Setting Free The Kites

Author : Alex George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101595749

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Setting Free the Kites by Alex George Pdf

From the author of the “lyrical and compelling” (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous—and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan’s budding friendship is forged in the crucible of two family tragedies, and as the boys struggle to come to terms with loss, they take summer jobs at the local rundown amusement park. It’s there that Nathan’s boundless capacity for optimism threatens to overwhelm them both, and where they learn some harsh truths about family, desire, and revenge. Unforgettable and heart-breaking, Setting Free the Kites is a poignant and moving exploration of the pain, joy, and glories of young friendship.

Author : Alex George
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425253175

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A Good American by Alex George Pdf

A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and a folder containing book sign out sheets.

Author : Alex George
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250307194

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The Paris Hours by Alex George Pdf

“Like All the Light We Cannot See, The Paris Hours explores the brutality of war and its lingering effects with cinematic intensity. The ending will leave you breathless.” —Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train and A Piece of the World One day in the City of Light. One night in search of lost time. Paris between the wars teems with artists, writers, and musicians, a glittering crucible of genius. But amidst the dazzling creativity of the city’s most famous citizens, four regular people are each searching for something they’ve lost. Camille was the maid of Marcel Proust, and she has a secret: when she was asked to burn her employer’s notebooks, she saved one for herself. Now she is desperate to find it before her betrayal is revealed. Souren, an Armenian refugee, performs puppet shows for children that are nothing like the fairy tales they expect. Lovesick artist Guillaume is down on his luck and running from a debt he cannot repay—but when Gertrude Stein walks into his studio, he wonders if this is the day everything could change. And Jean-Paul is a journalist who tells other people’s stories, because his own is too painful to tell. When the quartet’s paths finally cross in an unforgettable climax, each discovers if they will find what they are looking for. Told over the course of a single day in 1927, The Paris Hours takes four ordinary people whose stories, told together, are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit.

Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : 1594483175

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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Pdf

Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.

Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408824856

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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Pdf

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

Author : Ying Chang Compestine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000051413569

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The Story of Kites by Ying Chang Compestine Pdf

Long ago in China, three brothers become tired of chasing birds from their family's rice fields and experiment with ways to make the job easier.

Author : Margaret Greger
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486318004

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Kites for Everyone by Margaret Greger Pdf

Easy-to-follow illustrated instructions show how to create more than 50 awesome, airborne objects — everything from simple bag kites to Vietnamese, Snake, Dutch, Dragon, Bullet, Delta, and Flowform flyers.

Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780747585893

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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Pdf

A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love

Author : Hon Lai-chu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789881604798

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The Kite Family by Hon Lai-chu Pdf

A patient escapes from an asylum to spend his life as the perfect mannequin in a department store display; when living alone is outlawed, a woman who resides quietly with her cat is assigned by bureaucrats to a role in an artificially created “family”; a luckless man transforms himself into a chair so people can, literally, sit on him. These are just a few of the inhabitants of Hon Lai-chu’s stories, where surreal charac-ters struggle to carve out space for freedom and individuality in an absurd world. The Chinese version of The Kite Family won the New Writer’s Novella first prize from Taiwan’s Unitas Literary Association, was named one of 2008’s Books of the Year by Taiwan’s China Times, was selected as one of the Top 10 Chinese Novels Worldwide, and was awarded a Translation Grant from the US National Endowment for the Arts. “The Kite Family showcases the work of Hon Lai-chu, a wildly creative Hong Kong writer. The stories, elegantly translated by Andrea Lingenfelter, range from the torn-from-the-headlines dystopian anxieties of ‘Notes on an Epidemic’ to the more surrealistic ‘Forrest Woods, Chair,’ which takes themes from Kafka’s Metamorphosis in an engagingly novel direction. The book benefits greatly from an introduction by Lingenfelter, which both explains her approach to rendering Hon’s prose into English and shows how the author’s stories fit into Hong Kong’s fascinating and globally too-little-known literary landscape.” —Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know “Evocatively written and expertly translated, these Hong Kong stories will draw you into Hon Lai-chu’s surreal and yet recognizable world.” —Howard Goldblatt, translator of Nobel laureate Mo Yan

Author : Jane Yolen,Heidi E.Y. Stemple
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780310756934

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A Kite for Moon by Jane Yolen,Heidi E.Y. Stemple Pdf

Dedicated to astronaut Neil Armstrong, A Kite for Moon is the perfect children’s book to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first United States moon landing. Written by New York Times bestselling author of How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Jane Yolen and her daughter, Heidi Stemple, this book is a heartfelt story about a young boy’s fascination and unlikely friendship with the moon. What would it be like if the moon was your friend? Find out as you walk alongside a little boy who journeys through life to achieve his dream of becoming an astronaut. And then blast off with your little one as you zoom to the moon together! The story begins when a little boy, who is flying his kite, notices a sad Moon. He sends up kites to her, writing notes promising he will come see her someday. This promise propels him through years of studying, learning, and training to become an astronaut. Until … he finally goes up, up, up in a big rocket ship with a fiery tail. A Kite for Moon: Features over 20 gorgeous illustrations by award-winning artist Matt Phelan Is the perfect storybook for children ages 4 to 8 Celebrates every child’s fascination with space

Author : Linda Sue Park
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1959004530

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The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park Pdf

Author : Sharad P. Paul
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789351160243

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The Kite Flyers by Sharad P. Paul Pdf

A humane tale of childhood friendships, painful severance and soaring, joyful redemption Kumar and Raman are champion kite flyers, and Lakshmi makes superb barfis. The friends live and play together in the idyllic environs on the shores of the Kaveri river, learning about life from the friendly peanut seller. Till a small mistake shatters their idyllic childhood and alters the course of their lives. The story follows the three friends through the Tamil Nadu of the 1970s, with its politics and society on the boil thanks to the language agitation orchestrated by the ADMK and its charismatic leader MGR, and brings alive the era while addressing universal issues of politics, caste and gender.

Author : Rosanne Cobb
Publisher : Richmond Hills, Ont. : Firefly Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 155407262X

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Kites by Rosanne Cobb Pdf

A complete guide to kiting -- from flying a paper kite at a park to para-kiting over the ocean featuring detailed descriptions of equipment, step-by-step photographs, guidelines for choosing a kite, setup, safety and more.

Author : Natalie Dias Lorenzi
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781607344490

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Flying the Dragon by Natalie Dias Lorenzi Pdf

When Skye's cousin Hiroshi and his family move to Virginia from Japan, the cultural differences lead to misunderstandings and both children are unhappy at the changes in their lives--will flying the dragon kite finally bring them together?

Author : Andaleeb Wajid
Publisher : Pustak Mahal
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Indic fiction (English)
ISBN : 9788122310832

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Kite Strings by Andaleeb Wajid Pdf

Everyone I met in the family thought it was a strange hankering I had. To do something. What? You get married, you have children, and you manage your house. What else can you do? I was asked sceptically. I didn know. I knew Ammi and Abbu wanted to get me married. And here was Imtiaz, after the same thing too. Have you ever known what it is like to be on the brink of freedom and not taste it? Like a kite that flies in the blue skies but cannot escape because of the string that tugs it down? Who holds that string? Can the kite escape eventually? Will it have to be cut down by another ruthless kite before it can fall to the ground gracelessly? Kite Strings is the story of Mehnaz, a Muslim girl from an orthodox South Indian family where despite the trappings of education and reluctant modernity, she realises that she is not allowed to make the important decisions of her life on her own. Easy to spot is her constant tussle with her mother over what Mehnaz's priorities should be. But not so easy to understand is the constant yearning for direction in her life. As a novel of self discovery, Mehnaz encapsulates the lives of many such girls who are not even aware that they too can do something worthwhile with their lives.