Download or read book Moon s Crossing written by Barbara Croft and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning, cinematic debut novel set at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Moon's Crossing explores a unique time in American history, when the romantic heritage of the nineteenth century merged with the industrial temperament of the modern age. Jim Moon, an idealistic Union Army veteran, leaves his young wife and son to visit the World's Columbian Exposition, which has attracted America's greatest artists and thinkers as well as its drifters and schemers. Nick, a fast-talking con man, takes Moon to Pullman Town, a model city south of Chicago that is the site of the complex labor strike of 1894. Moon comes to see that the bright future the fair promised is compromised by greed. Unable to recapture his early vision of America, he takes his own life, and in so doing generates a surprising love story between a common young woman and a corrupt policeman as well as a major upheaval in the life of his neglected son. Kaleidoscopic and fast-paced, Moon's Crossing draws on such sources as the traditional tall tale to present a unique narrative style. Moon's adventures are completely American, and the legacy he leaves is, ironically, more significant than his failed life would have foretold.
Download or read book Moon s Crossing written by Barbara Croft and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August of 1914, on the eve of World War I, Jim Moon, then sixty-eight years old, stepped off the stern of a ferry in New York Harbor just as the boat passed under the Brooklyn Bridge. So begins this spare, cinematic novel that explores a unique time in American hist
Download or read book Moon Crossing Bridge written by Tess Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess Gallagher's sixth book, a descent into the world of the dead, a remembrance of her recently deceased beloved.
Download or read book Crossing the Moon written by Paulette B. Alden and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her way to achieving her most important goal--that of becoming a writer--Alden had always considered motherhood, but at age 39 she faced the possibility that she had waited too long. This intimate memoir chronicles Alden's discoveries and choices, as she and her husband decide to embark on a long and difficult course of infertility treatment.
Download or read book The Pool of Two Moons written by Kate Forsyth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been 16 years since the Day of Reckoning, when magic and witchcraft were outlawed throughout all of Eileanan. And though rumors say that she is dead, the Arch-Sorceress Meghan of the Beasts still lives. Traveling with her are the true heir to the throne and the red-haired warrior Iseult. Their fates are woven together in a quest to bring magic back to the land. As Eileanan nears its darkest hour, Meghan must gather rebel forces to move upon the city of Lucescere. There, the Rìgh lies near death, and his Queen, Maya the Ensorcellor, and her babe stand to inherit his power. To end Maya’s brutal reign and bring magic out of the shadows, what was broken must be brought together: twin sisters who have never met, three parts of an enchanted key, and the winged man with the powers of the lost Lodestar.
Download or read book Moon Crossing A Fellhounds of Thesk Story written by Cathy Farr and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tally has been kidnapped. Her older sister, Lady Élanor has asked teenager Wil Calloway for help but he returns to Saran to discover tensions that threaten Tally's rescue from the start. Accompanied by his three best friends and three huge Fellhounds, Wil makes a promise to bring Tally back before the twin moons cross. But the journey to Armelia is beset with challenges - not least being getting in and out of the city!
Download or read book Seveneves written by Neal Stephenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.
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Download or read book Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship written by Ainsworth Rand Spofford and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book One Hundred Thousand Moons written by Tsepon Wangchuck Deden Shakabpa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-10-23 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a vast array of historical and biographical sources, this volume elaborates Tibetan political history, arguing that Tibet has long been an independent nation, and that the 1950 incursion by the Chinese was an invasion of a sovereign country. The author situates Tibet's relations with a series of Chinese, Manchurian, and Mongolian empires in terms of the preceptor-patron relationship, an essentially religious connection in which Tibetan religious figures offered spiritual instruction to the contemporaneous emperor or other militarily powerful figure in exchange for protection and religious patronage. Simultaneously, this volume serves as an introduction to many aspects of Tibetan culture, society, and especially religion. The book includes a compendium of biographies of the most significant figures in Tibet's past.
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