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Author: Lenn Corey Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: 1638853452 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 510
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An estranged family of four and some friends find themselves transported to a different world where they find themselves fighting for not only their lives but for the lives of others—the Flow Born. The power-generating solar facility Solaron in Deventon, Texas, needed an upgrade. When the upgrade showed signs of failure, project team members Cejay, Santos, and Toby scrambled to meet the deadline. But even with the help of Cejay’s family, they could not overcome the system errors. At the same time, a weather anomaly invades the solar field area Looking Glass. Just before the anomaly, Cejay and his son, Dave, see images—shadows—of beings in battle with one another. And the group was gone. They left their work. They left their city. They left their homes. But where were they? Communication worked differently. Long-distance travel worked differently. Their need for food and water behaved differently. Animal and insect life existed differently. Plant life appeared different and responded differently. But most of all, the water of the Enzolion River was different. Their enemies, however, acted normally—they still pursued Earth Born and Flow Born, no matter what, no matter the pain.
Author: Lenn Corey Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: 1638853452 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 510
Book Description
An estranged family of four and some friends find themselves transported to a different world where they find themselves fighting for not only their lives but for the lives of others—the Flow Born. The power-generating solar facility Solaron in Deventon, Texas, needed an upgrade. When the upgrade showed signs of failure, project team members Cejay, Santos, and Toby scrambled to meet the deadline. But even with the help of Cejay’s family, they could not overcome the system errors. At the same time, a weather anomaly invades the solar field area Looking Glass. Just before the anomaly, Cejay and his son, Dave, see images—shadows—of beings in battle with one another. And the group was gone. They left their work. They left their city. They left their homes. But where were they? Communication worked differently. Long-distance travel worked differently. Their need for food and water behaved differently. Animal and insect life existed differently. Plant life appeared different and responded differently. But most of all, the water of the Enzolion River was different. Their enemies, however, acted normally—they still pursued Earth Born and Flow Born, no matter what, no matter the pain.
Author: Charles Fernyhough Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9781583333471 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 280
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In this beautifully written account of his daughter's first three years, psychologist and novelist Fernyhough combines his vivid observations with a synthesis of developmental theory, recreating what that time--lost to the memory of adults--is like from a child's perspective.
Author: R. Neil Hewison Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press ISBN: 9789774162060 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 144
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Annotation. The Fayoum, a large and exceptionally fertile depression in Egypt’s Western Desert, some 90 kilometers southwest of Cairo, is a region both rich in history and outstanding in natural beauty. Its historical legacy includes temples, pyramids, and towns from the Middle Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Period, as well as churches, monasteries, and mosques from later times. Its farmland, watered by the region’s landmark waterwheels, is among the most generous in Egypt, and its landscape is varied and beautiful. The large and ancient lake Qarun nestles in the north between the soft green land and the harsh but dramatic desert scarp, while two new lakes, connected by Egypt’s only waterfalls, have been created in the once barren Wadi al-Rayyan to the west, bringing fishermen, farmers, and visitors to the desert. The Fayoum’s wildlife unfortunately no longer includes the crocodile, which was sacred here in ancient times, but boasts swamp cats and mongooses, spoonbills and flamingos. Neil Hewison here outlines the history (and prehistory) of the Fayoum and its lakes, describes the agriculture and rural life of the region, then guides the visitor around the province site by site, never averse to taking an interesting detour along the way. Originally published in 1984, this guide to one of Egypt’s most distinctive and beautiful regions quickly became regarded as a classic. The text has been thoroughly revised and updated for this new edition, including a new section on the recently declared UNESCO World Heritage Site of Wadi al-Hitan, the Valley of the Whales. The book is illustrated with color photographs and two maps.
Author: Bee Sacks Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063011492 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 367
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WINNER OF THE JANET HEIGINGER KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTION “The novel showcases the humanity, tragedy, and complexity of life in the West Bank. . . . The characters’ interwoven lives will stay with you long after the book's denouement.” —Entertainment Weekly “Sacks is an extraordinarily gifted writer whose intelligence, compassion and skill on both the sentence and tension level rise to meet her ambition. She keeps us constantly on edge. . . . City of a Thousand Gates makes a convincing case for a literature of multiplicity, polyphonic and clamorous, abuzz with challenges and contradictions, with no clear answers but a promise to stay alert to the world, in all its peril and vitality.” —Washington Post Brave and bold, this gorgeously written novel introduces a large cast of characters from various backgrounds in a setting where violence is routine and where survival is defined by boundaries, walls, and checkpoints that force people to live and love within and across them. Hamid, a college student, has entered Israeli territory illegally for work. Rushing past soldiers, he bumps into Vera, a German journalist headed to Jerusalem to cover the story of Salem, a Palestinian boy beaten into a coma by a group of revenge-seeking Israeli teenagers. On her way to the hospital, Vera runs in front of a car that barely avoids hitting her. The driver is Ido, a new father traveling with his American wife and their baby. Ido is distracted by thoughts of a young Jewish girl murdered by a terrorist who infiltrated her settlement. Ori, a nineteen-year-old soldier from a nearby settlement, is guarding the checkpoint between Bethlehem and Jerusalem through which Samar—Hamid’s professor—must pass. These multiple strands open this magnificent and haunting novel of present-day Israel and Palestine, following each of these diverse characters as they try to protect what they love. Their interwoven stories reveal complicated, painful truths about life in this conflicted land steeped in hope, love, hatred, terror, and blood on both sides. City of a Thousand Gates brilliantly evokes the universal drives that motivate these individuals to think and act as they do—desires for security, for freedom, for dignity, for the future of one’s children, for land that each of us, no matter who or where we are, recognize and share.
Author: Cory Doctorow Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 076539278X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 382
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Kirkus' Best Fiction of 2017 From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death. "Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle." —William Gibson Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza—known to his friends as Hubert, Etc—was too old to be at that Communist party. But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be—except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. After falling in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society—and walk away. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life—food, clothing, shelter—from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system. It’s still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. Now it’s war – a war that will turn the world upside down. Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi-generation SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years...and the very human people who will live their consequences. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Artemio R. Guillermo Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 0810872463 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 653
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The Historical Dictionary of the Philippines, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries.
Author: Cory Doctorow Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 1429989076 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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Cory Doctorow's miraculous novel of family history, Internet connectivity, and magical secrets Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur who moves to a bohemian neighborhood of Toronto. Living next door is a young woman who reveals to him that she has wings—which grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers are sets of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three dolls are on his doorstep, starving, because their innermost member has vanished. It appears that Davey, another brother who Alan and his siblings killed years ago, may have returned, bent on revenge. Under the circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to join a scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet, spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles from scavenged parts. But Alan's past won't leave him alone—and Davey isn't the only one gunning for him and his friends. Whipsawing between the preposterous, the amazing, and the deeply felt, Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is unlike any novel you have ever read. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Richard Blanco Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN: 082297889X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 94
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Named one of Library Journal’s Top 20 Poetry Books of 1998 Winner of the 1997 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize Runner up for the Great Lakes Colleges Association 1999 New Writers Award City of a Hundred Fires presents us with a journey through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. This distinct group, known as the Ñ Generation (as coined by Bill Teck), are the bilingual children of Cuban exiles nourished by two cultural currents—the fragmented traditions and transferred nostalgia of their parents' Caribbean homeland and the very real and present America where they grew up and live.
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