The Girl At The Center Of The World

Author : Austin Aslan
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385374224

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The Girl at the Center of the World by Austin Aslan Pdf

In this fast-paced, exhilarating sequel to the acclaimed The Islands at the End of the World, Leilani and her family on the Big Island of Hawai’i face the challenge of survival in the world of the Emerald Orchid, a green presence that appeared in the sky after a global blackout. As the Hawaiian Islands go back to traditional ways of living, people must grow their own food and ration everything from gas to bullets. Medicine is scarce; a simple infection can mean death. Old tensions and new enemies emerge. And one girl, Leilani, is poised to save her world.

Author : Austin Aslan
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385374217

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The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan Pdf

In this fast-paced survival story set in Hawaii, electronics fail worldwide, the islands become completely isolated, and a strange starscape fills the sky. Leilani and her father embark on a nightmare odyssey from Oahu to their home on the Big Island. Leilani’s epilepsy holds a clue to the disaster, if only they can survive as the islands revert to earlier ways. A powerful story enriched by fascinating elements of Hawaiian ecology, culture, and warfare, this captivating and dramatic debut from Austin Aslan is the first of two novels. The author has a master’s degree in tropical conservation biology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Praise for Islands at the End of the World: “A riveting tale of belonging, family, overcoming perceived limitations, and finding a home.”--School Library Journal, Starred "Aslan’s debut honors Hawaii’s unique cultural strengths--family ties and love of home, amplified by geography and history--while remaining true to a genre that affirms the mysterious grandeur of the universe waiting to be discovered."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred "Aslan’s debut is a riveting tale of belonging, family, overcoming perceived limitations, and finding a home."--School Library Journal, Starred

Author : Rosemary McCarney
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781927583456

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Because I am a Girl by Rosemary McCarney Pdf

Rosemary McCarney, President and CEO of Plan International Canada, has followed up the her popular picture book Every Day is Malala Day with a book for middle grade readers, also inspired by her international development work. Working with Plan, Rosemary helped craft its Because I am a Girl global initiative to end gender inequality, promote girls' rights, and lift millions of girls out of poverty, and helped lead the charge for the United Nations to declare October 11th the "International Day of the Girl" - a day each year to recognize and advocate for girls' rights globally. This book illustrates the Because I am a Girl call to change by telling the stories of individual girls throughout the world. They tell us: "Because I am a girl, I eat if there is food left over when everyone is done" and "I am the poorest of the poor." The later stories are about hope, with chapters like "Because I am a girl, I will share what I know" and " I am the heart of my community" and "I can change the world." Illustrated with Plan's amazing photographs and including "Did You Know" fact sections.

Author : Caela Carter
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062672728

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How to Be a Girl in the World by Caela Carter Pdf

From the critically acclaimed author of the ALA Notable and Charlotte Huck Honor Book Forever, or a Long, Long Time comes a poignant coming-of-age novel about the complicated parts of growing up, finding your voice, and claiming your space. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead, Laurel Snyder, or Ali Benjamin! Lydia hasn’t felt comfortable in her own skin since the boys at her school started commenting on the way she looks in her uniform. Her cousin and friends think she should be flattered, but the boys—and sometimes her mom’s boyfriend, Jeremy—make Lydia uncomfortable and confused. Even more confusing is when Jeremy hovers too close and hugs a little too long. Then her mom surprises her by buying a dilapidated house in their neighborhood. Lydia hopes to find a little bit of magic in their new home. But just like the adults in her life, and God, and her friends, the magic Lydia deeply believes in eventually loses its power to keep her safe. And as seventh grade begins, Lydia wonders: Is there a secret to figuring out how to be a girl in the world?

Author : Lawrence Osborne
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307889058

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The Forgiven by Lawrence Osborne Pdf

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN AND RALPH FIENNES • A haunting novel exploring the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of Moroccan Muslims and Western visitors who converge on a luxurious desert villa for a decadent weekend-long party. “Surprising and dark and excellent . . . a sinister and streamlined entertainment.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist • The Guardian • Library Journal David and Jo Henniger, a doctor and a children's book author, in search of an escape from their less than happy lives in London, accept an invitation to attend a bacchanal at their old friends' home, deep in the Moroccan desert. But as a groggy David navigates the dark desert roads, two young men spring from the roadside, the car swerves . . . and one boy is left dead. When David and Jo arrive at the party, the Moroccan staff, already disgusted by the rich, hedonistic foreigners in their midst, soon learn of David's unforgivable act. Then the boy's irate Berber father appears, and events begin to spin beyond anyone's control. With spare, evocative prose, searing sensuality, and a gift for the unexpected, Lawrence Osborne memorably portrays the privileged guests wrestling with their secrets amid the remoteness and beauty of the desert landscape. He gradually reveals the jolting backstory of the young man who was killed and leaves David’s fate in the balance as the novel builds to a shattering conclusion.

Author : Kevin Wilson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061971082

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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson Pdf

A debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders—strange, imaginative, and refreshingly original—now back in print as part of Ecco’s “Art of the Story” Series, and with a new introduction from the author Kevin Wilson’s characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. “Grand Stand-In” is narrated by an employee of the Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies “stand-ins” for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in “Blowing Up On the Spot,” a story singled out by Ann Patchett for Ploughshares, a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted. Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.

Author : Maude Julien
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316466608

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The Only Girl in the World by Maude Julien Pdf

For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman's rise above an unimaginable childhood. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor -- raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity. By turns horrifying and magical, The Only Girl in the World is a story that will grip you from the first page and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.

Author : Robert Rebein
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813149974

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Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists by Robert Rebein Pdf

Robert Rebein argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature. Concentrating on the realist bent and regional orientation in contemporary fiction, he discusses in detail the various names by which this fiction has been described, including literary postmodernism, minimalism, Hick Chic, Dirty Realism, ecofeminism, and more. Rebein's clearly written, nuanced interpretations of works by Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, E. Annie Proulx, Chris Offut, and others, will appeal to a wide range of readers.

Author : Nathan Englander
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524732745

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Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander Pdf

A political thriller set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “Blends elements of spy thriller and love story, magical realism, and an all-too-real history of one of the world’s most intractable problems: peace between Israel and its neighbors." —The Boston Globe In the Negev desert, a nameless prisoner languishes in a secret cell, his only companion the guard who has watched over him for a dozen years. Meanwhile, the prisoner’s arch nemesis—The General, Israel’s most controversial leader—lies dying in a hospital bed. From Israel and Gaza to Paris, Italy, and America, Englander provides a kaleidoscopic view of the prisoner’s unlikely journey to his cell. Dinner at the Center of the Earth is a tour de force—a powerful, wryly funny, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, and the man who improbably lands at the center of it all.

Author : United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024399987

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Indians at Work by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs Pdf

Author : Gregory McNamee
Publisher : Daimon
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783856309596

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The Bearskin Quiver by Gregory McNamee Pdf

Once upon a time, an Apache story tells us, the trickster called Coyote killed a bear so that he could make a suitable quiver for his magical arrows. “You shouldn’t have done that,” someone warned Coyote. “That skin will only bring you bad luck.” And so it has been for Coyote ever since, chased by bears and humans alike. In this charming collection of folktales from long ago, we read of the creation of the world, of the ways of animals, of the beguiling Coyote, of the world in which we live and other worlds that hide just beyond our sight. Drawn from the oral literatures of some twenty Southwestern American Indian peoples, these stories teach us about the constants of those dry places: about how the clouds form in the sky, how the heat rises from the ground, how the animals move about from one shady spot to another, and how the people once lived their lives. All these stories show us – as the great anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss, observed – that folktales are not mere afterthoughts of literature, just pleasant stories to tell around the campfire, but rather valuable tools for reflection upon our own lives.

Author : Bryan Furuness
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780253036377

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My Name Was Never Frankenstein by Bryan Furuness Pdf

Tarzan. Odysseus. Zorro. Your favorite characters come back to life in new and exciting escapades in this must-have anthology. In this inventive collection, a stellar cast of writers uses classic adventure tales as a launch pad for an eclectic mix of prequels, alternate universes, spin-offs, and total reboots. Imagine Ahab is shipwrecked on an island of cannibals, or Mr. Hyde tells his side of the story, or the scarecrow from Oz struggles with the mystery of his existence. By turns wry and haunting, My Name Was Never Frankenstein upends old territory and classic characters to reclaim them for a new generation. “Editor Bryan Furuness explains that while this playful collection of 14 short stories by 14 different writers all have similar jumping off points, ‘they jump in different directions.’ The result is, as Furuness says, ‘wild and grand and strange.’” —Bloom Magazine

Author : Ethel Johnston Phelps
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781558619470

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Kamala by Ethel Johnston Phelps Pdf

In this second volume of folktales, a Punjabi woman outwits seven ruthless thieves, an Incan girl restores harmony to the empire, and a mischievous Norwegian lass thwarts her entitled landowner. Spanning centuries and continents, Kamala recalls how the dazzling courage, cleverness, and power of women have always held our world together.

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Counterpoint LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1582436401

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Whitefoot by Wendell Berry Pdf

Whitefoot is a mouse who lives at the edge of the woods, where she knows, without a doubt, that she exists at the center of the world. What she doesn't know is that not far from her safe haven there is a world of such magnitude that she cannot even imagine it. Full color.

Author : Todd Karluff Olsen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465326294

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Let the Past Remain the Past by Todd Karluff Olsen Pdf

LET THE PAST REMAIN THE PAST, BY Todd Karluff Olsen, is a racy story about a Danish AU PAIR girl, Vera, who spends a year in San Francisco, a city known for its freewheeling lifestyles and anything goes attitude. Vera is exposed to many the many layers of the city, from high culture to sex clubs. She works for a nice family, but discovers a dark secret that proves to be disastrous. Vera meets Cliff, a lawyer, and they fall in love. Cliff learns that Veras father was an American soldier stationed overseas, who left her mother without a trace after she told him she was pregnant with his child. Cliff offers to assist her in finding her father. This is a story with many twists and turns. A fascinating read.