Download or read book Ice Song written by Kirsten Imani Kasai and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reminiscent of Ursula Le Guin’s paradigm-shattering The Left Hand of Darkness, this piercingly moving story belongs in most fantasy collections.”—Library Journal There are secrets beneath her skin. Sorykah Minuit is a scholar, an engineer, and the sole woman aboard an ice-drilling submarine in the frozen land of the Sigue. What no one knows is that she is also a Trader: one who can switch genders suddenly, a rare corporeal deviance universally met with fascination and superstition and all too often punished by harassment or death. Sorykah’s infant twins, Leander and Ayeda, have inherited their mother’s Trader genes. When a wealthy, reclusive madman known as the Collector abducts the babies to use in his dreadful experiments, Sorykah and her male alter-ego, Soryk, must cross icy wastes and a primeval forest to get them back. Complicating the dangerous journey is the fact that Sorykah and Soryk do not share memories: Each disorienting transformation is like awakening with a jolt from a deep and dreamless sleep. The world through which the alternating lives of Sorykah and Soryk travel is both familiar and surreal. Environmental degradation and genetic mutation run amok; humans have been distorted into animals and animal bodies cloak a wild humanity. But it is also a world of unexpected beauty and wonder, where kindness and love endure amid the ruins. Alluring, intense, and gorgeously rendered, Ice Song is a remarkable debut by a fiercely original new writer. Praise for Ice Song “A stunning debut fantasy about love and the ties of blood.”—Armchair Interviews “Kasai’s debut is a boldly adventurous tale depicting a richly detailed world. The aspect of Traders shifting gender brings Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness to mind, while the activities on Chen’s island are more reminiscent of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Meredith Gentry novels.”—Booklist “Ice Song is definitely a compelling read, largely due to the fact that Sorykah is such a well-developed character. She has an equally intense and complex sense of love and resentment for her children. And the fact that she exists between the world of humans and the mutants is also a source of conflict for her character . . . Ice Song is a near-perfect combination of fantasy, great storytelling and social commentary.”—Philadelphia Gay News
Download or read book Kasai written by Brian Wood and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kasai Outback written by Brian D. Wood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its been six months since Dr. Jackson ONeil discovered dinosaurs living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and now hes at it again, this time heading to the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, to help out his childhood hero, Dr. John Tice, and his daughter, Maya, when mysterious disappearances start to occur out in the bush. But what Jackson and his best friend, Dr. Marshall Fredericks, and his girlfriend, Dr. Lauren Kimble, discover is a creature almost too terrifying to comprehend: a beast which was thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago. And when Jacksons suddenly needed in Africa again, he will be on a race against the clock as a deadly force of nature appears to destroy a city. Jackson will be racing the police to fi nd a murderous animal smuggler before he comprehends Jacksons task of return to Africa and prevent a group of rebel soldiers from destroying Kasai forever.
Download or read book The Lele of the Kasai written by Mary Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are early indications of Douglas's cultural imagination and written expression that were to make her works accessible and relevant to a western readership of non-anthropologists. The intellectural tools and examples she gained from Africanist ethnography continue to serve her explorations of European and American society.
Download or read book The Economics of Tilapia Cultivation in Kasai Occidental Zaire written by Jan Wayland Low and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Man of Honor the Life and Death of Yuba Kasai written by Muzaffar A. Isani and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yuba, a lowly butcher from the backwaters of society, leaves his village in the boondocks and moves to the big city. However, the move is not of his free will. He has committed an uncommon act that creates the compulsion to relocate, an act precipitated by inherent flaws of character. In any event, the move proves to be auspicious as he reaches the pinnacle of success, acquiring great wealth and a position of high respect in society. In the meantime, his past has remained concealed through his long ascent, during which period he has also managed to suppress the more vulgar traits of his character. Both, the uncommon act of his past and the vulgar traits of his character, surface at an inopportune time in his life with catastrophic results. The tragic story of a powerful man ruined by innate flaws of character is not only a fascinating indictment of the frailty of human disposition, it also lays bare the extreme ambiguity of communal values in certain societies. The premise is simple but thought-provoking.
Download or read book Grammar and Dictionary of the Buluba Lulua Language as Spoken in the Upper Kasai and Congo Basin written by William McCutchan Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land and Peoples of the Kasai written by Melville William Hilton-Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kasai written by Brian Wood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been six months since Dr. Jackson O'Neil discovered dinosaurs living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and now he's at it again, this time heading to the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, to help out his childhood hero, Dr. John Tice, and his daughter, Maya, when mysterious disappearances start to occur out in the bush. But what Jackson and his best friend, Dr. Marshall Fredericks, and his girlfriend, Dr. Lauren Kimble, discover is a creature almost too terrifying to comprehend: a beast which was thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago. And when Jackson's suddenly needed in Africa again, he will be on a race against the clock as a deadly force of nature appears to destroy a city. Jackson will be racing the police to fi nd a murderous animal smuggler before he comprehends Jackson's task of return to Africa and prevent a group of rebel soldiers from destroying Kasai forever.
Download or read book I Want to Spoil Ikurou san 43 y o 1 Yaoi BL Manga written by Uka Kasai and published by TORICO. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stoic guy in the black suit is a dork who likes sweets?As a manager in a fancy cake cafe "Kuma Purin," I was told that liking manly things does not suit me. One day, this mysterious man with eyes like a killer came in front of my shop... It turned out he is a total opposite of myself!
Download or read book The Central Provinces Gazette written by Central Provinces (India) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The House of Erzulie written by Kirsten Imani Kasai and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. African & African American Studies. THE HOUSE OF ERZULIE tells the eerily intertwined stories of an ill-fated young couple in the 1850s and the troubled historian who discovers their writings in the present day. Emilie St. Ange, the daughter of a Creole slaveowning family in Louisiana, rebels against her parents' values by embracing spiritualism, women's rights, and the abolition of slavery. Isidore, her biracial, French-born husband, is an educated man who is horrified by the brutalities of plantation life and becomes unhinged by an obsessive affair with a notorious New Orleans voodou practitioner. Emilie's and Isidore's letters and journals are interspersed with sections narrated by Lydia Mueller, an architectural historian whose fragile mental health further deteriorates as she reads. Imbued with a sense of the uncanny and the surreal, THE HOUSE OF ERZULIE also alludes to the very real horrors of slavery, and makes a significant contribution to the literature of the U.S. South, particularly the tradition of the African-American Gothic novel. "Blurs the edges between dream and reality, madness and magic."--Gayle Brandeis "Intriguing and compelling at every turn."--Maisha Wester
Download or read book Japanese Biographical Index written by and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Japanische Biographische Index verzeichnet in drei Bänden die 86.800 im Japanischen Biographischen Archiv enthaltenen Persönlichkeiten und erschließt 127.000 biographische Einträge aus 77 Quellenwerken in 178 Bänden, erschienen zwischen 1646 und 1998.
Download or read book Dragon of the Mangroves written by Yasuyuki Kasai and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was no time to fear animals when the possibility of the enemy counteroffensive was increasing. It didn't suit a soldier to lose nerve in the presence of a mere crocodile At the end of World War II, a garrison of the Twenty-eighth Japanese Army is deployed to Ramree Island, off the coast of Burma, to fight the Allies' severe counteroffensive. While on the island, Superior Private Minoru Kasuga questions a local villager about the terrible smell coming from the saltwater creek. To his horror, the old man tells him it is the stench of death from the breath of man-eating crocodiles that inhabit Myinkhon Creek. Fierce fighting drives the battalion to the island's east coast, and they must evacuate to Burma by crossing the creek. Just before they embark, Kasuga smells the same putrid odor that he'd questioned the villager about and warns his commanding officer of the underwater danger. His sergeant ignores him, thinking Kasuga is obsessed with wild stories from the villagers, and he tells the soldiers to cross the creek. Ordered to save the penned-in garrison, Second Lieutenant Yoshihisa Sumi arrives on Ramree Island. But what awaits him at Myinkhon Creek is a sight too horrible to contemplate
Download or read book Tattoo written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bailey Morgan isn't the type of girl who shows a lot of skin, but somehow, she ends up in a dressing room at the mall with her friend Delia applying a temporary tattoo to her lower back. Never one to suffer fashion doubt, trendsetter Delia knows exactly where she wants her own tattoo: on her stomach, right where her shirt ends—can you say "midriff"? Annabelle, the quiet one, chooses the back of her neck, and tomboy Zo plasters hers on the top of her foot. The tattoos will last for three days, and Delia's sure that with them, the four friends will absolutely kill at the school dance.Unfortunately, killing is just what someone has in mind, and Bailey, Delia, Annabelle, and Zo are in for the battle of their lives. Along with her tattoo, each girl receives a gift—a supernatural power to help them in their fight. As Bailey's increasingly frightening dreams reveal the nature of their enemy, it becomes clear to the girls that it's up to them to save the world. And if they can get Delia to stop using her newfound power to turn gum wrappers into Prada pumps, they might actually stand a chance.
