Red Dust Red Sky

Author : Paul S. Sunga
Publisher : Coteau Books
ISBN 13 : 9781550503708
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Dust, Red Sky written by Paul S. Sunga and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young Southeast Asian girl's life with her eccentric blended family in Lesotho, and her search for the truth about her absent father, is a parable for the country's own quest for freedom and maturity.Red Dust, Red Sky is set in southern Africa during the time of official apartheid. A family originally from India lives in exile in the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho, a tiny country entirely surrounded by South Africa itself. The aftermath of the murder of a student activist at the hands of the South African police - betrayal, the struggle for redemption and years of life underground - is the basis for this powerful story. The language is beautiful, the plot riveting, the characters vivid, edgy and humorous, full of life and eccentric energy, sexual and otherwise. The story is told by Kokoanyana, a girl growing up in the small and closed belief system of rural Lesotho. She is obsessed with discovering the story of her lost father, but the many lies her mother tells her to avoid the potentially dangerous truth has sensitized Koko to the many lies and delusions of the adults around her. This is a world of concealed facts, obscure events, and phenomena only explicable in terms of the ancestors, Shiva, and the South African Defence Force. Kokoanyana's persistent pursuit gradually unearths pieces of the puzzle. But as the family's political history reveals itself, the soldiers advance.

Author : Jane Struthers
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407029517
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Sky at Night written by Jane Struthers and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indispensable guide to everything we knew and loved before modern life got in the way. This gorgeous and beautifully illustrated countryside miscellany is the perfect purchase for anyone wanting to go back to their roots and rediscover a lost world... 'Beautiful book' -- ***** Reader review 'A delightful book with some lovely illustrations' -- ***** Reader review 'A heart-warming read, I love this book' -- ***** Reader review 'Magical' -- ***** Reader review 'Lovely book to just DELVE into' -- ***** Reader review 'A little gem!' -- ***** Reader review 'Sheer delight!' -- ***** Reader review **************************************************************************************************** Ever wondered how to predict the weather just by looking at the sky? Or wanted to attract butterflies to your garden? Is there a knack to building the perfect bonfire? And how exactly do you race a ferret? In this world of traffic tailbacks, supermarket shopping and 24-hour internet access, it's easy to feel disconnected from the beauty and rhythms of the natural world. If you have ever gazed in awe at stars in the night's sky, tried to catch a perfect snowflake or longed for the comfort of a roaring log fire, then this is the book for you. From spotting Britain's five kinds of owl to gardening by the phases of the moon, from curing a cold to brewing your own ale, and from navigating by the stars to making sloe gin, Red Sky at Night is packed with instructions and lists, ancient customs and old wives tales, making it an indispensable guide to countryside lore.

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608461599
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Sky in the Morning written by Elizabeth Laird and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic children’s novel of a teenage girl and her special needs brother is “quite simply, a wonderfully moving story about the power of love” (Times Educational Supplement). Twelve-year-old Anna Peacock is looking forward to the birth of her baby brother. But when Ben is born with a rare condition, it is clear that he will never be like other children. Though Anna loves him immensely, she finds herself unable to tell her friends the truth about Ben’s disability. Over the years of Ben’s tragically short life, Anna’s perspective matures and changes. When the truth does come out, it leads not to the ridicule she once expected, but to sympathy and understanding. Highly commended for the Carnegie Medal, Elizabeth Laird’s Red Sky in the Morning is a heartfelt tale of love, loss, family and friendship. “A wry first-person narrative . . . . Discussion of handicaps, death and bereavement, and religious belief are carefully integrated into the story.” —School Library Journal

Author : Suzanne Cass
Publisher : Suzanne Cass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Dust, Diamond Sky written by Suzanne Cass and published by Suzanne Cass. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it’s an unexpected windfall, a trip of a lifetime or a budding romance, this anthology celebrates the people and places that make up the rich tapestry of our Australian outback. Life is funny sometimes. George often wondered what he’d do if he won the lottery. And now there’s one million dollars sitting on the floor in front of him. What he does with that money will surprise and delight you. Jordan and his father take a last trip into the outback to find an old survey tree his father marked out in his youth. This trip is meant to give his father back his memories, but it does so much more, as father and son re-connect and put meaning back into their lives. Lissa loves the sun; wants to follow it to a better place. So, she throws her meagre possessions, including her solar telescope into the back of her battered yellow ute and lets the bitumen take her where it will. The sun, a solar telescope, and her sunstone necklace will lead Lissa to love. Told with a dash of humor and a touch of romance, grab a copy of author Suzanne Cass’ trilogy of short stories set in the Australian outback.

Author : Paul J. McAuley
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Dust written by Paul J. McAuley and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Mars, agronomist Wei Lee finds a crashed space ship with a young woman on board. With a kiss she transmits to him nanotech viruses, giving him the ability to fight a ruling clique on the planet.

Author : Ma Jian
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307427412
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Dust written by Ma Jian and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for “Spiritual Pollution,” and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes and two bars of soap, Ma takes off to immerse himself in the remotest parts of China. His journey would last three years and take him through smog-choked cities and mountain villages, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquility. Remarkably written and subtly moving, the result is an insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both insider and outsider in his own country could have written.

Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1682997774
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Dust written by Murray Leinster and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the sequel to "The Mad Planet" by Murray Leinster. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered, and tiny Man is now in the process of becoming acclimated to the change. We again meet our hero Burl, but this time a far greater danger menaces the human race. The huge insects are still in evidence, but the terror they inspire is as nothing compared to the deadly Red Dust. You will follow this remarkable story with breathless interest.

Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 1612106692
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Dust written by Murray Leinster and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is the sequel to "The Mad Planet" by Murray Leinster. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered, and poor puny Man is still in the process of becoming acclimated to the change even after 30,000 years. We again meet our hero Burl, but this time a far greater danger menaces the human race. The huge insects are still in evidence, but the terror they inspire is as nothing compared to the deadly Red Dust…

Author : Paul McAuley
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575088389
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Dust written by Paul McAuley and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mars, 600 years in the future, is dying. Five hundred years after the Chinese conquered the Red Planet, the great work of terraforming is failing. The human-machine Consensus of Earth had persuaded the AI Emperor to follow the Golden Path into a vast virtual reality universe, leaving behind an ungoverned planet swept by hunger riots and the beginnings of civil war. Enter Wei Lee, a lowly itinerant agricultural technician: rock 'n' roll fan, dupe, holy fool - and unlikely Messiah. After stumbling on an anarchist pilot hiding near the wreckage of her spacecraft, he's drawn into a revolutionary plot that has been spinning for decades. With the help of a ghost, the broadcasts of the King of the Cats, a Yankee yak herder, and a little Girl God, Lee travels across the badlands, swampy waterways and vast dust seas to a showdown at the summit of the biggest volcano in the Solar System. Not even the God-like Consensus can predict the outcome of his struggle to define his own destiny . . . Epic in scope, Red Dust's spectacular, fast-paced story brilliantly brings to life the planet that has captured our imagination like no other.

Author : Laurie Lee
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141927372
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Sky at Sunrise written by Laurie Lee and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1993-10-28 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.' 'This trilogy is a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long. For nineteen years this was the limit of my world, then one midsummer morning I left home and walked to London and down the blazing length of Spain during the innocent days of the early thirties. Never had I felt so fat with time, so free to go where I would. Then such indulgence was suddenly broken by the savage outbreak of the Civil War . . .' - Laurie Lee