Walking on Clouds

Walking on Clouds
Author: Pranita Goyal
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2020-12-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1637146175

Walking on Clouds is a book of poems that will, as the title suggests, make you feel like you are walking on clouds. It is divided into two themes – Dark and Light. There are stories narrated, and each story has a unique way to make you feel like you’re in the place of the events, in an imaginary world. It’s your soul that wanders off to unknown voids and hidden jungles and thus it is the Game of Souls. Your eyes open up to a window with a magical world where everything possible is said and done. Open the Dark theme if you feel bitter, and open the Light one if you feel like having a hearty laugh.

Walking on Clouds

Walking on Clouds
Author: Joe Devoy
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1615662952

Metal slamming against metal makes a loud noise, and Johnny, already on edge, looks back quickly. And in an instant the unthinkable happens. Johnny's chrome-plated .45-caliber pistol fires. His ears are assaulted by the loud pop of the pistol in his hand. Johnny Ruff, having grown up in the boroughs of Harlem, is not a bad man. He has fought for survival all of his life, often leading him into fistfightsa "the survival of the fittest. But Johnny's life changes when he meets the love of his life, Lexi, and soon marries her. In an attempt to do good, Johnny is framed for a crime he didn't commit, and he must pay the pricea "a twelve-month sentence in prison. With the odds stacked against him, Johnny is released; although the odds aren't good, he promises himself he will not return, but when the unthinkable happens, an accident he never intended, Johnny fears that returning to prison is inevitable. After a surprise visit, Johnny is challenged with a taska "save the lives of five peoplea "in order to earn his forgiveness. Can Johnny fulfill his obligation, and will his heart change along the way, or will he risk losing his soul? Walking on Clouds, by Joe Devoy, is a heartbreaking tale of fighting for forgiveness, of seeking the path of righteousness when all seems lost, that will inspire even the most hopeless to become a better person."

Walking in Clouds

Walking in Clouds
Author: Kavitha Yaga Buggana
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2018-12-30
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 935302479X

Will we make it? That's the question Kavitha and her cousin, Pallu, ask themselves as they trek through Himalayan pine forests and unforgiving mountains in Nepal and Tibet. Their goal: to reach Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar. The two women walk to ancient monasteries, meditate on freezing slopes, dance on the foothills of Kailash, and confront death in the thin mountain air. In Kailash and Manasarovar, the holiest of Hindu and Buddhist sites, they struggle to reconcile their rationalist views with faith and the beloved myths of their upbringing. Remarkably, it is this journey that helps them discover the meaning of friendship. Walking in Clouds is a beautifully crafted memoir of a journey to far-away places and to the places within. It mixes lyrical, descriptive storytelling with stunning photographs to bring to life a unique travelogue.

Walking the Clouds

Walking the Clouds
Author: Grace L. Dillon
Publisher: Sun Tracks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780816529827

In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction Grace Dillon collects some of the finest examples of the craft with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors. The collection includes seminal authors such as Gerald Vizenor, historically important contributions often categorized as "magical realism" by authors like Leslie Marmon Silko and Sherman Alexie, and authors more recognizable to science fiction fans like William Sanders and Stephen Graham Jones. Dillon's engaging introduction situates the pieces in the larger context of science fiction and its conventions. Organized by sub-genre, the book starts with Native slipstream, stories infused with time travel, alternate realities and alternative history like Vizenor's "Custer on the Slipstream." Next up are stories about contact with other beings featuring, among others, an excerpt from Gerry William's The Black Ship. Dillon includes stories that highlight Indigenous science like a piece from Archie Weller's Land of the Golden Clouds, asserting that one of the roles of Native science fiction is to disentangle that science from notions of "primitive" knowledge and myth. The fourth section calls out stories of apocalypse like William Sanders' "When This World Is All on Fire" and a piece from Zainab Amadahy's The Moons of Palmares. The anthology closes with examples of biskaabiiyang, or "returning to ourselves," bringing together stories like Eden Robinson's "Terminal Avenue" and a piece from Robert Sullivan's Star Waka. An essential book for readers and students of both Native literature and science fiction, Walking the Clouds is an invaluable collection. It brings together not only great examples of Native science fiction from an internationally-known cast of authors, but Dillon's insightful scholarship sheds new light on the traditions of imagining an Indigenous future.

To Reach the Clouds

To Reach the Clouds
Author: Philippe Petit
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0865476519

In 1974, 100,000 people on the ground watched 24-year-old high wire artist Petit make eight crossings between the World Trade Towers. In this visually and verbally stunning book, Petit tells for the first time the story of his walk, from conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its aftermath. 140 illustrations.

Men on the Moon

Men on the Moon
Author: Simon J. Ortiz
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1999-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780816519309

When Faustin, the old Acoma, is given his first television set, he considers it a technical wonder, a box full of mystery. What he sees on its screen that first day, however, is even more startling than the television itself: men have landed on the moon. Can this be real? For Simon Ortiz, Faustin's reaction proves that tales of ordinary occurrences can truly touch the heart. "For me," he observes, "there's never been a conscious moment without story." Best known for his poetry, Ortiz also has authored 26 short stories that have won the hearts of readers through the years. Men on the Moon brings these stories together—stories filled with memorable characters, written with love by a keen observer and interpreter of his people's community and culture. True to Native American tradition, these tales possess the immediacy—and intimacy—of stories conveyed orally. They are drawn from Ortiz's Acoma Pueblo experience but focus on situations common to Native people, whether living on the land or in cities, and on the issues that affect their lives. We meet Jimmo, a young boy learning that his father is being hunted for murder, and Kaiser, the draft refuser who always wears the suit he was given when he left prison. We also meet some curious Anglos: radicals supporting Indian causes, scholars studying Indian ways, and San Francisco hippies who want to become Indians too. Whether telling of migrants working potato fields in Idaho and pining for their Arizona home or of a father teaching his son to fly a kite, Ortiz takes readers to the heart of storytelling. Men on the Moon shows that stories told by a poet especially resound with beauty and depth.

Let's Walk the Clouds

Let's Walk the Clouds
Author: Sayantika Paul
Publisher: Spectrum of Thoughts
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2022-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Let's Walk the Clouds" is an anthology that allows you to escape the material world around us for just a while, and sink into the kaleidoscope of a myriad of dreams and fantasies... This book presents to you a saga of beautiful verses and tales woven in the minds of a bunch of talented writers - opening hidden doors into the caves of their imaginations and fantasies and allowing you to dive in. Explore your imagination, ponder on the true meaning of dreams, escape reality for just a while and get lost in the pages of 'Let's Walk the Clouds', lovingly put together by Sayantika Paul. Let's go for a walk in the clouds of our imagination, together....

Book of Clouds

Book of Clouds
Author: Chloe Aridjis
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2011-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144811344X

Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'ant illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to change...

The Black Ship

The Black Ship
Author: Gerry William
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2015-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781926886381

"Enid Blue Starbreaks is a Repletian who survives a mass killing of her people on the Pegasus. She is later adopted and raised by an Amphorian family. With the recent attention given to the 60s scoop of Indigenous people in Canada, the parallels in the novel are quite striking. Despite the attempt to erase Enid’s memory, and despite being integrated into the Amphorian society, the older, lingering memories of who she was shadow her, but also at the same time light a path for her across the stars. Despite the racism she experiences, she rises up the ranks of the Amphorian navy, and eventually becomes an admiral of the fourth fleet. Eventually, her uncle Leon Three Starbreaks connects with her, and her circle back to her people is complete although somewhat fractured"--Introduction by Neal McLeod.