Download or read book The Butterfly that became a Kite written by Aku-Sika Attipoe-Kepomey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of a loving interracial relationship that has gone sour. An older oil Executive with his young creative wife. He called her his butterfly; he managed to mold her into who he wanted her to be when they got married. With maturity, she becomes desperate to express her creative talents, but he is intimidated by her intelligence, and afraid of her success, so in an attempt to ground her, he exerts control by means of emotional abuse - tormenting her with his erotic fantasies of other women he has emotional affairs with. She becomes trapped in a marriage where passion no longer existed, and her husband's daily focus was another's wife. Unable to accomplish anything, she finally realizes that she has become a kite. Whenever she tried to soar, he pulls her strings. She discards her fear of the unknown, and with a leap of faith, decided it was time to take matters into her own hands once and for all.....................
Download or read book The Butterfly That Became a Kite written by Aku-Sika Barrett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aku-Sika was a very happy child, with lots of dreams. She was good at creatively visualising her future as early as three years old; then one day, she grew up and met and fell in love with a man 20 years her senior. He was the Boss and she was the Secretary. Despite the age difference, he depended on her for everything, at the office and at home. He loved her, but he was also intimidated by her, by her ability to learn a new language in a short time. He was afraid of her success in anything she set out to do, so he controlled her by way of emotional abuse. He kept her well at home and tormented her with his erotic fantasies. He called her his butterfly and she was happy to be just that, for it made her feel special. Then one day, a complete stranger put everything into perspective. ""Sika, you are not his butterfly; you are his kite. Open your eyes; every time you try to soar, he pulls you back.""
Download or read book Human Sacrifices written by María Fernanda Ampuero and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, María Fernanda Ampuero’s writing is “raw and savage” as she confronts machismo, inequity, and violence in this acclaimed short story collection (Vistazo). An undocumented woman answers a job posting only to find herself held hostage, a group of outcasts obsess over boys drowned while surfing, and an unhappy couple finds themselves trapped in a terrifying maze. With scalpel-like precision, Ampuero considers the price paid by those on the margins so that the elite might lounge comfortably, considering themselves safe in their homes. Simultaneously terrifying and exquisite, Human Sacrifices is “tropical gothic” at its finest—decay and oppression underlie our humid and hostile world, where working-class women and children are consistently the weakest links in a capitalist economy. Against this backdrop of corrosion and rot, these twelve stories contemplate the nature of exploitation and abuse, illuminating the realities of those society consumes for its own pitiless ends.
Download or read book Roctogenarians written by Mo Rocca and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life. Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been puttering—breaking out as writers, selling out concert halls, attempting to set land-speed records—and in the case of one ninety-year tortoise, becoming a first-time father. (Take that, Al Pacino!) In the vein of Mobituaries, Roctogenarians is a collection of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titans—some long gone (a cancer-stricken Henri Matisse, who began work on his celebrated cut-outs when he could no longer paint), some very much still living (Mel Brooks, yukking it up at close to one hundred). The amazing cast of characters also includes Mary Church Terrell, who at eighty-six helped lead sit-ins at segregated Washington, DC, lunch counters in the 1950s, and Carol Channing, who married the love of her life at eighty-two. Then there’s Peter Mark Roget, who began working on his thesaurus in his twenties and completed it at seventy-three (because sometimes finding the right word takes time.) With passion and wonder Rocca and Greenberg recount the stories of yesterday’s and today’s strongest finishers. Because with all due respect to the Golden Girls, some people will never be content sitting out on the lanai. (PS Actress Estelle Getty was sixty-two when she got her big break. And yes, she’s in the book.)
Download or read book To Conquer the Air written by James Tobin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author and historian James Tobin comes the story of one of America's greatest personal and national tales: the Wright brothers' hard-won triumph in the race for flight.
Download or read book Asian Kites for Kids written by Wayne Hosking and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids will learn how to make colorful kites while exploring Asian culture and history with this easy-to-follow craft book for kids. Fun to build and exciting to fly, kites are a universal expression of joy and wonder for enthusiasts of all ages. Asian Kites for Kids features kite building projects that are beautiful and functional--ideal for teachers, camp counselors, parents, and budding young kite makers themselves. Kite making is a traditional Asian craft and an essential aspect of folklore that uses everyday materials to create beautiful works of art. In fact, kites are just as much fun to build as they are to fly! The colorful, easy-to-follow instructions will have readers building and flying fifteen different models from across Asia, including China, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Korea. With Asian Kites for Kids readers will learn to build: A Butterfly kite from China A Cobra kite from Thailand A Mini kite from Malaysia A Shield kite from Korea An Octopus kite from Japan and much more! This book includes sections on safety, the anatomy of kites, troubleshooting tips, as well as an index of online retailers and resources. Spend hours of fun with your kids and friends crafting handmade Asian kites, and then watching your original creations soar.
Download or read book Sky Flyers written by Richard Mousseau and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soaring freely on wings of silky canvas fabric, a colourful kite is barely seen against a clear blue sky. Higher than any of the other kites, twenty assorted kites jostled for manoeuverability. Higher above them floated a sky flyer, its fabric skin taunt against a warm updraft and wind. Stressed to the breaking point, the tethered line held fast to the kite's structural frame. Lazy dog day afternoons are meant for relaxing, and will be recalled in declining years of age. The Sky Flyer waved its long tail of spinning fan blades. Competing kids unreeled in line, in hopes of matching the sky flyer's height. Eyes fixated on the height of the sky flyer. Kids cheered, and town's folk paused, all awed with delight. Some wished that their childhood could have been as adventurous and playful. This September of Nineteen-Ten Is a momentous day. Quote: Boy, kids had fun back in the olden days. Modern kids are missing out on life. At sixty, I want to go fly a kite!
Download or read book Emperor Can t Resist written by Kai CheBuRenLu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qin Buzhou had been on the battlefield for many years, but he had never seen such an undedicated assassin. Day after day, he grabbed onto his sleeves and hugged his arms, crying for him to accompany him. This was something intolerable, but Qin Buzhou's face was cold. "Last night, His Majesty said that Chenqie had to go through with it, but today, he already changed his mind. As expected of a man, you can't trust his words. Hmph, chenqie is about to leave!" "Yes, I'll do it alone," someone said, his expression unchanged.
Download or read book We Love to Read Literacy Through Literature Music written by Bernadette Falletta and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers Bernadette Falletta and Marla Lewis present stories, songs, and activities that appeal to students of different learning styles and multiple intelligences. Students explore and practice the five language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking. This comprehensive package can be used with mainstream, ESL, EFL, speech and language, and resource room students. Students of all ages with varying degrees of language proficiency levels and cognitive abilities benefit from "We Love to Read." All of the pages (stories, songs, and activities) in the student books are reproducible. Students take ownership of their own story pages, song sheets, and activity books. Students can take their personalized books home and involve their parents and other family members as partners in developing their literacy.
Download or read book Go Fly a Kite written by Karen Fredericks and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two best friends, a brand new kite, a perfect breeze, a sunny day. What could possibly go wrong? When Ant flies his brand new kite he invites his best friend Butterfly to join him. But before long Butterfly gives Ant reason to wish he hadn't. The fun begins when Butterfly tries to put the day back on track for a happy ending. Go Fly A Kite is the second of the Ant And Butterfly childrens picture book series by award winning author and illustrator, Karen Fredericks. The book's gentle humor and colorful illustrations make it a perfect choice for children from 3 to 7 years old, to read themselves or, as a "read to me" story for children of all ages.
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright for Kids written by Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, kid-friendly exploration of America's leading architect and his work This revised and updated edition of a longstanding classic, Frank Lloyd Wright for Kids, details the life, times, and work of the celebrated architect. Through simple, kid-friendly prose and anecdotes, author Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen describes the influences of Wright's Wisconsin childhood filled with nature, music, and close family ties; his struggles to find work as a young architect; the unique style that led him to the top of his profession; and masterpieces such as the Robie House, Hollyhock House, Fallingwater, the Guggenheim, and many others. Also discussed are Wright's sometimes controversial private and public life and the people and times that influenced him and vice-versa, with new sidebars on topics such as the Chicago and Bauhaus schools of architecture, Friedrich Froebel and his toy blocks that enchanted Wright as a child, and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Budding architects will delve into architectural and design concepts while having fun through 21 hands-on projects, such as creating an edible model of Fallingwater, making a miniature Japanese kite, reading an architectural plan, and much more. A time line, glossary, bibliography, and list of houses to visit are also included.
Download or read book Being Down Looking Up written by Rob Walters and published by Satin. This book was released on 2013-02-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about an unusual journey: a unique journey through everyday surroundings. Rob Walters decided to become a shoeshine boy. He stowed his shoeshine kit, a tent, and a few items of clothing in a trailer, connected the trailer to his push bike and set off from Oxford to visit the old shoe-making cities of middle England. Along the way he polished many shoes, met lots of interesting people, pedalled many miles, and gained a fascinating insight into his own country from a rather unique perspective.Rejected by some, welcomed by many, he polished shoes in shopping centres, solicitor's offices, a kite festival, railway stations, campsites, street corners, and a bewildering selection of pubs. He polished the shoes of dossers, company directors, criminals, Morris dancers, publicans, bikers, policemen, schoolboys, reporters, a bowling green groundsman, an Icelander, and a Latvian – to name just a few. He slept in fields, in woods, and on the edge of golf courses. He was ejected from the Norfolk Show and welcomed into the offices of lawyers and fruit importers.During his journey he met members of the Household Cavalry, topless protestors, a homeless joss stick seller, a man who stole baths in hotels, a submariner, a beaten housewife, a disenchanted solicitor, a rubber recycler, a toyshop owner, and two ghost guides – amongst others. All of them had a story to tell: some sad, some amusing. It is their tales and Rob's own incisive observations that are related in this unusual book. Reading it will transport you to Northampton, the centre of the English shoe making tradition; then through the Fens to East Anglia; back across the country to the Midlands; down along the River Severn to Gloucester; and then over the Cotswolds to Oxford. Progress is at a comfortable cycling pace along the country roads and through the sleepy villages, yet interrupted regularly by diversions into the vibrancy of the cities.
Download or read book We Love To Read Stories written by Bernadette Falletta and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESL teacher, Bernadette Falletta, presents rhyming stories which focus on a target sound represented by different combinations of letters. (The Cold Duck)(Whale's Playmate)(Jolly Giraffe)(The Frightened Lion)(Oink's Voyage)(Elephant's and Hen's Pleasant Home)(Ostrich Hatches)(The Lonely Toad)(The Nosy Zebra)(The Search For Bird)(Hawk and Bald Eagle)
Download or read book We Love to Read Stories and Songs written by Bernadette Falletta and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESL teachers, Bernadette Falletta and Marla Lewis, present illustrated stories and songs from their complete literacy program, We Love To Read: Literacy Through Literature & Music. The stories and songs focus on target sounds represented by different combinations of letters. There are companion stories and songs CD's which are sold separately.
Download or read book Reading Wonders 3 Teacher s Manual1st Ed 2006 written by and published by Rex Bookstore, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Butterfly and the Kite written by Maria Pia Oelker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quick little steps, like wild animals suddenly freed, unleashed after a long imprisonment in too narrow a cage, trampled up and down the ground floor corridor and climbed the stairs that led to the upper floors. The shrill voices of the owners of those restless feet were heard screeching in high tones, perfectly in tune, making it practically impossible to understand any meaningful word or phrase. Then, after a few minutes, the buzz suddenly subsided in front of a nice plate of pasta as the children began to eat, hungry like all children when released from school after a morning of more or less interesting, more or less boring lessons. Actually this was a somewhat special school and the children, between the ages of six and fourteen, were also a little special.
Download or read book Asian Kites written by Wayne Hosking and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids will learn how to make colorful kites while exploring Asian culture and history with this easy-to-follow crafts for kids book. The Asian Arts & Crafts for Creative Kids series is the first series, aimed at readers ages 7-12, that provides a fun and educational introduction to Asian culture and art. Through hands on projects readers will explore each art—engaging in activities to gain a better understanding of each form. In this volume, children will learn to how to make a kite. Kite making is a unique craft—with projects that are beautiful, functional, and fun! The colorful, easy-to-follow instructions in Asian Kites will have you building—and flying—fifteen different kites from countries all across Asia, including China, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Korea. The full-color instructions make it easy to create these beautiful kites out of common materials and the resource guide in the back lists plenty of places to purchase supplies. You'll learn to build: Butterfly kite from China Cobra kite from Thailand Mini kite from Malaysia Shield kite from Korea An octopus kite from Japan And more! Fun to build and exciting to fly—this book brings a whole new meaning to the term "go fly a kite!"
