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Author : Susan Palwick
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765349514
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (495 download)
Download or read book The Necessary Beggar written by Susan Palwick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new contemporary fantasy novel from the award-winning author of Flying in Place
Author : Nancy Kress
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061931950
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Beggars in Spain written by Nancy Kress and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep. Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha and the other "Sleepless" are outcasts -- victims of blind hatred, political repression, and shocking mob violence meant to drive them from human society ... and, ultimately, from Earth itself. But Leisha Camden has chosen to remain behind in a world that envies and fears her "gift" -- a world marked for destruction in a devastating conspiracy of freedom ... and revenge.
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146688066X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book I Am the Beggar of the World written by and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan women Because my love's American, blisters blossom on my heart. Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet—a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than 20 million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. War, separation, homeland, love—these are the subjects of landays, which are brutal and spare, can be remixed like rap, and are powerful in that they make no attempts to be literary. From Facebook to drone strikes to the songs of the ancient caravans that first brought these poems to Afghanistan thousands of years ago, landays reflect contemporary Pashtun life and the impact of three decades of war. With the U.S. withdrawal in 2014 looming, these are the voices of protest most at risk of being lost when the Americans leave. After learning the story of a teenage girl who was forbidden to write poems and set herself on fire in protest, the poet Eliza Griswold and the photographer Seamus Murphy journeyed to Afghanistan to learn about these women and to collect their landays. The poems gathered in I Am the Beggar of the World express a collective rage, a lament, a filthy joke, a love of homeland, an aching longing, a call to arms, all of which belie any facile image of a Pashtun woman as nothing but a mute ghost beneath a blue burqa.
Author : M. V. Carey
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Scar-faced Beggar written by M. V. Carey and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wallet dropped by a scar-faced beggar sets the three investigators on the trail of bank robbers.
Author : Susan Palwick
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429959703
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Flying in Place written by Susan Palwick and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness--with bravery and compassion--for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones. Emma is twelve, a perfectly normal girl, in a perfectly normal home. With a perfectly normal father...who comes into her bedroom every night in the hours before dawn. Emma will do anything to escape. From the visits. From the bodies. From the breathing. Even go walking on the ceiling--which is where Emma meets Ginny, the sister who died before she was born. Ginny, who knows things. Ginny, who can fly.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Susan Palwick
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
ISBN 13 : 1616960345
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The Fate of Mice written by Susan Palwick and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick’s twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Mice is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless killer who protects her, a wolf who is willingly ensnared by a devious academic, a businessman resurrected to play at politics, and an ingenious mouse dreaming beyond the laboratory. With the perceptiveness of Joyce Carol Oates, the inventiveness of Ray Bradbury, and the emotional resonance of Alice Sebold, The Fate of Mice is a meditation on the very art of storytelling: mythic, beautiful, and often brutal, filled with authentic compassion.
Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805210520
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)
Download or read book A Beggar in Jerusalem written by Elie Wiesel and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1997-05-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believing his eyes and ears, and above all, his memory." This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel bids the reader to join him on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem.
Author : Selby Wynn Schwartz
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1324092327
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book After Sappho: A Novel written by Selby Wynn Schwartz and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE A Guardian Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection “A work of stirring genius, a catalogue of intimacies and inventions, desires and dreams." —Jacob Brogan, Washington Post An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. “The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,” so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: “I want to make life fuller and fuller.” Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, After Sappho announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past. “This book is splendid: Impish, irate, deep, courageous. . . . Brava!”—Lucy Ellmann, author of Ducks, Newburyport
Author : Susan Palwick
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312866020
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Shelter written by Susan Palwick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious near-future SF novel of climate change, artificial intelligence, and human feeling
Author : Lloyd Alexander
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780141310701
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Beggar Queen written by Lloyd Alexander and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos reigns in Marianstat as Duke Conrad of Regia, the king's uncle, plots to overthrow the new government of Westmark and bring an end to the reforms instituted by Mickle, now Queen Augusta, Theo, and their companions.
Author : Susan Palwick
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765327589
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Mending the Moon written by Susan Palwick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a charismatic woman's murdered while vacationing in Mexico, her adopted son Jeremy and her friends are invited by the teenaged murderer's mother to his memorial service after he drowns himself.
Author : Nancy Kress
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780812550108
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Beggars and Choosers written by Nancy Kress and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1995-12-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a genetically altered future America that is overrun by beautiful and super-intelligent people, the entire planet faces destruction in the face of overpopulation and unemployment. Reprint.
Author : Renée Sarojini Saklikar
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0889714037
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Bramah and the Beggar Boy written by Renée Sarojini Saklikar and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One afternoon, in an old house in an abandoned village on the outskirts of Perimeter, in the place they call Pacifica, Bramah and the beggar boy find fragments of an ancient text in an oak box. Hunched over scraps of parchment and broken computer disks, they blow the dust off a cover, and so our story begins. Steeped in the tradition of fairy tales, The Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns (THOT J BAP) features a world in which a small band of resisters and survivors meet heartbreak and destruction with rhymes and resourceful skills such as soap and glass making, and a belief in the supernatural. Many things happen—some good, but most bad—including five eco-catastrophes and a viral bio-contagion. Shapeshifting in and out of it all is the nimble Bramah, a female locksmith, part human, part goddess—brown, brave and beautiful. Ten years in the making and described as “truly ambitious” by Stephen Collis, this work by award-winning poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar spans continents and centuries. Bramah and the Beggar Boy is the first instalment of the multi-part series.
Author : Thalassa Ali
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553584170
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)
Download or read book A Beggar at the Gate written by Thalassa Ali and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in nineteenth-century British India, Thalassa Ali’s dazzling debut, A Singular Hostage, introduced us to Mariana Givens, the Englishwoman who risked everything to save a young Indian orphan from certain death. Now Ali returns to that exotic kingdom beyond the northwestern frontier, where Mariana will come face-to-face with a different destiny. Two years have passed since Mariana left the walled city of Lahore. But she’s unable to forget its haunting scent of roses or her ill-fated marriage to a native-born husband that has scandalized Calcutta society and made her an outcast among the English. Worse still, she bears the knowledge that she will be forced to give up Saboor—the boy believed to be endowed with magical gifts whose life she risked her own to save. Now Mariana must revisit Lahore to return Saboor to his family and request a divorce from Hassan Ali Khan. But how can she say good-bye to the enigmatic man whose love defied two cultures—or the child she’s loved as her own? As political and civil strife threaten to erupt in violence, she seeks answers in a world no Englishwoman has ever seen. And she’s driven ever closer to a secret so powerful that it will change her life—and the lives of those she loves—forever.
Author : Oliver Pötzsch
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780547992198
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Beggar King written by Oliver Pötzsch and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the hangman Jakob Kuisl is framed for his sister's murder, his daughter Magdalena and her paramour, Simon, enlist the help of a network of beggars in order to save him from the noose.
Author : Tuomas Kyro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476775370
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Beggar & the Hare written by Tuomas Kyro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a hugely popular, award-winning Finnish author, this entertaining, profound, and satirical tale follows a Romanian beggar living on the streets of Helsinki. Vatanescu, a young Romanian construction worker, desires two things: a future for himself and a pair of football boots for his son. So off he goes to a cold, dark country to beg. Despite reading about Finland in the novels of Arto Paasilinna, Vatanescu has no idea what he is in for, and soon he is living on the streets of Helsinki, throwing feasts from the contents of a dumpster with his fellow beggars. Little does he realize, however, that his employer is about to ruin his bacchanal, and much, much more… As Vatanescu flees from international crime organizations as well as the Finnish police, he finds an unlikely companion: a hare who has been sentenced to death for living within Helsinki’s city limits. Together, Vatanescu and his new fellow fugitive set on a journey from Lapland to the National Idea Park construction site, to the upper echelons of Finnish politics. Known for his satirical humor and picaresque style, Tuomas Kyro offers an unusual tale in the vein of Jonas Jonasson’s The Hundred-Year-Old Man and Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. At once humorous and deeply moving, The Beggar and the Hare is a modern tour de force.
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8728206487
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)
Download or read book How Should One Read a Book written by Virginia Woolf and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf dreamed of the Day of Judgment. The "great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen" come to receive their rewards - crowns, laurels, names carved on marble. But, when he sees people coming with books under their arms, God turns to Peter and says: "Look, those need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. "They have loved reading." And this is the essence of her essay - sheer love for the written word: a joy in exploring the thoughts and imaginings of the author. If you sometimes get bogged down in a book, Woolf has produced the perfect self-help manual and motivational guide to reading. If you enjoyed 'How Should One Read a Book?', try 'How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading', by Mortimer J Adler. "To read a novel is a difficult and complex art," says Virginia Woolf. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) made an impact during her life, but her fame grew in the decades after her death. The English writer helped launch the use of stream-of-consciousness in literature and was a pioneer of 20th century modernism. Arguably her greatest legacy, though, comes from how her writing helped to inspire the feminist movements of the second half of the 20th century. Along with members of her family and other authors, Woolf helped found the Bloomsbury Group. After she married the political theorist and author Leonard Woolf in 1912, they went on the found the Hogarth Press. Virginia also had a long relationship with the writer Vita Sackville-West. The affair featured in the 2018 movie Vita and Virginia', starring Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki, He best-known works include the novels 'Mrs Dalloway', 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando'.
