Download or read book Children of the Quicksands written by Efua Traoré and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly imagined magical adventure set in West Africa by a prize-winning new voice in children's writing, Children of the Quicksands introduces readers to Yoruba myths and legends while showcasing the wealth of culture, traditions, adventure, joy, pride, and love found in Nigeria. In a remote Nigerian village, thirteen-year-old Simi is desperate to uncover a family secret. Ajao is nothing like Lagos -- no cells phones, no running water or electricity. Not a single human-made sound can be heard at night, just the noise of birds and animals rustling in the dark forest outside. Her witchlike grandmother dispenses advice and herbal medicine to the village, but she's tight lipped about their family history. Something must have happened, but what? Determined to find out, Simi disobeys her grandmother and goes exploring only to find herself sinking in the red quicksand of a forbidden lake and into the strange parallel world that lies beneath. It must have been a dream... right? Wrong. Something isn’t right. Children are disappearing and it’s up to Simi to discover the truth.

Download or read book Quicksand written by Malin Persson Giolito and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES An incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm’s wealthiest suburb. Eighteen-year-old Maja Norberg is charged for her involvement in the massacre that left her boyfriend and her best friend dead. She has spent nine months in jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. How did Maja—popular, privileged, and a top student—become a cold-blooded killer in the eyes of the public? What did Maja do? Or is it what she failed to do that brought her here? Malin Persson Giolito has written a perceptive portrayal of a teenage girl and a blistering indictment of a society that is coming apart. A work of great literary sensibility, Quicksand touches on wealth, class, immigration, and the games children play among themselves when parents are no longer attuned to their struggles.

Download or read book Quicksand written by Geoffrey Wawro and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented history of our involvement in the Middle East that traces our current quandaries there-in Iraq, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, and elsewhere-back to their roots almost a century ago. Geoffrey Wawro approaches America's role in the Middle East in a fundamentally new way-by encompassing the last century of the entire region, rather than focusing narrowly on a particular country or era. The result is a definitive and revelatory history whose drama, tragedy, and rich irony he relates with unprecedented verve. Wawro combed archives in the United States and Europe and traveled the Middle East to unearth new insights into the hidden motivations, backroom dealing, and outright espionage that shaped some of the most tumultuous events of the last one hundred years. Wawro offers piercing analysis of iconic events from the birth of Israel to the death of Sadat, from the Suez crisis to the energy crisis, from the Six-Day War to Desert One, from Iran-contra to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the rise of al- Qaeda. Throughout, he draws telling parallels between America's past mistakes and its current quandaries, proving that we're in today's muddle not just because of our old errors, but because we keep repeating those errors. America has juggled multiple commitments and conflicting priorities in the Middle East for nearly a century. Strands of idealism and ruthless practicality have alternated- and sometimes run together-in our policy. Quicksand untangles these strands as no history has done before by showing how our strategies unfolded over the entire century and across the entire region. We've persistently misread the intentions and motivations of every major player in the region because we've insisted on viewing them through the lens of our own culture, hopes, and fears. Most administrations since Eisenhower's have adopted their own "doctrine" for the Middle East, and almost every doctrine has failed precisely because it's a doctrine-a template into which events on the ground refuse to fit. Geoffrey Wawro's peerless and remarkably lively history is key to understanding our errors and the Middle East-at last- on its own terms.

Download or read book Quicksands written by Sybille Bedford and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing how history imprints itself on private lives, this memoir presents the author's sensuous, harrowing, and remarkable life. It moves from Berlin during the Great War to the artists' set on the Cote d'Azur, through lovers, mentors, seducers and friends, and from genteel yet shabby poverty to comfort in London's Chelsea.

Download or read book Dancing on Quicksand written by Marilyn Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moment of hope for those who must accept and embrace a new version of Mom or Dad . . . shows us that while we lament what we are loving, there are endless possibilities for enjoying the moments that remain (Fawn Germer, author of Hard Won Wisdom).

Download or read book Cherries Over Quicksand written by Rhonda Ricardo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AREYOUTHE WOMAN HE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT? One morning Rhonda Ricardo, a freelance columnist for The Californian/North County Times, bravely set out to find answers from men to help the women in her life who thought or knew their men had decided to flee their castles. Now all you adventurous damsels can use these many insightful and humorous relationship hero's suggestions and stories to help sinking friends get a giggle in confusing times.Or to perhaps dust off your worried-self and decide that you deserve a better Romeo...one who does not have one foot out the doororeven better, to wake-upyour ownsleeping superhero and make him realize and maybe panic a little...the poor guy, becausenow - YOUARE THE WOMAN HE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT! CHERRIES OVER QUICKSANDdefinition: When a woman discovers (or believes) her man wants out or worse-already snuck out in the middle of the night or justboltedafter a simple relationship problem; the immediate feeling of falling or being sucked down into quicksand is a typical reaction of alarm mixed with unexpected anguish that can cause chaos with a woman's confidence. The thought of his sudden (or impending) departure can cause saddened ladies to pack dirty socks in their child's lunch box or worse...rack up parking tickets as she continuously walks from her parked car in a daze, quarters in hand...while running confusing questions about her man through her head. Ladies only have so many friends and family to turn to for advice in their quest for fulfilling (cherry/happy) relationships. CHERRIES OVER QUICKSAND welcomes women and men to comfortably slide into Rhonda Ricardo's collection of sensitive and funny relationship stories gathered from men (and some women), to ease their tender hearts, relax, laugh, fortify and then decided to choose CHERRIES OVER QUICKSAND.

Download or read book Quicksand written by Nella Larsen and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2022 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim. Her classic novel Quicksand first appeared in 1928.

Download or read book Over the Quicksands written by Anna Chapin Ray and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Danger in Quicksand Swamp written by Bill Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When jake finds the old canoe filled with rocks and hidden in sand near the river, he and Ben are thrilled! But someone wants to bury it. Why? The trouble begins when they clean it up, discover a treasure map, and set out in their new boat in search of adventure.What they find instead is terror: alligators swarming around them, trapping them on the tiny island in the middle of the eerie Swamp. But there is an even more fearsome enemy: a shadowy figure who is waiting to kill them if they survive the alligators and the quicksand that lies beyond...

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Download or read book Quicksand Pond written by Janet Taylor Lisle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose connection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together.

Download or read book Over the Quicksands Classic Reprint written by Anna Chapin Ray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Over the Quicksands Stuart Rhodes hesitated. His son was quite too old to be forbidden. Besides, forbidding only courts curiosity. The hesitation lengthened into a marked pause, before he spoke. Then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Quicksand written by Junichiro Tanizaki and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-06-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession. Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of a good family, married to a dully respected lawyer, tells a story of temptation and betrayal. Sonoko is infatuated with the beautiful art student and femme fatale Mitsuko, a woman so seductive and heartless she can even turn Sonoko's husband into her own accomplice. Filled with intrigue and treacherous romance, readers will be entranced by Tanizaki’s seminal novel. At once savagely funny and timorously exact in its portrayal of sexual enthrallment, Quicksand is “beautifully and mysteriously contrived.”—Newsday

Download or read book Quicksand written by Henning Mankell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning and poignant autobiographical look at the myriad experiences that shape a meaningful life, by the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries. “Surely one of the most moving and intriguing farewell notes ever written.... Intensely beautiful in its spirit.” —Alexander McCall Smith, New Statesman In January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer. Quicksand is a response to this shattering news—but it is not a memoir of destruction. Instead, it is a testament to a life fully lived, a tribute to the extraordinary but fleeting human journey that delivers both boundless opportunity and crucial responsibility. In a series of intimate vignettes, Mankell ranges over rich and varied reflections: of growing up in a small Swedish town, where he experiences a startling revelation on a winter morning as a young boy; of living hand-to-mouth during a summer in Paris as an ambitious young writer; of his work at a theater in Mozambique, where Lysistrata is staged in the midst of civil war; of chance encounters with men and women who changed his understanding of the world. Along the way, Mankell ponders the meaning of a good life, and the critically important ways we can shape the future of humanity if we are fortunate enough to have the choice. Vivid, clear-eyed, and breathtakingly beautiful, Quicksand is an invaluable parting gift from a great man.

Download or read book Quicksand written by Steve Toltz and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A tour de force of sustained brilliance' Mail on Sunday Wildly funny and unceasingly surprising, Quicksand is both a satirical masterpiece and an unforgettable story of fate, family and friendship. Aldo Benjamin may be the unluckiest soul in human history, but that isn't going to stop his friend Liam writing about him. For what more could an aspiring novelist want from his muse than a thousand get-rich-quick schemes, a life-long love affair, an eloquently named brothel, the most sexually confusing evening imaginable and a brief conversation with God? 'What a joy to surrender oneself to a writer of such prodigious talent.' Peter Carey 'Tremendous' Sunday Times

Download or read book Dancing in Quicksand written by Lucille N. Payne and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing in Quicksand explores the conflicted relationship between family values and domestic violence. It's the story of a 40-year-old woman's search to find meaning in her life beyond the ties that bind her to a toxic marriage.

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