Elephants I Didn't Ride

Elephants I Didn't Ride PDF Author: Virgogray Press
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105589900
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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A poetic and visual journey to the East through the literary talents of poet, Peter Marti. Photos by Bernard Ries.

Elephants I Didn't Ride

Elephants I Didn't Ride PDF Author: Virgogray Press
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105589900
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Book Description
A poetic and visual journey to the East through the literary talents of poet, Peter Marti. Photos by Bernard Ries.

Never Ride Your Elephant to School

Never Ride Your Elephant to School PDF Author: Doug Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805028805
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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A humorous account of the disadvantages of bringing an elephant into the classroom.

The Kaliani Wind and other Jungle Stories

The Kaliani Wind and other Jungle Stories PDF Author: Ashok Biswal
Publisher: Pustak Mahal
ISBN: 8122312683
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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Elephant in the Sky

Elephant in the Sky PDF Author: Heather A. Clark
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
ISBN: 9781459693081
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Based on a true story, the tale of a nine-year-old with mental illness, and a mother who strives to find balance between her work and family.

Before Mandela's Rainbow

Before Mandela's Rainbow PDF Author: Edward Joffe
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1491892080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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FUNNIER THAN ADRIAN MOLE AND FAR SEXIER! Does not skirt round the vast injustice of apartheid SUPERB MEMOIR Joffe is a man sui generis. Impish at times, but always interesting. Memorable and well written! AN INTIMATE, FUNNY, AND PROFOUND PERSONAL HISTORY Reading this funny, clever, sometimes vicious portrayal of growing up in Johannesburg in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, I found myself reminded of Blakes line To see a world in a grain of sand. This is because Joffe, in writing a detailed and often very amusing account of his personal adventures and misadventures, captures also the texture of the broader environment, the brutal decades of racist horror of his native land. Joffe relates events with the engaging rhythm of all great story tellers - there are villains like sadistic teachers and fatuous fathers-in-law, there are lost adolescents in pursuit of sex and meaning, there are coming of age crises and triumphs, and an almost Dickensian host of memorable, often quirky, family members and friends. Read it, and you will see what I mean. Read it and youll laugh frequently. Read it and youll better understand the last 80 years of South African history. BRILLIANT MEMOIR Fascinating portrait of life in pre-Mandela South Africa, packed with very fine vignettes. A page-turning account of adolescence and the pains of growing up. Source: Amazon customer reviews

The Trellis

The Trellis PDF Author: Jools Cantor
Publisher: Dactylion LLC
ISBN: 1735593621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Debbie Peck is a conflict resolution mediator fighting for relevance and her next paycheck in Chicago's near future. So when her headhunter offers her an interview at the Jefferson Trellis, she jumps at the chance to climb what remains of America's corporate ladder. The pay would provide upward mobility, the experience would elevate her marketability, and the murders plaguing the office . . . well, they were a risk she could manage given the right opportunity. As Debbie navigates her new position and Homicide Detective Melody Jackson investigates the Trellis' tenants, they each untwine the tendrils of a dark secret creeping through its corner offices. Like the botanical gardens at the Trellis's base, their worlds weave between the lush, the stark, the delicate, and the deadly. Dancing between mystery, suspense, and speculative fiction, THE TRELLIS deftly layers a few years of decline on the current American condition. Whether it's the drone swarms, the deepfakes, the halves-of-one-tenth-of-one-percent, or the have-naughts, the technology has predictably improved while the people predictably haven't. Debbie's world is both familiar and fantastic, both funny and frightening, but to call it a dystopia would damn our own to the same definition.

Adorina and the Elephant Choir

Adorina and the Elephant Choir PDF Author: P. L. Chestney
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 141200506X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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The circus has been an art form since early Roman times, and was the best and only local, traveling entertainment, before huge electronic technology advances of the twentieth century. The history of the circus from early times to present is important, fascinating, and disappearing. There is another piece of history, soon to disappear forever, and sometimes linked with circus life, the cultural ethnic group of peoples called Gypsys. The gypsy world is underdocumented and somehow linked to a lifestyle of traveling and entertaining people. What is a circus without animals or a gypsy camp without horses? The main character of Adorina and the Elephant Choir is a gypsy girl, called Dori, who started life as an abandoned baby, and grew up to become the star of a circus. She became an animal trainer or one of those people who have an affinity with animals and a special way to communicate with them. Dori had no mother, in the beginning, but during her life in the circus is given, two special mothers. She is a twin and finds herself in danger, from her gypsy brother. She is by birth order, first born, and therefore Queen of the Gypsys. Dori also finds her selfworth and a boy to love. The circus she lived in, is a place most kids would love to run away to. Adorina and the Elephant Choir tells the story of the circus and the people who live and breathe circus. Also, the book deals with human relationships, trials and tribulations, emotions, and resolution. The book is generally geared for children and young people, but adults will enjoy reading the book also.

The Education of a Circus Clown

The Education of a Circus Clown PDF Author: David Carlyon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113754743X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life. Layering critical reflections of personal experience with connections to wider scholarship, Carlyon focuses on the work of clowning while interrogating what clowns actually do, rather than using them as stand-ins for conceptual ideas or as sentimental figures.

The Luck of the Irish

The Luck of the Irish PDF Author: Harold MacGrath
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Warrior of the World

Warrior of the World PDF Author: Jeffe Kennedy
Publisher: Rebel Base Books
ISBN: 1635730457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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Just beyond the reach of the Twelve Kingdoms, avarice, violence, strategy, and revenge clash around a survivor who could upset the balance of power all across the map . . . Once Ivariel thought elephants were fairy tales to amuse children. But her ice-encased childhood in Dasnaria’s imperial seraglio was lacking in freedom and justice. With a new name and an assumed identity as a warrior priestess of Danu, the woman once called Princess Jenna is now a fraud and a fugitive. But as she learns the ways of the beasts and hones new uses for her dancer’s strength, she moves one day further from the memory of her brutal husband. Safe in hot, healing Nyambura, Ivariel holds a good man at arm’s length and trains for the day she’ll be hunted again. She knows it’s coming. She’s not truly safe, not when her mind clouds with killing rage at unpredictable moments. Not when patient Ochieng’s dreams of a family frighten her to her bones. But it still comes as a shock to Ivariel when long-peaceful Nyambura comes under attack. Until her new people look to their warrior priestess and her elephants to lead them . . .