Sun’S Last Hope

Sun’S Last Hope PDF Author: Violeta Evans
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458212424
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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In a dark period in humanitys past, when the sun has burnt itself out, seven children are tasked with saving the future of humanity. Because of advancements made by the Suns Last Hope organization, humanity has found refuge on eight new worlds. Life is hard on these new human colonies because the Men in Black Organization (MIBO) keeps the sun down. To survive, people must now make their own light and heat. Archer, Aquill, Elmira, Zandra, Jacy, Destin, Cara, Willow, and NikkoWillows younger brotherrepresent humanitys last hope. They must find a way to destroy MIBO before it destroys them. Too soon, the children are off on an impossible mission to stop MIBOs plans to unleash the sun plague on humanitys struggling new home worlds. Each of the children must overcome challenges, fears, and insecurities before their enemies exploit these weaknesses. And each must find the courage to face the unknown things that lurk in the dark, in the shadows on an abandoned planet known as Earth. Can humanity pin its last hope for survival on the brave, young adventurers?

Sun’S Last Hope

Sun’S Last Hope PDF Author: Violeta Evans
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458212424
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Book Description
In a dark period in humanitys past, when the sun has burnt itself out, seven children are tasked with saving the future of humanity. Because of advancements made by the Suns Last Hope organization, humanity has found refuge on eight new worlds. Life is hard on these new human colonies because the Men in Black Organization (MIBO) keeps the sun down. To survive, people must now make their own light and heat. Archer, Aquill, Elmira, Zandra, Jacy, Destin, Cara, Willow, and NikkoWillows younger brotherrepresent humanitys last hope. They must find a way to destroy MIBO before it destroys them. Too soon, the children are off on an impossible mission to stop MIBOs plans to unleash the sun plague on humanitys struggling new home worlds. Each of the children must overcome challenges, fears, and insecurities before their enemies exploit these weaknesses. And each must find the courage to face the unknown things that lurk in the dark, in the shadows on an abandoned planet known as Earth. Can humanity pin its last hope for survival on the brave, young adventurers?

Hope Dies Last

Hope Dies Last PDF Author: Studs Terkel
Publisher: New Press/ORIM
ISBN: 1595585761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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America’s most inspirational voices, in their own words: “If you’re looking for a reason to act and dream again, you’ll find it in the pages of this book” (Chicago Tribune). Published when Studs Terkel was ninety-one years old, this astonishing oral history tackles one of the famed journalist’s most elusive subjects: Hope. Where does it come from? What are its essential qualities? How do we sustain it in the darkest of times? An alternative, more personal chronicle of the “American century,” Hope Dies Last is a testament to the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today. A former death row inmate who served nearly twenty years for a crime he did not commit discusses his never-ending fight for justice. Tom Hayden, author of The Port Huron Statement, contemplates the legacy of 1960s student activism. Liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith reflects on the enduring problem of corporate malfeasance. From a doctor who teaches his young students compassion to the retired brigadier general who flew the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, these interviews tell us much about the power of the American dream and the force of individuals who advocate for a better world. With grace and warmth, Terkel’s subjects express their secret hopes and dreams. Taken together, this collection of interviews tells an inspiring story of optimism and persistence, told in voices that resonate with the eloquence of conviction. “The value of Hope Dies Last lies not in what it teaches readers about its narrow subject, but in the fascinating stories it reveals, and the insight it allows into the vast range of human experience.” —The A.V. Club “Very Terkelesque—by now the man requires an adjective of his own.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Review of Books “An American treasure.” —Cornel West

Music in Willa Cather's Fiction

Music in Willa Cather's Fiction PDF Author: Richard Giannone
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803270992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Music is everywhere in Willa Cather's fiction: as a subject, in the background, slyly commenting on the action, connecting characters to a distant world, or revealing their interior worlds. Not merely incidental or ornamental, though, music is intrinsic to Cather's work, a distinctive quality of her creation and expression, and it is in this light that Richard Giannone considers Cather's art. Music in Willa Cather's Fiction is the definitive study of its subject. The first work to examine the complex thematic and structural forms that music acquires in Cather's narratives, Giannone's book uses this musical approach as a way of seeing into the author's artistic sensibility, the evolution of her art, and her total achievement. ø Progressing chronologically, Giannone shows how Cather's view and use of music changed over time. From what her early journalistic pieces on music and musicians reveal about her attitude and anticipate in her later work, Giannone moves to Cather's early stories to identify the trend of some of her artistic choices, the direction of her stylistic development, and the complication of her moral interest as these are manifested in musical references. In her novels and later stories, he emphasizes the contribution of music to the individual work, as well as the allusions and connections that sound throughout her oeuvre.

Warriors. Omen of the Stars

Warriors. Omen of the Stars PDF Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9781518203169
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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After countless moons of treachery, Tigerstar's Dark Forest apprentices are ready to lay siege upon the warrior Clans. As Jayfeather, Dovewing, and Lionblaze prepare to lead their Clanmates into battle, they await the arrival of the mysterious fourth warrior who is prophesied to help lead the Clans to glory.

The Sun Does Shine

The Sun Does Shine PDF Author: Anthony Ray Hinton
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250124719
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--

Moonlight On The Sun

Moonlight On The Sun PDF Author: James Groccia
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462858910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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Moonlight On The Sun is a collection of twenty-six short stories written in the Fall and Winter of 2010-2011 that cover four decades of American life. Its stories are placed in the America of that time and take place is such diverse locations as the North Country of New York, the hills of Western Michigan, the Painted Desert, the High Sierras, Vietnam and the cities of New York, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. We meet Tory, over four connected stories, in his journey from disillusioned student to soldier in Vietnam; Amante a photographer obsessed with tombstone angels; Caitlin an eight year old girl who discovers her parents underneath their veneer; Andria, a blocked writer struggling to find love, Zack, a prisoner in his own mountain “A” frame, Christopher, a musician who falls in love with a woman with two personalities; and other stories of love and obsession and the seeking of the human heart.

A Touch of Sun; And Other Stories

A Touch of Sun; And Other Stories PDF Author: Mary Hallock Foote
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338731888X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The Virgin of the Sun: A Tale of the Conquest of Peru

The Virgin of the Sun: A Tale of the Conquest of Peru PDF Author: George Chetwynd Griffith
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613106343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 957

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The sun had set over Quito, “the City of the Great Ravine,” but high above the night that had fallen upon the valley rounded tops and pinnacles of rock, gleaming domes of snow and shining minarets of ice were glowing with rosy fires changing every moment the wondrous hues which they borrowed from the light that seemed to stream across them from an unseen source. The unclouded sky was still a fathomless sea of radiance, and, high above all its attendant peaks, the mighty dome of Chimborazo towered up from the gloom into the light, crowned with a canopy of smoke whose rolling clouds seemed like a glorified chaos of light and darkness, of the sombre shadows and brilliant, many-coloured radiance, suspended between heaven and earth. On a couch of the softest textures ever woven by human hands, draped over a framework of precious woods clamped and in a great part overlaid with gold, Huayna-Capac, the last of the long line of Incas descended from the Divine Manco and his sister-wife Mama-Occlu, son and daughter of the Sun, lay dying. The heir of the great Inca Yupanqui, during his long life of unsparing conquest and yet wise and most merciful rule, had extended the empire of the Children of the Sun until, from the burning regions of the North, beyond the central line of the earth, to the arid deserts of the far South, and from the trackless forests of the East to the shores of the Western sea, all the lands and peoples of Tavantinsuyu1 owned, with gladness and without question, the glory of the Rainbow Banner and the just, yet rigid, sway of the Son of the Sun. All that the valour of his soldiers, the wisdom of his councillors, and his own imperial genius could do had been done, and in all the world there was no other empire whose ruler was so completely all-powerful and whose subjects were so peaceful, prosperous, and contented as his were. It was an empire at its zenith. It had reached that acme of military strength and social organisation beyond which, as the history of the world would seem to tell us, the Fates who govern human destiny do not permit a human society to develop. Over an extent of a thousand leagues from north to south, and for four hundred leagues from east to west, in a land which rose from the deserts and torrid valleys of the Pacific coast through infinite gradations of climate to the eternal winter of mountain solitudes soaring far beyond the clouds into the realms of everlasting frost, and from the tropical valleys of the eastern and western slopes where Nature laughed in unrestrained luxuriance to the vast, treeless plains of grass which lay high above the limit of cultivation, walled in by the tremendous rock-ramparts which were crowned with the snowy diadems of the Andes, there was not a man who had need to take thought for the things of to-morrow, not one who did not know that if he fulfilled his duty to the State of which he was a unit, all that he could demand from it would be freely and ungrudgingly granted. There had never been such a society upon earth before, it might be that there would never be such again, and now the work of twenty generations was finished, and the jealous Fates, as though unwilling that too much felicity should be the lot of man on earth, were looking down with angry eyes upon its perfection and conspiring even in the very centre of its power and glory to work its destruction. Nay, they were even gathered, pitiless and vindictive, around the death-bed of the dying warrior and statesman whose hand in the fulness of its strength had placed the coping-stone on the stately and symmetrical structure of the Empire of the Incas. On the rich, many-coloured furs which carpeted the cedar-boarded floor of the golden-walled, silver-ceiled room lit with silver lamps hanging by chains of gold, stood by the bedside in an attitude of attendant deference a very old man clad in the splendid robes which distinguished the priesthood of the Sun. His arms were crossed over his breast and his bared head was bowed, though every now and then the lids of his downcast eyes were raised and he looked anxiously at the face of his sleeping lord as though he were waiting for him to wake—perhaps even wondering whether he would ever wake again. At last a deeper breath filled the breast of the sleeper and raised the embroidered coverings. A long sigh broke the silence of the death-chamber, and the eyes of the Inca opened. The priest took a soft step forward, and then he bent his head still lower and waited for his lord to speak.

Lord of a Thousand Sun: Space Stories of Poul Anderson (Illustrated)

Lord of a Thousand Sun: Space Stories of Poul Anderson (Illustrated) PDF Author: Poul Anderson
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Book Description
Discover the golden age of science fiction with some of the best stories of intergalactic battles, space adventures and alien contact in this Poul Anderson collection of selected SF stories: Captive of the Centaurianess Lord of a Thousand Sun Out of the Iron Womb Sargasso of Lost Starships Star Ship Swordsman of Lost Terra The Virgin of Valkarion Tiger by the Tail Witch of the Demon Seas

The Setting Sun

The Setting Sun PDF Author: Bart Moore-Gilbert
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781682690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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"I've always had difficulty imagining my father as a policeman. He seemed most himself in the informal setting of safari life, clothes disheveled, sometimes not shaving for days. So why did he join the Indian Police, with its rigid hierarchies and complex protocols?" Setting Sun is the story of the dying days of an empire, combined with gripping family history, in an extraordinary literary voyage across India. When a letter from an Indian historian arrives out of the blue, informing leading academic Moore Gilbert that his beloved, deceased father, a member of the Indian Police before Independence, partook in the abuse of civilians, Moore Gilbert's world is shaken as his cherished childhood memories are challenged. He sets out in search of the truth—discovering much about the end of empire, the state of India today, and whether his father, as one of the many characters on his quest claims, really was a terrorist. Crisscrossing western India, and following leads from bustling Mumbai to remote rural scenes, Moore-Gilbert finally pieces together the truth, ultimately discovering that the same story links the past with the present, colonial India with its modern incarnation, terrorism through the ages and father with son.