Download or read book Esther s Notebooks written by Riad Sattouf and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Arab of the Future chronicles the hilarious and heartbreaking true life of a young girl growing up in Paris. "Funny, well-observed...contains immense daring and depth...Sattouf has drawn a portrait of a generation." —Observer, "Graphic Novel of the Month" Once a week for three years, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf had a chat with his friend’s outgoing young daughter, Esther, in which she told him about her family, her school, her friends, her hopes, her dreams, and her fears. After each meeting, he would create a one-page comic strip based on what she had said. Esther’s Notebooks gathers 156 of those strips, spanning Esther’s life from ages nine through twelve, giving us a delightful look into the daily dramas of this thoughtful, intelligent, and high-spirited girl. As The Guardian noted: “Each page of Esther’s Notebooks is self-contained—there’s usually a neat punchline—but read them all, and you come to see that Sattouf has drawn a portrait of a generation: their hopes, dreams and cultural references; the way that their personalities, backgrounds—many of the children portrayed have parents who are immigrants—and preconceived ideas about sexuality begin to play out even before they’ve begun secondary school. The result is a bit like a cartoon version of Michael Apted’s landmark TV series, Up. These funny, well-observed comics are fantastically daring.”
Download or read book My Lipstick Kiss Notebook written by Lipstick Kiss Notebooks and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cute Red Lipstick Print Notebook makes an awesome journal or diary for women and teens who need a notebook to write in. This is the perfect daily writing pad for girls of all ages! Use it for school study or just to jot down thoughts and ideas! 6 x 9 in 120 pages college ruled white paper glossy paperback cover
Download or read book Wartime Notebooks written by Andrzej Bobkowski and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider's perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation--in a daringly untragic mode--of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement--miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike--and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.
Download or read book The Invisible Girl written by Sandy Dixon and published by PercyHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published here for the first time are seven of Emerson's topical notebooks, which served as a source for his lectures, essays, and books of the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. Concerned primarily with nature, art, philosophy, American culture, and his contemporaries, the notebooks presented in this first of a three-volume editions afford fascinating insight into Emerson's creative practices. They will offer new perspectives for future readings of his completed works. The editors provide faithful transcriptions of the notebooks using the highest standards of textual practice. Their detailed annotations describe and comment on erased or revised passages, translate Greek and Latin quotations, and identify books and articles referred to in the texts of the notebooks. References to similar passages in Emerson's journals, lectures, and published works are also provided in the annotations. Publication of these notebooks will inable scholars to trace ideas that have gone unnoticed previously. The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1, offers valuable insight into the art and philosophy of one of America's foremost thinkers. These volumes will be an important addition to any personal or institutional library of nine-teenth-century American literature."--Publishers website.
Download or read book My Lips Miss Yours written by Smooch Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gift That Keeps On Giving! Better than a card, a daily reminder of your special sentiment. Express and delight with this special gift. Features: 110 total writing pages Notebook measures 6x9 inches Professional matte book cover Simple yet expressive!
Download or read book Four Bullets and a Notebook written by Avinash Rao and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kid, first time out of home, goes to college hoping to find the fun life he was waiting for. Instead, he encounters a college life interlaced with politics at each and every turn. Student Unions, College Federations, Community, Politics and what not? He must change the system by becoming a part of the system. But the real question is – will he survive?
Download or read book Night Sky with Exit Wounds written by Ocean Vuong and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2016" One of Lit Hub's "10 must-read poetry collections for April" “Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.”—The New Yorker "Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with...This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence."—Buzzfeed's "Most Exciting New Books of 2016" "This original, sprightly wordsmith of tumbling pulsing phrases pushes poetry to a new level...A stunning introduction to a young poet who writes with both assurance and vulnerability. Visceral, tender and lyrical, fleet and agile, these poems unflinchingly face the legacies of violence and cultural displacement but they also assume a position of wonder before the world.”—2016 Whiting Award citation "Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love. You will want to crease every page to come back to it, to underline every other line because each word resonates with power."—LitHub "Vuong’s powerful voice explores passion, violence, history, identity—all with a tremendous humanity."—Slate “In his impressive debut collection, Vuong, a 2014 Ruth Lilly fellow, writes beauty into—and culls from—individual, familial, and historical traumas. Vuong exists as both observer and observed throughout the book as he explores deeply personal themes such as poverty, depression, queer sexuality, domestic abuse, and the various forms of violence inflicted on his family during the Vietnam War. Poems float and strike in equal measure as the poet strives to transform pain into clarity. Managing this balance becomes the crux of the collection, as when he writes, ‘Your father is only your father/ until one of you forgets. Like how the spine/ won’t remember its wings/ no matter how many times our knees/ kiss the pavement.’”—Publishers Weekly "What a treasure [Ocean Vuong] is to us. What a perfume he's crushed and rendered of his heart and soul. What a gift this book is."—Li-Young Lee Torso of Air Suppose you do change your life. & the body is more than a portion of night—sealed with bruises. Suppose you woke & found your shadow replaced by a black wolf. The boy, beautiful & gone. So you take the knife to the wall instead. You carve & carve until a coin of light appears & you get to look in, at last, on happiness. The eye staring back from the other side— waiting. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong attended Brooklyn College. He is the author of two chapbooks as well as a full-length collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. A 2014 Ruth Lilly Fellow and winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, Ocean Vuong lives in New York City, New York.
Download or read book Flower written by Cheris Piper and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aly’s a music major, just finishing up her third year of college. And now that exams are done, all she wants to do is pick up some extra shifts at work, write music, and hang out with her best friend. All summer. She doesn’t have time for guys. After her last relationship ended in disaster, she’s definitely not interested. But when a chance encounter at her favorite food truck brings Jake into her life—a guy who shares her passion for music and french fries—she starts to wonder if maybe she’s got her summer plans all wrong. Jake has one job to do. He and his band have come all the way to California from South Korea to write songs, record music, and film a few videos for their fans. He doesn’t have time for girls. His record label doesn’t want the band to date, besides which, he’s heading home at the end of the summer. There’s no way he should get involved with anyone. But there’s something about Aly. She’s so sweet and kind, and just as passionate about music as he is. Maybe just for the summer... As Aly and Jake start to open up, they both wonder what the end of summer could bring. But Jake’s work makes it hard to date, and Aly’s past—in the form of an angry ex with a dangerous obsession—keeps coming back to haunt her. When the guy from her past crosses the line, it’s all Jake can do to keep Aly safe and keep his anger in. With the end of summer closing in, and so much standing in their way, can they find a way to make love last?
Download or read book The Blue Place written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life written by Rachel Cohn and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan! Happy birthday!" In the Land of the Rising Sun, where high culture meets high kitsch, and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future, the foreign-born teen elite attend ICS -- the International Collegiate School of Tokyo. Their accents are fluid. Their homes are ridiculously posh. Their sports games often involve a (private) plane trip to another country. They miss school because of jet lag and visa issues. When they get in trouble, they seek diplomatic immunity. Enter foster-kid-out-of-water Elle Zoellner, who, on her sixteenth birthday, discovers that her long-lost father, Kenji Takahara, is actually a Japanese hotel mogul and wants her to come live with him. Um, yes, please! Elle jets off first class from Washington, DC, to Tokyo, which seems like a dream come true. Until she meets her enigmatic father, her way-too-fab aunt, and her hyper-critical grandmother, who seems to wish Elle didn't exist. In an effort to please her new family, Elle falls in with the Ex-Brats, a troop of uber-cool international kids who spend money like it's air. But when she starts to crush on a boy named Ryuu, who's frozen out by the Brats and despised by her new family, her already tenuous living situation just might implode. My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life is about learning what it is to be a family, and finding the inner strength to be yourself, even in the most extreme circumstances.
Download or read book What happens when rich man gets out of comfort zone written by Berrich36 and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now all personal growth coaches, who have been bred as uncut dogs, unanimously repeat that for success you need to get out of your comfort zone. And if the comfort zone is warm, cozy and luxurious, then outside of it there is manure, a wooden toilet and a daring girl next to it. At least for Sergei Nikolsky, a millionaire, womanizer and self-confident male. Not every oligarch can do such a test, but what can't you do for a nice prize?
Download or read book Trucker Ghost Stories written by Annie Wilder and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of firsthand accounts from truckers who have driven all over the United States and have encountered strange and unusual phenomenons which can only be described as paranormal.
Download or read book Maybe One Day written by Ashlyn Harmon and published by Moonwake Books, LLC. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were two things I knew for sure back then: First: Bryce Clark’s sole focus was getting an Olympic gold medal, not a girlfriend. Second: That didn’t stop me from falling hard. For six years, we would hook up whenever we were in the same city. My whole life revolved around swimming and him, until it was all gone. His dream came true, while I closed mine down and walked away. I was done with swimming and Bryce Clark. But the universe had other plans for me. Two years later, he’s back and I can’t escape him. He’s everywhere, and he’s asking for a second chance. A chance I’m not sure I’m ready to give. He’s working across the hall, forcing me to reconcile the man before me with the one I knew; making me realize no dream pans out exactly how we want it to. Giving him that chance would mean talking about the past. Which I’m definitely not ready for. I’m not interested in going back. I’m tired of maybe, of not knowing where I stand in his life… But I’m also tired of wondering what we could have been if we had the chance. *** Maybe One Day is a second chance, friends to lovers, sports romance featuring an Olympic swimmer and plus size female lead. It is the first book in a series of interconnected standalones. These books do not all need to be read or read in any particular order.
Download or read book Dates on My Fingers written by Muhsin al-Ramli and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saleem, fed up with all the violence, religiosity, and strict family hierarchies of his Iraqi village, flees to Spain to establish a new life for himself. But his lonely exile is turned upside down when he encounters his father, Noah, in a Madrid nightclub after not seeing him in more than a decade. Noah looks and acts like a new man, and Saleem sets out to discover the mystery of his father's presence in Spain and his altered life. In doing so, he recalls formative moments in Iraq of familial love, war, and the haunting accidental death of his cousin Aliya, Saleem's partner in the hesitant, tender exploration of sexuality. When the renewed relationship with his father erupts in a violent conflict, Saleem is forced to rediscover his sense of self and the hard-won stability of his life. Through Saleem's experiences and reflections, the fast-paced narrative carries the reader between Spain and Iraq to a surprising resolution.
Download or read book He s Mine written by Leanne LeeAping and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shae Vega is not the popular girl, or the dork of the school. She isn't a nerd or a queen B. She's just a feisty seventeen year old girl, who is completely in love. Her life however, is far from simple. Xander Wilde, the guy who stole her heart and who's equally infatuated with her.There relationship isn't perfect, for mainly one reason.He has a girlfriend.His girlfriend is a shy girl, who goes by the name of Chelsea Winter. Because of Chelsea's situation, Xander refuses to break up with her. But for Shae and Xander to be happy, Chelsea needs to be out of the picture.Which leads to a plan, devised by Shae and her boyfriend on how to get Chelsea to make the first move and dump Xander first.However, Shae got a bit too caught up in the plan and that wasn't such a good idea.
Download or read book The Letters and Notebooks of Mary Devlin Booth written by Mary Devlin Booth and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete edition of the letters and notebooks of actress Mary Devlin, Edwin Booth's first wife, and is the first reference of its kind in nineteenth-century American theatre scholarship. These documents provide a fascinating perspective on Booth, his life, and the development of his career, and include new materials recently uncovered through the editor's research. The volume is also a valuable guide to biograhical information about Booth's father and brother (John Wilkes Booth), and to studies of Mary Devlin Booth and her influence on her husband. In addition, it identifies sources that reflect certain mid-nineteenth-century attitudes and provides a clearer picture of the conventional role wives had in their husband's careers during that period.
