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All The Quiet Places
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Author : Brian Thomas Isaac
language : en
Publisher: Brindle & Glass
Release Date : 2021-10-10
All The Quiet Places written by Brian Thomas Isaac and has been published by Brindle & Glass this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-10 with Fiction categories.
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize A National Bestseller Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022 Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads 2022 An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021 An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Book of 2021 **** "What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Toma's passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or perhaps a compensation, by his remarkable awareness of its beauty. This is a writer who understands youth, and how to tell a story." —Gil Adamson, winner of the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Ridgerunner Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, an Indigenous (Syilx) boy, told through the young narrator's wide-eyed observations of the world around him. It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch the sunset and listening to the wind in the grass. The boys learn from Ray's funny and dark stories. But when tragedy strikes, Eddie returns home grief-stricken, confused, and lonely. Eddie's life is governed by the decisions of the adults around him. Grace is determined to have him learn the ways of the white world by sending him to school in the small community of Falkland. On Eddie"s first day of school, as he crosses the reserve boundary at the Salmon River bridge, he leaves behind his world. Grace challenges the Indian Agent and writes futile letters to Ottawa to protest the sparse resources in their community. His father returns to the family after years away only to bring chaos and instability. Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house. Only in his grandmother's company does he find solace and true companionship. In his teens, Eddie's future seems more secure—he finds a job, and his long-time crush on his white neighbour Eva is finally reciprocated. But every time things look up, circumstances beyond his control crash down around him. The cumulative effects of guilt, grief, and despair threaten everything Eddie has ever known or loved. All the Quiet Places is the story of what can happen when every adult in a person's life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded, unsentimental witness provided by Eddie.
Quiet Places
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Author : Peter Handke
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Quiet Places written by Peter Handke and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Literary Collections categories.
A career-spanning collection of essays by Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in English Quiet Places brings together Peter Handke’s forays into the border regions of life and story, upending the distinction between literature and the literary essay. Proceeding from the specificity of place (the mountains of Carinthia and Spain, the hinterlands of Paris) to specific objects (the jukebox, the boletus mushroom) to the irreducible particularity of our moods and mental impressions, these works—each a novella in its own right—offer rare insight into the affinities that can develop between a storyteller and the unlikeliest of subjects. Here, Handke posits a reevaluation of the possibilities and proper concerns of literature in a style unmistakably his own. This collection unites the three essays from The Jukebox with two new works: “Essay on a Mushroom Maniac,” the story of a friend’s descent to and ascent from the depths of obsession, and “Essay on Quiet Places,” a memoiristic tour d’horizon of bathrooms and their place in Handke’s life and work. Featuring masterful translations by Krishna Winston and Ralph Manheim, this collection encapsulates the oeuvre of one of our greatest living writers.
Seeing Silence
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Author : Pete McBride
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2021-09-28
Seeing Silence written by Pete McBride and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with Photography categories.
In a world ever more congested and polluted with both toxins and noise, award-winning photographer Pete McBride takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul. We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but it is actually the void where we can hear the sublime notes of nature. In this National Outdoor Book Award winning work, photographer Pete McBride reveals the wonders of these hushed places in spectacular imagery—from the thin-air flanks of Mount Everest to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the high-altitude vistas of the Atacama to the African savannah, and from the Antarctic Peninsula to the flowing waters of the Ganges and Nile. These places remind us of the magic of being “truly away” and how such places are vanishing. Often showing beauty from vantages where no other photographer has ever stood, this is a seven-continent visual tour of global quietude—and the power in nature’s own sounds—that will both inspire and calm.
The Bucket List Places To Find Peace And Quiet
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Author : Victoria Ward
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2019-02-26
The Bucket List Places To Find Peace And Quiet written by Victoria Ward and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-26 with Travel categories.
Explore hard-to-find quiet spots in urban jungles, ultimate wilderness hideouts, the world's best mindfulness and meditation retreats, and ancient centers of spiritual succor and artistic solace - perfect for whether you want to find yourself or get completely lost. This inspiring guide is full of ideas and inspirations for travel destinations around the world that invite you to renew yourself physically and spiritually - perfect for recent graduates, soon to be retirees, inveterate daydreamers and armchair travellers, and anyone considering taking a much needed sabbatical. When it is time to escape from the hectic, hurly-burly of ordinary life, this is where you can find a thousand delightful quiet and peaceful places that encourage you to relax. Featuring a range of escapes that include everything from momentary getaways in the heart of New York or Paris to longer contemplative visits to places that allow you to screen out the jangle of contemporary life, this is an expertly curated trove of peaceful places. It includes small parks and squares, lovely old churches and spiritual sanctuaries, off-the-beaten-path museums and galleries, hidden courtyards and gardens, tiny local eateries - and even cemeteries. Also included are wilder escapes in unspoiled natural settings that last over a weekend or longer, ideal for those whose idea of peace and quiet involves birdsong and the gentle rustle of leaves. From the magic of watching the sun rise over the desert at the top of Mt. Sinai, to the perfect quiet of an antiquarian book dealer in London or a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, each destination offers the chance for space, a time to think, and provides a moment to savor the world around us in a new light.
Quiet Places Poems
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Author : Carlos Wuppermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
Quiet Places Poems written by Carlos Wuppermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with categories.
Quiet Things Quiet Places
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Author : Leona Koehn Nichols
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2014-02-20
Quiet Things Quiet Places written by Leona Koehn Nichols and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-20 with Poetry categories.
Leona Koehn Nichols remembers an idyllic childhood with parents who loved them, and a mom who knew how to make it fun to be a child. She taught English classes for junior high and high school, always with great passion for poetry and other literature. Writing has always been an activity that is important to her.
All The Quiet Places
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Author : Brian Thomas Isaac
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
All The Quiet Places written by Brian Thomas Isaac and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Day laborers categories.
"It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch the sunset and listening to the wind in the grass. The boys learn from Ray's funny and dark stories. But when tragedy strikes, Eddie returns home grief-stricken, confused, and lonely. Eddie's life is governed by the decisions of the adults around him. Grace is determined to have him learn the ways of the white world by sending him to school in the small community of Falkland. On Eddie's first day of school, as he crosses the reserve boundary at the Salmon River bridge, he leaves behind his world. Grace challenges the Indian Agent and writes futile letters to Ottawa to protest the sparse resources in their community. His father returns to the family after years away only to bring chaos and instability. Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house. Only in his grandmother's company does he find solace and true companionship. In his teens, Eddie's future seems more secure--he finds a job, and his long-time crush on his white neighbour Eva is finally reciprocated. But every time things look up, circumstances beyond his control crash down around him. The cumulative effects of guilt, grief, and despair threaten everything Eddie has ever known or loved. All the Quiet Places is the story of what can happen when every adult in a person's life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded, unsentimental witness provided by Eddie."--
Quiet Places
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Author : Vinny Lee
language : en
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Release Date : 1998
Quiet Places written by Vinny Lee and has been published by Reader's Digest Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
Lee provides inspirational ideas for finding and creating personal sanctuaries inside and outside the home--soothing places to relax the mind and refresh the spirit. 240 color photos.
Quiet Things Quiet Places
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Author : Leona Koehn Nichols
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2014-02
Quiet Things Quiet Places written by Leona Koehn Nichols and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02 with Poetry categories.
For at least 2,500 years now, one of the most--if not the most--hotly, widely, and often contested issues is the notion of the continuum. It's a notion which looks upon time, space, locomotion, and change as continuous, which is to say it implies there is no limit to the smallness of the smallest segment of each. Thereby, it necessarily invokes the notion of in¬finite divisibility. the latter then demands mathematical conclusions so mani¬festly self-contradictory, they boggle the mind no less than does the notion of a square cir¬cle. No won¬der, then, they move many a renowned thinker, such as John Locke and David Hume, to proclaim those conclusions "absurd". See my quotes from them on pages II & VIII.
Quiet Places Of The Heart
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Author : Al Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011-05
Quiet Places Of The Heart written by Al Thomas and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05 with Religion categories.
Hope, Growth, Change and Loss.These are the seasons of faith, each presenting a special challenge and opportunity for experiencing God's grace, exemplified here through prayers, reflections and vignettes of life. There are moments, sometimes fleeting, sometimes lingering, when elevated thoughts and wonders of the heart lift us beyond ourselves to a transfiguring mountain of the soul's bright day and life is as it has never been. And then! There are moments, sometimes fleeting, sometimes lingering, when great loss [of a person, of a dream, only the reader knows for sure] sinks us into a tremoring valley of the soul's dark night and life is as it has never been. And then, what?