Download or read book The Silent Symphony written by Marcel M Du Plessis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassius Wortham leaves all he knows behind to make it as a writer in the City, a nameless, walled metropolis at the crossroads of the world. But things are not as they seem. His roommate might have mob connections, his artist friend has addiction issues, and the waitress at the poetry club has political aspirations. Not to mention the invisible spirit of history that follows them around waiting to chronicle a looming catastrophe. An overseas turmoil brings tides of refugees to the walls of the City. Ambitious leaders play at social engineering. The loudest voices are drowned in the growing silence. Only Cas, his friends and their ghostly tagalong hold the key to the future, for in the end the silent will decide the fate of the City. Listen...and you too may hear the instruments of the Silent Symphony.
Download or read book My Name is Mina written by David Almond and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It's been there for an age. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. So I'll start right here, right now. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? And so Mina writes and writes in her notebook, and here is her journal, Mina's life in Mina's own words: her stories and dreams, experiences and thoughts, her scribblings and nonsense, poems and songs. Her vivid account of her vivid life. In this stunning book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig. Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.
Download or read book Middlesex written by Jeffrey Eugenides and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there’s a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is a hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie’s grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator’s life in motion. Middlesex is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It’s a brilliant exploration of divided people, divided families, divided cities and nations -- the connected halves that make up ourselves and our world.
Download or read book Tangled Rapunzel s Journal written by Calliope Glass and published by Disney Press. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapunzel gives readers a glimpse inside her world in this 32-page deluxe storybook with a padded cover. Readers will find hours of entertainment in the color illustrations throughout. Told from Rapunzel's point of view, this title gives readers the richness of a storybook with the call-out elements of a scrapbook. Glittery pages and a gatefold add to the fun.
Download or read book Letter to a Future Lover written by Ander Monson and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exuberant, expansive cataloging of the intimate physical relationship between a reader and a book A way to leave a trace of us, who we were or wanted to be, what we read and could imagine, what we did and what we left for you. Readers of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are not just collections of books and databases but a medium of long-distance communication with other writers and readers. Letter to a Future Lover collects several dozen brief pieces written in response to library ephemera—with "library" defined broadly, ranging from university institutions to friends' shelves, from a seed library to a KGB prison library—and addressed to readers past, present, and future. Through these witty, idiosyncratic essays, Ander Monson reflects on the human need to catalog, preserve, and annotate; the private and public pleasures of reading; the nature of libraries; and how the self can be formed through reading and writing.
Download or read book Star Wars A Rebel Hero Journal written by Calliope Glass and published by SFI Readerlink Dist. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join some of the galaxy’s favorite female rebels—including Princess Leia, Ahsoka, and Rey—and discover what it means to stand up for what’s right in this illustrated prompted journal. In a galaxy far, far away, young female rebels like Princess Leia, Ahsoka, and Rey have always done everything they could to stand up for what was right. Discover exactly what makes these brave heroes so special in this beautifully illustrated prompted journal. Young Star Warsfans will be encouraged to embrace their own heroic traits and learn that they, too, can be a rebel.
Download or read book Calliope s Journal written by Dan Eitreim and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The unexamined life is not worth living" -Socrates Many of the world
Download or read book Sparkleton 1 The Magic Day written by Calliope Glass and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shaggy purple unicorn does everything he can—except his homework—to get wish-granting powers in the first book of this glitterrific, highly illustrated early chapter book series. Sparkleton begs his big sister to give him wish-granting magic for one whole day so he can prove what a glitteriffic wish-granting unicorn he can be. But all the wishes he grants come out opposite! Can Sparkleton’s friends Willow and Gabe help him undo the magic before sunset? Or will every day be opposite day? HarperChapters build confident readers one chapter at a time! With short, fast-paced books, art on every page, and milestone markers at the end of every chapter, they're the perfect next step for fans of I Can Read!
Download or read book Cheating Destiny written by James S. Hirsch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the disease that is becoming America's fastest-growing epidemic, revealing the author's own bout with Type 1 diabetes, the science behind the disease, and the social and economic impact of diabetes in the United States.
Download or read book Oblivion written by Sasha Dawn and published by Carolrhoda Lab& 8482. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.
Download or read book Fairy Flora written by Disney Book Group and published by Disney Press. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello! I’m Iris, and this is my gardening journal. There’s no fairy in Pixie Hollow who knows more about growing plants than I do. Why, I’m a garden expert! And I have a lot of good advice to share with you and the other garden fairies. Pixie Hollow’s garden talent fairies take readers into their magical world in this interactive picture book. Let Iris guide you through Lily’s garden, the Home Tree, and Rosetta’s beautiful blooms, while she teaches you all about the garden talents. Learn what kinds of flowers grow in Rosetta’s garden, what Lily’s most troublesome plant is, and how the cure-all remedy for hay fever is made! And by planting the three special seed papers tucked inside envelopes on the pages of this charming book, readers can bring the magic of the Disney Fairies into their own gardens!
Download or read book Area Wide Control of Insect Pests written by M.J.B. Vreysen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insect pests are becoming a problem of ever-more biblical proportions. This new textbook collates a series of selected papers that attempt to address various fundamental components of area-wide insect pest control. Of special interest are the numerous papers on pilot and operational programs that pay special attention to practical problems encountered during program implementation. It’s a compilation of more than 60 papers authored by experts from more than 30 countries.
Download or read book American Vaudeville written by Geoffrey Hilsabeck and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture--and with old, weird America. At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere--then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country using lists, creation myths, thumbnail biographies, dreams, and obituaries. A lyric history--part social history, part song--American Vaudeville sits at the nexus between poetry, experimental nonfiction, and, because it includes historic images, art books. Geoffrey Hilsabeck's book grows out of extensive archival research. Rather than arranging that research--the remains of vaudeville--into a realistic picture or tidy narrative, Hilsabeck dreams vaudeville back into existence, drawing on photographs, letters, joke books, reviews, newspaper stories, anecdotes, and other material gathered from numerous archives, as well as from memoirs by vaudeville performers like Buster Keaton, Eva Tanguay, and Eddie Cantor. Some of this research is presented as-is, a letter from a now forgotten vaudeville performer to her booking agent, for example; some is worked up into brief scenes and biographies; and some is put to even more imaginative uses, finding new life in dialogues and prose poems. American Vaudeville pulls the past into the present and finds in the beauty and carnivalesque grotesqueness of vaudeville a fitting image of American life today.
Download or read book Calliope s Sisters written by Richard L. Anderson and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the visual and performing arts of the world's societies.
Download or read book Dumbo Live Action Picture Book written by Calliope Glass and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous picture book that captures the heart and stunning visuals of Tim Burton's Dumbo. The picture book will feature gorgeous, stylized illustrations that will welcome readers into the wonderful world of Walt Disney studios' live action Dumbo.
Download or read book Squirrel s Fun Day written by Lisa Moser and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Squirrel is determined to have a very fun day with each of his animal friends.
Download or read book Forget Me Not written by Ellie Terry and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize she's different. Only Calliope's neighbor, who is also the popular student body president, sees her as she truly is--an interesting person and a good friend. But is he brave enough to take their friendship public? As Calliope navigates school, she must also face her mother's new relationship and the fact that they might be moving--again--just as she starts to make friends and finally accept her differences. Ellie Terry's affecting debut will speak to a wide audience about being true to oneself.
