Akimbo and the Snakes

Akimbo and the Snakes PDF Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747586233
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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A thrilling story of Africa, snakes and a dangerous mission, from the bestselling author of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Akimbo always looks forward to Uncle Peter's visits, because Uncle Peter has a very exciting job: he runs a snake park!

In Concrete

In Concrete PDF Author: Anne Garréta
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1646050568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Garréta’s first novel in a decade follows the mania that descends upon a family when the father finds himself in possession of a concrete mixer. As he seeks to modernize every aspect of their lives, disaster strikes when the younger sister is subsumed by concrete. Through puns, wordplay, and dizzying verbal effect, Garréta reinvents the novel form and blurs the line between spoken and written language in an attempt to confront the elasticity of communication.

Akimbo and the Snakes

Akimbo and the Snakes PDF Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747586233
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Book Description
A thrilling story of Africa, snakes and a dangerous mission, from the bestselling author of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Akimbo always looks forward to Uncle Peter's visits, because Uncle Peter has a very exciting job: he runs a snake park!

Akimbo and the Elephants

Akimbo and the Elephants PDF Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599900319
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.

Akimbo and the Lions

Akimbo and the Lions PDF Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599900327
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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When Akimbo and his park ranger father unintentionally capture a lion cub near an African game park when they are trying to trap a lion that has been attacking cattle on nearby farms, Akimbo wants to keep the cub. Reprint.

Akimbo and the Crocodile Man

Akimbo and the Crocodile Man PDF Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599900335
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Akimbo goes to the rescue of a zoologist who is injured on his father's game preserve.

Akimbo and the Baboons

Akimbo and the Baboons PDF Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780747594581
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Includes brilliant baboon facts! Akimbo loves his life in Africa and the animals that live there. In this newest Akimbo story, a lady comes to study the baboons in the game reserve where Akimbo's father is the head ranger. Akimbo is keen to help and find out all he can about baboons - and in so doing comes closer to a much more dangerous animal …

The Akimbo Adventures

The Akimbo Adventures PDF Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780008726676
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Piano Student

The Piano Student PDF Author: Lea Singer
Publisher: New Vessel Press
ISBN: 1939931878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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"Explosively passionate, this story of forbidden love and unmet potential is ... for anyone who’s ever felt the ineffable power of music." —Aja Gabel, author of The Ensemble The Piano Student is a novel about regret, secrecy, and music, involving an affair between one of the 20th century’s most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student, Nico Kaufmann, in the late 1930s. As Europe hurtles toward political catastrophe and Horowitz ascends to the pinnacle of artistic achievement, the great pianist hides his illicit passion from his wife Wanda, daughter of the renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini. Based on unpublished letters by Horowitz to Kaufmann that author Lea Singer discovered in Switzerland, this is a riveting and sensitive tale of musical perfection, love, and longing denied, with multiple historical layers and insights into artistic creativity.

Beautiful and Useless

Beautiful and Useless PDF Author: Min Jeong Kim
Publisher: Moon Country Korean Poetry
ISBN: 9781939568366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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In Beautiful and Useless, Kim Min Jeong exposes the often funny and contradictory rifts that appear in the language of everyday circumstance. She uses slang, puns, cultural referents, and 'naughty, unwomanly" language in order to challenge readers to expand their ideas of not only what a poem is, but also how women should speak. In this way Kim undermines patriarchal authority by displaying the absurd nature of gender expectations. But even larger than issues of gender, these poems reveal the illogical systems of power behind the apparent structures that govern the logic of everyday life. By making the source of these antagonisms and gender transgressions visible, they make them less powerful. This skillful translation from Soeun Seo and Jake Levine, brings the full playfulness and intelligence of Kim's lyricism to English-language readers.

Two Stories

Two Stories PDF Author: Osvaldo Lamborghini
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734976632
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Fiction. Translated by Jessica Sequera. The writing of the late Osvaldo Lamborghini (1940--1985) resists almost any attempt to characterize, let alone summarize. An iconoclastic figure of the Latin American literary milieu of the mid-to-late twentieth century, Lamborghini melded the baroque and the low-brow to often outrageous effect (Bolaño said he could only read a few pages of him at once). Rendered into English for the first time here are two long short stories, The Morning and Just Write Anything!, an accurate sample of his work in much the same way that a bucket of seawater is an accurate sample of the ocean.