The Curious Adventures Of Nigel Viola

Author : Cornelius F. Orris
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453551585

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The Curious Adventures of Nigel & Viola by Cornelius F. Orris Pdf

The first installment of an exciting book series, this tale begins with an introduction of the main characters: Nigel and Viola. The two have been inseparable since the very first day they met, in the Happy Endings Nursery for Newborns and although they differ in size, appearance, and favorite pastimes, they are similar in many ways their strong sense of curiosity, their mutual love for ice cream and their equal dislike of pudding. One hot afternoon, something new arrived to the perfect little town of Happy EndingsMiss Pricilla Poundings Precious Puddings and every child who had spoonful was left wanting more-all except for Nigel and Viola. Later that night, something strange happened to those who ate the tasty delightthey went missing! The only clue a peculiar trail of goo leading down the street. Where could they be? Will Nigel and Viola be able to find the children and solve the mystery? Arent you curious find out?

Author : Cornelius Orris
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1450044638

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The Curious Adventures of Nigel and Viol by Cornelius Orris Pdf

The first installment of an exciting book series, this tale begins with an introduction of the main characters: Nigel and Viola. The two have been inseparable since the very first day they met, in the Happy Endings Nursery for Newborns and although they differ in size, appearance, and favorite pastimes, they are similar in many ways their strong sense of curiosity, their mutual love for ice cream and their equal dislike of pudding. One hot afternoon, something new arrived to the perfect little town of Happy Endings Miss Pricilla Pounding's Precious Puddings and every child who had spoonful was left wanting more-all except for Nigel and Viola. Later that night, something strange happened to those who ate the tasty delight they went missing! The only clue a peculiar trail of goo leading down the street. Where could they be? Will Nigel and Viola be able to find the children and solve the mystery? Aren't you curious find out?

Author : Nigel Simeone,John Tyrrell,Alena Němcová
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198164467

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Janáček's Works by Nigel Simeone,John Tyrrell,Alena Němcová Pdf

This is the fullest catalogue in any language of the works of the great Czech composer Leo%s Jan %cek. The entry for each work includes detailed information on date of composition, source of texts, performing forces, duration, manuscript locations, publication, performances and production, dedication, and literature. The catalogue also includes a complete annotated edition of the composer's writings.

Author : Jeffrey Lewis
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781913368173

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Land of Cockaigne by Jeffrey Lewis Pdf

A novel written as a sharp parable of American society, addressing love, purpose, discrimination, and poverty. In Jeffrey Lewis’s novel, the Land of Cockaigne, once an old medieval peasants’ vision of a sensual paradise on earth, is reimagined as a plot on the coast of Maine. In efforts to assuage their grief over their son’s death and to make meaning of his life, Walter Rath and Catherine Gray build what they hope will be a version of paradise for a group of young men from the Bronx. As Walter and Catherine work to reinvent this land, formerly a summer resort, the surrounding town of Sneeds Harbor proves resistant. The residents’ well-meaning doubts lead to well-hidden threats, and the Raths’ marriage unravels as Walter loses faith in democracy. Meanwhile, the Bronx boys, who have only ever known the city, try to navigate this new land that is completely alien to them. Written as a parable of contemporary American society, Land of Cockaigne is by turns furious, funny, subversive, tragic, and horrifying. Faced with the question of what to do amid disastrous times, Walter Rath offers a clue: Love is an action, not a feeling. Once you go down this path of faith, there is much to be done.

Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781474601191

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Darkness Falls from the Air by Nigel Balchin Pdf

The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment. Bill Sarratt is a civil servant working on the war effort. Thwarted at every turn by bureaucracy and the vested interests of big business, the seemingly unflappable Bill is also on the verge of losing his wife Marcia to a literary poseur named Stephen. As the bombs continue to fall, Bill must decide whether he his willing to compromise his principles and prevent his life from crumbling before his very eyes.

Author : Gillian Rose
Publisher : Random House
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781802063134

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Love's Work by Gillian Rose Pdf

'This small book contains multitudes' Marina Warner 'For those who have suffered for and in love, this may prove to be one of the most useful books they will ever read' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian An extraordinary, uncompromising and consoling celebration of a life - through childhood, faith, family, love, friendship, pain and loss - written as its author was facing her own mortality Gillian Rose was a star academic, acclaimed as one of the most dazzling and original thinkers of her time. Told that she had incurable cancer, she found a new way to explore the world and herself. Tender, heartbreakingly honest and written with moments of surprising humour, Love's Work is the exhilarating result. In this short, unforgettable memoir, Rose looks back on her childhood, from the young dyslexic girl, torn between father and stepfather, to the adolescent confronting her Jewish inheritance. As an adult, Gillian Rose proves herself a passionate friend, a searcher for truth, a woman in love and, finally, an exacting but generous patient. Intertwining the personal and the philosophical, Rose meditates on faith, conflict and injustice; the fallibility and endurance of love; our yearning for independence and for connection to others. With droll self-knowledge ('I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs,' Rose writes) and with unsettling wisdom ('To live, to love, is to be failed'), Love's Work asks the unanswerable question: how is a life best lived?

Author : WFIU (Radio station : Bloomington, Ind.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000107226890

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Directions in Sound by WFIU (Radio station : Bloomington, Ind.) Pdf

Author : Octavia Butler
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780807008096

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Kindred by Octavia Butler Pdf

“As you turn the pages of this novel and get lost in Dana’s story, allow yourself to relive the horrors of slavery....Allow yourself to know the pain of our nation’s past.”—Tomi Adeyemi, New York Times bestseller and Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, from the new foreword This brand new package for young adults includes a redesigned interior for better readability, specially commissioned cover art by Carlos Fama, metallic stock cover, and spot gloss on cover elements “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times). “Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.” —N. K. Jemisin

Author : John T. Soister,Henry Nicolella,Steve Joyce
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786487905

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American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929 by John T. Soister,Henry Nicolella,Steve Joyce Pdf

During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. A Daughter of the Gods (1916), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Magician (1926) and Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) were among the unusual and startling films containing story elements that went far beyond the realm of "highly unlikely." Using surviving documentation and their combined expertise, the authors catalog and discuss these departures from the norm in this encyclopedic guide to American horror, science fiction and fantasy in the years from 1913 through 1929.

Author : Nigel Kennedy
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Nigel Kennedy Uncensored! by Nigel Kennedy Pdf

Nigel Kennedy changed the course of classical music in the late 1980s with his interpretation of Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’. He was revolutionary: in his performance and presentation; in his technique and his open-minded attitude. A natural boundary-pusher and musical adventurer, Nigel Kennedy blew minds - and sales records - as he became the best-selling violinist of all time. Instead of an Introduction, Nigel opens with a tongue-in-cheek ‘Warning’: readers should beware of his politically incorrect writing style and his frank take on the BBC, record companies, the Bavarian Police and any other ‘self-appointed wielders of power.’ It sets the tone for a truly original memoir that is as playful, unconventional and carefully executed as his music. The book is structured like a musical performance, with ‘Interludes’, ‘Outros’ and an ‘Encore’ separating the regular chapters which cover Nigel’s life story, from his humble beginnings and scholarship to the newly created Yehudi Menuhin School - and then New York at The Juilliard School - to his flourishing career and break-through as a world-class superstar. ‘Interludes’ cover subjects varying from Nigel’s best and worst gigs (“It might seem strange that shit gigs stick in the mind so much more than the good ones but I suppose it makes sense…”), to run-ins with rock stars and Police forces around the world. His anecdote on the London Metropolitan Police’s handling of a noise complaint at an after-show all-star jam is particularly funny: “These guys (the Met) were cheerful, they dealt with the situation and didn’t escalate the problem when there wasn’t one. 10/10” ‘Outros’ cover Nigel’s thoughts on classical music today - fascinating reading from the perspective of a virtuoso - to Brexit, where the spelling of the word alone leaves the reader in little doubt as to which side of the fence the author sits. ‘Encores’ is a comprehensive section on Nigel’s recorded output, covering his early classical work, the Four Seasons and later albums. There are insights into his work with rock musicians including Robert Plant, the late drummer Michael Lee, Killing Joke singer Jaz Coleman, and producers Eddie Kramer (Jimmy Hendrix) and John Leckie (Stone Roses). Nigel’s writing on Gershwin, Yehudi Menuhin, Stephan Grappelli (‘my biggest inspiration’), Jimi Hendrix and the Doors is compelling. Nigel writes of his interests outside music - boxing and football - which provide inspiration and balance to his creative output (on Aston Villa - “a true blessing for me to have an outlet in which I was surrounded by normal, honest, hard-working people who did ‘proper jobs’”). There is a splendid chapter on ‘Kitchen Golf’, a not-without-risk variation of the game, conjured up with close friend and mischief-maker Gary Lineker, during a messy late night kitchen session. “My whole life has been spent breaking down barriers between people and this book is proof of that.” states Nigel in his ‘Warning’. It’s a Mission Statement borne out in ‘Uncensored’ with aplomb.

Author : Jo Walton
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429954686

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Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton Pdf

A tale of contention over love and money—among dragons Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Now Walton returns with Tooth and Claw, a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband. Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses...in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society's high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Warwick Braithwaite
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781803134215

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The Golden Shore by Warwick Braithwaite Pdf

New Zealand-born conductor, Warwick Braithwaite, was a seminal figure in the musical life of Britain for more than fifty years

Author : Nigel Dunnett,James Hitchmough
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Ecological landscape design
ISBN : 9780415438100

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The Dynamic Landscape by Nigel Dunnett,James Hitchmough Pdf

The Dynamic Landscape advances a fusion of scientific and ecological planning design philosophy that can address the need for more sustainable designed landscapes. It is a major statement on the design, implementation and management of ecologically inspired landscape vegetation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1310 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : English literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112113989658

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The Welcome Guest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nigel Fortune
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521619289

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Music and Theatre by Nigel Fortune Pdf

This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn's operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.