Lassoing the Sun

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250105900
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Lassoing the Sun by : Mark Woods

Download or read book Lassoing the Sun written by Mark Woods and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity and majesty, complexity and vitality--and their power to heal." --Ken Burns Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark’s most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks. On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned-out, Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks. He planned to take his mother to a park she'd not yet visited and to re-create his childhood trips with his wife and their iPad-generation daughter. But then the unthinkable happened: his mother was diagnosed with cancer, given just months to live. Mark had initially intended to write a book about the future of the national parks, but Lassoing the Sun grew into something more: a book about family, the parks, the legacies we inherit and the ones we leave behind.

The Year We Sailed the Sun

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481406493
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis The Year We Sailed the Sun by : Theresa Nelson

Download or read book The Year We Sailed the Sun written by Theresa Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned Julia never expected to be sent away, especially not to the ill-named House of Mercy. But adventure awaits her in this historical journey, based on a true story. “Go home,” eleven-year-old orphan Julia Delaney is told, but home for her is gone. Spirited and strong, Julia faces a cruel life at an orphanage—the House of Mercy—blistering cold winters, and countless disappointments. But not even hopeful Julia can imagine what awaits her in Montana—and with the help of a miracle or two, she sets the sun a-sailing. Like the heroines of the beloved American Girls series, Julia’s journey paints a vivid picture of United States history. Based on the true story of a real girl, with additional details explained in an Author’s Note, The Year We Sailed the Sun is historical fiction at its best.

Everything Under the Sun

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241433800
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)

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Book Synopsis Everything Under the Sun by : Molly Oldfield

Download or read book Everything Under the Sun written by Molly Oldfield and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The only thing better than the questions, in this delightful and informative book, is the answers." - Neil Gaiman "This book is GLORIOUS. It's heart-and-soul fabulous, page after page." - Stephen Fry "One of the best kids books I have ever had the pleasure of reading" - Pandora Sykes "This book is heaven on a stick" - Sophie Dahl A wonderful new paperback edition of 366 curious questions asked by children from around the world, based on the award-winning podcast by original QI Elf, Molly Oldfield. How much bamboo can a giant panda eat? Do aliens exist? What we would do if we didn't have a prime minister? Why do hammerhead sharks have such strange-shaped heads? Find out the answers to these curious questions and much, much more! Ponder where ideas come from with award-winning illustrator, Rob Biddulph. Find out why you taste things differently when you have a cold with Michelin star chef, Heston Blumenthal. Learn about everything from how astronauts see in the dark to what the biggest dinosaur was with experts from the Natural History Museum. Fascinating facts are accompanied by gorgeous illustrations making the perfect gift for Christmas. Whether you read a question a day, or dip into it whenever you are feeling curious, this is a book to treasure and share all year round. Illustrated by Momoko Abe, Kelsey Buzzell, Beatrice Cerocchi, Alice Courtley, Sandra de la Prada, Grace Easton, Manuela Montoya Escobar, Richard Jones, Lisa Koesterke, Gwen Millward, Sally Mullaney, and Laurie Stansfield. Praise for Everything Under the Sun: "Trivia fans will relish Everything Under the Sun" - The Guardian "A brilliant book for any child, but particularly those who don't love reading stories" - David Walliams "A wonderful gift for families" - Evening Standard "A wonderful collection of 366 curious questions about everything from science to nature, dinosaurs to space" - Scottish Sun "Simply mesmerising compendium" - Waterstones "As cute as it is educational" - Babyccino Kids "This is a book to treasure all year round" - My Baba "An absolute delight" - David Walliams

The Sun Is Kind of a Big Deal

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338166980
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sun Is Kind of a Big Deal by : Nick Seluk

Download or read book The Sun Is Kind of a Big Deal written by Nick Seluk and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious nonfiction picture book from the New York Times bestselling author and creator of Awkward Yeti. Oh hey, guess what? The Sun never stops working to keep things on Earth running smoothly. (That's why it's been Employee of the Month for 4.5 billion years.) So why does the Sun get to be the center of attention? Because it's our solar system's very own star! This funny and factual picture book from Awkward Yeti creator Nick Seluk explains every part of the Sun's big job: keeping our solar system together, giving Earth day and night, keeping us warm, and more. In fact, the Sun does so much for us that we wouldn't be alive without it. That's kind of a big deal. Each spread features bite-sized text and comic-style art with sidebars sprinkled throughout. Anthropomorphized planets (and Pluto) chime in with commentary as readers learn about the Sun. For instance, Mars found someone's rover. Earth wants the Sun to do more stuff for it. And Jupiter just wants the Sun's autograph. Funny, smart, and accessible, The Sun Is Kind of a Big Deal is a must-have!

Year of Yes

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476777098
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Book Synopsis Year of Yes by : Shonda Rhimes

Download or read book Year of Yes written by Shonda Rhimes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" details the one-year experiment with saying "yes" that transformed her life, revealing how accepting unexpected invitations she would have otherwise declined enabled powerful benefits.

Stations of the Sun

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191578428
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Stations of the Sun by : Ronald Hutton

Download or read book Stations of the Sun written by Ronald Hutton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and engaging, this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. From May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas, Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. He challenges many common assumptions about the customs of the past, and debunks many myths surrounding festivals of the present, to illuminate the history of the calendar year we live by today.

Life Under the Sun

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781983050558
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis Life Under the Sun by : David Yen

Download or read book Life Under the Sun written by David Yen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author David Yen spent 20 years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. In the 1990s, he led the development of Sun's first- and second-generation multi-CPU SMP servers, which transformed Sun from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company. As head of Sun's Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun's declining SPARC microprocessor business, introducing the industry's first 8-core, 32-thread general-purpose processor in 2005 and developing it into a multi-billion dollar business.Sun was "the Google in the '90s" and highly regarded for its innovations even in the Silicon Valley. Founded in 1982 by Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, Scott McNealy, and Vinod Khosla and started as a workstation vendor using off-the-shelf components, Sun surpassed established information technology giants such as Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the '90s and became "the dot in .com" in that crazy late '90s era. In the twenty years that the author worked at Sun, he got to witness the rise and eventually the fall of the company. The author was not on the very top of the decision making layer, yet he was on a level high enough to know and sometimes influence what was going on. By documenting what he experienced and what his thoughts were at the time, the author believes he might have provided a piece of reading that young engineering graduates could get a preview of what they may experience, young business administration graduates could get a peek at thoughts of engineering management, contemporary industry veterans could get some smiles from time to time if what the author described triggered the reminiscence of their own, and readers outside of Silicon Valley could get a glimpse of how the Valley operates through various behind-the-scene stories.

Klara and the Sun

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593318188
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Book Synopsis Klara and the Sun by : Kazuo Ishiguro

Download or read book Klara and the Sun written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

A Year in Tibet

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007283997
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis A Year in Tibet by : Sun Shuyun

Download or read book A Year in Tibet written by Sun Shuyun and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A Year in Tibet’ follows the author as she lives for eighteen months in a remote village in Tibet.

A Raisin in the Sun

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307807444
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis A Raisin in the Sun by : Lorraine Hansberry

Download or read book A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."

Exploring Our Sun

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Publisher : C. Press/F. Watts Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780531240625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring Our Sun by : Mae Jemison

Download or read book Exploring Our Sun written by Mae Jemison and published by C. Press/F. Watts Trade. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr. Mae Jemison and the 100 Year Starship."

The Sun Also Rises

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Sun Also Rises by : Ernest Hemingway

Download or read book The Sun Also Rises written by Ernest Hemingway and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Winter

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Publisher : Humanix Books
ISBN 13 : 1630060232
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Dark Winter by : John L. Casey

Download or read book Dark Winter written by John L. Casey and published by Humanix Books. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. In Dark Winter, author John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place in the climate and the Sun. Casey’s research into the Sun’s activity, which began almost a decade ago, resulted in discovery of a solar cycle that is now reversing from its global warming phase to that of dangerous global cooling for the next thirty years or more. This new cold climate will dramatically impact the world’s citizens. In Dark Winter, he provides evidence of the following: • The end of global warming • The beginning of a “solar hibernation,” a historic reduction in the energy output of the Sun • A long-term drop in Earth’s temperatures • The start of the next climate change to decades of dangerously cold weather • The high probability of record earthquakes and volcanic eruptions A sobering look at Earth’s future, Dark Winter predicts worldwide, crop- destroying cold; food shortages and riots in the United States and abroad; significant global loss of life; and social, political, and economic upheaval.

The Year of the Quiet Sun

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis The Year of the Quiet Sun by : Wilson Tucker

Download or read book The Year of the Quiet Sun written by Wilson Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Under the Tuscan Sun

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767917456
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Book Synopsis Under the Tuscan Sun by : Frances Mayes

Download or read book Under the Tuscan Sun written by Frances Mayes and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword “This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. But it’s so delicious, read it first yourself.”—USA Today For more Frances Mayes, including a tour of her now iconic Cortona home, Bramasole, watch PBS’s Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys—whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book’s dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes’s signature evocative, sensory language. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun revisits the book’s most popular characters.

Half of a Yellow Sun

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Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373541
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Half of a Yellow Sun by : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Download or read book Half of a Yellow Sun written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.

The Way of the Sun

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ISBN 13 : 9780854870554
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis The Way of the Sun by : White Eagle

Download or read book The Way of the Sun written by White Eagle and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Eagle's words form a complete year of teaching - looking at the seasons. This is a creative view of the mystical link between the world of nature and humanity.