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Download or read book Gem of the Ocean written by August Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gem of the Ocean is the play that begins it all. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, it is chronologically the first work in August Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century--an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Fences and The Piano Lesson. Aunt Esther, the drama's 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life.
Book Synopsis Gem of the Ocean by : Ọlasope Oyediji Oyelaran
Download or read book Gem of the Ocean written by Ọlasope Oyediji Oyelaran and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The edition editors, ... gathered scholarly, reflective, and creative discourses that honor the historical legacy of American Theatre colossus August Wilson and the impact he made on stages worldwide"--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis All the Light We Cannot See by : Anthony Doerr
Download or read book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Download or read book Gem of the Ocean written by August Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth play of Wilson's 10-play masterwork
Download or read book City of Bones written by Kwame Dawes and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitute a restless jeremiad for our times, and Dawes’s inimitable voice peoples this collection with multitudes of souls urgently and forcefully singing, shouting, groaning, and dreaming about the African diasporic present and future. As the twentieth collection in the poet’s hallmarked career, City of Bones reaches a pinnacle, adding another chapter to the grand narrative of invention and discovery cradled in the art of empathy that has defined his prodigious body of work. Dawes’s formal mastery is matched only by the precision of his insights into what is at stake in our lives today. These poems are shot through with music from the drum to reggae to the blues to jazz to gospel, proving that Dawes is the ambassador of words and worlds.
Book Synopsis August Wilson's Jitney by : August Wilson
Download or read book August Wilson's Jitney written by August Wilson and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Regular cabs will not travel to the Pittsburgh Hill District of the 1970s, and so the residents turn to each other. Jitney dramatizes the lives of men hustling to make a living as jitneys--unofficial, unlicensed taxi cab drivers. When the boss Becker's son returns from prison, violence threatens to erupt. What makes this play remarkable is not the plot; Jitney is Wilson at his most real--the words these men use and the stories they tell form a true slice of life."--The Wikipedia entry, accessed 5/22/2014.
Book Synopsis From the Seashore to the Seafloor by : Janet Voight
Download or read book From the Seashore to the Seafloor written by Janet Voight and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandy shores -- Rocky shores -- Gulf of California -- Northeast Pacific -- Kelp forest -- Coral reefs -- Indo-West Pacific -- Research cruise experience -- Open ocean -- Subsea vehicles -- Gulf of Mexico -- Midwater depths -- Deep scattering layer -- Hydrothermal vents -- Food falls -- Deep-sea floor.
Book Synopsis The Paralogs of Phileas Fogg by : James Downard
Download or read book The Paralogs of Phileas Fogg written by James Downard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were Phileas Fogg (a fellow of most mysterious background) and his new valet Jean Passepartout (who claimed he came from France) REALLY up to when they suddenly went around the world in 80 days? Much more than a wager, as it turns out, in this exciting new steampunk mystery adventure from James Downard. From submarines and airships battling on the high seas, to electric weapons and technology even more astonishing and threatening, Phileas Fogg and his allies play for the highest of stakes in a battle of wits and wills to keep envious forces from obtaining the secrets of atomic energy, and perhaps even altering the very course of history. Along the way, in India, Mr. Fogg meets his match and mate in Aouda, the even more brilliant and formidable sister of Captain Nemo, while gathering as unexpected a cast of associates as any in fiction. There's the elderly (but far from passe) detective Auguste Dupin, showing he's lost none of his skills in the years since the troubled American Mr. Poe wrote of his exploits in the Rue Morgue. Then there is the reclusive ex-slave Thomasina Maker, whose extraordinary inventions prove essential to their undertaking, even as her indomitable spirit stands up for justice and an unfettered imagination in a world so rife with prejudice and fear. And what of that audacious news correspondent Michel Ardan, friend of the American Mr. Barbicane who planned to fly to the Moon, until Passepartout and Fogg changed their plans? Is Ardan working to an altogether different agenda? And will he ever need to use that little pistol he carries in his pocket? The world of 1872 that Jules Verne teased us with is brought to life anew in all its vivid detail as Phileas Fogg races around the world, by ship and train--and not a few other conveyances of most unprecedented character. Chased by, and chasing after, people who would learn too late the dangers of knowing too little. Fortunately for our heroes, Phileas Fogg carries his Watch, and Passepartout has his Comb.
Download or read book Book of Days written by Lanford Wilson and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: When murder roars through a small Missouri town, Ruth Hoch begins her own quest to find truth and honesty amid small town jealousies, religion, greed and lies. This tornado of a play propels you through its events like a page-turning mys
Book Synopsis First Big Book of the Ocean by : Catherine D. Hughes
Download or read book First Big Book of the Ocean written by Catherine D. Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An animal reference that includes the sea's high-interest animals, such as dolphins, sharks, sea otters, and penguins, and introduces kids to some of its lesser-known creatures.
Book Synopsis The Rock and Gem Book by : Dan Green
Download or read book The Rock and Gem Book written by Dan Green and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dig deep to discover our rocky planet, packed with natural wonders. Earth's extraordinary minerals, gems, shells, and fossils are all on dazzling display in this essential visual encyclopedia for children. Feast your eyes on the ultimate treasure trove that any pirate would envy. More than 1,000 stunning photographs showcase rocks and gems in glorious detail, ensuring you can recognise sedimentary from sandstone, metamorphic from marble, and pyrite from pearl. The unique qualities of each eye-catching material are described in-depth, together with their broad range of uses in art, industry, architecture, and science. Keep your eyes open for rainbow rocks, fluorescent minerals, priceless diamonds, and meteor showers on your geological journey of discovery. Meet dinosaurs in the prehistoric period to understand how fossils form, join the pyramid builders of ancient Egypt to investigate the limestone bricks, and take a dip in the ocean on the hunt for clams, cowries, and cockles. Treasure seekers, get set to start your own collection with The Rock and Gem Book.
Book Synopsis Fathoming the Ocean by : Helen M Rozwadowski
Download or read book Fathoming the Ocean written by Helen M Rozwadowski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] amiable, in-depth examination of the most critical era for the development of modern oceanography” (Publishers Weekly). In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities?in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected with those of merchant-industrialists and politicians. Rozwadowski documents the popular crazes that coincided with these interests?from children's sailor suits to the home aquarium and the surge in ocean travel. She describes how, beginning in the 1860s, oceanography moved from yachts onto the decks of oceangoing vessels, and landlubber naturalists found themselves navigating the routines of a working ship's physical and social structures. Fathoming the Ocean offers a rare and engaging look into our fascination with the deep sea and into the origins of oceanography?origins still visible in a science that focuses the efforts of physicists, chemists, geologists, biologists, and engineers on the common enterprise of understanding a vast, three-dimensional, alien space. “Rozwadowski greatly expands our own understanding, all while telling a story that is original, wide-ranging, and illuminating.” —Margaret Deacon, Southampton Oceanography Centre, author of Science and the Sea: The Origins of Oceanography “Required reading for anyone wanting to understand how the oceans have come to play the role that they do in Western knowledge.” —Eric L. Mills, Dalhousie University and author of Biological Oceanography: An Early History, 1870-1960 “Chronicles the birth of deep-sea oceanography, from early observations by Benjamin Franklin to the voyage of HMS Challenger in the 1870s. [Rozwadowski] weaves a rich narrative from the world of renowned as well as lesser-known oceanographers.” —Nature
Book Synopsis August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle by : Sandra G. Shannon
Download or read book August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle written by Sandra G. Shannon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author's ethos across his twenty-five-year creative career--a process that transformed his life as he retraced the lives of his fellow "Africans in America." While Wilson's narratives of Pittsburgh and Chicago are microcosms of black life in America, they also reflect the psychological trauma of his disconnection with his biological father, his impassioned efforts to discover and reconnect with the blues, with Africa and with poet/activist Amiri Baraka, and his love for the vernacular of Pittsburgh.
Book Synopsis The Ground on which I Stand by : August Wilson
Download or read book The Ground on which I Stand written by August Wilson and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 2001 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
Book Synopsis Outside Is the Ocean by : Matthew Lansburgh
Download or read book Outside Is the Ocean written by Matthew Lansburgh and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three days after her twentieth birthday, a young woman who grew up in Germany during World War II crosses the Atlantic to start a new life. Outside Is the Ocean traces Heike’s struggle to find love and happiness in America. After two marriages and a troubled relationship with her son, Heike adopts a disabled child from Russia, a strong-willed girl named Galina, who Heike hopes will give her the affection and companionship she craves. As Galina grows up, Heike’s grasp on reality frays, and she writes a series of letters to the son she thinks has abandoned her forever. It isn’t until Heike’s death that her son finds these letters and realizes how skewed his mother’s perceptions actually were.
Download or read book See the Ocean written by Estelle Condra and published by Inclusive Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving through mountain fog to the beach, two young brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean, but it is their blind sister Nellie who senses it first.
Book Synopsis A Desert in the Ocean by : David Adam
Download or read book A Desert in the Ocean written by David Adam and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the early-tenth-century Celtic poem the Voyage of Brendan, an account of the saint's journeys across the sea in search of the "promised land of the Saints," as a guide to our own spiritual call and adventure.
