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Martha Conway (born 1964) is an American author known for historical fiction novels. Her book Thieving Forest won the North American Book Award for Historical Fictions in 2014, [1] The Underground River was awarded an Editors Choice Award by the New York Times Book Review, [2] and 12 Bliss Street was nominated for an Edgar Award.
A review of Underground in The Sydney Morning Herald called it "McGahan's most nakedly political work so far, positioning itself as a comment on the "war on terror" generally and a broadside against the Howard government in particular." that it "suffers from a fatal equivocation: it is neither hilarious nor penetrating enough."
Tom is an introverted and troubled young man living with his struggling mother Elaine, the pair having just moved into a house that they have inherited. They have come from a distressing family background. Tom explores the nearby 'turlach', a winter lake fed by a mysterious and dangerous intermittently flowing underground river. He finds a ...
U.S. rivers or streams that run underground through natural or manmade channels for part or all of their courses. Pages in category "Subterranean rivers of the United States" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
Spite can be broadly defined to include any vindictive or mean-spirited actions. Alternatively, a narrower definition includes the requirement that spiteful acts involve some degree of self-harm ." [ 1 ] One possible definition of spite is to intentionally annoy , hurt , or upset even when there might be no (apparent) gain, and even when those ...
Israeli police have raided a well-known Palestinian bookshop in East Jerusalem, accusing its owners of selling books that incited terrorism, including a children's colouring book entitled "From ...
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A subterranean river in the Cross Cave system of Slovenia. (Scale shown by people in photograph.) A subterranean river (also known as an underground river) is a river or watercourse that runs wholly or partly beneath the ground, one where the riverbed does not represent the surface of the Earth. [1]