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Book Valeria s Cross

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathi Macias
  • Publisher : Abingdon Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1426702159
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Valeria s Cross written by Kathi Macias and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 3rd century, pampered Roman princess Valeria falls in love with Mauritius, captain of the Theban Legion. She sends him off to battle, where he suffers under the schemes of a notorious pagan general with an ambition for power and a lust for Valeria. In a scene based on true events, the evil Galerius kills Mauritius and his entire legion for their Christian faith. And in a shocking turn of events, the grieving Valeria is forced to become Galerius' wife against her will. Never has a marriage been set up for such failure. Valeria loathes her new husband, but he seems to undergo a change of heart, adopting a child for her and giving her power and authority, and even love. She struggles with the commitment she knows she must keep, and the love she knows she will never find again.

Book Valeria s Last Stand

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  • Author : Marc Fitten
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-05-03
  • ISBN : 1608192091
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Valeria s Last Stand written by Marc Fitten and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding fault with everything in her small Hungarian village, Valeria becomes an inadvertent respected critic whose opinions are embraced by her neighbors, a situation that is thrown into upheaval when Valeria's approval of a humble potter's work reveals vulnerabilities throughout the community.

Book Valeria

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  • Author : Harriet Monroe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Valeria written by Harriet Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valeria  by E  Lloyd

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  • Author : Eleanor Lloyd
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1879
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Valeria by E Lloyd written by Eleanor Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valeria  the martyr of the catacombs

Download or read book Valeria the martyr of the catacombs written by William Henry Withrow and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Claiming Valeria

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  • Author : Rebecca Rivard
  • Publisher : Rebecca Rivard
  • Release : 2015-08-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Claiming Valeria written by Rebecca Rivard and published by Rebecca Rivard. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tortured shifter assassin who craves another chance. A woman who isn't sure she can forgive. Can he win back his mate before he loses her to a rogue shifter? Rui do Mar had it all. He was the Rock Run Clan's second and he'd found his mate, the beautiful Portuguese shifter Valeria. But everything fell apart when he assassinated an innocent man, leaving the man's young daughter an orphan. Sick at heart, he brought the little girl home to Valeria and then left. Two years have passed, and Valeria has forged a new life for herself and her adopted daughter. She's even found a new man. Then Rock Run's alpha goes missing and Rui steps up to reclaim his position as second. Now he's determined to win back his mate as well. But Valeria's new man is hiding a dark magical Gift. Soon she and Rui are in a fight for not just their love but their lives—and that of the little girl they've both come to adore. A steamy, high-stakes redemption romance with a heart-warming HEA! "This book brought me to tears... I was sitting on the edge of my seat wondering what path the story was going to go."~Goodreads review EXCERPT: Rui turned and there she was, coming across the meadow. Alone, that dark and primitive part of him noted with satisfaction. She strolled toward the dance floor, clothed in a simple green dress that flowed like water over her lush curves. The late afternoon sun touched her rich brown hair with golden highlights. She'd left it unbound so that it swayed to and fro over her breasts. He stared at her, mesmerized, chest tight. All around the dance floor, unmated males did the same. Spines straightened and stomachs sucked in. A dozen hungry gazes ran over her voluptuous body. Rui rumbled a warning. Those fada close enough to hear shot him a look, then dropped their eyes. Even the sun fae men glanced around uneasily... "Fresh, dramatic, deep…"~Tome Tender Book Blog KEYWORDS: shifter, alpha male, fated mates, mate bond, happily ever after, alpha male romance book, alpha male romance ebook, alpha shapeshifter romance, alpha shifter fated mates, rebecca rivard mates, fated mates paranormal romance, shifter fae romance book, shifter fae romance series, strangers to lovers, instant attraction, heat level, fated mates novel, soul mates, destined mates, shifter romance ebook, paranormal fiction series, strong heroine, redemption romance, rejected mate shifter romance, shifter mates, fated mates, rejected mate paranormal romance book, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy shifter mates, shapeshifter clan romance series, urban fantasy, sexy urban fantasy, fantasy romance, sexy fantasy romance, unusual shapeshifters, Latino hero paranormal romance, Latino hero romance, Latina heroine romance, treacherous fae encounters, captivating world-building, romantic suspense, intense chemistry between characters, HEA (happily ever after), everlasting love and bonds, riveting paranormal romance series, strong female protagonist, paranormal romantic suspense

Book The Picture Book  Die gro  e W  rterfabrik  by Agn  s de Lestrade and Valeria Decampo in Primary School

Download or read book The Picture Book Die gro e W rterfabrik by Agn s de Lestrade and Valeria Decampo in Primary School written by Caritas Höppner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Pedagogy - School Pedagogics, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: This paper uses the picture book "The Great Dictionary Factory" by Agnès de Lestrade and Valeria Decampo to highlight how children can be supported on the path of their own writing. How do children learn to gain experience in the world of writing and discover the world and themselves in the process? What preconditions must be in place for writing to take place? What impulses are possible and suitable to enable children to make the transition from the real world of the classroom to the world of imagination? How is it possible to open up a space in which children think about language, get to know words as something valuable with which one can discover a lot and learn to understand themselves as language creators to whom words obey?

Book The Ugly Doodles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Valeria Wicker
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2020-07-07
  • ISBN : 031645625X
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book The Ugly Doodles written by Valeria Wicker and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hilarious and adorable picture book about creativity, fear of failure, and embracing your imperfections is perfect for kids and budding artists of all ages. After an inspiring visit to the local art museum, Raven Rembrandt is eager to create her own beautiful masterpieces. But the only thing she can seem to draw are ugly doodles -- and they won't go away, no matter how hard she tries to discard them! After a few increasingly inventive attempts to get rid of them, Raven realizes that the only way to learn to love her art is to just create. Valeria Wicker's endearing and quirky art style adds humor to her sweet and whimsical story about overcoming a fear of imperfection and failure.

Book Faces in the Crowd

    Book Details:
  • Author : Valeria Luiselli
  • Publisher : Coffee House Press
  • Release : 2014-04-21
  • ISBN : 1566893550
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book Faces in the Crowd written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014 Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014 "An extraordinary new literary talent."--The Daily Telegraph "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student years to early motherhood and a loving marriage--and then, in the book's second half, wilder and something else altogether, the fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it—has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original writer."--Francisco Goldman In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in the windows of passing trains. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. "Luiselli's haunting debut novel, about a young mother living in Mexico City who writes a novel looking back on her time spent working as a translator of obscure works at a small independent press in Harlem, erodes the concrete borders of everyday life with a beautiful, melancholy contemplation of disappearance. . . . Luiselli plays with the idea of time and identity with grace and intuition." —Publishers Weekly

Book Tell Me How It Ends

Download or read book Tell Me How It Ends written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Part treatise, part memoir, part call to action, Tell Me How It Ends inspires not through a stiff stance of authority, but with the curiosity and humility Luiselli has long since established." —Annalia Luna, Brazos Bookstore "Valeria Luiselli's extended essay on her volunteer work translating for child immigrants confronts with compassion and honesty the problem of the North American refugee crisis. It's a rare thing: a book everyone should read." —Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books "Tell Me How It Ends evokes empathy as it educates. It is a vital contribution to the body of post-Trump work being published in early 2017." —Katharine Solheim, Unabridged Books "While this essay is brilliant for exactly what it depicts, it helps open larger questions, which we're ever more on the precipice of now, of where all of this will go, how all of this might end. Is this a story, or is this beyond a story? Valeria Luiselli is one of those brave and eloquent enough to help us see." —Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company "Appealing to the language of the United States' fraught immigration policy, Luiselli exposes the cracks in this foundation. Herself an immigrant, she highlights the human cost of its brokenness, as well as the hope that it (rather than walls) might be rebuilt." —Brad Johnson, Diesel Bookstore "The bureaucratic labyrinth of immigration, the dangers of searching for a better life, all of this and more is contained in this brief and profound work. Tell Me How It Ends is not just relevant, it's essential." —Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore "Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis—and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency." —Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books

Book Lost Children Archive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Valeria Luiselli
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2020-02-04
  • ISBN : 0525436464
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Lost Children Archive written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood ... This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences.” —The Washington Post In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. Through ephemera such as songs, maps and a Polaroid camera, the children try to make sense of both their family’s crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States but getting detained—or lost in the desert along the way. A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive—a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.

Book The Story of My Teeth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Valeria Luiselli
  • Publisher : Coffee House Press
  • Release : 2015-09-07
  • ISBN : 1566894107
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book The Story of My Teeth written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of collecting, the nature of storytelling, the value of objects, and the complicated bonds of family. . . Luiselli has become a writer to watch, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.”—The New York Times I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I'm grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other uncle, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming. Highway is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the "notorious infamous" like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's. Her novel, The Story of My Teeth, is the winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction.

Book A Dictionary of Saintly Women

Download or read book A Dictionary of Saintly Women written by Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sidewalks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Valeria Luiselli
  • Publisher : Coffee House Press
  • Release : 2014-04-21
  • ISBN : 1566893577
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Sidewalks written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grantland Book of the Year Vol. 1 Brooklyn, A Year of Favorites, Jason Diamond Book Riot, 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses "Valeria Luiselli is a writer of formidable talent, destined to be an important voice in Latin American letters. Her vision and language are precise, and the power of her intellect is in evidence on every page."—Daniel Alarcón "I'm completely captivated by the beauty of the paragraphs, the elegance of the prose, the joy in the written word, and the literary sense of this author."—Enrique Vilas-Matas Valeria Luiselli is an evening cyclist; a literary tourist in Venice, searching for Joseph Brodsky's tomb; an excavator of her own artifacts, unpacking from a move. In essays that are as companionable as they are ambitious, she uses the city to exercise a roving, meandering intelligence, seeking out the questions embedded in our human landscapes. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her novel and essays have been translated into many languages and her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's. Some of her recent projects include a ballet performed by the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center; a pedestrian sound installation for the Serpentine Gallery in London; and a novella in installments for workers in a juice factory in Mexico. She lives in New York City.

Book May Sarton to Valeria Knapp

Download or read book May Sarton to Valeria Knapp written by May Sarton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Veneto

    Book Details:
  • Author : Valeria Necchio
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2017-07-04
  • ISBN : 1783351098
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Veneto written by Valeria Necchio and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Italy's best kept secret. the cuisine of the Veneto. Food-writer, cook and photographer Valeria Necchio shares the food and flavours at the heart of the Veneto region in North Eastern Italy. Veneto includes lovingly written recipes that capture the spirit of this beautiful and often unexplored region, and Valeria's memories of the people and places that make the Veneto so special. Packed with fresh ingredients and lively flavours, the recipes range from the dramatic black cuttlefish stew, through soups, pastas and risottos, a mouthwatering selection of Italian sweet treats, and sweet and savoury preserves for your pantry to ensure year-round deliciousness.

Book Happy Birthday Una   The Big Birthday Activity Book

Download or read book Happy Birthday Una The Big Birthday Activity Book written by BirthdayDr and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Birthday Una is a personalized kids activity book, it includes personalized crosswords, word searches, number puzzles, jokes, drawing and coloring >It is suitable for children between 6-11 years old It is the perfect birthday present for Una, and is a great keepsake for parents to remember their child's early years and birthdays This personalized book is available for other names also This is a great gift for children and an amazing keepsake for parents Happy Birthday Una