Download or read book Gwendolyn written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the jungle there are jaguars, monkeys and parrots aplenty, but there are no penguins. None at all. Because penguins do not live in the jungle, except for ... GWENDOLYN! A story about friendship, adventure and finding your home. Ages 2-5 This is a children's picture book, published in a 'big book' format.
Download or read book Exquisite written by Suzanne Slade and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize A 2021 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book A 2021 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book A 2021 Association of Library Service to Children Notable Children's Book Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for her poems about “real life.” She wrote about love, loneliness, family, and poverty—showing readers how just about anything could become a beautiful poem. Exquisite follows Gwendolyn from early girlhood into her adult life, showcasing her desire to write poetry from a very young age. This picture-book biography explores the intersections of race, gender, and the ubiquitous poverty of the Great Depression—all with a lyrical touch worthy of the subject. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize, receiving the award for poetry in 1950. And in 1958, she was named the poet laureate of Illinois. A bold artist who from a very young age dared to dream, Brooks will inspire young readers to create poetry from their own lives.
Download or read book The Fortune Teller written by Gwendolyn Womack and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A USA TODAY AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of The Memory Painter comes a sweeping and suspenseful tale of romance, fate, and fortune. Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient texts—and when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred. The more she reads, the more the manuscript begins to affect Semele’s life. But what happened to the tarot deck? As the mystery of her connection to its story deepens, Semele can’t shake the feeling that she’s being followed. Only one person can help her make sense of it all: her client, Theo Bossard. Yet Theo is arrogant and elusive, concealing secrets of his own, and there’s more to Semele’s desire to speak with him than she would like to admit. Can Semele even trust him? The auction date is swiftly approaching, and someone wants to interfere—someone who knows the cards exist, and that the Bossard manuscript is tied to her. Semele realizes it’s up to her to stop them: the manuscript holds the key to a two-thousand-year-old secret, a secret someone will do anything to possess.
Download or read book Gwendolyn the Graceful Pig written by David Rottenberg and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwendolyn wants to be a ballerina while Omar wants to be on the football team. The only problem is, they are both pigs.
Download or read book The Marvelous Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray written by B. A. Williamson and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marvelous Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray is part fantasy, part dystopia, part steampunk, and all imagination as dreamer Gwendolyn evades thought police, enters a whimsical world, befriends world-jumping explorers and ragtag airship pirates, and fights the evil threatening to erase the new world she loves and her old world that never wanted her.
Download or read book The Time Collector written by Gwendolyn Womack and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling page-turner from Gwendolyn Womack, the USA Today bestselling author of The Fortune Teller "The Time Collector's fast pace and fascinating premise will delight history and romance lovers."—Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author of The Ghost Bride and The Night Tiger Travel through time with the touch of a hand. Roan West can perceive the past of any object he touches. A highly skilled psychometrist, he uses his talents to find and sell valuable antiques, but his quiet life in New Orleans is about to change. Stuart, a fellow psychometrist and Roan's close friend, has used his own abilities to unearth several "ooparts"—out-of-place artifacts that challenge recorded history. Soon after the discovery, Stuart disappears, making him one of several pyschometrists who have recently died or vanished. When Roan comes across a viral video of a young woman who has discovered a priceless pocket watch just by "sensing" it, he knows he has to warn her—but will Melicent Tilpin listen? And can Roan find Stuart before it's too late? The quest for answers will lead Roan and Melicent around the world, bringing them closer to each other and a startling truth.
Download or read book Reluctant Immortals written by Gwendolyn Kiste and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner 2023 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novel For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature—from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester’s attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre—as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967. Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Combining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective, in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion, Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a man’s world.
Download or read book On Gwendolyn Brooks written by Stephen Caldwell Wright and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reassessment of the art and achievements of the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize
Download or read book A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks written by George Kent and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-scale biography of Gwendolyn Brooks, one of America's major poets. George E. Kent, a longtime friend and literary associate of the poet in Chicago, was given exclusive access to Brooks' early notebooks, which she kept from the age of seven. Kent also interviewed Brooks, her mother, and other family members in Chicago and elsewhere. He scoured records and correspondence with her publishers, editors, and agent. He participated in the poet's literary enterprises and in her wide circle of literary and family friends. The study reveals intimate acquaintance with the Harlem Renaissance, with the Chicago literary scene and its leading figures from the thirties on, with historical developments in black culture and consciousness, and with the significant figures and activities that impressed the poet's life and art. It places Brooks' work in the context of the civil rights movement, the black arts movement, and black nationalism. Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950 for Annie Allen and is today widely recognized as one of the nation's leading poets, yet her work has received less than its due from mainstream critics. Kent's authoritative book has been one step in correcting that neglect.
Download or read book Gwendolyn Brooks written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides insight into six of Brooks' most influential works along with a short biography of the poet.
Download or read book Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks written by Gwendolyn Brooks and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews which help chronicle the life and career of African-American author Gwendolyn Brooks.
Download or read book Gwendolyn MacEwen Volume 2 written by Gwendolyn MacEwen and published by Exile Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her ascent to the top of the literary world is well known. Now you can enjoy the great works of this formidable writer in The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen, Volume Two: The Later Years. Readers will gain a solid understanding of MacEwen's works, as these poems represent her strongest poetic voice, developed from years of writing. Her unique voice is both playful and melancholy, all the while being a daring addition to her genre. This book is a great introduction to the works of MacEwen.
Download or read book Gwendolyn Brooks written by D. H. Melhem and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive biocritical study traces the development of Brooks's poetry over four decades, from such early works as "A Street in Bronzeville" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Annie Allen" to the more recent "In the Mecca", "Riot", and "To Disembark". Lightning Print On Demand Title
Download or read book The Falling Dawn written by Gwendolyn N. Nix and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from the dregs of society to become a celestial warrior, Eos soon becomes immersed in a world of ancient texts and falling angels, tasked to find the sacred Book of Raziel and stop a war in heaven. The secrets of the Book will lead Eos down a path of betrayal, pitting her against those she loves. All the while she must cling to her own crumbling sanity as her psyche is split by the emergence of another entity, heralded by the onset of Eos' new powers. Soon, Eos finds herself in the clutches of the Master of the Oceans, where she must convince him to give her the sacred book. His price? Her soul.
Download or read book Gwendolyn Goes Hollywood written by David Rottenberg and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when Roger Thunderbluster, the greatest movie producer in the world, and Natasha Levertov, the greatest dance teacher in the world, try to make Gwendolyn and Omar stars? Will the movie be a hit? Can the two pigs really dance and sing?
Download or read book Gwendolyn written by Linda Phillips and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does knowing the past ever prepare one for the future? Gwendolyn would find this out. Who had been her mother and father? Had they loved her...wanted her? Would she ever know? Gwendolyn, an orphan raised by her grandmother, tried to be patient and wait for her grandmother to tell her the story of her past. Little did she know, that in the telling of their tale, that it would reveal the secrets of her loving grandmother's hidden past and that the Lord would eventually lead her on an adventure that would find that lost past. She tried to define the leading of the Lord and the desires of her own heart but alas, she was often confused. In her pursuit for peace, she discovers faith in her Shepherd, love of the unlovely and maybe even romance... Linda Phillips grew up in northern British Columbia, Canada. Living on the farm, where life was simple and uncomplicated. Her and her husband, David, raised their three children on the family farm and remain there to this day. Life, in the North, is harsh but the neighbors are good and fellowship is sweet on a wintery day or on a hot summer afternoon. Her story telling has been part of her entire life to entertain people of many ages. Her heart's desire is for believers everywhere to walk in intimacy with God, our Father, and to be led by the Spirit. That we as believers would be effective instruments of God's love and this will change a dying, lost world of humanity.
Download or read book Gwendolyn and the Green Dragon written by T.S. Adams and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwendolyn's adventure continues. With hopes of returning to Moortop and finding her friends, Gwendolyn and the Brother's Three find themselves off on another adventure given them by a dying wizard to save a dragon before being attacked and Gwendolyn taken. In the tower held by the hag, Gwendolyn finds a secret no one was ever meant to remember. The journey takes Gwendolyn across the land as she finds new friends along the way and pits her wits against dragons-one she must save, and the other she must survive. The witch's army gathers in strength as invaders find their way to the shores of New Davenport. King John takes his army to fight as another secretly descends on his kingdom. Moortop fights for the very survival of its people. With treachery around every turn, can Gwendolyn find a way to help save her friends, or will she be too late to stop the dragon king? As her journey deepens and her past is uncovered, Gwendolyn finds herself in a twist of events that seem to make her journey home again seem impossible.
