Download or read book Count on Me written by Miguel Tanco and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl sees the world differently in this beautiful picture book celebration of math. Everyone has a passion. For some, it's music. For others, it's art. For our heroine, it's math. When she looks around the world, she sees math in all the beautiful things: the concentric circles a stone makes in a lake, the curve of a slide, the geometric shapes in the playground. Others don't understand her passion, but she doesn't mind. There are infinite ways to see the world. And through math is one of them. This book is a gorgeous ode to something vital but rarely celebrated. In the eyes of this little girl, math takes its place alongside painting, drawing and song as a way to ponder the beauty of the world.

Download or read book Empty Promises HB written by Nick Shepherd and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empty Promises (HB) By: Nick Shepherd Miguel Perez is not an ambitious person, leading a hedonist but ultimately unfulfilling life as a tennis pro at a high-end club and selling cocaine on the side. As he descends deeper into the cocaine business, the ruling drug cartel tracks him down, shooting Miguel and his friend Steve. With a sheer amount of luck, Miguel escapes just barely with his life, and lands into the clutches of Steve’s wealthy investment financier father, Harry Edison. To Miguel’s dismay, Harry has a plan for the young man: to transform him into a completely new person, someone who is successful, powerful, and driven. In other words, the son he never had.

Download or read book He Carries Me written by Divine Light and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no available information at this time. Author will provide once information is available.

Download or read book A Good Map of All Things written by Alberto Álvaro Ríos and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Alberto Álvaro Ríos’s new picaresque novel, momentous adventure and quiet connection brings twenty people to life in a small town in northern Mexico. A Good Map of All Things is home to characters whose lives are interwoven but whose stories are their own, adding warmth and humor to this continually surprising communal narrative. The stories take place in the mid-twentieth century, in the high desert near the border—a stretch of land generally referred to as the Pimería Alta—an ancient passage through the desert that connected the territory of Tucson in the north and Guaymas and Hermosillo in the south. The United States is off in the distance, a little difficult to see, and, in the middle of the century, not the only thing to think about. Mexico City is somewhere to the south, but nobody can say where and nobody has ever seen it. Ríos has created a whimsical yet familiar town, where brightly unique characters love fiercely and nurture those around them. The people in A Good Map of All Things have secrets and fears, successes and happiness, winters and summers. They are people who do not make the news, but who are living their lives for the long haul, without lotteries or easy answers or particular luck. Theirs is the everyday, with its small but meaningful joy. Whether your heart belongs to a small town in Mexico or a bustling metropolis, Alberto Álvaro Ríos has crafted a book that is overflowing with comfort, warmth, and the familiar embrace of a tightly woven community.

Download or read book Selected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel Gonz lez Melo written by Abel González Melo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of Cuba's most important contemporary playwrights, Abel González Melo is known for a hybrid poetics in which he employs contemporary formal features, such as non-linear storytelling and flashbacks, interwoven with elements from the classical tradition in order to stage the ignoble realities of postmodern life. " (Lillian Manzor, University of Miami) Born in Havana in 1980, Abel González Melo is a rare example of a contemporary Cuban playwright whose work is performed and celebrated not only in Cuba, but also in the US, the Americas more widely, Europe, and beyond. Investigating a raft of national and universal themes, such as queer sexuality, the dilemma of leaving or remaining, political power and censorship, family dynamics, the ambition and responsibility of the artist, and so-called 'cancel culture', González Melo's work is international and universal in scope. The result of a 20-year collaboration with translator William Gregory, this collection of six plays surveys González Melo's eclectic two-decade career: from his beginning with earlier works exploring the pulsing underworld of early-2000s Havana in Chamaco and Nevada, through to his most recent takes on theatre and its intersection with contemporary issues in Tell Me the Whole Thing Again and Abyss. Complete with an edited introduction by Ernesto Fundora and a translator's note from Gregory, Selected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel González Melo explores not only González Melo's oeuvre but also his distinctive stylistic and aesthetic variety, gained from living in both Spain and Cuba.

Download or read book New Tides written by Paul R. West and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-01-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Hardman is an ex drug enforcement agent living a secluded life in a Florida tourist town called Destin. An email from his sister tells him about his high school girlfriend being shot down and is hanging on by a thread. She was in the process of prosecuting a brother of one the drug gangs in the area. It turns out he is associated with the number one drug cartel in the world. It takes all of Simon’s years of training to take down the people responsible for the shooting, along with the help of close friends still with the agency. The twist in all of this is his girlfriend had twin daughters who are now teenagers and they are Simon’s.

Download or read book The Governor s Daughter written by Angel Myers and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda, the governor's daughter, is an heiress. Her father is a very wealthy Spanish businessman who came from Spain. Her father became powerful in politics, as he became the governor in the city. She was the one and only child, with five personal attendants. She grew up surrounded with luxury, a woman who was born with privilege, and part of the wealthiest families in the city. She sacrificed all her wealth just to be with her true love. She was born in a mansion, but she embraced a simp

Download or read book Resuming the Kalifee written by Susan Chappell and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book opens with all the characters of the first book headed to a grand celebration. The evil Gogatt has not been seen in at least two suns. Things are going so well for the Kalifee people. The crops are good and the brothels are at their highest revenue. The divine lives within all people and the Kalifee know it and express it so well. There is love and love lost. Betrayal is waiting in the wonderful disguise of love, giving, and commitment. These fighting women and men do so much more than fight the enemy. The internal struggle, after all, is the greatest fight of all.

Download or read book My Trials written by Mark Wilson and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marks story begins several years back when he ventured to a foreign country for unique career-building experiences. It is there he eventually met more and more like-minded individuals and someone who appeared extra special. This same-aged woman was on her game as she presented a convincing picture of virtue. Mark had no idea that he was about to become quite the victim of a high-functioning, proactively religious psychopath. Mark beautifully illustrated how counterintuitive his experiences with a psychopath were and goes in great depth to show how these abuser victim roles play out in real life encounters. This is interesting information that is often not included in other books on the same subject matter. In sharing how he figured his way through his extended encounter with a primary psychopath, he seeks to spread awareness which will help members of our global society identify psychopaths before they cause their applicable levels of damage. Join the author to educate yourself on the increasingly trending topic of psychopathy. There are many things Mark assists you in taking away from encounters with psychopaths and their influence on the world around us. Psychopathy is certainly a topic worth getting a grasp over. Look into this critically constructed book and youll be happy you did!

Download or read book Wrong Thing written by Barry Graham and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They call him the Kid. He’s a killer, a dark Latino legend of the Southwest’s urban badlands, “a child who terrifies adults.” They speak of him in whispers in dive bars near closing time. Some claim to have met him. Others say he doesn’t exist, a phantom blamed for every unsolved act of violence, a ghost who haunts every blood-splattered crime scene. But he is real. He’s a young man with a love of cooking and reading, an abiding loneliness and an appetite for violence. He is a cipher, a projection of the dreams and nightmares of people ignored by Phoenix’s economic boom…and a contemporary outlaw in search of an ordinary life. Love brings him the chance at a new life in the form of Vanjii, a beautiful, damaged woman. But try as he might to abandon the past, his past won’t abandon him. The Kid fights back in the only way he knows – and sets in motion a tragic sequence of events that lead him to an explosive conclusion shocking in its brutality and tenderness.

Download or read book Youth Learning On Their Own Terms written by Leif Gustavson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Learning On Their Own Terms convincingly shows how developing a respect and understanding of the youth-initiated creative practices that occur outside schools can offer educators the opportunity to directly influence their teaching in schools by making classroom spaces personally meaningful and rigorous for both students and teachers.

Download or read book I Am a Pencil written by Sam Swope and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's book author relates how a workshop for a group of third graders grew into a three-year relationship with the class of mostly new Americans as he taught them to write stories and poems and learned of their hopes and lives.

Download or read book Wisdom of the Shamans written by Don Jose Ruiz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generation after generation, Toltec shamans have passed down their wisdom through teaching stories. The purpose of these stories is to implant a seed of knowledge in the mind of the listener, where it can ultimately sprout and blossom into a new and better way of life. In The Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us About Love and Life, Toltec shaman and master storyteller don Jose Ruiz shares some of the most popular stories from his family's oral tradition and offers corresponding lessons that illustrate the larger ideas within each story. Ruiz begins by explaining that contrary to the stereotypical image of "witch doctor," the ancient shamans were men and women who fulfilled several roles within their communities: philosopher, spiritual guide, medical doctor, psychologist, and friend. According to Ruiz, their teachings are not primitive or reserved for a chosen few initiates but are instead a powerful series of lessons on love and life that are available to us all. To that aim, he has included exercises, meditations, and shamanic rituals to help you experience the personal transformation these stories offer. The shamans taught that the truth you seek is inside of you. Let these stories, lessons, and tools be your guide to finding the innate wisdom that lives within.

Download or read book The Victorious Opposition American Empire Book Three written by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] colossal and brilliant saga . . . [This novel] may be the strongest and most compelling since the opener, How Few Remain.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. Jake Featherston, leader of the ruling Freedom Party, has won power in the South—and is taking his country and the world to the edge of an abyss. Charismatic and shrewd, he is whipping the Confederate States into a frenzy of hatred. Blacks are being rounded up and sent to prison camps, and the persecution has just begun. As the North stumbles through a succession of leaders, Featherston is feeling his might. With the U.S.A. locked in a bitter, bloody occupation of Canada, facing an intractable rebellion in Utah, and fatigued from a war in the Pacific against Japan, Featherston may pursue one dangerous proposition above all: that he can defeat the U.S.A. in an all-out war. Praise for The Victorious Opposition “Turtledove’s Great War/American Empire series is an epic achievement, a meticulously worked-out alternate history of the twentieth century’s great two-act tragedy. . . . Bravo! A fine performance by a master-craftsman.”—S. M. Stirling, author of Island in the Sea of Time “Anyone who loves history will love what Harry Turtledove can do with it.”—Larry Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Red Phoenix

Download or read book Depart from Me written by Tom Schulte and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miguel was born into a low-income family that became entrapped in human trafficking. The death of his parents thrust Miguel into a series of foster homes, eventually placing him in an unsavory foster home situation. Fortunately, a teacher inspired Miguel to better himself until he became a highly successful married man with two children and was a greatly respected deacon in his church. Miguel faced common challenges when he lost his job, and his wife died prematurely. Along the way, Miguel had numerous opportunities to submit his trust to the Lordship of Jesus.

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