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So Loud A Silence
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Author : Lyll Becerra de Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Release Date : 1996
So Loud A Silence written by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins and has been published by Dutton Juvenile this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Colombia categories.
Accustomed to his impoverished life in Bogota+a7, Colombia, Juan Guillermo resents his family and is delighted when a visit to his wealthy grandmother introduces him to the comforts of money, but he learns a savage truth that puts his family in danger.
Too Loud A Silence
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Author : Jo Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Too Loud A Silence written by Jo Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Fiction categories.
A secret held, a fear unspoken. Green gates and a flame tree - just as her mother described. The bolt screeches back ... It is 2011. Egypt is in the grip of the Arab Spring as journalist Maha Rhodes flies to Cairo. Born in Egypt but raised in England, Maha no longer knows who she is. Finding out becomes important. Events draw her into the political mayhem. She experiences the passion and violence of the revolution and is confronted by her own naivety. How will her life be changed as a web of lies and deceit unfolds? Too Loud A Silence will take you to Egypt. A beautiful, poignant and, at times, brutal story based on real events.
In Pursuit Of Silence
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Author : George Prochnik
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2010-04-06
In Pursuit Of Silence written by George Prochnik and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-06 with Social Science categories.
An "elegant and eloquent" (New York Times) exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them. Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Traveling across the country and meeting and listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.
Shouting Won T Help
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Author : Katherine Bouton
language : en
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Release Date : 2013-02-19
Shouting Won T Help written by Katherine Bouton and has been published by Sarah Crichton Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-19 with Health & Fitness categories.
For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn't hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she was "the kind of person who might have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century." Audiologists agree that we're experiencing a national epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss—17 percent of the population. And hearing loss is not exclusively a product of growing old. The usual onset is between the ages of nineteen and forty-four, and in many cases the cause is unknown. Shouting Won't Help is a deftly written, deeply felt look at a widespread and misunderstood phenomenon. In the style of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, and using her experience as a guide, Bouton examines the problem personally, psychologically, and physiologically. She speaks with doctors, audiologists, and neurobiologists, and with a variety of people afflicted with midlife hearing loss, braiding their stories with her own to illuminate the startling effects of the condition. The result is a surprisingly engaging account of what it's like to live with an invisible disability—and a robust prescription for our nation's increasing problem with deafness. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013
Why Are You So Quiet
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Author : Jaclyn Desforges
language : en
Publisher: Annick Press
Release Date : 2020-09-08
Why Are You So Quiet written by Jaclyn Desforges and has been published by Annick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Into a world where it often seems nobody is listening comes a poignant story that celebrates the power of silence. “Why are you so quiet?” Her teacher implores it, her classmates shout it, even her mom wonders it. Everyone, it seems, is concerned for Myra Louise. So, in search of an answer to the tiresome question nobody will stop asking, she invents a listening machine. If the raindrops, or the crickets, or the dryers at the laundromat can tell her why they’re so quiet, maybe Myra Louise can finally make everybody understand. But the more she listens, the less interested she becomes in finding any answer at all. Because Myra Louise comes to realize that all she really needs is someone else to listen alongside her. With gorgeous illustrations from Risa Hugo, Jaclyn Desforges’s first picture book champions introversion and the value of being a listener, a thinker, and an observer in our increasingly loud world.
Too Loud A Solitude
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Author : Bohumil Hrabal
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 1992-04-27
Too Loud A Solitude written by Bohumil Hrabal and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-27 with Fiction categories.
A fable about the power of books and knowledge, “finely balanced between pathos and comedy,” from one of Czechoslovakia’s most popular authors (Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book Haňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening, he rescues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Haňtá may be an idiot, as his boss calls him, but he is an idiot with a difference—the ability to quote the Talmud, Hegel, and Lao-Tzu. In this “irresistibly eccentric romp,” the author Milan Kundera has called “our very best writer today” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word (The New York Times Book Review).
Silence
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Author : Erling Kagge
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-11-21
Silence written by Erling Kagge and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-21 with Self-Help categories.
What is silence? Where can it be found? Why is it now more important than ever? In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and transformative meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his own experiences and discussing the observations of poets, artists, and explorers, Kagge shows us why silence is essential to sanity and happiness—and how it can open doors to wonder and gratitude. (With full-color photographs throughout.)
The Loud Silence Of Francine Green
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Author : Karen Cushman
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2006-08-14
The Loud Silence Of Francine Green written by Karen Cushman and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-14 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Beloved author Karen Cushman follows a young woman’s progress toward her true self, this time exploring the nature of friendship and the experience of growing up Catholic in an era that is both fascinating and relevant to today’s young people. Francine Green doesn’t speak up much, and who can blame her? Her parents aren’t interested in her opinions, the nuns at school punish girls who ask too many questions, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities is blacklisting people who express unpopular ideas. There’s safety in silence. Francine would rather lose herself in a book, or in daydreams about her favorite Hollywood stars, than risk attracting attention or getting in trouble. But when outspoken, passionate Sophie Bowman transfers into Francine’s class at All Saints School for Girls, Francine finds herself thinking about things that never concerned her before—free speech, the atom bomb, the existence of God, the way people treat each other. Eventually, Francine discovers that she not only has something to say, she is absolutely determined to say it.
I Go Quiet
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Author : David Ouimet
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2019-09-05
I Go Quiet written by David Ouimet and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CILIP KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL I Go Quiet is the exquisite story of an introverted girl, struggling to find her place in a noisy world. Through the power of books, creativity and imagination, she begins to see possibilities for herself beyond the present, to a future where her voice will finally be heard.
I Get Loud
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Author : David Ouimet
language : en
Publisher: WW Norton
Release Date : 2021-07-06
I Get Loud written by David Ouimet and has been published by WW Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
This stunning successor to Ouimet’s debut, I Go Quiet, follows a girl learning to express herself and connect with others. When I am swept into the light of life, I get loud. A girl finds her voice and befriends a stranger, who becomes her closest companion. They speak and sing and laugh, their friendship weathering darkness and light, stormy seas and calm waters. Then, embarking on an uncertain journey to a new land with thousands of others, they become separated. The girl worries that her voice alone is too quiet to find her friend and make herself known—but it’s their voices that lead them back to each other, and that preserve their pasts and pave their future in a new home. The companion to David Ouimet’s acclaimed debut, I Go Quiet, I Get Loud is a poetic and arresting fable about the power of expression and human connection in the face of change.