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White Dog Fell From The Sky
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Author : Eleanor Morse
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-01-03
White Dog Fell From The Sky written by Eleanor Morse and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-03 with Fiction categories.
An extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story. In apartheid South Africa in 1977, medical student Isaac Muthethe is forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force. He is smuggled into Botswana, where he is hired as a gardener by a young American woman, Alice Mendelssohn, who has abandoned her Ph.D. studies to follow her husband to Africa. When Isaac goes missing and Alice goes searching for him, what she finds will change her life and inextricably bind her to this sunburned, beautiful land. Like the African terrain that Alice loves, Morse’s novel is alternately austere and lush, spare and lyrical. She is a writer of great and wide-ranging gifts.
White Dog Fell From The Sky
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Author : Eleanor Morse
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-01-03
White Dog Fell From The Sky written by Eleanor Morse and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-03 with Fiction categories.
An extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story. In apartheid South Africa in 1977, medical student Isaac Muthethe is forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force. He is smuggled into Botswana, where he is hired as a gardener by a young American woman, Alice Mendelssohn, who has abandoned her Ph.D. studies to follow her husband to Africa. When Isaac goes missing and Alice goes searching for him, what she finds will change her life and inextricably bind her to this sunburned, beautiful land. Like the African terrain that Alice loves, Morse’s novel is alternately austere and lush, spare and lyrical. She is a writer of great and wide-ranging gifts.
White Dog Fell From The Sky
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Author : Eleanor Morse
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-04-04
White Dog Fell From The Sky written by Eleanor Morse and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-04 with Fiction categories.
Incredibly moving and beautifully drawn, White Dog Fell From the Sky by Eleanor Morse is an intimate portrait of Africa. Botswana, 1976. Isaac Muthethe thinks that he is dead. Forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force, he finds himself, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, buried in a coffin, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Walking along the road into Gaborone, Botswana's capital, White Dog following close behind, a chance encounter with an old school acquaintance changes the course of Isaac's life - as does the job he finds as gardener for a young American woman, Alice Mendelssohn, who has abandoned her Ph.D. studies in order to follow her husband to Africa. But when Isaac goes missing and Alice goes searching for him, what she finds out will change her life and inextricably bind her to this sunburned, beautiful land. 'Eleanor Morse captures the magic of the African landscape and the terror and degradation of life under apartheid in White Dog Fell from the Sky . . . tense and heartfelt' O, The Oprah Magazine 'Magic, friendship, the tragedy of apartheid and the triumph of loyalty are recounted in poetic, powerful prose by this unconventional and intelligent writer. Shattering and uplifting' Kuki Gallmann, author of I Dreamed of Africa 'Morse's writing is lyrical and quite beautiful, with searing descriptions of the dusty earth, unforgiving sun, and stark skies' Entertainment Weekly Eleanor Morse has taught in adult education programs, in prisons, and in university systems, both in Maine and in southern Africa. She currently works as an adjunct faculty member with Spalding University's MFA Writing program in Louisville, Kentucky. She lives on Peaks Island, Maine.
The Prince Who Fell From The Sky
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Author : John Claude Bemis
language : en
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2012-05-22
The Prince Who Fell From The Sky written by John Claude Bemis and has been published by Random House Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-22 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In Casseomae's world, the wolves rule the Forest, and the Forest is everywhere. The animals tell stories of the Skinless Ones, whose cities and roads once covered the earth, but the Skinless disappeared long ago. Casseomae is content to live alone, apart from the other bears in her tribe, until one of the ancients' sky vehicles crashes to the ground, and from it emerges a Skinless One, a child. Rather than turn him over to the wolves, Casseomae chooses to protect this human cub, to find someplace safe for him to live. But where among the animals will a human child be safe? And is Casseomae threatening the safety of the Forest and all its tribes by protecting him? Middle-grade fans of postapocalyptic fiction are in for a treat with this fanciful and engaging animal story by the author of the Clockwork Dark trilogy.
How The Stars Fell Into The Sky
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Author : Jerrie Oughton
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1992
How The Stars Fell Into The Sky written by Jerrie Oughton and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A retelling of the Navaho legend that explains the patterns of the stars in the sky.
Under A White Sky
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Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Under A White Sky written by Elizabeth Kolbert and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Science categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews • “Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment.”—Helen Macdonald, The New York Times With a new afterword by the author That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.
Margreete S Harbor
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Author : Eleanor Morse
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2021-04-20
Margreete S Harbor written by Eleanor Morse and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-20 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Fiction A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home. Eleanor Morse's Margreete’s Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down. When Margreete Bright calls her daughter Liddie to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. She, her husband Harry, and their children Eva and Bernie move from a settled life in Michigan across the country to Margreete’s isolated home, and begin a new life. Margreete’s Harbor tells the story of ten years in the history of a family: a novel of small moments, intimate betrayals, arrivals and disappearances that coincide with America during the late 1950s through the turbulent 1960s. Liddie, a professional cellist, struggles to find space for her music in a marriage that increasingly confines her; Harry’s critical approach to the growing war in Vietnam endangers his new position as a high school history teacher; Bernie and Eva begin to find their own identities as young adults; and Margreete slowly descends into a private world of memories, even as she comes to find a larger purpose in them. This beautiful novel—attuned to the seasons of nature, the internal dynamics of a family, and a nation torn by its contradicting ideals—reveals the largest meanings in the smallest and most secret moments of life. Readers of Elizabeth Strout, Alice Munro, and Anne Tyler will find themselves at home in Margreete’s Harbor.
When Two Feathers Fell From The Sky
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Author : Margaret Verble
language : en
Publisher: Mariner Books
Release Date : 2021
When Two Feathers Fell From The Sky written by Margaret Verble and has been published by Mariner Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Fiction categories.
Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: An eclectic cast of characters--both real and ghostly--converge at an amusement park in Nashville, 1926.
When I Fell From The Sky
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Author : Juliane Koepcke
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-22
When I Fell From The Sky written by Juliane Koepcke and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-22 with Travel categories.
On December 24th 1971, the teenage Juliane boarded the packed flight in Peru to meet her father for Christmas. She and her mother fought to get some of the last seats available and felt thankful to have made the flight. The LANSA airplane flew into a heavy thunderstorm and went down in dense Amazon jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. She fell two miles from the sky, still strapped to her plane seat, into the jungle. She was the sole survivor among the 92 passengers, which included her mother, and Juliane s unexplainable survival has been called a modern-day miracle. With incredible courage, instinct and ingenuity, she crawled and walked alone for eleven days in the green hell of the Amazon. She survived using the skills she d learned in assisting her parents on their research trips into the jungle before coming across a loggers hut, and, with it, safety. Now she tells her fascinating story for the first time and on its 40th anniversary she shares not only the private moments of her survival and rescue but her inspiring life in the wake of the disaster.
White Dog Fell From The Sky
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Author : Eleanor Morse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
White Dog Fell From The Sky written by Eleanor Morse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories.
1977. After witnessing a murder by the South African Defence Force, Isaac Muthethe flees to Botswana - smuggled across the border in a hearse. Dumped in the dust, it's not long before he finds a companion on the road - White Dog - and work as a gardener for a young American, Alice Mendelssohn. And when Isaac goes missing, Alice and White Dog will not rest until he is found . . . 'Magic, friendship, the tragedy of apartheid and the triumph of loyalty are recounted in poetic, powerful prose. Shattering and uplifting.' Kuki Gallmann, author of I Dreamed of Africa 'Morse's writing is lyrical and quite beautiful, with searing descriptions of the dusty earth, unforgiving sun, and stark skies.' Entertainment Weekly 'Emotionally riveting, heartbreaking . . . embracing hope, insight, and a sense of perpetual mystery. Each sentence is more beautiful than the last.' New York Journal of Books 'Strikingly vivid, lyrical. Her sentences are short, flashing with colour, choked by dry dust, made tense by thunder and slaked by long-waited rain.' Sunday Express 'Exceptional . . . a harrowing journey of discovery. Morse writes with passion and lyricism as she conveys resilience and hope in the face of terror.' Metro 'A rich and intimate portrait of Botswana and of three people's tragic and extraordinary intertwined lives.' Washington Independent Review of Books