Tilly And The Crazy Eights

Author : Monique Gray Smith
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781772600780

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Tilly and the Crazy Eights by Monique Gray Smith Pdf

When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket-list road trip, she impulsively says yes. Before she knows it, Tilly has said good-bye to her family and is on an adventure that will transform her in ways she could not predict, just as it will for the elders who soon dub themselves “the Crazy Eights.” The Crazy Eights each choose a stop—somewhere or something they’ve always wanted to experience—on the way to their ultimate goal, the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque. Their plan is to travel to Las Vegas, Sedona, and the Redwood Forests, with each destination the inspiration for secrets and stories to be revealed. The trip proves to be powerful medicine as they laugh, heal, argue, and dream along the way. By the time their bus rolls to a stop in New Mexico, Tilly and the Crazy Eights, with friendships forged and hearts mended, feel ready for anything. But are they?

Author : Monique Gray Smith
Publisher : Sono NIS Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1550392093

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Tilly by Monique Gray Smith Pdf

Kelly creates a cabin out of a huge cardboard box but has no one to share it with.

Author : Monique Gray Smith
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459821477

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When We Are Kind by Monique Gray Smith Pdf

"Notably centering Indigenous families and characters of color in personal and communal activities—and encouraging readers to evaluate their actions toward others.”—Publishers Weekly When We Are Kind celebrates simple acts of everyday kindness and encourages children to explore how they feel when they initiate and receive acts of kindness in their lives. Celebrated author Monique Gray Smith has written many books on the topics of resilience and reconciliation and communicates an important message through carefully chosen words for readers of all ages. Beautifully illustrated by artist Nicole Neidhardt, this book encourages children to be kind to others and to themselves.

Author : Katłıà Katłįà
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-11T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773634289

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Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a by Katłıà Katłįà Pdf

A vexatious shapeshifter walks among humans. Shadowy beasts skulk at the edges of the woods. A ghostly apparition haunts a lonely stretch of highway. Spirits and legends rise and join together to protect the north. Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Tı-Yat’a is the debut novel from Dene author Katłıà. Set in Canada’s far north, this layered composite novel traverses space and time, from a community being stalked by a dark presence, a group of teenagers out for a dangerous joyride, to an archeological site on a mysterious island that holds a powerful secret. Riveting, subtle, and unforgettable, Katłıà gives us a unique perspective into what the world might look like today if Indigenous legends walked amongst us, disguised as humans, and ensures that the spiritual significance and teachings behind the stories of Indigenous legends are respected and honored. We acknowledge the support of Arts Nova Scotia.

Author : Monique Gray Smith
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459815841

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Speaking Our Truth by Monique Gray Smith Pdf

Holding each other up with respect, dignity and kindness.

Author : Monique Gray Smith
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459814493

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You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith Pdf

Encourage children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other’s well-being in their everyday actions. Consultant, international speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote You Hold Me Up to prompt a dialogue among young people, their care providers and educators about reconciliation and the importance of the connections children make with others. With vibrant illustrations from celebrated artist Danielle Daniel, this is a foundational book about building relationships, fostering empathy and encouraging respect between peers, starting with our littlest citizens.

Author : Monique Gray Smith
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459809598

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My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith Pdf

★ "A quiet loveliness, sense of gratitude, and—yes—happiness emanate from this tender celebration of simple pleasures."--Publishers Weekly, starred review The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy. International speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote My Heart Fills with Happiness to support the wellness of Indigenous children and families, and to encourage young children to reflect on what makes them happy.

Author : Erika Lopez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684853680

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Flaming Iguanas by Erika Lopez Pdf

In the tradition of such trendsetting wanderers as Jack Kerouac and Thelma and Louise comes the tale of a one-of-a-kind heroine on a sea-to-shining-sea, all-girl adventure. Line drawings.

Author : Duncan McCue
Publisher : Purich Books
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780774880596

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The Shoe Boy by Duncan McCue Pdf

At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec. Reflecting on his search for his own personal identity, that kid – Duncan McCue – takes us on an evocative exploration of the teenage years and the culture shock he experienced moving to the unfamiliar North. The result is a contemplative, honest, and unexpected coming-of-age memoir set in the context of the Cree struggle to protect their way of life, after massive hydro-electric projects forever altered the landscape they know as Eeyou Istchee.

Author : H. Beam Piper
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479466467

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Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper Pdf

Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen—Piper's last science fiction novel—is part of his Paratime series and recounts the adventures of a Pennsylvania state trooper who is accidentally transported to a more backward parallel universe. It is an expanded version of his novelet "Gunpowder God."

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679756453

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Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Pdf

The groundbreaking novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral that originally propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. "Deliciously funny...absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious...a brilliantly vivid reading experience." —The New York Times Book Review "Touching as well as hilariously lewd.... Roth is vibrantly talented." —New York Review of Books Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.

Author : Mike Donald
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947848078

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Louisiana Blood by Mike Donald Pdf

Do you love a conspiracy? Detective Chandler Travis does. Travis’s great-grandfather was a cub reporter when Jack the Ripper terrorized London. His family have been obsessed with the case ever since. And then one day Travis gets a call that makes him question everything. Could his ancestors be behind one of the greatest conspiracies of our time? When the remains of Jack the Ripper’s first five victims are discovered in present-day Louisiana, an English detective and a local sheriff form an unlikely alliance to unravel the mystery... and find themselves caught up in a modern-day conspiracy.

Author : Ben Sures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1927849497

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The Boy Who Walked Backwards by Ben Sures Pdf

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307400840

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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Pdf

A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter.

Author : Rosalie Ham
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782830719

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The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham Pdf

Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet Tilly Dunnage left her hometown of Dungatar in rural Australia under a black cloud of accusation. Years later Tilly, now a couturier for the Paris fashion houses, returns home to make amends with her mentally unstable mother. Mid-century Dungatar is a small town, and small towns have long memories. At first she wins over the suspicious locals with her extraordinary dressmaking skills. But when the eccentric townsfolk turn on Tilly for a second time, she decides to teach them a lesson and exact long-overdue revenge... Packed with memorable characters, acid humour and luscious clothes, The Dressmaker is an irresistible gothic tale of small-town revenge.