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The first known instance of the phrase "a thousand points of light" appears in Arthur C. Clarke 's short story "Rescue Party," initially published in Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1946: One entire wall of the control room was taken up by the screen, a great black rectangle that gave an impression of almost infinite depth.
All the Light We Cannot See is a 2014 war novel by American author Anthony Doerr.The novel is set during World War II.It revolves around the characters Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl who takes refuge in her great-uncle's house in Saint-Malo after Paris is invaded by Nazi Germany, and Werner Pfennig, a bright German boy who is accepted into a military school because of his skills in ...
Lon is a crippled man, who was once a great competition benchrest shooter. Bob tracks Lon by tracing the .300 H&H Swagger is given at the Accutech shooting range to Lon's father, Art Scott. Art received the .300 H&H, referred to as "The Tenth Black King", as a gift for his shooting for Winchester. In a tragic twist of fate, Art accidentally ...
To the Lighthouse. To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical ...
813/.54 20. LC Class. PS3558.U494 B53 1996. Preceded by. Point of Impact. Followed by. Time to Hunt. Black Light is a 1996 thriller novel by Stephen Hunter. It is the second novel in the Bob Lee Swagger series and the sequel to Point of Impact.
Points of Light presentation in the East Room of the White House in January 1993. Points of Light is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization headquartered in Georgia, United States dedicated to engaging more people and resources in solving serious social problems through voluntary service. Each year, Points of Light mobilizes ...
Alice Ann Bailey. Alice Ann Bailey (16 June 1880 – 15 December 1949) was a writer of more than twenty-four books on theosophical subjects, and was one of the first writers to use the term New Age. Bailey was born as Alice La Trobe-Bateman, in Manchester, England. [1] She moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as ...
Bodies of Light (2021) is a novel by Australian writer Jennifer Down. [1]It won the 2022 Miles Franklin Award, [2] and was shortlisted for the 2022 Voss Literary Prize, [3] the 2022 Stella Prize, [4] the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award, [5] the 2022 Age Book of the Year Award, [6] the 2022 Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Novel, [7] and the 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.