Download or read book A Splash of Love written by Rajeev Ranjan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Red Sings from Treetops written by Joyce Sidman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a reader's guide and an author's note.

Download or read book Hello Love written by Taro Miura and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do animals show their love? By touching trunks, beaks, and noses! Toddlers will delight in adorable pairs of fish, ducklings, elephants, and monkeys as they splash, swim, dance, and swing, all while showing affection. Author-illustrator Taro Miura brings a playfulness and verve to this love-affirming board book, which culminates in the ultimate celebration of love: a child embraced by loving parents.

Download or read book Splash written by Howard Means and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming! From man's first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the splashing, sparkling pool party in your backyard, humans have been getting wet for 10,000 years. And for most of modern history, swimming has caused a ripple that touches us all--the heroes and the ordinary folk; the real and the mythic. Splash! dives into Egypt, winds through ancient Greece and Rome, flows mostly underground through the Dark and Middle Ages (at least in Europe), and then reemerges in the wake of the Renaissance before taking its final lap at today's Olympic games. Along the way, it kicks away the idea that swimming is just about moving through water, about speed or great feats of aquatic endurance, and shows you how much more it can be. Its history offers a multi-tiered tour through religion, fashion, architecture, sanitation and public health, colonialism, segregation and integration, sexism, sexiness, guts, glory, and much, much more. Unique and compelling, Splash! sweeps across the whole of humankind's swimming history--and just like jumping into a pool on a hot summer's day, it has fun along the way.

Download or read book Spoken Love written by Derrick Dzine dargan and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoken Love is the fictional, poetic interpretation of a painting. The painting captures soul mates professing love for the first time before tumultuous events in their relationship occur. The book details the story of Mr. and Mrs. Poem with grandeur and graphic detail. Narrated by vintage man and woman, Spoken Love is like turning pages as their memories cast like fishing rods into The River of Reflection. The scenery is amazing. It’s like wet wood in the fireplace blazing, then blowing the ember of their encounters and rekindling a new fragrance to their flame. It’s like hot cocoa and communication. Mr. and Mrs. Poem’s characters get developed like negatives to bring out the positive values in their adulterous affair of bliss. Written in a poetic form that reads like dialog as Mr. and Mrs. Poem make confessions (before a sea of anticipating audience members) about the circumstances that brought them together, apart and back to back to face forever. Spoken Love goes back and forth between past and present, dealing with the dynamics of being single, divorced and separated, in and out of poetry and fictional dimensions, solidifying the written intention of blurring the line between poetry, novel, stage, screen play, reality and personal connection and making the hard times for Mr. and Mrs. Poem, as well as you and yours hard to remember. Spoken Love was written for couples to feel forever as they read together, as they gradually realize that every moment in love is a treasure. Spoken Love is a novel song, a fictional poem without an ending, an eternal endeavor. Spoken Love is the blue ocean of novels, the Cirque du Soleil of poetry. Poetry books don’t compel you to read chapter after chapter; Spoken Love does. Contemporary novels attempt to be poetic, but fall short. Spoken Love is a page turning fictional novel enhanced with paintings and riveting writing unlike any other.

Download or read book Splash written by Rebecca Kidd and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an enthralling journey with our lively hero in "Splash I Love Being a Raindrop," a delightful children's picture book. This adventure book for kids weaves an enchanting tale about Splash, a spirited raindrop, and his friends Drip, Drop, and Spray. They've been eagerly waiting for their chance to experience the grand earth adventure. Filled with joy and anticipation, Splash "rains" down to Earth, embarking on thrilling adventures that beautifully illustrate the life cycle of water. Splash's story isn't just an adventure—it's an educational book for kids highlighting the importance of water. With each page turned, young readers aged 3-8 learn about water's essential role in our world, from nourishing plants to quenching the thirst of all creatures. With fun-filled activities at the end of the book, children can further engage with the lessons learned, sparking curiosity and enhancing understanding. "Splash I Love Being a Raindrop" transcends the traditional storytelling in children's literature, offering a unique blend of fun, education, and spiritual exploration. It encourages readers to appreciate nature, embracing the miracles found in our daily life. In this joy-filled narrative, children realize their significance and uniqueness, fostering a sense of self-worth essential for their growth. This book stands proudly among inspirational children's books like "Pearl the Raindrop," "Nature Stories: Little Raindrop," "Over and Under the Rainforest," and "Bruce's Big Storm." It bears a similar uplifting spirit and encourages a positive attitude toward life, paralleling classics such as "It's a Small World," "Oh, The Places You'll Go," and "What do you do With an Idea?". The concept of Splash's story was born from the author's contemplative moments by a mountain stream, exploring ideas of life, adventure, and even reincarnation. This story about a raindrop's earth adventures and eventual return to the heavens is a gentle introduction to the concept of life cycles and transformations. "Splash I Love Being a Raindrop" invites young readers into a world of joy, wonder, and learning, providing an enriching reading experience beyond mere entertainment. Through Splash's journey, children are taught the value of water, the beauty of nature, and the possibility of life's grand adventure continuing in ways we might least expect.

Download or read book A Splash of Forever 14 written by Sue Bentley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Forester can't believe it--she has to take swimming lessons at school! Everyone else in her class is excited and thinks she's strange for not feeling the same way. Problem is, Alice is afraid of the water. But after Alice meets the cuddly grey and white kitten Flame, she's ready to face her fears.

Download or read book Splash State written by Todd Colby and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. An extended love letter, Todd Colby's sixth collection SPLASH STATE is filled with humor and charm. These poems are as concerned with aging, time, being, and death as they are with eliminating "the need for anxious circumstances" with facts, instructions, and advice. From extolling the uses of "Shark's Paw" and "Fink Leaf" to "how to look like everything is okay in photographs," Colby's poems opt for the personal and generous, even when his tongue is firmly planted in cheek. If melancholy is just around the corner, these poems will walk with you in the opposite direction. "Todd Colby's poetry radiates the joy of receiving a long-awaited letter. He ends an early poem, 'Sweetie, ' with the line 'Let me let me know let me know soon let me know soon Sweetie.' It now seems that Sweetie has replied. In his new collection, SPLASH STATE, he tells us 'You will no longer need a hushed, barely audible tone / to confess your inadequacies because you will no longer have any / to confess' the ideal state that Auden hoped would 'make us well / without confession of the ill.' With this pleasure comes responsibility, but it's the responsibility to remain in joy.' There won't be a need / for codes or inane principles, because you'll always / be too radiant and purposeful for that.' In SPLASH STATE, a perfect title for the state of calm eagerness he writes out of, Colby discovers that 'There are mornings, and then there are / golden glimpses of something totally / amazing like awe or coffee, ' and then that 'Morning will never be called off / due to budgetary constraints, or even heartbreak. / By afternoon, there will be plush green pillows, / strewn on the lawn waiting for my body. / I can hardly wait.' The rest of us no longer have to wait. This dazzling collection confirms Colby's status as one of the finest and funniest poets of his generation." John Ashbery "I read Todd Colby's SPLASH STATE and I'm here to say that it makes the world better. I mean this because this is a monumental book and in this book, in this stack of love poems, we see that the Romantic has a place again in the everyday, like the 'courtyard' that 'sparkles puppy yellow' with sunlight, the 'Simple Times' when 'bones softened the cars, ' and an I that 'blooms out over Brooklyn' are all part of what we do this whole thing for: life. If you like Frank O'Hara, Eileen Myles, John Ashbery, William Blake, and Wallace Stevens, then you are going to like this book. Or I mean to say, that this book is a spell, a love spell. And if you want a book to carry with you when no one seems to care, when no one seems to be your friend, well then, you've found it, it's this book, this book is your love spell, this book is your friend." Dorothea Lasky"

Download or read book Sunny Makes a Splash A Graphic Novel Sunny 4 written by Jennifer L. Holm and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest in the New York Times bestselling Sunny series brings Sunny into a sink-or-swim summer, where she needs to float her first job and dive into her first maybe-flirtation. It's summer, and Sunny is BORED. Most of her friends are out of town. Her mom wants her to baby-sit way more than Sunny wants to baby-sit. There's nothing good on TV. The only place that's cool (in a not-boring sense) and cool (in a not-hot sense) is the community pool. Sunny loves going there . . . and loves it even more when she's offered a job at the snack shack. Soon she's flinging fries and serving soft ice-cream like a pro . . . with the assistance of the very sweet boy who works with her. Sunny's mom isn't sure Sunny should be quite so independent. But Sunny is definitely sure: Life is best when it's free swim.

Download or read book Love Today written by Maxim Biller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the appearance of two stories in The New Yorker, German author, playwright, and journalist Maxim Biller makes his English-language debut with a collection of remarkable and beautifully wrought short stories, Love Today. These twenty-seven exquisite vignettes reveal the frustration, longing, and loneliness of human intimacy and love in the twenty-first century. A moment of dialogue between two people seated in an empty bar in "Baghdad at Seven-Thirty" evokes fragility, helplessness, and regret. The childhood friends who meet accidentally throughout the years in "Ziggy Stardust" are alternately drawn toward and repulsed from each other; and the fleeting text messages exchanged in "The Maserati Years" change everything between two lovers in an instant. Collectively, the result is romantic, voyeuristic, and deeply moving. Already a force in contemporary German literature, Maxim Biller has received praise from critics and readers alike throughout Europe for his perceptive, enchanting prose and the hauntingly familiar emotions his stories can provoke. Love Today introduces a new and gifted writing talent, and an accomplished international literary voice.

Download or read book I Love Dirt written by Jennifer Ward and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's sense of wonder. Jennifer Ward is the author of numerous acclaimed parenting books and books for children, inspired by nature. "Jennifer Ward has created a book that will serve to gently introduce parents to nature, even as parents are using it to help guide a child into the narural world. Children—and parents—learn to observe, as well as appreciate, the basic joys of getting their hands dirty and feet wet. Discoveres become shared experience."—from the forword by Richard Louv

Download or read book A Woman of Fortune written by Kellie Coates Gilbert and published by Amnos Media Group. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never know what you’re really made of until you lose everything. Texas socialite Claire Massey is living the dream—designer clothes, luxury cars, stunning homes. But everything comes crashing down when her charming cattle broker husband is arrested for fraud. Suddenly she finds herself facing attorneys, a media frenzy, and a trail of broken hearts. Betrayed and humiliated, Claire must maneuver incredible odds to save her family—and discover a life worth living. Author Kellie Coates Gilbert delivers a story both poignant and emotionally gripping that celebrates the kind of fortune that lasts.

Download or read book Love and Vandalism written by Laurie Boyle Crompton and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He calls it fate. She calls it blackmail. Rory has a secret: she's the vandal who paints graffiti lions all over her small town. If her policeman dad knew, he'd probably disown her. So when Hayes, a former screw-up on the path to recovery, catches her in the act, Rory's sure she's busted. Instead, he makes her a deal. If Rory shows him around town, he won't turn her in. It might be coercion, but at least the boy is hot. As they spend more time together, Rory worries she made the wrong choice. Hayes has a way of making her want things she shouldn't want and feel emotions she's tried to bury. Rory's going to have to distance herself from Hayes or confront a secret she can't bring herself to face...

Download or read book To Observe Is to Learn Love and Admire written by Robert Temple Frost and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a day passes when I go outside to drive to the Rec Center, that I’ll see and hear birds. Ravens are the most common. If I’m not in a hurry I’ll mimic the raven’s call, if I can see him, and the bird sees me. Sometimes it will move its wings in rhythm with its response call. I like that kind of response. On that same drive I might see a fox. One trip I saw one that had just caught a squirrel. The fox was only about fifteen feet away by trees in a lawn. The fox stopped chewing on the squirrel to look at me, and the squirrel struggled free and ran up a tree, and then told the fox what he thought about him. Each of these poems is about a real creature or entity in Nature which I personally watched, studied and wondered about. You’ll find that you, too, through these poems, will imagine and visualize these wonderful Nature Beings in their natural settings in Boulder.

Download or read book Our Italian Legacy of Love written by Chiara Viljoen and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you get when you add a little Italian, a little South African and a whole lot of love? A legacy of classic yet contemporary dishes from the Café del Sol family kitchen. Chiara and Ryan have transferred the treasured memories of both their Nonnas, as well as their Mama Luciana, to the tables of Café del Sol, and now this cookbook. Basking in a combined Italian and South African heritage, the Treccani family knows how to put heart and soul into presenting the most mouth-watering food to its guests, and now you the reader, from colazione (breakfast) and antipasto (appetisers), through primo (pasta and risotto) and secondo (second main courses), to desserts and cocktails. If you’re not hungry simply by paging through this book, you can’t be alive. So why not join the fun of this taste extravaganza and delight your family and guests by recreating these dishes. Who knows, you may start your own legacy of love. Buon apetito!

Download or read book A Living Dead Love Story Series written by Rusty Fischer and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maddy Swift is just a normal high school girl—until she’s struck by lighting and reanimated as a zombie. Great. Like Barracuda Bay High wasn’t cold-blooded enough already! Navigating the perils of cliques and hot guys was bad enough. Now Maddy has to learn to survive as the undead. She quickly discovers she’s not the only one walking dead in class, and soon she’s thrown into an epic battle surrounding everyone she’s ever loved. Avoiding detection by curious Normals while fighting vengeful Zerkers and equally lethal Sentinels, Maddy discovers life as a zombie is no picnic. Turns out there’s a lot more to it than shuffling around 24/7 growling, “Brains!”

Download or read book The Love in a Twisted House written by Kamren MaKenzie and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Ice Meadows has always been a normal town. Well, normal... ish. It isn't until a killer begins murdering random people that the town turns upside down. But are they really random? Willow is a 15 year old girl, trying to survive high school with an eating disorder. It's her first day of sophomore year and everything seems pretty ordinary. Except Willow has a secret of her own, one she's been keeping her whole life. When bodies start turning up in Ice Meadows, Willow’s entire world unravels beyond repair. About the Author Kamren MaKenzie is a 15 year old young woman who has always liked writing. This is her first foray into the world of professional writing. She lives at home with her parents and two sisters, one older and one younger. She is currently a freshman in high school and is learning how to drive. Kamren is a very funny and sarcastic young lady who loves "beating" her dad in board games. She has two cats, Alpine and Aspen, and would love many more, but not to the point where her family calls her a crazy cat lady. Kamren always wants to go shopping and thanks her grandma for spoiling her whenever she gets a chance. She is kindhearted and always willing to help out and take care of others whenever someone needs it.