[PDF] White Dog Fell From The Sky eBook

Author : Eleanor Morse
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101606207

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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.

Author : Eleanor Morse
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143124439

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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 1976, 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.

Author : Suzanne Clothier
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2009-11-29
Category : Pets
ISBN : 0446571032

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Akin to Monty Roberts's The Man Who Listens to Horses and going light-years beyond The Hidden Life of Dogs, this extraordinary book takes a radical new direction in understanding our life with canines and offers us astonishing new lessons about our pets. From changing the misbehaviors and habits that upset us, to seeing the world from their unique and natural perspective, to finding a deep connection with another being, Bones Would Rain from the Sky will help you receive an incomparable gift: a profound, lifelong relationship with the dog you love.

Author : Jerrie Oughton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395779385

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A retelling of the Navaho legend that explains the patterns of the stars in the sky.

Author : Margaret Verble
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0358554837

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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.

Author : John Claude Bemis
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375898042

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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.

Author : Eleanor Morse
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241962589

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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

Author : W. G. Sebald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081122130X

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"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."

Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Crown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0593136292

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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, Smithsonian Magazine, Vulture, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “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 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.

Author : Amy Sarig King
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338236466

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The deeply affecting next book from acclaimed author Amy Sarig King. Liberty Johansen is going to change the way we look at the night sky. Most people see the old constellations, the things they've been told to see. But Liberty sees new patterns, pictures, and possibilities. She's an exception. Some other exceptions:Her dad, who gave her the stars. Who moved out months ago and hasn't talked to her since.Her mom, who's happier since he left, even though everyone thinks she should be sad and lonely.And her sister, who won't go outside their house. Liberty feels like her whole world is falling from space. Can she map a new life for herself and her family before they spin too far out of reach?