Download or read book Aria written by Nazanine Hozar and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary, cinematic saga of rags-to-riches-to-revolution that follows an orphan girl coming of age in Iran at a time of dramatic upheaval It is the 1950s in a restless Iran, a country rich in oil but deeply divided by class and religion. The government is unpopular and corrupt and under foreign sway. One night, an illiterate army driver hears the pitiful cry of a baby abandoned in an alley and menaced by ravenous wild dogs. He snatches up the child and takes her home, naming her Aria—the first step on an unlikely path from deprivation to privilege. Over the next two decades, the orphan girl acquires three mother figures whose secrets she will learn only much later: reckless and self-absorbed Zahra, who abuses her; wealthy and compassionate Fereshteh, who adopts her; and mysterious Mehri, whose connection to Aria is both a blessing and a burden. A university education opens a new world to Aria, and she is soon caught up in the excitement and danger of the popular uprising against the Shah that sweeps through the streets of Tehran. The novel’s heart-pounding, explosive finale sees the Ayatollah Khomeini’s brutal regime seize power—even as Aria falls in love and becomes a mother herself. Nazanine Hozar’s stunning debut gives us an unusually intimate view of a momentous time, through the eyes of a young woman coming to terms with the mysteries of her own past and future.

Download or read book New Beginnings written by Victoria Schwab and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a #1 New York Times–bestselling author, a guardian angel lends friendship, support and magic to a girl struggling with her brother’s illness. At a first glance, Aria seems like your average twelve-year-old girl. She has coppery hair, colored shoelaces, and a passion for cupcakes. But there’s more to Aria than meets the eye. She can dream things into existence, use her own shadow like a door, and change the world in small, important ways. Aria is a guardian angel. She’s been sent here to earn her wings. But to do that, she’ll have to help three different girls. Aria’s first mission is Gabby Torres. Gabby’s always been quiet, but ever since her brother got sick, she’s barely said a word. When a new school offers her a fresh start, Gabby wants badly to be someone new, but she quickly learns it’s hard to make friends while keeping half her life a secret. And then Aria shows up. Aria, who knows exactly what to say and do to make Gabby feel better. Will she be able to help Gabby find her voice? And will Gabby still trust Aria when she finds out exactly what she is?

Download or read book Everyday Angel 3 book bind up written by Victoria Schwab and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Schwab, three enchanting novels about a quirky and clever guardian angel, and the girls she's sent to help, in one irresistible volume. Aria is a guardian angel. She can use her shadow like a door, to travel from place to place. She can dream things into existence. And she can see when certain people need help. She must find and guide three different girls - Gabby, Caroline and Mikayla - through each of their problems to earn her wings. But helping these girls is no easy feat, even for someone with magic powers. Things like friendship and family are a lot trickier than Aria might have guessed. Still, she's up for the challenge... Meet a magical girl like no other, from an author like no other, in this one-of-a-kind collection.

Download or read book Belle written by Treasure Hernandez and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named for her beauty, Belle Dubois is as sweet as can be. Born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she is always given the best—until her world is turned upside down. When she away in her second year of college, she receives a call informing her that her parents have been murdered. She soon finds out that they were broke, and subsequently, so is she. With no home and nowhere to go, Belle is whisked under the wing of a woman named Aria, better known by her stage name, Passion. Before she knows it, Belle becomes a part of an underground world that she knows nothing about—one filled with bright lights, sexy clothing, and shiny poles. The money starts to pour in, and soon Belle loses herself in the very same fantasy she gives every night. Her heart has a void that only money can fill, but when she meets a handsome brother named Kidd Bryce, her perspective begins to change. He shows her a side to life that she didn’t know existed. Just when she is about to say goodbye to the fast life for good, her past comes knocking on her door. The night Belle’s family was murdered, everyone was supposed to die . . . including her. In a race against the clock, she must find out who ordered the deadly hit in the first place, and why, before her own time runs out.

Download or read book J S Bach the Vocal Texts in English Translation with Commentary written by Z. Philip Ambrose and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prof. Ambrose has revised and enlarged into one volume his 2006 two-volume English translations of virtually all the vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach. By preserving the meter and key-word placement of the original, J.S. Bach: The Vocal Texts in English Translation with Commentary is a good guide to the poetics of Bach's music and will help listeners and interpreters perceive more clearly Bach's own "translation" of text into music.

Download or read book Umbrella Girl written by Natasmi and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Umbrella Girl has been through many lives before - ones she couldn’t continue on living. Ever-changing, she believed she could never settle for the linear narrative of life ; growing old and letting the world take its course on her was never quite her style. She stood in front of the Grey Building, with an umbrella that weighed her down. A stranger she could trust came into view, and she finally had the courage to ask for help. I’ve only lived once, and I’m determined to make this life count. I floated by with routines and deadlines, while she did whatever made her world brighter. “Can you hold my umbrella?” The day she asked me that fateful question, I knew everything would change. While orphaned twins try to follow the straight lines set by their late parents, an unexpected fox-like visitor comes back to fill in the empty gaps of our lives, a hall of mirrors, another fiery incident that leads to another crash, as panic of losing more loved ones emerges. There are giants in the sky, days go by with rain and puddles. The only thing protecting her was a single umbrella, as her multiple lives danced around her, anticipating her next move.

Download or read book The Villainess is the Heroine s Biggest Fan written by Chenobe and published by Editio Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a high school girl is reborn as the villainess of her favorite novel, she steps up to save her beloved main character... but how will her own story end? As Aria's strained relationship with her father culminates in a defining moment at Lady Priscilla's concert, Mary finds herself torn between her own desires and what she believes is the 'destined conclusion.' Mary's heart wrestles with the choice of forging her own path or sticking to the script. The stage is set for a dramatic conclusion, so what awaits the heroine and her biggest fan?

Download or read book Music Theater and Society in the Comedies of Luiz Carlos Martins Penna 1833 1846 written by Luiz Costa-lima Neto and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book clarifies the musical dramaturgy of comedy writer and musician Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1815-48) – a notion that encompasses both the theatrical text and its performance. The corpus for this analysis is composed of twelve comedies by Martins Penna written between 1833 and 1846, divided into three groups, which I have called Lundu, Aria, and Alleluia. The sound universe made ​​up by the three groups of comedies covers African-Brazilian genres and musical-choreographic styles (batuque, fado, lundu, miudinho, muquirão), the transnational urban popular universe (lundu, tirana, quadrilha, marcha, waltz, caxuxa, tonadilla, polka), and modinhas and Italian opera, in addition to romantic concertos, Gregorian chant and Iberian religious theater (loas). To evaluate the multiple meanings acquired by the musical allusions inserted into the comedy texts and theatrical performances, this research reveals the network which included the author, actors, theater owners, publishers and the public, and other agents, such as black Catholic irmandades (brotherhoods), Freemasonry, and institutions linked to the imperial government. The sound universe of the comedies of Martins Penna are compared to the comedic axes of the Western theatrical tradition (a study of situations and characters) and the axes of performance (solo and chorus), contemplating the relationship between the repertoires written by Martins Penna and the repertoires of Brazilians and Portuguese artists, a mix of actors, singers and dancers, who performed in his comedies. The research questions the notion of authorship and reveals the importance of the partnership between theatrical writers, artists and publishers, through which the comedies of Martins Penna have reached the second half of the nineteenth century through the present.

Download or read book TALES OF FIGS written by TALMADGE BETTS and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lord shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoia-kim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3 Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. Jeremiah 24:1-3

Download or read book Paragon Red Eye VOL 1 2 3 light novel harem Genre ecchi harem demons mystery romance and school life written by Ly Yurimoto and published by Ly Yurimoto. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My name is Ryuzaki Luca, half an angel, half a demon. Perhaps that makes me a full human. I am a first year at the prestigious Kuzusaki High school, a nationally famous school that hides a mystery I have sworn to unravel; a mystery of the day my city burned, and ash fell like snow. In the meantime, my grades take precedence over romance in order to maintain my scholarship, but I seem to keep running into women one after another. One might even think I'm gathering some sort of harem with the ecchi situations I keep getting caught up in, and women I end up helping. And so starts my high school life, a psychological thriller filled with supernatural occurrences that have bled into the normal world after being concealed in the shadows for an eternity. Read as I carve out my story, one mystery at a time"

Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.

Download or read book Bringing Soprano Arias to Life written by Boris Goldovsky and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in Paperback! This book supplies a soprano with nearly everything she may need to perform the operatic arias discussed. The 28 arias included are chosen from among those that are more popular and most widely studied and performed. There are descriptions of stage settings, with costume sketches by famed theatrical designer Leo Van Witsen. The heart of each discussion is a detailed descriptions of the sections of the area. While the scenic design may change from one production to another, the suggestions given for dramatic motivations, character building, and stage movement can be readily adapted for use in any theatrical environment. Although it is not intended that these arias be acted out on the concert stage, much of the information—the dramatic analysis, discussions of vocal and musical aspects, matters of style and tradition, and translations of the texts—should be profitable for students of singing and stage direction, as well as professional opera singers, no matter how or where the arias are performed. Paperback edition available June 2001. Cloth edition previously published in 1990.

Download or read book Aria s Enchantment Cymantillis written by Nico I M Reason and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fehotun sent away the humans to fend for themselves in Gipo, ruling over the Fae and keeping them safe in Bubbol, the safest and most prosperous domain in the whole world. The human and fae kingdoms of Aria have been at war since the beginning of civilization. Enter Ethan Owusu and Balthazar, two boys from entirely different worlds. Balthazar is a fae prince and the sole student of Aria’s god, Fehotun, while Ethan is a human commoner with a deeper understanding of magic than anyone else alive. These two opposites would never meet under usual circumstances, but fate has other plans.

Download or read book Singing written by Dan Marek and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian singing technique Bel Canto instructs, "He who knows how to breathe and how to pronounce, knows how to sing." Singing: The First Art incorporates the techniques of Bel Canto along with those of masters like Berton Coffin and Manuel Garcia to promote and facilitate vocal excellence. Many concepts are described, from correct posture and alignment to improving and maintaining proper breathing, from good pronunciation and diction to producing an even, pure tone, and from vocal ranges to singing within and smoothly shifting between vocal registers. Mannes Vocal Faculty member Dan H. Marek effectively breaks down these complicated concepts with clear exercises, helping the vocal student to achieve freedom and complete control over his or her instrument. A primary section on the history of singing stresses the importance of understanding vocal history while inspiring and motivating the student through the experiences of opera stars such as Enrico Caruso, Maria Callas, and Jussi Björling. The second section explains vocal techniques, including the use and proper pronunciation of the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), and provides 64 specific exercises with clearly defined goals designed to overcome faults and to develop vocal virtuosity. Complete instructions for transposing the exercises for both male and female voices are included, as well as drawings of the exercises, musical examples from vocal literature, excellent anatomical illustrations by Frank Netter, MD, and copious photographs of opera stars. Singing: The First Art is an invaluable text for students, professionals, singers, conductors, composers, and vocal medical professionals, or anyone interested in understanding and appreciating the vocal art.

Download or read book Merciless Vows FREE Enemies to Lovers Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance written by Faith Summers and published by Bliss Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was sixteen, a gypsy fortune-teller told me my future held darkness and death. She was right. But what she didn’t tell me was I’d lose all my memories and I wouldn’t recognize the devil when he came to steal my life. Lucca Dyshekov—the Bratva assassin they call Merciless—rose from hell and turned my world upside down. On our wedding day, he taught me real monsters aren’t the ones who hide in the dark. They’re the ones who stare you in the face and steal your soul. On a quest for revenge, he takes me and unearths secrets from the past that will cause a war. When death lies on the horizon, the enemy of my enemy becomes my friend. In this instance, he’s my husband. The real question is when he finishes uncovering the truth, will he keep me or kill me. Merciless Vows is a dark mafia arranged marriage romance. It contains dubious situations, mature content, and graphic violence some readers might find offensive and/or triggering. This book is part of a duet and is not a standalone.

Download or read book Angela Gheorghiu written by Angela Gheorghiu and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Gheorghiu is one of the most passionate and talented artists working in opera today, a larger-than-life figure whose intensity and drive, on stage and off, have commanded the attention of the opera world. Largely composed of exclusive interviews with the artist, this authorized biography of the internationally acclaimed soprano, covers Gheorghiu's life and career from her childhood in Communist Romania to her spectacular Covent Garden debut in 1992 and up to the present day. In it, Gheorghiu shares new insights into the performance of many of her iconic stage roles and her collaborations with opera's leading lights. Also featured are commentaries and reminiscences by such celebrated figures in the music and art worlds as Grace Bumbry, JosŽ Carreras, Pl‡cido Domingo, Marilyn Horne, Bryn Terfel, and Franco Zeffirelli.

Download or read book The Australian Musical News written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: