Download or read book Read to Me written by and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the home, school, and community in the task of developing children's abilities to read and appreciate literature, this book presents annotations of over 400 books suitable for children ages two through seven. Titles annotated in the book represent classic and contemporary picture books, story books, and concept books, as well as books in other languages, stories with a multicultural perspective, and books recognized as traditional favorites. Selections in the book were made to: (1) encourage young children to enjoy hearing stories and being introduced to pictures and print; (2) help children view reading as a worthwhile activity; (3) help local curriculum planners select books for their early childhood education programs; (4) assist parents and early child caregivers to make wise choices of enjoyable books for their children; and (5) stimulate educators at the local level to evaluate their literacy development programs and change or improve them, as necessary. Sections of the book are: The Child; The Child's Home and Family; The Child's Community; and The Child's World. The criteria for selection of literature included in the book and a list of 46 resources for adults are attached. (RS)

Download or read book The River s Edge Fly Patterns and Streamside Observations written by Steve Goodroe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The River's Edge, Fly Patterns and Streamside Observations is a collection of original fly patters and observations gathered during the authors life time both on the water and at the fly tying bench. The River's edge is an invaluable resource for all those who pursue fish on the fly in both fresh and salt water. The new 2018, 3rd Edition contains 81 original fly patterns. Also covered are new materials, and information on fly rod and line selection not included in previous editions.

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.

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Download or read book I ll Build a Stairway to Paradise written by Mac Griswold and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise is like an exquisite string of pearls: the perfect balance of elegance, style, design, and beauty. This book is inspiring, spirited, and totally absorbing.” —Diane von Furstenberg The story of Bunny Mellon, the great landscape and interior designer, becomes a revelatory exploration of extreme wealth in the American century. Bunny Mellon, whose life was marked by astonishing good fortune as well as tragedy and scandal, remains a singular figure in the annals of American design. She had her finger on the pulse of American culture and possessed a rare, once-in-a-generation sense of style and grace. Her most celebrated work—the White House Rose Garden, designed during the presidency of John F. Kennedy—demonstrated how formal restraint and the sparing use of color could be deployed to maximal effect. Later, her understated landscape design for the Kennedy grave site at Arlington National Cemetery changed the face of American public memorials. Mellon was a famously private person, and many of her greatest achievements remained concealed from public view. Her rarely seen gardens and domestic interiors at eight different properties on three continents became legends and models. At Oak Spring Farm in Virginia, the bibliographic riches of her Garden Library were twinned with the expansive flowering gardens lying below the Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed building. At her home on Nantucket, she pruned back the landscape to reveal the elemental forms of nature. Mellon also ranked as one of the great art collectors of her era, encouraging her husband Paul to use his family’s vast wealth to acquire hundreds of nineteenth-century French paintings, many of which were donated to the National Gallery of Art. Her own tastes ranged from Mark Rothko to Richard Diebenkorn—in quantity. In I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise, Mac Griswold—who knew Mellon personally—delves into her subject’s closely guarded personal archives to construct an unrivaled portrait of a woman as complex and multifaceted as the gardens and homes on which she left her mark. Mellon tested the anodyne 1950s model of woman-as-wife-as-mother by getting a divorce, admitting candidly to her first husband that she wanted a richer one. She imperiously traded old friends for new and ultimately used her reputation, her connections, and above all her money to help fund John Edwards’s short-lived presidential campaign. She led an American version of a royal court that, over the years, included Jackie Kennedy, Hubert de Givenchy, and I. M. Pei. How Mellon’s character, style, and taste developed together to produce her greatest accomplishments—private and public—is the real subject of this biography.

Download or read book Somewhere Geese are Flying written by Gary Gildner and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Somewhere Geese Are Flying, A son (in the often anthologized "Sleepy Time Gal") competes with his parents to tell "a simple story" about a poor boy/rich girl romance that "happened many years ago in the woods by a lake in Northern Michigan"... and the song he wrote her that became famous. A champion pole-vaulter jumps out of an airplane in France on D-Day, wearing a parachute that fails to open; he survives but, as his son says, "Imagine a man falling from the stars. It's a long way down." Thrasher, in Paris, hears geese honking in the sky and Barbara all the way from Iowa saying, "Hold still... I'm going to kiss you now.' Stories in Somewhere Geese Are Flying were written in many places--Michigan, Paris, Iowa, Slovakia, Oregon, Greece, Idaho, and on the Isle of Skye. Gildner says, "For a time, I thought to call the book 'Foreign Stories', but the title I use carries a sound I favor, a music both close and far away, something like stories trying to connect in what seem the only ways available to us: love and loss and that inseparable hold."

Download or read book Failure Is Not an Option written by Gene Kranz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestselling memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director. Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America’s manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA’s Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He helped to launch Alan Shepard and John Glenn, then assumed the flight director’s role in the Gemini program, which he guided to fruition. With his teammates, he accepted the challenge to carry out President John F. Kennedy’s commitment to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. Kranz recounts these thrilling historic events and offers new information about the famous flights. What appeared as nearly flawless missions to the Moon were, in fact, a series of hair-raising near misses. When the space technology failed, as it sometimes did, the controllers’ only recourse was to rely on their skills and those of their teammates. He reveals behind-the-scenes details to demonstrate the leadership, discipline, trust, and teamwork that made the space program a success. A fascinating firsthand account by a veteran mission controller of one of America’s greatest achievements, Failure Is Not an Option reflects on what has happened to the space program and offers his own bold suggestions about what we ought to be doing in space now.

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Download or read book Welcome to the Arcade written by Michael F. DeConzo and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in South Beach, Staten Island, the “forgotten borough” of New York City, best friends Johnny Romano, Ralphie Molinaro and Giulia Stringer struggle to understand a world that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to them. They're searching for answers to questions that seem impossible to figure out: why are their parents so crazy? How do they live with the hole left in their hearts when someone dies? Why is the gravitational pull of their neighborhood, a beach town next to the Verrazano Bridge that still hasn't shaken off its past, so powerful? What peculiar shapes can love take? And why has a rundown arcade two blocks from the beach become the center of their universe? But the people they meet--from Joey C., the local mob enforcer, to Luke, a transfer student at Tompkins High School, to Dinino, the mysterious owner of the arcade—all have their own secrets to hide. Covering a decade of their lives, from ten to twenty years of age, WELCOME TO THE ARCADE follows Johnny, Ralphie and Giulia as they move through the kaleidoscope of childhood to the insanity of young adulthood, always keeping one burning question in their minds: How do we figure out the greatest mystery of them all—growing up?

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Download or read book The Broken Bell written by ALAN KENNEDY and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broken Bell, the second book in Alan Kennedy's Boat in the Bay trilogy. When he arranges a surprise holiday for the children Uncle Albert imagines he can look after them well enough. But before this story ends he is the one who needs looking after. Set on a remote island off the coast of southern France, an idyllic holiday gradually becomes a terrifying race against time, building to a dramatic climax. The Broken Bell also gives us the first glimpse of Poppy the painter, hardly aware of her own incredible talent, torn between the magic world of art and artists and her life with the others. But the hero of this book is the youngest of all. Ian never completely understands what is going on, but he is the one who finally discovers the secret of the broken bell. For readers of any age. "The writing is assured ... the implied reminders of the Swallows and Amazons series again add another dimension and are a delight" - Julian Lovelock, The Journal of the Arthur Ransome Society.

Download or read book Letters from Uncle Fred written by Frederick Spencer Kiley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I published “Denizens of New Boston Road” Fred asked me why I had listed our brother Joseph Patrick Kiley Jr. as the author. It was not a mistake on my part; it was the only way I could get on with the project because I had been badgering him for weeks to allow me to list him as the author, which he was. At that time he was still teaching at Trenton State and I assume he was reluctant to let his students and associates see his published works. He mellowed after a short time, because everyone approved of his writings. The publication of “Denizens” led to a discussion of his other writings and that brought up the subject of the letters which we had been exchanging over the years. He told me that the letters meant a lot to him because he used them to force him to continue writing even when the mood to write wasn’t “on” him. He also told me that the freedom he enjoyed in writing letters was the limited audience to whom he was writing; friends and family. In this publication I am violating that limitation by allowing you to enter into the audience that can see and read the thoughts he had intended for a select few. Fred felt that in letter writing there could be an intimate bonding between the writer and the recipient; in the best case a touching of souls. Fred was still an innocent in many respects; even after the war had stripped him of most of his innocence. He wrote using humor, sarcasm, and other artifices to conceal his true message which was love. He had a love for natural beauty, children and animals. He had admiration for talent, honesty and integrity. I hope that you can discover that by reading his letters. He was my big brother; and I loved him.

Download or read book THE BETTER MAN written by Sabrina Johnson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And may the best man win…. Darcy Blair an authority on fantasy weddings? The last time Josh Cartwright had seen Darcy, she'd been a beautiful bride, he'd been a handsome best man…and the groom hadn't shown up! Still, Josh would have used any excuse to see her again. Darcy was still burning from her own disastrous "wedding," but she didn't want Josh's sympathy. He was every bit as bad—and every bit as good—as her ex-fiancé. He was too rich, too sexy, too charming. But, once burned twice shy. If she hadn't needed the work, she would have told Josh to take his wedding and his fantasy elsewhere.

Download or read book Only Fools and Horses written by Graham McCann and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirty years since viewers first visited Nelson Mandela House, Only Fools and Horses has won countless awards and is still Britain's most-watched and best-loved sitcom. Del Boy's overwhelming popularity has even inspired the Oxford English Dictionary to include a selection of his most famous words and phrases, such as 'lovely jubbly' and 'twonk'. In this fascinating, entertaining and meticulously researched book, acclaimed biographer Graham McCann goes behind the scenes to tell the inside story of Britain's most enduring comedy. With major contributions from the people who wrote, produced and starred in the programme and with material drawn from the BBC archives, it's time to take one last trip down Hooky Street . . .

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