Author: J. S. Wood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997890839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Elena Ransom doesn't make friends easily and she doesn't adjust well to change. When she's forced, by law, to attend boarding school after her 13th birthday she absolutely doesn't want to go. Her only consolation is that her best friend, Austin, and their friend Pigg will join her there. Her new life at Grimsby School of the Republic is complex as she resists the process of making new friends, deals with a class bully, and struggles to adjust to her new course schedule. She's also constantly in trouble with the Drill Instructor during Basic Training. In addition to this, the school proves to be a mysterious place. Elena soon finds herself on an unexpected journey that will lead her, Austin, Pigg, and their new friends outside the safety of their home and illegally into the former United States of America where they will search for an artifact that will change their destinies.
Elena Ransom and the Firebird Unit
Author: J. S. Wood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997890839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Elena Ransom doesn't make friends easily and she doesn't adjust well to change. When she's forced, by law, to attend boarding school after her 13th birthday she absolutely doesn't want to go. Her only consolation is that her best friend, Austin, and their friend Pigg will join her there. Her new life at Grimsby School of the Republic is complex as she resists the process of making new friends, deals with a class bully, and struggles to adjust to her new course schedule. She's also constantly in trouble with the Drill Instructor during Basic Training. In addition to this, the school proves to be a mysterious place. Elena soon finds herself on an unexpected journey that will lead her, Austin, Pigg, and their new friends outside the safety of their home and illegally into the former United States of America where they will search for an artifact that will change their destinies.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997890839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Elena Ransom doesn't make friends easily and she doesn't adjust well to change. When she's forced, by law, to attend boarding school after her 13th birthday she absolutely doesn't want to go. Her only consolation is that her best friend, Austin, and their friend Pigg will join her there. Her new life at Grimsby School of the Republic is complex as she resists the process of making new friends, deals with a class bully, and struggles to adjust to her new course schedule. She's also constantly in trouble with the Drill Instructor during Basic Training. In addition to this, the school proves to be a mysterious place. Elena soon finds herself on an unexpected journey that will lead her, Austin, Pigg, and their new friends outside the safety of their home and illegally into the former United States of America where they will search for an artifact that will change their destinies.
The Unit
Author: Ninni Holmqvist
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1851687734
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
‘I liked The Unit very much... I know you will be riveted, as I was.’ Margaret Atwood ‘Echoing work by Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood, The Unit is as thought-provoking as it is compulsively readable.’ Jessica Crispin, NPR.org Ninni Holmqvist’s eerie dystopian novel envisions a society in the not-so-distant future where men and women deemed economically worthless are sent to a retirement community called the Unit. With lavish apartments set amongst beautiful gardens and state-of-the-art facilities, elaborate gourmet meals, and wonderful music and art, they are free of financial worries and want for nothing. It’s an idyllic place, but there’s a catch: the residents – known as dispensables – must donate their organs, one by one, until the final donation. When Dorrit Weger arrives at the Unit, she resigns herself to this fate, seeking only peace in her final days. But she soon falls in love, and this unexpected, improbable happiness throws the future into doubt. Clinical and haunting, The Unit is a modern-day classic and a spine-chilling cautionary tale about the value of human life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1851687734
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
‘I liked The Unit very much... I know you will be riveted, as I was.’ Margaret Atwood ‘Echoing work by Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood, The Unit is as thought-provoking as it is compulsively readable.’ Jessica Crispin, NPR.org Ninni Holmqvist’s eerie dystopian novel envisions a society in the not-so-distant future where men and women deemed economically worthless are sent to a retirement community called the Unit. With lavish apartments set amongst beautiful gardens and state-of-the-art facilities, elaborate gourmet meals, and wonderful music and art, they are free of financial worries and want for nothing. It’s an idyllic place, but there’s a catch: the residents – known as dispensables – must donate their organs, one by one, until the final donation. When Dorrit Weger arrives at the Unit, she resigns herself to this fate, seeking only peace in her final days. But she soon falls in love, and this unexpected, improbable happiness throws the future into doubt. Clinical and haunting, The Unit is a modern-day classic and a spine-chilling cautionary tale about the value of human life.
Stravinsky
Author: Eric Walter White
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520039858
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
In the second edition of the definitive account of Igor Stravinsky's life and work, arranged in two separate sections, Eric Walter White revised the whole book, completing the biographical section by taking it up to Stravinsky's death in 1971. To the list of works, the author added some early pieces that have recently come to light, as well as the late compositions, including the Requiem Canticles and The Owl and the Pussycat. Four more of Stravinsky's own writings appear in the Appendices, and there are several important additions to the bibliography.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520039858
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
In the second edition of the definitive account of Igor Stravinsky's life and work, arranged in two separate sections, Eric Walter White revised the whole book, completing the biographical section by taking it up to Stravinsky's death in 1971. To the list of works, the author added some early pieces that have recently come to light, as well as the late compositions, including the Requiem Canticles and The Owl and the Pussycat. Four more of Stravinsky's own writings appear in the Appendices, and there are several important additions to the bibliography.
Theory and History of Folklore
Author: Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich Propp
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452902210
Category : Folk literature, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452902210
Category : Folk literature, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Ardis Anthology of Russian Futurism
Author: Ellendea Proffer
Publisher: Ann Arbor, [Mich.] : Ardis
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher: Ann Arbor, [Mich.] : Ardis
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Myths of the Cherokee
Author: James Mooney
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486131327
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
126 myths: sacred stories, animal myths, local legends, many more. Plus background on Cherokee history, notes on the myths and parallels. Features 20 maps and illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486131327
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
126 myths: sacred stories, animal myths, local legends, many more. Plus background on Cherokee history, notes on the myths and parallels. Features 20 maps and illustrations.
Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas
Author: Eric Walter White
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520048942
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This new edition has been thoroughly revised and edited by John Evans (research scholar to the Britten Estate) who has updated the chronological list of published works and included in the bibliography the many books that have been written about the composer since his death in 1976. Although, as the title suggests, this book concentrates on Britten's operatic output, Mr White's account offers insights into the whole range of this prodigious composer's music. The text is lavishly illustrated with plates that reveal both the diversity of his operatic development and comprise a distinctive pictorial bibliography.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520048942
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This new edition has been thoroughly revised and edited by John Evans (research scholar to the Britten Estate) who has updated the chronological list of published works and included in the bibliography the many books that have been written about the composer since his death in 1976. Although, as the title suggests, this book concentrates on Britten's operatic output, Mr White's account offers insights into the whole range of this prodigious composer's music. The text is lavishly illustrated with plates that reveal both the diversity of his operatic development and comprise a distinctive pictorial bibliography.
Early film theories in Italy, 1896-1922
Author: Silvio Alovisio
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9048527104
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
How did Italian writers, scholars, clergymen, psychologists, members of parliament, and philosophers react to the advent of cinema? How did they establish a common language to discuss an invention that exceeded habits and expectations, and that transcended existing forms and categories of thought? This anthology gathers for the first time a large number of social discourses that in Italy tried to define and contextualize cinema from the 1890s to 1920s. What results is an impressive picture of a culture in distress at a 'scandalous' event and eager to appropriate it for the sake of modernization.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9048527104
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
How did Italian writers, scholars, clergymen, psychologists, members of parliament, and philosophers react to the advent of cinema? How did they establish a common language to discuss an invention that exceeded habits and expectations, and that transcended existing forms and categories of thought? This anthology gathers for the first time a large number of social discourses that in Italy tried to define and contextualize cinema from the 1890s to 1920s. What results is an impressive picture of a culture in distress at a 'scandalous' event and eager to appropriate it for the sake of modernization.
TIME D-Day
Author: The Editors of TIME
Publisher: Time Home Entertainment
ISBN: 1547848197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The editors of TIME Magazine present D-Day.
Publisher: Time Home Entertainment
ISBN: 1547848197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The editors of TIME Magazine present D-Day.
The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Volume Four T–Z
Author: Susan Hall
Publisher: WildBlue Press
ISBN: 1952225353
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The 4th volume of this comprehensive work features hundreds of serial killers from Sacramento to Soviet Russia—plus numerous unsolved cases. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most complete reference guide on the subject, featuring more than 1,600 entries about the lives and crimes of serial killers from around the world. Defined by the FBI as a person who murders three or more people with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, the serial killer has presented unique and terrifying challenges to have walked among us since the dawn of time—a fact this extensive record makes chillingly clear. The series concludes with Volume Four, T-Z. Entries include the Terminator Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko; Trailside Killer David Joseph Carpenter; Vampire of Sacramento Richard Trenton Chase; and the Voroshilovgrad Maniac Zaven Almazyan; plus the unsolved cases of the Adelaide Child Murders; the Axeman of New Orleans; the Chillicothe Killer; the Dead Women of Juarez; the Korea Frog Boy Murders; and the Volga Maniac.
Publisher: WildBlue Press
ISBN: 1952225353
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The 4th volume of this comprehensive work features hundreds of serial killers from Sacramento to Soviet Russia—plus numerous unsolved cases. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most complete reference guide on the subject, featuring more than 1,600 entries about the lives and crimes of serial killers from around the world. Defined by the FBI as a person who murders three or more people with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, the serial killer has presented unique and terrifying challenges to have walked among us since the dawn of time—a fact this extensive record makes chillingly clear. The series concludes with Volume Four, T-Z. Entries include the Terminator Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko; Trailside Killer David Joseph Carpenter; Vampire of Sacramento Richard Trenton Chase; and the Voroshilovgrad Maniac Zaven Almazyan; plus the unsolved cases of the Adelaide Child Murders; the Axeman of New Orleans; the Chillicothe Killer; the Dead Women of Juarez; the Korea Frog Boy Murders; and the Volga Maniac.