The Quiet Spectacular

Author: Laurence Fearnley
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 174348724X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Funny and moving, this novel subverts notions of 'man vs. wild' while showcasing female experience through encounters with family, friends and the natural world. Loretta is a school librarian, who embarks on compiling The Dangerous Book for Menopausal Women while waiting to collect her son from after-school activities. Chance is a teenager, who discovers an unusual creative outlet to offset the strain of her controlling mother. Riva is the founder of a wetlands sanctuary, who is seeking a way to fulfil her promise to her dying sister to do something 'absolutely spectacular'. Within a clearing in the woods by a lake stands a den, a secret sanctuary and eventual meeting place for all three women . . .

Seeing Silence

Author: Pete McBride
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847870863
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
In a world ever more congested and polluted with both toxins and noise, award-winning photographer Pete McBride takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul. We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but it is actually the void where we can hear the sublime notes of nature. In this National Outdoor Book Award winning work, photographer Pete McBride reveals the wonders of these hushed places in spectacular imagery—from the thin-air flanks of Mount Everest to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the high-altitude vistas of the Atacama to the African savannah, and from the Antarctic Peninsula to the flowing waters of the Ganges and Nile. These places remind us of the magic of being “truly away” and how such places are vanishing. Often showing beauty from vantages where no other photographer has ever stood, this is a seven-continent visual tour of global quietude—and the power in nature’s own sounds—that will both inspire and calm.

The Spectacular Now

Author: Tim Tharp
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407146467
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Sutter's the guy you want at your party. Aimee's not. She needs help and it's up to Sutter to show Aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go forth and prosper. But Aimee's not like other girls and before long he's over his head. For the first time in his life he has the power to make a difference in someone else's life - or ruin it forever.

Spectacular Happiness

Author: Peter D. Kramer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743223241
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Finding himself the idealized center of a media circus, a terrorist who is also an English professor recounts his exploits in a letter to his estranged son. In this fictional debut, the author of "Listening to Prozac" brilliantly illuminates contemporary sensibilities and their often astonishing effects on the way lives unfold.

Fox & Chick: The Quiet Boat Ride

Author: Sergio Ruzzier
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
ISBN: 1452153612
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
In the second book of this lauded series, Fox and Chick are off on three new adventures involving a boat ride, a mysterious box, and an early morning trip to see the sunrise. Despite the antics ensuing from their opposite personalities, the contradictory duo always manages to find a happy center. This early chapter book in comic-book form is perfect for emerging readers, while the sweet and funny characters and captivating art hold appeal for picturebook audiences as well.

God's Quiet Things

Author: Nancy Sweetland
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 0802851673
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Illustrations and rhyming text depict the quiet wonder of God's creation.

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Author: Maddie Mortimer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198218177X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
Lia, her husband, Harry, and their daughter, Iris, are a perfectly balanced family of three with a happy life. But when a devasting diagnosis threatens to derail their lives, the world around them begins to warp and transform, and Lia's carefully hidden secrets come rushing out.

She Was the Quiet One

Author: Michele Campbell
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250081831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
"When twin sisters Rose and Bel Enright enroll in The Odell School, a prestigious New Hampshire boarding school, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. But the sisters could not be more different. The school brings out a rivalry between them that few ever knew existed. And the school itself has a dark underbelly of privileged kids running unchecked and uninhibited, of rituals and traditions that are more sinister than they seem, of wealth and entitlement that can only lead to disaster"--

Spot What! Picture Hunt

Author: Nick Bryant
Publisher: hinkler
ISBN: 1743529597
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 9

Book Description
Within these pages you will find, many things of a different kind, an d test your skill at spotting what, you have to spot to find the lot. But when you make it to the end, that may seem all but no my friend, for once you're done and found the lot, you can start again to play Spot What! Children have loved the Spot What! books for over 10 years. The brilliant spreads are full-colour, featuring a list of clues of things to find on each page and a bonus Spot What Challenge at the end - the perfect thing to keep children entertained for hours. And these brand new covers now have a lenticular eye that follows you around the room! Collect them all!

Action Cinema Since 2000

Author: Chris Holmlund
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1839022795
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century. Contributors examine a broad range of content, from blockbusters to smaller independent films, originating from China, Korea, India, France, the USA, and Mexico. Ranging from JSA: Joint Security Area (Gondonggeonygbi guyeok) (2000) to Polite Society (2023), they consider the changing modes of action cinema, with streaming assuming global importance and an ever-increasing number of generic blends. They consider under-explored areas of action film, particularly how race, ethnicity, gender, and age figure in narratives and through image and soundtracks. Overall, the book demonstrates how 21st century action cinema engages with and reflects geopolitical, creative, and industrial developments. Contributors argue that it continues to offer fantasies of empowerment and mobility that say much about how power is understood in diverse contexts today.