Laurinda

Author : Alice Pung
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781922231581

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Laurinda by Alice Pung Pdf

When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first things I saw were the rose garden spreading out on either side of the main driveway and the enormous sign in iron cursive letters spelling out LAURINDA. No “Ladies College” after it, of course; the name was meant to speak for itself. Laurinda is an exclusive school for girls. At its secret core is the Cabinet, a trio of girls who wield power over their classmates - and some of their teachers. Entering this world of wealth and secrets is Lucy Lam, a scholarship girl with sharp eyes and a shaky sense of self. As she watches the Cabinet at work, and is courted by them, Lucy finds herself in a battle for her identity and integrity. Funny, feisty and moving, Laurinda explores Lucy’s struggle to stay true to herself as she finds her way in a new world of privilege and opportunity. Winner of the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature: 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Shortlisted in the 2015 Indie Awards, 2015 Inky Awards, 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards, 2016 Barbara Jefferis Award, and the 2017 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBA). Longlisted for the 2015 Stella Prize. Notable Book of the Year for Older Readers, Children's Book Council of Australia 2015 ‘Biting yet compassionate’ —Books of the Year, Australian Book Review ‘Alice Pung totally nails it with Laurinda. Funny, horrifying, and sharp as a serpent’s fangs.’ —John Marsden ‘Pung continues to impress with her nuanced storytelling; Laurinda will surely resonate with anyone who remembers the cliquey, hierarchical nature of the playground.’ —Sunday Age ‘A candid and powerful exploration of family, culture and class ... it is those of us who take our fortune and privilege for granted that I wish would read this powerful book.’ —Readings Monthly ‘In her debut novel [Pung] successfully dramatizes the high stakes when an impoverished Chinese girl is parachuted into the private system ... Pung’s forceful writing reveals the diverse and often difficult lives of her immigrant compatriots too often hidden away from us by masks of discretion.’ —The Age ‘Based loosely on Pung’s own experiences, the book has an unmissable ring of truth to it, making it all the more compelling and horrifying.’ —Sydney Morning Herald “Schoolgirl Lucy Lam was one of this year’s best characters – smart, hardworking and brave. Pung tackles big issues with a light touch.’ —Herald Sun

Author : Laurinda Reddig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781620335253

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Reversible Color Crochet by Laurinda Reddig Pdf

Create completely reversible colorwork afghans and more! Innovative crocheter Laurinda Reddig created a unique and award-winning form of crochet that produces clear images that look exactly the same on both sides. Learn about this new method along with 28 reversible squares suitable for afghans or other items, make one of the 10 projects that use them, or find inspiration to design your own! Laurinda explains the basics of her technique and how to work with multiple colors at the same time. She demonstrates how to create graphic colorwork squares that range from simple geometric angles and shapes to a variety of picture squares including quilt-inspired blocks, flowers, the sun & moon, robots, aliens, and other fun projects for children. Create all 10 afghan projects complete with directions for joining, edging, and any additional stitch patterns used. Open your eyes to a whole new crochet technique--you won't want to miss it!

Author : Laurinda D. Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439100059

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Undercover by Laurinda D. Brown Pdf

The story of Fire & Brimstone continues with the introduction of Nathaniel, a seemingly happily married man and brother-in-law to Chris, but he’s struggling to keep up this performance of happiness while he falls back into an entirely different performance—as a drag queen. In Fire & Brimstone, Laurinda D. Brown began the turbulent love story of two women struggling with finding comfort in each other and in themselves while teetering on the verge of self-destruction. Chris Desmereaux and Gayle Evans: Two women, two mothers, two lovers testing the boundaries of 21st century morality, torn between different ideas of right and wrong. Now in Undercover, the author expands the story, introducing Nathaniel, the monogamous lover of Patrick, a high roller at the Memphis nightclub where Nathaniel transforms himself into a female diva before a standing-room-only crowd until Patrick breaks his heart. Devastated by his lover's rejection, Nathaniel leaves his flamboyant former life behind and reinvents himself yet again. This time it's Nathaniel, the committed family man—a loving husband to his wife, devoted father to his three children, and brother-in-law to Chris. Patrick is a distant, still-seductive memory, until financial woes force Nathaniel to return to his old fast-money way of life. This fateful decision culminates in exposure—and Nathaniel's subsequent downward spiral. Domestic crises abound as Nathaniel struggles with painful issues surrounding his sexual identity, and he must face the ultimate truth about himself in a harrowing climax. Undercover is a powerhouse novel by a gifted storyteller.

Author : Laurinda Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648082016

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Black Ink Heart by Laurinda Lawrence Pdf

He has something that belongs to her, something he can't give back?Nakita Faulkner may be straight-laced, but she's never one to back down from a bet with her twin brother. That's how she finds herself reluctantly getting her first tattoo. Her attraction to her sexy tattooist makes the whole situation even more awkward. Still, there's no way she'd ever have anything to do with someone like him-she has a plan for her life and she's sticking with it.Lennox Conrad-Nox-a tattooist with a troubled past is trying to get his life back on track. When Nakita walks into his parlour, Nox is more than a little intrigued by the uptight redhead, determined to get a tattoo she clearly doesn't want. As drawn as he is to her, bookish innocents really aren't his type. Besides, there are circumstances beyond his control and time is running out.One night Nakita's world is turned upside down. A strange twist of fate throws her back into the path of Nox. She discovers something about him that compels her to make an unusual proposition-a proposition he cannot refuse.Will the very thing that draws them together, tear them apart?Black Ink Heart is a captivating and powerful love story about choosing when to hold on and when to let go. If you like raw emotion, sensual romance and compelling characters, then you'll adore this much-loved standalone romance.

Author : Laurinda S. Dixon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501735769

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Perilous Chastity by Laurinda S. Dixon Pdf

Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless—reclines in a chair, languishes in bed, or falls to the floor in a faint. Weathered crones or impish boys leer suggestively in the background. These paintings traditionally have been viewed as commentary on quack doctors or unmarried pregnant women. The first book to examine images of women and illness in the light of medical history, Perilous Chastity reveals a surprising new interpretation. In an engaging analysis enhanced by abundant illustrations-including eight pages of color plates—Laurinda S. Dixon shows how paintings reflect changing medical theories concerning women. While she illuminates a tradition stretching from antiquity to the present, she concentrates on art from the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries, and particularly on paintings from seventeenth-century Leiden. Dixon suggests how the assumptions of a predominantly male medical establishment have influenced prevailing notions of women's social place. She traces the evolution of the belief that women's illnesses were caused by "hysteria," so named in ancient Greece after the notion that the uterus had a tendency to wander in the body. All women were considered prone to hysteria-strong emotions, idleness, intellectual activity, or unladylike pursuits could cause it—but it was most commonly diagnosed among celibates. Analyzing paintings of women's sickrooms by Jan Steen, Dirck Hals, Gabriel Metsu, Jacob Ochtervelt, Godfried Schalcken, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and Franz van Mieris, Dixon perceives metaphoric identifications of the womb as the source of illness. She also documents changing fashions in cures for hysteria and discusses allusions to the debilitating effects of women's passions not only in paintings, but also in madrigals by John Dowland and Henry Purcell. In conclusion, Dixon argues that her study has strong ramifications of attitudes towards women and illness today. She takes up images in twentieth-century culture as well and calls attention to a resurgence of female "hysteria" after World War II.

Author : Sara Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : IND:30000021420512

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Arquitectonica, Laurinda Spear, Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Hervin Romney by Sara Richardson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9461400691

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Geo Bio Miami by Anonim Pdf

Based in Miami, Laurinda Spear is an architect, landscape architect, and co-founder of ArquitectonicaGEO, through which she explores sustainable design principles in landscape architecture, master planning, and urban design. 'GEO BIO MIAMI' presents an overview of the various issues and topics addressed by her practice - green infrastructure, climate change, storm water management, etc. - and explores the value that landscape architecture brings to a project. Designed by Irma Boom, the book takes shape as a dense collage of projects, sketches, bright colours, and insightful analyses, and also includes an introduction by landscape architect Charles Birnbaum.

Author : Laurinda Abreu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317020882

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The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal by Laurinda Abreu Pdf

By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this book demonstrates, Portugal was among them and actively participated in such reforms. Providing the first English language monograph on this this topic, Laurinda Abreu examines the Portuguese experience and places it within the broader European context. She shows that, in line with much that was happening throughout the rest of Europe, Portugal had not only set up a systematic reform of the hospitals but had also developed new formal arrangements for charitable and welfare provision that responded to the changing socioeconomic framework, the nature of poverty and the concerns of political powers. The defining element of the Portuguese experience was the dominant role played by a new lay confraternity, the confraternity of the Misericórdia, created under the auspices of King D. Manuel I in 1498. By the time of the king's death in 1521 there were more than 70 Misericórdias in Portugal and its empire, and by 1640, more than 300. All of them were run according to a unified set of rules and principles with identical social objectives. Based upon a wealth of primary source documentations, this book reveals how the sixteenth-century Portuguese crown succeeded in implementing a national poor relief and health care structure, with the support of the Papacy and local elites, and funded principally though pious donations. This process strengthened the authority of the royal government at a time which coincided with the emergence of the early modern state. In so doing, the book establishes poor relief and public health alongside military, diplomatic and administrative authorities, as the pillars of centralization of royal power.

Author : Alejandro Morales
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611922569

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The Rag Doll Plagues by Alejandro Morales Pdf

A mysterious plague is decimating the population of colonial Mexico. One of His MajestyÍs highest physicians is dispatched from Spain to bring the latest advances in medical science to the backward peoples of the New World capital. Here begins the cyclical tale of man battling the unknown, of science confronting the eternally indifferent forces of nature. Morales takes us on a trip through ancient and future civilizations, through exotic but all-too-familiar cultures, to a final confrontation with our own ethics and world views. In later chapters, the colonial physician finds his successors as they once again engage in life or death struggles, attempting to balance their own hopes, desires and loves with the good society and the state. Book II of the novel takes place in modern-day southern California, and Book III in a futuristic technocratic confederation known as Lamex. In the tradition of Latin American born novelist, Alejandro Morales is one of the finest representatives of magic realism in the English language. In The Rag Doll Plagues, Morales creates a many layered fictional world, taking us on an entertaining and thought-provoking safari thorough lands, times, peoples and ideas never before encountered or presented in this manner. But ultimately, this valuable trip leads to a reacquaintance with our own society and its moral vision.

Author : Alice Pung
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440662058

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Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung Pdf

“Poignant, provocative, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, Pung’s rollicking tale of two worlds is not to be missed.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought their new country was a Wonderland. In this lyrical, bittersweet debut memoir—already an award-winning bestseller when it was published in Australia—Alice grows up straddling two worlds, East and West, her insular family and the Australia outside. With wisdom beyond her years and a keen eye for comedy in everyday life, she writes of the trials of assimilation and cultural misunderstanding, and of the tender but fraught relationships between three generations of women trying to live the Australian dream without losing themselves. Unpolished Gem is a moving, vivid journey about identity and the ultimate search for acceptance and healing, delivered by a writer possessed of rare empathy, penetrating insight, and undeniable narrative gifts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : KoorinGal Publications
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780980740028

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A Cat Named Chicken by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081686713

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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Anthony Froude,John Tulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119102387

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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country by James Anthony Froude,John Tulloch Pdf

Author : Sally Barr Reagan,Thomas Fox,David Bleich
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438416960

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Writing With by Sally Barr Reagan,Thomas Fox,David Bleich Pdf

This collection of essays on diverse issues in collaborative work illuminates the next direction for the study and practice of collaboration in classrooms and research projects. The essays probe more deeply than any previous work into the political, social, and individual psychologies of students, teachers, and researchers working together. Beginning with a critique of the ideology of individualism, the authors treat classroom issues at all levels from middle school through graduate school. Advocating an affirmative philosophy of collaboration, the authors attempt to understand both its shortcomings and its successes, as illustrated in many examples of essays and comments written by students in collaborative projects.

Author : Laurinda Erasmus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cooking (Natural foods)
ISBN : 047316633X

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Benessere Well-Being by Laurinda Erasmus Pdf

BENESSERE WELL-BEING: VEGAN AND SUGAR-FREE EATING FOR A HEALTHY LIFE-STYLE contains over 520 recipes, each with a full colour photograph. This recipe book covers all possible meals, with sub-sections, starting with breakfasts, spreads, lunches, soups, dinners, tofu and tempeh recipes, one pot meals, home-made pasta, savoury baking, sweet baking, desserts, snacks and drinks. The recipes were all constructed from scratch, with a few well-known favourites that have been modified using meat and dairy substitutions. Although the recipes cover all the various cooking and preparation methods, as well as the cooking styles from a large range of ethnic influences, the dishes are easy to prepare as daily meals for one's family. Suggestions are given for substituting ingredients to make the best of what is in season and to suit the average pantry. The book was produced in New Zealand, and all the ingredients are locally sourced from supermarkets, with a few special ingredients available from organic shops. Baking and making desserts without eggs, dairy or sugar is made easy with additional hints for interchanging ingredients. The sweet baking and dessert sections have extensive nutritional tables (covering Calories, Total fat, Saturated fat, Sodium, Potassium, Total carbs, Sugars, Fibre, Protein, Calcium and Iron). The glossary explains unusual and foreign ingredients and how they are made. The index is ingredients-based, making it very easy for anyone to look up a range of recipes, cooking techniques and finding the gluten-free recipes. Most of the recipes have cross-references to other recipes, preparation methods or accompanying meal and sauce suggestions.