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Nicholas Evans

    July 26, 1950 – August 9, 2022
    Nicholas Evans
    The horse whisperer
    Dying words
    The Loop
    The Smoke Jumper
    Far from the Caliph's Gaze
    Words of Wonder
    • Words of Wonder

      Endangered Languages and What They Tell Us

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Delving into the richness of human language diversity, this book examines its significance and the urgent need to address language endangerment. It highlights the cultural and emotional connections tied to languages, presenting compelling arguments for preservation efforts. Through insightful analysis, the text offers strategies to revitalize endangered languages, emphasizing the importance of linguistic heritage in shaping human identity and fostering global understanding.

      Words of Wonder
      4.5
    • Far from the Caliph's Gaze

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      This book presents readers with a new way of thinking about religious doubt through an ethnographic exploration of how Ahmadi Muslims in India--members of a minority's minority--confront an impossible question: how do I prove that I'm Muslim--

      Far from the Caliph's Gaze
      5.0
    • The Smoke Jumper

      • 576 pages
      • 21 hours of reading

      Set against a backdrop of intense emotions, this novel explores themes of love, loyalty, guilt, and honor. The story introduces a compelling hero, crafted by the acclaimed author of a bestselling work. Readers can expect a deep dive into the complexities of human relationships, where personal sacrifices and moral dilemmas play a crucial role in shaping the characters' journeys. The narrative promises to engage with profound questions of fidelity and redemption, appealing to fans of heartfelt and thought-provoking storytelling.

      The Smoke Jumper
      4.1
    • The Loop

      • 399 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Helen Ross is a 29-year-old biologist, sent into a hostile place to protect the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. She struggles for survival and for self-esteem, embarking on a love affair with the 18-year-old son of her most powerful oponent, brutal and charismatic rancher, Buck Calder

      The Loop
      4.0
    • The next century will see more than half of the world's 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.This book explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our collective intellectual heritage questions why such linguistic diversity exists in the first place, and how can we can best respond to the challenge of recording and documenting these fragile oral traditions while they are still with us.It is written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, and draws on a wealth of vivid examples from his own field experience Brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual 'last speakers' and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries.

      Dying words
      3.9
    • The horse whisperer

      • 478 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      In The Still Of A Snow-Covered Morning In Upstate New York, A Girl Out Riding Her Horse Is Hit By A 40-Ton Truck. Though Horribly Injured, Both Thirteen-Year-Old Grace Maclean And Her Horse Pilgrim Survive. But The Impact On Their Lives And The Lives Of Those Who Love Them Is Devastating.Grace Is The Only Child Of A Prominent New York Magazine Editor, Annie Graves, And Her Lawyer Husband Robert. In A Way Which None Of Them At First Understand, Their Destiny Comes To Depend Upon Pilgrim'S. So Mutilated And Traumatized Is He That Even The Vet Who Saved His Life Now Wishes He Hadn'T. Annie Refuses To Have Him Destroyed, Sensing That If She Does, Something In Grace Will Die Too.She Hears About A Man In Montana, A 'Whisperer' Who Is Said To Have The Gift Of Healing Troubled Horses. Abandoning Her Job, Annie Sets Off Across The Continent Like Some Latter-Day Pioneer, With Grace And Pilgrim, To Find Him. The Man'S Name Is Tom Booker And He Lives On The Rocky Mountain Front, A Place Of Daunting Beauty, Where The High Plains Run Smack Into A Hundred-Million-Year-Old Wall Of Limestone. Here, Under The Massive Montana Sky, All Their Lives Are Changed For Ever.The Horse Whisperer Is About The Power Of Redemption: How Shattered Souls Can Make Themselves One Again With The World. But Above All It Is An Epic Love Story That Will Fill With Yearning The Hearts Of All Who Read It.

      The horse whisperer
      3.9
    • Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with arc lights and chainsaws to prise her out. Identifying her doesn't take so long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and her picture is on law enforcement computers all across America. But how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray?

      The divide
      3.7
    • The Brave

      • 488 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one of his heroes, TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the Cold War looming, the sinister side of Tinseltown seeps through and Tommy and Diane soon find themselves in jeopardy. Forty years on, Tommy has to confront his boyhood ghosts when his own son finds himself charged with murder.

      The Brave
      3.6
    • Contemporary / British EnglishOne winter's morning in New York State, there is an accident on an icy mountain road. Thirteen-year-old Grace and her much- loved horse, Pilgrim, are very badly hurt. Grace's mother beleives her daughter will only recover if her horse can be saved. Can Pilgrim be nursed back to health? Can the Horse Whisperer work his magic?

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    • Sally Gabori

      • 259 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      A selection of the late Indigenous Australian artist's jubilantly colorful abstractions The Indigenous Australian artist Sally Gabori (c. 1924-2015) began painting late in life, at about the age of 80. Over the course of her 10-year career, she produced around 3,000 paintings, a volume that speaks to the unfettered passion with which she embarked upon her art. Published in conjunction with the artist's first retrospective in France, this monograph features 96 artworks, including the selection of 30 paintings in the exhibition. The book invites further discovery of Gabori's colorful, abstract oeuvre--which is keenly informed by the history of her people, the Kaiadilt--with contributions from Nicolas Evans, a scholar of Kaiadilt culture and friend of Sally Gabori's family, as well as Judith Ryan and Bruce McLean, curators of Indigenous art. These contributors read her practice through the context of Indigenous traditions.

      Sally Gabori
    • Sélection du Livre

      Le Culte des Loups. La Belle Rochelaise. Une Triche si Parfaite. La Chambre des Officiers

      Sélection du Livre
    • W spokojny, śnieżny poranek dziewczynka i jej koń dostają się pod koła czterdziestotonowej ciężarówki. Zarówno Grace, jak i Pielgrzym uchodzą z życiem, jednak wypadek ma destrukcyjny wpływ na ich losy, a także na losy osób z nimi związanych. Matka Grace, Annie, nie zgadza się na uśpienie straszliwie poranionego konia, czując, że wówczas w Grace również coś umrze. Przejeżdża pół Ameryki w poszukiwaniu zaklinacza człowieka, który potrafi oddziaływać na psychikę koni... Tom Booker, kowboj z Montany, ma szczególny dar jest kimś w rodzaju końskiego psychoterapeuty. Wywiera kojący wpływ na zwierzęta, a później okazuje się, że potrafi również wywierać wpływ na ludzi. Osoby, które się z nim zetknęły, ulegają wewnętrznej przemianie i nic w ich życiu nie jest już takie, jak było...

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    • Zwarte beertjes - 3196: De rookspringer

      • 411 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Een jonge vrouw trouwt met haar blinde vriend, maar als blijkt dat hij geen kinderen kan verwekken vragen zij de man op wie ze verliefd is om donorzaad.

      Zwarte beertjes - 3196: De rookspringer
    • Požiar v srdci: Ed Tully a Connor Ford sú najlepší priatelia, ktorých spája nielen láska k prírode a túžba po dobrodružstve, ale aj spoločné zážitky z práce dobrovoľných hasičov. I to najpevnejšie puto priateľstva však dostáva trhliny, keď sa dvaja muži zamilujú do jednej ženy. V prípade Eda a Connora vstupuje do hry okrem tmavovlasej Julie aj ich nebezpečný koníček.Tango jeden: Tango jeden označuje v policajnom žargóne najhľadanejšieho zločinca - a v tomto prípade je ním drogový barón Den Donovan. V snahe o jeho dolapenie sa londýnska polícia uchyľuje k veľmi neštandartným metódam. Keď sa jedného dňa prestane Donovanovi dariť v osobnom i profesionálnom živote, je len otázkou času, kedy sklapne pasca...V rytme stepu: Manželia Caroline a Tom McSwainovci sú spolu už rovných štyridsaťdva rokov. Od usadlého manželského páru však majú ďaleko, najmä keď väčšinu členov ich domácnosti v približne rovnakom čase zasiahne Amorov šíp lásky. To je potom nevyhnutné zachovať si chladnú hlavu a všetky prípadné katastrofy vyriešiť pekne jednu po druhej.P ako pochybnosti-Svojrázna súkromná vyšetrovateľka Kinsey Millhonová sa púšťa do riskantného prípadu, keď sa rozhodne preskúmať okolnosti záhadného zmiznutia miestneho lekára. Sprenevera, podozrivé obchodné partnerstvá, nenásytné manželky... V svete nezvestného Dr. Purcella je všetko inak, ako by sa zdalo na prvý pohľad. A navyše sa vynoria ďalšie temné tajomstvá.

      Najlepšie svetové čitanie. Požiar v srdci. Tango jeden. V rytme stepu. P ako pochybnosti
      4.1