The Bird In The Bamboo Cage
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The Bird In The Bamboo Cage
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Author : Hazel Gaynor
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2020-08-20
The Bird In The Bamboo Cage written by Hazel Gaynor and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-20 with Fiction categories.
Inspired by true events... ‘Moving and authentic’ Dinah Jefferies ‘Vivid, heart-rending and so, so beautiful’ Jenny Ashcroft 'A beautiful, tender and fascinating story' Sinead Moriarty
The Joy Luck Club
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Author : Amy Tan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-12-26
The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-26 with Fiction categories.
Discover Amy Tan's moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. 'The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' Stylist In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives - until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. 'Pure enchantment' Mail on Sunday
What Can I Do When Everything S On Fire A Novel
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Author : António Lobo Antunes
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2008-09-17
What Can I Do When Everything S On Fire A Novel written by António Lobo Antunes and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-17 with Fiction categories.
A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the "heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner). The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde—a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts—is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon's most legendary transvestite, who searches for his own identity as he recalls the harrowing death of his father, Carlos; the life of Carlos's lover, Rui, a heroin addict and suicide; as well as the other denizens of this hallucinatory world. Psychologically penetrating, pregnant with literary symbolism, and deeply sympathetic in its depiction of society's dregs, Lobo Antunes's novel ventriloquizes the voices of the damned in a poetic masterwork that recalls Joyce's Ulysses with a dizzying farrago of urban images few readers will forget.
Dogs At The Perimeter A Novel
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Author : Madeleine Thien
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2017-10-03
Dogs At The Perimeter A Novel written by Madeleine Thien and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Fiction categories.
The second novel by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author Madeleine Thien is "beautiful, deeply moving, [and] addresses universal questions" (Independent). Set in Cambodia during the regime of the-Khmer Rouge and in present day Montreal, Dogs at the Perimeter tells the story of Janie, who as a child experiences the terrible violence carried out by the Khmer Rouge and loses everything she holds dear. Three decades later, Janie has relocated to Montreal, although the scars of her past remain visible. After abandoning her husband and son and taking refuge in the home of her friend, the scientist Hiroji Matsui, Janie and Hiroji find solace in their shared grief and pain—until Hiroji’s disappearance opens old wounds and Janie finds that she must struggle to find grace in a world overshadowed by the sorrows of her past. Beautifully realized, deeply affecting, Dogs at the Perimeter evokes the injustice of tyranny through the eyes of a young girl and draws a remarkable map of the mind’s battle with memory, loss, and the horrors of war. It confirms Madeleine Thien as one of the most gifted and powerful novelists writing today. Finalist for the International Literature Prize and the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction A Canada Reads Top Forty Book A Globe and Mail Best Book
Jade Woman
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Author : Jonathan Gash
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-10-05
Jade Woman written by Jonathan Gash and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with Fiction categories.
Hong Kong - one of the world's most exciting and colourful cities. The Triads - violent, secretive and totally ruthless, their Hong Kong is a city no tourist dare visit. The Jade Women - famed for their beauty, they possess charms few men can resist... Which proves to be a highly combustible mix for Lovejoy - East Anglia's hottest antique dealer - on the run from some sticky problems back home. But for someone with no money and no passport, Hong Kong can be an alarmingly dangerous place. Especially when the Triads get involved and Lovejoy finds himself caught up in their dangerous world of artistic fakery and... murder. Praise for Jonathan Gash: 'Irrepressible... bounteous entertainment' Sunday Times 'Lovejoy is up to his old tricks again... compelling stuff' Today 'Unabashedly amoral, witty and crammed with treasures of every sort... Pure, unadulterated Lovejoy' Publishers Weekly
Animal Novel Being Neighbors With Crows
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Author : ouping guo
language : en
Publisher: ouping guo
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Animal Novel Being Neighbors With Crows written by ouping guo and has been published by ouping guo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
The Sandalwood Tree
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Author : Elle Newmark
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-03-13
The Sandalwood Tree written by Elle Newmark 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 2012-03-13 with Fiction categories.
In 1947, as Britain loses its grip on India, Evie Mitchell and her husband and son are forced to hole up in a small Indian village, where Evie discovers a cache of letters that leads her to the compelling story of two nineteenth-century Englishwomen.
Safe Here In God S Shadow
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Author : June Judd
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2016-02-12
Safe Here In God S Shadow written by June Judd and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
She was just a child the first time she heard the gentle, guiding voice of God, but that was just the beginning. God became a constant in her life, and she depended on Him to be there for her. The author reminds us that God was there—not because she was good or holy but because she needed Him. She is no better than anyone else, and she is a sinner who deserves nothing. Safe Here in God’s Shadow is a love story, the story of a loving God and the story of love found because of Him. This book is a reminder that life isn’t without adversity but that God is there with us through good times and bad.
One Bird
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Author : Kyoko Mori
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Release Date : 2014-07-29
One Bird written by Kyoko Mori and has been published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-29 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
I try to see him among a migrating flock--he will take the loneliness of my room on his long journey; each whistling note he makes will be a little of my sadness falling over the ocean, to be swallowed in the clash of waves and the commotion of many birds flying. "Tell me the truth," demands fifteen-year-old Megumi Shimizu as her mother hurriedly packs. But her mother refuses to admit that she is leaving forever--leaving her husband to his mistress, her home to her silent, resentful mother-in-law, her daughter to survive, if she can. Angry at everyone's polite lies, Megumi realizes that she has a secret of her own: Even though she goes to church, to Bible study class, and to the Christian Girls' Academy, she no longer believes in God. Only Dr. Mizutani, the "spinster lady" veterinarian, tells the truth, and she warns that single birds without their mothers often die. In One Bird, a coming-of-age novel about mothers and daughters, about best friends, boyfriends, and families, Kyoko Mori uses folktales, images of birds, and details of bird life to explore the bonds of love that go deeper than lies. As Megumi learns how to care for injured waxwings, crows, sparrows, and one abandoned grosbeak, she begins her own flight toward truth, and toward home.
For The Birds
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Author : Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2018-09-06
For The Birds written by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A first-rate ornithologist, Margaret Morse Nice (1883–1974) pioneered field studies on song sparrows and advocated for women’s active role in the sciences. Yet her nontraditional path toward scientific progress, as well as her gender, meant that she had to reach the highest pinnacles of achievement in order to gain prominence in her chosen field. Luckily for Nice, she was more than up to the challenge. In this engaging first book-length biography, Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie sheds light on Nice’s intellectual journey. The wife of an academic, Nice pursued her own scholarly interests through self-study and by cultivating and creating work partnerships with colleagues. Talented, ambitious, and creative, she did not define herself solely through her role as wife and mother, nor did her family responsibilities deter her from her professional achievements. From her undergraduate study at Mount Holyoke College to her fieldwork in Norman, Oklahoma, her coauthorship of Birds of Oklahoma and subsequent correspondence with George Sutton to her later years in Columbus, Ohio, Nice’s career grew in tandem with her personal life—and in some cases, because of it. Although bridled by social constraints, her work spoke for itself: she produced more than 244 papers, articles, and published letters; seven books and book-length monographs; and 3,000 reviews. This voluminous and field-defining output earned her the respect of some of the most important biological scientists of the day, among them Konrad Lorenz and Ernst Mayr, who declared that she had “almost singlehandedly” initiated “a new era in American ornithology.” For the Birds gives Nice her due recognition, lending compelling insight into her activism promoting conservation and preservation, her field methods, and the role of women in the history of science, particularly in ornithology. Nice’s life acts as a looking glass into the various challenges faced by fellow female pioneers, their resolve, and their contributions.