Download or read book Outward Leg written by Tristan Jones and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After seven years ashore and after having his left leg amputated, Tristan Jones decided to return to the sea. In October 1983, Jones and his only crew member, Wally Rediske, set out in Outward Leg, a 36-ft trimaran from San Diego, intending to circumnavigate the world from west to east by sail.
Download or read book Shake a Leg Sesame Street written by Constance Allen and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Okay, everybodee (as Grover would say), it’s time for some exercise! So shake a leg—and every other limb—to get warmed up for some fitness and fun. Toddlers will have a good giggle as the Sesame monsters try different routines to get in shape. They can even follow along and get their own kid-sized workout—if they don’t fall down laughing instead!
Download or read book One Leg Over written by Robin Dalton and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Robin Dalton’s book is an excellent way to while away a summer’s afternoon in her company.’ Mail on Sunday UK At the age of ninety-five, Robin Dalton looks back on her life, particularly on her love life. Married at nineteen, disastrously, Robin has a lucky escape—her ‘Society Divorce’ makes the front page of Sydney newspapers, bumping the war to page three. Then there are the American and British servicemen in Sydney—the dancing, the many trysts and a number of not-too-serious engagements—before Robin travels to England ostensibly to marry one of those fiancés. While most of Europe struggles with post-war austerity, Robin’s days and nights are filled with extravagant dinners, parties with royalty and romantic getaways, until she meets the man who will become, for a brief few years before his early death, her second husband. One Leg Over is a story of love and romance, of fun and glamour, and of loss and great sadness. But above all it’s a celebration of a wonderful life. Robin Dalton was born in Sydney, and lived in London from 1946. She was a television performer, an intelligence agent, a literary agent and a film producer (Madame Souzatska starring Shirley Maclaine; Oscar and Lucinda starring Cate Blanchett), as well as an author. Her 1965 account of her childhood in Kings Cross, Aunts up the Cross remains an Australian classic. The previously unpublished My Relations was released in 2015. She died in 2022 at the age of 101. ‘It’s not every day a memoir is written by a nonagenarian (Robin Dalton is 96) but, on reflection, it makes sense that a long life, lived to the hilt, will make for far more interesting reading than the reflections of a precocious younger person, whose trials and tribulations have only just begun, so to speak...Dalton enjoys, I suspect, shocking the reader with her tales of romance, sexual encounters, several engagements and marriage...However, the content of One Leg Over should not be dismissed as fatuous and we are rewarded with a fascinating view of the upper classes in post-war England.’ Age ‘One Leg Over is a story of Robin’s most wonderful memories of a life so rich in experience.’ Yours Magazine ‘The journalist, author, intelligence agent, literary agent and film producer could never be accused of turning away from life. Her memoir, One Leg Over, is a slice of social history masquerading as a romp that tells us as much about 20th-century shifts in gender as any academic text.’ Australian
Download or read book Traveling on One Leg written by Herta Müller and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist of Herta Muller's Traveling on One Leg is Irene, a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from Romania to Germany. The novel focuses on Irene's relationship with three men: Franz, whom she met in Romania and who was unwilling to respond to her love for him; Stefan, a friend of Franz's; and Thomas, a bisexual bookseller in perpetual crisis. Despite being born to a German family, Irene's place in Germany is as a recent emigre and an unassimilated Romanian German. She feels neither longing for Romania nor any comfort in her newly adopted Germany. Politically and socially isolated, Irene moves within the emotional orbit of these three men, while at the same time moving between West Berlin, Marburg, and Frankfurt, taking a dissonant journey within strange yet familiar territory. Characterized by the same sense of profound isolation found in Muller's The Land of Green Plums (see page 20), Traveling on One Leg is a poignant exploration of exile, homeland, and identity.
Download or read book Old Silver Leg Takes Over written by Robert Quackenbush and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1986 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of the Dutchman who arrived to be governor of New Amsterdam in 1647 and turned it from a muddy village into a well-organized city.
Download or read book Gate of the Sun written by Elias Khoury and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book This “imposingly rich . . . a genuine masterwork” vividly captures the Palestinian experience following the creation of the Israeli state (New York Times Book Review). After Palestine is torn apart in 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted makeshift hospital in the Shatila camp on the outskirts of Beirut—entering a vast world of displacement, fear, and tenuous hope. Khalil holds vigil at the bedside of his patient and spiritual father, a storied leader of the Palestinian resistance who has slipped into a coma. As Khalil attempts to revive Yunes, he begins a story, which branches into many: stories of the people expelled from their villages in Galilee; of the massacres that followed; of the extraordinary inner strength of those who survived; and of love. Khalil—like Elias Khoury—is a truth collector, trying to make sense of the fragments and various versions of stories that have been told to him. His voice is intimate and direct, his memories are vivid, his humanity radiates from every page. Khalil lets his mind wander through time, from village to village, from one astonishing soul to another, and takes us with him. Gate of the Sun is a Palestinian Odyssey and the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. Beautifully weaving together haunting stories of survival and loss, love and devastation, memory and dream, Khoury humanizes the complex Palestinian struggle as he brings to life the story of an entire people.
Download or read book Maybe Your Leg Will Grow Back written by Amanda McCall and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding the bright side of a terrible situation has never been easier, thanks to the adorable baby animal postcards found in Maybe Your Leg Will Grow Back. Amanda McCall and Ben Schwartz, nationally bestselling authors of Grandma’s Dead and Why is Daddy in a Dress?, are back with their third collection of cuteness designed to soften life’s unexpected blows, whether you’re dealing with shark attacks, incurable diseases, or incarcerations in filthy third world prisons. With delicious dark humor in vein of The Bunny Suicides, Maybe Your Leg Will Grow Back even includes a bonus DIY crafts section to help you find the sunny side of any catastrophe.
Download or read book Don t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It s Raining written by Judy Sheindlin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-01-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: font COLOR="#000000" FACE="MS Sans Serif" SIZE="1" ¡n we get some reality in here?ߡsks Judy Sheindlin, former supervising judge for Manhattan Family Court. For twenty–four years she has laid down the law as she understands it: ● If you want to eat, you have to work. ● If you have children, you'd better support them. If you break the law, you have to pay. If you tap the public purse, you'd better be accountable. Now she abandons all judicial restraint in a scathing critique of the system – filled with realistic hard–nosed alternatives to our bloated welfare bureaucracy and our soft–on–crime laws.
Download or read book Why Ducks Sleep on One Leg written by Sherry Garland and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vietnamese folktale explaining why ducks sleep on one leg.
Download or read book A Leg to Stand On written by Oliver Sacks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-04-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Summit Books, 1984.
Download or read book Leg written by General Publishing Group, Inc and published by Stoddart. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a celebration of the leg in life and art and a chronicle of Donna Karan's 10 year journey as hosiery-design innovator.
Download or read book Leg Over Leg Or The Turtle in the Tree Concerning the F riy q written by Aḥmad Fāris Shidyāq and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of "the Fariyaq," alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England, and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, women's rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European and Arabic literatures, all the while celebrating the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language. Volumes Three and Four see the peripatetic Fariyaq fall in love and convert to Catholicism for twenty-four hours in order to marry. Although the narrative revolves around a series of debates over the nature of male-female relationships, opportunities also arise for disquisitions on the physical and moral significance of such diverse topics as the buttocks, the unreliability of virginity tests, and the human capacity for self-delusion. Lengthy stays in England and France allow for animadversions on the table manners and sexual aberrations of their citizens, but the discussion, whether it involve dance-halls, pleasure gardens, or poetry, almost always ends up returning to gender relations. Akin to Sterne and Rabelais in his satirical outlook and technical inventiveness, al-Shidyaq produced in Leg Over Leg a work that is unique and unclassifiable. It was initially widely condemned for its attacks on authority, its religious skepticism, and its "obscenity," and later editions were often abridged. This is the first complete English translation of this groundbreaking work.
Download or read book Leg the Spread written by Cari Lynn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Leg The Spread' tells the story of one woman's experience of surviving the stereotyping, stress and sexism of the ultimate boys club - the commodities trading floor.
Download or read book My Little Leg written by Robyn Lambert and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book the reader can be part of the story. Yadsi is a little girl that just happens to have a lower limb difference. She is not concerned with all the fuss over her leg. She just wants to have fun Many children, like Yadsi, wear a prosthetic leg enabling them to be mobile. These children need to feel comfortable with or without their prosthesis and be accepted for who they are; rather than having their lower limb difference define them.
Download or read book Shake a Leg Egg written by Kurt Cyrus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From celebrated author-illustrator Kurt Cyrus comes a playful and whimsical picture book that celebrates the excitement and anticipation of a soon-to-be-born baby. It’s springtime, and the pond is bursting with new life. There are beaver pups, heron hatchlings, and lots and lots of ducklings. Everyone is out and about, swimming, flapping, chirping, and quacking—except for one family of geese. When, oh when, will their last little one break on out and join the waiting world?
Download or read book Honey for You Honey for Me written by Michael Rosen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning team behind A Great Big Cuddle—two former UK Children’s Laureates—reunite to present a collection of nursery rhymes both familiar and rediscovered. Honey for breakfast, Honey for tea. Honey for YOU, Honey for ME. Welcome to the vibrant world of nursery rhymes—from beloved playground sayings to forgotten gems. Collected by preeminent children’s author Michael Rosen, these lilting poems, more than thirty in all, are brought to life in playful illustrations by award-winning artist Chris Riddell. Perfect for reading aloud and sure to become an instant favorite, this selection of nursery poems, created by two former UK Children’s Laureates, is a delightful keepsake for families to share and treasure.
Download or read book Leg at Each Corner written by N Thelwell and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching student of pony psychology, Norman Thelwell's equestrian cartoons entertained millions of readers the world over - be they in the saddle or in the armchair. This reissue of his classic book of pony cartoons gives a reminder of the late master's peculiar genius.
