Roses Are Red Violets Are Blue It Don T Always Be Like That But Sometimes It Do

Author : Elderberry's Designs
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793107068

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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, It Don't Always Be Like That, But Sometimes It Do. by Elderberry's Designs Pdf

Forget roses, boxed chocolates, frills, and show that it really do be like that sometimes with this themed Valentine's Day It Dont Be Like That notebook planner. Perfect funny gag gift journal composition book or diary for vday for him or her. Make your loved ones laugh with this roses are red pun poem and enjoy a special v day. Combine with a shirt or hoodie for extra oomph. Blank lined 20 lines per page, 120 pages, 6x9 inches, matte-finished cover, and white paper. Check out the author's expanded journal diary gift collection.

Author : Rae Paris
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780814344279

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The Forgetting Tree by Rae Paris Pdf

Rae Paris began writing The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory in 2010, while traveling the United States, visiting sites of racial trauma, horror, and defiance. The desire to do this work came from being a child of parents born and raised in New Orleans during segregation, who ultimately left for California in the late 1950s. After the death of her father in 2011, the fiction Paris had been writing gave way to poetry and short prose, which were heavily influenced by the questions she’d long been considering about narrative, power, memory, and freedom. The need to write this story became even more personal and pressing. While Paris sometimes uses the genre of "memoir" or "hybrid memoir" when referring to her work, in this case the term "rememory," born from Toni Morrison’s Beloved, feels most accurate. Paris is driven by the familial and historical spaces and by what happens when we remember seemingly disparate images and moments. The collection is not fully prose or poetry, but rather an extended funeral program or a prayer for those who have passed through us. A perfect blend of prose, poetry, and images, The Forgetting Tree is a unique and thought-provoking collection that argues for a deeper understanding of past and present so that we might imagine a more hopeful, sustainable, and loving future.

Author : JMK
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781453537336

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90 Love Poems by JMK Pdf

Love is the same as friendship; it's based on loyalty, trust, respect and love for each. Most people say they are in love but do they actually know the meaning of love? What love is or what the word love means? Have they perhaps sat down and examine the difference between a true love from the heart and lust?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1982-06
Category : Occupational training
ISBN : UIUC:30112106703454

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Job Corps Happenings by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lisgar Collegiate Institute
Publisher : Lisgar Alumni Association
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Vox Lycei 1989-1990 by Lisgar Collegiate Institute Pdf

Author : Adrian Wallwork
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107685703

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The Book of Days Book and Audio CDs (2) by Adrian Wallwork Pdf

A resource book of photocopiable activities for special days in the year. The Book of Days is a resource book of photocopiable skills material based around particular days of the year. The book is primarily aimed at adults and young adults and provides a handy addition to any course. It includes 30 flexible activities featuring innovative discussion texts and a variety of tasks designed to stimulate conversation and give information about the origins and customs of world festivals. The accompanying Audio CDs present authentic listening material, offering exposure to a wide variety of accents, and the detailed teacher's notes give useful background information about the days and suggestions for differentiation.

Author : Madeleine Blais
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780802193421

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In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais Pdf

“Beautifully written . . . A celebration of girls and athletics.” The national bestselling sports classic from a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist (USA Today). Expanded and updated with a new epilogue, Madeleine Blais’ book tells the story of a season in the life of the Amherst Lady Hurricanes, a girls’ high school basketball team from the Western Massachusetts college town. The Hurricanes were a talented team with a near-perfect record, but for five straight years, when it came to the crunch of the playoffs, they somehow lacked the desire to go all the way. Now, led by senior guards Jen Pariseau, a three-point specialist, and Jamila Wideman, an All-American phenom, this was the year to prove themselves. It was a season to test their passion for the sport and their loyalty to each other, and a chance to discover who they really were. As an off-season of summer jobs and basketball camps turns to fall, as students arrive and the games begin, Blais charts the ups and downs of the team and paints a portrait of the wider Amherst community, which comes to revel in the athletic exploits of their girls. Finally, a women’s team was getting the attention they deserve. And the Hurricanes were richly deserving; these teenage girls are fierce and funny, smart and ambitious, and they are the heart of this gripping book. “Extraordinary.” —The Baltimore Sun “A picture of a changing period in American sports history, when a town rallied around its female athletes in a way that had previously been reserved for males.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Siobhan Chapman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350308671

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Pragmatics by Siobhan Chapman Pdf

This core textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to the field of pragmatics: the study of the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Assuming no prior knowledge, Siobhan Chapman surveys the development of pragmatics from the very beginning to the present day and engages with recent debates on topics such as experimental pragmatics and (im)politeness theory. Readers will develop their knowledge of how pragmatics interacts with other areas of language, such as semantics, and of how it has been applied to the study of various aspects of language in use, including literature, language acquisition and clinical linguistics. Comprehensive and highly readable, this is an essential text for undergraduates or postgraduates enrolled on specialist modules in pragmatics or on more general linguistics courses. It is also an ideal resource for researchers in linguistics or related disciplines who are interested in how the field is developing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015013021582

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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alice McDermott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780374722449

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What About the Baby? by Alice McDermott Pdf

A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched "virtuoso of language and image" (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe) What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction gathers the bestselling novelist Alice McDermott’s pithiest wisdom about her chosen art, acquired over a lifetime as an acclaimed writer and teacher of writing. From technical advice (“check that your verbs aren’t burdened by unnecessary hads and woulds”) to setting the bar (“I expect the fiction I read to carry with it the conviction that it is written with no other incentive than that it must be written”), from the demands of readers (“they’d been given a story with a baby in it, and they damn well wanted that baby accounted for”) to the foibles of public life (“I’ve never subscribed to the notion that a film adaptation is the final imprimatur for a work of fiction, despite how often I’ve been told by encouraging friends and strangers, ‘Maybe they’ll make a movie of your novel,’ as if I’d been aiming for a screenplay all along but somehow missed the mark and wrote a novel by mistake”), McDermott muses trenchantly and delightfully about the craft of fiction. She also serves throughout as the artful conductor of a literary chorus, quoting generously from the work of other great writers (including Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Nabokov, Morrison, and Woolf ), beautifully joining her voice with theirs. These stories of lessons learned and books read, and of the terrors and the joys of what she calls “this mad pursuit,” form a rich and valuable sourcebook for readers and writers alike: a deeply charming meditation on the unique gift that is literature.

Author : Woody Allen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781951627379

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Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen Pdf

The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing standup before he achieved recognition and success. With his unique storytelling pizzazz, he recounts his departure into moviemaking, with such slapstick comedies as Take the Money and Run, and revisits his entire, sixty-year-long, and enormously productive career as a writer and director, from his classics Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Annie and Her Sisters to his most recent films, including Midnight in Paris. Along the way, he discusses his marriages, his romances and famous friendships, his jazz playing, and his books and plays. We learn about his demons, his mistakes, his successes, and those he loved, worked with, and learned from in equal measure. This is a hugely entertaining, deeply honest, rich and brilliant self-portrait of a celebrated artist who is ranked among the greatest filmmakers of our time.

Author : Dr. John L. Oldani
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781935806356

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Passing It On: Folklore of St. Louis, 2nd Edition, Revised and Updated by Dr. John L. Oldani Pdf

Author: John L. Oldani, PhD Size: 6 x 9 Bindings: softcover Pages: 200 ISBN: 9781935806356 Cost: $19.95 How do urban folktales of the "choking Doberman" relate to St. Louis ethnic groups? What are the rites of passage for young St. Louis men involving cemeteries? Did you ever "?narck?" And what happened when you didn't "trick" without a "treat?" These and other examples of St. Louis folklore are practiced for a "reason." The oral traditions of folklore are dynamic reflections of a culture-growing, changing, and rede?ned. The ?rst edition of Passing It On described the foundations of some of the folklore of the St. Louis area from the folk vocabulary through jokes, superstitions, proverbs, and family lore. In their "passing" from folk group to folk group, these St. Louis traditions have been adopted and adapted by various St. Louis cultures. This revised and updated edition adds the folkways of more ethnic groups, which have assimilated the lore without losing their own past. Urban tales from St. Louis neighborhoods, instructive in their telling, reflect our growth and are included in this new edition as well. Additionally, occupational folklore from the "rank and ?le" of St. Louis has its own chapter and helps de?ne the "worker." There are even more superstitions, vocabulary, and "boomer" lore from the St. Louis region. All of it is "passed on" as it shapes St. Louis culture.

Author : Leland Duvall
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781557289766

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Dearest Letty by Leland Duvall Pdf

Leland Duvall was a now-and-again farm worker with a grade-school education when he received his World War II draft notice at his father's farm near Moreland, Arkansas, in March of 1942. He departed for training in California, where he began to write to Letty Jones, a Pottsville girl he'd had a crush on for several years. From the first correspondence through the end of the war, Leland sent Letty a torrent of letters, hundreds of careful and undeniably heartfelt missives-utterly tender but never sentimental, reliably charming and gently humorous-written daily from desert sands, pup tents, hospital beds, armored cars, and bombed-out buildings. That Duvall's writing is a tour de force of wit, elegance, and erudition is all the more poignant because he was a man who was almost entirely self-taught. The letters, discovered by Duvall's daughter four years after his death in 2010, are here enriched by his longtime friend and colleague Ernie Dumas, who provides facts about where Duvall was and the perils he endured while penning his epistles, information that was often missing in dispatches that were necessarily censored and always guided by Duvall's effort not to bore or worry his "dearest Letty." Duvall's lively intelligence and obvious joy in writing come through on every page, joining with vividness the patina of the time and the bright shine of a timeless love affair.

Author : Bob ?the Blade? Robinson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468573848

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There's Nothing Louder Than Dead Air by Bob ?the Blade? Robinson Pdf

You'll love how Bob "the Blade" Robinson stuck it to the man. You'll learn how schizophrenia isn't all that bad. What is the GREATEST guitar solo in rock? Who is the real King of Rock N Roll? How can you live on 8k a year? You can't. But you can feed your head for that much. The new tell-all from a rock radio vet of 30 years. The first real read about the sheer lunacy of the rock business. There was no other business is like it.

Author : Alex Trebek
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982157999

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The Answer Is . . . by Alex Trebek Pdf

A RECOMMENDED SUMMER READ BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, TIME, AND NEWSWEEK Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career. Since debuting as the host of Jeopardy! in 1984, Alex Trebek has been something like a family member to millions of television viewers, bringing entertainment and education into their homes five nights a week. Last year, he made the stunning announcement that he had been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. What followed was an incredible outpouring of love and kindness. Social media was flooded with messages of support, and the Jeopardy! studio received boxes of cards and letters offering guidance, encouragement, and prayers. For over three decades, Trebek had resisted countless appeals to write a book about his life. Yet he was moved so much by all the goodwill, he felt compelled to finally share his story. “I want people to know a little more about the person they have been cheering on for the past year,” he writes in The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life. The book combines illuminating personal anecdotes with Trebek’s thoughts on a range of topics, including marriage, parenthood, education, success, spirituality, and philanthropy. Trebek also addresses the questions he gets asked most often by Jeopardy! fans, such as what prompted him to shave his signature mustache, his insights on legendary players like Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer, and his opinion of Will Ferrell’s Saturday Night Live impersonation. The book uses a novel structure inspired by Jeopardy!, with each chapter title in the form of a question, and features dozens of never-before-seen photos that candidly capture Trebek over the years. This wise, charming, and inspiring book is further evidence why Trebek has long been considered one of the most beloved and respected figures in entertainment.