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Author : Minfong Ho
Release : 2008
Genre : Thailand
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 718/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rice Without Rain by : Minfong Ho
Download or read book Rice Without Rain written by Minfong Ho. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Elkin
Release : 199?
Genre : English literature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 135/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Minfong Ho's Rice Without Rain by : Susan Elkin
Download or read book Minfong Ho's Rice Without Rain written by Susan Elkin. This book was released on 199?. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice Mead
Release : 2003-05-08
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 888/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Year of No Rain by : Alice Mead
Download or read book Year of No Rain written by Alice Mead. This book was released on 2003-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An artfully told story . . . The history, the land, and the determination of a band of refugees to care for each other are vividly evoked in this important work." -- Starred review, Kirkus Reviews In the dry spring of 1999, eleven-year-old Stephen Majok watches as his friend Wol joins a circle of dancers. Wol is celebrating – only fourteen, he is engaged to Stephen’s sister. Wol wants to marry because he might join the guerrillas in southern Sudan and fight the northern government soldiers. He wants a wife to remember him. Stephen thinks Wol is crazy. Children should study. But because of the civil war, there has been no school in their village for over a year. All Stephen has left from his student days is his books and one precious pencil, and the hunger for knowledge. Then, suddenly – but not unexpectedly – exploding bombs are heard in the tiny village. Stephen’s mother tells him to hurry, pack his bag, and hide beyond the forest with Wol and their friend Deng. Stephen grabs his geography book, his pencil, and little else. He does not want to leave his mother and sister. He does not want to leave the life he loves. In her latest portrayal of “children caught in the cultural crossfire” (School Library Journal), Alice Mead emphasizes the attachment all humans have to the small place on earth we call home, and our resistance to being displaced, even when our very lives are threatened.
Author : Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Release : 2019
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 768/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bangkok Wakes to Rain by : Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Download or read book Bangkok Wakes to Rain written by Pitchaya Sudbanthad. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos of Siam increasingly difficult to resist. A post-war society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting the course of her future. A jazz pianist is summoned in the 1970s to conjure music that will pacify resident spirits, even as he's haunted by ghosts of his former life. Not long after, a young woman gives swimming lessons in the luxury condos that have eclipsed the old house, trying to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in the post-submergence Bangkok of the future, a band of savvy teenagers guides tourists and former residents past waterlogged, ruined landmarks, selling them tissues to wipe their tears for places they themselves do not remember. Time collapses as these stories collide and converge, linked by blood, memory, yearning, chance, and the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibian, ever-morphing city itself"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Release : 2005-07-26
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 800/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Forty Signs of Rain by : Kim Stanley Robinson
Download or read book Forty Signs of Rain written by Kim Stanley Robinson. This book was released on 2005-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt presents a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation’s capital—and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly yet humorously realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines. When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That was last year. It’s a muggy summer in Washington, D.C., as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler and his scientist wife, Anna, work to call attention to the growing crisis of global warming. But as these everyday heroes fight to align the awesome forces of nature with the extraordinary march of technology, fate puts an unusual twist on their efforts—one that will place them at the heart of an unavoidable storm.
