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Accordion Stories from the Heart by Angelo Paul Ramunni Pdf
The book is a compilation of the many personal stories of people who played the accordion over the last 200 years. The author purposely chose the stories that related to the experiences of everyday people as they brought their accordion into the lives of the people they encountered.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx brings the immigrant experience to life in this stunning novel that traces the ownership of a simple green accordion. E. Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish-Scots, Franco-Canadians and many others, all linked by their successive ownership of a simple green accordion. The music they make is their last link with the past—voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance. Proulx’s prodigious knowledge, unforgettable characters and radiant language make Accordion Crimes a stunning novel, exhilarating in its scope and originality.
Delightful Stories from the Heart of Maine by Diana Perkins Pdf
Diana is a creative writer who skillfully entwines biblical truths and principles with interesting stories of everyday living. Since her early childhood, the Bible has been planted in her heart through Bible story books, tapes, and LP records, and the love for telling stories has been nurtured. Within these pages, you will meet characters from various walks of life. Some will bring a smile to your face, and others will give you food for thought. The stories are true, though some names have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals. Whether you prefer lighthearted stories or more serious tales, there are stories that can entertain you. Maine culture is carefully portrayed in the characters that come alive within the pages. Be uplifted and encouraged by stories of people whose faith in God has helped them overcome many difficulties in their lives. Read stories of a visit from an angel, a single moms special Christmas, the cat that is the boss at a garage, Mainers whose wealth is measured by love, and the way a homeless veteran found hope. Each story brings home a spiritual truth that once embraced will bring light to your path and strength for the journey.
With an eye for colorful characters and a sharp sense of humor, accordion historian Bruce Triggs uncovers the hidden back-story of the squeezebox in everyone's closet. Accordion Revolution is about more than an instrument: it's a restoration of the squeezebox to its rightful place at the roots of North America's popular music.
Before she wrote the bestselling Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized. These stories reverberate with rural tradition, the rites of nature, and the rituals of small town life. The country is blue collar New England; the characters are native families and the dispossessed working class, whose heritage is challenged by the neorural bourgeoisie from the city; and the themes are as elemental as the landscape: revenge, malice, greed, passion. Told with skill and profundity and crafted by a master storyteller, these are lean, tough tales of an extraordinary place and its people.
Unfolding Practice: Reflections on Learning and Teaching is a conversation between two artist-educators. Flowing across five chapters, the double sided accordion book has been curated from ten years of recorded conversations, field notes, planning, sketches, reflection, and teaching. The front of the book weaves text, illustration, cutouts, and screen prints, journeying through artistic process and educational practice. The back of the book is a guide, expanding on the practice of using accordion books as a tool for capturing, visualizing, and building upon reflective thinking. The brown paper alludes to the craft paper that is ubiquitous in schools and captures process more than the preciousness of a final product.
The Comic Book Bandit: Stories from a Life of Lies by Jay Michael Feldman, M.D. Pdf
The Comic Book Bandit is a bright, healthy, mischievous child named Jay. Mentored by his brilliant older brother, Ross, the bandit pulls off his first comic book heist at the age of four. As events unfold, he gradually finds himself to be alone out in a world where the only significant authority over his behavior turns out to be him and his fledgling and relatively ignorant conscience. Being an unattended child may be scary, but it is also immensely exciting. There is a rush that comes with boundless liberty. Not entirely free, but with stolen moments of freedom to explore life on his own, out and about in the pulsating city of Chicago, where the choices were breathtaking, our hero is captured by the undeniable realization, “I can do whatever I want so long as I don’t get caught.” The stories take place after the Second World War. Yes, the bandit faces the obstacles of grown-ups but cleverly discovers the slippery power of the believable lie. He creates a secret life of his own and shares an acceptable version with those he must account to: his mother, his father, his brother, his teachers, and his friends. Getting away with stuff starts to become second nature, at least until and when he creates a lie so big, with burden so weighty, its effects are at times overwhelming. The culmination of his struggles with the Great Bar Mitzvah Caper will have the reader riveted to each and every page. How could he? How does he? Will he or won’t he? Those are the questions. Come along for the ride. I promise you a child whose ingenious lies make him unlike any child you may have encountered. And beyond all that, he is a great little kid. 1
Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package by Kate DiCamillo Pdf
What will it take for a cynical older sister to realize she’s a born accordion player — with music in her heart? Eugenia Lincoln is a practical person with no time for gee-gaws, whoop-de-whoops, or frivolity. When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives at her house, she is determined to have nothing to do with it. But her plans to sell the accordion, destroy the accordion, or give the accordion away all end in frustration. How can Eugenia stop being tormented by this troublesome package — and could she discover that a bit of unforeseen frivolity might actually be surprisingly . . . joyous?
The Snail with the Right Heart by Maria Popova Pdf
Based on a real scientific event and inspired by a beloved real human in the author's life, this is a story about science and the poetry of existence; about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death, evolution and infinity -- concepts often too abstract for the human mind to fathom, often more accessible to the young imagination; concepts made fathomable in the concrete, finite life of one tiny, unusual creature dwelling in a pile of compost amid an English garden. Emerging from this singular life is a lyrical universal invitation not to mistake difference for defect and to welcome, across the accordion scales of time and space, diversity as the wellspring of the universe's beauty and resilience.
1845: Felix Schneider, an immigrant from Germany, cheers the New York Knickerbockers as they play Three-Out, All-Out. 1908: Walter Snider, batboy for the Brooklyn Superbas, arranges a team tryout for a black pitcher by pretending he is Cuban. 1945: Kat Snider of Brooklyn plays for the Grand Rapids Chicks in the All-American Girls Baseball League. 1981: Michael Flint fi nds himself pitching a perfect game during the Little League season at Prospect Park. And there are fi ve more Schneiders to meet. In nine innings, this novel tells the stories of nine successive Schneider kids and their connection to Brooklyn and baseball. As in all family histories and all baseball games, there is glory and heartache, triumph and sacrifi ce. And it ain?t over till it?s over.
Corrie and the Rose Accordion by Liesje Wagner Pdf
Inspired by true events, Corrie and the Rose Accordion is a heart-rending story of a family set in the middle of Hitler's war in The Netherlands. The book spans from 1938 when little Corrie is only four years old, during a time when the Dutch were very well aware of what was brewing in Germany. Though neutral, some of the Dutch did not trust Hitler and watched as he systematically walked into surrounding countries to expand the German Lebensraum. Suddenly, in early May of 1940, Germany invaded Holland and bombed the city of Rotterdam as a tragic warning, changing Corrie's life forever. The Dutch royalty and government left for England and stood by helplessly as Hitler placed his representative, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, as the commissioner in charge of all the Netherlands. Corrie's father, Henk Gelauf, is a labourer and an accordionist, and is a one of 16 children in the close-knit Gelauf family. Henk is married to Cornelia Elizabeth van Ijsden and they have two daughters and a son-little Corrie, her sister Beppie (two years older), and her brother Pietje, (four years older). But the war shattered their peaceful and basically happy existence as the Nazis steadily and systematically changed their day to day existence. Rationing, and the seizing of the Dutch peoples' resources, left the Dutch in sometimes dire circumstances. Little Corrie's family felt it the hardest: already just making ends meet, Henk lost his job and while still working in the reserves, Corrie's mother and her siblings were uprooted from their home to make room for a German officer, leaving only with what they could carry on their backs. Henk returned home to find he had no home and finally located his family at his father's house, the Gelauf patriarch, Piet Senior. Finally, after six months, they received orders to move into a tiny house in a small back alley off Spinozastraat. Conditions worsened as they witnessed the seizing of Jewish friends and neighbours, and even more so, after the Nazis seized their father as slave labor. Henk's red accordion adorned with a mesmerizing pattern of roses on its bellows, became an unlikely symbol of hope for little Corrie and her family, who passionately believed he would return alive so long as they kept the accordion safe. But will he when so many do not? As the war dragged on and worsened, their mother was close to dying of disease, starvation and malnutrition. Pietje, Corrie's brother, took over the caring for the family and the children bravely choose starvation and possible death rather than bartering their father's prized accordion for food. Instead, defying a strict life-threatening curfew, the children secretly crept nightly into the dead of night to scrounge for scraps of food, potato peels, and bits of coal, all the while hiding from the Nazi patrols. Corrie and the Rose Accordion is an unforgettable testament to the remarkable will and courage these children showed during Hitler's brutal and senseless war in one of the world's worst-hit cities of World War II.
This first Western language study of one of Japan's most popular writers includes translations of key passages, critical commentary, and full translations of three essays by Hayashi Fumiko.
Finalist in the International Latino Book Awards. This unique book includes a bonus fold-out and a note from the author sharing the true story of his own family. When both grandpas, Abuelo and Opa, visit at the same time, they can’t understand each other’s language and there is a lot of silence. The grandson’s clever thinking helps find a way for everyone to share the day together as two cultures become one family.
