Little Piece Of Sky

Author : Nicole Bailey Williams
Publisher : Crown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780767912174

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A poignant, powerful debut that combines the deep emotion of The House on Mango Street with uniquely creative storytelling, painting a story of survival and healing. Unfolding in a series of vignettes, A Little Piece of Sky introduces an endearing new novelist and a truly unforgettable main character--Song Byrd, a young girl who keenly reports on the world around her. She is African American in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood and the unwanted product of an adulterous affair. While she is poor in the material sense, Song is extraordinarily rich in spirit and it is that inner strength which saves her. In piercingly insightful prose, Nicole Bailey-Williams takes readers on Song’s journey through life as she struggles with feeling like an outsider and intense guilt over her mother’s murder. Behind it all, places of pure joy, “dreaming the hurt away,” and glorious little pieces of sky shine through. Song’s tales--and Bailey-Williams’s narrative gift--are truly words to treasure.

Author : Nicole Bailey Williams
Publisher : Crown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780767912167

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A Little Piece of Sky by Nicole Bailey Williams Pdf

A poignant, powerful debut that combines the deep emotion of The House on Mango Street with uniquely creative storytelling, painting a story of survival and healing. Unfolding in a series of vignettes, A Little Piece of Sky introduces an endearing new novelist and a truly unforgettable main character--Song Byrd, a young girl who keenly reports on the world around her. She is African American in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood and the unwanted product of an adulterous affair. While she is poor in the material sense, Song is extraordinarily rich in spirit and it is that inner strength which saves her. In piercingly insightful prose, Nicole Bailey-Williams takes readers on Song’s journey through life as she struggles with feeling like an outsider and intense guilt over her mother’s murder. Behind it all, places of pure joy, “dreaming the hurt away,” and glorious little pieces of sky shine through. Song’s tales--and Bailey-Williams’s narrative gift--are truly words to treasure.

Author : Shawn K. Stout
Publisher : Philomel
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780399173431

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A Tiny Piece of Sky by Shawn K. Stout Pdf

In 1939 Hagerstown, Maryland, eleven-year-old Frankie faces suspicion that her German-born father is a Nazi spy.

Author : Eric Paul Shaffer
Publisher : Coyote Arts
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781587750458

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A Million-Dollar Bill by Eric Paul Shaffer Pdf

A Million-Dollar Bill surveys our lives in America up close and personal from the first young summer taste in “Watermelon Seeds” to the hopeful hand-made creation of legal tender to purchase the necessities and accessories of the American Dream in the title poem. Quirky, original, and astute, this expansive and engaging poetry collection by Eric Paul Shaffer entertains even as each poem presses readers to pause and think for a moment. From love to death to parking the car, from rain to ice to sky to falling stars, the little insights that grow large in language are here for the reading. Best of all, with A Million-Dollar Bill, you can keep the change.

Author : Nicole Williams
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0606290907

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Little Piece of Sky by Nicole Williams Pdf

Author : Jan Bozarth
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375896057

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The Fairy Godmother Academy #5: Sumi's Book by Jan Bozarth Pdf

Sumi Hara loves fashion. She always looks beautiful, and always wears the perfect outfit. When she arrives in Aventurine, Sumi is thrilled to learn that she's a shape-shifter. Unfortunately, she's not very good at shape-shifting yet, so she's given a guide named Kano—who's distractingly gorgeous in his human form. But right away they get off on the wrong foot; Sumi can't understand why this boy doesn't seem to like her. When they find out that an evil fairy queen holds the final mirror shard needed to complete their mission, Sumi will have to discover what true beauty and perfection are, or she could lose Kano and her chance to become a fairy godmother. Girl-powered adventure filled with danger and magic--perfect for girls who have outgrown the American Girls books and Disney Fairies. Visit FairyGodmotherAcademy.com.

Author : Jan Bozarth
Publisher : Yearling Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375865756

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Sumi's Book by Jan Bozarth Pdf

When thirteen-year-old Sumi Hara finds her family's magical hand-mirror talisman, she dreams her way to the enchanted land of Aventurine where, as a fairy-godmother-in-training, she discovers her individual power with the help of her handsome guide, Kano.

Author : Daniel Lee Wilt
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781462884797

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Between Chains and Freedom by Daniel Lee Wilt Pdf

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Author : Carla Lonzi
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781739843199

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Self-portrait by Carla Lonzi Pdf

Recorded and transcribed throughout the 1960s, Carla Lonzi's Self-portrait ruptures the linear tradition of art-historical writing. Lonzi first abolishes the role of the critic, her own, seeking change over self-preservation by theorising against the act of theorising. This is the voice of feminist experimentalism in Italian art and literature, and here Lonzi speaks for herself in English. Self-portrait montages her verbatim conversations with fourteen prominent artists working at the time, all men except one. Lonzi's vital feeling that it was impossible to respond professionally to the political and existential problems embedded in the production and distribution of artworks drives the book's contingent structure. Artmaking struck Lonzi as the invitation to be together in a humanly satisfying way. This first English translation brings Lonzi's final work of criticism before her break with 'art' to an international audience. Her uncompromising enactment and pragmatic drop-out discontinues the narration of postwar modern art in Italy and beyond.

Author : Sam Adamson,Alia Bano,Helen Blakeman,Noel Clarke,Molly Davies,James Graham,Carl Grose,Katori Hall,Nell Leyshon,Douglas Maxwell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408145692

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National Theatre Connections 2011 by Sam Adamson,Alia Bano,Helen Blakeman,Noel Clarke,Molly Davies,James Graham,Carl Grose,Katori Hall,Nell Leyshon,Douglas Maxwell Pdf

This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2011 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises. The Pied Piper re-imagined, the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, witches in seventeenth century Norfolk, a giant baby on the rampage, an extraordinary day in an ordinary school are just some of subjects covered in the thrilling and varied new plays created by talented writers for young actors to perform in National Theatre Connections 2011. The plays in this anthology offer a huge variety of stories and styles to ignite the imagination of young casts and creative teams. Themes are both teenage and universal - ambition, dashed hopes, fear and confidence, loyalty and betrayal. These new plays embrace a huge range for their inspiration: they plunder classics and imagine the future.

Author : Carlene Poff Baker
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973671657

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Silver Snippets by Carlene Poff Baker Pdf

Little “snippets” cross our paths as we go about our lives. They appear to be attention-getters from God for a person’s particular need of that day. Reading that day’s snippet should inspire, encourage, challenge, or otherwise meet the reader’s need that particular day.

Author : Robert S. Lesman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000410129

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Translating Cuba by Robert S. Lesman Pdf

Cuban culture has long been available to English speakers via translation. This study examines the complex ways in which English renderings of Cuban texts from various domains—poetry, science fiction, political and military writing, music, film—have represented, reshaped, or amended original texts. Taking in a broad corpus, it becomes clear that the mental image an Anglophone audience has formed of Cuban culture since 1959 depends heavily on the decisions of translators. At times, a clear ideological agenda drives moves like strengthening the denunciatory tone of a song or excising passages from a political text. At other moments, translators’ indifference to the importance of certain facets of a work, such as a film’s onscreen text or the lyrics sung on a musical performance, impoverishes the English speaker’s experience of the rich weave of self-expression in the original Spanish. In addition to the dynamics at work in the choices translators make at the level of the text itself, this study attends to how paratexts like prefaces, footnotes, liner notes, and promotional copy shape the audience’s experience of the text.

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545283328

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The Capture (Guardians of Ga'Hoole #1) by Kathryn Lasky Pdf

A classic hero mythology about the fight between good and evil, Guardians of Ga'Hoole is filled with adventure, suspense, and heart. Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, evil that threatens to shatter Tyto's peace and change the course of Soren's life forever.Soren is captured and taken to a dark and forbidding canyon. It's called an orphanage, but Soren believes it's something far worse. He and his friend Gylfie know that the only way out is up. To escape, they will need to do something they have never done before -- fly.And so begins a magical journey. Along the way, Soren and Gylfie meet Twilight and Digger. The four owls band together to seek the truth and protect the owl world from unimaginable danger.

Author : Richard Cox
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345484352

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The God Particle by Richard Cox Pdf

There is a divine spark within us all. In one man, that spark is about to explode. American businessman Steve Keeley is hurtled three stories to the cold cobblestone street in Zurich. In the days that follow, a doctor performs miraculous surgery on Keeley, who wakes up to find that everything about his world has changed. He seems to sense things before they happen, and he thinks he’s capable of feats that are clearly impossible. It’s a strange and compelling new world for him, one he quickly realizes is also incredibly dangerous. Meanwhile at a $12 billion facility in hardscrabble North Texas, a super collider lies two hundred feet beneath the Earth’s surface. Leading a team of scientists, Mike McNair, a brilliant physicist, works to uncover one of the universe’s greatest secrets—a theoretical particle that binds the universe together, often called The God Particle. When his efforts are undermined by the man who has poured his own vast fortune into the project, McNair begins to suspect that something in his research has gone very, very wrong. Now, these two men are about to come together, battling mysteries of science and of the soul—and venturing to a realm beyond reason, beyond faith, perhaps even beyond life and death.

Author : Robert E. Howard,R.M. Ballantyne
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 3179 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479408948

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The Pirate Story Megapack by Robert E. Howard,R.M. Ballantyne Pdf

Pirates! Here are tales of the seven seas (and beyond) by some of the greats of nautical fiction. From classics like "Treasure Island" and "The Ghost Pirates, to pulp tales by Robert E. Howard and J. Allan Dunn to modern swashbucklers set in fantasy worlds, "The Pirate Story Megapack" is a thrill-a-minute compilation of more than 3,100 pages of great pirate tales, both historical and set in fantasy world. And not all pirates sail the seas... Included are: THE GOLDEN DOLPHIN, by J. Allan Dunn A SET OF ROGUES, by Frank Barrett THE OFFSHORE PIRATE, by F. Scott Fitzgerald A BRUSH WITH THE CHINESE, by G.A. Henty THE MERCHANTMAN AND THE PIRATE, by Charles Reade THE TREASURE OF THE SEAS, by James De Mille THE PIRATE WOMAN, by Captain Dingle THE MAROONER, by J. Allan Dunn TREASURE ISLAND, by Robert Louis Stevenson OUR PIRATE HOARD, by Thomas A. Janvier THE PIRATE, by Frederick Marryat THE ROVER’S SECRET, by Harry Collingwood THE MADMAN AND THE PIRATE, by R.M. Ballantyne WOLVES OF THE SEA, by Randall Parrish THE IRON PIRATE, by Max Pemberton FORCED LUCK, by J. Allan Dunn THE PIRATE SHARK, by Elliott Whitney THE FROZEN PIRATE, by W. Clark Russell THE PIRATE ISLAND, by Harry Collingwood THE GHOST OF CAPTAIN BRAND, by Howard Pyle BLACK VULMEA’S VENGEANCE, by Robert E. Howard THE GHOST PIRATES, by William Hope Hodgson THE PIRATES OF CALUUR, by John Gregory Betancourt THE BROTHERS LAMMIAT, by John Gregory Betancourt SEA-CHILD, by Cynthia Ward And if you enjoy this volume, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see all the other entries in this great series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics -- and much, much more!