Download or read book The Sky Is My Ceiling written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sky Is My Ceiling: Biking China's Border is Yu Juanjuan's personal account of her bike journey around China's border from 1987 to 1989 and in the process changed Chinese women's history. It took her two years to travel over 40,000 kilometers, (25,000 miles) to complete this trip, the distance being equivalent to the circumference of the earth. Starting from Beijing with four team members, three dropped out early, leaving her with only one-team member. For the majority of the 22 month trip she faced most of the diverse challenges ? the demanding terrain, the reaction from natives of cities and villages she visited, the wildly fluctuating weather, the need for funding, and those arising from the fact that she was a young woman ? alone. Since then, nobody has been able to duplicate her feat, man or woman. The strength of this remarkable woman's story? a product of the intersection of Communist and modern China ? result in a compelling richly illustrated book documenting the enormity of her success. Richly illustrated with over 150 images.
Download or read book Things that Fall from the Sky written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told “These Hands,” a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away. In “Apples,” a boy comes to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of love, and the bizarre death of his Bible coach. “The Jesus Stories” examines a people trying to accelerate the Second Coming by telling the story of Christ in every possible way. And in the O. Henry Award winning “The Ceiling,” a man’s marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending. Achingly beautiful and deceptively simple, Things That Fall from the Sky defies gravity as one of the most original story collections seen in recent years.
Download or read book Prove to Me the Sky Is Green written by Honors English III and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-three students. One assignment. No rules. Amid typical high school stresses and constraints, a creative challenge provides insight into the minds of teenagers. Given the sole guideline to "write what you know," a group of high school juniors has reached deep within themselves to produce pieces of work which genuinely reflect their newly-discovered individual styles. In doing so, students have found both their voices and the courage to put forth stories under their own names, vulnerable to critics everywhere. Their ambition proves that anything is possible. The sky is green.
Download or read book Ceiling of the Sky written by Karen Leh and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sky is Not a Ceiling written by Aileen O'Donoghue and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a story of personal revelation of astronomer Aileen O'Donoghue who discovered the joy of being alive and well in the kingdom of God.
Download or read book Teutonic Mythology written by Jacob Grimm and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sky Is My Ceiling written by Juanjuan Yu and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sky is My Ceiling: Biking China's Border by Boulder author, Yu Juanjuan is a richly illustrated adventure story of one woman's courage, determination and daring to bike the border of China. From September 1987 through July 1989, Yu Juanjuan bicycled around the border of China, and in the process changed Chinese women's history. Starting from Beijing with four team members, she experienced the loss of three, who dropped out early, leaving her with only one team member, Wang. For the majority of the 22 month trip, she faced most of the diverse challenges - the demanding terrain, the reaction from natives of cities and villages she visited, the wildly fluctuating weather, the need for funding, and those arising from the fact that she was a young woman - alone. Since then, nobody has been able to duplicate her feat, man or woman. The strength of this remarkable woman's story - a product of the intersection of Communist and modern China - results in a compelling richly illustrated book documenting the enormity of her success.
Download or read book The Book of Love written by Stanley Martin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ....The year of a strange man living by the sea with his beloved wife who is "falling..".. ...To save her O. does many things, but mostly confronts his unconscious anima "Pandora..".. ....This war with his own self, him already a "King" ends in another Parallel, and the evocation of a being like Ted Hughes' "Crow..".. Stanley MARTIN is a theorist and ex-media teacher, and expert on "myth.."..
Download or read book Yatandou written by Gloria Whelan and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yatandou lives in a Mali village with her family and neighbors. And though she is only eight years old and would much rather play with her pet goat, she must sit with the women and pound millet kernels. To grind enough millet for one day's food, the women must pound the kernels with their pounding sticks for three hours. It is hard work, especially when one is eight years old. But as they work, the women dream of a machine that can grind the millet and free them from their pounding sticks. But the machine will only come when the women have raised enough money to buy it. Yatandou must help raise the money, even if it means parting with something she holds dear. Through the eyes and voice of a young girl, award-winning author Gloria Whelan brings to life one village's dream of a better future. Atmospheric paintings from artist Peter Sylvada capture the landscape and spirit of this inspiring story of sacrifice and hope.
Download or read book The Sky Is Yours written by Chandler Klang Smith and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • NPR • New York Public Library • LitHub • Mental Floss “Influenced by the likes of Jane Austen and Rick and Morty, Smith tackles timely issues while leaving room for some delicious reality TV references.”—Entertainment Weekly In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis’ last dynasty; Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed; and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash, are forced to flee everything they've ever known. As they wander toward the scalded heart of the city, they face fire, conspiracy, mayhem, unholy drugs, dragon-worshippers, and the monsters lurking inside themselves. In this bombshell of a novel, Chandler Klang Smith has imagined an unimaginable world: scathingly clever and gorgeously strange, The Sky Is Yours is at once faraway and disturbingly familiar, its singular chaos grounded in the universal realities of love, family, and the deeply human desire to survive at all costs. Praise for The Sky is Yours “It’s a mesmeric world, comic in the way teenage voyages of self-discovery inevitably are, but with an undertone of menace, horror, even hints of allegory. Satire, too . . . Smith’s imagination is inexhaustible. The Sky Is Yours is a great and disturbing debut, which colonizes a new realm of the magic city.”—The Wall Street Journal “Smith’s gifts of imagination are staggering. . . . Much like Lev Grossman’s The Magicians and Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky before it, The Sky is Yours filters youth through a warped yet poignantly canny speculative fiction lens. At the same time, it’s funny as hell, full of madcap detail, firecracker dialogue, and a healthy dose of absurdism in the face of darkness.”—NPR “Readers who love ambitious literary genre fiction should be on the lookout for Smith’s first novel, a vibrantly uncanny dystopia set on an island metropolis, in the shadow of dragons that swoop overhead, where income inequality and mass incarceration have spun out of control.”—HuffPost “An unmissable masterpiece.”—PopSugar
Download or read book The Untamed written by George Pattullo and published by McLeod & Allen. This book was released on 1911 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fakir written by Ramiro A. Calle and published by Mandala. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hernan, the protagonist of this exciting novel, has flown to India with the purpose of finding a meaning to his life and discover the true nature of being. In his intense journey through India, dotted with surprises and full of dangers, he makes the acquaintance of many sages and finally he meets Suresh, the Fakir, who teaches him the millenary techniques to connect with the Cosmic Consciousness. After receiving the unusual teachings and methods from Suresh, the Fakir, Hernan will never be the same, as his mentor will teach him how to get rid of the physical and mental wraps to find the Absolute. This is the most entertaining and most profound novel of Ramiro Calle, and it has already run to 12 editions in Spanish.
Download or read book Selected Papers of Karl Abraham M D written by Karl Abraham and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sky is Always There written by Camilla Carr and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1997-98 Camilla Carr and Jon James set off as volunteers in a £500 Lada stacked high with toys, games, footballs, paints and a parachute. Their destination was Chechnya and their aim was to work with children who had been traumatised by war. After working for two months setting up and teaching in a rehabilitation centre and watching the children begin to smile and play again, they were kidnapped by Chechen guerrillas. There followed fourteen months of incarceration in homes that varied from a concrete box with no natural light or fresh air, to a pink trompe la oeil bedroom via a sauna and various cellars. They experienced everything from rape and mental torture to moments of compassion and kindness. They survived by using tools such as tai chi, yoga, meditation and humour; and through creating a dialogue with their captors, looking beneath their masks of fear and anger to reach the small flame of love and laughter unquenched by the demonising nature of war.
Download or read book The Boy with Stars on His Ceiling written by Lew Bull and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2023-03-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Joshua Jones is a fun-loving boy with the usual troubles -- bullying at school and being in the closet. Now his mother insists he see a psychologist. Is this because he speaks to his dead father's ashes in their golden urn? Joshua doesn't know and, worse, no one will tell him anything. When Joshua joins an extracurricular drama school, he not only discovers that he is naturally talented, but he also finds love in the form of Michael Armstrong, whose parents are both accepting of their son’s gayness. With Michael’s friendship and encouragement, Josh comes out of the closet and into his true self. However, Joshua’s mother blames Michael for Joshua’s gayness. How will the boys resolve this? Will Joshua and his mother be able to deal with the issues of coming out?
Download or read book The Map of the Sky written by Félix J. Palma and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fate of the earth hangs in the balance as H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is transformed from the work of one writer’s imagination into a terrifying reality for all mankind. 1898. New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry well-to-do Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he first accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the Martian invasion featured in H. G. Wells’s popular novel The War of the Worlds. Meanwhile in London, Wells himself is unexpectedly made privy to certain objects, apparently of extraterrestrial origin, that were discovered decades earlier on an ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic. On that same expedition was an American crew member named Edgar Allan Poe, whose inexplicable experiences in the frozen wasteland would ultimately inspire him to create one of his most enduring works of literature. When eerie, alien-looking cylinders begin appearing in London, Wells is certain it is all part of some elaborate hoax. But soon, to his great horror, he realizes that a true invasion of Earth has indeed begun. As brave bands of citizens converge on a crumbling London to defend it against utter ruin, Emma and her suitor must confront the enigma that is their love, a bright spark of hope even against the darkening light of apocalypse. Palma dazzled readers with his instant New York Times bestseller The Map of Time. In The Map of the Sky, he embarks on an even more thrilling speculative journey, one that links the earth and the heavens, the familiar and the bizarre, the impossible and the inevitable.
Download or read book Miracle of the Rose written by Jean Genet and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the greatest achievements of modern literature.”—Richard Howard “A major achievement . . . . Genet transforms experiences of degradation into spiritual exercises and hoodlums into bearers of the majesty of love.”—Saturday Review “Genet can use a brutal phraseology that makes prison life specific and immediate. Yet through his singular sensibility, these elements are transmuted into something fragile, rare, beautiful.”—The New York Times “This book recreates for the reader Genet’s magic world, one of dazzling beauty charged with novelty and excitement.”—Bettina Knapp “Genet would have deserved international standing for this novel alone. . . . He succeeds to an amazing degree in creating poetry from the profoundest degradation.”—The Times (London)
