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WINNER OF THE THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION and SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, a wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.
Improving the quality of your writing starts with rethinking your assumptions and developing healthier writing habits. This book will help you do both.
Become a Better Writer: How to Write with Clarity and Simplicity is a practical guide for those who wish to write more clearly and concisely. Drawing on their extensive experience as writers and editors, the authors discuss tools and tips for making your writing accessible and meaningful to your target audience.
The book is readable and engaging, covering different kinds of writing (including reports, essays, emails, novels and speeches) across a wide range of subjects. The examples discussed are derived from real-world material and are particularly relevant to the African context. The book will be especially useful to writers of non-fiction.
After an exceptionally wild Mother’s Day where she danced like there was no tomorrow, picked a fight with a stranger and collided with the floor, Johannesburg scriptwriter and author Pamela Power is forced to take a hard look at her drinking habits. She realises that although she does not need to find an AA group immediately, she might be a serial binge drinker and needs to take back control.
In this honest yet humorous account of her year of not getting sh*tfaced, Pamela examines her long, complicated relationship with alcohol. She is shocked to realise just how much of a crutch alcohol has been for her. There is always a bottle of wine or Prosecco around to her to help her manage the many demands of life as a freelancer and as a parent.
Pamela starts her journey to sobriety at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic as her family faces financial troubles, and life in the suburban Parks of Johannesburg isn’t so blissful anymore. Through her, we experience all the frustration, irritation and surprising benefits of going dry. In dealing with her dependence on alcohol, Pamela also confronts her troubled relationship with her parents.
While many other sober curious books portray sobriety as the only answer, Pamela has found a sweet spot between total sobriety and binge drinking: moderation.
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Chasing Marian (Paperback)
Amy Heydenrych, Qarnita Loxton, Pamela Power, Gail Schimmel
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R320
R275
Discovery Miles 2 750
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Four strangers, two cities, one chance online meeting.
Jess is a yummy mummy of two whose life is slowly unravelling and who has recently separated from her husband. Ginger is a happily widowed granny with a salty tongue and a wicked sense of humour. The gorgeous and sensitive Matt is an almost-qualified psychologist, who still lives with his parents. And Queenie, a librarian from Cape Town, has an absent boyfriend and a secret writing habit.
What could these four strangers possibly have in common?
They are all die-hard Marian Keyes fans. And when they hear that Marian is due to visit South Africa to attend a literary festival, they are all desperate to meet her. Together they come up with a mad-cap plan.
Will they succeed – or will life intervene?
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Hero Wanted! (Paperback)
Mark Powers; Illustrated by Coralie Muce
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R256
R213
Discovery Miles 2 130
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Grace is woken in the middle of the night to the sound of an armoured
horse in her back garden. The next thing she knows, a dying Grace
doppelganger bursts through her bedroom door and insists that she is
the fifteenth and final Grace, and it is her destiny to win the Worthy
War.
Grace's quest takes her to the county of Brokenshire, where she must
work with her trusty steed (who has a sharp tongue and a habit of
reminding Grace of all the ghastly ends her predecessors have met!) to
battle magical creatures and save the world.
A vegan T. rex, a distinguished dodo, bomber geese and the fearsome
trigger wolf are amongst the cast of memorable characters Grace meets
on her adventure.
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The Wild (Hardcover)
Philip Dauncey; Illustrated by Fiona Powers
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R253
Discovery Miles 2 530
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• Chunky lift the flap books, great for little hands.
• Wonderful vibrant illustrations with scenes to reveal.
• Ocean, Wild, Farm and Town in the series.
• Illustrated by Fiona Powers.
Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where
they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up
for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd’s work will lead
to a startling AI breakthrough.
Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in
Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs; Ina Aroita
grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home.
All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in
French Polynesia, marked for humanity’s next great adventure: a plan to
send floating, autonomous cities out into the open sea. As the
seasteaders close in, how will Evie play the ever-unfolding oceanic
game? Will Ina engage in acts of destruction? Todd and Rafi, now
estranged, still find themselves in competition: Todd unravels while
working on an idea to redraw the boundaries of human immortality, while
Rafi and the residents must decide if they will greenlight the new
project on their shores and change their home forever.
Set in the world’s largest ocean, Playground explores that last wild
place we have yet to colonize and interweaves profound themes of
technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared
humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.
She wants a future - is that too much? This Thing Called the Future, the multiple-award-winning young-adult novel from J.L. Powers, is finally coming to South Africa, its country of origin. The book is set in Imbali, the sprawling township outside Pietermaritzburg. Khosi is fourteen years old. She lives with her grandmother and her little sister, Zi. Both her parents tell her of the past, about a time when hundreds of Imbali residents were killed in political violence. Khosi wants a future; she wants to help make South Africa a better place. Is that too much in an environment where some men believe that raping virgins, like Khosi, will cure them of AIDS? Meanwhile, Khosi has fallen in love and really, really just wants to experience that warm, fuzzy feeling that happens when Little Man, the handsome boy in her class, touches her hand. In a world where HIV and AIDS are treatable for those with money and access to good state-sponsored care, Khosi has to negotiate hours in clinic lines, vengeful men, her mother's disdain for traditional healers, her grandmother's faith in their sangoma, and the terrible curse her next-door neighbour has cast on their household. This beautifully crafted young-adult novel never preaches and never falls into the trap of “warning” teenagers against anything. It simply deals with the realities of township life and the hardships a young virgin faces. This Thing Called the Future has won several prizes in the USA. LAPA and Catalyst Press are proud to bring it back to its country of origin.
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Sin City (DVD)
Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Nick Stahl, …
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R41
Discovery Miles 410
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Adaptation of the award-winning comic series created by Frank
Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history,
the film paints a picture of the ultimate town through the eyes of
its roughest characters. There's the street thug Marv (Mickey
Rourke), whose desperate quest to find the killer of a prostitute
named Goldie (Jaime King) will lead him to the foulest edges of
town. Inhabiting many of those areas is Dwight (Clive Owen), a
photographer in league with the sordid ladies of Sin City, headed
by Gail (Rosario Dawson), who opens up a mess of trouble after
tangling with a corrupt cop by the name of Jackie Boy (Benicio Del
Toro). Finally, there's Hartigan (Bruce Willis), an ex-cop with a
heart problem who's hell-bent on protecting a stripper named Nancy
(Jessica Alba).
Hierdie kartonboek is die jongste toevoeging tot die Loer binne-reeks. Die tien lig-en-loerflappies is sterk genoeg vir die gryperigste klein handjies en sal keer op keer pret verskaf. Die lewendige illustrasies sal kinders se aandag behou en dit nog lekkerder maak om die wilde diere te ontdek. Kom kuier saam in die woestyn en in die woud!
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Apache Trail (Paperback)
Richard L Powers, Superstition Mountain Historical Society, The Gila County Historical Society Museum
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R623
R525
Discovery Miles 5 250
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Pres. Theodore Roosevelt once referred to the Apache Trail as "one
of the most spectacular best-worth-seeing sights of the world." The
once narrow, ancient foot trail built as a supply road for the
construction of Roosevelt Dam has now evolved into a state highway
with majestic scenic vistas and historical grandeur. Even in the
1920s, the Southern Pacific Railroad touted this road as a
"must-see side trip." Each year, thousands of people venture along
the trail to take a step back in time and relish the breathtaking
experience of this fabulous journey. The Fish Creek Hill section
remains much as it was back in the early 1900s, a narrow
one-vehicle passage on an extremely steep incline that drops 900
feet within a mile along the edge of a steep cliff. Although
several miles of the road are now paved, dirt portions remain that
allow tourists a sense of perilous adventure.
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