The Link

The Link
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Mazurka for Two Dead Men

Mazurka for Two Dead Men
Author: Camilo José Cela
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811225658

A New York Times Best Book of the Year Nobel Prize Laureate Mazurka for Two Dead Men, the culmination of Camilo José Cela‘s literary art, opens in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War: Lionheart Gamuzo is savagely murdered. In 1939, as the war ends, his brother avenges his death. For both deaths, the blind accordion player Gaudencio plays the same mazurka. Set in backward rural Galicia, Cela’s excellent novel portrays a reign of fools, and works like contrapuntal music, its themes calling and responding, alternately brutal, melancholy, funny, lyrical, and coarse.

The Big Book of Festivals

The Big Book of Festivals
Author: Joan-Maree Hargreaves
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0571370241

Explore some of the most thrilling cultural and religious festivals from around the world!From Diwali, the Indian festival of light, to the Spanish tomato-throwing festival La Tomatina, to the Belgian Festival of Giants, this book is the perfect introduction to some of the world's most incredible cultural and religious celebrations.Exquisitely illustrated by Liz Rowland, every page is packed with fascinating fun filled facts!Some festivals are outrageously joyful, others are more serious. All of them bring people together to mark the big events in life. So dive into this riotous explosion of colour as we feast, sing, cry and celebrate the diversity of festivals and traditions this wonderful world of ours has to offer.'Gorgeous.' Reading Time'Perfect for young children . . . to introduce them to diverse celebrations and cultures.' Read Me Another Story'Incredibly immersive.' Indian Link

Not on My Watch

Not on My Watch
Author: Alexandra Morton
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0735279683

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love—the northern resident orca. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean farm pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising in which ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't obey their own court rulings. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon and ultimately the whales—a story that reveals her own perseverance and bravery, but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account for the sake of us all.

The Hive

The Hive
Author: Camilo José Cela
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001
Genre: Spain
ISBN: 9781564782687

The novel depicts the hardship borne by the lower-middle class following the Spanish Civil War.

Boxwood

Boxwood
Author: Camilo José Cela
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811214971

Reader bear with him. There's gold to mine!