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Book Katharine the Almost Great Set 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : ABDO Publishing Company
  • Publisher : Calico Chapter Books
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781616418274
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Katharine the Almost Great Set 2 written by ABDO Publishing Company and published by Calico Chapter Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third grader Katharine Carmichael, AKA Katharine the Almost Great, is a work-in-progress. Katharine's convinced that if she'd stop blabbing super-duper secrets to her cousin Crockett, conquer her stage fright-itis, and come up with the winning idea for the character education service project, her parents would finally crown her Katharine the Great. Young readers will relate to her flip-flop belly dropping problems and episodes of sassitude in these entertaining illustrated chapter books. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Book Raise A Glass Box Set  2

Download or read book Raise A Glass Box Set 2 written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This boxed set contains books 5-7 of the Raise A Glass series. Included titles are Too True To Be Good, Walk Of Fame, and Fake It Till You Break It. Too True To Be Good Zach loved his life. He didn't want anything to change. He had everything he wanted, except the new chef trying to steal his job. Gianna knew all the bad life had to offer. She'd not only lived it, but she saw it every day. Which was why she was determined to find a permanent home for her newest client. The last thing Zach needs is a little girl on his doorstep claiming she's his. The social worker on her heels wasn't any more welcome, but he couldn't turn them away until he knew the full truth. When the truth comes out, they have to decide if it'll keep them together or push them apart. Walk Of Fame Katherine needs to hide, and the best place she can think of is an off the map spot no one would think to look for her. Dillon just wanted a night out. But when his one night stand is waiting on his porch the next day, the fear in her eyes has his welcoming her into his home. Time is not on their side, but something stronger might be. But her secrets might be too much for him. And when she has to return to her real life, it all could come tumbling down. Fake It Till You Break It Kristen needs an escape, and her usual one isn't working. She decides to give up men and have some fun in other ways. Throwing herself into work seems like a good plan. Zane knows getting attached always spells trouble, so he keeps his distance. Especially from a woman who's clearly broken. No matter how amazing he thinks she is. It's all work between them, but work is play and the lines are blurred before either of them realize it. They can handle it. Neither is going to get attached. It's just fun.

Book The Book of Boy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2018-02-06
  • ISBN : 0062686224
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Book of Boy written by Catherine Gilbert Murdock and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor Book * Booklist Editors’ Choice * BookPage Best Books * Chicago Public Library Best Fiction * Horn Book Fanfare * Kirkus Reviews Best Books * Publishers Weekly Best Books * Wall Street Journal Best of the Year * An ALA Notable Book A young outcast is swept up into a thrilling and perilous medieval treasure hunt in this award-winning literary page-turner by acclaimed bestselling author Catherine Gilbert Murdock. The Book of Boy was awarded a Newbery Honor. “A treat from start to finish.”—Wall Street Journal Boy has always been relegated to the outskirts of his small village. With a hump on his back, a mysterious past, and a tendency to talk to animals, he is often mocked by others in his town—until the arrival of a shadowy pilgrim named Secondus. Impressed with Boy’s climbing and jumping abilities, Secondus engages Boy as his servant, pulling him into an action-packed and suspenseful expedition across Europe to gather seven precious relics of Saint Peter. Boy quickly realizes this journey is not an innocent one. They are stealing the relics and accumulating dangerous enemies in the process. But Boy is determined to see this pilgrimage through until the end—for what if St. Peter has the power to make him the same as the other boys? This epic and engrossing quest story by Newbery Honor author Catherine Gilbert Murdock is for fans of Adam Gidwitz’s The Inquisitor’s Tale and Grace Lin’s Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and for readers of all ages. Features a map and black-and-white art by Ian Schoenherr throughout.

Book Katherine Sabbath Greatest Hits

Download or read book Katherine Sabbath Greatest Hits written by Katherine Sabbath and published by Katherine Sabbath. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great

Download or read book The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great written by Lurana Donnels O'Malley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress. These works are shown to be remarkable for their diversity, frank satire, topical subject matter, and stylistic innovations. O'Malley reveals comparisons to and influences from European traditions, including Shakespeare and Molière, and sets Catherine in the larger field of Russian literature in the period, further illuminating her relationship to the aesthetic debates of the period. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote political ideals and ideology. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims.

Book Catherine the Great

    Book Details:
  • Author : John T. Alexander
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1989-11-09
  • ISBN : 0199874301
  • Pages : 457 pages

Download or read book Catherine the Great written by John T. Alexander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-09 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, the largest territorial political unit in modern history. Portrayed both as a political genius who restored to Russia the glory it had known in the days of Peter the Great and as a despotic foreign adventuress who usurped the Russian throne, murdered her rivals, and tyrannized her subjects, she was, by all accounts, an extraordinary woman. Catherine the Great, the first popular biography of the empress based on contemporary scholarship, provides a vivid portrait of Catherine as a mother, a lover, and, above all, an extremely savvy ruler. Concentrating on her long reign (1762-96), John Alexander examines all aspects of Catherine's life and career: the brilliant political strategies by which she won the acceptance of a nationalistic elite; her expansive foreign policy; the domestic reforms with which she revamped the Russian military, political structure, and economy; and, of course, her infamous love life. Beginning with an account of the dramatic palace revolt by which Catherine unseated her husband and a background chapter describing the circumstances of her early childhood and marriage, Alexander then proceeds chronologically through the thirty-four years of her reign. Presenting Catherine in more human terms than previous biographers have, Alexander includes numerous quotations from her reminiscences and notes. We learn, for instance, not only the names and number of her lovers, but her understanding of what many considered a shocking licentiousness. "The trouble is," she wrote, "that my heart would not willingly remain one hour without love." The result of twenty years' research by one of America's leading narrative historians of modern Russia, this truly impressive work offers a much-needed, balanced reappraisal of one of history's most scandal-ridden figures.

Book A Course in Russian History  The Time of Catherine the Great

Download or read book A Course in Russian History The Time of Catherine the Great written by Vasili O. Kliuchevsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly-translated excerpt from his five-volume "Course", Kliuchevsky (1841-1911) provides a colourful description of Russian court life in the 18th century, a dramatic narrative of the coup d'etat that brought Catherine II to power, a portrait of the empress herself, and an analysis of her foreign conquests and her major internal initiatives. While Kliuchevsky is critical of Catherine, he draws upon her memoirs and other writings and the accounts of her contemporaries to achieve a well-rounded and deeply human analysis of her character and personality. It is an extraordinary act of historical re-creation of the sort that brought Kliuchevsky such renown in his own time, and it remains so lifelike that it fairly leaps off the page. Kliuchevsky's examination of Western influence in Catherine's reign leads him to questions that were of urgent significance for Russia's development in his own day, and have remained so ever since: how to use Western ideas and practices to improve and enrich Russian life, without turning them into idle fashions or political bludgeons, and where to find the social leadership capable of performing such a delicate task.

Book Two Comedies by Catherine the Great  Empress of Russia

Download or read book Two Comedies by Catherine the Great Empress of Russia written by Lurana Donnels O'Malley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine the Great (1729-1796) wrote over two dozen plays and operettas, but not until this edition has a complete translation of any of them been available to an English- speaking readership. Oh, These Times (1772) is a satirical attack on many vices Catherine wished to root out from her society: religious hypocrisy, superstition and slander. The main character, Mrs. Pious, is a superficially religious old woman who resembles Moliere's Tartuffe. Catherine again sets her sights on superstition in The Siberian Shaman (1786), this time by satirizing shamanism as a deceitful profession which preys on the gullible. This play was part of a group of three plays usually known as Catherine's "anti-masonic" trilogy, written as a warning against the growing influence of the freemasons. In a comprehensive introduction, Lurana Donnels O'Malley relates the plays to Catherine's status and philosophy.

Book Katharine the Great

Download or read book Katharine the Great written by Deborah Davis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katharine the Great is a full-length biography of Kay Graham, a woman born into wealth and power. The second daughter of multimillionaires Eugene Meyer and Agnes Ernst, she grew up among the elite. Her mother's friends included Picasso, Rodin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Thomas Mann.

Book Catherine the Great

    Book Details:
  • Author : Virginia Rounding
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2007-02-06
  • ISBN : 0312328877
  • Pages : 609 pages

Download or read book Catherine the Great written by Virginia Rounding and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive modern biography of Catherine the Great to explore her both as a woman and empress.

Book The Anne Catherine Emmerich Collection  10 Books

Download or read book The Anne Catherine Emmerich Collection 10 Books written by Anne Catherine Emmerich and published by Catholic Way Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH COLLECTION [10 BOOKS] CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING — 10 Books: 7 By the Author. 3 About the Author — Over 1.5 Million Words. Over 500 Active Linked Footnotes — Includes Linked Headings, Index and Table of Contents for 10 Books — Includes Life and Biography of Anne Catherine Emmerich — Includes 24 Original Religious Woodcut Figure Illustrations — Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich was a Roman Catholic Augustinian Canoness Regular of Windesheim, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist. Emmerich is notable for her visions on the life and passion of Jesus Christ, reputed to be revealed to her by the Blessed Virgin Mary under religious ecstasy. From 1819 until Emmerich’s death in 1824, Brentano filled many notebooks with accounts of her visions involving scenes from the New Testament and the life of the Virgin Mary. Emmerich was beatified on 3 October 2004, by Pope John Paul II. BOOKS BY AUTHOR The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations: Volume 1 The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations: Volume 2 The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations: Volume 3 The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations: Volume 4 The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ BOOKS ABOUT AUTHOR The Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich: Volume 1 by Reverend Carl E. Schmoger The Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich: Volume 2 by Reverend Carl E. Schmoger The Life of Anne Catharine Emmerich by Helen Ram ARTICLES Anne Catherine Emmerich - Encyclopedia Anne Catherine Emmerich - Biography PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING

Book Katherine Parr

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  • Author : Katherine Parr
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2011-06-15
  • ISBN : 0226647269
  • Pages : 656 pages

Download or read book Katherine Parr written by Katherine Parr and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512–48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Parr also began, out of necessity, to learn Spanish when she ascended to the throne in 1543. As Henry’s wife and queen of England, she was a noted patron of the arts and music and took a personal interest in the education of her stepchildren, Princesses Mary and Elizabeth and Prince Edward. Above all, Parr commands interest for her literary labors: she was the first woman to publish under her own name in English in England. For this new edition, Janel Mueller has assembled the four publications attributed to Parr—Psalms or Prayers, Prayers or Meditations, The Lamentation of a Sinner, and a compilation of prayers and Biblical excerpts written in her hand—as well as her extensive correspondence, which is collected here for the first time. Mueller brings to this volume a wealth of knowledge of sixteenth-century English culture. She marshals the impeccable skills of a textual scholar in rendering Parr’s sixteenth-century English for modern readers and provides useful background on the circumstances of and references in Parr’s letters and compositions. Given its scope and ambition, Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence will be an event for the English publishing world and will make an immediate contribution to the fields of sixteenth-century literature, reformation studies, women’s writing, and Tudor politics.

Book Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Download or read book Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story and her writings were a profound influence on writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. Presenting for the first time draft manuscripts of some of her most important stories, this book gives scholars and students alike vivid new insight into Mansfield's creative process. With manuscripts for each text presented in facsimile and transcript, detailed notes throughout compare early drafts with later revisions and the final published work. In the final section of the book leading scholars offer vivid new critical readings exploring the manuscript history of these stories. A detailed descriptive listing of the major Mansfield archives is also included to help researchers explore the work further. The stories included are: 'Je ne parle pas francais'; 'Sun and Moon'; 'Revelations'; 'The Stranger'; 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'; 'Mr and Mrs Dove'; 'Marriage à la Mode'; 'The Voyage'; 'Six Years After'; 'The Fly'.

Book Scapegoat

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katharine Quarmby
  • Publisher : Granta Books
  • Release : 2011-06-02
  • ISBN : 1846273463
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Scapegoat written by Katharine Quarmby and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every few months there's a shocking news story about the sustained, and often fatal, abuse of a disabled person. It's easy to write off such cases as bullying that got out of hand, terrible criminal anomalies or regrettable failures of the care system, but in fact they point to a more uncomfortable and fundamental truth about how our society treats its most unequal citizens. In Scapegoat, Katharine Quarmby looks behind the headlines to question and understand our discomfort with disabled people. Combining fascinating examples from history with tenacious investigation and powerful first person interviews, Scapegoat will change the way we think about disability - and about the changes we must make as a society to ensure that disabled people are seen as equal citizens, worthy of respect, not targets for taunting, torture and attack.

Book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Download or read book We Have Always Lived in the Castle written by Shirley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

Book Catherine the Great

Download or read book Catherine the Great written by Christine Hatt and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine the Great ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796. The book examines her reforms, her foreign policies, the history of the Russian imperial family and the nature of Russian society in the eighteenth century. The `Judge for yourself' section encourages critical debate on the success of her policies.

Book Poetry and Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield

Download or read book Poetry and Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield written by Gerri Kimber and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Mansfield's non-fiction collected in one volume for the first time