places an order for hundreds, and Cipriano and Marta set to work—until the order is cancelled and the penniless trio must move from the village into The Center. When mysterious sounds of digging emerge from beneath their new apartment, Cipriano and Marçal investigate; what they find transforms the family’s life, in a novel that is both “irrepressibly funny” (The Christian Science Monitor) and a “triumph” (The Washington Post Book World). “The struggle of the individual against bureaucracy and anonymity is one of the great subjects of modern literature, and Saramago is often matched with Kafka as one of its premier exponents. Apt as the comparison is, it doesn’t convey the warmth and rueful human dimension of novels like Blindness and All the Names. Those qualities are particularly evident in his latest brilliant, dark allegory, which links the encroaching sterility of modern life to the parable of Plato’s cave . . . [a] remarkably generous and eloquent novel.” —Publishers Weekly Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Author : Anne Sibley O'Brien
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545905763

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In the Shadow of the Sun by Anne Sibley O'Brien Pdf

Hatchet in North Korea: A sister and brother go on the run with explosive forbidden photographs in this gripping and timely survival adventure. North Korea is known as the most repressive country on Earth, with a dictatorial leader, a starving population, and harsh punishment for rebellion.Not the best place for a family vacation.Yet that's exactly where Mia Andrews finds herself, on a tour with her aid-worker father and fractious older brother, Simon. Mia was adopted from South Korea as a baby, and the trip raises tough questions about where she really belongs. Then her dad is arrested for spying, just as forbidden photographs of North Korean slave-labor camps fall into Mia's hands. The only way to save Dad: get the pictures out of the country. Thus Mia and Simon set off on a harrowing journey to the border, without food, money, or shelter, in a land where anyone who sees them might turn them in, and getting caught could mean prison -- or worse.An exciting adventure that offers a rare glimpse into a compelling, complicated nation, In the Shadow of the Sun is an unforgettable novel of courage and survival.

Author : S. Edward Warren
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781473341555

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A Manual of Elementary Geometrical Drawing Involving Three Dimensions by S. Edward Warren Pdf

This is a vintage manual on basic geometrical drawing, designed for use in high schools, academies, and engineering schools. Comprehensive and beginner-friendly, this volume is ideal for students of engineering and architecture, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "The Purely Geometrical or Rational Theory of Projections", "Of the Relations of Lines to their Projections", "Physical Theory of Projections", "Conventional Mode of Representing the Two Planes of Projection", "Notation", "Of the use of the Method of Projections", "Projection of Straight Lines", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing "A Manual of Elementary Geometrical Drawing Involving Three Dimensions" now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on technical drawing and drafting.

Author : Leah Henderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481462952

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One Shadow on the Wall by Leah Henderson Pdf

In Senegal, eleven-year-old orphan Mor has three months to prove to his aunt that he can support himself and his two younger sisters, allowing them to stay together in their village and fulfilling the promise he made to their dying father, but a malicious gang of boys threatens Mor's success and his integrity.

Author : Samuel Edward Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Geometrical drawing
ISBN : NYPL:33433087573006

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A Manual of Elementary Geometrical Drawing, Involving Three Dimensions by Samuel Edward Warren Pdf

Author : Samuel Edward Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Geometrical drawing
ISBN : NYPL:33433082121843

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A Manual of Elementary Projection Drawing, Involving Three Dimensions by Samuel Edward Warren Pdf

Author : Samuel Edward Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:FL4EHX

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A Manual of Elementary Geometrical Drawing by Samuel Edward Warren Pdf

Author : Yaron Abulafia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317429708

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The Art of Light on Stage by Yaron Abulafia Pdf

The Art of Light on Stage is the first history of theatre lighting design to bring the story right up to date. In this extraordinary volume, award-winning designer Yaron Abulafia explores the poetics of light, charting the evolution of lighting design against the background of contemporary performance. The book looks at the material and the conceptual; the technological and the transcendental. Never before has theatre design been so vividly and excitingly illuminated. The book examines the evolution of lighting design in contemporary theatre through an exploration of two fundamental issues: 1. What gave rise to the new directions in lighting design in contemporary theatre? 2. How can these new directions be viewed within the context of lighting design history? The study then focuses on the phenomenological and semiotic aspects of the medium for light – the role of light as a performer, as the medium of visual perception and as a stimulus for imaginative representations – in selected contemporary theatre productions by Robert Wilson, Romeo Castellucci, Heiner Goebbels, Jossi Wieler and David Zinder. This ground-breaking book will be required reading for anyone concerned with the future of performance.

Author : Samuel Edward Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Geometrical drawing
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102782893

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Elementary Projection Drawing by Samuel Edward Warren Pdf