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Author : Andre Dubus
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393046974
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book House of Sand and Fog written by Andre Dubus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.
Author : Paraic O'Donnell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1951142985
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The House on Vesper Sands written by Paraic O'Donnell and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O’Donnell’s Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances? On the case is Inspector Cutter, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as he is wryly hilarious. Gideon Bliss, a Cambridge dropout in love with one of the missing girls, stumbles into a role as Cutter’s sidekick. And clever young journalist Octavia Hillingdon sees the case as a chance to tell a story that matters—despite her employer’s preference that she stick to a women’s society column. As Inspector Cutter peels back the mystery layer by layer, he leads them all, at last, to the secrets that lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands. By turns smart, surprising, and impossible to put down, The House on Vesper Sands offers a glimpse into the strange undertow of late nineteenth-century London and the secrets we all hold inside us.
Author : Ariana Reines
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1947793330
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (477 download)
Download or read book A Sand Book written by Ariana Reines and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award "Mind-blowing." —Kim Gordon DEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning and ecstasy, sex and love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, tracking new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times.
Author : Simon Mabon
Publisher : Identities and Geopolitics in the Middle East
ISBN 13 : 9781526126467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Houses Built on Sand written by Simon Mabon and published by Identities and Geopolitics in the Middle East. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Arab Uprisings and the instability that engulfed the region in the following years. It argues that to understand the events of the uprisings we must look at relations between rulers and ruled along with the strategies used by regimes to exert sovereign power.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Dutton Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Book of Sand written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.
Author : Mike Mason
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525512218
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Jesus: His Story in Stone written by Mike Mason and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus: His Story in Stone is a reflection on still-existing stone objects that Jesus would have known, seen, or even touched. Each of the seventy short chapters is accompanied by a photograph taken on location in Israel. Arranged chronologically, the one-page meditations compose a portrait of Christ as seen through the significant stones in His life, from the cave where He was born to the rock of Calvary. While packed with historical and archaeological detail, the book’s main thrust is devotional, leading the reader both spiritually and physically closer to Jesus.
Author : Heather Dyer
Publisher : David C Cook Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9780891912880
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The House Built on Sand written by Heather Dyer and published by David C Cook Distribution. This book was released on 1980-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615811994
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book No Sand in the House! written by Jennifer Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Sandy Children's Book Rules are meant to be followed but when a hurricane comes to the Jersey Shore does Mother Nature know that there should be "no sand in the house?" This heart-warming children's tale follows a sister and brother as they try to follow their Grandpa's number one rule: No sand in the house! The children try creative ways to keep the sand out and don't want to know what will happen if sand is brought in! It is, essentially, a story of hope. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to charitable organizations that are working to rebuild the Jersey Shore after Hurricane Sandy's destruction in 2012.
Author : Beryl Mildred Cryer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Two Houses Half-buried in Sand written by Beryl Mildred Cryer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital collection of writings about First Nations people and culture as it existed in the Depression-era Pacific Northwest.
Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The House in the Sand written by Pablo Neruda and published by White Pine Press (NY). This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few writers are as integrally bound to place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra on the Chilean coast. In this volume issued to celebrate the centennial of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's birth, the poems and photos reveal the landscape of Isla Negra as well as the home into which Neruda put so much of himself.
Author : David Beale
Publisher : BJU Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book S.B.C., House on the Sand? written by David Beale and published by BJU Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Baptist Convention is often referred to as one of the most conservative mainline denominations in America, yet in recent years heated confrontations between conservatives and liberals have marked the annual SBC meetings. Many pastors and laymen alike are asking, "Where is the SBC headed? Is it creeping liberalism or controlling liberalism that has appeared in the schools and agencies? Is conservatism actually gaining strength within the SBC, as some have claimed?" These are the questions that this book answers with accuracy and frankness. The author recounts the history of the Convention and surveys all of the seminaries and major agencies to find out what SBC leaders really believe. He lets the officials and professors speak for themselves. - Back cover.
Author : Noretta Koertge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198027761
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book A House Built on Sand written by Noretta Koertge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural critics say that "science is politics by other means," arguing that the results of scientific inquiry are profoundly shaped by the ideological agendas of powerful elites. They base their claims on historical case studies purporting to show the systematic intrusion of sexist, racist, capitalist, colonialist and/or professional interests into the very content of science. Physicist Alan Sokal recently poked fun at these claims by foisting a sly parody of the genre on the unwitting editors of the cultural studies journal Social Text touching off a still unabated torrent of editorials, articles, and heated classroom and Internet discussion. This hard-hitting collection picks up where Sokal left off. The essayists offer crisp and detailed critiques of case studies offered by the cultural critics as evidence that scientific results tell us more about social context than they do about the natural world. Pulling no punches, they identify numerous crude factual blunders (e.g. that Newton never performed any experiments) and egregious errors of emission, such as the attempt to explain the slow development of fluid dynamics solely in terms of gender bias. Where there are positive aspects of a flawed account, or something to be learned from it, they do not hesitate to say so. Their target is shoddy scholarship. Comprising new essays by distinguished scholars of history, philosophy, and science (including Sokal himself), this book raises a lively debate to a new level of seriousness.
Author : Sarah Beth Durst
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062888625
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Race the Sands written by Sarah Beth Durst and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “National Velvet with monsters and a big helping of palace intrigue, Race the Sands is monstrous (literally), heartwarming, and empowering in equal measure. An incredibly fun and inspiring read.” – Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale In this epic standalone fantasy, the acclaimed author of the Queens of Renthia series introduces an imaginative new world in which a pair of strong and determined women risk their lives battling injustice, corruption, and deadly enemies in their quest to become monster racing champions. Life, death, and rebirth—in Becar, who you are in this life will determine your next life. Yet there is hope—you can change your destiny with the choices you make. But for the darkest individuals, there is no redemption: you come back as a kehok, a monster, and are doomed to be a kehok for the rest of time. Unless you can win the Races. After a celebrated career as an elite kehok rider, Tamra became a professional trainer. Then a tragic accident shattered her confidence, damaged her reputation, and left her nearly broke. Now, she needs the prize money to prevent the local temple from taking her daughter away from her, and that means she must once again find a winning kehok . . . and a rider willing to trust her. Raia is desperate to get away from her domineering family and cruel fiancé. As a kehok rider, she could earn enough to buy her freedom. But she needs a first-rate trainer. Impressed by the inexperienced young woman’s determination, Tamra hires Raia and pairs her with a strange new kehok with the potential to win—if he can be tamed. But in this sport, if you forget you’re riding on the back of a monster, you die. Tamra and Raia will work harder than they ever thought possible to win the deadly Becaran Races—and in the process, discover what makes this particular kehok so special.
Author : Vince Beiser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399576444
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The World in a Grain written by Vince Beiser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres' stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and inspires us. It's the ingredient that makes possible our cities, our science, our lives--and our future. And, incredibly, we're running out of it. The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it--and sometimes, even kill for it. It's also a provocative examination of the serious human and environmental costs incurred by our dependence on sand, which has received little public attention. Not all sand is created equal: Some of the easiest sand to get to is the least useful. Award-winning journalist Vince Beiser delves deep into this world, taking readers on a journey across the globe, from the United States to remote corners of India, China, and Dubai to explain why sand is so crucial to modern life. Along the way, readers encounter world-changing innovators, island-building entrepreneurs, desert fighters, and murderous sand pirates. The result is an entertaining and eye-opening work, one that is both unexpected and involving, rippling with fascinating detail and filled with surprising characters.
Author : Jordan Sand
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173841
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book House and Home in Modern Japan written by Jordan Sand and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artifact, a material extension of its occupants’ lives. This book takes the Japanese house in both senses, as site and as artifact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era. As Japan modernized, the principles that had traditionally related house and family began to break down. Even where the traditional class markers surrounding the house persisted, they became vessels for new meanings, as housing was resituated in a new nexus of relations. The house as artifact and the artifacts it housed were affected in turn. The construction and ornament of houses ceased to be stable indications of their occupants’ social status, the home became a means of personal expression, and the act of dwelling was reconceived in terms of consumption. Amid the breakdown of inherited meanings and the fluidity of modern society, not only did the increased diversity of commodities lead to material elaboration of dwellings, but home itself became an object of special attention, its importance emphasized in writing, invoked in politics, and articulated in architectural design. The aim of this book is to show the features of this culture of the home as it took shape in Japan."
Author : Daphne du Maurier
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316252999
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The House on the Strand written by Daphne du Maurier and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wear off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda... "The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier."-New York Times
Author : Michael McClellan
Publisher : Story Grid Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1645010228
Total Pages : 1027 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Sand Sea written by Michael McClellan and published by Story Grid Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An astounding epic novel of J.R.R. Tolkien proportions!" — Steven Pressfield, Bestselling author of Gates of Fire and The War of Art Raiders of the Lost Ark playing A Game of Thrones The Sand Sea takes place on an alternative Earth roiled by war and conquest that mirrors our own Gilded Age. The treasure that ignites greed and folly in this parallel world is not petroleum, but beserite—a mineral of immeasurable value. Captivated by an ancient prophecy and the call of adventure, inexperienced nobleman and scholar Peter Harmon (think of a young Winston Churchill-like naif) joins an expedition to stake his nation’s claim to a global empire. Harmon’s destination is a vast and inhospitable desert halfway around the world, dominated by the iron-fisted Grand Vizer Jemojeen Jongdar. A tyrant on a mission to secure the ancient and supernatural Staff of the Ram, the Lion, and the Serpent, Jongdar knows the truth that others can only imagine: The one who controls the staff will possess the power to rule the world. Before he can seize his destiny, Jongdar must find and destroy the one person capable of thwarting his ambition, the rightful heir to the Sand Sea realm, an innocent woman named Selena Savanar. Can the brave and indomitable Selena accept her true destiny and rally her people in the eye of a gathering storm? To do so will require her to outwit the man who burned her father alive and left her an orphan and beggar a lifetime ago. Or will Peter Harmon and the cadre of opportunists he rides with conquer the divided empire? With the mythic structure of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy in a world as rich and real as George R.R. Martin’s Westeros, The Sand Sea is an immersive experience made to order for epic fantasy fans and anyone who enjoys grand-scale historical fiction.
