Download or read book A romance in the summer written by João Víctor de Melo and published by João Víctor de Melo. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book brings the story of Antônio: a boy that lived in the coutntryside and faced many adventures and that in a moment sees himself facing a romance in the summer with Sofia. Thenceforwawrd, the boy begins to describe Sofia in a diary.

Download or read book The Summer Book written by Tove Jansson and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating 50 years of Tove Jansson's classic, bestselling novel Featured in the BBC 2 Between the Covers Bookclub Special (Eurovision series 2023) 'Distils the essence of summer' Robert Macfarlane 'Magical, life-affirming' Elizabeth Gilbert The Worldwide Classic about a tiny island and larger love. An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself. Written in a clear, unsentimental style, full of brusque humour, and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story. Tove Jansson captured much of her own life and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of her adult novels. With a foreword by Esther Freud and an afterword by Sophia Jansson (on whom the child 'Sophia' is based) who returns to the island during the pandemic at the point of becoming a grandmother herself. Includes a 15pp epilogue by Tove's niece Sophia Jansson - the inspiration for 'Sophia' - on a personal and moving return to the island. 'Eccentric, funny, wise, full of joys and small adventures. This is a book for life.' Esther Freud 'Tove Jansson was a genius. This is a marvellous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny.' Philip Pullman

Download or read book Vacation Goose Travel Guide Sofia Bulgaria written by Francis Morgan and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vacation Goose Travel Guide Sofia Bulgaria is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Top 50 city attractions, top 50 nightlife adventures, top 50 city restaurants, top 50 shopping centers, top 50 hotels, and more than a dozen monthly weather statistics. This travel guide is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this pocket book be part of yet another fun Sofia adventure :)

Download or read book Summer Vacation and Other Stories written by Theodore Kohan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Male-female relationships are at the center of this collection of thirteen stories. Roughly half the stories take place in the United States and half in Chile. A common thread runs through these keenly sensitive stories: the women take the initiative, and the men, willingly or unwillingly, follow their lead. At one end of the spectrum, Ari, 14 years old, is awakening to his sexuality, and at the other, Al, almost 70 and a former college professor, sees a potential affair with a young woman as his last opportunity to indulge his taste for sexual mischief. Along the way we also meet Dora, a free-spirited woman who, thirty years earlier, was in hot pursuit of Sergio, a married man, but who now holds a secret he is determined to uncover; Josh, home for the summer after having completed his freshman year in college, who is torn between family expectations and his attraction for Sofia, a Colombian immigrant; and a gallery of other unique characters.

Download or read book 3500 Days of Summer written by Greg Hannah and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3500 Days of Summer is an enticingly addictive read. In the same vein as The Devil Wears Prada or The Nanny Diaries, 3500 Days of Summer is a blistering kiss-and-tell about the international resort industry. You'll be amazed at the dysfunctional lives of these people. A former nine-to-five investment banker, Hannah is literally thrown to the sharks for his first resort assignment in the Caribbean as a glorified bookkeeper for the resort's scuba team. Though Hannah is vastly over-educated for this job, he seems to take perverse pleasure in the non-stop abuse he suffers at the hands of sophisticated European travellers and staff. In an enviroment where the average work schedule is sixteen hours seven days a week, Hannah endures midnight rehearsals, tyrannical resort managers and the amorous attentions of a never-ending supply of beautiful women relentlessly throwing themselves at him. 3500 Days does for resorts what Animal House did for higher education.

Download or read book The Summer Everything Changed written by Sandra Rinaldi and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Savannah Bucca, an up-and-coming fashion designer, wins a coveted summer apprenticeship in Rome, at the House Of Capri—one of the most illustrious fashion houses in the world—she can only imagine how greatly it will impact her career. But as excited as she is to hone her craft and gain much-needed experience in the fashion industry, she is just as eager to put some distance between herself and the frustrating romantic complications at home. She’s known Luca Lalli her entire life. Growing up, they were practically family as their parents emigrated from Italy together as young adults and became the best of friends. As her feelings for him grew, Luca ‘s flirting did too. However, his apparent disinterest and dismissal was infuriating. She just had to accept the fact that he still sees her as nothing more than a little sister. Savannah’s trip to Italy is not just a chance to step into her future as a fashion designer or reunite her with family still living in the old country—it’s a chance to embrace the freedom and excitement of a summer away from home. And with any luck, a summer fling that will finally push Luca Lalli out of her mind, and her heart, for good.

Download or read book The Complete Travel Guide for Sofia Bulgaria written by and published by Youguide International BV. This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Complete Travel Guide" Series offers a comprehensive exploration of diverse destinations worldwide. Each book provides detailed insights into local culture, history, attractions, and practical travel tips, ensuring travellers are well-prepared to embark on memorable journeys. With vibrant illustrations, beautiful pictures and up to date information, this series is an essential companion for any type of traveller seeking enriching experiences.

Download or read book An Ornithologist s Guide to Life written by Ann Hood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of short stories that makes it possible to be proud to be human." Carolyn See, "Washington Post"

Download or read book Village Mothers written by David L. Ransel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book You Have the Power to Have It All written by Natalia Rogozhina and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Have the Power to Have It All is about a girl who grew up with certain beliefs, and all she wanted is to be loved and have a happily ever after. But life has prepared something totally different for her. She had to overcome a lot of obstacles before she found a way to have it all. It will tell you that you can actually have it all, regardless of your age and background. You will learn how to embrace yourself for who you are.

Download or read book Bulgaria written by Annie Kay and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Death in Summer written by Lina Areklew and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long, bright days of Midsummer hide dark and deadly secrets in this gripping Scandinavian crime thriller. In 1994, thirteen-year-old Fredrik Fröding lost his entire family in Europe’s worst ferry disaster, the shipwreck of MS Estonia. Twenty-five years later, still suffering from PTSD, he remains convinced that his younger brother survived. And when Fredrik thinks he sees him in a Stockholm hotel, his obsession drives him to follow the hotel’s owner to Ulvön Island to find out the truth. But a drunken Midsummer Eve leaves Fredrik unable to remember what happened—and the hotel owner dead. A murder at the height of tourist season puts enormous pressure on Det. Sofia Hjortén to solve the case. And the reappearance of a man she had a romantic tryst with more than a decade ago is not coincidental. Fredrik Fröding has become one of her prime suspects. As Sofia slowly circles around Fredrik, his desperate attempt to clear his name resurrects a summer camp tragedy from 1979. Flowing from the past, a current of deception and lies raises the present body count—and threatens to drag both Sofia and Fredrik under . . .

Download or read book Whereof One Cannot Speak written by Barbara Grenfell Fairhead and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavia Chavez, eighteen and fiercely passionate, has spent her life listening to the remote music of the stars, which only she seems to hear. She has a forbidden love of which she dares not speak, and a longing for wild, empty places. Her one true friend is a sanguine, seventy-seven-year-old wood-carver, Alejandro Jaramillo. Alejandro has been carving angels ever since he was summoned to do so at the age of ten. These two unlikely friends share one thing: a sense of having been called to something that lifts them towards an experience of the sacred. But when Octavia is involved in a life-threatening accident, and Alejandro begins to have dreams in which thousands of angels fall away from him into a bottomless abyss, they are both forced to question everything they have come to assume about themselves and their place in the world. So begins a voyage of discovery on which silence and dark music, new love and ancient landscapes will test their resolve to inhabit their own, inimitable lives. In prose that is both refreshingly muscular and hauntingly lyrical, Grenfell Fairhead invites us to examine what it means to grow up and truly belong, but also―even more crucially―what it could mean to grow down into one’s own center, learning the slow, fierce discipline of paying attention to each fleeting moment.

Download or read book Childhood in South East Europe written by Slobodan Naumović and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid growth of interest in the research of childhood during the last several decades can be regarded not only as an indicator but also as an important factor in the long-term processes of changes, which have radically transformed history as a scientific discipline. With the growth of the history of childhood as a discipline a series of problems neglected until then has been opened, and along the questions about the new sources and equivalent methods of research. This is especially true for historiography in the South East European countries, where social history and historical anthropology is still marginal. The volume comprises 18 contributions to the topic with authors from all countries of the region, focussing on the 19th and 20th century. Topics like "upbringing of female children in Serbia" or "rural childhoods in mountain regions of Austria and Greece" are as well touched as "children and war" and "children and migration". This is the first volume that provides an international readership with an overall picture on childhood in South Eastern Europe.

Download or read book Fragments written by Sandy Livingston and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first time Laura and Marco lock eyes in a Paris cafe, fires are lit. Powerful Brazilian Coffee Grower MARCO DE MENDONÇA III, loves LAURA HARRINGTON but must marry the bride chosen by his father. He sires three children whose sense of family is vastly different from his. Eldest son PAULO disavows coffee growing to become a Formula One Race Car Driver. Younger son TONIO is banished to Europe to end his affair with the Stable Manager's daughter. Daughter SOFIA offers promiscuity so embarrassing that Marco sends her to America where she leads a Lesbian lifestyle. Marco's business partner, Sugar Baron ALFREDO DE CARMOÇA, loses three sons in a tragic accident then sires twins which end the de Carmoça lineage. RODOLFO struggles from boyhood to deny his homosexual feelings and when Alfredo ships him off to Paris, twin sister RENATA follows. Although betrothed to Paulo de Mendonça, Renata falls in love with Archaeologist Kameron van Horton. LAURA HARRINGTON returns from Paris brokenhearted over Marco and finds she is pregnant. Over thirty years later Marco and Laura meet again in a soul searing confrontation over custody of his dead son Paulo's child, and the fuse is set for explosions that could rock the status quo of all three families when he learns he has a son conceived in Paris and never revealed to him Laura's son KAMERON VAN HORTON.

Download or read book For The Slice of American Life Journey FROM Third World TO United States written by Abbey R and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To chronicle why young people especially students want to come to United States, what they go through to come here, what their dreams are before they land here, what they experience in the United States and do they really succeed and fulfill their dreams or do they end up somewhere else?

Download or read book Sofia Coppola written by Amy N. Monaghan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s celebrated novel The Virgin Suicides. Following her debut, Coppola was the third woman ever to be nominated for Best Director and became an Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay for her sophomore feature, Lost in Translation. She has also been awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and Best Director at Cannes. In addition to her filmmaking, Coppola is recognized as an influential tastemaker. She sequenced the so-called Tokyo dream pop of the Lost in Translation soundtrack like an album, a success in its own right. Her third film, Marie Antoinette, further showcased Coppola’s ear for the unexpected needle drop, soundtracking the controversial queen’s life with a series of New Romantic bangers popular during the director’s adolescence. The conversations compiled within Sofia Coppola: Interviews mark the filmmaker’s progression from dismissed dilettante to acclaimed auteur of among the most visually arresting, melancholy, and wryly funny films of the twenty-first century. Coppola discusses her approach to collaboration, Bill Murray as muse, and how Purple Rain blew her twelve-year-old mind. There are interviews from major publications, but Coppola speaks with musician Kim Gordon for indie magazine Bust and Tavi Gevinson, then-adolescent founder of online teen magazine Rookie, as well. The volume also features a new and previously unpublished interview conducted with volume editor Amy N. Monaghan. To read these interviews is to witness Sofia Coppola coming into her own as a world-renowned artist.