Download or read book The Power of Song written by Guntis Šmidchens and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent force, singing Balts maintained faith in nonviolent political action. More than 110 choral, rock, and folk songs are translated and interpreted in poetic, cultural, and historical context. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh7vFFjK0rc

Download or read book Outside the Box written by Bo Wilson and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mommy Book written by Belinda J. Bralver and published by Lyle Stuart. This book was released on 1989-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Spock and Dr. Gessell covered the theory of child-raising. Sigmund Freud examined the effects of the profession. Now, a real-live, on-site Mommy gives the secrets of her experience. A humorous jewel of practical wisdom. Illustrated.

Download or read book The Pretend Series written by Joanna Leigh and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2001-07-07 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pretend Series is a series of poems about children's imagination. These poems are sure to show the strength of a child's thoughts in a make believe world. These poems are for boys and girls as well as adults. Parents will laugh along with their child during a reading of this poetry and enjoy the rhyming words as well as the story.

Download or read book Mommy s Gone written by and published by Forbidden Angel / ENTWINED. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sweet Mommy Wants a Hug written by Hu LuGuai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After he got drunk and broke into a strange villa, he got pregnant with a baby and ran away. Seven years later, a certain Youbao had followed Tang Nian Bai back to thecountry, but the first thing he did was to sell her. She stood on the street and said, "Look for dad, look for dad. Mommy, nine dollars and nine dollars." Tang Nian Bai shyly covered Ceng Bao's mouth. At this time, a tall figure appeared in front of mother and son. The man looked at Miao Bao and asked, "Child, I heard that you want to sell your mother? "How much is it?" Cousin Bao froze on the spot. This man was so handsome, and his entire body was exuding the aura of a noble ... When a certain treasure was completely enchanted by the noble's beauty, it blinked its large eyes, "Here you go, no ..." "No charge."

Download or read book The Folkstories of Children written by Brian Sutton-Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What prompts children to tell stories? What does the word "story" mean to a child at two or five years of age? The Folkstories of Children, first published in 1981, features nearly five hundred stories that were volunteered by fifty children between the ages of two and ten and transcribed word for word. The stories are organized chronologically by the age of the teller, revealing the progression of verbal competence and the gradual emergence of staging and plot organization. Many stories told by two-year-olds, for example, have only beginnings with no middle or end; the "narrative" is held together by rhyme or alliteration. After the age of three or four, the same children tell stories that feature a central character and a narrative arc. The stories also exhibit each child's growing awareness and management of his or her environment and life concerns. Some children see their stories as dialogues between teller and audience, others as monologues expressing concerns about fate and the forces of good and evil. Brian Sutton-Smith discusses the possible origins of the stories themselves: folktales, parent and teacher reading, media, required writing of stories in school, dreams, and play. The notes to each chapter draw on this context as well as folktale analysis and child development theory to consider why and how the stories take their particular forms. The Folkstories of Children provides valuable evidence and insight into the ways children actively and inventively engage language as they grow.

Download or read book Mommy Land written by Victoria Pericon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Forever Jack written by Glenn Hefley and published by Glenn Hefley. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Good Thief to Forever Jack Saint Dismas, has been known by many names; titled murderer, thief, highway man -- by Popes and other Saints. The Good Thief, Patron of the Condemned, The Wise Thief. A part of Dismas has another name; Jack. Jack the Daw, the Forever Jack. Soul Thief. Chicago is plagued with a series of Murder/Suicides resulting in the slaughter of whole families. Detective Lisa Sarah-McNeil, is out of her depth. Her leads are vague, and offer only empty paths; cultist, drugs, mental illness, nothing sticks. Nothing makes sense. She isn't even sure what she is looking for; She has no names. Jack the Daw knows its name, and its cause. Detective Sarah is under the Harrowing of the Damned, and he has been sent to protect her soul, or steal her back from the darkness, no matter what it takes.

Download or read book Administration of Native Hawaiian Home Lands written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book You Were Meant For Me written by Yona Zeldis McDonough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you have to give up the person you love most? Thirty-five-year-old Miranda is not an impulsive person. She’s been at Domestic Goddess magazine for eight years, she has great friends, and she’s finally moving on after a breakup. Having a baby isn’t even on her radar—until the day she discovers an abandoned newborn on the platform of a Brooklyn subway station. Rushing the little girl to the closest police station, Miranda hopes and prays she’ll be all right and that a loving family will step forward to take her. Yet Miranda can’t seem to get the baby off her mind and keeps coming up with excuses to go check on her, until finally a family court judge asks whether she’d like to be the baby’s foster parent—maybe even adopt her. To her own surprise, Miranda jumps at the chance. But nothing could have prepared her for the ecstasy of new-mother love—or the heartbreak she faces when the baby’s father surfaces.... CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED “Well-written characters and fascinating plot twists will appeal to book groups and fans of women’s fiction.”—Library Journal “McDonough does a fabulous job showing that being blind-sided isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes, even the best surprises come out of it. Every facet of the book is compelling, but readers might particularly enjoy the dynamics between the heroine and the two male protagonists. The story’s effortless fluidity will have readers questioning how this inspired-by-real-events premise unfolds.”—Romantic Times "With a deft, sure touch, Yona Zeldis McDonough explores the ways families are formed and how love can take you by surprise. An absorbing and soul-stirring novel."—Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train "Abounding with warmth and charm, You Were Meant for Me, is a profoundly moving novel which explores the intensity of love and the fallout of heartbreak. It will capture your attention from the very first page and never let go."—Emily Liebert, author of When We Fall

Download or read book Passage to America written by Gopi Krishena and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passage to America is very informative. It is about how and why legal immigrants come to this land, what they actually come for, what struggles they go through, how they blend in, and how they become productive citizens of United States and become part of the American melting pot. The book is nothing but a true story of a family and their struggles with their previous country’s traditionally and historically set system. The book does not intend to give any bad feelings about our previous friends, relatives, or government officials, but the actual feelings displayed in the day-to-day dairy. It is dedicated to children and grandchildren.

Download or read book Nightbitch written by Rachel Yoder and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING AMY ADAMS • In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. • "A must-read for anyone who can’t get enough of the ever-blurring line between the psychological and supernatural that Yellowjackets exemplifies." —Vulture One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else... An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms. As the mother's symptoms intensify, and her temptation to give in to her new dog impulses peak, she struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity secret. Seeking a cure at the library, she discovers the mysterious academic tome which becomes her bible, A Field Guide to Magical Women: A Mythical Ethnography, and meets a group of mommies involved in a multilevel-marketing scheme who may also be more than what they seem. An outrageously original novel of ideas about art, power, and womanhood wrapped in a satirical fairy tale, Nightbitch will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. And you should. You should howl as much as you want.

Download or read book Anybody Shining written by Frances O'Roark Dowell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one mistake destroy the chance of a lifetime? A girl discovers there are many ways of being true in this magnificent ode to handwritten letters and the shining power of friendship from the author of Dovey Coe, set in the Appalachian mountains of 1920s North Carolina. One true friend. Someone shining. That’s all twelve-year-old Arie Mae wants. But shining true friends are hard to come by deep in the mountains of western North Carolina, so she sets her sights on a cousin unseen, someone who lives all the way away in the big city of Raleigh, North Carolina. Three unanswered letters later, Arie Mae learns that a group of kids from Baltimore are coming to spend a summer on the mountain. Arie Mae loves her smudge of a town—she knows there’s nothing finer than Pa’s fiddling and Mama’s apple cake, but she also knows Big City folk might feel differently. How else to explain the song catcher ladies who have descended upon the village in search of “traditional tunes” and their intention to help “save” the townspeople? But when the group from Baltimore arrives, it seems there just might be a gem among them, one shining boy who doesn’t seem to notice Arie Mae wears the same dress every day and prefers to go barefoot. So what if he has a bit of a limp and a rumored heart problem—he also is keen about everything Arie Mae is keen about, and has all the makings of a true friend. And so what if the boy’s mother warns him not to exert himself? He and Arie Mae have adventures to go on! In between writing letters to her cousin, Arie Mae leads her one shining friend on ghost hunts and bear chases. But it turns out those warnings were for a reason… “Arie Mae’s openheartedness and yearning for connection make for a deeply poignant story, one with a richly realized setting and cast. As Arie Mae begins to see her life in a new light, Dowell (The Second Life of Abigail Walker) examines the clash between city and country life and what true wealth really means” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Download or read book Our Land Too written by Anthony P. Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book As Husbands Go written by Susan Isaacs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare mix of wit, social satire, and suspense, along with characters who leap from the page to speak directly to the reader, As Husbands Go is a moving story about a love that just won't give up. Call her superficial, but Susie B Anthony Rabinowitz Gersten assumed her marriage was great—and why not? Jonah Gersten, MD, a Park Avenue plastic surgeon, clearly adored her. He was handsome, successful, and a doting dad to their four-year-old triplets. But when Jonah is found dead in the Upper East Side apartment of second-rate “escort” Dorinda Dillon, Susie is overwhelmed with questions left unanswered. It’s bad enough to know your husband’s been murdered, but even worse when you’re universally pitied (and quietly mocked) because of the sleaze factor. None of it makes sense to Susie—not a sexual liaison with someone like Dorinda, not the “better not to discuss it” response from Jonah’s partners. With help from her tough-talking, high-style grandma Ethel, who flies in from Miami, she takes on her snooty in-laws, her husband’s partners, the NYPD, and the DA as she tries to prove that her wonderful life with Jonah was no lie. Susan Isaacs brilliantly turns the conventions of the mystery on end as Susie Gersten, suburban mom, floral designer, and fashion plate, searches not so much for answers to her husband's death as for answers to her own life.

Download or read book Literacy for All Students written by Rebecca Powell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol (CRIOP) ─ a framework for implementing culturally relevant literacy instruction; discusses key issues within its themes; and provides classroom examples of teachers who are implementing it.