Download or read book The City on the Sea written by Heather Carson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooke knows the rules. Everyone in the city outside the wall does. If you never cause any trouble, you never disappear. Even after her father's mysterious death, she's always known she'll do whatever it takes to live a good life and earn her place on the land one day. But when the watchmen suddenly start following her every move, it doesn't matter if she's done anything wrong. Now she needs to find out why they are watching before she vanishes without a trace. The City on the Sea, book one in the City on the Sea Series, is the thrilling first installment to this futuristic dystopian series. Climate change and rising sea levels have forced humanity to survive on the ocean in order to protect the precious bit of land remaining. This richly descriptive and darkly beautiful story will make you wonder if you have what it takes to live in the city on the sea.
Download or read book In the City by the Sea written by Kamila Shamsie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'Full of fun, longing and wit ... a debut of spirit and imagination, loaded with intelligent charm' - Ali Smith 'A touching and engrossing story ... an assured debut' - The Times 'A colourful and peripatetic view of politics in Pakistan ... an interesting and promising novel' - Guardian _______________ BY THE ACCLAIMED WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE _______________ Hasan is eleven years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily on the roof, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death. Soon after, Hasan's idyllic, sheltered family life is shattered when his beloved uncle Salman, a dissenting politician, is arrested and charged with treason... Set in a land ruled by an oppressive military regime, this eloquent, charming and quietly political novel vividly recreates the confusing world of a young boy on the edge of adulthood, and beautifully illustrates the transformative power of the imagination.
Download or read book City Under the Sea written by Kenneth Bulmer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Dodge knew the Earth would face starvation if it were not for the new science of "aquaculture". With the world's population numbering many billions, only the extra food being cultivated on the bottom of the sea could feed everyone. But, like the rest of the surface-dwellers, Jeremy did not know what a vicious monopoly underwater cultivation had become. That is, until the dreadful moment when he himself was kidnapped and dragged beneath the depths. And there he was to learn that just making his own escape would not be enough - he would have to save mankind from the tyranny of a new race of water-breathing human monsters!
Download or read book Cities the Sea written by Josef W. Konvitz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978. Josef Konvitz provides a broad comparative study of European port cities since the Renaissance by examining how they were built and rebuilt in the context of urban industrialization. Konvitz argues that as seafaring became more critical to Western civilization, intellectuals and rulers placed more importance on urban planning. Planning looked different, of course, in various European cities. In Paris, riverside planning was patched into the existing frame of the city, whereas Scandinavian towns on the Baltic were over-designed to accommodate a degree of maritime trade unsustainable for cities writ large. In the eighteenth century, city planning fell out of vogue, and new solutions were introduced to help solve the problems created by urban development. With a series of helpful maps, Konvitz's book is an important source for urban historians of early modern Europe.
Download or read book The City Under the Sea written by Ernie Moulton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam's life was perfect. She knew whom she was and what she wanted to do. All she had to do was to get the young prince to the Swinton School. However, getting him there proved to be more difficult than she had ever imagined. All she had to do was outrun the wolves, outsmart the pirates, survive the torture chamber of western China, save her son from his stepmother and make a king out of a boy. Easy Right? The trip that was supposed easy became the journey of a lifetime.
Download or read book The City and the Sea written by Raj Kamal Jha and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a crumbling neighbourhood in New Delhi, a child waits for a mother to return home from work. And, in parallel, in a snow-swept town in Germany on the Baltic Sea coast a woman, her memory fading, shows up at a deserted hotel. Worlds apart, both embark, in the course of that night, on harrowing journeys through the lost and the missing, the living and the dead, until they meet in an ending that breaks the heart - and holds the promise of putting it back together again. Called the novelist of the newsroom, Raj Kamal Jha cleaves open India's tragedy of violence against women with a powerful story about our complicity in the culture that supports it. This is a book about masculinity - damaging and toxic and yet enduring and entrenched - that begs the question: What kind of men are our boys growing up to be?
Download or read book Walk Across the Sea written by Susan Fletcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
Download or read book Town Is by the Sea written by Joanne Schwartz and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Winner of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner with his family, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator of Sidewalk Flowers, show the striking contrast between a sparkling seaside day and the darkness underground where the miners dig. With curriculum connections to communities and the history of mining, this beautifully understated and haunting story brings a piece of Canadian history to life. The ever-present ocean and inevitable pattern of life in a Cape Breton mining town will enthrall children and move adult readers.
Download or read book The City in the Sea written by Wilson Tucker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City in the Sea is a classical Science Fiction Novel about a Post Apoctalyptic America thousands of years in the Future . Action and Adventure await around every corner and each page is jaw dropping excitement!
Download or read book The Wizard s Statue written by Debra Doyle and published by Hachette Children's Books Australia. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For young fans of wizardry everywhere, this exciting series of six books will follow the adventures of the wizard apprentice as he takes on the forces of darkness and learns more about his growing powers. Ages 8+.
Download or read book A Small City by the Sea An Artist s View of Portsmouth New Hampshire written by Sue Anne Bottomly and published by Piscataqua Press. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk along with the artist, a New Hampshire native, as she sketches whatever stops her feet and tugs at her heart.
Download or read book City of Fortune written by Roger Crowley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”—The Financial Times The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between are three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance, during which a tiny city of “lagoon dwellers” grow into the richest place on earth. Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time—the reverberations of which are still being felt today. “[Crowley] writes with a racy briskness that lifts sea battles and sieges off the page.”—The New York Times “Crowley chronicles the peak of Venice’s past glory with Wordsworthian sympathy, supplemented by impressive learning and infectious enthusiasm.”—The Wall Street Journal
Download or read book Between the Sea and Sky written by Jaclyn Dolamore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For as long as Esmerine can remember, she has longed to join her older sister, Dosinia, as a siren--the highest calling a mermaid can have. When Dosinia runs away to the mainland, Esmerine is sent to retrieve her. Using magic to transform her tail into legs, she makes her way unsteadily to the capital city. There she comes upon a friend she hasn't seen since childhood--a dashing young man named Alandare, who belongs to a winged race of people. As Esmerine and Alandare band together to search for Dosinia, they rekindle a friendship . . . and ignite the emotions for a love so great, it cannot be bound by sea, land, or air.
Download or read book Venice the City of the Sea written by Edmund Flagg and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City and the Sea written by Wes Goff and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Arab drylands to tropical islands; from Somalia to Australia; Tijuana to Okinawa; Chicago to San Diego; and Great Lakes to Kuwait -The City and the Sea is the often humorous memoir of a young sailor who finally sees the things that exist outside of his small hometown in Missouri. He witnesses these new places during a time when it seemed like the world was changing. And at the same time, it occurs at an age when he notices changes in himself. Wes Goff grew up in Fulton, Missouri. He has written humor columns for publications in Wyoming and South Korea. His first book was The Backroad Legends of Callaway County. His novella "Me and Billy the Kid '91" is available as an e-book at www.backroadlegends.com. He can be contacted at callawaycryptids2002@ yahoo.com.
Download or read book VENICE THE CITY OF THE SEA FROM THE INVASION BY NAPOLEON IN 1707 TO THE CAPITOLATION TO BADETZKY IN 1849 WITH A CONTEMPORANEOUS VIEW OF THE PENISULA written by EDMUND FLAGG and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A City Under the Sea written by Norbert Wu and published by Atheneum. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificent coral formations create a lovely and mysterious ocean home for schools of anemones, sharks, and barracuda in this photo essay by one of the world's leading underwater photographers. Flounders hide in the sandy bottom and predators lurk at the edges while a sea turtle swims through to lay her eggs on the beach beyond. Colorful and dramatic photos bring to the reader the wonders of a very special undersea realm.
