Download or read book The Amazing Thoughts and Brilliant Ideas of Vera written by Vera publishing and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for a great gift for a loved person or someone close to you? details journal : Size: 6" x 9" Pages: 110 pages Paper: white lined paper Cover: High-quality cover with a soft matte professional finish Check out a sample of the notebook by clicking on the "Look inside" feature.
Download or read book Beat Your Allergies 52 Brilliant Ideas written by Rob Hicks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 52 fresh ideas to help folks toss those tissues. Approximately one in four people will be affected by some type of allergy-in fact, 15 million people are sniffing, wiping and scratching right now. Beat Your Allergies offers practical strategies for controlling and managing symptoms-and even avoiding them altogether-with advice that ranges from traditional to cutting-edge: - Idea #15: Let's get naked - Idea #16: Dust to dust - Idea #30: Let's chill - Idea #41: Less is more - Idea #49: Eat your allergy away
Download or read book Vera written by Carol Edgarian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian delivers “an all-encompassing and enthralling” (Oprah Daily) novel featuring an unforgettable heroine coming of age in the aftermath of catastrophe, and her quest for love and reinvention. Meet Vera Johnson, fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco’s most legendary bordello. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds—the madam’s alluring sphere, replete with tickets to the opera, surly henchmen, and scant morality, and the quiet domestic life of the family paid to raise her. On the morning of the great quake, Vera’s worlds collide. As the city burns and looters vie with the injured, orphaned, and starving, Vera and her guileless sister, Pie, are cast adrift. Disregarding societal norms and prejudices, Vera begins to imagine a new kind of life. She collaborates with Tan, her former rival, and forges an unlikely family of survivors, navigating through the disaster together. “A character-driven novel about family, power, and loyalty, (San Francisco Chronicle), Vera brings to life legendary characters—tenor Enrico Caruso, indicted mayor Eugene Schmitz and boss Abe Ruef, tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels. This “brilliantly conceived and beautifully realized” (Booklist, starred review) tale of improbable outcomes and alliances takes hold from the first page, with remarkable scenes of devastation, renewal, and joy. Vera celebrates the audacious fortitude of its young heroine, who discovers an unexpected strength in unprecedented times.
Download or read book Rebellious Read Alouds written by Vera Ahiyya and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spark meaningful conversations about race, identity, and social justice in your classroom using read alouds as an entry point. Students need to see themselves and their peers in the books they read, and to engage with varying viewpoints. How can educators create a safe and nurturing space that inspires young children to explore diversity and ask curious questions? In Rebellious Read Alouds, author Vera Ahiyya—beloved by educators worldwide as The Tutu Teacher (@thetututeacher and @diversereads on Instagram)—empowers teachers to encourage classroom conversations about important and culturally relevant topics using daily read alouds as an entry point. Presenting a broad range of read aloud lessons around current, diverse picture books that can ignite deep conversations and learning about self, others, and the world, this wise and joyful guide prepares educators to tackle "hushed topics" with young children. It includes: Booklists, tools, and recommendations for building an inclusive classroom library of titles written or illustrated by people in traditionally marginalized populations Tips and resources for facilitating diversity conversations in a way that’s developmentally appropriate — and meets ELA and social justice standards 45 complete lessons plans around children’s books, with prompts and recommended stopping points for conversation, and suggestions for inspiring discussion and scaffolding deep thinking Interviews with educators and parents who offer advice from their experience doing rebellious read alouds Suggestions for partnering with administration, parents, and colleagues on this important work Spark the rebellious reader inside you and lead your students toward creating a more just and equitable world.
Download or read book Boost Your Whole Health 52 Brilliant Ideas written by Kate Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 52 fresh ways to shape yourself up, inside and out. This accessible and upbeat guide will help readers become more balanced, healthier, and happier people. By making small but important improvements to their health, mindset, and lifestyle, they'll see positive changes every day and new energy restored to their lives. - Idea #3: Vital energy - Idea #6: Get organic - Idea #40: Clutter busting - Idea #52: Retreat!
Download or read book The Best American Short Plays 2007 2008 written by Barbara Parisi and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
Download or read book The Stuff Between the Stars written by Sandra Nickel and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspired biographical picture book about a female astronomer who makes huge discoveries about the mysteries of the night sky and changed the way we look at the universe Vera Rubin was one of the astronomers who discovered and named dark matter, the thing that keeps the universe hanging together. Throughout her career she was never taken seriously as a scientist because she was one of the only female astronomers at that time, but she didn’t let that stop her. She made groundbreaking and incredibly significant discoveries that scientists have only recently been able to really appreciate—and she changed the way that we look at the universe. A stunning portrait of a little-known trailblazer, The Stuff Between the Stars tells Vera’s story and inspires the youngest readers who are just starting to look up at the stars.
Download or read book Dreamer written by MultiMind and published by MultiMind Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vera has unusual dreams, anything she dreams comes alive. Dream Traveling, her family calls it. Doing it all her life, it doesn't affect Vera as much as it used to. She has her rules and her methods, as long as she follows them, all is fine. Until she saw something she discovered she couldn't handle. Now, her dreams are plagued by The Hunter, a deadly character that wants nothing more than to haunt her mind and leave behind a bloody spree. Vera must find a way to get The Hunter out of her head before he makes sure she never wakes up again. So much for "sweet dreams".
Download or read book Let the Past Remain the Past written by Todd Karluff Olsen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-10-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LET THE PAST REMAIN THE PAST, BY Todd Karluff Olsen, is a racy story about a Danish AU PAIR girl, Vera, who spends a year in San Francisco, a city known for its freewheeling lifestyles and anything goes attitude. Vera is exposed to many the many layers of the city, from high culture to sex clubs. She works for a nice family, but discovers a dark secret that proves to be disastrous. Vera meets Cliff, a lawyer, and they fall in love. Cliff learns that Veras father was an American soldier stationed overseas, who left her mother without a trace after she told him she was pregnant with his child. Cliff offers to assist her in finding her father. This is a story with many twists and turns. A fascinating read.
Download or read book Collaborators written by Deborah J. Ross and published by Deborah J. Ross. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-rate world-building from a writer gifted with soaring imagination and good old-fashioned Sense of Wonder. — C.J. Cherryh A romantic and intellectually sexy gender discussion wrapped up in a compelling novel. — J. M. Frey, Lambda Literary Award reviews Poised on the brink of war, the people of the planet Bandar are stunned by the arrival of a disabled Terran space ship. But the Terrans are even less prepared to understand the politics, gender fluidity, or mob reflexes of the natives. The Terran captain uses increasing force as the only way to ensure desperately needed repairs. Hoping to bring enlightened human values to the natives, a young scientist's intervention leads to disaster. After a vicious assault, a pregnant native becomes radicalized. A failed poet sees the Terran occupation as a way to gain the recognition he craves. A widow whose farm is bombed using Terran weaponry journeys to the capital in search of help and ends up facing a firing squad. And a reporter becomes the voice of the resistance, determined to take back his world from the invaders... As violence escalates, the fate of both peoples rests with those who have suffered the most. Can they find a way to forgiveness . . . and peace? Lambda Literary Award Finalist James Tiptree, Jr. Award 2014 Long List
Download or read book Mixed Fancies written by Brenda Blethyn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Ramsgate during the 1940s, Brenda Bottle was the youngest of nine in a poor but close family. She left school to work as a secretary for British Rail, where she met her husband. But by the age of twenty-seven, the marriage was over. Brenda left her job and with the little she had saved, enrolled at Guildford Drama School. And so her life as an actress began. One of Britain's best-loved actresses, Brenda Blethyn has dazzled in a vast number of roles, including her performances as downtrodden Cynthia in Mike Leigh's SECRETS AND LIES and as the man-eating Mari Hoff in LITTLE VOICE, for which she received Oscar nominations. On stage, television and film she has worked with our greatest writers and directors -- Alan Bennett, Tom Stoppard, Sam Mendes, Peter Hall -- and actors -- including Michael Caine, Jude Law, Julie Walters, Brad Pitt, Ewan McGregor and John Hurt. Brenda is one of Britain's finest character actresses, famous for playing her roles with social realism and warmth, wit and humour -- characters her audience empathise with. She has the same warmth and humour off screen too; a wonderfully down-to-earth person with a fascinating history. Told with sparkling wit and engaging honesty, MIXED FANCIES is the compelling story of her journey from the Plains of Waterloo to the National Theatre and on to television, Hollywood and stardom.
Download or read book Murder in Mind written by Veronica Heley and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new Ellie Quicke mystery, Ellie is forced to think the unthinkable about her own daughter, Diana . . . Could she be a murderer? Ellie has always disliked the local big estate agent, aka Great White Shark, and is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she is carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie is soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private gym and another succumbs to a peanut allergy. The police want to write off the deaths as accident and misadventure, but Ellie believes someone is targeting members of the Hooper family. Surely Diana wouldn't . . . or would she?
Download or read book Bright Galaxies Dark Matter and Beyond written by Ashley Jean Yeager and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Vera Rubin convinced the scientific community that dark matter might exist, persevering despite early dismissals of her work. We now know that the universe is mostly dark, made up of particles and forces that are undetectable even by our most powerful telescopes. The discovery of the possible existence of dark matter and dark energy signaled a Copernican-like revolution in astronomy: not only are we not the center of the universe, neither is the stuff of which we’re made. Astronomer Vera Rubin (1928–2016) played a pivotal role in this discovery. By showing that some astronomical objects seem to defy gravity’s grip, Rubin helped convince the scientific community of the possibility of dark matter. In Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond, Ashley Jean Yeager tells the story of Rubin’s life and work, recounting her persistence despite early dismissals of her work and widespread sexism in science. Yeager describes Rubin’s childhood fascination with stars, her education at Vassar and Cornell, and her marriage to a fellow scientist. At first, Rubin wasn’t taken seriously; she was a rarity, a woman in science, and her findings seemed almost incredible. Some observatories in midcentury America restricted women from using their large telescopes; Rubin was unable to collect her own data until a decade after she had earned her PhD. Still, she continued her groundbreaking work, driving a scientific revolution. She received the National Medal of Science in 1993, but never the Nobel Prize—perhaps overlooked because of her gender. She’s since been memorialized with a ridge on Mars, an asteroid, a galaxy, and most recently, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory—the first national observatory named after a woman.
Download or read book The Amazing Thoughts and Brilliant Ideas of Vera written by Shady Art and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ Show Some Love and Care To her By Giving Her This Unique and meaningful Notebook. ★ Details: 120 Blank Lined Pages. 6 * 9 Inches in Size. Soft cover Glossy finnish. ★ Perfect for: To-Do Lists. Goals Writing new ideas Dates of meetings. Use as a journal. Notepad. Record daily activities. Planner. Diary. Business, School, or Personal use. So Grab one Now To make a smile on her face.
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Download or read book Strange Future written by Joshua Smith and published by Joshua Smith. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Gordon's life in the city was going just fine. He had a decent job, a nice condo, and was generally content with life. One day, however, his boss was in a particularly foul mood, and a chain of inexplicable mishaps resulted in Thomas getting fired. Fed up with the world, he begins to search for an escape to a better life. While sitting at the Realtor's office, he stumbles upon a flyer on a bulletin board that asks a simple question: "Fed Up?" After calling the number on the pull tab, he meets a group of scientists with an interesting proposition: human cryogenic preservation... Thomas and his companions Vera and Doug emerge into the strange future of the twenty-third century: a world full of amazing technological advances and equally amazing people. Upon digging a little further below the surface, though, they quickly discover that this future isn't exactly the "better world" that everyone thought it would be...
Download or read book Dating Werewolves written by Alex Wise and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She rakes in over $10,000 a month simply by writing letters to her virtual male friends. Could you be one of those men who are unwittingly tripping over themselves to help make her wealthier? DATING WEREWOLVES exposes the bizarre tactics behind a dating scammer's crafty operation that has left a trail of broken hearts and depleted bank accounts. Having swindled thousands of dollars through fake relationships over the Internet and in person, a professional scammer reveals to her new recruits how she persuades her victims to rush their hard-earn money to fill her coffers. As the number of online scammers mushrooms, get ready to be enlightened to their subtle strategies. This novel will provide you not only with hours of entertainment, but will also aid you in detecting these dating predators.
