Stars
A star is an astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night, but due to their immense distance from Earth they appear as fixed points of light in the sky. The most prominent stars are grouped into constellations and asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. The observable Universe contains an estimated 1022 to 1024 stars, …
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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English
Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …
our children would be able to lie out under the stars when others couldn’t. Spying us from where she keeps … remember seeing debonair, leisure-suited, ’70s movie stars using it while offering drinks from padded, well-stocked …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English
Now you can cheer for the Habs every day of the year! The Montreal Canadiens are one of the most storied franchises in hockey. No club has won more Stanley …
leagues or honing your skills on the ice under the stars. J anuary | 9JANUARY 4 LARS ELLER NOTCHES …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Slings & Arrows, starring Susan Coyne, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, and Mark McKinney as members of the New Burbage Theatre Festival, was heralded by television critics as one of the …
poet who “has a foot in the mud, an eye on the stars, and a dagger in his hand.”1 In turn, the opening …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English
“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRY From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren …
leaving the field, and when one of Australia’s stars came close to me, I politely asked him for his …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 October 2024 English
With a shock, these frankenlines come alive. In Recombinant Theory a monster surges forth, a new freedom is sung.
distance, the grasses in the fields come out like stars in the dark. Each sentence replaces the blossoms … background. The grasses in the fields come out like stars in the dark. There is a world and the person is …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 8 October 2024 English
101 lesser-known stories to delight Canadian cinema and television fans. Do you know who was in the first on-screen nude scene in a Canadian feature film? Or which David Cronenberg …
an impressive cast that included international stars like Olivia Hussey (Romeo and Juliet) 101 FASCINATING … Odyssey) and a roster of recognizable Canadian stars: Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Doug McGrath, Lynne … on Your Hit Parade and television specials with stars like Andy Williams, Harry Belafonte, Jackie Gleason … followed, featuring some of the era’s safest movie stars — Doris Day, James Garner, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall … Ira and George Gershwin.) The 1959 film version stars Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll, Sammy Davis Jr …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 24 September 2024 English
CBC BOOKS CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2024“With a lush, tropical setting, an entrancing protagonist, and swirling ghosts that guide and subvert, Gonzalez has crafted a darkly romantic, …
California boys are tall and chiseled like movie stars. So gwapo! CELESTINA’S HOUSE • 37“I wish Mama … section, along with the producer, direc- tor, and stars. For the fi rst time that summer, she was not envious … worlds mingled and wait- ed for the arrival of the stars of the evening. Antonio proudly introduced Celestina …
FRHD: Freehand Books · 17 September 2024 English
A powerful debut novel about four young soldiers serving in Afghanistan, and the devastating aftermath of war. "An unvarnished, intimately informed dissection of war's physical and emotional derangements." – Omar …
decorations made from a card deck of naked porn stars and built a bonfire in the front yard. Sometime …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 16 September 2024 English
On Beauty is a provocative collection of moments, confessions, overheard conversations, and memories, both fleeting and crystalized, revolving around the small chasms and large craters of everyday life. Situated at …
reality television, gossip surrounding useless pop stars and their crises. Alberta flies off the handle, … he warned himself. The nights now see so few stars for the proliferation of dim-witted light. The … could see at the end of The Matrix. I could see stars.75 Songs my mother taught me, The failure of order … might never tell. That night we spent under the stars in Born, or the game at Wrigley Field where I caught …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
In lush and vivid poems, Cynthia Woodman Kerkham ponders the urgent question, What does water want? Whether as the body of a beloved lake, where people wrestle with the concerns …
guardians want to do nothing. Talk floats up and up as stars call down in ancestral whispers. Those who want … warm black silence battened in hemlock, thick as stars sugaring the sky. Moon rind wavering on the sea …