Anatopsis

Author : Chris Abouzeid
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101153291

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Anatopsis by Chris Abouzeid Pdf

Princess Anatopsis Solomon wants to be a knight-errant. But hermother, chairwoman of Amalgamated Witchcraft Corporation, plans for her immortal daughter to take over the family business. The Queen has even hired a new tutor: a demigod named Mr. Pound. But Mr. Pound’s plans go far beyond completing Ana’s education. He is searching for the mysterious and powerful Os Divinitas. And if he finds it, nothing will survive. A shocking and powerful gift will catapult the Princess into an unlikely quest through the rich worlds of Anatopsis, inhabited by magic immortals, a rebel army, and the last dog in the Universe.

Author : Justin Wintle Esq,Justin Wintle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781317853633

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Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture by Justin Wintle Esq,Justin Wintle Pdf

This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists, poets, dramatists, artists, philosophers, social thinkers, mathematicians and scientists of the period. The subjects are assessed in the light of their cultural importance, and each entry is deliberately interpretative, making this work both an essential reference tool and an engaging collection of essays. Figures covered include: Marx, Wagner,Darwin, Malthus, Balzac, Jane Austen, Nietzsche, Babbage, Edgar Allan Poe, Ruskin, Schleiermacher, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Oscar Wilde.

Author : Jamie Kallio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610692786

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Read On...Speculative Fiction for Teens by Jamie Kallio Pdf

This guide offers exciting new reading paths for students who enjoy fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal themes. With over 350 titles organized into their primary appeal characteristics and scores of thematic lists, librarians and educators will benefit from lists of contemporary selections specifically written for teens. Interest in teen fiction has grown in popularity in the last decade, especially within the fantasy and paranormal genres. This timely guide is one of the few books on the subject that lists titles that are written specifically for teens. Read On...Speculative Fiction for Teens features popular, contemporary themes ranging from vampire love and ghost stories to epic fantasy and out-of-this-world science fiction. Each of the five chapters caters to a specific area of interest—story, character, setting, mood, and language—and within the chapter, numerous lists of novels are organized by topic, with the best titles highlighted. Each of the more than 350 listed titles includes bibliographic information and a brief, punchy description.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Children's libraries
ISBN : PSU:000055122306

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School Library Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samuel Kettell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : American poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HXVP7D

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Specimens of American Poetry by Samuel Kettell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1940 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015066156806

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The Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781602358218

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Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987 by Kenneth Burke Pdf

These letters show the development of Burke’s thought in the last thirty or so years of his life, when he remained remarkably productive not only as a correspondent but as a critic and traveling scholar. Rueckert became for Burke both student and “co-conspirator,” with Burke himself playing the roles of teacher, mentor, father, and peer. While Burke corresponded for many years with Malcolm Cowley, William Carlos Williams, Hugh Duncan, and others, with Rueckert, we see him writing to someone who may have understood and appreciated his work more than anyone.

Author : Connie Biewald
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595839599

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Digging to Indochina by Connie Biewald Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Ivy MacKenzie is consumed by bitterness over the tragic death of her Vietnam veteran father. Desperate to break free of a family that doesn't understand her and a small town that suffocates her, Ivy runs away with Gil Thompson-a stranger who shows her a passion she's never known and a violent danger she never saw coming. Ivy's younger brother Bryan has a tender heart, conflicting memories, and a fierce loyalty to his family. Their disengaged, high-strung mother Carol parents as best she knows how while coping with her own lingering heartbreak and entering into a new relationship. Though their voices and struggles are their own, each of the MacKenzies grapples with loss and disappointment and yearns for love and belonging. Together, they come of age and come to terms with the ways that memories and dreams can blur reality; they learn what it means to embrace family, flaws and all; and they discover how digging to Indochina can help them find their way home. "Biewald's writing probes and sifts the buried storage vaults of family relationships with an archaeologist's precision."-Lois Lowry, creator of the popular Anastasia Krupnik series and two-time recipient of the Newbery Medal for her books The Giver and Number the Stars "An always interesting, authentic story about the next generation, the children of Vietnam veterans-children who dig, not to China, but to Indochina. A good solid read." -Grace Paley, author of The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, and Later the Same Day

Author : Carol Newman Cronin
Publisher : Gemma
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781934848470

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Cape Cod Surprise by Carol Newman Cronin Pdf

Intrepid time traveler Oliver is aboard his grandfather's boat off the coast of 1954 Cape Cod when Hurricane Carol strikes and wreaks such devastation that its name becomes the first in the Atlantic to be retired.

Author : Betsy Clark George
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666740110

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Animal Afterlife? by Betsy Clark George Pdf

Do animals really continue conscious life after their earthly death? Is it possible that our beloved non-human companions will join us for eternity? What about wild animals? Do they actually have an immortal soul? These questions can certainly perplex anyone who has ever enjoyed and loved a pet . . . or a hummingbird . . . and a variety of answers can undoubtedly spark the curiosity of an inquiring mind. Tracing the history of thought pertaining to the concept of animal immortality, Betsy George follows an intriguing trail through centuries of western theology, including its struggles with philosophy and science. Reflection on the offered possibilities, interwoven with biblical foundation, gives confidence to positive answers to the questions posed above.

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781629638430

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Up a Creek, with a Paddle by James W. Loewen Pdf

Up a Creek, With a Paddle is an intimate and often humorous memoir by the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, who holds the distinction of being the best-selling living sociologist today. Rivers are good metaphors for life, and paddling for living. In this little book, Loewen skillfully makes these connections without sermonizing, resulting in nuggets of wisdom about how to live, how to act meaningfully, and perhaps how to die. Loewen also returns to his life’s work and gently addresses the origins of racism and inequality, the theory of history, and the ties between the two. But mostly, as in his life, he finds rueful humor in every canoeing debacle—and he has had many!

Author : Betty Littleton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452043555

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A Family Portrait by Betty Littleton Pdf

The governing purpose for A Family Portrait from beginning to end has been to delineate the kinds of people the writer's forebears were-their characters, their habits and values, successes and failures-and to trace in their lives the history that encompassed them. Their significance lies in their brilliant ordinariness. In them we come to see the continuity of human life which funnels the past through us to the future. The author writes about those generations before her, "no matter how different we are from each other, our experience is inevitably the same. We know happiness and grief, hope and despair, love and the kind of resentment and fear that grow into hate. We know disappointment and humiliation, exhilaration and the pride that comes from small triumphs. We are selfish and cowardly but all of us have moments of heroism when our own generosity and courage take us by surprise. Our families help us see these things. Imperfect as they were, they believed in us and loved us without reservation in our own imperfection. These gifts we keep and use and pass along to the next generation, hoping they are improved but knowing that our best-we hope we have done our best--shifts with each new perspective. This is what it means to be a part of the communion of saints, and these are the saints that sustain us."

Author : Martha Dickinson Bianchi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781946022592

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Emily Dickinson Face to Face by Martha Dickinson Bianchi Pdf

Long out of print, a uniquely intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson written by her niece. What would it be like to have Emily Dickinson as your babysitter? In this astonishing memoir, out of print for almost a century, Martha “Matty” Dickinson describes the childhood she spent next door to—and often in the care of—her Aunt Emily. We see Matty as a little girl, hiding from the other grownups in Emily’s upstairs rooms, helping Emily in the kitchen, venturing with her into the cellar for the gingerbread she wasn’t supposed to have. As Matty becomes a teenager, she finds a confidante in her aunt, who is fascinated by the latest youth fads, school gossip, and the recurring question of what to wear to a party (“her ‘vote’ was for my highest-heeled red slippers”)—not to mention the music, novels, and poems she and Matty both love. From an early age, Emily teaches Matty the joys of solitude and independence: “No one,” Emily said, “could ever punish a Dickinson by shutting her up alone.” First published in 1932, this is the most intimate record we have of Emily Dickinson, whose death sparked a long family struggle over her work and her image. In a foreword to this new edition, the poet and critic Anthony Madrid provides a biographical frame for Matty’s recollections, and explains how such a remarkable document could spend so long out of sight.

Author : Cosme R. Cagas
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781669863168

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Lessons Faith Gleanings.101 by Cosme R. Cagas Pdf

Read one or two of these short essays, stories, and anecdotes that sizzle with facts and faith, humor, lessons learned, and jewels of wisdom in a few minutes. They range from the mundane to the philosophical and the divine. You can peruse any of the 101 now, then put away the book to read again in your leisure time. Visual poems delight the eyes and captivate the mind. Some excerpts of reviews of the author’s WWII novel, “I Shall Return”: A wonderful piece of literature! In this gripping account, the author gives real glance into what life was like... during this historic and tumultuous time. – Dustin Dichoso A great read! A well-researched novel with historical markers and with subplots of love, romance. and family traditions. -Mike Cabelin, MD Highly recommended. One can sense the overwhelming tide of events ... towards the inevitable bittersweet conclusion. - Chris Conner

Author : J. Yellowlees Douglas
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0472088467

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The End of Books--or Books Without End? by J. Yellowlees Douglas Pdf

An exploration of the possibilities of hypertext fiction as art form and entertainment