Download or read book Roundabout written by Phong Nguyen and published by Moon City Press. This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid Dullann works as an assistant accountant for a multinational corporation and is supporting a family of four; but abruptly, on his forty-ninth birthday, Ovid runs away from his daily work and his loving family to go on a road trip. Struck by inspiration, Ovid knows that an Author is writing about him, and will do anything to avoid acting as a protagonist of a book. But this Author will not abandon his pursuit, and vows to punish Ovid, his wayward protagonist.

Download or read book Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center written by Renee K Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut collection and the first book in the Crossroads Poetry Series, Renee K. Nicholson brings you a profound lyric exploration of the everyday. Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center unfolds like a ballet's grand adagio, moving across the physical, spiritual, and emotional places that make an American life. From the Carolina low-country boils to the sweet mountains of Appalachia to the grand heights of New York City, this collection, in parts playful and parts profound, traces the turns and chasses that a life in its freewheeling manner can cast."

Download or read book What s Up with White Women written by Ilsa Govan and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a white woman, ask yourself: are you upholding or fighting racism? What's Up with White Women? is a practical guide for white women who are interested in becoming more effective in their cross-cultural, anti-racist practices. Blending real-life stories, theory, and anti-racism practices from decades of on-the-ground work, the authors invite white women to understand their gendered role in systemic racism and their unique opportunity for action. Both frank and compassionate, coverage includes: Stories of white women's experiences with sexism, racism, and white privilege How white women harm BIPOC and ourselves by colluding with systems of oppression Why and how white women often hijack race conversations A powerful six-stage identity development model for self-reflection and growth Guiding questions and practical actions for strengthening anti-racism practices Tools to cultivate genuine partnerships with BIPOC individuals and groups. White women are positioned in a power hierarchy between white men and BIPOC. It is time for white women to step up and undertake deep reflection on their role in systemic racism and take concrete actions that support equity and justice for all people. AWARDS SILVER | 2022 IPPY Awards - Current Events II (Social Issues/Humanitarian)

Download or read book Family Roundabout written by Richmal Crompton and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the year 1948, this novel is about the life of two families during the inter-war years. Instead of seeing William at odds with adults, we are shown the matriarchs around whom their families spin; but whether they direct their children gently or forcefully, in the end they have to accept them as they are.

Download or read book Roundabouts of Great Britain written by Kevin Beresford and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ever book devoted to the popular hobby of roundabout spotting, featuring over 80 full-colour favourites from humble painted minis to magnificent landscaped beauties, advice on the practical side of the pastime, and an exposition of the traffic-island's colourful history.

Download or read book We Light Up the Sky written by Lilliam Rivera and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should you save a world that doesn't want to save you? Award-winning author Lilliam Rivera explores the haunting story of an alien invasion from the perspective of three Latinx teens. Pedro, Luna, and Rafa may attend Fairfax High School together in Los Angeles, but they run in separate spheres. Pedro is often told that he's “too much” and seeks refuge from his home life in a local drag bar. Luna is pretending to go along with the popular crowd but is still grieving the unexpected passing of her beloved cousin Tasha. Then there's Rafa, the quiet new kid who is hiding the fact that his family is homeless. But Pedro, Luna, and Rafa find themselves thrown together when an extraterrestrial visitor lands in their city and takes the form of Luna's cousin Tasha. As the Visitor causes destruction wherever it goes, the three teens struggle to survive and warn others of what's coming--because this Visitor is only the first of many. But who is their true enemy--this alien, or their fellow humans? Pura Belpré Honor-winning author Lilliam Rivera examines the days before a War of the Worlds-inspired alien invasion in this captivating and chilling new novel.

Download or read book Roundabouts written by Lee August Rodegerdts and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2010 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 672: Roundabouts: An Informational Guide - Second Edition explores the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of roundabouts. The report also addresses issues that may be useful in helping to explain the trade-offs associated with roundabouts. This report updates the U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Roundabouts: An Informational Guide, based on experience gained in the United States since that guide was published in 2000.

Download or read book Cabin 135 written by Katie Eberhart and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young adult, Katie Eberhart moved to Cabin 135, a house on a knoll in remote Alaska. Over the next decade, growing up and growing into her home, she found herself thinking through her ever-changing ideas about aging and place, a lot of which were wrapped up closely in her experience of living in the house itself. Cabin 135 provided shelter and security, and it also offered lessons on economic disruptions and how ideas of normalcy change. In these pages, we share Eberhart’s experience of digging into the past—figuratively and, in her garden, at an archaeology site, and in a national park, literally. Every layer peeled back, we find, reveals another story, another way of thinking about nature and the past—our own and that of others. In greenhouse and garden, yard, forest, and more distant places—a beach in southeast Alaska, the Arctic coast, Swiss Alps, Iceland, and even Biosphere-2 in Arizona—Eberhart engages with the world around her, and, through it, reflects on her own experiences and journey through life. Offering a journey of wonder and curiosity, through the author’s mind, a house’s structure, and other places, Cabin 135 is a deft combination of memoir and nature writing, rich with thought and full of appreciation for—and profound concerns about—the world and our place in it.

Download or read book The Boy with a Bird in His Chest written by Emme Lund and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize A “poignantly rendered and illuminating” (The Washington Post) coming-of-age story about “the ways in which family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability all intersect” (Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author). Perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Thirty Names of Night. Though Owen Tanner has never met anyone else who has a chatty bird in their chest, medical forums would call him a Terror. From the moment Gail emerged between Owen’s ribs, his mother knew that she had to hide him away from the world. After a decade spent in isolation, Owen takes a brazen trip outdoors and his life is upended forever. Suddenly, he is forced to flee the home that had once felt so confining and hide in plain sight with his uncle and cousin in Washington. There, he feels the joy of finding a family among friends; of sharing the bird in his chest and being embraced fully; of falling in love and feeling the devastating heartbreak of rejection before finding a spark of happiness in the most unexpected place; of living his truth regardless of how hard the thieves of joy may try to tear him down. But the threat of the Army of Acronyms is a constant, looming presence, making Owen wonder if he’ll ever find a way out of the cycle of fear. “An honest celebration of life and everything we need right now in a book” (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author), The Boy with a Bird in His Chest grapples with the fear, depression, and feelings of isolation that come with believing that we will never be loved for who we truly are and learning to live fully and openly regardless.

Download or read book Chinese Roundabout written by Jonathan D. Spence and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If one has the art, then a piece of celery or salted cabbage can be made into a marvelous delicacy; whereas if one has not the art, not all the greatest delicacies and rarities of land, sea, or sky are of any avail." --a Beijing cook, nineteenth century from Chinese Roundabout

Download or read book In a Roundabout Way Quick Words Curious Years Long Miles written by John E. Simonds and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Roundabout Way: Quick Words, Curious Years, Long Miles By: John E. Simonds In a Roundabout Way is a collection of eclectic, mood-shifting poetry that speaks to audiences of varied interests. Some poems revisit career experiences in narrative detail. Others comment in shorter form on recent topics. Some focus on family, illness, and personal insights. Still others observe people and events knowledgeably from a distance. In exploring pieces ranging from light and breezy to sardonic and impatient, each reader hopefully may find lines and points that resonate.

Download or read book Roundabout of Death written by Faysal Khartash and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable book, a vivid testimonial to the horrors of the Syrian civil war.”—Robert F. Worth, author of A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil Set in Aleppo in 2012, when everyday life was metronomically punctuated by steady bombing, Roundabout of Death offers powerful witness to the violence that obliterated the ancient city's rich layers of history, its neighborhoods, and its medieval and Ottoman architectural landmarks. The novel is told from the perspective of an ordinary man, a schoolteacher of Arabic for whom even daily errands become a life-threatening task. He experiences firsthand the wide-scale destruction wrought upon the monumental Syrian metropolis as it became the stage for a vicious struggle between warring powers. Death hovers ever closer while the teacher roams Aleppo’s streets and byways, minutely observing the perils of urban life in an uncanny twist on Baudelaire's flâneur. Navigating roadblocks and dodging sniper bullets on visits to his mother and sister in the rebel-held eastern sector of the city, the teacher clings to normality with a daily ritual of coffee with friends, where conversation is casually permeated by news of the latest blasts and demise. The novel, a literary edifice erected as an unflinching response to the painful erasure of the physical remnants of a once great city, speaks eloquently of the fragmentation of human existence, the oppressive rule of ISIS militants in nearby Raqqa, the calamities of war and its grinding emotional toll.

Download or read book Ground Truth written by Ruby McConnell and published by Overcup Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST for the 2021 Oregon Book Award. Rooted in the Pacific Northwest, the essays in Ruby McConnell's Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life cover the vast terrain of this region &– from volcanoes to city parks, the eroding shorelines along the Oregon coast, badlands, lush forests, and city parks. Combining her background as a registered geologist, McConnell's essays also weave in personal landscapes composed of grief, loss, and optimism for the future of our environment. "The Pacific Northwest that you see today is the result of forty years of radical changes in the culture and economics of what was once a resource-extraction and agriculture-driven region. They are changes so fundamental in nature and scope...that, for those of us from this place, will always be marked by the cataclysmic eruptions of Mt. St. Helens on May 18, 1980." --Ruby McConnell In this collection of 17 essays, geologist Ruby McConnell opens her part natural history, part memoir-in-essays about the Pacific Northwest with the cataclysmic eruption of Mt. St. Helens in May of 1980. She was two years old. "Everything that I have stood direct witness to since, everything I know about this place, happe

Download or read book Dougal s Book of Opposites written by Oxford Staff and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: In association with the UK Film Council and Sky Movies, Pathe Films (Chicken Run, Girl with a Pearl Earring, amongst many others) are producing The Magic Roundabout, a full-length CGI film, featuring not only the well-loved characters from the original t.v. series, but also introducing two new ones! They are voiced by an all-star cast including Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and Joanna Lumley, and the film promises to be very high-profile and appeal to adults and children alike. It will be on general release from February 2005 and we are publishing a number of educational products to tie in with this date and beyond, in a three-phase publishing plan. Our imprint is called 'Learn with The Magic Roundabout'. Dougal's Book of Opposites: Each spread deals with a different pair of opposites: fast and slow, awake and asleep, hot and cold and so on. They are all illustrated by vibrant CGI images of the characters from The Magic Roundabout.

Download or read book The Little Book of the Magic Roundabout written by Pathe and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magic Roundabout is a place of fun and friendship. It's a place where everyone can gather to talk, to play, to think quietly or just to sit on a wooden horse and twirl sedately round and round... One of the all-time classics of children's television, Serge Danot's highly original visual style combined with Eric Thompson's understated, dry and witty scripts made The Magic Roundabout an immediate hit with the British public. Created in 1963, at its peak The Magic Roundabout commanded over eight million viewers. No other children's series reached an audience of even half that size and the series even rivalled the news as the UK's most-watched programme. Today a whole generation of children treasures the memory of The Magic Roundabout, its characters and its stories. The Little Book of The Magic Roundabout is a fully illustrated small format book that uses stills from the original TV series with the best quotes from all our favourite characters. Dougal, Dylan, Florence, Brian, Ermintrude and Zebedee are all here as the original puppets with quotes taken from Eric Thompson's scripts. 2005 sees 40 years of The Magic Roundabout and this little book will tie in to celebrations including release of the CGI animated film on DVD.

Download or read book The Magic Roundabout written by Serge Danot and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Florence, Dougal and The Magic Roundabout gang as they battle the evil Zeebad. This brilliant movie novel will guide you through all the action. This 128 page novel provides a gripping all-action movie re-telling. Will Dougal, Dylan, Brian and Ermintrude save the day? Or will Florence and the children be stuck inside the frozen roundabout for ever? The story unfolds in the thoughts and words of the heroes themselves for a humorous insight into their very individual points of view. With an eight page full colour movie image insert, and integrated line illustrations this movie novel is a brilliant way to enjoy the magic of the roundabout.

Download or read book The Magic Roundabout Christmas in the Enchanted Land written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Dougal and the gang as they celebrate Christmas on The Magic Roundabout. But watch out - there's bound to be trouble from Zeebad, especially with all that snow and ice around!Includes make-your-own Christmas cards and holographic stickers that can be seen through a die-cut cover!