Download or read book The Arabic Quilt An Immigrant Story written by Aya Khalil and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 ARAB AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD WINNER Children's Africana Book Award (CABA) 2021 Honor Book NCSS 2021 Notable Social Studies Book Kanzi’s family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that’s why she forgets to take the kofta sandwich her mother has made for her lunch, but that backfires when Mama shows up at school with the sandwich. Mama wears a hijab and calls her daughter Habibti (dear one). When she leaves, the teasing starts. That night, Kanzi wraps herself in the beautiful Arabic quilt her teita (grandma) in Cairo gave her and writes a poem in Arabic about the quilt. Next day her teacher sees the poem and gets the entire class excited about creating a “quilt” (a paper collage) of student names in Arabic. In the end, Kanzi’s most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one. This authentic story with beautiful illustrations includes a glossary of Arabic words and a presentation of Arabic letters with their phonetic English equivalents.

Download or read book Aya and the Alphas written by Lornett B. Vestal and published by Snake Doctor Press. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young girl, Aya Wright, develops extraordinary abilities and becomes a target of the world's most powerful fader, Eve must protect her. But at what price? In the twenty-five years since she exposed the existence of faders, Eve Cooper has survived the collapse of her country and the loss of her closest friends. Now she lives a mostly solitary life in rural Indiana, where she runs a secret network and safe house for faders -individuals like her with extraordinary abilities. In nearby Chicago, a young girl named Aya Wright becomes a target of the world's most powerful fader because of her unparalleled abilities. When she arrives at the safe house after an attack, Aya soon sets in motion a series of events that threaten not only to upend Eve's settled life but potentially change the world. As Eve struggles to reconcile her past with the choices in front of her, she must decide whether to leave her recluse life to protect Aya or allow the headstrong girl to find her own way in the world...

Download or read book Dr Todson s Home for Incorrigible Women written by Riley LaShea and published by Midnight Jasmine Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gentle Victorian tale of women’s passions and power, with a sprinkle of romance, a trifle of steampunk, and heaps and heaps of quiet revolution. Caroline Ajax is an inconvenient woman. Unwell. Hot-tempered. Harboring a tragic secret she can’t share with another living soul. Dropped at an institution in the Surrey Hills by her husband, Thomas, her only objective is to survive, to endure, to make it back to what little there is of her life as soon as she possibly can. But it doesn’t take her long to discover there is something unusual about this house and its eclectic group of inhabitants. Not to mention its unconventional proprietor. Eirinn Todson is an untameable woman. Brilliant. Determined. Forging her way through the world of men as brazenly as she knows how. Her dream of becoming a doctor leads her to Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and her clinic for women and children in London, then onto Paris with her best friend and quasi-brother Rand. But an unexpected encounter and personal tragedy will change the course of Eirinn’s life and future forever. In the spring of 1886, Eirinn is now Dr. Todson, proprietor of Dr. Todson’s Home for Women. When Caroline Ajax is admitted into her care, Eirinn has every reason to believe Caroline is just another resident. Caroline has every reason to believe Dr. Todson’s is just another sadistic madhouse. But Dr. Todson’s Home harbors a treasure trove of secrets, some deeper and more dangerous than others, and Caroline’s and Eirinn’s past tragedies share a common thread. Together, they may find a sliver of justice neither of them ever thought to get.

Download or read book The Adult Orphan Club written by Flora Baker and published by Flora Baker. This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vulnerable, honest and deeply personal guide to finding your way through grief. Flora Baker was only twenty when her mum died suddenly of cancer. Her coping strategy was simple: ignore the magnitude of her loss. But when her dad became terminally ill nine years later, Flora was forced to confront the reality of grief. She had to accept that her life had changed forever. In The Adult Orphan Club, Flora draws on a decade of experience with grief and parent loss to explore all the chaotic ways that grief affects us, and how we can learn to navigate it. Written with the newly bereaved in mind and packed with practical tips and advice, this book guides the reader through every step of their grief journey and opens up the death conversation in an honest, heartfelt and accessible way. Whether you’re grieving your own loss or supporting someone else through grief, The Adult Orphan Club will show you that you’re not broken, and you’re not alone.

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Download or read book Novels of Ancient Sumeria Box Set 1 written by Jesse Hudson and published by Noel Jesse Hudson. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Box set includes the first four books of the Novels of Ancient Sumeria series: The Prince of Eridu, The Prince and the Priestess, The Prince and the Prophet and The Prince and the Kings. This is the first in a seven-part series that will sweep you into the alluring and dangerous world of the first empire in history, an exotic and yet eerily familiar place that gave birth to many of the ideas that can still be found battling for hearts and minds among the people of the world even today. The story is experienced through the eyes of Ammon-shur, a prince of the ancient and exotic city of Eridu, who barely escapes a palace coup instigated by the shadowy and ruthless organization whose vile practices were decried for millennia by ancient Hebrew prophets, Greek philosophers and Roman sages alike. This wild adventure, based on the oldest written records of both Mediterranean and Mesopotamian sources, depicts a time when the protections of cultures and kingdoms were torn away by the sweeping changes in technology, religion and climate which pushed ancient peoples into bloody conflict with one another and led directly to the dissemination of the stories of heroes and prophets which still circulate in Western thought today.

Download or read book Just Believe III written by Kenny Chay and published by Kenny Chay. This book was released on 2024-03-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the gripping finale of the series, Leon and Sally journey to Japan in search of Aya, confronting the harsh truths surrounding Aya and her brother Kenichi. As they delve deeper into the mysteries of Aya's past, they must confront their own demons and reconcile with the profound revelations that threaten to shake their world. "Just Believe 3" is a captivating conclusion to the series, where the characters navigate through the complexities of love, loyalty, and the enduring power of belief.

Download or read book Ember of Life written by Tom Watson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ember thought she had found a home when an attack upon her new village causes her to leave for the True South, a land where the warm winds always blow. She carries with her a magical necklace of fertility and the hopes of many people. From shark attacks, ritual sacrifice, and assassination, to finding love and the struggle to help an embattled high priestess save her people from a relentless enemy, Ember is in for one exciting adventure in the warm lands of Anatolia! Set in the early Neolithic period of prehistoric Europe, 7500 years ago, Ember of Life follows the continuing story of Ember the Warrior and Brig'dha the Priestess as they head for new lands in Anatolia, near modern day Turkey. Ancient mud brick cities, exotic rituals, a deadly priestess, a complex plot, beautiful landscapes, and even romance await her!

Download or read book Daughter written by Asha Bandele and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughter, a penetrating novel by Essence editor Asha Bandele and chosen by Black Issues Book Review as Best Urban Fiction for 2003, follows a young woman through life that changes in one night from a horrific incident with police brutality. At nineteen, Aya is a promising Black college student from Brooklyn who is struggling through a difficult relationship with her emotionally distant mother, Miriam. One winter night, Aya is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity. Keeping vigil by her daughter's hospital bed, Miriam remembers her own youth: her battle for independence from her parents, her affair with Aya's father, and the challenges of raising her daughter. But as Miriam confronts her past—her losses and regrets—she begins to heal and discovers a tentative hopefulness. Moving between past and present, the novel builds to a dramatic, heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive conclusion. Daughter is a novel that appears to be about police brutality, but police brutality is only the landscape. The heart of the story is about the silence between generations--the secrets mothers keep from their children in an effort to protect them.

Download or read book Extras written by Scott Westerfeld and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of Specials, the conclusion to the Uglies trilogy, things in Tally's futuristic world had stabilised. The walls between the social classes - the uglies, pretties and specials - had been torn down. So Tally took off to live on her own in the wild. Fast forward... Tally discovers another brand new world. In Extras, it's all about who you know, and how much you have. It's just like LA. Only Paris and Nicole are way dead...

Download or read book Lakota Dictionary written by Eugene Buechel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete and up-to-date dictionary of Lakota available, this new edition of Eugene Buechel's classic dictionary contains over thirty thousand entries and will serve asøan essential resource for everyone interested in preserving, speaking, and writing the Lakota language today. This new comprehensive edition has been reorganized to follow a standard dictionary format and offers a range of useful features: both Lakota-to-English and English-to-Lakota sections; the grouping of principal parts of verbs; the translation of all examples of Lakota word usage; the syllabification of each entry word, followed by its pronunciation; and a lucid overview of Lakota grammar. This monumental new edition celebrates the vitality of the Lakota language today and will be a valuable resource for students and teachers alike.

Download or read book Vox written by Jennifer Chen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation features short fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction by tenth-grade students at Rye Country Day School, an independent school located in Rye, New York. The work was produced in the context of English 10 and English 10 Honors sections taught by Jennifer Chen, Sarah Werner, and Kirk Hatcher in the 2013-2014 academic year. We hope you enjoy the read!

Download or read book Summer with the Single Dad written by Whitley Cox and published by Whitley Cox. This book was released on 2024-08-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the stubborn island prince falls for the mysterious stranger with a secret? Welcome to San Camanez, a humble, peaceful little island in the Puget Sound and home to the McEvoy brothers. Four sexy single fathers—and one childless snack with a beard—who run a brewpub on the beach, raise their kids together, and hope to find love and happiness in the chaos that is life. This is Bennett’s story ... Single Dad and CFO, Bennett McEvoy, is determined to give his daughters a fun summer despite the money woes plaguing his family business. He needs the brewpub and cabins he owns with his brothers to be more prosperous than ever. Because right now, things are tight. His focus is on profit and sustainability. He doesn’t have time for the mysterious beauty in cabin five. But when her cabin floods, he insists she move into his house, because he absolutely does not want to see her go. Dr. Justine Brazeau, a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon, made a mistake and killed a patient. Clearly, she’s not cut out to practice medicine. But now, she has no direction or purpose. She’s lost. She’s sad. And she’s lonely. Well, not anymore since she’s now living with Bennett, and he’s making it very difficult for her to figure out her future—that doesn’t involve him without a shirt (or pants). Can Bennett make the money his family business needs this summer, and heal Justine’s guilty heart? Or is she too consumed with her own pain to see that together they are stronger, better, and a lot less broken? keywords: single dad, single parent, serious hero, doctor heroine, lost heroine, military hero, marine, small town, quirk island, hippy island, vacation romance, contemporary, summer fling, widower, broken heroine, grumpy/sunshine, forced proximity

Download or read book Felarya Legends written by Cesar "Cernex" Garcia Salinas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A somewhat fantastical and bizarre story of desperation as one confused man is pushed, out of nowhere, to a land full of monsters and perils, and he only having his wits to survive.