Race To The Sun
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Race To The Sun
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Author : Rebecca Roanhorse
language : en
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Release Date : 2020-01-14
Race To The Sun written by Rebecca Roanhorse and has been published by Disney Electronic Content this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-14 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Lately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the fancy suit who was in the bleachers at her basketball game. Turns out he's Mr. Charles, her dad's new boss at the oil and gas company, and he's alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage, and the legend of the Hero Twins. Nizhoni knows he's a threat, but her father won't believe her. When Dad disappears the next day, leaving behind a message that says "Run!", the siblings and Nizhoni's best friend, Davery, are thrust into a rescue mission that can only be accomplished with the help of Diné Holy People, all disguised as quirky characters. Their aid will come at a price: the kids must pass a series of trials in which it seems like nature itself is out to kill them. If Nizhoni, Mac, and Davery can reach the House of the Sun, they will be outfitted with what they need to defeat the ancient monsters Mr. Charles has unleashed. But it will take more than weapons for Nizhoni to become the hero she was destined to be . . . Timeless themes such as the importance of family and respect for the land resonate in this funny, fast-paced, and exciting quest adventure set in the American Southwest.
Race To The Sun
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Author : Rebecca Roanhorse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Race To The Sun written by Rebecca Roanhorse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Adventure stories categories.
Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monster slayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms.
Race To The Sun
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Author : Rebecca Roanhorse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-11
Race To The Sun written by Rebecca Roanhorse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11 with categories.
Lately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the bleachers at her basketball game. Turns out he is her dad's boss, and he's very interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage, and the legend of Hero Twins.
Out Of The Sun
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Author : Esi Edugyan
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2022-02-03
Out Of The Sun written by Esi Edugyan and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. In five wide-ranging essays, written with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in the background, Edugyan reflects on her own identity and experiences. She delves into the history of Western Art and the truths about Black lives that it fails to reveal, and the ways contemporary Black artists are reclaiming and reimagining those lives. She explores and celebrates the legacy of Afrofuturism, the complex and problematic practice of racial passing, the place of ghosts and haunting in the imagination, and the fascinating relationship between Africa and Asia dating back to the 6th Century. With calm, piercing intelligence, Edugyan asks difficult questions about how we reckon with the past and imagine the future.
Chasing Venus
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Author : Andrea Wulf
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Chasing Venus written by Andrea Wulf and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Science categories.
A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size of the solar system, and paints a vivid portrait of the collaborations, rivalries, and volatile international politics that hindered them at every turn. • From the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century. Through that observation, astronomers could calculate the size of the solar system—but only if they could compile data from many different points of the globe, all recorded during the short period of the transit. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in the remotest corners of the world, only to be thwarted by unpredictable weather and warring armies. Fortunately, transits of Venus occur in pairs; eight years later, they would have another opportunity to succeed. Thanks to these scientists, neither our conception of the universe nor the nature of scientific research would ever be the same.
Racing The Sun
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Author : Karina Halle
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-07-28
Racing The Sun written by Karina Halle and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-28 with Fiction categories.
A novel about a young woman who becomes a nanny in Capri and falls for her charges' bad-boy brother.
The Race Of Sound
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Author : Nina Sun Eidsheim
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-06
The Race Of Sound written by Nina Sun Eidsheim and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-06 with Music categories.
In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre—the color or tone of a voice. Eidsheim examines singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as the vocal synthesis technology Vocaloid to show how listeners carry a series of assumptions about the nature of the voice and to whom it belongs. Outlining how the voice is linked to ideas of racial essentialism and authenticity, Eidsheim untangles the relationship between race, gender, vocal technique, and timbre while addressing an undertheorized space of racial and ethnic performance. In so doing, she advances our knowledge of the cultural-historical formation of the timbral politics of difference and the ways that comprehending voice remains central to understanding human experience, all the while advocating for a form of listening that would allow us to hear singers in a self-reflexive, denaturalized way.
Duel In The Sun
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Author : John Brant
language : en
Publisher: Rodale Books
Release Date : 2007-03-06
Duel In The Sun written by John Brant and has been published by Rodale Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-06 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The 1982 Boston Marathon was great theater: Two American runners, Alberto Salazar, a celebrated champion, and Dick Beardsley, a gutsy underdog, going at each other for just under 2 hours and 9 minutes. Neither man broke. The race merely came to a thrilling, shattering end, exacting such an enormous toll that neither man ever ran as well again. Beardsley, the most innocent of men, descended into felony drug addiction, and Salazar, the toughest of men, fell prey to depression. Exquisitely written and rich with human drama, John Brant's Duel in the Sun brilliantly captures the mythic character of the most thrilling American marathon ever run—and the powerful forces of fate that drove these two athletes in the years afterward.
Fault Lines
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Author : Jonathan Jansen
language : en
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Fault Lines written by Jonathan Jansen and has been published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Social Science categories.
What is the link, if any, between race and disease? How did the term baster as ‘mixed race’ come to be mistranslated from ‘incest’ in the Hebrew Bible? What are the roots of racial thinking in South African universities? How does music fall on the ear of black and white listeners? Are new developments in genetics simply a backdoor for the return of eugenics? For the first time, leading scholars in South Africa from different disciplines take on some of these difficult questions about race, science and society in the aftermath of apartheid. This book offers an important foundation for students pursuing a broader education than what a typical degree provides, and a must-read resource for every citizen concerned about the lingering effects of race and racism in South Africa and other parts of the world.
Black Sun
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Author : Rebecca Roanhorse
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-06-29
Black Sun written by Rebecca Roanhorse and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-29 with Fiction categories.
Includes "Book club favorites reader's guide.