Download or read book Strand of a Thousand Pearls written by Dorit Rabinyan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redolent with the scent of lilac and oleander blossoms, and bursting with the flavors of quinces and overripe plums, Strand of a Thousand Pearls is the story of the imagined and actual marriages of the Azizyan girls, their years of yearning, restless and impatient, and the truth of their engagements, miles away from the enchanted realm and imaginary heroes of their dreams. Six years ago, Dorit Rabinyan burst onto the scene with Persian Brides, a novel that established her as a writer of incandescent spirit with a gift for spinning wry, magical tales about the vagaries of love and marriage. In Strand of a Thousand Pearls, she has given us a bitter-sweet fable about desires fulfilled and denied—about married love and carnal love, about mother’s love and the kind of love that vanishes one night without warning, like an evaporated dream.
Download or read book A Girl Of A Thousand Pearls written by Sheila Ferraz and published by Clube de Autores. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Versão em Inglês do livro Milpérolas . . 2020 has been an historic, but difficult year. The world has been swept by a pandemic that was not taken seriously initially, but has been raging for more than a year, causing deaths, illness, economic chaos and despair. People in all countries have been affected and life has changed dramatically. Our future remains uncertain, but scientists are fighting to find medical advances that could give us back our health and bring hope for a better future. In this scenario of discomfort, sadness and emotional pressure, children and adolescents are suffering just as much as adults. Now, more than ever it is necessary to develop special skills to overcome this and find the energy necessary to get through the bad times, find hope and promote positive feelings. In all cultures from time immemorial, stories and tales have helped people prepare for life’s challenges. Today as always, fairy tales still exist in our times. Once again, for a lot of us, they are simple and profound lessons that can help us to overcome our adversities and believe, yes, we can! Sheila Ferraz and Pérola do Amaral have come together here to tell the story of a girl of a thousand pearls: a girl like any other, who is going through tough times of despair. Using a unique and poetic narrative, illustrated by drawings, the authors tell how she recovered from her depression from the moment she was able to tune into the deep voices full of the energy of her talent and creativity. Converting a thousand tears into a thousand pearls, the tale speaks of overcoming the sad times, remembering that for people just as for oysters, tears can become pearls. Sheila is an M.D. and has a PHD in public health and Pérola is a visual artist and advertising specialist. With the advent of the pandemic, they have also turned their hands to literature as a way of making life a little better for others.
Download or read book A Thousand Pearls written by H.G. Hutting and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-11-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the twilight turned into night, the pyramids lay deserted. The Tuaregs on silent horses were flying across the desert around the pyramids and the great Sphinx, making sure that what was about to take place was unobserved. A cortege of torches was winding its way down the tall dune towards the great Sphinx. Phillipa, holding the silver Urn with the Heidrichs ashes, rode at the center of the cortege. Reaching the Sphinx, the torchbearers broke into two columns to form an honor guard of light through which Phillipa rode to meet the matriarch standing between the Sphinx’s mighty paws. Phillipa slowly handed the urn to her. A deep hole had been chiseled into the Sphinx’s chest where one would think the heart might be. The urn was pushed gently into the cool depth of the Sphinx. The opening disappeared in front of Phillipa’s eyes under the skilled hands of a stonemason. No one would suspect that the Sphinx had been tampered with. One by one the Tuareg torchbearers rode up the passage between the mighty paws of the Sphinx and dropped their torches in front of the Heidrichs secret burial chamber––a final salute to the man who had translated their tablets. That night they slept outside under the stars. The matriarch’s stallion came to greet Phillipa. She rubbed his forehead and velvety nose and then kissed it, as she had done long ago when she had been here with Udah Singh. “He likes you and wishes you well,” said the matriarch behind her. “ You have a gift with horses that I have not seen before.” She continued, “You still love both equally, and that confuses you profoundly. Give yourself permission to love and be loved. Don’t let conventions and western customs dictate your life. Live happy and free.”
Download or read book The Girl of a Thousand Pearls written by Sheila Ferraz and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 has been an historic, but difficult year.The world has been swept by a pandemic that was not taken seriously initially, but has been raging formore than a year, causing deaths, illness, economic chaos and despair. People in all countries have beenaffected and life has changed dramatically. Our future remains uncertain, but scientists are fighting tofind medical advances that could give us back our health and bring hope for a better future.In this scenario of discomfort, sadness and emotional pressure, children and adolescents are sufferingjust as much as adults. Now, more than ever it's necessary to develop special skills to overcome this andfind the energy necessary to get through the bad times, find hope and promote positive feelings.In all cultures from time immemorial, stories and tales have helped people prepare for life's challenges.Today as always, fairy tales still exist in our times. Once again, for a lot of us, they are simple andprofound lessons that can help us to overcome our adversities and believe, yes we can!Sheila Ferraz and Perola do Amaral have come together here to tell the story of MILPEROLAS, a girl likeany other, who is going through tough times of despair. Using a unique and poetic narrative, illustratedby drawings, the authors tell how she recovered from her depression from the moment she was able totune into the deep voices full of the energy of her talent and creativity. Converting a Thousand Tearsinto a Thousand Pearls, the tale speaks of overcoming the sad times, remembering that for people Justas for oysters, tears can become pearls.Sheila is an M.D. and has a PHD in Public Health and Perola is a visual artist and advertising specialist.With the advent of the pandemic, they have also turned their hands to literature as a way of making lifea little better for others.
Download or read book Dragon Pearl written by Yoon Ha Lee and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Riordan Presents Yoon Ha Lee's space opera about thirteen-year-old Min, who comes from a long line of fox spirits. But you'd never know it by looking at her. To keep the family safe, Min's mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. They must appear human at all times. Min feels hemmed in by the household rules and resents the endless chores, the cousins who crowd her, and the aunties who judge her. She would like nothing more than to escape Jinju, her neglected, dust-ridden, and impoverished planet. She's counting the days until she can follow her older brother, Jun, into the Space Forces and see more of the Thousand Worlds. When word arrives that Jun is suspected of leaving his post to go in search of the Dragon Pearl, Min knows that something is wrong. Jun would never desert his battle cruiser, even for a mystical object rumored to have tremendous power. She decides to run away to find him and clear his name. Min's quest will have her meeting gamblers, pirates, and vengeful ghosts. It will involve deception, lies, and sabotage. She will be forced to use more fox-magic than ever before, and to rely on all of her cleverness and bravery. The outcome may not be what she had hoped, but it has the potential to exceed her wildest dreams. This sci-fi adventure with the underpinnings of Korean mythology will transport you to a world far beyond your imagination.
Download or read book A Thousand Pearls for a Thousand Pennies French Literature Series written by Hervé Le Tellier and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Joe Brainard’s I Remember and Georges Perec’s Je me souviens, this delightful “novel” offers a thousand answers to the question, “What are you thinking?” (Or, as translator Ian Monk puts it: “Penny for them?”) The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the basics: love, sexuality, death, and all the other things that lurk in our everyday thoughts.
Download or read book The Pearl That Broke Its Shell written by Nadia Hashimi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See. In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the market, and chaperone her older sisters. But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom. A century earlier, her great-great grandmother, Shekiba, left orphaned by an epidemic, saved herself and built a new life the same way. Crisscrossing in time, The Pearl the Broke Its Shell interweaves the tales of these two women separated by a century who share similar destinies. But what will happen once Rahima is of marriageable age? Will Shekiba always live as a man? And if Rahima cannot adapt to life as a bride, how will she survive?
Download or read book Pearls Girls and Monty Bodkin written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to celebrate the author's ninety-first birthday - a flawless piece of classic comic writing. What happened to Monty Bodkin's love for Hockey International Gertrude Butterwick? His year in Hollywood completed, he leaves behind his heartbroken secretary, Sandy Miller, and arrives in London to claim his Amazon's had. However, teh Bodkin road to happiness is arduous, and pitfalled through and through
Download or read book The Great Gatsby written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married
Download or read book Pearl in the Sand written by Tessa Afshar and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a Canaanite harlot who made her living enticing men be a fitting wife for a leader of Israel? Shockingly, the Bible’s answer is yes. This 10th anniversary edition of Pearl in the Sand includes new features that will invite you into the untold story of Rahab’s journey from lowly outcast to redeemed child of God. Rahab’s home is built into a wall, a wall that fortifies and protects the City of Jericho. However, other walls surround her too, walls of fear, rejection, and unworthiness… Years of pain and betrayal have wounded Rahab’s heart—she doubts whether her dreams of experiencing true love will ever come true… A woman with a wrecked past—a man of success, of faith... of pride. A marriage only God would conceive! Through the heartaches of a stormy relationship, Rahab and Salmone learn the true source of one another’s worth and find healing in God.
Download or read book A Persian Pearl and Other Essays written by Clarence Darrow and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Persian Pearl, and Other Essays" by Clarence Darrow. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Woman of a Thousand Names written by Alexandra Lapierre and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally bestselling author of the “fascinating epic” (Associated Press) Between Love and Honor comes a rich, sweeping tale based on the captivating true story of the Mata Hari of Russia, featuring a beautiful aristocrat fighting for survival during the deadly upheaval of the Russian Revolution. Born into Russian aristocracy, wealth, and security, Moura never had any reason to worry. But in the upheaval of the Bolshevik Revolution, her entire world crumbles. As her family and friends are being persecuted by Vladimir Lenin’s ruthless police, she falls into a passionate affair with British secret agent Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. But when he’s abruptly and mysteriously deported from Russia, Moura is left alone and vulnerable. Now, she must find new paths for her survival, even if it means shedding her past and taking on new identities. Some will praise her tenderness and undying loyalty. Others will denounce her lies. But all will agree on one point: Moura embodies Life. Life at all cost. Set against the volatile landscape of 20th-century Russia, The Woman of a Thousand Names brings history to vivid life in a captivating tale about an extraordinary woman caught in the waves of change—with only her wits to save her.
Download or read book Girl with a Pearl Earring written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of A Single Thread and At the Edge of the Orchard Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin Firth Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius . . . even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.
Download or read book The Girl s Book of Famous Queens written by Lydia Hoyt Farmer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Girl's Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Download or read book The Girl in the Blue Beret written by Bobbie Ann Mason and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later, as he uncovers the truth about those who helped him escape in 1944. At twenty-three, Marshall Stone was a confident, cocksure U.S. flyboy stationed in England, with several bombing raids in a B-17 under his belt. But when enemy fighters forced his plane to crash-land in a Belgian field during a mission to Germany, Marshall had to rely solely on the kindness of ordinary Belgian and French citizens to help him hide from and evade the Nazis. Decades later, restless and at the end of his career as an airline pilot, Marshall returns to the crash site and finds himself drawn back in time, unable to stop thinking about the people who risked their lives to save Allied pilots like him. Most of all, he is obsessed by the girl in the blue beret, a courageous young woman who protected and guided him in occupied Paris. Framed in spellbinding, luminous prose, Marshall’s search for her gradually unfolds, becoming a voyage of discovery that reveals truths about himself and the people he knew during the war. Deeply beautiful and impossible to put down, The Girl in the Blue Beret is an unforgettable story—intimate, affecting, exquisite—of memories, second chances, and one intrepid girl who risked it all for a stranger.
Download or read book The Pearl of the Antilles written by Walter Goodman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Download or read book The Ladies Pearl written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
