Download or read book A Girl Named Maria written by Valerie S. Kreutzer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She was found abandoned in the lavatory of a little cafeteria in Bogota, Colombia, and the police who picked her up named her Consuelo. The toddler quickly bonded with her new mother in Washington D.C. She struggled with a severe learning disability, despite a superior I.Q., and blossomed into an award-winning young artist. Her impulsive behavior led to fits and false starts during adolescence, until she found happiness at twenty-one with David and his extended family. Their love and lives ended in the curve of a rural road in Florida."--Cover.
Download or read book A Girl Named Maria written by Valerie S Kreutzer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was found abandoned in the lavatory of a cafeteria in Bogota, Colombia. The police who picked her up named her Maria Consuelo. From a stack of would-be parents, Colombias welfare agency chose Valerie Kreutzers application, and the toddler quickly bonded with her new mom in Washington, DC. At school Maria struggled with severe learning disabilities despite a superior I.Q., but also blossomed into an award-winning young artist. Her impulsive behavior led to fits and false starts during adolescence, until she found happiness at twenty-one with David and his extended family. Their love and lives ended in the curve of a rural road in Florida. A Girl Named Maria chronicles an adopted daughters struggle with identity and her yearning for a birth family that may have included a twin brother. Marias legacy lives on in this poignant personal story of one mothers unconditional love for her adopted daughter. I loved this book! This story, although carrying the deep sorrow of a daughters death, will give parents of transnational adoptions a guideline for their own experience. This book is a much needed addition to the adoption literature. Nancy Verrier, The Primal Wound; Coming Home to Self www.nancyverrier.com
Download or read book What s Wrong with Timmy written by Maria Shriver and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the response when a child points out that a disabled child or adult looks 'different'? Shriver tells the story of Kate, who finds that making friends with a mentally retarded boy helps her learn that the two of them have a lot in common.
Download or read book West Side Story written by Leonard Bernstein and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1972 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of contemporary plays includes structured GCSE assignments for use by individuals or groups. These include questions which involve close reading, writing and discussion. This play places the "Romeo and Juliet" story in a New York gang-warfare context.
Download or read book Maria Maria Other Stories written by Marytza K. Rubio and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjuring entrancing tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits, Marytza K. Rubio shatters the boundaries of reality with this fiercely imaginative debut. “The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.” Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends. As the enigmatic community college professor in “Brujería for Beginners” reminds us: “There’s always a price for conjuring in darkness. You won’t always know what it is until payment is due.” This commitment drives the disturbingly faithful widow in “Tijuca,” who promises to bury her husband’s head in the rich dirt of the jungle, and the sisters in “Moksha,” who are tempted by a sleek obsidian dagger once held by a vampiric idol. But magic isn’t limited to the women who wield it. As Rubio so brilliantly elucidates, animals are powerful magicians too. Subversive pigeons and hungry jaguars are called upon in “Tunnels,” and a lonely little girl runs free with a resurrected saber-toothed tiger in “Burial.” A colorful catalog of gallery exhibits from animals in therapy is featured in “Art Show,” including the Almost Philandering Fox, who longs after the red pelt of another, and the recently rehabilitated Paranoid Peacocks. Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, these stories bubble over into the titular novella, “Maria, Maria”—a tropigoth family drama set in a reimagined California rainforest that explores the legacies of three Marias, and possibly all Marias. Writing in prose so lush it threatens to creep off the page, Rubio emerges as an ineffable new voice in contemporary short fiction.
Download or read book Some of the First Settlers of the Forks of the Delaware and Their Descendants written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some of the First Settlers of the Forks of the Delaware and Their Descendants written by Easton, PA. First Reformed Church and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Look Ahead written by Greg T. Carson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family of four gather for a meal as they joke with one another. A traveler at a bus stop engages in conversation. A room in a board-and-care facility gets hyped while a bus relocates from town to town. A young man gains experience in life working at a carnival and learns the rudiments of business. An adult female works for a car-rental outlet and undertakes to kill on the side. A porn star makes a living and gratifies his urges while a young man learns the lessons of life from the perspective of a mental patient.
Download or read book Maria s Family written by Ashleymarie Sey Lively and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria's in search for the perfect fairytale family, but will she find it?
Download or read book Learning a New Land written by Carola Suárez-Orozco and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Henrik Nordbrandt and published by Gyldendal A/S. This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELECTED POEMS is a selection of Henrik Nordbrandt's poems, translated into English in a cooperation between Alexander Taylor, Nadia Christensen and Henrik Nordbrandt.
Download or read book Leonard Bernstein West Side Story written by Nigel Simeone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Broadway musicals that can genuinely claim to have transformed the genre, West Side Story has been featured in many books on Broadway, but it has yet to be the focus of a scholarly monograph. Nigel Simeone begins by exploring the long process of creating West Side Story, including a discussion of Bernstein's sketches, early drafts of the score and script, as well as cut songs. The core of the book is a commentary on the music itself. West Side Story is one of the very few Broadway musicals for which there is a complete published orchestral score, as well as two different editions of the piano-vocal score. The survival of the original copied orchestral score, and the reminiscences of Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal, reveal details of the orchestration process, and the extent to which Bernstein was involved in this. Simeone's commentary considers: musical characteristics and compositional techniques used to mirror the drama (for example, the various uses of the tritone), motivic development, the use and reinvention of Broadway and other conventions, the creation of dramatic continuity in the score through the use of motifs and other devices, the unusual degree of dissonance and rhythmic complexity (at least for the time), and the integration of Latin-American dance forms (Mambo, Huapango and so on). Simeone also considers the reception of West Side Story in the contemporary press. The stir the show caused included the response that it was the angular, edgy score that made it a remarkable achievement. Not all reviews were uncritical. Finally, the book looks in detail at the making of the original Broadway cast recording, made in just one day, included on the accompanying CD.
Download or read book A Journey to the Unknown of a Young Girl Named Kahache written by Mauricia D Mathews and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Journey to the Unknown of a Young Girl Named Kahache is sensational. It will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you live again.
Download or read book Who Was Maria Tallchief written by Catherine Gourley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-07-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the top of her art form to become America's first prima ballerina. Black-and-white illustrations provide visual sidebars to the history of ballet while taking readers through the life of this amazing dancer.
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Download or read book Pilgrims of Adversity written by William McFee and published by Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran. This book was released on 1928 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patterns for College Writing with 2021 MLA Update written by Laurie G. Kirszner and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 1271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021). Patterns for College Writing provides instruction, visual texts, diverse essays, and student writing examples to help you develop your writing skills using rhetorical patterns like narration, description, argumentation, and more.
