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Red Dust Road

Jackie Kay
Red Dust Road Book PDF

Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447206606

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Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping memoir, a story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny. With an introduction by the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, Jackie Kay’s journey in Red Dust Road is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, she discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that what triumphs, ultimately, is love. ‘Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read’ – Independent

Blood Red Road

Moira Young
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Author : Moira Young
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385671842

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This fast-paced YA debut novel has it all: smart, savvy characters making their way through an eerily dystopian society, with all the requisite action, adventure and romance characteristic of the genre vividly and at times, chillingly, portrayed. In a wild and lawless future, where life is cheap and survival is hard, eighteen-year-old Saba lives with her father, her twin brother Lugh, her young sister Emmi and her pet crow Nero. Theirs is a hard and lonely life. The family resides in a secluded shed, their nearest neighbour living many miles away and the lake, their only source of water and main provider of food, gradually dying from the lack of rain. But Saba's father refuses to leave the place where he buried his beloved wife, Allis, nine years ago. Allis died giving birth to Emmi, and Saba has never forgiven her sister for their mother's death. But while she despises Emmi, Saba adores her twin brother Lugh. Golden-haired and blue-eyed, loving and good, he seems the complete opposite to dark-haired Saba, who is full of anger and driven by a ruthless survival instinct. To Saba, Lugh is her light and she is his shadow, he is the day, she is the nighttime, he is beautiful, she is ugly, he is good, she is bad. So Saba's small world is brutally torn apart, when a group of armed riders arrives five day's after the twin's eighteenth birthday snatch Lugh away. Saba's rage is so wild, that she manages to drive the men away, but not before they have captured Lugh and killed their father. And here begins Saba's epic quest to rescue Lugh, during which she is tested by trials she could not have imagined, and one that takes the reader on breathtaking ride full or romance, physical adventure and unforgettably vivid characters, making this a truly sensational YA debut novel.

Red Dust

Ma Jian
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Author : Ma Jian
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407073330

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In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance from his work unit and the police, as Deng Xiaoping clamped down on 'Spiritual Pollution'. His ex-wife was seeking custody of their daughter; his girlfriend was sleeping with another man; and he could no longer find the inspiration to write or paint. One day he bought a train ticket to the westernmost border of China and set off in search of himself. Ma Jian's journey would last three years and take him to deserts and overpopulated cities, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquillity and beauty. The result is an utterly unique insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both an insider and an outsider in his own country could have written.

Years of Red Dust

Qiu Xiaolong
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Author : Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429942614

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Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France (Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) and Germany (Das Tor zur Roten Gasse), where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary. The stories in Years of Red Dust trace the changes in modern China over fifty years—from the early days of the Communist revolution in 1949 to the modernization movement of the late nineties—all from the perspective of one small street in Shanghai, Red Dust Lane. From the early optimism at the end of the Chinese Civil War, through the brutality and upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, to the death of Mao, the pro-democracy movement and the riots in Tiananmen Square—history, on both an epic and personal scale, unfolds through the bulletins posted and the lives lived in this one lane, this one corner of Shanghai.

Trumpet

Jackie Kay
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Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307560810

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Trumpet by Jackie Kay Pdf

"Supremely humane.... Kay leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love." —The New York Times Book Review In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving deception and lasting devotion. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, one that enrages his adopted son, Colman, leading him to collude with a tabloid journalist. Besieged by the press, his widow Millie flees to a remote Scottish village, where she seeks solace in memories of their marriage. The reminiscences of those who knew Joss Moody render a moving portrait of a shared life founded on an intricate lie, one that preserved a rare, unconditional love.

DustRoad

Tom Huddleston
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Author : Tom Huddleston
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781788007092

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The sequel to FloodWorld, this equally cinematic book tells the story of Kara and Joe's adventures in the US, as they travel with a band of ideological outlaws, hell-bent on destroying the Mariners and stealing their world. Can the kids come up with a plan to stop the seemingly inevitable destruction?

Reality, Reality (Fast Fiction)

Jackie Kay
Reality Reality Fast Fiction Book PDF

Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007427598

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Reality, Reality (Fast Fiction) by Jackie Kay Pdf

Obsessed with a certain TV cookery show, a woman embarks on her own whisky-fuelled culinary adventure.

Rebel Heart

Moira Young
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Author : Moira Young
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442430006

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Nothing is certain and no one is safe in the second book in the highly praised Dust Lands trilogy, which MTV's Hollywood Crush blog called "better than The Hunger Games." It seemed so simple: Defeat the Tonton, rescue her kidnapped brother, Lugh, and then order would be restored to Saba's world. Simplicity, however, has proved to be elusive. Now, Saba and her family travel west, headed for a better life and a longed-for reunion with Jack. But the fight for Lugh's freedom has unleashed a new power in the dust lands, and a formidable new enemy is on the rise. What is the truth about Jack? And how far will Saba go to get what she wants? In this much-anticipated follow-up to the riveting Blood Red Road, a fierce heroine finds herself at the crossroads of danger and destiny, betrayal and passion.

Dust Devil on a Quiet Street

Richard Bowes
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Author : Richard Bowes
Publisher : Lethe Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590212974

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Dust Devil on a Quiet Street chronicles the remarkable life of Richard Bowes. Bowes's childhood and adolescent brushes with dramatic spirits and hustlers, large and small, paved the way for his encounters with the supernatural.

Road of Ash and Dust

E.L. Cyrs
Road of Ash and Dust Book PDF

Author : E.L. Cyrs
Publisher : Sympathy Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780998206202

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Road of Ash and Dust by E.L. Cyrs Pdf

naware that hunger, sickness and deprivation were awaiting him, a young idealist leaves the United States and embarks on a spiritual journey to West Africa. Repeatedly challenged by a world beyond his understanding and thrown into harsh, critical self-reflections, he is repulsed by the image of himself that Africa forces him to confront. Road of Ash and Dust: Awakening of a Soul in Africa is a deeply intimate and, somewhat, voyeuristic unveiling of aspects of The African-American Experience rarely committed to print. ROAD allows you access to one of the most universal rites of passage, the discovery of self. Author E.L. Cyrs channels voices from a distant and muted past, guiding us into understanding that many of the answers to our most troubling questions do, truly, come from within.

The Road

Cormac McCarthy
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Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307267450

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)

Karen Hesse
Out of the Dust Scholastic Gold Book PDF

Author : Karen Hesse
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545517126

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Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold) by Karen Hesse Pdf

Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.

The Adoption Papers

Jackie Kay
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Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000309380

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This work tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple. The story is told from three different viewpoints - the mother, the birth mother and the daughter.

One Thousand Things Worth Knowing

Paul Muldoon
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing Book PDF

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571316069

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Paul Muldoon's new book, his twelfth collection of poems, is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness. Heedful, hard won, head-turning, heartfelt, these poems attempt to bring scrutiny to bear on everything, including scrutiny itself. One Thousand Things Worth Knowing confirms Nick Laird's assessment, in the New York Review of Books, that Paul Muldoon is 'the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets, [who] writes poems like no one else.'

Walking the Choctaw Road

Tim Tingle
Walking the Choctaw Road Book PDF

Author : Tim Tingle
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933693477

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Walking the Choctaw Road by Tim Tingle Pdf

Oklahoma, or "Okla Homma," is a Choctaw word meaning "Red People." In this collection, acclaimed storyteller Tim Tingle tells the stories of his people, the Choctaw People, the Okla Homma. For years, Tim has collected stories of the old folks, weaving traditional lore with stories from everyday life. Walking the Choctaw Road is a mixture of myth stories, historical accounts passed from generation to generation, and stories of Choctaw people living their lives in the here and now. The Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers selected Tim as "Contemporary Storyteller Of The Year" for 2001, and in 2002, Tim was the featured storyteller at the National Storyteller Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee. Tim Tingle lives in Canyon Lake, Texas.