![]() ![]() But with the family fractured, all of them struggle, and only some find redemption. ![]() Dean is a talented athlete, Noa and Kaui top students, and Augie and Malia manage to send all three to the mainland for college. In chapters narrated in turn by each member of the family, the siblings grow up, Dean and Kaui always feeling they are in their brother’s shadow, all of them balancing on the edge of poverty. Noa’s gift is a source of both wonder and cold hard cash, not to mention a baffling burden for a kid. ![]() It’s an echo of old legends that is reinforced a few years later when the boy heals an accident victim’s injuries (although his mother offers an origin story that suggests he was marked by the old gods from conception). Augie and Malia and their children-sons Dean and Nainoa and daughter Kaui-find their lives forever changed when, during a boat tour, little Noa falls overboard and is rescued by sharks, unharmed, as witnessed by a boatload of passengers. By turns lyrical and gritty, a moving family story focuses on the aftermath of miracles.įrom its opening pages, this debut novel juxtaposes the realities of life for a working-class Hawaiian family and the mysticism of the Native culture that shapes them, with surprising results. ![]()
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She realizes he cannot be saved by human efforts alone. ![]() Why would they seek out more danger by helping her? And what kind of religion gives freely and asks for nothing in return?Roman soldiers soon surround Petra, immersing the city in panic and further endangering Cassia's son. He's snatched from Cassia's grasp.In her darkest hours, Cassia finds herself surrounded by followers of the Way, a subversive new religious group whose disciples are frequently sentenced to arenas with starved lions and blood-soaked sand. ![]() When a secret reveals her son's true bloodline, the boy becomes the target of a royal conspiracy. So Cassia and her six-year-old son flee to Petra, seeking refuge in the loving arms of family.But the great stone city is not what Cassia imagined. 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West served as Santa Fe Institute President from July 2005 through July 2009. West received his BA from Cambridge University in 1961 and his doctorate from Stanford University in 1966, where he returned in 1970 to become a member of the faculty. His primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications. ![]() Geoffrey West is one of the leading scientists working on a scientific model of cities. ![]() ![]() ![]() "In this form of encounter, neither I nor anyone else has to waste time or energy on wrangling context, or packaging our messages for the lowest common denominator of public opinion. When you can choose your audience, you have a third option. You can't strategize what to say to the online audience – you don't know who you're talking to. Meyrowitz said that public by default means two possibilities: either offend somebody or be so bland you won't offend anyone. 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