Download or read book Polina written by Mirriam Mosha and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Polly!" Mother called, walking into Polina's room early the following morning. Polina had fallen asleep on her bedroom floor next to her science project. "Wake up, Polina," Mother said as she gently tugged on Polina's shoulder. "Polina, you fell asleep on the floor." "Hmmm...I'm getting up, Mama." Polina, like most school girls, would always like to do things in the last minute. One night, she stayed up too late making her science project, which was due in the morning. The next day, her Mama left for work after waking her up, but Polina who was very tired, stayed on the floor and slept again. When she woke up because of the noise of other children going to school, she realized that she was going to be late. She ran after her school bus, but she didn't catch it. She felt really upset and was teary eyed. On her way to school, she faced a lot of problems. When she arrived at her classroom, an unexpected thing happened. She would never forget that day and biggest lesson that she has learned.
Download or read book Polina written by Bastien Vivès and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a very young girl, Polina Oulinov is taken on as a special pupil by the famous ballet teacher Professor Bojinsky. He is very demanding and refuses to adapt his standards to the talents of his pupils, and Polina has to work hard and make great sacrifices in order to reach the level Bojinsky senses she has the talent for. When she graduates and is admitted to the official theatre school, she discovers that Bojinsky’s view of ballet is only one of many and that she can’t adapt to new rules, new visions. She flees Russia for Berlin, where she meets a group of drama students. Together they create a new form of theatre – and conquer the world. Brilliantly drawn, Polina is a moving and intimate story of self-discovery. It confirms Bastien Vivès as one of the most exciting talents at work in the graphic novel field today.
Download or read book Hot Cheese written by Polina Chesnakova and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn up the heat, it's time to get cheesy! The cookbook Hot Cheese celebrates the magical combination of heat and cheese in over 50 recipes. Whether melted between crusty bread, baked until browned and bubbly, or fried for the perfect crunch-to-ooze factor, there are limitless ways to enjoy the thrill of hot cheese. • Includes no-fuss snacks, hearty and healthy-ish meals, and party favorites • Features twists on beloved classics and inventive, cheesy combinations • Filled with bright and stylish photography to satisfy any cheese lover Melt over delectable recipes like Easy Poutine, Smoked Gouda Chicken Cordon Bleu, and The Best Nachos in the World. This cheesy cookbook also features handy guides to throwing your own fondue or raclette party. • Filled with plenty of guilty pleasures, kid-friendly recipes, and crowd-pleasers, this is the perfect book for anyone who loves cheese and comfort food. • Good for newbie chefs, parents who cook for picky kids, and hosts who want to serve something they know everyone will enjoy. • You'll love this book if you love books like The Mac + Cheese Cookbook: 50 Simple Recipes from Home by Allison Arevalo and Erin Wade, QUESO! Regional Recipes for the World's Favorite Chile-Cheese Dip by Lisa Fain, and World Cheese Book by Juliet Harbutt.
Download or read book Living Pictures written by Polina Barskova and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant collection of short pieces about the author's hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the siege of Leningrad that combines memoir, history, and fiction. Living Pictures refers to the parlor game of tableaux vivants, in which people dress up in costume to bring scenes from history back to life. It’s a game about survival, in a sense, and what it means to be a survivor is the question that Polina Barskova explores in the scintillating literary amalgam of Living Pictures. Barskova, one of the most admired and controversial figures in a new generation of Russian writers, first made her name as a poet; she is also known as a scholar of the catastrophic siege of Leningrad in World War II. In Living Pictures, Barskova writes with caustic humor and wild invention about traumas past and present, historical and autobiographical, exploring how we cope with experiences that defy comprehension. She writes about her relationships with her adoptive father and her birth father; about sex, wanted and unwanted; about the death of a lover; about Turner and Picasso; and, in the final piece, she mines the historical record in a chamber drama about two lovers sheltering in the Hermitage Museum during the siege of Leningrad who slowly, operatically, hopelessly, stage their own deaths. Living Pictures introduces a startlingly daring and original new voice from world literature.
Download or read book Kingdom of Rainbows and Unicorns Or Polina s New Year s Adventure written by Katya Romanoff and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Year’s Eve is truly a magical time. It is when the old year departs, and a new year arrives, and Father Frost, also known as Santa Claus, pays a visit to children who have been good, bringing wonderful gifts. It is at this magical moment that little Polina finds herself in the Kingdom of Rainbows and Unicorns. There she meets her “twin” – Princess Alina and her little helpers, unikittens, and a creature of her dreams, a unicorn named Prince Rainbow. Together with Alina and Prince Rainbow, Polina explores the fairy-take kingdom and encounters alicorns – the flying unicorns and a rainbow “bubblefall.” Polina’s amazing adventure would be completely fantastic, if the next morning, she wouldn’t wake up to realize that all that has happened to her was only a beautiful dream.
Download or read book Ode to Construction written by and published by Onomatopee. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ode to Construction ? Abstraction in the Digital Age' explores the intersections of graphic design and art through the means of generative code, gesturing playfully and melancholically towards the foundational legacies of the Suprematist and Constructivist movements of the early 20th century.00At once a book, website, and exhibition, 'Ode to Construction' demonstrates the fluidity of design?s materializations within the conditions of the digital, moving effortlessly between screen, print, and space. By reanimating the formal strategies of modernist abstraction, graphic designer Polina Joffe probes the technical and social registers of design today.00Exhibition: Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (08.10.-01.11.2020).
Download or read book Besieged Leningrad written by Polina Barskova and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city's inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Nazi Germany. They suffered famine, cold, and darkness, and a million people lost their lives, making the siege one of the most destructive in history. Confinement in the besieged city was a traumatic experience. Unlike the victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp, for example, who were brought from afar and robbed of their cultural roots, the victims of the Siege of Leningrad were trapped in the city as it underwent a slow, horrific transformation. They lost everything except their physical location, which was layered with historical, cultural, and personal memory. In Besieged Leningrad, Polina Barskova examines how the city's inhabitants adjusted to their new urban reality, focusing on the emergence of new spatial perceptions that fostered the production of diverse textual and visual representations. The myriad texts that emerged during the siege were varied and exciting, engendered by sometimes sharply conflicting ideological urges and aesthetic sensibilities. In this first study of the cultural and literary representations of spatiality in besieged Leningrad, Barskova examines a wide range of authors with competing views of their difficult relationship with the city, filling a gap in Western knowledge of the culture of the siege. It will appeal to Russian studies specialists as well as those interested in war testimonies and the representation of trauma.
Download or read book Baking at the 20th Century Cafe written by Michelle Polzine and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Cookbook of the Year/Best Cookbook to Gift by Saveur, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Charleston Post & Courier, Thrillist, and more Long-Listed for The Art of Eating Prize for Best Food Book of 2021 “Dazzling. . . . [Polzine] brings a fresh approach and singular panache. . . . Her clear voice and precise, idiosyncratic instructions will allow home bakers to make exquisite fruit tarts with strawberries and plums, elegant cookies and layer cakes.” —Emily Weinstein, New York Times, The 14 Best Cookbooks of Fall 2020 “This book . . . just keeps on giving. An absolute joy for bakers.” —Diana Henry, The Telegraph (U.K.), The 20 Best Cookbooks to Buy This Autumn Admit it. You're here for the famous honey cake. A glorious confection of ten airy layers, flavored with burnt honey and topped with a light dulce de leche cream frosting. It's an impressive cake, but there's so much more. Wait until you try the Dobos Torta or Plum Kuchen or Vanilla Cheesecake. Throughout her baking career, Michelle Polzine of San Francisco's celebrated 20th Century Cafe has been obsessed with the tortes, strudels, Kipferl, rugelach, pierogi, blini, and other famous delicacies you might find in a grand cafe of Vienna or Prague. Now she shares her passion in a book that doubles as a master class, with over 75 no-fail recipes, dozens of innovative techniques that bakers of every skill level will find indispensable (no more cold butter for a perfect tart shell), and a revelation of ingredients, from lemon verbena to peach leaves. Many recipes are lightened for contemporary tastes, and are presented through a California lens—think Nectarine Strudel or Date-Pistachio Torte. A surprising number are gluten-free. And all are written with the author's enthusiastic and singular voice, describing a cake as so good it "will knock your socks off, and wash and fold them too." Who wouldn't want a slice of that? With Schlag, of course.
Download or read book Air Raid written by Polina Barskova and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Translated by Valzhyna Mort. The Siege of Leningrad began in 1941 and lasted 872 days, resulting in the most destructive blockade in history. Already shaken by Stalin's purges of the '30s, Leningrad withstood the siege at a great human cost. AIR RAID takes us through the archives of memory and literature in this city of death. Polina Barskova's polyphonic poems stretch the boundaries of poetic form--this is what we're left with after poetry's failure to save nations and people: post-death, post-Holocaust, post-Siege, post-revolution; post-marriage and post-literature. How does language react to such a catastrophe? How does a poet find language for what cannot be told? This new translation of a leading contemporary Russian poet confronts English excavating its muteness, stutter, and curse.
Download or read book There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister s Husband And He Hanged Himself Love Stories written by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness. By turns sly and sweet, earthy and sublime, these fables of flawed love blend black humour and macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace.
Download or read book Chekhov The Essential Plays written by Anton Chekhov and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time—versions that have been staged throughout the United States, Canada, and Great Britain—are Chekhov’s four essential masterpieces for the theater.
Download or read book Going Dark written by Jolene Grace and published by BHC Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Jets is the CIA's top agent, a man with a reputation of getting the job done…no matter the price… On a rare visit back to the States, Jets is dispatched to collect a video depicting the kidnapping of four U.S. journalists working undercover in Damascus, Syria. When a link between the video and a terrorist plot in Damascus is discovered, all evidence points to the involvement of another U.S. journalist, Amelia Sinclair, a prominent foreign correspondent who has direct ties to the missing journalists. Despite the evidence, Agent Jets can’t shake the belief that Amelia is being framed to take the fall for something far bigger than either of them. Abandoning his orders, he soon discovers a menacing plot is being orchestrated to draw the United States into an international scandal—and shatter the current presidency. But Jets can’t trust anyone, and in the country he swore to protect, nowhere is safe.
Download or read book Secret Diaries written by Sandra Cole and published by Naughty Books Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STEAMY HOT MENAGE ROMANCE COLLECTION : 3 STANDALONE ROMANCE STORIES IN ONE. No cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA. A True Billionaire’s Heart 32-year-old Tasha Winters may have been devastated over her failed relationship, but her broken heart isn’t enough to stop her from pursuing her dreams and perhaps finding love and happiness again. After closing a deal with young billionaire, Bret Walton, for her web development company, she was ecstatic. Having recently taken over his father’s real estate empire, he was currently one of the most eligible bachelors of America. Tasha just hit the jackpot: a major boost in her business and a gorgeous lover in one! Bret woos and inspires her big-time, but doesn’t seem to be interested in a real commitment. Meanwhile, another powerful and handsome billionaire arrives in town to expand his global retail business, hiring Tasha’s company as well. Unlike Bret, Carter Crawford prefers to keep a low profile because of a dark past. He’s smart and serious, and happens to be the ex-boyfriend who left Tasha eight years ago without any explanation. However, despite his betrayal, Tasha finds herself still immensely affected by his presence. Just when she and Carter start to rekindle the romance, Bret surprises her with a marriage proposal. Will she choose the man who has shown her nothing but kindness but may have a hidden agenda or the man she’s known and loved who has caused her tremendous pain? Two Alien Lovers Polina Marsh has been stuck in a dead end job as a Junior Ambassador for the Intergalactic Alliance for over a decade. She’s all but given up on adventure and excitement, when an alien diplomat from an embargoed planet begs her for a secret rendezvous. She knows that she should say no, but Polina isn’t one to turn down a mysterious meeting, especially one with a shockingly attractive alien ambassador and his rough around the edges pilot. Things don’t go according to plan and Polina finds herself stranded with the two aliens on a distant, forgotten moon. As the true nature of the mission is revealed, Polina finds herself torn between the diplomat and his pilot. Polina needs to follow her heart, which is hard to do when the future of the galaxy could be at stake. When Three Become One When Autumn is presented with the modeling deal of a lifetime, she quits her job on the spot. But she found more than a luscious career—she found love…
Download or read book Chekhov for the Stage written by Anton Chekhov and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1992-12-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the influence of Chekhov in modern theater worldwide, and especially in America, has been immense, translations into English have tended to be too literary and have not communicated the full emotional power and precise attention to detail of Chekhov's Russian. Milton Ehre began translating Chekhov's plays to provide professional theaters with performance texts that capture the feel and rhythms of spoken, rather than written, language. Chekhov for the Stage is the first publication of his revised versions of The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and The Sea Gull. Ehre's sensitive renderings of these classics make this volume the translation of choice for performers and directors, teachers, and the general reading public.
Download or read book 20 Under 40 written by Deborah Treisman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty stories by North American writers under the age of forty who the editors of the New Yorker felt were, or soon would be, standouts in contemporary fiction.
Download or read book Lucifer s Servant written by Olga Kryuchkova and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demon Asmodeus, Lucifer’s son, plays a sophisticated game of time travel. In medieval Italy, he finds the young cardinal Rodrigo de Borgia and his beloved Vannozza dei Cattanei. He decides that this couple is quite suitable for the implementation of his plans. De Borgia’s name becomes a synonym for debauchery, incest and cruelty. During the war in 1945, the demon gives his favourite toy, a magical crystal, to Dmitry Malyshev. And all Malyshev’s wishes come true. He returns home, marries a beautiful lady and creates an impetuous career for himself. Neither the Borgia family nor the Malyshevs suspect that not only they, but also their descendants, will have to pay a high price for all the pleasures and material benefits.
Download or read book The Mermaid s Curse written by Ed Russo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are sinister beings that walk among us, an ancient secret society of non-human vampiric aquatic beings that are in all walks of life that pull the strings behind human affairs. A male escort finds himself tangled in a web in the midst of this. What horrifying plans does this sinister force have for the human race?
