Author: David Hanna
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1633886778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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2022 History Book Festival Official Selection. The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors dressing up old hatreds as new ideas. But there was another story that embodied mankind in that decade. In the same year that both Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt came to power, the city of Chicago staged what was, up to that time, the most forward-looking international exhibition in history. The 1933 World’s Fair looked to the future, unabashedly, as one full of glowing promise. No technology loomed larger at the Fair than aviation. And no persons at the Fair captured the public’s interest as much as the romantic figures associated with it: Italy’s internationally renowned chief of aeronautics, Italo Balbo; German Zeppelin designer and captain, Doctor Hugo Eckener; and the husband-and-wife aeronaut team of Swiss-born Jean Piccard and Chicago-born Jeannette Ridlon Piccard. This golden age of aviation and its high priests and priestesses portended to many the world over that a new age was dawning, an age when man would not only leave the ground behind, but also his uglier, less admirable heritage of war, poverty, corruption, and disease. It was only later in the decade that the dark correlation between the rise of some of aviation’s superstars and the rise of fascism was to be revealed. But for a moment in 1933, this all lay in a future that still seemed so promising. In Broken Icarus, author David Hanna tracks the inspiring trajectory of aviation leading up to and through the World’s Fair of 1933, as well as the field of flight’s more sinister ties to fascism domestic and abroad to present a unique history that is both riveting and revelatory. ,
Author: Amie Kaufman
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1423187784
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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"One of the most intense, thrilling, and achingly beautiful stories I've ever read."--Marie Lu, New York Times best-selling author of the Legend trilogy The first in the New York Times bestselling author duo Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner's sweeping science fiction trilogy, These Broken Stars is a timeless love story about hope and survival in the face of unthinkable odds. It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen are the only survivors. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they're worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help. Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other's arms. Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won't be the same people who landed on it.
Author: Alika K. Josh
Publisher: Alika Josh
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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ZEKIAH (Z) AKOL can’t escape his past. It haunts him in every step he takes, every memory he dreams, and every glimpse he gets of him- Icarus. No matter how fast he runs, the screams of his family and the blood on his hands follow him closely, reminding him of his sins. Trying to leave the past behind is futile, so he brings it with him as he moves forward. He has a plan. He’s going to find the tyrant that destroyed everything he’d ever loved and slit her throat on the very thing she loved: her throne. After all, revenge is the only way to quiet the ghosts, right? But then Icarus jumps back into his life and refuses to leave him alone, making all sorts of unneeded and unwanted feelings mess up his plans. Z tells himself to get back on track and avenge his blood, but maybe what he really needs isn't revenge, but relief. He offers him a hand, but will Z take it? Can he, after all he has done? In this spellbinding tale full of magic, vengeance, and healing, Proem illuminates the human need for unconditional love and support. ***All profits the author receives from this book will be donated to Literacy In Action and will be used to help improve literacy rates and provide books for children who are in need.
Author: Caitlin Sweet
Publisher: ChiZine
ISBN: 177148327X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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From the author of The Door in the Mountain, this tale of ancient gods and mythic monsters is “a book of both horror and beauty” (Ilana C. Myer, author of Last Song Before Night). The Princess Ariadne is scheming to bring her hated half brother Asterion to ultimate ruin. Asterion himself, part human, part bull, is grappling with madness and pain in the labyrinth that lies within a sacred mountain. And Chara, his childhood friend, is trying desperately to find him. In a different prison, Icarus, the bird-boy who cannot fly, plans his escape with his father, Daedalus—and plots revenge upon the princess he once loved. All of their paths are about to come together at last, drawn by fire, hatred, love, and hope—and all of them will be changed. From an author who has been nominated for Sunburst, Locus, and Aurora Awards and called “a formidable new talent”, this is a powerful fantasy set in the world of ancient Crete (SF Site).
Author: Zhishuai Chen
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1622128826
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 581
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Two human siblings, Alexis and Varren, sixteen and seventeen years old, live in a mythical land called Ithaca, where six groups dominate the world: elves, dwarves, gnomes, were-creatures, dragons, and humans. The siblings lead a normal life until it is revealed to them that a rebellion exists against the humans' tyrannical ruler, the Queen, and they are handed a book that can transport anything through time, making it the most powerful object in Ithaca. Alexis, Varren, and their grandfather Icarus must travel across the land to reach Karakorum, the rebels' base, to deliver the Book of Time. Along the way, they meet allies and enemies, see things they would never have dreamed of, and experience love, anguish, exhilaration, wounds, and death. The two are loyal, brave, determined, and smart, and Varren possesses a form of magic called Persuasion, while Alexis possesses something even more potent and mysterious. But when there seem to be no mysteries left, when they finally reach Karakorum, Alexis and Varren hear something that would have been better left buried ... My name is Zhishuai Chen, but you can call me Charlie. I was born in China, raised in the U.S. (Boston), and at the time of this writing, I am in the seventh grade. This is my first novel, and to the readers, I say thank you. I would be honored to go on a fishing trip with each and every one of you. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/ZhishuaiChen
Author: Chad Weidner
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809334879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Until now, much scholarly work on Burroughs has focused on the sensational aspects of his life and on his innovative writing. The Green Ghost, by Chad Weidner, uncovers the ecological context of literary texts by William Burroughs. By rereading canonical and ignored texts while pushing the boundaries of ecocritical theory and practice, Weidner provides a fresh perspective on Burroughs and suggests new theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding the work of other Beat writers. Using an ecocritical lens, Weidner explores the toxicity in Naked Lunch while at the same time teasing out latent ecological questions embedded in Burroughs’ later works. The author’s analysis of unknown and miniature “cut-ups,” texts that have been disassembled and rearranged to create new passages, provides a novel understanding of these cryptic forms. Weidner also examines in detail books by Burroughs that have been virtually ignored by critics, exposing the deep ecology of the Beat writer’s vision. In calling attention to Burroughs’s narrative strategies that link him to an environmental political position, The Green Ghost demonstrates that the work of the Beat writer is a ripe source for ecocritical dialogue.
Author: Buchleser Books
Publisher: BUCHLESER BOOKS
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Ethereal, a collection of poems and short-stories on love, strength, betrayal, fears and tears; is not just a book, but a form of prepossessing art as it gave a magical voice to so many young authors, artists and photographers. Ethereal acquaints us with the concept of cosmic magic, something extremely delicate and light in a way that seems not to be of this world, and hence this concept has thoroughly appertained throughout this anthology.What makes Ethereal unique is, that it’s not a collection of only poems and short stories, instead it consists of unique photographs and hand sketches of experiences that are so deep and so pure that no formation of words, using any of the 26 alphabets is enough to express those paradisaical emotions. Most importantly, this book is extra-mundane as it's a compilation of diverse culture and thoughts which you’ll see when you’ll dive into the beautiful expressions of emotions of authors, artists and photographers from all around the world.
Author: Claire Chi-ah Lyu
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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A Sun within a Sun is a sustained poetic reflection on the enterprise of poetry, on what poetry is and might be, not only for poet and theorist but also for reader, critic, teacher, and student. It sees poetry as life at its most genuine.Using Baudelaire and Mallarme as principal examples, but drawing on a wide range of poets and thinkers, from Greek mythology to Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, and Blake; from Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and Italo Calvino to William James and Henry Miller, Claire Chi-ah Lyu challenges contemporary poetic theory, using precise and acute deconstruction of poetic imagery to reconstruct language so that it celebrates both meaning and beauty. A Sun within a Sun explores the notions of lightness and weight, discipline and indulgence, freedom and loss of will that are inherent in the poetic enterprise. It poses that lightness, discipline, freedom, and risk are essential for an approach to the enigma of beauty through an elegant shaping of form that holds true not only in poetry but also in pure science and even fashion. Poetry is a language within a language, a heightened and intense awareness of what words mean and what they can do, at its best creating an intensity of a sun within a sun. The poet and reader of poetry must take the risk Icarus took of approaching the sun, for without the risk there is no fulfillment.A Sun within a Sun seeks a shaping of form and content that discovers poetry as power, as a practice of life that honors and makes possible both thought and feeling.
Author: Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734081475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Reproduction of the original: Young Adventure by Stephen Vincent Benet
Author: Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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