Islands Of Silence

Author : Lisa McMann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442407727
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island of Silence written by Lisa McMann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training 14-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.

Author : Martin Booth
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312423322
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands of Silence written by Martin Booth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Islands of silence". M. Booth.

Author : Lisa McMann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442407697
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unwanteds written by Lisa McMann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a society that purges 13-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.

Author : Shenaz Patel
Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632062348
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silence of the Chagos written by Shenaz Patel and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true, still-unfolding story, Silence of the Chagos is a powerful exploration of cultural identity, the concept of home, and above all the neverending desire for justice. Shenaz Patel draws on the lives of exiled Chagossians in this tragic example of 20th century political oppression. Every afternoon a woman in a red headscarf walks to the end of the quay and looks out over the water, fixing her gaze “back there”: to Diego Garcia, one of the small islands forming the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean. With no explanation, no forewarning, and only an hour to pack their belongings, the Chagossians are deported to Mauritius. Officials tell her that the island is “closed”— there is no going back for any of them. Charlesia longs for life on Diego Garcia, where the days were spent working on a coconut plantation; the nights dancing to sega music. As she struggles to come to terms with her new reality, Charlesia crosses paths with Désiré, a young man born on the one-way journey to Mauritius. Désiré has never set foot on Diego Garcia, but as Charlesia unfolds the dramatic story of his people, he learns of the home he never knew and the disrupted future of his people. With the sovereignty of Chagos currently being debated on an international judiciary level, Silence of the Chagos is an important and timely examination of the rights of individuals in the face of governmental corruption. Praise for Silence of the Chagos: “Some twenty years ago, I was struck by a photo showing barefoot women on the road facing the armed police. They were Chagossian women protesting in Mauritius with astonishing determination.” This photo, which she's never forgotten, is the inspiration for the Mauritian novelist and journalist Shenaz Patel's third book. Mingling various voice, Patel describes, in a bitter, clear-cut style, the tragedy of the inhabitants of the Chagos, those coral islands of the Indian Ocean that were turned into an American military base and whose inhabitants had been banished to Mauritius between 1967 and 1972. With a prose that seeps and stings, and a sharp sensibility, Shenaz Patel breathes life into the painful nostalgia, the lingering memories, and the eternal incomprehension of these expelled from a string of lost islands.” —Le Monde “This novel has two voices, those of Charlesia and Désiré, both of whom are foreigners, natives of the Chagos archipelago, living in exile in Mauritius, an island that is a paradise for some but a hell for them. The Chagos are an archipelago that would have been hidden in the depths of the Indian Ocean, had Americans not built a military base to bombard other countries. Charlesia and Désiré live and breathe; the Mauritian writer Shenaz Patel introduces us to them and gives them voice again.” —Libération “From scenes of daily life to the horrors of forced exile, through the grief of deculturation and the experience of an impossible identity, Patel interrogates the relationship between political expediency and its all-too-human consequences, between the abstract needs of international security and the concrete needs of the individual, and above all between the rich and the poor.” —L'Express

Author : Lisa McMann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442458461
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island of Fire written by Lisa McMann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The final book in the Unwanteds dystopian fantasy trilogy, as twins Alex and Aaron's parallel stories come together"--

Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848547021
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Time to Keep Silence written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of 'supernatural windfall' which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records.

Author : Eva Saulitis
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807014362
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into Great Silence written by Eva Saulitis and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas struggling to survive in Prince William Sound. Over the course of a decades-long career spent observing and studying these whales, and eventually coming to know them as individuals, she has, sadly, witnessed the devastation wrought by the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989—after which not a single calf has been born to the group. With the intellectual rigor of a scientist and the heart of a poet, Saulitis gives voice to these vital yet vanishing survivors and the place they are so loyal to. Both an elegy for one orca family and a celebration of the entire species, Into Great Silence is a moving portrait of the interconnectedness of humans with animals and place—and of the responsibility we have to protect them.

Author : Lisa McMann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442493305
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island of Legends written by Lisa McMann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover adventure and dangerous secrets in book four of the New York Times bestselling Unwanteds series, which Kirkus Reviews called “The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter.” As Alex grows more confident in his role as the mage of Artimé, he expands his skills and brings his first creature to life—with results that are both painful and wonderful. A team from Artimé heads out to rescue Sky and Crow’s mother from underwater Pirate Island and discovers there are more creatures than they ever imagined in the ocean surrounding the islands—and not all of them are friendly. Meanwhile in Quill, Aaron faces threats to his leadership as Gondoleery hones her rediscovered magical abilities and Eva and Liam form a secret alliance against him. But Aaron’s distracted with a discovery of his own—a hidden jungle that holds a dangerous secret. His time there yields a startling truth about himself, and a potential opportunity to increase his power…

Author : Russell Martin
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140247015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Silence written by Russell Martin and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring book that follows this family's journey as they struggle to restore an autistic son's speech.

Author : Flora J. Solomon
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781477820865
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pledge of Silence written by Flora J. Solomon and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel based on the experiences of the nurses who valiantly served in the Philippines during World War II and became the first U.S. military women to be taken prisoners-of-war by a foreign enemy.