Download or read book Sockless and Unafraid written by Kevin John Saitta and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's fantasy adventure story about Christmas. For boys and girls aged 4 to 11 years old. The second of the 'Unafraid' series by Kevin John Saitta, co-authored by his two children, Mikey and Kathryn. Poppy, Maisy and Ellie don't like Santa and have a very naughty plan to destroy Christmas. So once again John and Jessica join the fairies for another adventure in Glig-glig land. The North Pole is under attack, the world is slowly freezing into ice and Grandma Mary is very ill indeed. The Loving Link is failing and the Snowman Army are smashing everything. Can the children save Christmas? Will it always be winter in Glig-glig land? And will Grandma Mary get any better before Christmas Eve? Whatever happens the magic of Christmas is never far away...
Download or read book Hatless and Unafraid written by Kevin John Saitta and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's adventure story for boys and girls aged 4 to 9 years old. The first in the 'Unafraid' series by Kevin John Saitta, co-authored by his two children, Mikey 9 years old and Kathryn 7 years old. A magical fantasy which also looks at more serious issues such as bullying, listening skills and children overcoming their fears. Captain No-Beard and his nasty pirates have stolen the fairies'treasure. So John and Jessica travel to Glig-glig land for an amazing adventure to try and find it. Discovering a treasure map our heroes go to Dog School, enjoy a picnic at the Dolls' Tea Party and meet the very naughty Shut-up Bird. Befriending the toy wolves and the puppet army, the children finally set sail for Billi Island. Can John and Jessica overcome their own personal fears and beat the pirates? Can they find the treasure? And will they be able to restore the magic to the kingdom?
Download or read book A Study in Yellow written by Luke Negreiros and published by Luke Negreiros. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of absence, Pedrinho de Oliveira, the character "Pedrinho" from Monteiro Lobato's stories, was surprised by an unexpected invitation that took him back to the farm, causing him to revisit his memories and face the truth that had long been hidden. Now an adult, he could walk around the place recounting his childhood adventures. Despite the pain, he would face his fears and memories, which for years deceived him with distorted memories. The truth surrounding the farm is darker than he remembered, with negative forces and the melancholy of a true "study in yellow." -- The book "A Study in Yellow" is an extension of the original text "Saci," providing a reinterpretation of the events of that night of terror. The notes and memories reveal that Saci was truly a dangerous creature, Cuca was a woman expelled from the community for a scaly skin disease, Narizinho's depression was real, and Grandma Anastácia was wasting away with Alzheimer's. Discover the truth behind Tio Barnabé and the creatures that inhabited the children's imagination in that terrifying forest. -- "A Study in Yellow" is an escape from the atmosphere of playfulness, leaving in its place a deep and dark drama.
Download or read book The Din Reader written by Esther G. Belin and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award Winner The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature is unprecedented. It showcases the breadth, depth, and diversity of Diné creative artists and their poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose.This wide-ranging anthology brings together writers who offer perspectives that span generations and perspectives on life and Diné history. The collected works display a rich variety of and creativity in themes: home and history; contemporary concerns about identity, historical trauma, and loss of language; and economic and environmental inequalities. The Diné Reader developed as a way to demonstrate both the power of Diné literary artistry and the persistence of the Navajo people. The volume opens with a foreword by poet Sherwin Bitsui, who offers insight into the importance of writing to the Navajo people. The editors then introduce the volume by detailing the literary history of the Diné people, establishing the context for the tremendous diversity of the works that follow, which includes free verse, sestinas, limericks, haiku, prose poems, creative nonfiction, mixed genres, and oral traditions reshaped into the written word. This volume combines an array of literature with illuminating interviews, biographies, and photographs of the featured Diné writers and artists. A valuable resource to educators, literature enthusiasts, and beyond, this anthology is a much-needed showcase of Diné writers and their compelling work. The volume also includes a chronology of important dates in Diné history by Jennifer Nez Denetdale, as well as resources for teachers, students, and general readers by Michael Thompson. The Diné Reader is an exciting convergence of Navajo writers and artists with scholars and educators.
Download or read book Edge of Morning written by Jacqueline Keeler and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utah's Bears Ears landscape." —THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE In support of tribal efforts to protect the Bears Ears, Native writers bear testimony to the fragile and essential nature of this sacred landscape in America's remote red rock country. Through poem and essay, these often–ignored voices explore the ways many native people derive tradition, sustenance, and cultural history from the Bears Ears. "To us, these places represent more than grass, hills, mountains, and trees…they hold the links to our past and our future." —Martie Simmons, Ho–Chunk The fifteen contributors are multi–generational writers, poets, activists, teachers, students, and public officials, each with a strong tie to landscape and a particular story to tell. Willie Grayeyes, Chairman of Utah Diné Bikéyah, shares his ancestral ties to the Bears Ears. Klee Benally, Diné activist, musician, and filmmaker, asks, "What part of sacred don't you understand?" Morning Star Gali, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer at Pit River Tribe, speaks to the fight for cultural preservation. The fifteen contributors speak for the Bears Ears and elevate the conversation around tribal sovereignty and sacred places across the US. Editor JACQUELINE KEELER is a Navajo/Dakota writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co–founder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, which seeks to end the use of racial groups as mascots, as well as the use of other stereotypical representations in popular culture. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Indian Country Today, Earth Island Journal, Salon.com, and elsewhere.
Download or read book The Language of Sycamores written by Lisa Wingate and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a woman’s whole life falls apart, she finds refuge in the home she left behind in this touching novel in the Tending Roses series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours. Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of her life—the emotional distance in her marriage, her inability to have children, and her bout with cancer. Getting lost in her high-powered career provides the sense of purpose she yearns for. Until the day she’s downsized out of her job and the doctor tells her the cancer may be back. It’s a double blow that would send anyone reeling. It sends Karen to Grandma Rose’s old farm, where her sister has made a seemingly perfect life. Opening herself to the unexpected, Karen finds a lonely child in need of nurturing and insights into her family’s past. In the quiet of the Missouri Ozarks, where the sycamore leaves whisper their soft, secret language, she begins to discover answers—and a joy to make her life complete.
Download or read book Here First written by Arnold Krupat and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-06-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here First is an important new collection of essays by Native American writers compiled by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann, the editors of I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers. In Here First, authors such as Sherman Alexie, Greg Sarris, and Elizabeth Woody tell the stories of their lives and their art. Each essay demonstrates the breadth of experience of twenty-seven individuals united in the creative expression of a Native American heritage. Each has a different relation to that heritage, and in describing it through personal and family history, with verse and in anecdotes, the writers give a strong image of the different cultures that have shaped them. This is living history and the kind of collective memoir that makes for fascinating and rewarding reading--one of the most vivid and diverse portraits of Native American culture available today.
Download or read book A Flame Out at Sea written by Dmitry Novikov and published by Glagoslav Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characters in Novikov’s work are predominantly people of the Russian North: Pomors, Karelians and Komi. In 2013 Novikov, along with other Karelian writers, proclaimed the Manifesto on a New Northern Prose, the mission of which Novikov described as: “Though these are trying times for Russian literature, there is light, there is hope that it will retain its key underlying principles of honesty, faith, beauty. How great it is that these principles fully fit with and correspond to the old and new, living, and strong direction of Russia’s Northern Prose!” *** The protagonist of A Flame Out at Sea heads to the stores of the northern lakes and the White Sea in search of its present, which unexpectedly proves to be inseparable from its recent past. Against the backdrop of the powerful northern elements, the drama of a single individual in the here and now begins to seem tiny and insignificant but the tragedy of the nation irredeemably large. "The novel is a confession, a travelogue and a doorway into a great historical era.” A Flame Out at Sea is about going beyond the boundaries of the big city, about overcoming the fetters of one’s private and family past, leaving aside one’s resentment, squashing one’s pride, unclenching one’s fists and turning one’s life around. It is about a journey to the origins of speech, personality, courage and love made by a modern man in the harsh, sacred, nourishing and draining circumstances of the Russian North. (Valeria Pustovaya, Literary critic) Translated from the Russian by Christopher Culver Published with support of the Russian Booker Foundation Sponsored by GLOBEXBANK Publishers Maxim Hodak & Max Mendor
Download or read book The masquerade written by Burdette Ross Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waking Up in America written by Ken Taub and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh... down to earth...witty... deeply insightful. WAKING UP IN AMERICAis all that, and more. An American who works (and plays) with the wisdom of Buddhist teachings, Ken Taub probes his own life experience to see how we must awaken within our own culture, and start not from some ideal placebut from where we are. This unique book addresses some important contemporary questions. Is it possible to balance our quest for enlightenment with our quest for pleasure? In a culture built on perpetualdistraction, how can we find that quiet center of acceptance and wholeness? And what, exactly, is Hot Tub Zen? WAKING UP IN AMERICA is a is a compelling exploration of the simple premise that we finally get to have a really good time once we are awake and paying attention to what's right in front of us.
Download or read book Seven Hands Seven Hearts written by Elizabeth Woody and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven Hands, Seven Hearts includes the entirety of Elizabeth Woody's highly acclaimed first book of poems, Hand into Stone - winner of the American Book Award - as well as new poems, stories, and essays. The work is united by common themes: a rootedness in the Northwest landscape, the histories of her ancestors, and the ongoing struggle to define what it means to be a tribal member, an American, and a woman at the end of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Three Girls from Bronzeville written by Dawn Turner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The three girls formed an indelible bond: roaming their community in search of hidden treasures for their 'Thing Finder box,' and hiding under the dining room table, eavesdropping as three generations of relatives gossiped and played the numbers. The girls spent countless afternoons together, ice skating in the nearby Lake Meadows apartment complex, swimming in the pool at the Ida B. Wells housing project, and daydreaming of their futures: Dawn a writer, Debra a doctor, Kim a teacher. Then they came to a precipice, a fraught rite of passage for all girls when the dangers and the harsh realities of the world burst the innocent bubble of childhood, when the choices they made could--and would--have devastating consequences. There was a razor thin margin of error--especially for brown girls"
Download or read book Under the Volcano written by Malcolm Lowry and published by New Amer Library. This book was released on 1984 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.
Download or read book The Great War for Civilisation written by Robert Fisk and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world.
Download or read book Reflections from the cosmos written by Aiman Shaikh and published by Suvidhi Publication. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How often do we sit and stare at the sky completely taken aback by the enigmatic universe we live in. Reflections from the Cosmos is an anthology that captures the essence of what it means to be a small part of this universe. It comprises stories, poems, writeups and letters penned down by 14 authors and a compiler from India. The book tries to capture the vast views and ingenuine thoughts of each writer. As the cosmos is never ending and ever expanding it gives us hope that the universe though being there since forever still strives to survive. Each composition written in the book will tug on your heartstrings and make you feel so many emotions all throughout.
Download or read book Big Red written by Jim Kjelgaard and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Big Red" by Jim Kjelgaard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
