Ali Smith
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives--our own personal libraries--make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless...
2) Autumn
Author
Series
Seasonal (Ali Smith) volume 1
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Description
"From the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both: a breathtakingly inventive new novel--about aging, time, love, and stories themselves--that launches an extraordinary quartet of books called Seasonal. Readers love Ali Smith's novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and--good news for fans!--is the first installment...
3) Summer
Author
Series
Seasonal (Ali Smith) volume 4
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Description
"In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile, the world's in meltdown--and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time. This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: Where does family begin? And...
4) Spring
Author
Series
Seasonal (Ali Smith) volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The brilliant Booker-nominated novel from one of our finest authors: How to Be Both is a daring, inventive tale that intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance painter and a modern teenage girl. How can one be both--near and far, past and present, male and female? In Ali Smith's new novel, two extraordinary characters inhabit the spaces between categories. In one half of the book, we follow the story of Francescho del Cossa, a Renaissance painter...
Author
Series
Seasonal (Ali Smith) volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Author
Series
Description
For a thousand years the mages of the Empire have flourished through sorcery. But an ancient spell forged by the semi-divine simurgh is draining magic from the world. They call it the Ban. And the Emperor dares not defy the simurgh.
The decision might not be the Emperor's for long. Powerful lords in distant lands are taking preserving sorcery into their own hands. One particular sailor, Akai, is thrilled to help a lord on just such a quest. Though...
Author
Series
Description
As the war deepens and spreads, Zanthred is a newly minted hero, a man of note. But jealous rivals on his own side might be as much a threat as the foe.
On the other side of the world, Akai tries to rally support from the most unlikely of creatures: Humans. But is he to treat these strange, short-lived brutes as barbarians who cannot be yoked, or children who might be taught?
The struggle continues in this second book in an ongoing epic of magic...
11) Companion piece
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A story is never an answer. A story is always a question." Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future? “Every hello, like every voice, holds its story ready, waiting.”
Author
Description
We can go on with our life's future in our hands, which aren't big enough for all the problems we are going to endure. Life's challenges have to have spiritual guidance at all times. We can't assume our family friends and co-workers etc will have our answers. Sometime our Pastor, Deacons and Elders will not be able to help us they may be able to comfort us during a tragic time but only God have all the answers. God will allow tragic times to enter...
14) Fair Play
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2012
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Description
Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating.
Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows...
Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows...
Author
Description
"You say, the times are troublesome, the times are burdensome, the times are miserable. Live rightly and you will change the times. The times have never hurt anyone. Those who are hurt are human beings; those by whom they are hurt are also human beings. So, change human beings and the times will be changed."
-St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 311, 8
Growing up on the northernmost edge of the African continent, young Augustine had never known a life...