A Handful Of Blue

Author : Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781786940117

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A Handful of Blue Earth by Vénus Khoury-Ghata Pdf

In her preface the distinguished American poet and translator Marilyn Hacker describes the poems included here as 'exploded narratives, re-assembled in a mosaic or labyrinth in which the reader, like Ariadne, finds a connecting thread'. Khoury-Ghata's book, published in her eighty-first year, is testimony to this Lebanese poet's enduring brilliance. Earlier translations by Hacker were described by Alica Ostriker as emerging 'from the embers of loss and death, from childhood and the moon, from villages and cemeteries and forests, geography and God'. In two moving sequences, we find Khoury-Ghata's voice retuning to familiar themes of death, intimacy, enforced silence and the surreal horror of war. Rendered faithfully and exquisitely by Hacker's concise eye, the poems mark an important contribution to world poetry in translation.

Author : Vince Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
ISBN : OCLC:939916083

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A Handful of Blue by Vince Ford Pdf

A drought threatens to force Jeremy's family off their farm and everything he does seems to make matters worse. His family is starting to crack up as they struggle under forces that will influence the rest of their lives.

Author : Vince Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN : 1869435613

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A Handful of Blue by Vince Ford Pdf

It's summer, but an approaching cyclone isn't the only dark cloud that hangs over Makorori Beach. A drought threatens to force Jeremy's family off their farm and everything he does seems to make matters worse. The family is starting to crack.

Author : Cynthia Lord
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545700290

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A Handful of Stars by Cynthia Lord Pdf

This powerful middle-grade novel from the Newbery Honor author of RULES explores a friendship between a small-town girl and the daughter of migrant workers. When Lily's blind dog, Lucky, slips his collar and runs away across the wide-open blueberry barrens of eastern Maine, it's Salma Santiago who manages to catch him. Salma, the daughter of migrant workers, is in the small town with her family for the blueberry-picking season. After their initial chance meeting, Salma and Lily bond over painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather, and Salma's friendship transforms Lily's summer. But when Salma decides to run in the upcoming Blueberry Queen pageant, they'll have to face some tough truths about friendship and belonging. Should an outsider like Salma really participate in the pageant-and possibly win?Set amongst the blueberry barrens and by the sea, this is a gorgeous new novel by Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord that tackles themes of prejudice and friendship, loss and love.

Author : Kit Pearson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143186359

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A Handful of Time by Kit Pearson Pdf

When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go. She doesn't know her cousins at all, and she's never been good at camping or canoeing, let alone making new friends.

Author : Guy de la Valdéne
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780802196323

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For a Handful of Feathers by Guy de la Valdéne Pdf

An avid hunter and wildlife preservationist, the Field & Stream contributor explores these seemingly opposed passions in this “beautifully written” memoir (The Bloomsbury Review). After traveling the globe on expeditions with world-class sportsmen, Guy de la Valdéne purchased an eight hundred–acre farm outside Tallahassee and set out to raise and hunt his favorite game bird, bobwhite quail. But de la Valdéne is also a naturalist at heart, and as he planted trees and divided fields, he found that running the farm compelled him to operate as both hunter and protector. Along the way, de la Valdéne gets pulled into some eye-opening adventures: to a masterpiece of controlled burning performed by a Vietnam veteran in a helicopter with three hundred gallons of napalm, and to his own experiences building a dam to fill his pond. For a Handful of Feathers reconciles a passion for hunting with a deep sentiment for the wild. With sensitivity and patience, de la Valdéne searches for his, and our, place in the natural world. “A classic that compares well with Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Notebook.” —The Bloomsbury Review “An American classic . . . A book as unapologetic as it is thoughtful about blood sport . . . [It] has the verbal spark and pace of a fine novel.” —Gray’s Sporting Journal “A gem that will appeal not only to hunters but to all readers who love the land.” —Publishers Weekly “Valuable for its insight into quail behavior and its thoughtful address of hunting ethics.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120833836

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A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Pdf

Satire over engelsk overklasseliv i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet med Tony i centrum som en ung gentleman, der må se alle sine illusioner om kærlighed, ægteskab, slægt og historie briste

Author : Charles Finch
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429955331

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A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch Pdf

Equal parts Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Wodehouse, Charles Finch's debut mystery A Beautiful Blue Death introduces a wonderfully appealing gentleman detective in Victorian London who investigates crime as a diversion from his life of leisure. Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison. The grand house where the girl worked is full of suspects, and though Prue had dabbled with the hearts of more than a few men, Lenox is baffled by the motive for the girl's death. When another body turns up during the London season's most fashionable ball, Lenox must untangle a web of loyalties and animosities. Was it jealousy that killed Prudence Smith? Or was it something else entirely? And can Lenox find the answer before the killer strikes again—this time, disturbingly close to home?

Author : Reginald Ernest Horsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : PRNC:32101068170305

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The Blue Balloon by Reginald Ernest Horsley Pdf

Probably fiction, based on facts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433079017871

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Blue and Gray by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carmen Parets Luque
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987524497

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A Handful of Buttons by Carmen Parets Luque Pdf

Not all families are the same. Each family is different, unique and special. This is the beginning of a children's book about family diversity. What types of families are there? And what special thing makes them a family? These are some of the answers we want to offer to encourage tolerance towards others.

Author : Eileen Goudge
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504015639

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Woman in Blue by Eileen Goudge Pdf

Sisters separated as children are reunited as adults in this wise, funny novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Diary. Lindsay and Kerrie Ann Bishop were twelve and three when they were shunted into the foster care system. Thirty years later, Kerrie Ann, a high school dropout who has bounced from family to family, flies to Santa Cruz to meet the sister she never knew she had. With no job skills and no significant other, Kerrie Ann needs the help of her long-lost sister to regain custody of her six-year-old daughter, Bella. Lindsay, who grew up in a loving adoptive family, has spent decades trying to track down her sister. When Kerrie Ann suddenly appears in her bookstore—a seemingly lost, but tough-looking young woman with pink streaks in her hair—she’s stunned. With help from an eighty-year-old exotic dancer, a bad-boy baker, and a sexy bestselling novelist, Lindsay is determined to help Kerrie Ann turn her life around. But Lindsay—and the sleepy seaside town of Blue Moon Bay—will never be the same. From the New York Times–bestselling author of Garden of Lies and other blockbusters, this is both “a touching story with wide appeal [and] a sharp example of dysfunctional family fiction” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Naval Ahmed
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781435754584

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Blue Moon On Bandideau by Naval Ahmed Pdf

Out of the extraordinary, Susan Omar tells her story falling in love with a stranger she comes across in a blue moon on Bandideau. She explains explicitly of affairs, hallucinations, mirror-images, succubus disturbances and unbelievable moments living with a schizoid. She still wears a vellum talisman in black armband on her biceps.

Author : Scott McGaugh
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611458398

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Surgeon in Blue by Scott McGaugh Pdf

Recounts the life of the Civil War surgeon and how he made battlefield survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps and a more effective field hospital system.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002232283

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A Handful of Darkness by Philip K. Dick Pdf