Flowers in the Sky

Flowers in the Sky
Title Flowers in the Sky PDF eBook
Author Lynn Joseph
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 194
Release 2013-03-05
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 0062236423

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Just about everyone from my country, República Dominicana, dreams of moving to New York City, except for me. On the flight to New York, my first time on a plane, my first time away from Mami, I was finally free to cry. But nothing came out. I watched as the green mountains of my beloved island slipped away far below. Fifteen-year-old Nina Perez is faced with a future she never expected. She must leave her Garden of Eden, her lush island home in Samana, Dominican Republic, when she's sent by her mother to live with her brother, Darrio, in New York, to seek out a better life. As Nina searches for some glimpse of familiarity amid the urban and jarring world of Washington Heights, she learns to uncover her own strength and independence. She finds a way to grow, just like the orchids that blossom on her fire escape. And as she is confronted by ugly secrets about her brother's business, she comes to understand the realities of life in this new place. But then she meets him—that tall, green-eyed boy—one that she can't erase from her thoughts, who just might help her learn to see beauty in spite of tragedy. From the acclaimed author of the color of my words comes a powerful story of a girl who must make her way in a new world and find her place within it.

Flowers of the Sky

Flowers of the Sky
Title Flowers of the Sky PDF eBook
Author Richard Anthony Proctor
Publisher
Pages 346
Release 1883
Genre Astronomy
ISBN

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Flowers in the Sky

Flowers in the Sky
Title Flowers in the Sky PDF eBook
Author Clarissa Hughes
Publisher
Pages 96
Release 2012
Genre Astronomy
ISBN 9780620513876

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Flowers in the Sky

Flowers in the Sky
Title Flowers in the Sky PDF eBook
Author Kok Liang Lee
Publisher
Pages 174
Release 1981
Genre Malaysian fiction (English)
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Bright of the Sky

Bright of the Sky
Title Bright of the Sky PDF eBook
Author Kay Kenyon
Publisher Prometheus Books
Pages 485
Release 2010-08-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1591028256

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Kay Kenyon, noted for her science fiction world-building, has in this new series created her most vivid and compelling society, the Universe Entire. In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, the Entire is a bizarre and seductive mix of long-lived quasi-human and alien beings gathered under a sky of fire, called the bright. A land of wonders, the Entire is sustained by monumental storm walls and an exotic, never-ending river. Over all, the elegant and cruel Tarig rule supreme. Into this rich milieu is thrust Titus Quinn, former star pilot, bereft of his beloved wife and daughter who are assumed dead by everyone on earth except Quinn. Believing them trapped in a parallel universe—one where he himself may have been imprisoned—he returns to the Entire without resources, language, or his memories of that former life. He is assisted by Anzi, a woman of the Chalin people, a Chinese culture copied from our own universe and transformed by the kingdom of the bright. Learning of his daughter’s dreadful slavery, Quinn swears to free her. To do so, he must cross the unimaginable distances of the Entire in disguise, for the Tarig are lying in wait for him. As Quinn’s memories return, he discovers why. Quinn’s goal is to penetrate the exotic culture of the Entire—to the heart of Tarig power, the fabulous city of the Ascendancy, to steal the key to his family’s redemption. But will his daughter and wife welcome rescue? Ten years of brutality have forced compromises on everyone. What Quinn will learn to his dismay is what his own choices were, long ago, in the Universe Entire. He will also discover why a fearful multiverse destiny is converging on him and what he must sacrifice to oppose the coming storm. This is high-concept SF written on the scale of Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld, Roger Zelazny’s Amber Chronicles, and Dan Simmons’s Hyperion.

Footprints in the Sky

Footprints in the Sky
Title Footprints in the Sky PDF eBook
Author Angela Flowers
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages 28
Release 2015-10-01
Genre Children and death
ISBN 9781523851508

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A daughter shares memories of her father, who died when she was still in her childhood.

Pebble Swing

Pebble Swing
Title Pebble Swing PDF eBook
Author Isabella Wang
Publisher Harbour Publishing
Pages 113
Release 2021-10-16
Genre Poetry
ISBN 088971407X

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A much-anticipated debut collection from one of Canada’s most promising emerging poets Pebble Swing earns its title from the image of stones skipping their way across a body of water, or, in the author’s case, syllables and traces of her mother tongue bouncing back at her from the water’s reflective surface. This collection is about language and family histories. It is the author’s attempt to piece together the resonant aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which stole the life of her paternal grandmother. As an immigrant whose grasp of Mandarin is fading, Wang explores absences in her caesuras and fragmentation—that which is unspoken, but endures. The poems in this collection also trace the experiences of a young poet who left home at seventeen to pursue writing; the result is a series of city poetry infused with memory, the small joys of Vancouver’s everyday, environmental politics, grief and notions of home. While the poetics of response are abundant in the collection—with poems written to Natalie Lim and Ashley Hynd—the last section of the book, "Thirteen Ghazals and Anti-Ghazals after Phyllis Webb," forges a continued response to Phyllis Webb on Salt Spring Island, and innovates within the possibilities of the experimental ghazal form.