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Author: Omar Gilani Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 310
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A cargo container crashes in rural Pakistan. Inside are forty-six kidnapped street children... As a grizzled, semi-retired policewala living in rural twenty-second century Pakistan, Officer Nawaz had dropped any ideas of heroism long ago. But when he discovers a crashed cargo container near his hometown, carrying kidnapped street children, curiosity drives him to investigate. Fate pairs him up with Adil Khan, a young, idealistic cadet from the global Confederation. Their investigation uncovers a treacherous conspiracy with devastating consequences, and now they must challenge everything they know about their country - and themselves - if they want to make it out alive. This science-fiction detective mystery unfolds against the unique backdrop of a futuristic Pakistan. While most of the developed world looks to the stars, Pakistan finds itself embroiled in problems of inequality, corruption, and violence. And things are about to get a whole lot worse. About the Author Omar Gilani is a creative director currently working in animation and games. Originally from the rustic city of Peshawar, Pakistan, he went to the U.S. to pursue a PhD in Robotics, but dropped out of the program to tailor a career more aligned with his interest in art, writing, and content creation. Since then, he has gone on to work for clients like Disney, Dreamworks, Sony Imageworks, the British Council, and Save the Children. In 2018, he created the visual series Pakistan+, which used interactive media to explore a futuristic Pakistan. That series won many accolades, and has been exhibited around the world. The setting of this novel thematically parallels those works. He currently lives in beautiful Vancouver with his wife and daughter. This is his debut novel.
Author: Omar Gilani Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 310
Book Description
A cargo container crashes in rural Pakistan. Inside are forty-six kidnapped street children... As a grizzled, semi-retired policewala living in rural twenty-second century Pakistan, Officer Nawaz had dropped any ideas of heroism long ago. But when he discovers a crashed cargo container near his hometown, carrying kidnapped street children, curiosity drives him to investigate. Fate pairs him up with Adil Khan, a young, idealistic cadet from the global Confederation. Their investigation uncovers a treacherous conspiracy with devastating consequences, and now they must challenge everything they know about their country - and themselves - if they want to make it out alive. This science-fiction detective mystery unfolds against the unique backdrop of a futuristic Pakistan. While most of the developed world looks to the stars, Pakistan finds itself embroiled in problems of inequality, corruption, and violence. And things are about to get a whole lot worse. About the Author Omar Gilani is a creative director currently working in animation and games. Originally from the rustic city of Peshawar, Pakistan, he went to the U.S. to pursue a PhD in Robotics, but dropped out of the program to tailor a career more aligned with his interest in art, writing, and content creation. Since then, he has gone on to work for clients like Disney, Dreamworks, Sony Imageworks, the British Council, and Save the Children. In 2018, he created the visual series Pakistan+, which used interactive media to explore a futuristic Pakistan. That series won many accolades, and has been exhibited around the world. The setting of this novel thematically parallels those works. He currently lives in beautiful Vancouver with his wife and daughter. This is his debut novel.
Author: Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9780738826417 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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It includes an account of the revolt of Satan, the War in Heaven, Satan and his angels being cast into Hell, the Council in Pandemonium, the Creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Temptation and the Fall, the archangel Michael's description to Adam and Eve of future events, Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden, and the famous Gustave Dore illustrations.
Author: Laura Secor Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698172485 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 530
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The drama that shaped today’s Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight—moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world—Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black box to the West, a sinister presence looming over the horizon. But inside Iran, a breathtaking drama has unfolded since then, as religious thinkers, political operatives, poets, journalists, and activists have imagined and reimagined what Iran should be. They have drawn as deeply on the traditions of the West as of the East and have acted upon their beliefs with urgency and passion, frequently staking their lives for them. With more than a decade of experience reporting on, researching, and writing about Iran, Laura Secor narrates this unprecedented history as a story of individuals caught up in the slipstream of their time, seizing and wielding ideas powerful enough to shift its course as they wrestle with their country’s apparatus of violent repression as well as its rich and often tragic history. Essential reading at this moment when the fates of our countries have never been more entwined, Children of Paradise will stand as a classic of political reporting; an indelible portrait of a nation and its people striving for change.
Author: Jewell Parker Rhodes Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1510109846 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 149
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'Addy is a heroine any reader might aspire to be, a teenager who learns to trust her own voice and instincts, who realizes that fire can live within someone, too' - New York Times From award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age survival tale set during a devastating wild fire. Addy is haunted by the tragic fire that killed her parents, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. Now, years later, Addy's grandmother has enrolled her in a summer wilderness programme. There, Addy joins five other Black city kids - each with their own troubles - to spend a summer out west. Deep in the forest, the kids learn new (and to them) strange skills: camping, hiking, rock climbing and how to start and safely put out campfires. Most important, they learn to depend upon each other for companionship and survival. But then comes a furious forest fire ... From award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful survival tale exploring issues of race, class, and climate change.
Author: Valeria Luiselli Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525436464 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 406
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NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood ... This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences.” —The Washington Post In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. Through ephemera such as songs, maps and a Polaroid camera, the children try to make sense of both their family’s crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States but getting detained—or lost in the desert along the way. A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive—a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.
Author: Andrew Lam Publisher: Red Hen Press ISBN: 1597092789 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 172
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From the award-winning author of Perfume Dreams, a collection of thirteen short stories following Vietnamese immigrants new to the United States. The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America’s newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past—memories of war and its aftermath, of murder, arrest, re-education camps and new economic zones, of escape and shipwreck and atrocity—is ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. It plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they had moved beyond the nightmares of war and exodus. It comes back on TV in the form of a confession from a cannibal; it enters the Vietnamese restaurant as a Vietnam Vet with a shameful secret; it articulates itself in the peculiar tics of a man with Tourette’s Syndrome who struggles to deal with a profound tragedy. Birds of Paradise Lost is an emotional tour de force, intricately rendering the false starts and revelations in the struggle for integration, and in so doing, the human heart. *Finalist for the California Book Award* “His stories are elegant and humane and funny and sad. Lam has instantly established himself as one of our finest fiction writers.” —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Perfume Mountain “Read Andrew Lam, and bask in his love of language, and his compassion for people, both those here and those far away.” —Maxine Hong Kingston, award-winning author of The Woman Warrior
Author: Fred D'Aguiar Publisher: ISBN: 9781847088628 Category : Languages : en Pages : 384
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In the opening pages of this novel, an accident brings a young girl to the attention of the Preacher, the all-powerful leader of a religious cult secluded in the jungle. Trina has only dim memories of the life she lived with her mother before they joined the community and the closed, close society is all she knows. When she is singled out for special favour, it becomes clear that the gaze of the Preacher can be a dangerous thing. As the Preacher's behaviour and the demands he places on his followers become more extreme, Trina's mother begins to question her faith in the charismatic but fatally flawed leader and to dream of an escape from his control.
Author: Sara Saedi Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698197046 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 254
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This stormy sequel to Never Ever is packed with more of everything you loved in Book 1: twists, action, revenge, and romance! Just a few weeks ago, Wylie Dalton was living on magical Minor Island where nobody ages past seventeen, and in love with Phinn, the island's leader. Now, her home is a creaky old boat where she's joined a ragtag group of cast-offs from the island, all dead-set on getting revenge on Phinn for betraying them. But when the Lost Kids invade their former paradise, they're stunned to find that their once-secret island is no longer so secret, and that a much bigger enemy is gunning for Phinn . . . and all the Minor Island kids. Told from both Wylie's and Phinn's perspectives, this dramatic sequel reveals that when you Never Ever grow up, the past has a way of catching up to you.
Author: Karl Toepfer Publisher: Vosuri Media ISBN: 1733249737 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 1320
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This book offers perhaps the most comprehensive history of pantomime ever written. No other book so thoroughly examines the varieties of pantomimic performance from the early Roman Empire, when the term “pantomime” came into use, until the present. After thoroughly examining the complexities and startlingly imaginative performance strategies of Roman pantomime, the author identifies the peculiar political circumstances that revived and shaped pantomime in France and Austria in the eighteenth century, leading to the Pierrot obsession in the nineteenth century. Modernist aesthetics awakened a huge, highly diverse fascination with pantomime. The book explores an extraordinary variety of modernist and postmodern approaches to pantomime in Germany, Austria, France, numerous countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Chile, England, and The United States. Making use of many performance and historical documents never before included in pantomime histories, the book also discusses pantomime’s messy relation to dance, its peculiar uses of music, its “modernization” through silent film aesthetics, and the extent to which writers, performers, or directors are “authors” of pantomimes. Just as importantly, the book explains why, more than any other performance medium, pantomime allows the spectator to see the body as the agent of narrative action.
Author: Kathy Marks Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416597840 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 353
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Pitcairn Island -- remote and wild in the South Pacific, a place of towering cliffs and lashing surf -- is home to descendants of Fletcher Christian and the Mutiny on the Bounty crew, who fled there with a group of Tahitian maidens after deposing their captain, William Bligh, and seizing his ship in 1789. Shrouded in myth, the island was idealized by outsiders, who considered it a tropical Shangri-La. But as the world was to discover two centuries after the mutiny, it was also a place of sinister secrets. In this riveting account, Kathy Marks tells the disturbing saga and asks profound questions about human behavior. In 2000, police descended on the British territory -- a lump of volcanic rock hundreds of miles from the nearest inhabited land -- to investigate an allegation of rape of a fifteen-year-old girl. They found themselves speaking to dozens of women and uncovering a trail of child abuse dating back at least three generations. Scarcely a Pitcairn man was untainted by the allegations, it seemed, and barely a girl growing up on the island, home to just forty-seven people, had escaped. Yet most islanders, including the victims' mothers, feigned ignorance or claimed it was South Pacific "culture" -- the Pitcairn "way of life." The ensuing trials would tear the close-knit, interrelated community apart, for every family contained an offender or a victim -- often both. The very future of the island, dependent on its men and their prowess in the longboats, appeared at risk. The islanders were resentful toward British authorities, whom they regarded as colonialists, and the newly arrived newspeople, who asked nettlesome questions and whose daily dispatches were closely scrutinized on the Internet. The court case commanded worldwide attention. And as a succession of men passed through Pitcairn's makeshift courtroom, disturbing questions surfaced. How had the abuse remained hidden so long? Was it inevitable in such a place? Was Pitcairn a real-life Lord of the Flies? One of only six journalists to cover the trials, Marks lived on Pitcairn for six weeks, with the accused men as her neighbors. She depicts, vividly, the attractions and everyday difficulties of living on a remote tropical island. Moreover, outside court, she had daily encounters with the islanders, not all of them civil, and observed firsthand how the tiny, claustrophobic community ticked: the gossip, the feuding, the claustrophobic intimacy -- and the power dynamics that had allowed the abuse to flourish. Marks followed the legal and human saga through to its recent conclusion. She uncovers a society gone badly astray, leaving lives shattered and codes broken: a paradise truly lost.
Author: Omar Gilani
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Author: Laura Secor
Author: Jewell Parker Rhodes
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Author: Andrew Lam
Author: Fred D'Aguiar
Author: Sara Saedi
Author: Karl Toepfer
Author: Kathy Marks