Calypso Summer

Calypso Summer
Author: Jared Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Aboriginal Australians
ISBN: 9781922142122

Calypso Summer is a story told by Calypso, a young Nukunu man, fresh out of high school in Rastafarian guise. After failing to secure employment in sports retail, his dream occupation, Calypso finds work at the Henley Beach Health Food shop where his boss pressures him to gather Aboriginal plants for natural remedies. Growing up in urban Adelaide and with little understanding of his mother's traditional background, Calypso endeavours to find the appropriate native plants. This leads him to his Nukunu family in Port Augusta and the discovery of a world steeped in cultural knowledge.

Calypso C

Calypso C
Author: David Sedaris
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018-05-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781408707821

If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny - it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's writing has never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumour joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet - and it just might be his very best.

Box of Lies

Box of Lies
Author: Mark LaFlamme
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2010-10-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1609105699

Explore a world of treachery and terror. A crazy lady frets over pennies on the sidewalk. Men and women are forced to march for their daily bread. And the end of the world doesn't guarantee you a trip out. In this book of 27 disturbing tales, Maine author Mark LaFlamme questions everything. Who killed JFK? What are they hiding at Area 51? What really happened on 9/11 and where do we go when we die?

The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean

The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean
Author: Dashiell Moore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2024-02-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019887989X

The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean challenges the structural opposition of indigeneity and creolisation through a historical and literary analysis of the connections between the 'First and Last of the New Worlds': Australia and the Caribbean. Dashiell Moore explores the continuities between indigenous and creole lifeworlds in the work of renowned Caribbean writers such as Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Sylvia Wynter, and Kamau Brathwaite, and prominent Aboriginal Australian writers including Alexis Wright, Ali Cobby Eckermann, and Lionel Fogarty. Common to these authors is their reimagining of the inter-colonial other as a mirror image. This image, achieved through opacity and projection, visualises in creative ways both the movement to indigenisation in post-independence Caribbean literature and the inter-indigenous encounters of Aboriginal Australian literature. By upending the antipodean relationship of the Caribbean and Australia, this groundbreaking study offers radically new perspectives on the world generated by literary relation.

From Calypso’s Island

From Calypso’s Island
Author: Frank Hazard
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2016-12-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524554200

From ancient Rome to modern New York, from a funeral to a supermarket, from a raucous society of apes to a somber college campus, FROM CALYPSO’S ISLAND comprises a bountiful assortment of scenes, characters and situations that range from the poignant to the profane, from the exotic to the familiar and from the epic to the intimate. This unique collection features poems and plays, stories, a fond appreciation of the James Bond novels of Ian Fleming, and initial chapters of an epic murder mystery set in ancient Rome early in the fourth century (A.D.) during the reign of Diocletian. A college freshman acridly experiences remorse at the start of his Christmas vacation—a man and a woman fortuitously meet in a crowded tavern on a rainy afternoon and consider the possibility of a romantic liaison—Pygmalion entreats the gods to endow his beloved Galatea with life—three women contentiously attend the funeral of a man to whom each had been previously married—a young Army recruit suspects his estranged wife of marital infidelity. Enhanced by language with the crisp lyricism of music, FROM CALYPSO’S ISLAND is a peerless achievement, an inimitable collection—drama, satire, romance—that explores and celebrates the human condition in all its spectacular tentacular facets of joy, melancholy, poignance, farce and relentless grandeur.

Secrets of the Past

Secrets of the Past
Author: Sarah Elizabeth
Publisher: Sarah Elizabeth
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2020-06-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

A social outcast with a chip on her shoulder. A rare magic buried in the past. When one discovers the other, she earns the right to attend the Ocean Academy. But will the gift that qualified her for admittance prove to be her undoing? Coral’s life on the ocean floor is a lonely one. Being a half-human half-octopus puts a target on her back—one that earns her almost daily persecution from the “high-born” Nymphs. However, after a bloody brawl with some underwater hooligans, Coral discovers she has access to a rare form of magic that her family had long since tried to bury. Her unwitting display of power in front of a professor from the coveted Ocean Academy earns her an invitation to attend the most prestigious prep school in the ocean. Desperate to change her social status, Coral dives into the opportunity of a lifetime only to discover that magic is hard to master, prejudices run deep, and the powerful prey on the weak. Unwilling to give up or succumb to the pressures of campus life, Coral is convinced the only way she can survive her first year at the Ocean Academy is to unlock the secrets of her past and discover who she was born to be. But can she uncover the truth before her future is ripped away from her? Secrets of the Past is the first book in the YA fantasy Ocean Academy series. If you love reading about magical mermaids, destructive divas, and the mysterious machinations of the rich and powerful, then you’ll love Sarah Elizabeth’s brand new Academy adventure. Download Secrets of the Past and dive into this exciting new series today! mermaids kindle unlimited, sirens and mermaids, academy fantasy, young adult academy, academy supernatural, Ursula the sea witch, ya fantasy for girls, siren guard, siren depths, siren ya, Atlantis academy, siren academy book, ya fantasy novels, lucia ashta, jaymin eve, free book for girls age 9-13, Michael Pearce, Jen grey, Everly frost

The Book that Made Me

The Book that Made Me
Author: Judith Ridge
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0763696714

Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.

The Days of Summer

The Days of Summer
Author: Jill Barnett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2030-12-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439120129

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Sunfun Calypso

Sunfun Calypso
Author: Julian Putley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Caribbean Area
ISBN: 9780966792300