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Book Dotty s Suitcase

    Book Details:
  • Author : Constance C. Greene
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-01-27
  • ISBN : 1504000943
  • Pages : 105 pages

Download or read book Dotty s Suitcase written by Constance C. Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dotty’s world, excitement is as scarce as money—and her desire to escape is bottomless During the Great Depression, twelve-year-old Dotty dreams of traveling far away—maybe even to Africa to see crocodiles along the Nile. But first she needs luggage. If she wishes hard enough, she knows she’ll get it. When a bag full of money nearly lands in Dotty’s lap, adventure awaits. She and her neighbor Jud quickly discover that danger and heartbreak travel with that suitcase, and Dotty realizes that the reality of getting away from her small town may not be all that she imagined.

Book Outraged

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2020-07-14
  • ISBN : 163557501X
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Outraged written by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Funny, nuanced and wonderful” -Jon Ronson, bestselling author of SO YOU'VE BEEN PUBLICLY SHAMED and THE PSYCHOPATH TEST “Outraged is as hilarious as it is smart, and as insightful as it is provocative. A book that had me hollering, nodding and questioning at the same time.” -Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie A candid exploration of the state of outrage in our culture, how it debases our civil discourse, and how we can channel it back into the fights that matter, from radio host Ashley "Dotty" Charles. We're living in a post-modern utopia of sorts, where thanks to our resolute predecessors, we've checked a bunch of items off our outrage shopping list. Slavery? Abolished. Apartheid? Not anymore buddy. Women's suffrage? Nailed it. But what do you do when you keep winning your battles? Well, you pick new ones, of course. Ours is a society where many get by on provocation, the tactless but effective tool of peddling outrage--and we all too quickly take the bait. If outrage has become abundant, activism has definitely become subdued. Are we so exhausted from our hashtags that we simply don't have the energy to be outraged in the real world? Or are we simply pretending to be bothered? There is still much to be outraged by in our final frontier--the gender pay gap, racial bias, gun control--but in order to enact change, we must learn to channel our responses. Passionate, funny and unrelentingly wise, this is the essential guide to living through the age of outrage.

Book The Dot Comparable

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. Sole
  • Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1849911339
  • Pages : 411 pages

Download or read book The Dot Comparable written by A. Sole and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flora s Suitcase

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  • Author : Dalia Rabinovich
  • Publisher : Harper
  • Release : 1998-08-19
  • ISBN : 9780060191375
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Flora s Suitcase written by Dalia Rabinovich and published by Harper. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora&'s Suitcase marks the auspicious debut of an original new voice in fiction. An exquisitely written tale, Flora&'s Suitcase is redolent with elements of magical realism and a decidedly fresh look at the traditional family saga, taking the reader on a funny, mysterious journey as one woman carves out her identity in a new land. Dalia Rabinovich weaves the intricate and mysterious tapestry of David and Flora Grossenberg&'s lives with skill and imagination. The young Jewish couple emigrate to Colombia shortly after their marriage and soon discover that the clash of cultures--between Colombian and American traditions, and between modern Jews and their conservative Russian emigré relations--as well as the foreign landscape will test their marriage and their family bonds. After the arrival, Flora desperately wants out of the clutches of David&'s three older sisters, overbearing matriarchs all, and insists that she and David rent a house of their own. There they discover a curious inhabitant, Bolivariana, a wizened old woman who claims to be the illegitimate daughter of Columbia&'s national hero, Simon Bolivar. She wanders their house aimlessly, scavenging for food late at night, and displaying her uncanny gift for predicting the future. Also clamoring for Flora&'s attention are a growing brood of children, a succession of Wayward maids, and the more unusual male members of the family, including the increasingly erratic Harold, whose passion for mangoes lured the entire family to Columbia in the first place. Bright with imagination and steeped in rich South American culture, Flora&'s Suitcase chronicles a journey in a strange and wonderful land, marking the emergence of a promising new literary talent. "Flora&'s Suitcase is a magical family saga. It&'s beautifully written, imaginatively evoked and so touching and funny that any reader will be constantly surprised. What a wonderful first novel! And how nice that I had a small part to play in bringing it to readers." --Olivia Goldsmith Before they married, Dave had promised Flora that they would live forever in her hometown of Cincinnatiu. He would make many other promises and break them, but that was the one for which he would always he held accountable. It was to be the dormant root of every argument, rarely hurled as an accusation but always present, implicit. What Dave did not know was that Flora, at her mother&'s suggestion, had asked him to make a promise that she was sure he could not keep. "A broken promise goes a long way," Shana advised her daughter. "What did you ask of papa? Flora inquired. "I don&'t remember." Shana smiled mischievously. "But what&'s important is that he does." --from Flora&'s Suitcase

Book The Someday Suitcase

Download or read book The Someday Suitcase written by Corey Ann Haydu and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers who loved The Thing About Jellyfish and Goodbye Stranger will find a mysterious magic and unforgettable friendship in The Someday Suitcase, from the critically acclaimed author of Rules for Stealing Stars. This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom. A Bank Street Books Best Children's Book of 2018! Clover and Danny are the kind of best friends who make each other even better. They’re so important to each other that Clover believes they’re symbiotic: her favorite science word, which describes two beings who can’t function without the other. But when Danny comes down with a mysterious illness that won’t go away, the doctors can’t figure out what’s wrong with him. So Clover decides to take matters into her own hands by making lists—list of Danny’s symptoms, his good days, his bad days. As the evidence piles up, only one thing becomes clear: Danny is only better when Clover is around. Suddenly it feels like time is running out for Clover and Danny to do everything they’ve planned together—to finally see snow, to go on a trip with the suitcase they picked out together. Will science be able to save Danny, or is this the one time when magic can overcome the unthinkable?

Book All Aboard

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  • Author : Shelley Michael
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-05-01
  • ISBN : 9781941434604
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book All Aboard written by Shelley Michael and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Plays

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  • Author : Young Jean Lee
  • Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780573633591
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Three Plays written by Young Jean Lee and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Married an Angel  and Now She s in Heaven

Download or read book I Married an Angel and Now She s in Heaven written by Dr. Raymond Broz and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story of my wonderful marriage, and the people involved are still alive except for Dorothy. Before I retired I was able to buy our lake home in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, and Dorothy would spend summers there with our two youngest children. This was lake property ceded from the Chippewa Indians and had been owned by Dorothy's aunt. After my retirement this became our permanent home for next thirty years. People there call it God's country, because it is so peaceful and quiet--except in the summer with the influx of tourists. For one of the Fourth of July parades in the town, the Broz clan of about twenty joined in. With our yellow T-shirts and our family tree on the back, we all had kazoos, making music as we marched along. We won first prize. Perhaps some day we might have a St. Dorothy of Lac du Flambeau.

Book Nazis  Women and Molecular Biology

Download or read book Nazis Women and Molecular Biology written by Gunther Stent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What prompts a well-renowned scientist in molecular biology to write memoirs about a part of his life? In the case of Gunther Stent, it was not to reflect on his career as a scientist, but to come to an understanding of his own soul. In his seventies, he had come to see that he had been, throughout his life, an emotional sleepwalker, especially as regards women and, in addition, that he had been troubled by Jewish self-hatred. His story may have more to do with St. Augustine's Confessions than with a scientist's memoirs. Stent provides insight into the power of political correctness, and the ability of a government to establish a perverse vision of reality. For readers interested in bioethics, Stent's memoirs help to explain how Germany could have been the first country to enact an all-encompassing protection for human research subjects while it was also the country that produced the medical experiments of the Nazis and the greatest perversion of medical morality in history. Stent is a person of intelligence and subtlety, an accomplished writer, a deep and wise man, and a loyal friend. His narrative is centered emotionally on a youth spent in Berlin in the Nazi period. As a boy of fourteen he was an eyewitness of the horrors of the Kristallnacht pogrom.On New Year's Eve 1938 he escaped from Germany across the "green frontier." He came to America in his teens, only to return to Berlin at the end of World War II as a scientific consultant for the U.S. Military. On his return to the States, Stent participated in the exciting early scientific breakthroughs of molecular biology that transformed the twentieth-century life sciences. His Nazis, Women and Molecular Biology is a piercing self-examination, and as its review in Science Newsletter says, "an act of self-exposure, abnegation, contrition, and expiation." It will be of keen interest to those who have inhabited Stent's worlds or shared his experiences, as well as those who wish to learn more about them. Gunther S. Stent is professor emeritus of neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of such classic texts as Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses and Molecular Genetics, as well as philosophical books, such as The Coming of the Golden Age, Paradoxes of Progress, and, most recently (2002), Paradoxes of Free Will.

Book Exporters and Importers Journal

Download or read book Exporters and Importers Journal written by Ralph W. Grout and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emergency Response Guidebook

Download or read book Emergency Response Guidebook written by U.S. Department of Transportation and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the identification number 60 indicate a toxic substance or a flammable solid, in the molten state at an elevated temperature? Does the identification number 1035 indicate ethane or butane? What is the difference between natural gas transmission pipelines and natural gas distribution pipelines? If you came upon an overturned truck on the highway that was leaking, would you be able to identify if it was hazardous and know what steps to take? Questions like these and more are answered in the Emergency Response Guidebook. Learn how to identify symbols for and vehicles carrying toxic, flammable, explosive, radioactive, or otherwise harmful substances and how to respond once an incident involving those substances has been identified. Always be prepared in situations that are unfamiliar and dangerous and know how to rectify them. Keeping this guide around at all times will ensure that, if you were to come upon a transportation situation involving hazardous substances or dangerous goods, you will be able to help keep others and yourself out of danger. With color-coded pages for quick and easy reference, this is the official manual used by first responders in the United States and Canada for transportation incidents involving dangerous goods or hazardous materials.

Book Dutch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dorothy Thomas
  • Publisher : Dot Publications
  • Release : 2012-12-03
  • ISBN : 0957302819
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Dutch written by Dorothy Thomas and published by Dot Publications. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American English edition. "e;See it, say it."e; Easy-to-use guide to Dutch for complete beginners. Pictures show users what to say and how to say it, covering a wide range of tourist situations from hotels and self-catering to shopping, bars and restaurants, travel, visiting the doctor and making friends. Also includes an extensive menu guide and two-way dictionary, plus a brief grammar section showing how the language fits together. All Instant books are written in collaboration with native speakers.

Book Top of the News

Download or read book Top of the News written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mrs  Sinclair s Suitcase

Download or read book Mrs Sinclair s Suitcase written by Louise Walters and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbreaking and deeply compelling debut, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a compulsive page-turner about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets—book-club fiction at its best. Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother’s battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family’s history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta’s narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless woman desperate for motherhood during the early years of World War II. After a chance encounter with a Polish war pilot, Dorothy believes she’s finally found happiness, but must instead make an unthinkable decision whose consequences forever change the framework of her family. The parallel stories of Roberta and Dorothy unravel over the course of eighty years as they both make their own ways through secrets, lies, sacrifices, and love. Utterly absorbing, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a spellbinding tale of two worlds, one shattered by secrets and the other by the truth.

Book The Lives They Left Behind

Download or read book The Lives They Left Behind written by Darby Penney and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients' belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. In this fully-illustrated social history, they are skillfully examined and compared to the written record to create a moving-and devastating-group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.

Book Hana s Suitcase

Download or read book Hana s Suitcase written by Karen Levine and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2002-08-07 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition with foreword by Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu: “How extraordinary that this humble suitcase has enabled children all over the world to learn through Hana’s story the terrible history of what happened and that it continues to urge them to heed the warnings of history.” In the spring of 2000, Fumiko Ishioka, the curator of a small Holocaust education centre for children in Tokyo, received a very special shipment for an exhibit she was planning. She had asked the curators at the Auschwitz museum if she could borrow some artifacts connected to the experience of children at the camp. Among the items she received was an empty suitcase. From the moment she saw it, Fumiko was captivated by the writing on the outside that identified its owner – Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, Waisenkind (the German word for orphan). Children visiting the centre were full of questions. Who was Hana Brady? Where did she come from? What was she like? How did Hana become an orphan? What happened to her? Fueled by the children’s curiosity and her own need to know, Fumiko began a year of detective work, scouring the world for clues to the story of Hana Brady. Writer Karen Levine follows Fumiko in her search through history, from present-day Japan, Europe and North America back to 1938 Czechoslovakia and the young Hana Brady, a fun-loving child with a passion for ice skating. Together with Fumiko, we learn of Hana’s loving parents and older brother, George, and discover how the family’s happy life in a small town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis. Based on an award-winning CBC documentary, Hana’s Suitcase takes the reader on an incredible journey full of mystery and memories, which come to life through the perspectives of Fumiko, Hana and later Hana’s brother, who now lives in Canada. Photographs and original wartime documents enhance this extraordinary story that bridges cultures, generations and time. Ideal for young readers aged 9 and up. Hana’s Suitcase is part of the award-winning Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers.

Book Dorothy s Neighbors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marie Doran
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Dorothy s Neighbors written by Marie Doran and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: