The Kin

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781504014779

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The Kin by Peter Dickinson Pdf

Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe. Determined not to die in the desert, Suth and Noli slip away with Ko and Mana. Suth, the eldest, leads them; Noli’s dreams of the future guide them. Ko gives them courage; Mana gives them peace. Their search for a new Good Place, one of food and safety, will take them across the valleys and plains of prehistoric Africa and bring them together as a tribe and as a family.

Author : Patty Krawec
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781506478265

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Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec Pdf

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home." Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity? Braiding together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the vivid threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning, forceful call to "unforget" our history. This remarkable sojourn through Native and settler history, myth, identity, and spirituality helps us retrace our steps and pick up what was lost along the way: chances to honor rather than violate treaties, to see the land as a relative rather than a resource, and to unravel the history we have been taught.

Author : Miljenko Jergovic
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939810526

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Kin by Miljenko Jergovic Pdf

Kin is a dazzling family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergović peers into the dusty corners of his family's past, illuminating them with a tender, poetic precision. Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which Jergović investigates the joys and sorrows of a family living through a century of war. The work is ultimately an ode to Yugoslavia - Jergović sees his country through the devastation of the First World War, the Second, the Cold, then the Bosnian war of the 90s; through its changing street names and borders, shifting seasons, through its social rituals at graveyards, operas, weddings, markets - rendering it all in loving, vivid detail. A portrait of an era.

Author : Lesley Crewe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551099225

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Kin by Lesley Crewe Pdf

The story of three generations of a Cape Breton family, beginning in Glace Bay in the 1930s and ending in Round Island in 2011.

Author : Margaret M. Bruchac
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816537068

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Savage Kin by Margaret M. Bruchac Pdf

"Illuminating the complex relationships between tribal informants and twentieth-century anthropologists such as Boas, Parker, and Fenton, who came to their communities to collect stories and artifacts"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Dorothy Bryant
Publisher : Random House
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307755407

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The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant Pdf

A major backlist sleeper! 130,000 sold-to-date! A feminist sci-fi novel. The kin of Ata live only for "the dream". Into their midst comes a desperate man who is first subdued and then led on a spiritual journey that, sooner or later, all of us make.

Author : Janice Lynn Mather
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385697163

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Uncertain Kin by Janice Lynn Mather Pdf

From Governor General's Literary Award finalist Janice Lynn Mather comes this mesmerizing collection of linked stories that explores the beauty and brutality of being alive. SET AGAINST THE VIVID backdrop of The Bahamas, these eighteen luminous and haunting stories introduce us to women and girls searching for certainty and belonging as they navigate profound upheaval. The characters are bold and big-hearted, complex and intimately familiar. They grapple with the bonds of kinship and the responsibilities of parenthood, with grief, longing, betrayal, coming of age and what it means to be a woman. Little girls disappear from their beds one lush August. A jogger with a secret diagnosis makes a sinister discovery on the beach. An island wakes to blood pouring from its taps after a pastor's tirade. An immigrant mother new to Vancouver struggles to plant roots in a city that doesn’t want her or her son. Tinged with folklore and the surreal, Uncertain Kin is grounded by its emotional richness and breathtaking insight into our relationships with others—and ourselves. This extraordinary collection signals the debut of an important new voice in literature.

Author : Douglas Hulick
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447201458

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Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick Pdf

There is no honour among thieves . . . Ildrecca is a dangerous city, if you don't know what you're doing. It takes a canny hand and a wary eye to run these streets and survive. Fortunately, Drothe has both. He has been a member of the Kin for years, rubbing elbows with thieves and murderers from the dirtiest of alleys to the finest of neighbourhoods. Working for a crime lord, he finds and takes care of trouble inside his boss's organization - whilse smuggling relics on the side. But when his boss orders Drothe to track down whoever is leaning on his organization's people, he stumbles upon a much bigger mystery. There's a book, a relic any number of deadly people seem to be looking for - a book that just might bring down emperors and shatter the criminal underworld. A book now conveniently in Drothe's hands . . .

Author : Green
Publisher : Strident Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781905537730

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Cat Kin by Green Pdf

Everyone who came to the strange gym class was looking for something else. What they found was the mysterious Mrs Powell and Pashki, a lost art from an age when cats were worshipped as gods. Ben and Tiffany wonder: who is their eccentric old teacher? What does she really want with them? And why are they suddenly able to see in the dark? Meanwhile, in London's gloomy streets, human vermin are stirring. Ben and Tiffany may soon be glad of their new gifts. But against men whose cunning is matched only by their unspeakable cruelty, will even nine lives be enough?

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781504001397

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The Kin by Peter Dickinson Pdf

Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe. Determined not to die in the desert, Suth and Noli slip away with Ko and Mana. Suth, the eldest, leads them; Noli’s dreams of the future guide them. Ko gives them courage; Mana gives them peace. Their search for a new Good Place, one of food and safety, will take them across the valleys and plains of prehistoric Africa and bring them together as a tribe and as a family.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The kin system as a poverty trap? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret L. Meriwether
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292788145

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The Kin Who Count by Margaret L. Meriwether Pdf

The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently answers. Who lived together in the household? Who married whom and for how long? Who got a piece of the patrimonial pie? These are the questions that Margaret Meriwether investigates in this groundbreaking study of family life among the upper classes of the Ottoman Empire in the pre-modern and early modern period. Meriwether recreates Aleppo family life over time from records kept by the Islamic religious courts that held jurisdiction over all matters of family law and property transactions. From this research, she asserts that the stereotype of the large, patriarchal patrilineal family rarely existed in reality. Instead, Aleppo's notables organized their families in a great diversity of ways, despite the fact that they were all members of the same social class with widely shared cultural values, acting under the same system of family law. She concludes that this had important implications for gender relations and demonstrates that it gave women more authority and greater autonomy than is usually acknowledged.

Author : Douglas Hulick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101586686

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Sworn in Steel by Douglas Hulick Pdf

DANGEROUS DAYS It’s been three months since Drothe killed a legend, burned down a portion of the imperial capital, and found himself unexpectedly elevated into the ranks of the criminal elite. As the newest Gray Prince in the underworld, he’s not only gained friends, but also rivals—and some of them aren’t bothered by his newfound title. A prince’s blood, as the saying goes, flows just as red as a beggar’s. So when another Gray Prince is murdered and all signs point to Drothe as the hand behind the knife, he knows it’s his blood that’s in danger of being spilled. As former allies turn their backs and dark rumors begin to circulate, Drothe is approached by a man who says he can make everything right again. All he wants in exchange is a single favor. Now Drothe finds himself traveling to the Despotate of Djan, the empire’s long-standing enemy, to search for the friend he betrayed—and the only person who can get him out of this mess. But the grains of sand are running out fast, and even if Drothe can find his friend, he may not be able to persuade him to help in time...

Author : Donna J. Haraway
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373780

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Staying with the Trouble by Donna J. Haraway Pdf

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.

Author : Nancy Kress
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765390318

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Tomorrow's Kin by Nancy Kress Pdf

Tomorrow's Kin is the first volume in and all new hard science fiction trilogy by Nancy Kress based on the Nebula Award-winning Yesterday's Kin. Locus 2017 Recommended Reading List The aliens have arrived... they've landed their Embassy ship on a platform in New York Harbor, and will only speak with the United Nations. They say that their world is so different from Earth, in terms of gravity and atmosphere, that they cannot leave their ship. The population of Earth has erupted in fear and speculation. One day Dr. Marianne Jenner, an obscure scientist working with the human genome, receives an invitation that she cannot refuse. The Secret Service arrives at her college to escort her to New York, for she has been invited, along with the Secretary General of the UN and a few other ambassadors, to visit the alien Embassy. The truth is about to be revealed. Earth’s most elite scientists have ten months to prevent a disaster—and not everyone is willing to wait. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.