The Kites

Author : Romain Gary
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811226554

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The Kites by Romain Gary Pdf

Romain Gary’s bittersweet final masterpiece is “epic and empathetic” (BBC) and “one of his best” (The New York Times) The Kites begins with a young boy, Ludo, coming of age on a small farm in Normandy under the care of his eccentric kite-making Uncle Ambrose. Ludo’s life changes the day he meets Lila, a girl from the aristocratic Polish family that owns the estate next door. In a single glance, Ludo falls in love forever; Lila, on the other hand, disappears back into the woods. And so begins Ludo’s adventure of longing, passion, and love for the elusive Lila, who begins to reciprocate his feelings just as Europe descends into World War II. After Germany invades Poland, Lila and her family go missing, and Ludo’s devotion to saving her from the Nazis becomes a journey to save his love, his loved ones, his country, and ultimately himself. Filled with unforgettable characters who fling all they have into the fight to keep their hopes—and themselves—alive, The Kites is Romain Gary’s poetic call for resistance in whatever form it takes. A war hero himself, Gary embraced and fought for humanity in all its nuanced complexities, in the belief that a hero might be anyone who has the courage to love and hope.

Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Alex George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Anne Laurel Carter
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773062440

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What the Kite Saw by Anne Laurel Carter Pdf

In this memorable story, a young boy finds solace flying his kite from the rooftop after soldiers take his father and brother away. Without his father and brother, the young boy’s life is turned upside down. He and his family have to stay inside, along with everyone else in town. At suppertime, he can’t stop looking at the two empty places at the table and his sister can’t stop crying. The boy looks out the window and is chilled to see a tank’s spotlight searching the park where he plays with his friends. He hears shouts and gunshots and catches sight of someone running in the street — if only they could fly away, he thinks. Each day the curfew is lifted briefly, and the boy goes to the park to see his friends. One day, inspired by the wind in the trees, he has an idea. Back at home he makes a kite, and that night he flies it from his rooftop, imagining what it can see. In this moving story from Anne Laurel Carter, with haunting illustrations by Akin Duzakin, a young boy finds strength through his creativity and imagination. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 1406367311

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The Kites Are Flying! by Michael Morpurgo Pdf

Travelling to the West Bank to witness how life is for Palestinians and Jews living in the shadow of a dividing wall, journalist Max strikes up a friendship with an enigmatic Palestinian boy, Said. As Max is welcomed as a guest, he learns of the terrible events in the family's past and begins to understand why Said no longer speaks.

Author : Margaret Greger
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Simon Mole
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786035561

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Kites by Simon Mole Pdf

The day that David moved to Fivehills, The first thing he noticed was the kites. Little kites, big kites Eagle kites, pig kites Golden Frog kites with car headlights for eyes Mirror kites singing the sky back at itself... David knows that to fit in at Fivehills, he needs a kite. But when he makes one, the other kids of the town aren't too impressed. They say it needs this, then it needs that, then it needs something else... soon David's kite doesn't feel like his any more. But David remembers what his Grandpa said - "Let's see what we've already got. More often than not, we'll find the answer inside" and learns that when you're happy with yourself, friends will follow.

Author : Tom Bowser
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781788852852

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A Sky Full of Kites by Tom Bowser Pdf

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award Red kites were once Britain's most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they'd been wiped out in Scotland and England following centuries of ruthless persecution. When some reintroduced kites began roosting on their 1,400-acre farm at Argaty in Perthshire, Tom Bowser's parents, Lynn and Niall, decided to turn their estate into a safe haven. They began feeding the birds and invited the world to come and see them, learn about them and fall in love with them. A Sky Full of Kites is the story of the Argaty Red Kite project, and the re-establishing of these magnificent raptors to Scotland, but it is also much more than that. Ill at ease with the traditional rural values of livestock farming, Lynn and Niall's son Tom, who returned to work on the farm after a career in journalism, reveals his passion for nature and his desire to dedicate his family's land to conservation.

Author : Maxwell Eden
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1402700946

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The Magnificent Book of Kites by Maxwell Eden Pdf

Provides step-by-step instruction for designing a variety of kites, and offers tips on material selection and flying techniques.

Author : Will H. Yolen
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0671248529

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The Complete Book of Kites and Kite Flying by Will H. Yolen Pdf

Author : Enadene McFarlane
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781685175849

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The Kites of Love by Enadene McFarlane Pdf

Maud and her cousins launch their kites deep into the heaven, from the lookout cliff in Montego, Jamaica. Their hope is with the hurricane wind forces of 1917, their kites will be washed up on the shores of Cuba. The experience of the lift and drag forces of the kites that Maud learned from the neighbor Andrew convinces her that kite flying is the way to contact her parents. Maud's grandmother, MamaJames, hasn't received a letter from her daughter and son-in-law for many years. The letters suddenly stop coming. Maud becomes worried that something is seriously wrong. Now eleven years old, Maud remembers the nurturing touch of her mother. The connection she misses so much she found comfort in her mother's pillow. Maud will sniff her mother's pillow and inhale the stained aroma of her mother's bosom embedded on the pillow. She longs for her mother. Anxiety is building up. The fear of losing her grandmother from her many illnesses and being alone frightens Maud. Eight years have passed since Ann and Jon, Maud's parents, left Jamaica to work on the tobacco plantation in Cuba. They have satisfied their work contract six years ago. The cargo ship and the interest of the plantation owners that brought them and other immigrants to Cuba refuse to grant them access to return to their homeland. Slavery ended, but the Negroes in both countries, Cuba and Jamaica, feel enslaved by the rigid conditions set forth by the White settlers and other lighter-complexioned Negroes. They fought back in their own way to preserve their dignity and happiness as they face many challenges. Maud misses her mother more than ever, and there are no more letters. She does the most miraculous thing: bringing her family together to fly kites. As the 1917 hurricane descends on the shores of Cuba days later, bringing torrential rain, and everything in the atmosphere is dumped on the shores of Cuba, Maud waits...

Author : David Bellos
Publisher : Random House
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446402863

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Romain Gary by David Bellos Pdf

Airman, war hero, immigrant, law student, diplomat, novelist and celebrity spouse, Romain Gary had several lives thrust upon him by the history of the twentieth century, but he also aspired to lead many more. He wrote more than two dozen books and a score of short stories under several different names in two languages, English and French, neither of which was his mother tongue. Gary had a gift for narrative that endeared him to ordinary readers, but won him little respect among critics far more intellectual than he could ever be. His varied and entertaining writing career tells a different story about the making of modern literary culture from the one we are accustomed to hearing. Born Roman Kacew in Vilna (now Lithuania) in 1914 and raised by only his mother after his father left them, Gary rose to become French Consul General in Los Angeles and the only man ever to win the Goncourt Prize twice. This biography follows the many threads that lead from Gary's wartime adventures and early literary career to his years in Hollywood and his marriage to the actress Jean Seberg. It illuminates his works in all their incarnations, and culminates in the tale of his most brilliant deception: the fabrication of a complex identity for his most successful nom de plume, Émile Ajar. In his new portrait of Gary, David Bellos brings biographical research together with literary and cultural analysis to make sense of the many lives of Romain Gary - a hero fit for our times, as well as his own.

Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Maureen Hull
Publisher : Nimbus Pub Limited
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1551095912

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The View from a Kite by Maureen Hull Pdf

Engaging, entertaining and deeply touching, this is one of the finest books for teens to come out of Atlantic Canada.

Author : Ying Chang Compestine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,8 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.