Swimming Through Clouds

Author : Rajdeep Paulus
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781493741724
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming Through Clouds written by Rajdeep Paulus and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior year kicks off when the words on a Post-it note spark a sticky romance between two unlikely friends. Transfer student Talia Vanderbilt has one goal at her new school: to blend in with the walls. Lagan Desai, basketball captain and mathlete, would do just about anything to befriend the new girl. One Post-it note at a time, Lagan persuades Talia to peel back her heart, slowly revealing a world where hope seems to lie around the corner. She never turns.--Publisher description.

Author : Rajdeep Paulus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996180115
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soaring Through Stars written by Rajdeep Paulus and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the Swimming Through Clouds Trilogy "It is the rare author who can end an emotionally compelling trilogy with the same resounding truth from which it was formed, but turned inside out. In Soaring through Stars, Rajdeep Paulus does exactly that. Crafting her characters' inner growth at a believable and often heart-wrenching pace across the series, this final book extends an exquisite peace to hearts where extreme fear used to dwell. This series should be on the shelves of every American high school. Soaring through Stars is a beautiful, perfect ending to a truly exceptional series... Don't miss this one." Serena Chase, USA Today's Happy Ever After blog, author of The Ryn "Rajdeep Paulus writes young adult fiction with a new kind of hero...Despair and cruelty haunt its pages. Raj's most heroic characters find the strength to be compassionate at moments when it would be much easier to stand by and do nothing." Amazon Author Success Story "Tough and touching, resilient and raw-Rajdeep Paulus has crafted a story of love and abuse with the deft touch of a master...and she never averts her pen from the realities that face far too many women and children." Tosca Lee, NY Times Bestselling Author of Havah and The Books of Mortals series with Ted Dekker "Deep, sometimes quite dark, and very emotional YA story." Once Upon a YA Book Blog *** "I live in the in between. Between holding on and letting go. Hurt clings to me. Hope teases me. Home. I can't explain it, but sometimes, I just want to go home." Talia and Jesse Vanderbilt have escaped a childhood full of abuse, and with the help of their friends have found the courage to publicly tell their stories. When they face obstacles trying to have their father convicted, the siblings can't help but consider the option to walk away and move on with their lives. Someone unexpected brings his own secrets, forcing the Vanderbilt teens to revisit their pasts and rethink their plans. Through it all, Lagan and Talia's Post-it love story blossoms, while Jesse and Summer hit roadblocks. From the award-winning author of Swimming Through Clouds and Seeing Through Stones comes a powerful story of freedom and belonging in this final book of the young adult trilogy that began with an invitation on a little Post-it note.

Author : Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780399533457
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cloudspotter's Guide written by Gavin Pretor-Pinney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback: the runaway British bestseller that has cloudspotters everywhere looking up. Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless artists, Romantic poets, and every kid who's ever held a crayon? Veteran journalist and lifelong sky watcher Gavin Pretor-Pinney reveals everything there is to know about clouds, from history and science to art and pop culture. Cumulus, nimbostratus, and the dramatic and surfable Morning Glory cloud are just a few of the varieties explored in this smart, witty, and eclectic tour through the skies. Illustrated with striking photographs (including a new section in full-color) and line drawings featuring everything from classical paintings to lava lamps, The Cloudspotter's Guide will have enthusiasts, weather watchers, and the just plain curious floating on cloud nine.

Author : Sylvia Martin
Publisher : UWA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1760801232
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sky Swimming written by Sylvia Martin and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Late afternoon. An isolated lagoon, water glassy, teeming with birdlife—black swans, ducks, a pelican. Sunset begins to tint the sky. I point the camera at the water to catch the clouds reflected there just as a solitary duck swims into view. Everything in the photograph is familiar yet the effect is entirely strange. The duck is swimming across the sky...' The reflections in Sky Swimming can be read as meditations on the enigmas of love, family, ageing, memory, home and belonging. At its heart is a mudbrick house built by two women on an ancient lava flow in the Warrumbungle Mountains, circling back to a childhood filled with music in Melbourne and an early career in the theatre. It fans out across the world to a family mystery in The Netherlands of the 1950s and a friendship in Montreal in the 1990s. Reflections on the process of writing feminist biography are included and the women from Martin’s biographies thread their way through the narrative alongside the people who have helped shape her life, often in unexpected directions.

Author : Rajdeep Paulus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781310785160
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming Through Clouds (Book One) written by Rajdeep Paulus and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AWARDS:B.R.A.G. Medallion RecipientSemi-Finalist Genesis Contest (YA Fiction)Finalist (2nd Place) NORWA (YA Fiction)Finalist Women of Faith Full ManuscriptFinalist Wisconsin RWA Honorable Mention (YA Fiction)"With beautifully crafted poetic prose, author Rajdeep Paulus weaves fear and tragedy, hope and romance through a story that dictates you endure emotional anguish right along with her characters. A work of art."~USA TODAY reviewer Serena Chase, author of Eyes of E'veria Series"Tough and touching, resilient and raw -- Rajdeep Paulus has crafted a story of love and abuse with the deft touch of a master. SWIMMING THROUGH CLOUDS is profound, but never preachy. Paulus never allows her characters to be anything less than real and she never averts her pen from the realities that face far too many women and children." --Tosca Lee, NY Times bestselling author of HAVAH and The Books of Mortals series with Ted Dekker"Paulus is an exceptional writer! The essence of the human spirit are illuminated through the characters who come to life in each page. Paulus captures the heart of the reader in SWIMMING THROUGH CLOUDS." - Diana Mao, President of Nomi Network"SWIMMING THROUGH CLOUDS is a heart-wrenching story of both suffering and courage. This book will haunt you long after you finish it." - Darby Karchut, author of Griffin Rising and Finn Finnegan"I'm trapped in the middle of someone's life... And it's only just begun! I need more!!!" - Teenage Reader"There is much to admire about Rajdeep Paulus's writing. Poetic, raw and thought-provoking, her words will indeed send you swimming through clouds." - Selene Castrovilla, author of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, a GalleyCat Best YA Book (2010)__________"I live in the in between. Between what if and what is. It's how I manage. It's the only way I know. Everyone has their way. This is mine."Senior year kicks off when the words on a Post-it note spark a sticky romance between two unlikely friends. Transfer student Talia Vanderbilt has one goal at her new school: to blend in with the walls. Lagan Desai, basketball captain and mathlete, would do just about anything to befriend the new girl. One Post-it note at a time, Lagan persuades Talia to peel back her heart, slowly revealing a world where hope seems to lie around the corner. She never turns.__________RAJDEEP PAULUS decided to be a writer during her junior year in high school after her English teacher gave her an "F" but told her she had potential. She studied English Literature at Northwestern University, and she writes masala-marinated, Young Adult Fiction, blogging weekly at InSearchOfWaterfalls (dot) com.When Paulus is not tapping on her Mac, you can find her dancing with her four princesses, kayaking with her hubs, coaching basketball or eating dark chocolate while sipping a frothy, sugar-free latte. She secretly hopes to one day own a laptop that functions under water! Oops. The secret's out.

Author : David Mitchell
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373576
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cloud Atlas written by David Mitchell and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity. Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.

Author : Lynne Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753820506
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming to Antarctica written by Lynne Cox and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 14, Lynne Cox swam 26 miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland; at 15 and 16, she broke the men's and women's world records for swimming the English Channel - a 33-mile crossing; at 18, she swam the 20-mile Cook Strait between North and South Islands of New Zealand; she was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the most treacherous 3-mile stretch of water in the world; she was first to swim the Bering Strait from Alaska to Siberia, thereby opening the U.S.-Soviet border for the first time in 48 years; and the first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (a shark emerged from the kelp, its jaws wide open, and was shot as it headed straight for her). And finally she is the first person to have swum a mile in 0 degree water in Antarctica.Lynne Cox writes about swimming the way Saint-Exupery wrote about flying, and one sees how swimming, like flying, can stretch the wings of the spirit. A thrilling, modest, vivid and lyrical, account of an inspiring life.

Author : Julie Otsuka
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593321332
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swimmers written by Julie Otsuka and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool. This searing, intimate story of mothers and daughters—and the sorrows of implacable loss—is the most commanding and unforgettable work yet from a modern master. The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into dislocation and chaos, swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese American incarceration camp in which she spent the war. Alice's estranged daughter, reentering her mother's life too late, witnesses her stark and devastating decline.

Author : Barbara Shaw McKinney
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 158469243X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Drop Around the World written by Barbara Shaw McKinney and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book is soon to be a classic that parents, teachers, and kids will all want! Readers travel the globe following a drop of water on its journey through the water cycle. The seamless blending of science and story make learning fun, and readers will be inspired to appreciate the world around us! Follow a drop of water on its natural voyage around the world, in clouds, as ice and snow, underground, in the sea, piped from a reservoir, in plants and even in an animal. The science of the water cycle and poetic verse come together and leave readers with a sense of connection to all living creatures. Great for anyone looking for books: about the water cycle and clouds for kids. to give as a gift for the kids in their life. as home schooling materials. for use in schools and libraries!

Author : Catherine McCall
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307345823
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifeguarding written by Catherine McCall and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her sharply observed and ultimately redemptive memoir, Catherine McCall paints a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking portrait of growing up in a complicated Southern family, whose perfect façade hides crippling imperfections. There are two parents, three children, and five ghosts in the McCall family. With their preppie clothes and country-club smiles, the McCalls look like all the other East End Louisville families. No one knows there are problems, that an internal gash the size of the Ohio river is flooding the family. All Cathy and her siblings can do is promise to stick together no matter what—and swim. But even though they are fast, the McCall kids can’t outdistance their father’s destructive habits and their mother’s worry. As her family reaches a breaking point and an unexpected love blooms, thirteen-year-old Cathy finds she must keep secrets of her own. Though the love in this family is strong, Cathy must discover if it’s tenacious enough to withstand the truth. Candid, captivating, and infused with compassion, Lifeguarding affirms the flexible strength of love itself; how family bonds must often bend to the point of breaking . . . and beyond.