Download or read book Mark My Words written by Muhammad Khan and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the truth as simple as black and white? Mark My Words is the searing novel from Branford Boase Award-winner and 2020 World Book Day author Muhammad Khan, asking who you can trust when all you see is lies. 'A brilliant and powerful story that kept me on the edge of my seat. The protagonist is extremely compelling and relatable, a warrior through and through - you'll root for Dua the entire way!' - Nikita Gill Fifteen-year-old Dua Iqbal has always had trouble minding her own business. With a silver-tongue and an inquisitive nature, a career in journalism seems fated. When her school merges with another, Dua seizes her chance and sets up a rival newspaper, exposing the controversial stories that teachers and the kids who rule the school would rather keep buried. Dua's investigations are digging up things she shouldn't get involved with about family, friends and her community and as exams rattle towards her, she needs to make some hard decisions about when to leave things alone. But when she discovers that some kids at school are being blamed for selling drugs when the real perpetrator is right in front of their noses, she can't keep quiet any longer. 'A voice long overdue in British fiction' – Alex Wheatle on I Am Thunder 'Khan has created a book steeped in drama and empathy, as well as providing two iconic superheroes' – Nikesh Shukla on Kick the Moon

Download or read book Mark My Words written by Mishuana Goeman and published by First Peoples: New Directions Indigenous. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark My Words traces settler colonialism as an enduring form of gendered spatial violence, demonstrating how it persists in the contemporary context of neoliberal globalization. In a strong and lucid voice, Mishuana Goeman provides close readings of literary texts, arguing that it is vital to refocus the efforts of Native nations beyond replicating settler models of territory, jurisdiction, and race.

Download or read book Mark My Words written by Mark Twain and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a personal look at the man behind the writing through an amusing collection of his expressed opinions and thoughts on such topics as such as fellow writers, authors, editors, children's books, humor, and public speakers.

Download or read book Garner s Quotations written by Dwight Garner and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of favorite quotes that the celebrated literary critic has collected over the decades. From Dwight Garner, the New York Times book critic, comes a rollicking, irreverent, scabrous, amazingly alive selection of unforgettable moments from forty years of wide and deep reading. Garner’s Quotations is like no commonplace book you’ll ever read. If you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on in the world of letters today, this book will make you sit up and take notice. Unputdownable!

Download or read book Mark My Words written by Mark Hasten and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Hasten was born inBohorodczany, Poland in1927. He and his familysurvived WWII in Kazakhstan whereMark entered the military. After thewar Mark immigrated to the newState of Israel where he fought in theWar of Independence.Immigrating first to Canada andthen to the U.S., Mark studied atS.M.U. and joined General Mills as aresearch engineer. In the 1960

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Download or read book Mark My Words written by Marque Drummond and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark My Words is a beautifully written book about love, food, family, travel and life. In this, Marque's second book, he uses the expressive art form of poetry to introduce the reader to his family while honoring their memory and their existence. We travel with Marque to some of the most exquisite and interesting countries in the world. But couched in between family and travel, we also learn about Marque's favorite food and drink, the joys of being a public school teacher, his cars and even a glimpse into his personal life. Fortunately for the reader, every story and every poem is brought to life with beautiful color photos. This book is a delight to read. Mark my words.

Download or read book Why Karen Carpenter Matters written by Karen Tongson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy—the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age thirty-two from the effects of an eating disorder. In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer’s rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between the Philippines—where imitations of American pop styles flourished—and Karen Carpenter’s home ground of Southern California. Tongson reveals why the Carpenters' chart-topping, seemingly whitewashed musical fantasies of "normal love" can now have profound significance for her—as well as for other people of color, LGBT+ communities, and anyone outside the mainstream culture usually associated with Karen Carpenter’s legacy. This hybrid of memoir and biography excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of the Carpenters’ sound, while finding the beauty in the singer's all too brief life.

Download or read book Mark My Words How to Discover the Joy of Music the Delight of Language and the Pride of Achievement in the Age of Trash Talk and Cultural Chaos written by Mark Evans and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical music, jazz, film scores, and the masterpieces of musical theater are in danger of fading into an undeserved oblivion. This crisis extends not only to music, but also to an ignorance of good books, art, theater, and films. Students are emerging from school unfamiliar with our past and unprepared for our future This crisis is exacerbated by our vanishing history, a decline in language, and a pervasive celebrity culture. If this problem is not solved, our nation's cultural and artistic heritage will be irretrievably lost. "Mark! My Words" by Mark Evans is the first book to address the challenge of this crisis. The author, a composer, writer, and broadcaster presents compelling evidence that change and progress are not synonymous and that "new and improved" often means a bigger box and fewer corn flakes .He explains why we have become a nation of hares instead of tortoises. In today's high tech world, students are emerging from school : -Unfamiliar with any music other than what they've encountered through social media -Unable to write, spell, or speak using the English language correctly. -As experts on the lives of celebrities, but ignorant of the most basic facts of American history. -Spending countless hours texting, tweeting, and downloading on the latest digital devices, but without reading any book that hasn't been assigned to them in years. -With a healthy respect for the present, but a complete disdain for the past. In "Mark! My Words" readers will encounter: -True achievers in the arts who are ignored while we celebrate the accomplishments by geniuses of self-promotion. -Teenagers who are mesmerized by pop culture and say they would rather be the assistant to a celebrity than president of a university or a successful business enterprise. -Composers of classical music who have turned music into mathematics and have lost their audience as a result, while great composers are dismissed and ridiculed by critics. -Promoters of rock, pop, and rap music that have corrupted our musical culture while crying all the way to the bank. -Modern artists who promote the credo "Art is what you can get away with." -Graduates of prestigious colleges who are who are unfamiliar with the great events of American history, and who can't tell the difference between the words of Thomas Jefferson and those of Karl Marx. -Librarians who are busy taking our best books off the shelves of their libraries. -Teachers who smile and nod while children make mistakes in reading. -Lawyers and government bureaucrats who can't write a simple English sentence -English professors who have never read a play by Shakespeare. But "Mark! My Words" isn't just about our cultural problems; it also offers solutions to those problems. You'll meet real heroes in "Mark! My Words" like the inner city teacher who changed the lives of her students by starting her own school. You'll celebrate the achievements of composers, writers, and artists who have stood for integrity in an age of cultural confusion. The solution cannot be found in academia, government, or the entertainment industry. It can be found in our own energy, inspiration, and resolve. This book is dedicated to the proposition that we should pursue "cultural conservation," devoting the same energy to preserving our cultural resources that we devote to preserving our natural resources. "Mark! My Words" details what we can do as a society and what you can do as an individual to embark on an exciting journey of discovery that can truly impact your daily life. If you are a parent, a grandparent, a teacher, a student, or someone who cares about music, books, art, language, and our history as a nation, you will want to read this book.

Download or read book Mark My Words written by Lee Murray and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lee Murray, a five-time Bram Stoker Award®-nominee, and Angela Yuriko Smith, publisher at Space and Time magazine, Mark My Words is crammed with advice to make your manuscript shine.Offering practical revision techniques ranging from big-picture structural elements to punctuation, a revision checklist, and practice exercises, Mark My Words is the quintessential guide for authors preparing to submit their manuscripts to mentors, beta-readers, and commissioning editors. With essential tips and strategies from industry professionals including Ellen Datlow, Linda D. Addison, Kevin Wetmore, Geneve Flynn, Eric J. Guignard, Nicholas Diak, Michele Brittany, and many others. Bonus material includes an essay from an editor's perspective by Bram Stoker Award®-winner Rena Mason, an interview by Angela Yuriko Smith with author and entrepreneur Leonard Speiser, and interviews by Bram Stoker Award®-winner Eugene Johnston with Gestalt publisher Jason Stokes and NYT Bestseller Jonathan Maberry."In the future, when beginning writers ask me what they need to do to get their work to a professional, publishable level, I'll direct them to this book. It's filled with warm, witty, no-nonsense advice from two writer/editors who know what they're talking about. I wished I'd had it to guide me when I was starting out. It would've decreased my learning curve by years!" -Tim Waggoner, author of Writing in the Dark

Download or read book Conversations with William F Buckley Jr written by William F. Buckley (Jr.) and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fifteen interviews in this collection are reprinted as they appeared originally ..."--Introduction.

Download or read book The Gospel According to Mark written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest of the four Gospels, the book portrays Jesus as an enigmatic figure, struggling with enemies, his inner and external demons, and with his devoted but disconcerted disciples. Unlike other gospels, his parables are obscure, to be explained secretly to his followers. With an introduction by Nick Cave

Download or read book Mark My Words written by Lee Clark Mitchell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cummings and Nikki Giovanni forego punctuation entirely? More generally, what effect do such nonverbal marks (or their absence) have on an author's encompassing vision? The first book on modern literature to compare writers' punctuation, and to show how fully typographical marks alter our sense of authorial style, Mark My Words offers new ways of reading some of our most important and beloved writers as well as suggesting a fresh perspective on literary style itself.

Download or read book Stolen Words written by Mark Glickman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book"-Title page verso.

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Download or read book The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution written by Richard Beeman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from one of America's most esteemed constitutional scholars. Known across the country for his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Professor Richard Beeman is one of the nation's foremost experts on the United States Constitution. In this book, he has produced what every American should have: a compact, fully annotated copy of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and amendments, all in their entirety. A marvel of accessibility and erudition, the guide also features a history of the making of the Constitution with excerpts from The Federalist Papers and a look at crucial Supreme Court cases that reminds us that the meaning of many of the specific provisions of the Constitution has changed over time. "Excellent . . . valuable and judicious." -Jill Lepore, The New Yorker