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House Of Stars And Flowers On Mars

Author : Sakshi Narula

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Page : 138 pages

File Size : 40,25 MB

Release : 2021-03-30

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From the author of Loveish and The Art Of Staying Lost poetry series comes this poignant, sassy yet vulnerable collection of love poems, House Of Stars And Flowers On Mars. Sakshi weaves words like fine cashmere in this collection and is one of the few modern poets who bring glamour and the old world charm to contemporary poetry. Poetry can be unsettle, soothe, elevate and enrich the soul. This collection of love poems does that effortlessly by painting pictures in nuanced verses that are soft and relatable. This is the black and white version of this collection. A special edition of this collection is also available in full color. FLOWER ON MARSThe florist has sad eyes and the flower shop smells of pain. Every lover in a book of poetry heartbroken, every bystander__ a murmur of grief. What is the color of your sorrow? Mine is called Living Coral on the Pantone. Can I buy you flowers in that color? Can I make love to you __and stop you from breaking?



Life on Mars

Author : Jon Agee

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 19 pages

File Size : 14,78 MB

Release : 2017-02-28

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0735229015

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In this sneaky, silly picture book for fans of Oliver Jeffers and Jon Klassen, an intrepid—but not so clever—space explorer is certain he’s found the only living thing on Mars A young astronaut is absolutely sure there is life to be found on Mars. He sets off on a solitary mission, determined to prove the naysayers wrong. But when he arrives, equipped with a package of cupcakes as a gift, he sees nothing but a nearly barren planet. Finally, he spies a single flower and packs it away to take back to Earth as proof that there is indeed life on Mars. But as he settles in for the journey home, he cracks open his cupcakes—only to discover that someone has eaten them all! Readers will love being in on the secret: Unbeknownst to the explorer, a Martian has been wandering through the illustrations the whole time—and he got himself a delicious snack along the way.



The House on Mango Street

Author : Sandra Cisneros

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 43,30 MB

Release : 2013-04-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0345807197

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.



Moon and the Mars

Author : Kia Corthron

Publisher : Seven Stories Press

Page : 700 pages

File Size : 25,73 MB

Release : 2021-09-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1644211041

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An exploration of NYC and America in the burgeoning moments before the start of the Civil War through the eyes of a young, biracial girl—the highly anticipated new novel from the winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. "Corthron, a true heir to James Baldwin, presents a startlingly original exposure of the complex roots of American racism." —Naomi Wallace, MacArthur "Genius" Playwriting Fellow and author of One Flea Spare In Moon and the Mars, set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857-1863, we experience neighborhood life through the eyes of Theo from childhood to adolescence, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandmothers. Throughout her formative years, Theo witnesses everything from the creation of tap dance to P.T. Barnum's sensationalist museum to the draft riots that tear NYC asunder, amidst the daily maelstrom of Five Points work, hardship, and camaraderie. Meanwhile, white America's attitudes towards people of color and slavery are shifting—painfully, transformationally—as the nation divides and marches to war. As with her first novel, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, which was praised by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Angela Y. Davis, among many others, Corthron's use of dialogue brings her characters to life in a way that only an award-winning playwright and scriptwriter can do. As Theo grows and attends school, her language and grammar change, as does her own vocabulary when she's with her Black or Irish families. It's an extraordinary feat and a revelation for the reader. "Moon and the Mars, [Corthron's] latest masterpiece, is an absorbing story of family and community, of Africans and Irish, of settler and native, of slavery and abolition, of a city and a nation wracked by Civil War and racist violence, of love won and lost." —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original



The Lion of Mars

Author : Jennifer L. Holm

Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 20,2 MB

Release : 2021-01-05

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0593121813

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Life on Mars is pretty standard…. until a mysterious virus hits. Don’t miss this timely and unputdownable novel from the bestselling author of The Fourteenth Goldfish. Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid--he loves cats and any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't they have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular kid in a very different world--to uncover the truth and save his family...and possibly unite an entire planet. Mars may be a world far, far away, but in the hands of Jennifer L. Holm, beloved and bestselling author of The Fourteenth Goldfish, it can't help but feel like home.



Life on Mar's

Author : Mar Jennings

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 21,21 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Interior decoration

ISBN : 9780578120829

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Casual Luxury is the cure for all design dilemmas. My six principles will work in your home regardless of its size, your personal style, and in any room. Casual Luxury has no boundaries. Emmy-nominated TV Host, Lifestyle Expert and best-selling author Mar Jennings is known for his signature style: Casual Luxury. He is a master at making it quickly understood and easy to apply with his trademark tips and techniques--Casual Luxury made simple and sMARt. Mar's inventive and original blueprint for design infuses Mother Nature's colors and textures throughout the home and garden. For the first time he shares how Casual Luxury can be broken down into six design principles that anyone can apply. The book invites us all inside his Westport, Connecticut, home, as we explore with him his six design principles for creating a Casual Luxury home, room by room. This deluxe oversized coffee table book is filled with photographic essays highlighting his philosophy, plus practical applications and resourcefulness applicable for any home or space. Like an entire season of a design show, LIFE ON MAR'S: Creating Casual Luxury will allow readers access to an encyclopedia of great ideas to apply in their home. This lifestyle expert does it with simplicity and style, balancing natural solutions with everyday elegance. Having a beautiful home or apartment is an attainable goal, says Jennings. If I can do it by mixing price points, my personal style, and local resources then you can, too! His award-winning website marjennings.com is one of the best resources for home and garden tips. Mar has served as host and producer of an Emmy-nominated lifestyle show featuring the best of the best from along the eastern seaboard, and as an in-house host and lifestyle expert for FOX. He is also an expert for Celebrations.com, and a correspondent and home and garden expert for The Better Show, a nationally syndicated lifestyle TV program that centers around all things which aim to make your life better. Mar has appeared on ABC, The Today Show, HGTV's White Room Challenge and Flea Market Flip and many more. Connecticut viewers will also know Mar as host of the Dream Room Makeover, Dream Wedding, Backyard Makeover, and many years of the annual Holiday Wishes series. As a top lifestyle expert, Mar has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. His home and gardens have been profiled in many national publications, including Better Homes and Gardens, Decorating magazine, Home magazine, Quick & Simple magazine, Creative magazine, Small Gardens magazine, Westport Magazine and AtHome magazine. In addition, his gardens were chosen and featured in In the Garden, a pictorial essay by renowned photographer Stacy Bass. Mar Jennings is also the author of the best selling LIFE ON MAR'S: A Four Season Garden, a nationally acclaimed gardening book, sold world-wide.



The Sirens of Mars

Author : Sarah Stewart Johnson

Publisher : Crown

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 39,19 MB

Release : 2020-07-07

Category : Science

ISBN : 1101904828

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“Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of Mars in this celebration of human curiosity, passion, and perseverance.”—Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD FOR SCIENCE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Times (UK) • Library Journal “Lovely . . . Johnson’s prose swirls with lyrical wonder, as varied and multihued as the apricot deserts, butterscotch skies and blue sunsets of Mars.”—Anthony Doerr, The New York Times Book Review Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum—on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering find, one that would inspire humankind as much as any discovery in the history of modern science. In this beautifully observed, deeply personal book, Georgetown scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson tells the story of how she and other researchers have scoured Mars for signs of life, transforming the planet from a distant point of light into a world of its own. Johnson’s fascination with Mars began as a child in Kentucky, turning over rocks with her father and looking at planets in the night sky. She now conducts fieldwork in some of Earth’s most hostile environments, such as the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and the salt flats of Western Australia, developing methods for detecting life on other worlds. Here, with poetic precision, she interlaces her own personal journey—as a female scientist and a mother—with tales of other seekers, from Percival Lowell, who was convinced that a utopian society existed on Mars, to Audouin Dollfus, who tried to carry out astronomical observations from a stratospheric balloon. In the process, she shows how the story of Mars is also a story about Earth: This other world has been our mirror, our foil, a telltale reflection of our own anxieties and yearnings. Empathetic and evocative, The Sirens of Mars offers an unlikely natural history of a place where no human has ever set foot, while providing a vivid portrait of our quest to defy our isolation in the cosmos.



Star Force on Human Life

Author : Ratnam Kandasamy

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 122 pages

File Size : 28,35 MB

Release : 2013-07-31

Category : Science

ISBN : 148365706X

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Planets in the cosmos affect the lives on earth; we know that all forms of life on earth are made up of building blocks from planets around the earth. Essentially, these planets therefore exert their control, on the lives of human beings on earth. These planets send electromagnetic radiation and rays to earth, both weak and strong which demonstrates one aspect of their ability to influence lives. Human beings are continuing to understand these effects through many years of analytical work and case studies which is the basis of astrology. Humans are able to reasonably protect themselves from negative impacts of the planets and avoid unwanted effects. Meteorologists, other scientists and astrologists are not playing God; they are studying, understanding, developing and protecting humans on earth from such negative influences. There are many areas of interest for humans; things that affect all of our lives, such as health, wealth, education, married life, childbirth and employment. Making decisions on these areas are also effected as we are using our mind, feelings and personal judgment. Planets essentially affect our mind, hence altering our abilities to make important decisions with positive or negative outcomes. When and how, the planets affect our lives can be understood to a certain extent, through the knowledge of astrology. This book does not cover all aspects of astrology to practice as an astrologer. People with limited or no knowledge of astrology trying to understand astrological jargons and predictions, will find this book useful in understanding the basics of astrology; yet, it also provides an interesting read for those who have never been previously exposed to astrology.



Vacuum Flowers

Author : Michael Swanwick

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 12,50 MB

Release : 2016-05-31

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1504036506

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A cyberpunk thriller from Nebula Award winner Michael Swanwick that explores bioengineering, wetware, and the riddle of personality Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark is a recorded personality owned by corporate giant Deutsche Nakasone. When Rebel’s personality is uploaded to persona tester Eucrasia Walsh and burned into her brain, Rebel escapes the corporation and takes off across an exotically transformed solar system, hijacking Eucrasia’s body and becoming the most wanted fugitive in existence. A fast-paced technological thriller, Vacuum Flowers allows the reader to consider the implications of bioengineering while providing an entertaining and dynamic story. Reminiscent of the innovative work of Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling, this high-tech work of science fiction carves out a niche all its own with themes as relevant today as when it was first published.



Last Summer at Mars Hill

Author : Elizabeth Hand

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 448 pages

File Size : 40,11 MB

Release : 2013-05-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1480422010

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Short fiction that’s “poignant and terrifying by turns”—including a Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winning novella (Publishers Weekly). Twelve exceptional stories by the multiple award–winning author of Waking the Moon and Black Light prove that Elizabeth Hand is just as adept with short fiction as she is in the novel form. The title story traces a world-changing summer at a New England artists’ colony for young Shadowmoon Starlight Rising, who comes to know life, death, and an unbelievable secret about the strange apparitions that dwell in her community. Other stories include “Snow on Sugar Mountain,” which features a young boy who has the power to shapeshift into any form with the help of a Native American artifact; “The Bacchae,” in which womankind rules a savage futuristic version of our world; and “The Erl-King,” where a fairy tale horrifyingly comes true. Each story includes an afterword by the author. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.



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