A Different World

Author : Mary Nichols
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749015586
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Different World written by Mary Nichols and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1939. Warsaw, Poland. Pilot Jan Grabowski receives orders that take him to the heart of the escalating conflict. He leaves behind his wife, Rulka, who sees Poland overcome by the Nazis. In constant danger and amid cruel reprisals, she joins the Resistance. Norfolk. Louise Fairhurst's war is very different. Evacuated with her class of ten-year-olds from London she finds herself acting mother as well as teacher to the children. She has much to do settling city children down in the countryside, and she wonders whether she should have stayed in London until a chance meeting with Jan alters her path.

Author : Ottessa Moshfegh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399562893
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homesick for Another World written by Ottessa Moshfegh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time "I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel. And for good reason. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. Moshfegh is our Flannery O'Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating. We're in the hands of an author with a big mind, a big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick.

Author : Roger M. Hart
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503566250
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Different World written by Roger M. Hart and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Different World” concludes the Little House series with both relief and sorrow. Relief to see a project finished but sorrow to leave all the characters behind, who have become a real part of my life. In this volume Patrick and Olivia take their family of five and leave the little house behind, thinking this time they won’t ever be back. But as Robert Burns said in a poem long ago, “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry,” you will see how Patrick and Olivia’s plans go awry just when life is becoming less stressful. After Patrick and Olivia left the little house and rented the Silas Barton farm, the Francis Airhartz farm that lay adjacent to the Harris farm came up for sale. Patrick had secretly wanted to buy this land if it ever came up for sale. Now was his chance to be settled for life but needed to borrow enough money by sale day. When it seemed the opportunity was passing an unexpected source helped him purchase part of the farm. They thought they were settled then, for life, until the unexpected, the unthinkable happened.

Author : Jerome T. Callahan Jr.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469775654
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Different World written by Jerome T. Callahan Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if . . . instead of returning home from the war a celebrated hero, he had been killed in action? How would history and the present be different if he hadn't survived to become a world leader at a critical juncture in time? This account of an alternative Cold War history is witnessed through the eyes of Ryan Ferguson, a cynical newspaper reporter, as he reflects on the early careers of several of his college buddies, a Marine Officer in the Caribbean, a Naval Aviator and wanna-be astronaut, an Army Officer in Europe, a State Department bureaucrat in Saigon, and a Civil Rights Activist in Birmingham during this pivotal year in American history. Jerome Callahan was raised in Austell, Georgia and currently resides with his wife and two children in Mesa, Arizona.

Author : Ruth Jacobs
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1783063041
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Different World written by Ruth Jacobs and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It’s not just petrol, it’s everything! He said everything we use is made from oil – plastic, synthetics, thousands of everyday things, even fertilisers that farmers need to grow food. He said there’ll be terrible shortages and all our consumer goods will disappear. We’ll be back to the Stone Age!" It’s the year 2030 and civilisation is faced with a dramatic change that could alter their lifestyles forever. When the oil starts to run out, its not just the power that goes, it’s all the things that make life worth living. All the 'stuff' that people fill their homes with, even the necessities like food and drink, become rationed as the small shops in the High Street start to reopen, one by one. How will Jonjay and his family survive this new world? New kinds of energy – some of which is based on recycled waste – become available as an alternative to the fossil fuel energy, but will life ever be the same again for this loving family? Meanwhile, in Africa, Limpo escapes the forest fires that consume his home and family. Will he be able to make a new life for himself, and for this lost country? The parallel story that mirrors Jonjay and his family represents the struggle to keep their respective families alive and well in such a lost, diminishing world. This striking novella captures a very realistic account of a potential future circumstance and includes a foreword by Paul Allen, Project Director Zero Carbon Britain, Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth. A Different World focuses on our misconception of the way we use our energy resources and would interest adult modern contemporary fiction readers with a secondary appeal to young adults. Using the controversial issue of renewable energy as the central focal point, author Ruth demonstrates the need for an alternative technology that will help people adapt to a new way of life.

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Publisher : White Feather
ISBN 13 : 1301327697
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awakening to a Different World written by and published by White Feather. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : FADI AFRAM
Publisher : دار القلم للطباعة و النشر و التوزيع - بيروت / لبنان
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Window to a Different world written by FADI AFRAM and published by دار القلم للطباعة و النشر و التوزيع - بيروت / لبنان. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is during the difficult times when people begin to think about the real meaning of life, about what is significant and what is secondary. All of a sudden, so many things no longer matter This is the story of a twenty-five-year-old girl named Sarah, who observes the outside world from her window on the sixth floor in a city called Romanzia. Sarah witnesses several unusual events that take place around her as she awaits the day when she can reunite with Noah, the love of her life, who is stuck in Farestan, thousands of kilometers away, due to an uncontrollable epidemic..

Author : Siddharth Srinivasan
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482845768
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schoolboy Dreams ...A Different World written by Siddharth Srinivasan and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siddharths poems, written in his early teens, delve into a variety of issues, analysed from a schoolboys perspective, and range from the problems of farmers and racial discrimination to the grandeur of nature. They also create picturesque scenes, where one can be transported to a world of wildlife, surrounded by the beauty of nature and the joys of life. Some of his poems are descriptions of lives of people, leaving the message of hope, of light in darkness and of victory in the face of overwhelming odds. Siddharths poems bring out, as he puts it, the world in my mind.

Author : Neal A. Lester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113586165X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Time in a Different World written by Neal A. Lester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the celebrated Children’s Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children’s literature from the margins to the forefront of literary discourse. Looking at a variety of topics, including the moralities of heterosexism, the veneration of literacy, and the "politics of hair," Neal A. Lester provides a scholarly and accessible compilation of essays that will serve as an invaluable resource for parents, students, and educators. The much-needed reexamination of African American children’s texts follows an engaging call-and-response format, allowing for a lively and illuminating discussion between its primary author and a diverse group of contributors; including educators, scholars, students, parents, and critics. In addition to these distinct dialogues, the book features an enlightening generational conversation between Lester and his teenage daughter as they review the same novels. With critical assessments of Toni and Slade Morrison’s The Big Box and The Book of Mean People, bell hooks’ Happy to Be Nappy, and Anne Schraff’s Until We Meet Again, among many other works, these provocative and fresh essays yield a wealth of perspectives on the intersections of identity formations in childhood and adulthood.

Author : Hayden Patrick
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1645693848
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith the Currency of a Different World written by Hayden Patrick and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith, sure you can define it, but do you really know what it is? Moreover, what has your faith done for you lately? The Bible teaches that, without faith, it is impossible to please God; and rooted in the heart of every Christian is the desire to please God, yet many Christians struggle to put faith to work in their daily lives. The author dissects faith using a secular, legalistic slant and presents a unique perspective on the merits of the Christian version of the doctrine. Using the art of storytelling, some of which are fictional, others true, many of the dimensions of faith are bought to life. Faith is given transactional value and is treated as the cornerstone on which the entire Christian faith is built. Light on theology but heavy on practical, digestible messages, you can't avoid having the "I never thought of it that way" moments. It's funny too, which is not expected in a book that tackles the seriousness of theologically debatable topics. The stories are refreshing and relatable and capture the imagination as you read. The book guides, instructs, and has a conversational dimension that keeps you engaged.