Nona and Me

Nona and Me PDF Author: Clare Atkins
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1922231681
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
Rosie and Nona are sisters. Yapas. They are also best friends. It doesn’t matter that Rosie is white and Nona is Aboriginal: their family connections tie them together for life. The girls are inseparable until Nona moves away at the age of nine. By the time she returns, they’re in Year 10 and things have changed. Rosie prefers to hang out in the nearby mining town, where she goes to school with the glamorous Selena and her gorgeous older brother, Nick. When a political announcement highlights divisions between the Aboriginal community and the mining town, Rosie is put in a difficult position: will she have to choose between her first love and her oldest friend? Winner, Book of the Year: 2016 NT Literary Awards Highly commended, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards for Writing for Young Adults Longlisted, 2015 Inky Awards Honour Book, 2015 Children’s Book Council of Australia, Book of the Year for Older Reader Shortlisted, 2016 Territory Read Award ‘A powerful coming-of-age story ... Atkins writes with clear-eyed sensitivity, and although I longed to hear Nona’s voice, its absence is deliberate and effective. Nona & Me is poignant young-adult fiction invoking the complex and often overlooked realities of remote indigenous life.’ —Sydney Morning Herald ‘[Clare Atkins] wrestles with some of this country's most hotly debated political issues with a rare lightness of touch. [Nona & Me is] a convincing portrait of a naive but feverish first love, friendships waxing and waning, and the clash between fitting in and sticking to your values. Above all, there's a warmth and optimism that's hard to resist.’ —Sunday Age ‘This [is a] powerful, beautifully contoured story of cross-cultural friendship.’ —The Weekend Australian

Children of Blood and Bone

Children of Blood and Bone PDF Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 1250170974
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 543

Book Description
Zľie Adebola remembers when the soil of Ors̐ha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zľie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls.

Nonna Tell Me a Story

Nonna Tell Me a Story PDF Author: Lidia Bastianich
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0762443200
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
America's favorite Italian-American cook, Lidia Bastianich, shares the story of the Christmases she used to celebrate in Italy with her five grandchildren. When Lidia was a child, she spent Christmas with her grandparents, where she learned to cook with her Nonna Rosa by preparing food in their smokehouse and kitchen. Lidia and her brother would also find a big beautiful juniper bush to cut down for their holiday tree. And they made their own holiday decorations with nuts, berries, and herbs they collected for their meals. This delightful picture book is filled with the story of Lidia's Christmas traditions, delicious recipes, and decorating ideas all perfected over the years by Lidia and her family.

Nona the Ninth

Nona the Ninth PDF Author: Tamsyn Muir
Publisher: Tordotcom
ISBN: 1250854121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth? A Finalist for the Hugo and Locus Awards! An Indie Next Pick! The Locked Tomb is a 2023 Hugo Finalist for Best Series! “You will love Nona, and Nona loves you.” —Alix E. Harrow “Unlike anything I've ever read.” —V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth “Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” —The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever. And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

NONAME the Feral Cat

NONAME the Feral Cat PDF Author: Cynthia O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578193663
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
The story of a special feral cat and the love he shared with a little girl.

White Shoes

White Shoes PDF Author: Nona Faustine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913620516
Category : Female nude in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
White Shoes' is a collection of self-portraits taken in locations around New York that were central to the city's once pivotal - and now largely obscured and unacknowledged - involvement in the slave trade. Nona Faustine depicts herself at the sites of slave auctions, burial grounds, slave-owning farms, and the coastal locations where slave ships docked, posing nude apart from a pair of white high-heeled shoes. Documenting herself in places where history becomes tangible, Faustine acts as a conduit or receptor, in solidarity with people whose names and memories have been lost but are embedded in the land. Through quiet but defiant self-representation, Faustine responds to a history of depiction of Black people that is shaped by subjugation, phrenology, and pseudo-science. Her complex large-format images refer and respond to a range of sources including daguerrotypes of slaves and photographs commissioned by naturalists, while her nudity - expressive of fearless self-possession as well as vulnerability - subverts the legacy of Black and female nudes in Western art. Running throughout the images, the talismanic white shoes that give the series its name suggest the many adaptations to dominant White culture that were and are still demanded of people of colour. At once historical and speculative, White Shoes confronts the relationship between the visible and invisible, between what is displayed and what is kept from view. Includes newly commissioned texts by Pamela Sneed, Jessica Lanay, Jonathan Michael Square and Seph Rodney, together with an interview of the artist by Jessica Lanay

The Noname

The Noname PDF Author: JX
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984582437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description
These stories are of the battle between the light side and the dark side in each of us within our four brains. They are the outer and inner battles of a modern Jedi. As above so below. Part 1. King of Spades. The Moving brain. Core is ‘spirit, will and chi as connectivity, and how it can be used for good or evil. The physical challenge of using ones will and chi, and how it can be used to manipulate and control by the dark side. Part 2. King of Hearts. The Emotional brain. Core is ‘spirit and it’s centre in the heart. After winning a battle deeper emotionality of the dark side remains in our heart sometimes to a great depth. The poltergeist is our subconscious and how things we think we have conquered return from the dark side to haunt us. Part 3. King of Diamonds. The Intellectual brain. Core is ‘spirit and intelligence.’ the bright side of the intellect and freedom versus the dark side of oppressive ego and dominance of the state. Or free will versus dominance in ones mind. Part 4. King of Clubs. The Physical brain. Core is ‘As above so below’ Every person is their own planet Earth, their friends orbit them and when their closest friend (the moon) moves out of orbit the seismic turmoil can wash them away. The physical light side of our world and dark illnesses can pervade. The fundamental connection between humans and the World, and the route to Spirit is through their sense of humour. It opens the door to the light, and illuminates some dark corners.

Liberation Unleashed

Liberation Unleashed PDF Author: Ilona Ciunaite
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1626258082
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Liberation Unleashed introduces you to the process of unraveling the false sense of a separate self at the center of your existence. With insightful metaphors, personal stories, and guided dialogues, this book points directly to our lack of separation and helps you move toward a new, more open reality of selfless bliss. Using the seven clear and focused steps presented, you’ll find liberation in realizing there is no individuated “I” and marvel at the true nature of things. Author Ilona Ciunaite’s search for the truth began when she first “experienced silence of the thinking mind, a sweet sense of being, contentment, peace,” and “feeling at home.” Driven by a desire to reach that state of oneness once more, her path led her through spiritual writings to the process of deconstruction and non-dual self-inquiry and finally to a peaceful emptiness of not knowing, but of simply being. It’s from that place that Ciunaite cocreated the popular Liberation Unleashed forum—a global Internet-based community helping people see through the illusion of a separate self—and it’s just that sense of unknowing peace she wishes to impart with this book. Liberation Unleashed is a lively, fresh, and moving account of the author’s own searching, liberation, and transformation, woven together with the stories of fellow seekers and a clear exposition of the simple, focused tools you can use to go through the “gateless gate.” With its conversational tone, provocative questions, and the presentation of the seven steps—“Clearing the path—meeting the fear,” “Strip away ALL expectations,” “Get in touch with the real,” “‘I’ is a thought,” “There is no separate self,” “How does it feel to see this?” and “Falling”—this book serves as an introductory how-to guide, demonstrating how to use the process of self-inquiry to get free from the falseness of the separate self and realize a blissful oneness. So many of us go through life feeling isolated, searching for ourselves, or seeking a more authentic reality through religion, spirituality, or other, more unconventional means of expanding consciousness. Now, with this book and its guiding principles, you’ll learn how to look deeply into the nature of self and existence; combat the anxieties, fears, mental blocks, and reservations that can arise in self-inquiry; and see the simple beauty of the everyday moment.
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