Wake Up, Sun!

Wake Up, Sun!
Author: David L. Harrison
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2013-04-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385372795

Illus. in full color. "A comedy about a menagerie of barnyard animals who mistakenly think the sun has forgotten to rise. Designed for children just beginning to read, the story's vocabulary is simple, yet is smoothly written. A good choice."--Booklist.

Wake of the Sun

Wake of the Sun
Author: Jon Campbell-Copp
Publisher: Birch Island
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2014-01-25
Genre:
ISBN:

Sixteen years after being abducted by her father, Meredith Simon boards a flight from Paris to New York. She is 24 and the daughter of Patrick Simon, a fugitive wanted in connection with crimes across two continents, and a conspiracy icon hailed by some as the architect of a new method for producing hydrogen fuel. In just two decades, hydrogen has fast replaced conventional fossil fuels to become the main source of electric power in the United States and other countries around the world. Waiting at the airport in New York is Agent Hanna Corsica of the FBI Missing Persons unit. She has been assigned to interview Meredith about the circumstances of her alleged kidnapping. After retiring to a nearby safehouse, Agent Corsica must speedily sift through doubt and evidence to discern if Meredith can be trusted. With pressure mounting from beyond the safehouse walls, Agent Corsica is compelled to test the strength of the Simon’s implausible tale, the implications of which reach to the highest echelons of power.

In the Wake of the Sun

In the Wake of the Sun
Author: Christopher J. Walsh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780979729270

Dr. Chris Walsh's scholarship has resulted in a new study on one of America's leading authors. In the Wake of the Sun: Navigating the Southern Works of Cormac McCarthy offers close textual analysis of all of McCarthy's Southern works along with an overview of the notable critical responses to them. The book is designed for use by scholars, teachers, and students at all levels. McCarthy's works set in the desert Southwest have received substantial critical and commercial acclaim. However, his Appalachian texts--which include two short stories written as an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee, five novels (including the Pulitzer Prize winner The Road), a play, and a screenplay--rival the Southwestern works in terms of their aesthetic achievement and complexity. In the Wake of the Sun introduces readers, scholars, and students to the pertinent themes in each text while also walking them through the most significant critical dialogues surrounding the texts.

The Day the Sun Wouldn't Get Out of Bed

The Day the Sun Wouldn't Get Out of Bed
Author: Ewain Black
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2021-04-09
Genre:
ISBN:

We can all have mornings when we don't feel like getting out of our beds. But what if its the Sun that doesn't want to get up? And how angry will this make the Moon? This charming story tells a tale of two old friends who have been rising and falling for a very long time. The Day the Sun Wouldn't Get Out of Bed, looks at the idea of friendship and consolation as well as how to keep going when things get a bit tough. It will bring comfort to children and parents alike.The amusing storyline, with beautiful illustrations, is written in rhyme, which is helpful for young ones that are just starting out on their reading journey.The first in its series, all of Deep Breath Publications books are designed to create a chance to reflect and open up conversations about relationships, looking out for one another and looking after yourself.

Morning Sun in Wuhan

Morning Sun in Wuhan
Author: Ying Chang Compestine
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2022-11-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0358571928

A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * A NCSS 2023 Notable Social Studies Trade Book What was the pandemic of the century like at the start? This swift, gripping novel captures not only the uncertainty and panic when COVID first emerged in Wuhan, but also how a community banded together. Weaving in the tastes and sounds of the historic city, Wuhan’s comforting and distinctive cuisine comes to life as the reader follows 13-year-old Mei who, through her love for cooking, makes a difference in her community. Written by an award-winning author originally from Wuhan. Grieving the death of her mother and an outcast at school, thirteen-year-old Mei finds solace in cooking and computer games. When her friend’s grandmother falls ill, Mei seeks out her father, a doctor, for help, and discovers the hospital is overcrowded. As the virus spreads, Mei finds herself alone in a locked-down city trying to find a way to help. Author Ying Chang Compestine draws on her own experiences growing up in Wuhan to illustrate that the darkest times can bring out the best in people, friendship can give one courage in frightening times, and most importantly, young people can make an impact on the world. Readers can follow Mei’s tantalizing recipes and cook them at home.

The Day the Sun Died

The Day the Sun Died
Author: Yan Lianke
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2018-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473548063

‘One of the masters of modern Chinese literature’ Jung Chang This gripping dystopia contrasts the reality of life in China today with the sunny optimism of the ‘Chinese dream’. One dusk in early June, in a town deep in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old Li Niannian notices that something strange is going on. As the residents would usually be settling down for the night, instead they start appearing in the streets and fields. There are people everywhere. Li Niannian watches, mystified. Until he realises the people are dreamwalking, carrying on with their daily business as if the sun hadn’t already gone down. And before too long, as more and more people succumb, in the black of night all hell breaks loose. Set over the course of one night, The Day the Sun Died pits chaos and darkness against the bright ‘Chinese dream’ promoted by President Xi Jinping. We are thrown into the middle of an increasingly strange and troubling waking nightmare as Li Niannian and his father struggle to save the town, and persuade the beneficent sun to rise again. Praise for Yan Lianke's books: ‘Nothing short of a masterpiece’ Guardian ‘A hyper-real tour de force, a blistering condemnation of political corruption and excess’ Financial Times ‘Mordant satire from a brave fabulist’ Daily Mail ‘Exuberant and imaginative’ Sunday Times ‘I can think of few better novelists than Yan, with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth’ New York Times Book Review

Wake of War

Wake of War
Author: Zac Topping
Publisher: Forge Books
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250814987

Zac Topping's breathtaking near-future thriller, Wake of War, is a timely account of the lengths those with power will go to preserve it, and the determination of those they exploit to win back their freedom. It's 2037, and the United States government is on the brink of collapse amid rebel uprisings and aggressive political maneuvering turning the country into an active war zone. In a nation where opportunity is sequestered behind doors open only to the privileged, joining the Army seemed like James Trent’s best option. He just never thought he’d actually see combat. Now Trent finds himself on the front lines of a second American Civil War, fighting for a cause he’s not sure he even believes in. The last thing he wanted was to spend his days breaking down doors and chasing after fellow Americans—rebels or not. Retribution is the only thing driving Sam Cross, and her sharpshooting skills have made her invaluable to the rebel efforts tearing their way across the Midwest. With every successful mission, she's reminded that she's enacting real change, but that hasn't made pulling the trigger any easier. And with each step she takes into the heart of the war effort, she can't help but wonder if there isn't another way. When these opposing forces clash, alliances are shattered, resolve is tested, and when the dust clears, the only certainty is that the country and its fighting forces will never be the same. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Dark of the Sun

The Dark of the Sun
Author: Wilbur Smith
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1785765906

An action-packed thriller by global sensation, Wilbur Smith. 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror The highest prize comes at the highest price... Captain Bruce Curry has a simple enough mission: to lead his mercenary soldiers to rescue a town cut off by rebel fighting in the Belgian Congo. But events quickly take a turn for the worse as it becomes clear that the town's diamond supplies are the real focus of the mission. And where there is treasure, danger always seems to follow. It isn't long before Curry finds something even more valuable than diamonds in the town. Something he'll do anything to protect. And soon he discovers that his most deadly enemies might be those closest to him . . .

Why I Wake Early

Why I Wake Early
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2005-04-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780807068793

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake early.