Download or read book Best gift of all written by Julia Alvarez and published by Alfaguara Infantil. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned Latina author Julia Alvarez recreates the legend of Dominican folk character La Vieja Belen in this delighful bilingual rhyming story, beautifully illustrated by Dominican artist Ruddy Nuñez. Alvarez's retelling keeps the magic of the traditional account while contributing a down-to-earth, timely moral: "Of all the gifts you can give, your time is the best."

Download or read book Portrait of Julia written by Robert MacNeil and published by Formac Publishing Company Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920 Julia Robertson is a young, beautiful war widow, aware of the radical new ideas bursting into the settled thinking of post-Victorian Canada. That new thinking, about the human unconscious through Freud and Jung, about sexual frankness, about women as well as skepticism about religion, shaped the emerging 20th century world and infused modern painting, music, and literature. Julia struggles with her conscience over the man she most trusts when she is passionately infatuated with another, an Englishman. He leads her into the orbit of the young and charming Prince of Wales. Leaving behind the stuffy world of Halifax, she goes to London and Paris and then the South of France where she renews her close friendship with one of the great Canadian painters of the period, J.W. Morrice. She becomes part of Morrice's circle of artists and admirers, among them Henri Matisse, who was Morrice's close friend. Ultimately Julia has to resolve a dilemma that dramatically tests all her progressive ideas. With this novel Robert MacNeil returns to a character who first appears in his bestselling novel set at the time of the Halifax Explosion, Burden of Desire. "Julia's appetite for life and her bold embrace of the modern world was so vivid to me that I had to follow her life into the postwar world," says MacNeil. The result is a fascinating account of a young woman in the midst of a world in transformation.

Download or read book Lavender Oil Nature s Soothing Herb written by Julia Lawless and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ebook edition of our healthy explorer guide to the most popular and accesible of aromatherapy oils.

Download or read book How to Prepare for the SAT II Spanish written by José M. Díaz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Camino al espa ol written by Consuelo de Andrés Martínez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of experienced teachers of Spanish, this textbook is designed to lead the adult beginner to a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish, giving balanced attention to the four key language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing). It puts language learning into its real-life context, by incorporating authentic materials such as newspaper articles, poems and songs. It contains a learner and a teacher guide and is intended to complement study both inside and outside the classroom, by providing pair and group activities, as well as materials for independent learning. It also includes helpful reference features, such as a guide to grammatical terms, verb tables, vocabulary lists and a pronunciation guide. This extensively updated second edition features extra exercises to support the acquisition of good pronunciation, and is accompanied by a web companion that hosts expansion exercises, activities, solutions and useful links for each unit, as well transcripts, and access to brand new recordings of all the audio examples found in the book.

Download or read book Las Miradas Exactas written by Jos Armando L Pez Freeman and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unida por el hilo invisible de una viril personalidad, que ama lo femenino como esencia, surge una historia, una novela dividida en episodios que el autor gusta de arrancar de lo profundo de la intimidad. Estas historias son trozos de vida captadas desde los ojos de sus obsesionantes heroinas. Son la reflexion madura de un pensador, que si el lector se descuida, puede llevarlo a laberintos de los que no le sera facil salir. Mujeres de transparencia y ensonacion, corporeizadas por la voluntad que las evoca y les rinde pleito y homenaje. Mujeres llegadas del espejo eterno, de las ineludibles permanencias: en pinturas, en la vibracion de los objetos, desde la memoria precisa. Jose Armando Lopez Freeman emerge de todas, lleno del alma suya, como el poeta. Mario Julio del Campo y Villareal

Download or read book Julia Vanishes written by Catherine Egan and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exciting novel with magic and serial killers.... One of the hottest books coming out."—Hypable.com Fans of Marie Lu, Leigh Bardugo, and Kristin Cashore will be captivated by this stunning first book in a must-have new fantasy trilogy about a spy who can vanish at will and who discovers that monsters, mystery, and magic are also lurking—just out of sight. Julia has the unusual ability to be . . . unseen. Not invisible, exactly. Just beyond most people's senses. It's a dangerous trait in a city that has banned all forms of magic and drowns witches in public Cleansings. But it's a useful trait for a thief and a spy. And Julia has learned—crime pays. She's being paid very well indeed to infiltrate the grand house of Mrs. Och and report back on the odd characters who live there and the suspicious dealings that take place behind locked doors. But what Julia discovers shakes her to the core. She certainly never imagined that the traitor in the house would turn out to be . . . her. Murder, thievery, witchcraft, betrayal--Catherine Egan builds a dangerous world where her fierce and flawed heroine finds that even a girl who can vanish can't walk away from her own worst deeds.

Download or read book Learn Spanish Level 2 Absolute Beginner written by Innovative Language Learning and published by Innovative Language Learning. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gruffalo Sticker Book written by Julia Donaldson and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun sticker book, based on the bestselling picture book, The Gruffalo, and packed full of activities and over 400 stickers.

Download or read book Stealing MySpace written by Julia Angwin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years ago, MySpace.com was just an idea kicking around a Southern California spam mill. Scroll down to the present day and MySpace is one of the most visited Internet destinations in America, displaying more than 40 billion webpage views per month and generating nearly $1 billion annually for Rupert Murdoch’s online empire. Even by the standards of the Internet age, the MySpace saga is an astounding growth story, which climaxed with the site’s acquisition by Murdoch’s News Corporation in 2005 for a sum approaching one billion dollars. But more than that, it may be the defining drama of the digital era. In Stealing MySpace, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Angwin chronicles the rise of this Internet powerhouse. With an unerring eye, Angwin details how MySpace took the Internet by storm by grabbing the best ideas from around the Web, encouraging pinup stars such as Tila Tequila to make their home on its pages and giving everyone freedom to experiment with online identities–including using somebody else’s identity. Stealing MySpace introduces us to the site’s founders, Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, who dabbled in computer hacking, online pornography, spam, and spyware before starting MySpace. Although their street savvy, doggedness, and clubbing skills far eclipsed their tech prowess, they stumbled their way to success and soon found themselves at ground zero of a high-stakes war that pitted Rupert Murdoch against his frequent nemesis, the combative Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone. Angwin sheds light on the dizzying backroom deals that allowed Murdoch to snatch MySpace from Viacom’s grasp even as the MySpace founders remained in the dark about their own fate. Then she takes us inside the Murdoch empire as DeWolfe and Anderson lobby furiously to regain control of their creation. Venturing beyond the business aspects of the story, Angwin also explores the Internet culture, a voyeuristic world in which MySpace must stay one step ahead of amateur pornographers, sexual predators, and “spoofers” who set up fake profiles (Rupert Murdoch himself tolerates dozens of phony “Ruperts” on the site) and cope with the general excesses and sometimes illegal acts of a community of account holders equal in number to the population of Japan. In Stealing MySpace, Julia Angwin dishes on the epic real-world battle for control of a virtual empire. In a savvy, smart, fast-paced narrative reminiscent of Bryan Burrough and John Helyar’s Barbarians at the Gate and Michael Lewis’s The New New Thing, Stealing MySpace tells is the whole gripping story behind a breakout cultural phenomenon.

Download or read book Spanish Grammar written by Heike Pahlow and published by Lingo4you. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book explains Spanish grammar in an easily understandable way. Verbs and tenses (including tense comparison), nouns and articles, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and sentence construction are all covered in this clearly structured book. The explanations, which contain simple examples of usage, are accompanied by illustrated example texts.

Download or read book Before We Were Free written by Julia Alvarez and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillo’s dictatorship. Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind. From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girl’s struggle to be free.

Download or read book Intermediate Spanish For Dummies written by Gail Stein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need to brush up on your Spanish? Intermediate Spanish For Dummies is your key to success in building your writing skills and bolstering your confidence. It gives you the straight talk and nitty-gritty detail that will see you successfully through any major or minor roadblocks to communicating in Spanish. This friendly, hands-on workbook is loaded with practical examples and useful exercises so you can practice how native speakers use the language. From vocabulary and numbers to juggling tenses, you’ll get a clear understanding of the nuances of Spanish style and usage that will have you writing like a native in no time. Plus, you’ll find multiple charts that provide conjugations for all types of Spanish verbs. You’ll get up to speed with Spanish grammar, master essential differences between Spanish and English language usage, and be able to communicate effectively when traveling or conducting business. Discover how to: Use fundamental Spanish grammar, from nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions Select and conjugate Spanish verbs correctly Understand the importance of grammatical gender in Spanish Avoid the most common writing mistakes Use numbers and express dates and times Name countries and nationalities in Spanish Expand your Spanish vocabulary exponentially Get comfortable with the subjunctive Combine verbs with confidence and competence Sharpen your Spanish-language skills the fun and easy way with Intermediate Spanish For Dummies.

Download or read book Kidnapped written by Leszli Kalli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns gripping and poignant, "Kidnapped" is Kalli's compilation of empowering and spiritual journal entries made during her 373-day captivity in a desolate jungle in Colombia. Illustrations.

Download or read book Una Ni a Contra El Imperio written by Jorge Eduardo Gonz Lez Mu Oz and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Es una novela basada en la vida y muerte de Santa Inés y de San Sebastián. Dos mártires que murieron en la época de la persecución de los Cristianos por los Emperadores Maximiano y Dioclesiano, en el año 304 de la era Cristiana. Una niña que defendió el valor de la pureza con su vida a la tierna edad de los 13 años, y un joven soldado que la enseñó a hablar con Dios y que murió a flechazos por no querer adorar a otros dioses. Busca enaltecer los valores espirituales ante el mundo material de nuestra época.

Download or read book Song of the Simple Truth written by Julia de Burgos and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Song of the Simple Truth (Canción de la verdad sencilla) is the first bilingual edition of Julia de Burgos' complete poems. Numbering more than 200, these poems form a literary landmark—the first time her poems have appeared in a complete edition in either English or Spanish. Many of the verses presented here had been lost and are presented here for the first time in print. De Burgos broke new ground in her poetry by fusing a romantic temperament with keen political insights. This book will be essential reading for lovers of poetry and for feminists.