Treacle Walker

Treacle Walker
Title Treacle Walker PDF eBook
Author Alan Garner
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 160
Release 2023-11-14
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1668025515

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Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize An extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers. An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading comic books, collecting birds’ eggs, and playing with marbles. When one day a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears on a horse and cart, offering a cure-all medicine, a mysterious friendship develops and the young boy is introduced to a world beyond his wildest imagination. Luminous, evocative, and sparely told, Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth, folklore, and the stories we tell ourselves.

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
Title Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth PDF eBook
Author Wole Soyinka
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 465
Release 2021-09-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1526638223

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'Soyinka's greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book' - Ben Okri 'A high-jinks state-of-the-nation novel' - Chibundu Onuzo A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A towering figure in world literature, Wole Soyinka aims directly at the corridors of power as he warns against corruption both of high office and of the soul, with a dazzling lightness of touch and gleeful irreverence. Much to Doctor Menka's horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Already at the end of his tether from the horrors he routinely sees in surgery, he shares this latest development with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne, who has never before met a puzzle he couldn't solve. Neither realise how close the enemy is, nor how powerful. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a savagely witty whodunit, a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite, and a provocative call to arms from one of the country's most relentless political activists and an international literary giant. MORE PRAISE FOR WOLE SOYINKA: 'You don't see the things the same when you encounter a voice like that' - Toni Morrison 'One of the best there is today, a poet and a thinker, who knows both how the world works and how the world should work' - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Guardian Chronicles

The Guardian Chronicles
Title The Guardian Chronicles PDF eBook
Author Michael Lee
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 184
Release 2010-02-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1450040322

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Gangar the Golden dragon, Guardian of the world of Bremaria, is dying. Before meeting death, all Guardians choose an apprentice to be their successor, to carry on their life and powers. But Trantyricus the Black misused his master´s teachings, and was cast from his side...but not before he had seized most of the world in a last-ditch effort to control all people, everywhere. Now, Ganagr chooses a mismatched group of heroes to stop his former student form destroying the world he loves...if he can keep them from destroying one another first! But they´d better hurry, for the Guardian´s time is running out!

Chronicles

Chronicles
Title Chronicles PDF eBook
Author Thomas Piketty
Publisher Penguin Group
Pages 0
Release 2017
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780241307205

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Shares incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, counseling democratic societies on how to avoid the practices that have led to unregulated markets and economic inequality.

The Guardian Chronicles

The Guardian Chronicles
Title The Guardian Chronicles PDF eBook
Author J. L. Heathfield
Publisher Author House
Pages 293
Release 2014
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1496981464

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Cain is a soul that can never enter Eden and is born of pain and suffering for a crime he cannot remember. But maybe with the help of his childhood friends Michael and Lucifer he may finally find redemption. He is the darkest of souls but Cain is all that stands between the creatures of the night and a great evil rising.

And Now We Have Everything

And Now We Have Everything
Title And Now We Have Everything PDF eBook
Author Meaghan O'Connell
Publisher Little, Brown
Pages 240
Release 2018-04-10
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0316393835

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Selected as One of the Best Books of the Year by: National Public Radio, Esquire, Bustle, Refinery29, Thrillist, Electric Literature, Powell's, Autostraddle, BookRiot, Women.com "Smart, funny, and true in all the best ways, this book made me ache with recognition." -- Cheryl Strayed A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood -- didn't exist. So she decided to write it herself. And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of the cataclysmic, impossible-to-prepare-for experience of becoming a mother. With her dark humor and hair-trigger B.S. detector, O'Connell addresses the pervasive imposter syndrome that comes with unplanned pregnancy, the fantasies of a "natural" birth experience that erode maternal self-esteem, post-partum body and sex issues, and the fascinating strangeness of stepping into a new, not-yet-comfortable identity. Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and often unspoken, And Now We Have Everything is an unflinchingly frank, funny, and visceral motherhood story for our times, about having a baby and staying, for better or worse, exactly yourself.

The Guardian Chronicles

The Guardian Chronicles
Title The Guardian Chronicles PDF eBook
Author E. Genelle Edwards
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 391
Release 2015-05-14
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1503552365

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As a Guardian, Kendi was created to protect the human race from the Dominion, but after his negligence causes the death of his second assignment, he is sentenced in the high court of Empyrean to Earth Dutythis time as a mortaland one last chance to fulfill his purpose. Kendis sentence has been carefully structured by Jah, and unbeknownst to him, it would compound and morph into a greater responsibility and greater threat than he could have ever imagined. Kendis inadequacy and bad attitude soon draw the attention of the Dominion army, the Angelic Host, and a pack of hostile football players, and he becomes the target of revenge from all sides. All of Kendis hatred and preconceived notions about the human race seem to be coming to fruition until he encounters a glitch in the matrix, Sarielle Breland, a selfless young woman who shatters his carefully constructed facade and ignites a host of foreign emotions that he is not prepared to handle.