The Sun Collective

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984899712

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The Sun Collective by Charles Baxter Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to—and unmoored by—a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune). Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing. His father thinks he may have seen him among some homeless people. And though she knows he left on purpose, his mother has been searching for him all over their home city of Minneapolis. She checks the usual places— churches, storefronts, benches—and stumbles upon a local community group with lofty goals and an enigmatic leader. Christina, a young woman rapidly becoming addicted to a boutique drug that gives her a feeling of blessedness, is inexplicably drawn to the same collective by a man who’s convinced he may start a revolution. A vision of modern American society and the specters of the consumerism, fanaticism, and fear that haunt it, The Sun Collective captures both the mystery and the violence that punctuate our daily lives.

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936365708

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A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles Pdf

It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail that recall Doctorow and Deadwood both, A Moment in the Sun takes the whole era in its sights—from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in the Philippines. Beginning with Hod Brackenridge searching for his fortune in the North, and hurtling forward on the voices of a breathtaking range of men and women—Royal Scott, an African American infantryman whose life outside the military has been destroyed; Diosdado Concepcíon, a Filipino insurgent fighting against his country’s new colonizers; and more than a dozen others, Mark Twain and President McKinley’s assassin among them—this is a story as big as its subject: history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.

Author : Caroline Van Hemert
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316414432

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The Sun Is a Compass by Caroline Van Hemert Pdf

For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences. A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, The Sun is a Compass explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of the creatures who make their homes in the wildest places left in North America. Inspiring and beautifully written, this love letter to nature is a lyrical testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel

Author : Okello Oculi
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9966250565

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Song for the Sun in Us by Okello Oculi Pdf

Okello Oculi is one of East Africa's foremost and pioneering writers. Born in Uganda, his poetry belongs to the same school as that of Okot p'Bitek and Joseph Brunga. It is a school that seeks to re-assert African cultural heritage with a critique of foreign influences. His voice is both evocative of a receding Africa and a declamatory dialogue with the new Africa. There are three main themes running through this new collection: the ecology of humans, animals and the natural world; Africa's ideological ancestory; and the interaction of political theory and literary enterprise.

Author : Nicole Dennis-Benn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631491771

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Here Comes the Sun: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Named a Best Book of 2016 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Bustle, San Francisco Chronicle, The Root, BookRiot, Kirkus Reviews, NYLON, Amazon, WBUR's "On Point", the Barnes & Noble Review, and Amazon (Fiction & Literature) Finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize Selected for the Grand Prix Litteraire of the Association of Caribbean Writers Longlisted for the ALA Over the Rainbow Award Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village. Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate. When plans for a new hotel threaten their village, Margot sees not only an opportunity for her own financial independence but also perhaps a chance to admit a shocking secret: her forbidden love for another woman. As they face the impending destruction of their community, each woman—fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves—must confront long-hidden scars. From a much-heralded new writer, Here Comes the Sun offers a dramatic glimpse into a vibrant, passionate world most outsiders see simply as paradise.

Author : Tad Carpenter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Art therapy
ISBN : 1916126189

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Sunday Suns by Tad Carpenter Pdf

Sunday Suns is the weekly project of American designer Tad Capenter, who has taken on the simple of task of designing, illustrating, scuplting, modelling, making, stitching or creating a sun every Sunday.

Author : Jonathan P. Sumber, DPM
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781478775102

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On the Nature and Origin of Time, Space, Gravity and Reality by Jonathan P. Sumber, DPM Pdf

This book is an in depth expose’ of a system of physics, in which the atom is integrated within a more inclusive hybrid building block that combines dark energy and electromagnetic energy together within one system of physics that creates all the matter and the spacetime of our universe. The nature and the origin of matter, space, time, gravity, inertia, kinetic energy, and even consciousness are explained from within this hybrid system of physics, allowing the large-scale and the small-scale to be unified within it. To understand how the universe started out from an event that created the passage of time and three-dimensions of space out of a state where time passage and the three-dimensions of space did not previously exist, we must first come to understand the nature of other levels of order and dimensions that exist beyond the boundaries of our perceived essence. This work explores some of those levels of order and dimensionalities that exist outside of our universe, while also revealing how these other dimensionalities take part in creating aspects of our universe as well as of our consciousness that we have not yet come to identify. If you’ve wondered how it is that the universe functions as it does on the large-scale level within the parameters of time and space as to the provisions of special and general relativity, while quantum particles have been shown to disobey many of those laws, this work will reveal a system of physics that bridges the gap between the large-scale and the small-scale as well as between time and space, which makes sense out of what had previously seemed to be a paradox.

Author : Shazia Afzal
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459827622

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Journey of the Midnight Sun by Shazia Afzal Pdf

This is the true story of the journey of the Midnight Sun Mosque. In 2010 a Winnipeg-based charity raised funds to build and ship a mosque to Inuvik, one of the most northern towns in Canada’s Arctic. A small but growing Muslim community there had been using a cramped trailer for their services, but there just wasn't enough space. The mosque travelled over 4,000 kilometers on a journey fraught with poor weather, incomplete bridges, narrow roads, low traffic wires and a deadline to get on the last barge heading up the Mackenzie River before the first winter freeze. But it made it just in time and is now one of the most northern mosques in the world. This beautiful picture book reminds us that the collective dream of fostering a multicultural and tolerant Canada exists and that people of all backgrounds will come together to build bridges and overcome obstacles for the greater good of their neighbors.

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735281257

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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, THE GUARDIAN, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, TIME, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE TIMES (UK), VULTURE, THE ECONOMIST, NPR, AND BOOKRIOT ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 READING LIST The magnificent new novel from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. “The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

Author : Martha Wells
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597805964

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The Harbors of the Sun by Martha Wells Pdf

A former friend has betrayed the Raksura and their groundling companions, and now the survivors must race across the Three Worlds to rescue their kidnapped family members. When Moon and Stone are sent ahead to scout, they quickly encounter an unexpected and potentially deadly ally, and decide to disobey the queens and continue the search alone. Following in a wind-ship, Jade and Malachite make an unlikely alliance of their own, until word reaches them that the Fell are massing for an attack on the Reaches, and that forces of the powerful Empire of Kish are turning against the Raksura and their groundling comrades. But there may be no time to stage a rescue, as the kidnapped Raksura discover that their captors are heading toward a mysterious destination with a stolen magical artifact that will cause more devastation for the Reaches than anything the lethal Fell can imagine. To stop them, the Raksura will have to take the ultimate risk and follow them into forbidden territory. The Harbors of the Sun, from celebrated fantasy author Martha Wells, is the thrilling follow-up to The Edge of Worlds, and the conclusion of a new Three Worlds duology of strange lands, uncanny beings, dead cities, and ancient danger.

Author : Anon Collective
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781953035318

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Book of Anonymity by Anon Collective Pdf

Author : Woop Studios
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452119793

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A Zeal of Zebras by Woop Studios Pdf

An embarrassment of pandas, a galaxy of starfish, a shiver of sharks...these are all collective nouns used to describe their groups. Woop Studios, acclaimed for their work on the Harry Potter movies, has illustrated these quirky phrases, creating a series of extraordinarily beautiful art that has been collected here for the first time. The colorful introduction to animals and the alphabet is accessible for young children, while the gorgeous, whimsical art and clever wordplay make it perfect for design-savvy parents and inspired gift givers. Longer than the standard picture book, with high design and production values, this is a volume readers will want on their coffee tables in addition to their child's bookshelf.

Author : Barbara Marciniak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781591439370

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Earth by Barbara Marciniak Pdf

Embraced worldwide as key spiritual teachers of our times, the Pleiadians are back, with another bold and controversial look at our highest purpose on Earth. Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library is their handbook to inspired living, calling on us to restore and return value to the human being, and to recognize the Goddess energies and the power of blood as connections to our DNA and our heritage. Using wit, wisdom, and deep compassion, they entice us to explore the corridors of time through the concept of the Game Masters; to awaken the crucial codes for multidimensional perspective; and to redream the Living Library of Earth. Their teachings aare significantly arranged in twelve chapters to trigger a deeper understanding of our ancestral lineage. Earth probes the memories hidden deep within us to reveal our crucial roles in the transformational process unfolding in our times.

Author : Esi Edugyan
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487009885

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Out of the Sun by Esi Edugyan Pdf

An insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? Through the lens of visual art, literature, film, and the author’s lived experience, Out of the Sun examines Black histories in art, offering new perspectives to challenge us. In this groundbreaking, reflective, and erudite book, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan illuminates myriad varieties of Black experience in global culture and history. Edugyan combines storytelling with analyses of contemporary events and her own personal story in this dazzling first major work of non-fiction.

Author : H.S. Darke
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524575038

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Lunar Vampire Chronicles by H.S. Darke Pdf

There was a time when the universe was young and cosmic laws written. Our progenitors were born in a broken world. Why was it broken? The answer is simple: when Cosmic Laws are broken, we all pay the price. Cheating death is the ultimate taboo, and karma is a dish best served long after the fact. But when dealing with immortal beings, they have more than enough time to live in the ugly world they've created; karma becomes the very air they breathe. Love. Lust. Hate. Jealousy. Travel throughout the world 300,000 years ago. Learn the origins of the major players: Ascended Humans, Vampires, Rogues, Shamans, the Great Pyramids, and much more. Learn the ancient names, the precursors to their modern iterations. Follow Arson, Ramanlese, Illgress, Goser, Tomakis, Hemily, and Jezzeria from Eden to hell. Follow Zento, Ekka, Edril, Bestick, Ry-ala, Ephisiostecles, Roch, Mephiantone, Rubidicus, Karianus, Styre, Vane, and Marschelle through their many stories. Their world was a world of sadness, crisis, loss, but some happiness. Right or wrong, their stories are told. There were no true winners nor losers, and aspects of each will endure till the end of time. The gray just got a whole lot grayer.