Author: Tī. Bī Ilaṅgaratna
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789555730587
Category : Children's stories, Sinhalese
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Novel, for children.
Amba Yahaluwo
Author: Tī. Bī Ilaṅgaratna
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789555730587
Category : Children's stories, Sinhalese
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Novel, for children.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789555730587
Category : Children's stories, Sinhalese
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Novel, for children.
Madol Doova
Author: Martin Wickramasinghe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789555640107
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789555640107
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Lust for Life
Author: Sylvester McNutt III
Publisher: Success Is a Choice LLC.
ISBN: 9780692920459
Category : Success
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Lust For Life was born out of the obsession to taste happiness consistently, to deliver mountain moving words that will always push you towards happiness, and to create energy inside of us that can never be destroyed so we can remain in a state of abundance
Publisher: Success Is a Choice LLC.
ISBN: 9780692920459
Category : Success
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Lust For Life was born out of the obsession to taste happiness consistently, to deliver mountain moving words that will always push you towards happiness, and to create energy inside of us that can never be destroyed so we can remain in a state of abundance
Suncatcher
Author: Romesh Gunesekera
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620975602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The internationally celebrated (and Booker Prize–shortlisted) author returns with a dazzling coming-of-age story set in post-independence Sri Lanka "A master storyteller." —The New York Times Ceylon is on the brink of change. But young Kairo is at loose ends. School is closed, the government is in disarray, the press is under threat, and the religious right are flexing their muscles. Kairo's hardworking mother blows off steam at her cha-cha-cha classes; his Trotskyist father grumbles over the state of the nation between his secret bets on horse races in faraway England. All Kairo wants to do is hide in his room and flick through secondhand westerns and superhero comics, or escape on his bicycle and daydream. Then he meets the magnetic teenage Jay, and his whole world is turned inside out. A budding naturalist and a born rebel, Jay keeps fish and traps birds for an aviary he is building in the garden of his grand home. As Jay guides Kairo from the realm of make-believe into one of hunting guns and fast cars and introduces him to a girl— Niromi—Kairo begins to understand the price of privilege and embarks on a journey of devastating consequence. Taut and luminous, graceful and wild, Suncatcher is a poignant coming-of-age novel about difficult friendships and sudden awakenings set among the tumult of 1960s Sri Lanka, that confirms Gunesekera's status as one of today's most lyrical writers.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620975602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The internationally celebrated (and Booker Prize–shortlisted) author returns with a dazzling coming-of-age story set in post-independence Sri Lanka "A master storyteller." —The New York Times Ceylon is on the brink of change. But young Kairo is at loose ends. School is closed, the government is in disarray, the press is under threat, and the religious right are flexing their muscles. Kairo's hardworking mother blows off steam at her cha-cha-cha classes; his Trotskyist father grumbles over the state of the nation between his secret bets on horse races in faraway England. All Kairo wants to do is hide in his room and flick through secondhand westerns and superhero comics, or escape on his bicycle and daydream. Then he meets the magnetic teenage Jay, and his whole world is turned inside out. A budding naturalist and a born rebel, Jay keeps fish and traps birds for an aviary he is building in the garden of his grand home. As Jay guides Kairo from the realm of make-believe into one of hunting guns and fast cars and introduces him to a girl— Niromi—Kairo begins to understand the price of privilege and embarks on a journey of devastating consequence. Taut and luminous, graceful and wild, Suncatcher is a poignant coming-of-age novel about difficult friendships and sudden awakenings set among the tumult of 1960s Sri Lanka, that confirms Gunesekera's status as one of today's most lyrical writers.
Chlorine Sky
Author: Mahogany L. Browne
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593176413
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nikki Grimes. "Mahogany L. Browne's debut YA ia an absolute masterpiece. It will leave you breathless." -Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X She looks me hard in my eyes & my knees lock into tree trunks My eyes don't dance like my heartbeat racing They stare straight back hot daggers. I remember things will never be the same. I remember things. With gritty and heartbreaking honesty, Mahogany L. Browne delivers a novel-in-verse about broken promises, fast rumors, and when growing up means growing apart from your best friend.
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593176413
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nikki Grimes. "Mahogany L. Browne's debut YA ia an absolute masterpiece. It will leave you breathless." -Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X She looks me hard in my eyes & my knees lock into tree trunks My eyes don't dance like my heartbeat racing They stare straight back hot daggers. I remember things will never be the same. I remember things. With gritty and heartbreaking honesty, Mahogany L. Browne delivers a novel-in-verse about broken promises, fast rumors, and when growing up means growing apart from your best friend.
What Lies Between Us
Author: Nayomi Munaweera
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466842288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka, a young girl grows up with her loving family; but even in the midst of this paradise, terror lurks in the shadows. When tragedy strikes, she and her mother must seek safety by immigrating to America. There the girl reinvents herself as an American teenager to survive, with the help of her cousin; but even as she assimilates and thrives, the secrets and scars of her past follow her into adulthood. In this new country of freedom, everything she has built begins to crumble around her, and her hold on reality becomes more and more tenuous. When the past and the present collide, she sees only one terrible choice. From Nayomi Munaweera, the award-winning author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, comes the confession of a woman, driven by the demons of her past to commit a single and possibly unforgivable crime. Praise for Island of a Thousand Mirrors: "The paradisiacal landscapes of Sri Lanka are as astonishing as the barbarity of its revolution, and Munaweera evokes the power of both in a lyrical debut novel worthy of shelving alongside her countryman Michael Ondaatje or her fellow writer of the multigenerational immigrant experience Jhumpa Lahiri." - Publishers Weekly "The beating heart of Island of a Thousand Mirrors is not so much its human characters but Sri Lanka itself and the vivid, occasionally incandescent, language used to describe this teardrop in the Indian Ocean." - The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466842288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka, a young girl grows up with her loving family; but even in the midst of this paradise, terror lurks in the shadows. When tragedy strikes, she and her mother must seek safety by immigrating to America. There the girl reinvents herself as an American teenager to survive, with the help of her cousin; but even as she assimilates and thrives, the secrets and scars of her past follow her into adulthood. In this new country of freedom, everything she has built begins to crumble around her, and her hold on reality becomes more and more tenuous. When the past and the present collide, she sees only one terrible choice. From Nayomi Munaweera, the award-winning author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, comes the confession of a woman, driven by the demons of her past to commit a single and possibly unforgivable crime. Praise for Island of a Thousand Mirrors: "The paradisiacal landscapes of Sri Lanka are as astonishing as the barbarity of its revolution, and Munaweera evokes the power of both in a lyrical debut novel worthy of shelving alongside her countryman Michael Ondaatje or her fellow writer of the multigenerational immigrant experience Jhumpa Lahiri." - Publishers Weekly "The beating heart of Island of a Thousand Mirrors is not so much its human characters but Sri Lanka itself and the vivid, occasionally incandescent, language used to describe this teardrop in the Indian Ocean." - The New York Times Book Review
Bringing Tony Home
Author: Tissa Abeysekara
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781556437571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Set in the 1940s and 1960s, Bringing Tony Home is a masterful modern example of a timeless genre, the bildungsroman. In the title novella, a boy returns to his old home to find Tony, his beloved dog who was abandoned when economic circumstances forced the family to leave. “Bringing Tony Home” recounts this perilous journey in detail, movingly tracing the boy’s rescue attempts and his spiraling emotions as he endures changes occurring in his family. In “Elsewhere: Something Like a Love Story,” a young boy finds forbidden love with a schoolmate scorned for her poverty. “Elsewhere” continues their saga, touching on the bittersweet memories they share as adults, and on the woman’s increasingly precarious place in a society concerned only with status. The other stories, “Poor Young Man: A Requiem” and “Hark, The Moaning Pond: A Grandmother’s Tale,” delve into a young man’s relationship with his father as the latter’s fortunes fade, and into the now-mature man’s attempts to come to grips with the death of his grandmother and what she symbolized. Abeysekara’s ability to evoke the sights and sounds of another time and place, and his skill in rendering the inner lives of his characters, make Bringing Tony Home a remarkable read.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781556437571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Set in the 1940s and 1960s, Bringing Tony Home is a masterful modern example of a timeless genre, the bildungsroman. In the title novella, a boy returns to his old home to find Tony, his beloved dog who was abandoned when economic circumstances forced the family to leave. “Bringing Tony Home” recounts this perilous journey in detail, movingly tracing the boy’s rescue attempts and his spiraling emotions as he endures changes occurring in his family. In “Elsewhere: Something Like a Love Story,” a young boy finds forbidden love with a schoolmate scorned for her poverty. “Elsewhere” continues their saga, touching on the bittersweet memories they share as adults, and on the woman’s increasingly precarious place in a society concerned only with status. The other stories, “Poor Young Man: A Requiem” and “Hark, The Moaning Pond: A Grandmother’s Tale,” delve into a young man’s relationship with his father as the latter’s fortunes fade, and into the now-mature man’s attempts to come to grips with the death of his grandmother and what she symbolized. Abeysekara’s ability to evoke the sights and sounds of another time and place, and his skill in rendering the inner lives of his characters, make Bringing Tony Home a remarkable read.
Woke Baby
Author: Mahogany L. Browne
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1250240794
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
For all the littlest progressives, waking up to seize a new day of justice and activism. Woke babies are up early. Woke babies raise their fists in the air. Woke babies cry out for justice. Woke babies grow up to change the world. This lyrical and empowering book is both a celebration of what it means to be a baby and what it means to be woke. With bright playful art, Woke Baby is an anthem of hope in a world where the only limit to a skyscrapper is more blue.
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1250240794
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
For all the littlest progressives, waking up to seize a new day of justice and activism. Woke babies are up early. Woke babies raise their fists in the air. Woke babies cry out for justice. Woke babies grow up to change the world. This lyrical and empowering book is both a celebration of what it means to be a baby and what it means to be woke. With bright playful art, Woke Baby is an anthem of hope in a world where the only limit to a skyscrapper is more blue.
The Umbrella Thief
Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916291129
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When each of the umbrellas he brings back to his village disappears, Kiri Mama devises a plan to track down the thief.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916291129
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When each of the umbrellas he brings back to his village disappears, Kiri Mama devises a plan to track down the thief.
ST(P) Mathematics 1A Second Edition
Author: Linda Bostock
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748705405
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
ST(P) Mathematics offers very useful support to teachers and pupils through the PoS for Key Stages 3 and 4. Sufficient text is given for pupils to use as a reminder of the main results and methods Whenever possible, the recommended technique is to give the pupils a starting point from which they can find out mathematical properties for themselves. Each book offers an ample supply of execises to consolidate work covered by investigation, project, class discussion, class teaching etc. A separate Teacher's Notes and Answers book is published for each Pupils' Book in year 1 - 4 and Book 5C. Answers are included in Books 5A and 5B.
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748705405
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
ST(P) Mathematics offers very useful support to teachers and pupils through the PoS for Key Stages 3 and 4. Sufficient text is given for pupils to use as a reminder of the main results and methods Whenever possible, the recommended technique is to give the pupils a starting point from which they can find out mathematical properties for themselves. Each book offers an ample supply of execises to consolidate work covered by investigation, project, class discussion, class teaching etc. A separate Teacher's Notes and Answers book is published for each Pupils' Book in year 1 - 4 and Book 5C. Answers are included in Books 5A and 5B.