The Flower Boy

Author : Karen Roberts
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307428639

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An accomplished debut, The Flower Boy is the tragically romantic story of people from two cultures, one ruling the other, and the human passions that defy and nearly overcome social taboos. In the colonial society of 1930s Ceylon, the separation between servant and master is clearly drawn. Young Chandi, however, knows that the baby born to his mother’s mistress will be his friend. And, indeed, their friendship blossoms in the lush gardens of the tea plantation on which they live. Many, English and Ceylonese, are troubled by the friendship, but the English planter is charmed by the children’s bond, and ultimately by Chandi’s mother, Premawathi. But the world encroaches on their Eden. Beautifully observed, compellingly plotted, The Flower Boy is a compassionate novel of a lost world and those who struggled to hold on to it.

Author : Steve Shanaz
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483602134

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On waking up on his twenty-first birthday, Jamie has nothing planned for the day except to spend the day with his dying mother in the hospital. Before he realises it, fate has other cruel plans for him. Almost being killed in a car crash and finding the love of his life, he is arrested for murder and has an assassin who has been hired to kill him on his tail. All alone, with no one to turn to, will Jamie get out of jail in time to see his mother one last time? Will he find the man responsible for all the misfortune hes been having lately? Jamie needs to find the man who holds the answers if he is to have a normal life. Will our Flower Boy finally find his calling in life?

Author : Keith Campion
Publisher : Matador
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800463413

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The Flower Boy by Keith Campion Pdf

The Flower Boycelebrates the quiet child. You know the ones - they rarely speak in class, they don't have a big circle of friends but you should never write them off...

Author : Jennifer Wojtowicz,Jen Wojtowicz
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1841486868

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The Boy who Grew Flowers by Jennifer Wojtowicz,Jen Wojtowicz Pdf

Shunned at school because he sprouts flowers every full moon, Rink Bowagon makes a special pair of shoes for a classmate who is able to appreciate his unique abilities.

Author : Steve Shanaz
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483602110

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The Flower Boy by Steve Shanaz Pdf

On waking up on his twenty-first birthday, Jamie has nothing planned for the day except to spend the day with his dying mother in the hospital. Before he realises it, fate has other cruel plans for him. Almost being killed in a car crash and finding the love of his life, he is arrested for murder and has an assassin who has been hired to kill him on his tail. All alone, with no one to turn to, will Jamie get out of jail in time to see his mother one last time? Will he find the man responsible for all the misfortune he's been having lately? Jamie needs to find the man who holds the answers if he is to have a normal life. Will our Flower Boy finally find his calling in life?

Author : Karen Roberts
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : British
ISBN : 1861591705

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The Flower Boy is a deeply moving and enchanting novel - a story of love, town secrets and family divisions. Lizzie Buckwater is born on a stormy night into a household nestled in Glencairn, on the lush tea estates of 1930s Ceylon. As Chandi, a little servant boy, plays in the mud outside on this fourth birthday, he promises himself that the English baby will become his best friend. He christens her Rose Lizzie after the flowers he loves, and the bright, perceptive boy soon forges the most important friendship of his life. As Chandi and Rose Lizzie's closeness grows, so their two families - English and Ceylonese, master and servant - become entwined. And with the approach of Ceylonese independence the whole idyll faces destruction.

Author : Gloria Amescua
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683357384

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Child of the Flower-Song People by Gloria Amescua Pdf

Award-winning illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh brings to life debut author Gloria Amescua's lyrical biography of an indigenous Nahua woman from Mexico who taught and preserved her people's culture through modeling for famous artists She was Luz Jiménez, child of the flower-song people, the powerful Aztec, who called themselves Nahua— who lost their land but who did not disappear. As a young Nahua girl in Mexico during the early 1900s, Luz learned how to grind corn in a metate, to twist yarn with her toes, and to weave on a loom. By the fire at night, she listened to stories of her community’s joys, suffering, and survival, and wove them into her heart. But when the Mexican Revolution came to her village, Luz and her family were forced to flee and start a new life. In Mexico City, Luz became a model for painters, sculptors, and photographers such as Diego Rivera, Jean Charlot, and Tina Modotti. These artists were interested in showing the true face of Mexico and not a European version. Through her work, Luz found a way to preserve her people's culture by sharing her native language, stories, and traditions. Soon, scholars came to learn from her. This moving, beautifully illustrated biography tells the remarkable story of how model and teacher Luz Jiménez became “the soul of Mexico”—a living link between the indigenous Nahua and the rest of the world. Through her deep pride in her roots and her unshakeable spirit, the world came to recognize the beauty and strength of her people. The book includes an author’s note, timeline, glossary, and bibliography.

Author : Shannon Kent
Publisher : Shannon Kent
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Flower Boy Tour Guide by Shannon Kent Pdf

Flower Boy: noun 1. slang for a really hot guy Hannah Reynolds travels to exotic South Korea in search of her own drama hero come to life. What she gets instead is gorgeous, but surly tour guide, Jae Lee. He seems determined to ruin every romantic location they visit with his snarky comments, but Hannah can't deny the crackling tension between them. As they travel around the country with a busload of wacky K-drama and K-pop fans, their chemistry keeps drawing the two together. Hannah sees the mountain of problems standing between her and a relationship with Jae. They live in different countries. She's flying home in five days. And he takes an emotional step back whenever they get closer. But her heart doesn't want to listen to reason. All it can see is the flower boy tour guide.

Author : Zhixin Lin
Publisher : Zhixin Lin
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Martial Arts Collection: Fragrant Jade Hairpin by Zhixin Lin Pdf

Author : S. Heijin Lee,Monika Mehta,Robert Ji-Song Ku
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824879921

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Pop Empires by S. Heijin Lee,Monika Mehta,Robert Ji-Song Ku Pdf

At the start of the twenty-first century challenges to the global hegemony of U.S. culture are more apparent than ever. Two of the contenders vying for the hearts, minds, bandwidths, and pocketbooks of the world’s consumers of culture (principally, popular culture) are India and South Korea. “Bollywood” and “Hallyu” are increasingly competing with “Hollywood”—either replacing it or filling a void in places where it never held sway. This critical multidisciplinary anthology places the mediascapes of India (the site of Bollywood), South Korea (fountainhead of Hallyu, aka the Korean Wave), and the United States (the site of Hollywood) in comparative dialogue to explore the transnational flows of technology, capital, and labor. It asks what sorts of political and economic shifts have occurred to make India and South Korea important alternative nodes of techno-cultural production, consumption, and contestation. By adopting comparative perspectives and mobile methodologies and linking popular culture to the industries that produce it as well as the industries it supports, Pop Empires connects films, music, television serials, stardom, and fandom to nation-building, diasporic identity formation, and transnational capital and labor. Additionally, via the juxtaposition of Bollywood and Hallyu, as not only synecdoches of national affiliation but also discursive case studies, the contributors examine how popular culture intersects with race, gender, and empire in relation to the global movement of peoples, goods, and ideas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Blizzards
ISBN : OCLC:233650761

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The Flower-boy of the Prairie by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0435232932

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The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Craft,Shea Olsen
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459293977

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Flower by Elizabeth Craft,Shea Olsen Pdf

A relationship with a mysterious pop star turns a girl’s life upside down in “a great novel about first love . . . a very touching book” (Fresh Fiction). These are the things that I’ve always wanted: To get the top grades in my class. To make my grandmother proud. And most of all, proof that I could succeed where the rest of my family had not: a Stanford acceptance letter, early admission. My mother and my sister were obsessed with boys and love and sex. So obsessed that they lost sight of their futures, of what they wanted. And in the end, they lost everything. I’ll never let a boy distract me. I promised myself that. But that was before Tate. Before the biggest pop star on the planet took an interest in me. Before private planes and secret dates and lyrics meant for me alone. There’s so much I don’t know. Like why he left music. Where he goes when we’re not together. What dark past he’s hiding. But when we kiss, the future feels far away. And now . . . I’m not sure what I want. “Fun and enjoyable to read . . . Fans of musicians and YA contemporary romance will devour it like I did.” —Buried in a Bookshelf

Author : Jennifer Ziegler
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545561433

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Revenge of the Flower Girls (The Brewster Triplets) by Jennifer Ziegler Pdf

In this middle-grade Bridesmaids, hilarity ensues as triplets have to stop a wedding! One bride. Two boys. Three flower girls who won't forever hold their peace. What could go wrong with this wedding? Everything!The Brewster triplets--Dawn, Darby, and Delaney--would usually spend their summer eating ice cream, playing with their dog, and reading about the US Presidents. But this year they're stuck helping their big sister, Lily, plan her wedding. Lily used to date Alex, who was fun and nice and played trivia games with the triplets, and no one's quite sure why they broke up. Burton, Lily's groom-to-be, is not nice or fun, and he looks like an armadillo.The triplets can't stand to see Lily marry someone who's completely wrong for her, so it's up to them to stop the wedding before anyone says "I do!" The flower girls will stop at nothing to delay Lily's big day, but will sprinklers, a photo slideshow, a muddy dog, and some unexpected allies be enough to prevent their big sister--and the whole Brewster family--from living unhappily ever after?

Author : Jarvis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03
Category : Difference (Psychology)
ISBN : 152950676X

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The Boy with Flowers in His Hair by Jarvis Pdf

"Everyone likes David, the boy with flowers in his hair. He’s sweet and gentle, just like his colorful petals. David and his best friend have a great time together, finding the good puddles, making up songs, and running away from the bees. But one day David comes to school wearing a hat, and he is quiet. When he takes off the hat, his bright petals flutter down like butterflies ... But David’s best friend has an idea—a way to help David get his color back, wielding paintbrushes and plenty of love. Sensitively told and simply illustrated, Jarvis’s story invites even the youngest children to talk about difficult subjects in an age-appropriate way—and feel inspired to support others when they face trying times."--