Download or read book My One Extraordinary Life written by Leona King and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease I began journaling. It became a healing process. In between relapses I began writing stories of my youth and continued to what could now be called the last third of my life. Reflections of happy days spent with my grandparents, helping to care for my younger siblings, to my escape from a controlling mother. I began to realize how the conditions and environment they were living under created the turmoil and circumstances of those years. I continued to write my life through marriage, foster children, exchange students, several businesses and countless friends. The entire process made me realized what an extraordinary life I’d lived so far. How much better can it get? I can hardly wait.
Download or read book My Name is Leona written by Carol Gahara Harris and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leona, a little girl who does not like her name, finds out that her name was picked just for her, on purpose, with love, and deliberately, by her parents.
Download or read book There Plant Eyes written by M. Leona Godin and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight. “[A] thought-provoking mixture of criticism, memoir, and advocacy." —The New Yorker There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be “blind.” For millennia, blindness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness (“blind faith”), irrationality (“blind rage”), and unconsciousness (“blind evolution”). But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil). Godin—who began losing her vision at age ten—illuminates the often-surprising history of both the condition of blindness and the myths and ideas that have grown up around it over the course of generations. She combines an analysis of blindness in art and culture (from King Lear to Star Wars) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane, embossed printing, digital technology) to paint a vivid personal and cultural history. A genre-defying work, There Plant Eyes reveals just how essential blindness and vision are to humanity’s understanding of itself and the world.
Download or read book Nabokov written by Leona Toker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics stressed either Nabokov’s concern with form or the humanistic side of his works, but rarely if ever the two together. In sensitive and revealing readings of ten novels, Toker demonstrates that the need to reconcile the human element with aesthetic or metaphysical pursuits is a constant theme of Nabokov’s and that the tension between technique and content is itself a key to his fiction. Written with verve and precision, Toker’s book begins with Pnin and follows the circular pattern that is one of her subject’s own favored devices.
Download or read book Leather and Lace written by Leona Horath and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leather and Lace By Leona Faye Horath Leather and Lace took 43 years to write because Leona Faye Horath only writes her heart-warming poetry when inspired. This is a masterpiece – it touches your heart and, from cover to cover, drips with creativity. You will want to buy Leather and Lace for the special people in your life. It was inspired by God. This is a great collection of poems to enjoy and share.
Download or read book Leona the Unicorn Fairy Magical Animal Fairies 6 written by Daisy Meadows and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel and Kirsty are off on another exciting adventure - with the Magical Animal Fairies!Rachel and Kirsty are heading to outdoor adventure camp -- and another fairy adventure is just around the corner! The Magical Animal Fairies' seven animals are missing. The animals each look after a special kind of magic. If Rachel and Kirsty can't find them fast, nothing will be the same! The girls are excited to go horseback riding! Could Leona the Unicorn Fairy's special unicorn be near the stables, too? There's only one way to find out. . . .Find the missing magical animal in each book and help save the fairy magic!
Download or read book The Sage of Waterloo A Tale written by Leona Francombe and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most beguiling and distinctive debut novel of the season: the Battle of Waterloo…as told by a rabbit. On June 17, 1815, the Duke of Wellington amassed his troops at Hougoumont, an ancient farmstead not far from Waterloo. The next day, the French attacked—the first shots of the Battle of Waterloo—sparking a brutal, day-long skirmish that left six thousand men either dead or wounded. William is a white rabbit living at Hougoumont today. Under the tutelage of his mysterious and wise grandmother Old Lavender, William attunes himself to the echoes and ghosts of the battle, and through a series of adventures he comes to recognize how deeply what happened at Waterloo two hundred years before continues to reverberate. “Nature,” as Old Lavender says, “never truly recovers from human cataclysms.” The Sage of Waterloo is a playful retelling of a key turning point in human history, full of vivid insights about Napoleon, Wellington, and the battle itself—and a slyly profound reflection on our place in the world.
Download or read book Leona s Mix and Match Storybook written by Christopher Cerf and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen poems about waking, mud, ducks, the seaside, snow, and other familiar experiences.
Download or read book The Uranium People written by Leona Marshall Libby and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The youngest and only woman member of the original team of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project recounts the scientific, personal, and ethical problems encountered by those who built the first nuclear reactor.
Download or read book Leona a Love Story written by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 1994 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early nineteenth-century Mexico, sixteen-year-old Leona Vicario, loyal to Spain and engaged to a wealthy widower, struggles to come to terms with her growing revolt against Spain's harsh treatment of Mexicans and her love for a young revolutionary lawyer.
Download or read book If Sylvie Had Nine Lives written by Leona Theis and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative, gorgeously written story about the small decisions that shape our lives. Meet Sylvie -- funny, sly, sensual and flawed. She can't always count on herself to make good choices. She may or may not recognize a life-or-death moment, may or may not cancel her own wedding with a day to spare, might just try to walk past store security with a little something in her pocket. Like all of us, Sylvie must make decisions that have reverberations for years to come. Unlike the rest of us, Sylvie gets to live more than one life. In airy prose imbued with humour, this novel asks the big questions: is there a right path and a wrong path, or does each possibility hold its share of pleasure and pain? Does a person have an immutable self, or is her essence dependent on circumstances? In this energetic and innovative book, Leona Theis creates a world without the usual limits and a protaganist who is conflicted, charismatic, brave, and full of curiosity. If Sylvie Had Nine Lives is for everyone who has ever asked, What if...?
Download or read book Seedfolks written by Paul Fleischman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children's Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads. Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden's founding and first year. The book's short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country. Seedfolks has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in ESL classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from South Africa to Broadway. The book's many tributaries—from the author's immigrant grandfather to his adoption of two brothers from Mexico—are detailed in his forthcoming memoir, No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page One. "The size of this slim volume belies the profound message of hope it contains." —Christian Science Monitor And don’t miss Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, the Newbery Medal-winning poetry collection!
Download or read book The Queen of Mean written by Ransdell Pierson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1989 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the controversial real estate developer, discusses the events that led to her indictment for tax fraud, and describes her cold and arrogant personality
Download or read book Jane Doe written by Victoria Helen Stone and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Amazon Charts bestseller. A double life with a single purpose: revenge. Jane's days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She's just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes--meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven. But plain Jane is hiding something. And Steven's bringing out the worst in her. Nothing can distract Jane from going straight for his heart: allowing herself to be seduced into Steven's bed, to insinuate herself into his career and his family, and to expose all his dirty secrets. It's time for Jane to dig out everything that matters to Steven. So she can take it all away. Just as he did to her.
Download or read book Privilege written by Leona Blair and published by . This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Powerlines written by Leona Choy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lion Brothers written by Leona Sevick and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Press 53 Award for Poetry, Lion Brothers, says poetry series editor Tom Lombardo, "presents stories freshly, with stunning surprises, while maintaining strong connections between readers and the world. This collection holds together strongly with its overarching narrative that illuminates the dark corners of domestic life. Its poems show how family life in contemporary America can break to pieces. Under the right circumstances, there may be redemption, but under the wrong circumstances, there may be disaster that tears into the fabric of society."
