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The World Between Two Covers
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Author : Ann Morgan
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2015-05-05
The World Between Two Covers written by Ann Morgan and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author’s year-long journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than twenty years of reading, and found a host of English and North American greats starting down at me…I had barely touched a work by a foreign language author in years…The awful truth dawned. I was a literary xenophobe." Prompted to read a book translated into English from each of the world's 195 UN-recognized countries (plus Taiwan and one extra), Ann sought out classics, folktales, current favorites and commercial triumphs, novels, short stories, memoirs, and countless mixtures of all these things. The world between two covers, the world to which Ann introduces us with affection and no small measure of wit, is a world rich in the kind of narratives that engage us passionately: we meet an irreverent junk food–obsessed heroine in Kuwait, an explorer from Togo who spent years among the Inuit in Greenland, and a former child circus performer of Roma background seeking sanctuary in Switzerland. Ann's quest explores issues that affect us all: personal, political, national, and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And, above all, why and how should we read from other cultures, languages, and traditions? Illuminating and inspiring, The World Between Two Covers welcomes us into the global community of stories.
Reading The World
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Author : Ann Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-02-05
Reading The World written by Ann Morgan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
'A brilliant, unlikely book' Spectator How can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation. It wasn't easy. Many languages have next to nothing translated into English; there are tiny, tucked-away places where very little is written down; some governments don't like to let works of art escape their borders. Using Morgan's own quest as a starting point, Reading the World explores the vital questions of our time and how reading across borders might just help us answer them. 'Revelatory... While Morgan's research has a daunting range...there is a simple message: reading is a social activity, and we ought to share books across boundaries' Financial Times
If He Had Been With Me
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Author : Laura Nowlin
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2013-04-02
If He Had Been With Me written by Laura Nowlin and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-02 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...
Between Covers
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Author : John William Tebbel
language : en
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1987
Between Covers written by John William Tebbel and has been published by New York : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
Shortened version of the author's four-volume A history of book publishing in the United States.
Tooth And Claw
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Author : Jo Walton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-02-21
Tooth And Claw written by Jo Walton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-21 with Fiction categories.
A family of dragons gathers on the occasion of the death of their father, the elder Bon Agornin. As is custom, they must eat the body. But even as Bon's last remains are polished off, his sons and daughters must all jostle for a position in the new hierarchy. While the youngest son seeks greedy remuneration through the courts of law, the eldest son - a dragon of the cloth - agonises over his father's deathbed confession. While one daughter is caught between loyalty to her family by blood and her family by marriage, another daughter follows her heart - only to discover the great cost of true love... Here is a Victorian story of political intrigue, family ties and political intrigue, set in a world of dragons - a world, quite literally, red in tooth and claw. Full of fiery wit, this is a novel unlike any other.
Jemima J
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Author : Jane Green
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-08-03
Jemima J written by Jane Green and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-03 with Fiction categories.
Number One bestseller Jane Green - author of Life Swap and Mr Maybe - explores ugly ducklings, swans and the meaning of true love with brilliant humour and honesty. Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, but better paid), her only consolation is food. What with that and her passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben, she knows her life needs changing. But can Jemima reinvent herself? And should she? 'Compulsively readable. The ultimate makeover novel' Sunday Times 'The kind of novel you'll gobble up in a single sitting' Cosmopolitan 'Green writes with acerbic wit about the law of the dating jungle' Sunday Express
Plainsong
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Author : Kent Haruf
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2001-04-03
Plainsong written by Kent Haruf and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-03 with Fiction categories.
National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.
The Last Best Cure
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Author : Donna Jackson Nakazawa
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-02-21
The Last Best Cure written by Donna Jackson Nakazawa and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-21 with Self-Help categories.
One day Donna Jackson Nakazawa found herself lying on the floor to recover from climbing the stairs. That’s when it hit her. She was managing the symptoms of the autoimmune disorders that had plagued her for a decade, but she had lost her joy. As a science journalist, she was curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her. As a wife and mother she was determined to get her life back. Over the course of one year, Nakazawa researches and tests a variety of therapies including meditation, yoga, and acupuncture to find out what works. But the discovery of a little-known branch of research into Adverse Childhood Experiences causes her to have an epiphany about her illness that not only stuns her—it turns her life around. Perfect for readers of Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project, Nakazawa shares her unexpected discoveries, amazing improvements, and shows readers how they too can find their own last best cure.
Birds Of The Indonesian Archipelago
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Author : James A. Eaton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Birds Of The Indonesian Archipelago written by James A. Eaton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Medical categories.
The first ornithological field guide covering the vast chain of the Indonesian archipelago, with over 2,500 illustrations, describes all 1,417 bird species known to occur in the region, including 601 endemics, 98 vagrants, eight introduced species and 18 species yet to be formally described. Together these represent over 13% of global bird diversity. In addition, all subspecies from the region are described. The guide fully encompasses the biogeographic regions of the Greater Sundas (Sumatra, Borneo, Java and Bali) and Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas and the Lesser Sundas), plus all satellite islands. This region spans an arc of over 4,000 km along the Equator, including Brunei, East Timor, the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak and most of the territory of the Republic of Indonesia. The authors' vast experience and knowledge of the region's birds brings together the latest taxonomic insights, knowledge of distribution, field identification features, vocalisations and more to create an indispensable reference for anyone with an interest in the avifauna of this fabulously diverse region.
Beside Myself
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Author : Ann Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-02-07
Beside Myself written by Ann Morgan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-07 with Fiction categories.
Now in paperback, a page-turning and darkly brilliant psychological thriller about the fragility of what makes us who we are. Six-year-old Helen and Ellie are identical twins, but Helen is smarter, more popular, and their mother's favorite. Ellie, on the other hand, requires special instruction at school, is friendless, and is punished at every turn. Until they decide to swap places--just for fun, and just for one day--and Ellie refuses to switch back. Everything of Helen's, from her toys to her friends to her identity, now belongs to her sister. With those around her oblivious to her plight, the girl who used to be Helen loses her sense of self and withdraws into a spiral of behavioral problems, delinquency, and mental illness. In time, she's not even sure of her memory of the switch. Twenty-five years later, she receives a call that threatens to pull her back into her sister's dangerous orbit. Will she take this chance to face her past?