Meridian

Meridian
Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2011-11-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453223967

“A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement” in 1960s Atlanta by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Ms.). As she approaches the end of her teen years, Meridian Hill has already married, divorced, and given birth to a son. She’s looking for a second chance, and at a small college outside Atlanta, Georgia, in the early 1960s, Meridian discovers the civil rights movement. So fully does the cause guide her life that she’s willing to sacrifice virtually anything to help transform the conditions of a people whose subjugation she shares. Meridian draws from Walker’s own experiences working alongside some of the heroes of the civil rights movement, and the novel stands as a shrewd and affecting document of the dissolution of the Jim Crow South. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

The Light of Meridian

The Light of Meridian
Author: Julie Komorn
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0007209428

A journey to Meridian to find Elyon and persuade her to come home brings an unexpected surprise for Cornelia.

World Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance of Mecca

World Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance of Mecca
Author: David A. King
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 736
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004113671

The author describes how Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction ("qibla") towards Mecca and presents two highly sophisticated Mecca-centred world-maps for finding the "qibla." These recently-discovered world-maps have forced a reevaluation of Muslim achievements in mathematics and cartography.

Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2010-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307762521

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Speed of Light

Speed of Light
Author: Amber Kizer
Publisher: Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385741146

Meridian and Tens continue to grow closer and explore their relationship of Protector and Fenestra, while sixteen-year-old Juliet Ambrose, grasping at any hope of finding her parents, considers acepting the help offered by Ms. Asura, a proven Nocti.