The Earthquake Bird

Author : Susanna Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525506751

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Now a major Netflix film starring Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough, a haunting psychological thriller set in Tokyo probing deep into the mind of a murder suspect The grisly headline leaves nothing to the imagination: "Woman's torso recovered from Tokyo Bay. Believed to be missing British bartender Lily Bridges." The only suspect is Lucy Fly. Her friend is dead, her lover has disappeared, and as far as anyone is concerned, she's as good as guilty. Trapped in the interrogation room, Lucy begins to unravel two stories. One, for the police, is a spare outline, offering more questions than answers. The other--the real one, if you believe her--is a gripping dive into an obsessive mind, revealing the checkered past that brought her to Japan, her complicated friendship with Lily, and a tempestuous affair with a missing Japanese photographer named Teiji. As she excavates the dangerous secrets--both past and present--that haunt her waking mind, Lucy relates an unsettling life story that spans bustling Tokyo, the British countryside, and remote Japanese islands, each step taking us closer to the chilling truth about Lily's death. An all-consuming crime story like no other, Susanna Jones's mesmerizing debut novel is a neo-noir thriller as shocking as it is exquisitely composed. "Novels of psychological suspense hang on the delicacy of the writer's touch--that feathery brushstroke that darkens a mood, heightens an action and brings a revealing word to a character's lips--and Susanna Jones has the touch."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times

Author : H.H. Shugart
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300128604

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How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature by H.H. Shugart Pdf

Although people have been altering earth’s landscapes to some extent for tens of thousands of years, humankind today is causing massive changes to the planet. Such widespread environmental change is accompanied by accelerating rates of species extinction. In this book, noted ecologist H. H. Shugart presents important ecological concepts through entertaining animal parables. He tells the stories of particular birds and mammals—the packrat, ivory-billed woodpecker, penguin, dingo, European rabbit, and others—and what their fates reveal about the interactions between environmental change and the extinctions or explosions of species populations. Change is the root of many planetary problems, but it is also an intrinsic feature of our living planet. Shugart explores past environmental change, discusses the non-existence of a “balance of Nature,” and documents how human alterations have affected plants, soils, and animals. He looks with hope toward a future in which thoughtful people learn—and use—ecological science to protect the landscapes upon which terrestrial creatures depend.

Author : Susanna Jones
Publisher : Mysterious Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446679755

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In Jones's haunting debut novel, readers are taken inside the mind of Lucy, who has fled a painful past to work as a translator in Japan. It is there that she begins an affair with a secretive photographer named Teiji. But it is when Lucy and Teiji befriend Lily Bridges that Lucy's own life begins to fall apart.

Author : Susanna Jones
Publisher : Bookmark Förlag
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789189007178

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FARAN I ATT INTE TRO PÅ SIG SJÄLV Lucy har flytt till Tokyo för att undkomma det förflutna. För att inte bli upptäckt lever hon ett tillbakadraget liv, med få vänner, och en älskare som väger upp bristen på all annan passion. Sedan träffar hon Lily som har kopplingar till hennes tidigare liv. Vänskapen blir intensiv, men kort därpå mördas Lily och Lucy är den enda som är misstänkt. I jakten på att rentvå sig själv fångas Lucy i minnets förrädiska labyrinter. Det blir en suggestiv katt- och råtta lek där läsaren, liksom Lucy, hålls på sträckbänken ifråga om hennes skuld – eller oskuld. EARHTQUAKE BIRD har utmärkts med fyra litterära priser. Filmen med ALICIA VIKANDER som bygger på romanen av SUSANNA JONES är adapterad och regisserad av WASH WESTMORELAND. SUSANNA JONES är en brittisk författare med fem kritikerrosade romaner bakom sig. Efter dramastudier vid Londons universitet bodde och arbetade hon i Japan i flera år. För Earthquake bird har hon förärats en John Creasy Award, en Betty Trask Award, ett Mail on Sunday Prize och en CWA New Blood Dagger. Boken är översatt till mer än 20 språk.

Author : Susanna Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9189007166

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Author : H. H. Shugart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 030010457X

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How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature by H. H. Shugart Pdf

02 In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould, H. H. Shugart entertains and enlightens with parables from the amazing world of birds and mammalsAlthough people have been altering earth’s landscapes to some extent for tens of thousands of years, humankind today is causing massive changes to the planet. Such widespread environmental change is accompanied by accelerating rates of species extinction. In this book, noted ecologist H. H. Shugart presents important ecological concepts through entertaining animal parables. He tells the stories of particular birds and mammals—the packrat, ivory-billed woodpecker, penguin, dingo, European rabbit, and others—and what their fates reveal about the interactions between environmental change and the extinctions or explosions of species populations. Change is the root of many planetary problems, but it is also an intrinsic feature of our living planet. Shugart explores past environmental change, discusses the non-existence of a “balance of Nature,” and documents how human alterations have affected plants, soils, and animals. He looks with hope toward a future in which thoughtful people learn—and use—ecological science to protect the landscapes upon which terrestrial creatures depend.H. H. Shugart is W. W. Corcoran Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of more than 300 publications. In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould, H. H. Shugart entertains and enlightens with parables from the amazing world of birds and mammalsAlthough people have been altering earth’s landscapes to some extent for tens of thousands of years, humankind today is causing massive changes to the planet. Such widespread environmental change is accompanied by accelerating rates of species extinction. In this book, noted ecologist H. H. Shugart presents important ecological concepts through entertaining animal parables. He tells the stories of particular birds and mammals—the packrat, ivory-billed woodpecker, penguin, dingo, European rabbit, and others—and what their fates reveal about the interactions between environmental change and the extinctions or explosions of species populations. Change is the root of many planetary problems, but it is also an intrinsic feature of our living planet. Shugart explores past environmental change, discusses the non-existence of a “balance of Nature,” and documents how human alterations have affected plants, soils, and animals. He looks with hope toward a future in which thoughtful people learn—and use—ecological science to protect the landscapes upon which terrestrial creatures depend.H. H. Shugart is W. W. Corcoran Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of more than 300 publications.

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307424648

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After the Quake by Haruki Murakami Pdf

Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake are as haunting as dreams and as potent as oracles. An electronics salesman who has been deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package— and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who views himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may be his human father. A mild-mannered collection agent receives a visit from a giant talking frog who enlists his help in saving Tokyo from destruction. The six stories in this collection come from the deep and mysterious place where the human meets the inhuman—and are further proof that Murakami is one of the most visionary writers at work today.

Author : Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481437905

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Beyond Me by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu Pdf

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, eleven-year-old Maya overcomes her own fear to help others at home and in northeast Japan, where a tsunami caused great damage. Includes author's note about the facts behind the story.

Author : Susanna Jones
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447207108

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Water Lily by Susanna Jones Pdf

Runa is a young Japanese high school teacher leaving the country to avoid the scandal she has created by sleeping with one of her students. She steals her sister’s passport and boards the ferry to Shanghai. Then, careful to impersonate her sister, she is quiet, docile and discreet... Meanwhile, on the last stretch of a fraught and tiring mission to find a wife, an Englishman also boards the ferry. Rebuffed in Tokyo, Ralph hopes that on the Chinese mainland he will meet a gentle, beautiful girl to return home with. When these two meet, suppressing at first their secrets and obsessions on this long and claustrophobic journey, we enter a desolate, emotional landscape as Runa’s journey begins to turn into a surreal and terrifying nightmare . . .

Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141392332

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The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner Pdf

Literary agent Joe Allston, the central character of Stegner's novel All the Little Live Things, is now retired and, in his own words, 'just killing time until time gets around to killing me.' His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. A postcard from an old friend causes Allston to return to the journals of a trip he and his wife had taken years before, a journey to his mother's birthplace, where he'd sought a link with the past. The memories of that trip, both grotesque and poignant, move through layers of time and meaning, and reveal that Joe Allston isn't quite spectator enough. Wallace Stegner was the author of, among other works of fiction, Remembering Laughter (1973); The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943); Joe Hill (1950); All the Little Live Things (1967, Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star (1961); Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize); Recapitulation (1979); Crossing to Safety (1987); and Collected Stories (1990). His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954); Wolf Willow (1963); The Sound of Mountain Water (essays, 1969); The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard deVoto (1964); American Places (with Page Stegner, 1981); and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

Author : Elayne Klasson
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631526053

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Love Is a Rebellious Bird by Elayne Klasson Pdf

Who is it we love and why do we love these people? Toward the end of her life, Judith asks these questions, trying to understand why she chose Elliot Pine to love. Why, for sixty years, did she persist in loving someone who never gave as much as he was given? In her quest for understanding, she writes her story to this exceptional man. Meeting as children in Chicago, they move to opposite coasts. Elliot embarks on a remarkable legal career in Washington and New York while Judith raises her children alone in California, after tragedy. Coming together again and again throughout their lives, their love is never equal, Elliot defining the terms of the relationship. Judith examines the role of Beauty in love, for Elliot's face and form were beautiful. She considers the role of Consolation, how they supported one another in devastating times. Insanity, Magic, Deceit, Sensory Fulfillment, and, finally, Being Seen—Judith looks at these many aspects of her love. Her feelings for this man cost her, impinged on every other relationship in her life: friends, her two husbands, even her three children. After sixty years, however, it all changes. Judith makes one more profound sacrifice, finally achieving a sort of long-awaited happiness in her love.

Author : Susanna Jones
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447206644

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When Nights Were Cold by Susanna Jones Pdf

As Queen Victoria’s reign reaches its end, Grace Farringdon dreams of polar explorations and of escape from her stifling home with her protective parents and eccentric, agoraphobic sister. But when Grace secretly applies to Candlin, a women’s college filled with intelligent, like-minded women, she finally feels her ambitions beginning to be take shape. There she forms an Antarctic Exploration Society with the gregarious suffragette Locke, the reserved and studious Hooper and the strange, enigmatic Parr, and before long the group are defying their times and their families by climbing the peaks of Snowdonia and planning an ambitious trip to the perilous Alps. Fifteen years later, trapped in her Dulwich home, Grace is haunted by the terrible events that took place out on the mountains. She is the society’s only survivor and for years people have demanded the truth of what happened, the group’s horrible legacy a millstone around her neck. Now, as the eve of the Second World War approaches, Grace is finally ready to remember and to confess . . . From one of the finest writers of the psychological thriller comes this beautifully woven, deeply unsettling historical novel; powerfully atmospheric, shivering with menace and reminiscent of the very best of Sarah Waters.

Author : Susanna Moore
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307387196

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In the Cut by Susanna Moore Pdf

Frannie Thorstin is a divorced English professor, living in a two room New York apartment. She spends much of her time alone, working on a book about dialects and idiomatic language. One evening at a bar, Frannie stumbles upon a man and a woman engaged in a sexual act. A week later a detective shows up at her door. The woman’s body has been discovered in the park across the street. What follows is a chilling tale of lust and murder as Frannie finds herself drawn to the detective. In the Cut is a masterpiece of literary suspense and sexual exploration.

Author : Janet Borland
Publisher : Harvard East Asian Monographs
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 0674247825

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Earthquake Children by Janet Borland Pdf

Earthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan's infrastructure of resilience. Janet Borland vividly demonstrates that Japan's contemporary culture of disaster preparedness--and its people's ability to respond calmly in times of emergency--are the results of learned and practiced behaviors inspired by earlier tragedies.

Author : Nadia Shireen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481403900

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Yeti and the Bird by Nadia Shireen Pdf

Even hairy, scary monsters need friends! This heartwarming tale of unlikely playmates features bright artwork and a sweet message from the author-illustrator of Hey, Presto! and Good Little Wolf. Deep in the forest lives the biggest, hairiest, scariest yeti anyone has ever seen. And he is also the loneliest yeti around. Then one day…THUNK! Someone lands on Yeti’s head. And that someone isn’t scared of Yeti at all. Could that someone be a friend? This fun story of fur, feathers, and friendship delights and inspires—a welcome reminder that friends can be found in even the most improbable places.