Download or read book The Ice at the Bottom of the World written by Mark Richard and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a distinctive and original voice, Mark Richard's stories capture characters on the fringe of society, and illuminate the goodness at the heart of their Southern, down-and-out lies. Full of startling images and harrowing epiphanies, The Ice at the Bottom of the World is a collection by a true master of his craft. In these ten stories, Mark Richard, winner of the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, emerges as the heir apparent to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner.
Download or read book The Top of the Bottom of the World written by Mao Yilei and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the expedition doctor, this is the author's diary from the historic Chinese Antarctic expedition to build Kunlun Station in the middle of the immense Antarctic ice sheet. The expedition team not only had to ascend over four thousand meters at temperatures of sixty Fahrenheit below zero while fighting through snowstorms, they also had to overcome all sorts of difficulties, such as constantly changing plans, impossible loads, discontented construction workers, and low pay. Were they taking crazy risks? Was the expedition a foolish endeavor? The author's account is a vivid, truthful description of this great expedition undertaken by a team of moving individuals who aren't without their flaws and crude, or even sometimes rule-breaking, behavior. It is a story worth reading.
Download or read book Running on the Roof of the World written by Jess Butterworth and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of adventure, survival, courage, and hope, set in the vivid Himalayan landscape of Tibet and India that introduces young readers to a fascinating part of the world and the threat to its people's religious freedom.
Download or read book Antarctica written by Jim Mastro and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the aurora australis to Bird Island, a photojournalist takes readers on his journey to the harsh, desolate, yet beautiful place that is Antarctica. 120 color photos.
Download or read book Voices from the Bottom of the World written by T. Mike Walker and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Light at the Bottom of the World written by London Shah and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From debut author London Shah, comes a thrilling futuristic Sci-Fi mystery perfect for fans of Illuminae and These Broken Stars.In the last days of the twenty-first century, sea creatures swim through the ruins of London. Trapped in the abyss, humankind wavers between hope and fear of what lurks in the depths around them, and hope that they might one day find a way back to the surface. When sixteen-year-old submersible racer Leyla McQueen is chosen to participate in the city's prestigious annual marathon, she sees an opportunity to save her father, who has been arrested on false charges. The Prime Minister promises the champion whatever their heart desires. But the race takes an unexpected turn, forcing Leyla to make an impossible choice. Now she must brave unfathomable waters and defy a corrupt government determined to keep its secrets, all the while dealing with a guarded, hotheaded companion she never asked for in the first place. If Leyla fails to discover the truths at the heart of her world, or falls prey to her own fears, she risks capture-or worse. And her father will be lost to her forever.
Download or read book First Across the Roof of the World written by Graeme Dingle and published by Salem House Publishers. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laboratory at the Bottom of the World written by Peter Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At the Bottom of Everything written by Ben Dolnick and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning novel of friendship, guilt, and madness: two friends, torn apart by a terrible secret, and the dark adventure that neither of them could have ever conceived. It’s been ten years since the “incident,” and Adam has long since decided he’s better off without his former best friend, Thomas. Adam is working as a tutor, sleeping with the mother of a student, spending lonely nights looking up his ex-girlfriend on Facebook, and pretending that he has some more meaningful plan for an adult life. But when he receives an email from Thomas’s mother begging for his help, he finds himself drawn back into his old friend’s world, and into the past he’s tried so desperately to forget. As Adam embarks upon a magnificently strange and unlikely journey, Ben Dolnick unspools a tale of spiritual reckoning, of search and escape, of longing and reaching for redemption—a tale of near hallucinatory power. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Download or read book Your voice from the Bottom of the Earth written by Heike Thieme and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes a philosophical journey to Morocco and back by bicycle. The world will keep turning even if humans remain the biggest consumer of everything, but we still fail to make it our own paradise. We, as humans in the flesh, hunger for more and are rapidly consuming the earth, which is supposed to be eating up our own paradise. My social etiquette, helping the elderly, working with people with disabilities and my brilliant son, in horse stables, hotel kitchens, housekeeping, harvesting and sometimes cooking for starving people.
Download or read book The World s Work written by Walter Hines Page and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of our time.
Download or read book Bottom of the Ninth written by John McNally and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skillfully edited by John McNally, Bottom of the Ninth: Great Contemporary Baseball Short Stories collects nineteen contemporary baseball short stories from a successful mix of well-established writers, lesser-knowns, and a few up-and-comers. These stories are characterized by the same dramatic elements that draw people to the sport itself--the mythologizing of players, the obsessions and romance of the game, the bonds between players and fans, parents and children. From a key play, a missed catch, a chance lost, these are tales of characters facing high stakes and calls to action, metaphorically and literally, in the bottom of the ninth.
Download or read book A House at the Bottom of a Lake written by Josh Malerman and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie comes a haunting tale of love and mystery, as the date of a lifetime becomes a maddening exploration of the depths of the heart. “Malerman expertly conjures a fairy tale nostalgia of first love, and we follow along, all too willingly, ignoring the warning signs even as the fear takes hold.”—Lit Reactor The story begins: young lovers, anxious to connect, agree to a first date, thinking outside of the box. At seventeen years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have got this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary. But they didn’t expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake. The house is cold and dark, but it’s also their own. Caution be damned, until being carefree becomes dangerous. For the teens must decide: swim deeper into the house—all the while falling deeper in love? Whatever they do, they will never be able to turn their backs on what they discovered together. And what they learned: Just because a house is empty, doesn’t mean nobody’s home.
Download or read book Roofworld written by Christopher Fowler and published by Hydra. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a hidden battleground in the sky—so says this classic novel from the award-winning author of the Peculiar Crimes Unit mysteries featuring Bryant & May. You’ll never look at a roof the same way again. . . . Welcome to Roofworld. High above London’s teeming streets exists a timeless universe with laws and codes known only to itself, suspended by a complex system of cables and wires. Two rival factions wrestle for control of this elevated realm—and eventually the city below. When a beautiful, feisty amateur photographer named Rose and a shy, cynical screenwriter named Robert witness a kidnapping on a London roof, they figure it’s an isolated incident. But after strange rooftop murders are reported almost daily, they have to know more. In their clumsy efforts to understand, they’re caught up in an intense power struggle between the forces of good and a power-mad tyrant manipulating society’s most hopeless citizens. Rose and Robert have a part to play in a war that’s nearly invisible from the ground—and nothing less than world domination is at stake. Look for Christopher Fowler’s fantasy and horror classics, now available as ebooks: CALABASH | DISTURBIA | PSYCHOVILLE | RED GLOVES | ROOFWORLD | SPANKY
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Download or read book Dancing on the Edge of the Roof written by Sheila Williams and published by One World. This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a life of crime and poverty in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, forty-two-year-old Juanita Lewis, craving a simpler life, drops everything, including her three grown, deadbeat children, to move to Montana. Reprint.
