Download or read book My Patch of Sky written by Adrienne Kenna and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stream System written by Gerald Murnane and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, Stream System runs from the haunting Land Deal, which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to Finger Web, which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to The Interior of Gaaldine, which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Shaken by China written by Rob Walters and published by Satin. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaken by China is a pacey novel based in modern China. It is eventful, thoughtful, and provides an intriguing insight into the modern republic. Very briefly Shaken by China is the story of a young man who escapes his overpowering problems at home by taking a teaching job in the rapidly changing world of modern China. It is targeted at readers who like a fast moving story based in exotic surroundings. The novel has a strong beginning in a Xian hospital where Keith Hackett, the main character, twice attempts suicide. The reader is rapidly hooked into the tale: why is Keith in China, what has he done that he is so ashamed of, and how was he reduced to the very depths of depression? We next launch into Keith’s story: his teaching experience with Mary, his friendship with Peter, their ‘minder’ at the school, his observations of the joy and misery of the impoverished people who live around the school. Then suddenly, mysteriously, Mary disappears and Keith’s life starts to unravel as he becomes entangled with a pretty student. Realising his own stupidity he ends the relationship and slips into less passionate friendships. However, this new found contentment is fragile and is quickly dashed when the affair with his student rebounds with chilling repercussions. The story then develops around Keith’s ignominious escape from the school, his long march across the mountains of Shaanxi province, and his debilitating life as a forced labourer in an illicit brick factory. It ends in the hospital where Keith confronts his failings and reunites with the love he left in fleeing to China. The novel is based around the author’s own experience of living and teaching in China and draws on true accounts of slavery and corruption that have occurred in the republic.
Download or read book Carvings on Dew written by Vidur Jyoti and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: haiku, carvings on dew and you I write because creativity is the bridge that I want to traverse from creation to the creator, was my answer when quizzed as to why do I write. There was a turning in this journey from where on haiku and its related genres became my chisel and hammer to carve out that creativity and dew was the medium I found myself to be working on. Walking barefoot on grass or just gazing at blooms and buds at times while waiting for the sun to shine its rays on those pearls would make me reach out to myself and start carving my experience on them in the form of these writings. This collection of my haiku poems and the haibun and some haiga presented to you in this book are not only to share the ecstasy of that experience but the entire process of experiencing an experience itself. Haiku is a semicircle drawn by the poet and completed by the reader, a comment by one of the accomplished haiku poets of repute precisely elucidates the intricacy of haiku reading and writing. These carvings on dew are attempt to present that semicircle to you with a hope and wish that you draw the rest of it to enjoy the manifestation of a full circle around a central experience which like the centre in a geometrical circle is the truth of the haiku and that of the entire creativity too.
Download or read book Patch of Sky written by Nic Yulo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiercely determined girl will do anything to help her best pig friend finally see the sky in this unique friendship story Pia just found out the terrible news that pigs can't look straight up, which means her best friend and right-hand-pig Patches has never seen the sky. If you ask her, that is absolutely cuckoo bananas. Now Pia is on a mission to share the beauty of the big wide sky with Patches . . . and she will do whatever it takes! From debut author-illustrator Nic Yulo comes this story of determination, empathy, and learning to look at the world (and the sky!) in a whole new way.
Download or read book Patterns of Revision Grade 5 written by Whitney La Rocca and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we get fifth-grade writers to revise? And once we do get them thinking about revision, what, exactly, do they do? What do we do? In Patterns of Revision, best-selling authors Whitney La Rocca and Jeff Anderson answer these questions and more. This practical resource uses the research-proven and classroom-tested methods of sentence combining in a meaningful, engaging way that supports authentic writing as well as writing for performance-based or multiple-choice tests. Flip the book open to immediately find: • The DRAFT mnemonic to help students know where to begin the revision process and how to keep going • Concrete, doable lessons that spark academic conversations (oral rehearsal and play) about meaning, effect, and purpose that are grounded in a student-centered revision approach • Easily accessed display and printable pages to seamlessly support student revision learning, embedded in each lesson right where you need it • Authentic and engaging model text excerpts curated to support each lesson • An engaging process for revision instruction that can be immediately implemented to support any writing approach or as a supplemental resource for Patterns of Power, 1-5 as well as Patterns of Power Plus, Grade 5 With every lesson grounded in the critical strategy of writers talking out their revisions, Patterns of Revision will establish routines, practices, and mindsets to set up you and your students for success from Day 1. Discover the joy inherent in writing—and writing instruction—by exploring revision through engaging inquiry and the study of models, building flexible, competent revisors, step-by-step, in an open-ended discussion of meaning-driven revision choices and their effects.
Download or read book Living with Strangers written by Elizabeth Ellis and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fifteen years. I’d had no word from Josef in fifteen years. No word from him, hardly a word about him. And now this. All those long years of nothing, of not knowing.” Living with Strangers is a family drama set in England, France and Germany between 1963 and 1978. It deals with loss and restitution in a family still haunted by the shadow of the Second World War and the effect this has on the decisions they are forced to make. The story is told through the eyes of Madeleine Feldman, a young woman coming to terms with the loss of her brother who left home suddenly and mysteriously when she was 13. It is her rite of passage from early adolescence to adulthood. Madeleine is a strong, sympathetic protagonist, subjected to rejection and indifference at home and at school, whose life becomes a series of poor decisions and errors of judgement. An unexpected delivery one day results in a quest to locate her brother before their father dies... The book deals with issues of inter-generational conflict, job security and single parenthood at a time when communication within a family was often poor, sexuality was a taboo subject and prejudice and intolerance were rife – all issues that still resonate today. Part mystery, part memoir in style, Living With Strangers is a quiet, moving tale of a family’s struggle to reconnect. Elizabeth takes inspiration from a number of writers, including Penelope Lively, Anita Brookner, Emma Donoghue and Michele Roberts. This, her debut novel, will appeal mainly to women and to fans of fiction set in the recent past.
Download or read book The Fixed Stars written by Brian Conn and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn's The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic.
Download or read book December Sky written by Evelyn Cortez-Davis and published by In Xochitl In Cuicatl Productions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Night in Manila written by John Langdon and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night in Manila, published in 1954 (and first published in 1953 under the title Vicious Circuit), is a noir thriller set in the steamy and seedy environs of Manila, Philippines. The action centers around the merchant ship Alvarado, docked in Manila, and from which a large sum of money has disappeared. Within hours after the cash has vanished, Mallory, the ship’s chief electrician is drugged and left for dead. In addition to Mallory, a number of other desperate people are interested in the recovery of the money: corrupt politicians, dangerous criminals, government treasury agents, and a beautiful Filipina. Two and a half million pesos ... a lot of cash by any standard — had disappeared from the Alvarado, a merchant marine ship docked in steamy Manila Harbor. A number of grimly determined people were interested in its recovery: political outlaws, vicious criminals, the Philippine Governments Treasury Agents, an inscrutable Filipina of great beauty, and an average sort of joe named Mallory. Only Mallory, the Alvarado’s chief electrician, didn’t want the money for himself. He was implicated involuntarily and strictly from necessity. His friend had been killed because of the money, and its theft placed his own life in jeopardy. Within hours after the cash had vanished, he had been drugged and left for dead. Next time he might not be so lucky.
Download or read book The Rhythm of Thought written by Jessica Wiskus and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance—so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought. Holding the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, the paintings of Paul Cézanne, the prose of Marcel Proust, and the music of Claude Debussy under Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological light, she offers innovative interpretations of some of these artists’ masterworks, in turn articulating a new perspective on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. More than merely recovering Merleau-Ponty’s thought, Wiskus thinks according to it. First examining these artists in relation to noncoincidence—as silence in poetry, depth in painting, memory in literature, and rhythm in music—she moves through an array of their artworks toward some of Merleau-Ponty’s most exciting themes: our bodily relationship to the world and the dynamic process of expression. She closes with an examination of synesthesia as an intertwining of internal and external realms and a call, finally, for philosophical inquiry as a mode of artistic expression. Structured like a piece of music itself, The Rhythm of Thought offers new contexts in which to approach art, philosophy, and the resonance between them.
Download or read book In Tanglement written by Sophia and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What seems like devastation and destruction of the mind, soul, emotion and spirit awakens a strength and understanding that could not have been gained from anything less than an astounding, traumatic happening for any woman. Life for Beth seemed usual and situations were turning around, or so it seemed. The events about to take place were beyond her understanding and comprehension at the time. Her journey of discovery through the adventure, heartbreak, tears and excitement leaves the reader captivated by all that is imaginable and beyond. It resonates deep within, for we all possess, all that is needed in order to search for the truth
Download or read book The Third and Only Way written by Helen Bevington and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatrix Potter, Sappho, Yeats, Alexander the Great, Montaigne, Saint Cecilia, Virginia Woolf, Liv Ullmann, and many others, Bevington finds in these lives a path that has guided her search away from solitude. Through her reflections on the ten years that followed her son's death, we become aware of how far she has traveled, how the search has brightened, how she has eloquently evolved into old age. In the end she is sitting, like the Buddha, under her own fig tree,
Download or read book The Hiding Place written by Corrie ten Boom and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hiding Place is Corrie ten Boom’s personal story of faith, forgiveness, and love for the persecuted Jewish community during the World War II Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland. Part of an underground resistance movement, Corrie and her family risked their lives to hide Jewish friends within a secret wall space of the Beje, their beloved clock shop and home in Haarlem, Netherlands. Her heroic actions eventually led to her arrest and imprisonment at Ravensbrück, the German Reich’s largest concentration camp for women. For the first time, the ten Boom family’s heart-wrenching story of sacrifice and survival is presented as a special edition complete with rare family photos, accents of Dutch Delft–style design, artwork by Dutch artists, and personal ephemera. Hand-lettered inspirational quotes and Scripture combined with artwork reminiscent of World War II Europe make The Hiding Place come alive like never before.
Download or read book A Long Way to Goulacullin written by John Kingston McMahon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seasons of my life have passed by so quickly, and now as I reach the autumn of my life, I reflect on what has been and what might have been. I have been lucky and am somewhat surprised that I have made it this far on my journey of life. Now I look back and remember, on these pages, those that I knew and those whose lives were never fulfilled. I am only one of a quarter of a million people who were brought up in the child welfare system in the 1950's and '60s in Australia, and who are now referred to as the Forgotten Australians.
Download or read book The View from Foley Mountain written by Peri Phillips McQuay and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1995-03-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the joy of living in harmony with the natural world, leading you through the fields, woods, and shores of a conservation area near the Rideau Lakes.
