Author: Dana Reinhardt
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN: 0307485846
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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There was a man. He had a knife. He attacked us down by the river.It was just a harmless little lie.Anna, Emma and Mariah concoct a story about why they're late getting home one night—a story that will replace their parents' anger withconcern. They just have to stand by it. No matter what. Suddenly the police are involved, and the town demands that someone be punished. And then there is the man who is arrested and accused of a crime that never happened.
Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307772950
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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“A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” —The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization—with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol—swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own. "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own. . . . The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." —The Atlantic
Author: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324000759
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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“Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s debut is a beautifully textured novel, befitting the story of an artist.” —Washington Post Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin. At its heart is Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and her struggle with her decision to leave her two-year-old son, Jay. As an adult, Jay sets out to find his mother and confront her abandonment.
Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kalahari Desert
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Author: Brooke Bolander
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125016947X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette Finalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon Awards The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants. In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are the facts. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and injustice crying out to be righted. Prepare yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling histories of cruelty both grand and petty in search of meaning and justice. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: William Harmless
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195300386
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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In Mystics, William Harmless, S.J., introduces readers to the scholarly study of mysticism. He explores both mystics' extraordinary lives and their no-less-extraordinary writings using a unique case-study method centered on detailed examinations of six major Christian mystics: Thomas Merton, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hildegard of Bingen, Bonaventure, Meister Eckhart, and Evagrius Ponticus. Rather than presenting mysticism as a subtle web of psychological or theological abstractions, Harless's case-study approach brings things down to earth, restoring mystics to their historical context.
Author: Douglas Adams
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345379330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—The New York Times Book Review It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose. Hell takes a number of forms: there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one. Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you? “Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist. . . . He is anything but harmless.”—The Washington Post Book World
Author: Meli Raine
Publisher: Meli Raine
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 659
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Four years ago, presidential candidate's daughter Lindsay thought Drew betrayed her, but now he's back to prove himself. Will she let him? The last person Lindsay Bosworth expected to be her head of security as she left the meditation center/mental institution she'd called home for the last four years after a violent attack was Drew Foster, her ex-fiancee. The guy who did nothing while three of his friends violated her on streaming video. Not one damn thing. As her parents reveal the real reason she's been released, and Lindsay's life continues to be in danger, she doesn't know who to trust. And if she gets it wrong, she’s dead. Drew proves himself, time and again, saving her from certain danger as she draws closer to him, hating herself for conflicting feelings so strong she can’t deny them. But when her attackers play a cat-and-mouse game that reignites old fury, Lindsay decides she’s done being a victim. Time to make everyone pay. Because revenge is never harmless. — The Harmless Series Boxed Set includes all three books in USA Today bestselling author Meli Raine’s Harmless series: A Harmless Little Game, A Harmless Little Ruse, and A Harmless Little Plan. It is the complete trilogy. If you like unreliable narrators, taut psychological suspense, a dash of political thriller and second chance romances where there seems to be no way the redeem the main characters - but there is! - then this is your series. Get the complete series audiobook, narrated by Audie award winners Andi Arndt and Sebastian York, and give your ears a thrill!
Author: Nicole Edwards
Publisher: Nicole Edwards Limited
ISBN: 1939786789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813217431
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 543
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This volume offers a comprehensive portrait--or rather, self-portrait, since its words are mostly Augustine's own--drawn from the breadth of his writings and from the long course of his career
