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'Not Alone kept me breathless with tension.' - Emma Donoghue,
bestselling author of Room 'Intensely moving, genuinely gripping,
plausible and absorbing' - Charlotte Mendelson, author of The
Exhibitionist In a world very close to our own, a mother and her
young son desperately fend for themselves in the confinement of
their one bedroom flat. Five years ago, a toxic microplastics storm
killed most of the population. Now Katie must forage and hunt the
few surviving animals for meat as she attempts to feed her little
boy, to care for him as best she can. At a time when stepping
outside could kill you, Harry is kept indoors at all costs, never
venturing beyond the entrance to their building, never knowing the
truth of how he came to call this place home. Bodies continue to
build up around them, inescapable layers of toxic dust hang heavily
in the air and Katie is only getting sicker. Then, after years
without human contact, Katie and Harry are terrified by the arrival
of another survivor and Katie knows she must finally undertake a
previously unthinkable journey in search of the man she was
supposed to marry. In search of a new life for her son. Outside
their safe haven, Katie and Harry encounter a world that is forever
changed. There are new threats to their safety here, fellow
survivors who are determined to start a new population, to save the
world they so desperately misunderstood. Katie is pushed to
unimaginable lengths as she pushes ahead in search of a better life
and as Harry's safety wavers in the balance. As they travel further
north, leaving their once safe haven so far behind them, Katie
knows how much harder it will be to return if things go wrong. In
Not Alone, Sarah K. Jackson combines heart-stopping adventure, with
a deeply felt and vividly imagined central bond between mother and
child which transcends the world around them. This stunning debut
is about love, trust, hope and the looming threat facing us all.
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Not Alone (Paperback)
Sarah K Jackson
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R365
R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
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'Not Alone kept me breathless with tension.' - Emma Donoghue,
bestselling author of Room 'Intensely moving, genuinely gripping,
plausible and absorbing' - Charlotte Mendelson, author of The
Exhibitionist In a world very close to our own, a mother and her
young son desperately fend for themselves in the confinement of
their one bedroom flat. Five years ago, a toxic microplastics storm
killed most of the population. Now Katie must forage and hunt the
few surviving animals for meat as she attempts to feed her little
boy, to care for him as best she can. At a time when stepping
outside could kill you, Harry is kept indoors at all costs, never
venturing beyond the entrance to their building, never knowing the
truth of how he came to call this place home. Bodies continue to
build up around them, inescapable layers of toxic dust hang heavily
in the air and Katie is only getting sicker. Then, after years
without human contact, Katie and Harry are terrified by the arrival
of another survivor and Katie knows she must finally undertake a
previously unthinkable journey in search of the man she was
supposed to marry. In search of a new life for her son. Outside
their safe haven, Katie and Harry encounter a world that is forever
changed. There are new threats to their safety here, fellow
survivors who are determined to start a new population, to save the
world they so desperately misunderstood. Katie is pushed to
unimaginable lengths as she pushes ahead in search of a better life
and as Harry's safety wavers in the balance. As they travel further
north, leaving their once safe haven so far behind them, Katie
knows how much harder it will be to return if things go wrong. In
Not Alone, Sarah K. Jackson combines heart-stopping adventure, with
a deeply felt and vividly imagined central bond between mother and
child which transcends the world around them. This stunning debut
is about love, trust, hope and the looming threat facing us all.
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Not Alone
Sarah K Jackson
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R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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THE TIBET GAMBLE examines the risky bets being played on all sides
of the Tibet issue--from Western businesses and the Chinese
Communist regime in Beijing to non-violent Tibet activists and
militant young Tibetan dissidents. W. Kesler Jackson answers many
critical questions consistently avoided in discussion about Tibet
today: What will happen when the Dalai Lama dies? Is there a
militant side to the Tibetan freedom struggle? How much time do the
Tibetan culture and language have left? Does the Western image of a
peace-loving, violence-abhoring Tibetan truly mirror the reality
for Tibetans today? And, most importantly, how can the Tibet
problem be solved?
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IV (Hardcover)
Ydran K. Jackson
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R830
Discovery Miles 8 300
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Begot in darkness and blessed by angels, I am simply one who walks
the road to dawn...
This collection presents a varied picture of the state of democracy
in Asia, revealing unique findings from a project entitled the
'Asia Democracy Initiative' which explored the role of ordinary
people in democratization through the rise of expressive social
values in Indonesia, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand.
For African Americans who have experienced the trauma of
colonization, displacement, enslavement, and race-based violence,
lament has long been a form of cultural expression that creates
space to process these experiences. Lament and Justice in African
American History: By the Rivers of Babylon explores the theme of
lament in African American history from a theological perspective.
In part one of this edited volume, scholars examine historical
examples of African Americans’ use of lament as a framework for
engaging both historical memory and social action. Part two offers
examples of the incorporation of lament as a pedagogical tool in
classrooms and other educational settings. Readers of this book
will appreciate the importance of lament in the African American
Christian tradition and will come away challenged to connect their
own lament with the pursuit of justice.
Dealing with a variety of twenty-first century horror films,
Jackson examines how the technologically produced and reproduced
image functions as a site of monstrous birth. These monsters,
threatening and ominous as they may be, represent the possibility
for a renewed belief in the reality of the world and humanity's
place within it. Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this
book examines how the current state of horror - its sense of being
at an end, its increasing self-awareness, and its concern with the
relationship between media and message - reflects these anxieties
in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and
offer ever new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that
plagues us. At the same time, horror provides material with which
to build a different understanding of ourselves, its monsters
representing ends but also beginnings.
This collection presents a varied picture of the state of democracy
in Asia, revealing unique findings from a project entitled the
'Asia Democracy Initiative' which explored the role of ordinary
people in democratization through the rise of expressive social
values in Indonesia, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand.
Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines
how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western
culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new
figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that plagues us and
provides material with which to build a different understanding of
ourselves.
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