Download or read book Spruce and Lucy written by Todd Nesloney and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join a little tree named Spruce and a tiny ant named Lucy on an incredible journey through the forest as they discover the uniqueness in all of us and remind us that everyone has something to offer the world around them.

Download or read book Lucy s Light written by Margarita Del Mazo and published by Cuento de Luz. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner at the 2016 Gellet Burgess Award - Society & Culture This is a tale all about how important it is to shine as brightly as you can, with the light that we all carry within us and makes us unique. Guided Reading Level: L, Lexile Level: 640L

Download or read book The Lucy Variations written by Sara Zarr and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. The right people knew her name, her performances were booked months in advance, and her future seemed certain. That was all before she turned fourteen. Now, at sixteen, it's over. A death, and a betrayal, led her to walk away. That leaves her talented ten-year-old brother, Gus, to shoulder the full weight of the Beck-Moreau family expectations. Then Gus gets a new piano teacher who is young, kind, and interested in helping Lucy rekindle her love of piano -- on her own terms. But when you're used to performing for sold-out audiences and world-famous critics, can you ever learn to play just for yourself? National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr takes readers inside one girl's struggle to reclaim her love of music and herself. To find joy again, even when things don't go according to plan. Because life isn't a performance, and everyone deserves the chance to make a few mistakes along the way.

Download or read book Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning written by Marjolijn Verspoor and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-06-26 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic constructions in information structure.In sections two and three papers are presented on cross-categorial polysemy between lexical and grammatical uses of a morpheme, and between different grammatical senses, and on the relationship between earlier lexical senses and later grammatical ones. The final section of the volume brings together studies which shed further light on transitivity and argument structure. The study of transitivity necessarily entails exploration of the relationship between syntactic constructions and the pragmatics and semantics conveyed by such constructions. As a whole, this collection of papers gives new evidence on the complexity and motivation of the mapping between linguistic form and function and offers a wealth of new directions for research on the construction of meaning at every level of the sentence.

Download or read book Meeting Lucy written by HELENAELISE and published by Summit Publishing Company Inc.. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Lucy. She’s pretty. She’s spunky. She’s also got an odd pair of wings, a devil’s tail, and an angel’s halo. She can kick ass from here to kingdom come. Oh, she’s also Satan’s daughter with the angel Raziel.Lucy has never felt like she belonged in Heaven or Hell—no matter how many times her parents have tried to keep her in one place. The devils of Hell don’t like her too much, and the angels of Heaven hate her music. All she ever wanted was a place to call home and play heavy-metal guitar in peace.So what’s a half-devil, half-angel girl to do? Go to Earth, find a puny (and incredibly handsome) human to host her in his home, and maybe save the world when her departure inevitably starts a war between Heaven and Hell.Hey, what’s eternity without a little world-ending fun every now and then, right?

Download or read book Vanished Echoes A Breaking News Story written by Luigi Pascal Rondanini and published by Luigi Pascal Rondanini . This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an ingenious mixture of fiction and dramatized news coverage, "Vanished Echoes" transports readers into an abducting child incident which fires the worst instincts and most profound divisions of modern Britain. So when Lucy Carver, aged ten, vanishes, leaving no trace, the hunt for clues only inflames smouldering bombs around race, immigration and trust in institutions. As the country collapses into tumult, we look through them with a critical lens, which makes evident how human nature at its very worst and best is revealed in moments of crisis. The mass media—a friend and a foe—rallies millions to hope and ultimately breeds disunity. While reason gives way to suspicion, passion diminishes. As the lives of innocent people are sacrificed (for it was no accident that the arsonist torched a boat full of immigrants), one small community's conscience is put to the test - and even a nation's character. Combining mesmerising suspense with thoughtful insight, this audacious debut novel from Luigi Pascal Rondanini is a shout throughout the urgent warning system. Whether concern turns away or hatred takes power, it is still the same. And vanishing echoes sound a cautionary alarm to be heeded before shadows swallow our shared humanity.

Download or read book Paths of Duty written by Patricia Grimshaw and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three-year-old Laura Fish Judd left rural Massachusetts in 1827 for the Hawaiian islands, one of eighty young American women who enlisted in the effort to Christianize the islands between 1819 and 1850. Only a month before, after receiving a marriage proposal from a young physician in need of a wife to qualify for mission service, she had written in her diary: "'The die is cast.' I have in the strength of the Lord, consented Rebecca-like--I WILL GO, yes, I will leave friends, native land, everything for Jesus." Laura Judd and other ambitious young women consented to hasty marriages with virtual strangers to achieve their goal of carrying Christ's message to the heathen. As Patricia Grimshaw's compelling study makes clear, these women were driven by a desire for important, independent life-work that went well beyond their expected roles as dutiful wives. The ambitions, hopes, and fears of those eighty pioneer women make a poignant and fascinating story. But Paths of Duty does more than recount the experiences of a group of individuals. Grimshaw shows how the mission women reflected the larger society of which they were part, and through their story shed new light on the role of American Protestant mission in Hawaii. Although the women's public role in mission work was limited, they were highly influential in their daily and seemingly mundane interactions with Hawaiian women. The American women's ethnocentricity made them quite incapable of appreciating Hawaiian culture on its own terms, but their notions of proper femininity and female behavior were effectively transmitted to Hawaiian girls and women. Paths of Duty provides a deeper understanding of this neglected process of acculturation in the islands and its eventual implications for Hawaii's entry into the American sphere of influence.

Download or read book Loving Lucy written by Bart Andrews and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1982-01-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fall marks the 50th Anniversary of "I Love Lucy," Lucille Ball's legendary television show that has entertained millions. As part of the celebration. Packed with photos and anecdotes, an illustrated tribute to Lucille Ball.

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Download or read book The Pirate s Orphan written by Julia Inslee and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in a convent on the island of Martinique, Lucy Cormac has lived in ignorance of her own identity for seventeen years. After a chance encounter with the lowlife James Bonny, Lucy begins to unravel her true origins and her connection to Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Captain Calico Jack Rackham, some of the most notorious pirates of the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. Sebastian, a handsome rogue of the sea; Gracie, an escaped slave with her own secrets; and a slew of other colorful characters join Lucy on her journey of self discovery and adventures on the high seas.

Download or read book Willa Cather and E M Forster written by Alan Blackstock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though both Willa Cather and E. M. Forster have been alternately praised as progressives and criticized as conservatives, the novels of both writers embody the tenets of liberal humanism, while at the same time reflecting the tensions associated with modernism (though both of these terms have come under intense critical scrutiny in recent years.) And while a few critics have offered brief comparisons of individual works or particular tendencies of Cather and Forster, none has provided the systematic comparative analysis of the relationship between liberal humanist/modernist tensions and the search for transcendence in their work that this book offers. The principal aims of the present study are to locate the imagined alternatives to the "lamentable present" embodied in the novels of both writers and to explore how literature and the arts might assist in transcending the deficiencies and disunities of life in the modern era.

Download or read book Skinner Luce written by Patricia Ward and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Skinner was what servs called each other. It was because they were fake, their skins a disguise…” Every year when the deep cold of winter sets in, unbeknownst to humanity, dangerous visitors arrive from another world. Disguised as humans, the Nafikh move among us in secret, hungry for tastes of this existence. Their fickle, often-violent needs must be accommodated at all times, and the price of keeping them satisfied is paid most heavily by servs. Created by the Nafikh to attend their every whim, servs are physically indistinguishable from humans but for the Source, the painful, white-hot energy that both animates and enslaves them. Destined to live in pain, unable to escape their bondage, servs dwell in a bleak underworld where life is brutal and short. Lucy is a serv who arrived as a baby and by chance was adopted by humans. She’s an outcast among outcasts, struggling to find a place where she truly belongs. For years she has been walking a tightrope, balancing between the horrors of her serv existence and the ordinary life she desperately longs to maintain; her human family unaware of her darkest secrets. But when the body of a serv child turns up and Lucy is implicated in the gruesome death, the worlds she’s tried so hard to keep separate collide. Hounded by the police, turned upon by the servs who once held her dear, she must protect her family and the life she’s made for herself. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Download or read book No Ordinary Cowboy written by Marin Thomas and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking For Redemption… Lucy Durango can't ever bring back her brother, killed in a drunk driving accident. But she's doing her best to honor his memory and to atone for her part in his death. She also can't seem to stop her feelings for Tony Bravo, the cowboy who broke her heart the same night her brother died. But if she gets close to Tony again, she risks losing her whole family this time—because they blame Tony for their tragic loss. As a U.S. border agent, Tony sees his fair share of danger. But nothing stops his heart like seeing Lucy once more. Her family's anger toward Tony meant he and Lucy lost any future together. But Lucy has a hold on his heart again…and he's not at all sure he wants to let go of her this time.

Download or read book Lucy s Magic Cafe The Troll s Wedding Cake written by NS Raveneir and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy finds herself plagued by strange events in her café's kitchen that disrupt her sleep and put her in a cranky mood during the day. Determined to catch the perpetrator, Lucy and her Faeln friends devise a trap, but things go awry, and the culprit evades capture. Even with her friends' help, Lucy is unable to catch the mischievous intruder. As a last resort, she enlists the help of her close friend Hannah, and together they finally catch the culprit. Yet, their victory is short-lived as an old acquaintance from Lucy's past, the troll Orsky, arrives at her café and brings her back to the magical world of Magiaplana. Lucy discovers that the troll community is in trouble, and when she promises to bake a wedding cake for Orsky, she must embark on a dangerous journey to gather the necessary ingredients. With the help of Theodora, Lucy navigates the mysteries of Narccle Mountain and uncovers the truth about the troubles plaguing the trolls. As she works to solve their problems, Lucy must also fulfill her promise and bake the perfect wedding cake. Join Lucy on her thrilling adventure in "Lucy's Magic Cafe: The Troll's Wedding Cake" as she unravels the secrets of the magical world and overcomes incredible challenges.

Download or read book Janice Holt Giles written by Dianne W. Stuart and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, at the age of 41, Janice Holt Giles wrote her first novel. Although it took her only three months to complete the first draft, working at night so as not to conflict with her secretarial job, it was another four years before The Enduring Hills was published. Three years later, when her sixth novel appeared, Janice Holt Giles's works had accumulated sales of nearly two million copies. Between 1950 and 1975 she wrote twenty-four books, most of which were bestsellers, regularly reviewed in the New York Times, and selected for inclusion in popular book clubs. Her picture held pride of place in her literary agent's New York office, alongside those of Willa Cather, H.G. Wells, and Edith Wharton, yet until now there has been no biography of this immensely popular American writer. Humbly professing to be "just a good storyteller," Giles was a keen observer of life with great sensitivity, an ear for language, and a superb imagination. Her artistic achievements become even more remarkable when placed in the context of her often difficult personal struggles. Dianne Watkins Stuart, for years the acknowledged expert on Giles's work, has traced the path of her unique life. Stuart walked around the small house where Giles's brother was born and The Kinta Years (1973) had its origin, wandered through the yard where The Plum Thicket (1954) grew, and made countless trips to Adair County, Kentucky, to trace the trails of the Piney Ridge trilogy (The Enduring Hills, Miss Willie, Tara's Healing) and seek out the day-to-day life of her later years. Stuart's long-anticipated biography provides both a narrative of Giles's life and an in-depth description of the art and commerce of American publishing in the middle years of the century.

Download or read book From Empire to Anthropocene written by Betty Joseph and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an analysis of the inventiveness of contemporary fiction and of ways in which it engages our understanding of time in relation to globalization and environmental damage. The book convincingly dispels the notion that so-called global novels in English preclude the possibility of historical analysis and social collectivity"--

Download or read book True Believer written by Jack Carr and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT BESTSELLER “This is seriously good. I mean—seriously.” —Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Past Tense “A powerful, thoughtful, realistic, at times terrifying thriller that I could not put down. A terrific addition to the genre, Jack Carr and his alter-ego protagonist, James Reece, continue to blow me away.”—Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mission Critical “True Believer, the highly anticipated new thriller from Jack Carr, is one of this year’s hottest thrillers, and a perfect fit for fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Daniel Silva.” —The Real Book Spy In acclaimed author Jack Carr’s follow-up to The Terminal List, former Navy SEAL James Reece’s skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and set him on another path of revenge. When a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world during the holiday season, the broader markets fall into a tailspin. The attacks are being coordinated by a shadowy former Iraqi commando who has disappeared into Europe’s underground. The United States government has an asset who can turn the Iraqi against his masters: James Reece, the most-wanted domestic terrorist alive. After avenging the deaths of his family and team members, Reece emerges deep in the wilds of Mozambique, protected by the family of his estranged best friend and former SEAL Team member. When a series of events uncovers his whereabouts, the CIA recruits him, using a Presidential pardon for Reece and immunity for the friends who helped him in his mission of vengeance. Now a reluctant tool of the United States government, Reece travels the globe, targeting terrorist leaders and unraveling a geopolitical conspiracy that exposes a traitorous CIA officer and uncovers a sinister assassination plot with worldwide repercussions. A high-intensity roller-coaster ride, True Believer explodes with action and authenticity that cements Jack Carr as the new leader in political thrillers.