Author: Loreley_Silver
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711565964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Gedichte und Storys mit direkt aus der Gefühls- und Gedankenwelt einer Teenagerin. In diesem Buch berichtet Loreley_Silver von Situationen die sie selbst erlebt hat. Von traumatischen Erlebnissen, über unerwartete aber erfüllende Liebe und Problemen im Alltag und Allgemeinen. In lyrischen Formen, aber auch Erzählungen reißt sie ihre Leser mit in ihre Welt. Verfasst sind die Storys auf Englisch, um ein anderes Feeling bei den Lesern anzuregen als deutsche Storys. Und wer könnte das besser als jemand, dessen Gehirn 24/7 auf Englisch gepolt ist?
The perks and drawbacks of being young. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Loreley_Silver
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711565964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Gedichte und Storys mit direkt aus der Gefühls- und Gedankenwelt einer Teenagerin. In diesem Buch berichtet Loreley_Silver von Situationen die sie selbst erlebt hat. Von traumatischen Erlebnissen, über unerwartete aber erfüllende Liebe und Problemen im Alltag und Allgemeinen. In lyrischen Formen, aber auch Erzählungen reißt sie ihre Leser mit in ihre Welt. Verfasst sind die Storys auf Englisch, um ein anderes Feeling bei den Lesern anzuregen als deutsche Storys. Und wer könnte das besser als jemand, dessen Gehirn 24/7 auf Englisch gepolt ist?
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711565964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Gedichte und Storys mit direkt aus der Gefühls- und Gedankenwelt einer Teenagerin. In diesem Buch berichtet Loreley_Silver von Situationen die sie selbst erlebt hat. Von traumatischen Erlebnissen, über unerwartete aber erfüllende Liebe und Problemen im Alltag und Allgemeinen. In lyrischen Formen, aber auch Erzählungen reißt sie ihre Leser mit in ihre Welt. Verfasst sind die Storys auf Englisch, um ein anderes Feeling bei den Lesern anzuregen als deutsche Storys. Und wer könnte das besser als jemand, dessen Gehirn 24/7 auf Englisch gepolt ist?
I Am Not An Adult. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Shahar Varod
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710890667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Adulthood sucks. No one prepares you for it - at a certain point in life you are simply expected to know what you want to do for a living, find a good partner, get a degree and do your taxes. It is in this time that you also have to go through the most life-changing experiences, grow up, and figure out what makes you trully happy. Everyone must deal with this change during their lives. Yet since it is now my turn to become a functioning, responsible adult, I have decided to whine about it in the best way I know - write a book. I am not adult. Are you?
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710890667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Adulthood sucks. No one prepares you for it - at a certain point in life you are simply expected to know what you want to do for a living, find a good partner, get a degree and do your taxes. It is in this time that you also have to go through the most life-changing experiences, grow up, and figure out what makes you trully happy. Everyone must deal with this change during their lives. Yet since it is now my turn to become a functioning, responsible adult, I have decided to whine about it in the best way I know - write a book. I am not adult. Are you?
Letters to Mr. Darcy. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Beatriz Iara Schoueri
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711538932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
My dearest Mr. Darcy, allow me to make a sassy prediction: one day, you will read my name on this book cover, and by the time you realize it, you will be reading this letter. Awareness will strike you like lightning; you will drop your act and feel in your bones that you are the one I wrote it to. Pride, then, will take your ego to the highest heights as you remember our time together, but the prejudice resulting from the same period will be the one causing your fingers to tremble and your breath to falter; you will be taking the book home. What's more, I venture to say that, somehow, no matter where I might be, I will know it too. It's an inexplicable feeling, weird but wagerable. In the meantime, I leave you with a more daring question than the single "why?" messing with your head as soon as you started reading me: love rules the world, but as innocent and ardently as it may be, can it conquer it all? Yours truly, the author
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711538932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
My dearest Mr. Darcy, allow me to make a sassy prediction: one day, you will read my name on this book cover, and by the time you realize it, you will be reading this letter. Awareness will strike you like lightning; you will drop your act and feel in your bones that you are the one I wrote it to. Pride, then, will take your ego to the highest heights as you remember our time together, but the prejudice resulting from the same period will be the one causing your fingers to tremble and your breath to falter; you will be taking the book home. What's more, I venture to say that, somehow, no matter where I might be, I will know it too. It's an inexplicable feeling, weird but wagerable. In the meantime, I leave you with a more daring question than the single "why?" messing with your head as soon as you started reading me: love rules the world, but as innocent and ardently as it may be, can it conquer it all? Yours truly, the author
Fragile Rebellion. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Mia Mitrekanic
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710873924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
'There was an infantry of letters that had the strength of a revolution' The Upper East Side of Manhattan needed a girl like Ophelia. The approaching writer, on the other hand, absolute perfection. For her success, promised by her charming lecturer, she is willing to subject parallels, melancholic dark memories from her past, as well as controversial aquaintances and acts which will never again make her the person she once was. As 'Fragile Rebellion', she opposes her own youth and puts everything at risk - even if that meant loosing people, feeling eternal regret or even sacrificing oneself for the accomplishment.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710873924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
'There was an infantry of letters that had the strength of a revolution' The Upper East Side of Manhattan needed a girl like Ophelia. The approaching writer, on the other hand, absolute perfection. For her success, promised by her charming lecturer, she is willing to subject parallels, melancholic dark memories from her past, as well as controversial aquaintances and acts which will never again make her the person she once was. As 'Fragile Rebellion', she opposes her own youth and puts everything at risk - even if that meant loosing people, feeling eternal regret or even sacrificing oneself for the accomplishment.
Wallflower Stories. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Skylar C. R. Wolf
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710855543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Once upon a time, a wallflower collected moments of strangers' lives and given them new names - the names of Greek god*desses and heroes. In hopes to remember the souls they've met and those who shared the time with them for a little while. Those are a few stories showing different facets of life - of friendships, love, heartbreak and loss.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710855543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Once upon a time, a wallflower collected moments of strangers' lives and given them new names - the names of Greek god*desses and heroes. In hopes to remember the souls they've met and those who shared the time with them for a little while. Those are a few stories showing different facets of life - of friendships, love, heartbreak and loss.
In German, it is called wohnGEMEINschaft. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Angelika Gierok
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710890381
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Settle in and buckle up for unveiling to you an enlightening and captivating narrative about the trials and tribulations of cohabitation, or, as the Germans call it, Wohngemeinschaft. Not only a guide to survive in a communal living situation, but also a delightful companion for those new to this concept or who want to take a delightful plunge into the past. I explored all the variations during my WG Odysee or call it an unintentional sociological study over 14 years: 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, and even 20-person Wohngemeinschaften in Zurich, Nizza, Ajaccio, Hamburg, Munich, Montpellier, Orléans, Alicante, Porto, Barcelona, Lund, and Basel. I was extremely privileged to reside within a dynamic community that consisted of a diverse array of individuals, including educators, culinary experts, medical professionals, scientific scholars, dreamers, biologists, as well as hotel managers. Truthfully thankful for these wonderful individuals who have enriched my life and inspired me to write this story.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710890381
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Settle in and buckle up for unveiling to you an enlightening and captivating narrative about the trials and tribulations of cohabitation, or, as the Germans call it, Wohngemeinschaft. Not only a guide to survive in a communal living situation, but also a delightful companion for those new to this concept or who want to take a delightful plunge into the past. I explored all the variations during my WG Odysee or call it an unintentional sociological study over 14 years: 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, and even 20-person Wohngemeinschaften in Zurich, Nizza, Ajaccio, Hamburg, Munich, Montpellier, Orléans, Alicante, Porto, Barcelona, Lund, and Basel. I was extremely privileged to reside within a dynamic community that consisted of a diverse array of individuals, including educators, culinary experts, medical professionals, scientific scholars, dreamers, biologists, as well as hotel managers. Truthfully thankful for these wonderful individuals who have enriched my life and inspired me to write this story.
Embassy Wife
Author: Katie Crouch
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"A smart, sparkling novel that is one part social satire, one part travelogue . . . Comical and cool.” —Oprah Daily In Katie Crouch's thrilling novel Embassy Wife, two women abroad search for the truth about their husbands—and their country. Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems she encounters: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s legal counsel but a secret agent in the CIA. The consummate embassy wife, she takes the newest trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing. Amanda arrives in Namibia mere weeks after giving up her Silicon Valley job so her husband, Mark, can have his family close by as he works on his Fulbright project. But once they’re settled in the sub-Saharan desert, Amanda sees clearly that Mark, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier, has other reasons for returning. Back in the safety of home, the marriage had seemed solid; in the glaring heat of the Kalahari, it feels tenuous. And the situation grows even more fraught when their daughter becomes involved in an international conflict and their own government won’t stand up for her. How far will Amanda go to keep her family intact? How much corruption can Persephone ignore? And what, exactly, does it mean to be an American abroad when you’re not sure you understand your country anymore? Propulsive and provocative, Embassy Wife asks what it means to be a human in this world, even as it helps us laugh in the face of our own absurd, seemingly impossible states of affairs.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"A smart, sparkling novel that is one part social satire, one part travelogue . . . Comical and cool.” —Oprah Daily In Katie Crouch's thrilling novel Embassy Wife, two women abroad search for the truth about their husbands—and their country. Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems she encounters: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s legal counsel but a secret agent in the CIA. The consummate embassy wife, she takes the newest trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing. Amanda arrives in Namibia mere weeks after giving up her Silicon Valley job so her husband, Mark, can have his family close by as he works on his Fulbright project. But once they’re settled in the sub-Saharan desert, Amanda sees clearly that Mark, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier, has other reasons for returning. Back in the safety of home, the marriage had seemed solid; in the glaring heat of the Kalahari, it feels tenuous. And the situation grows even more fraught when their daughter becomes involved in an international conflict and their own government won’t stand up for her. How far will Amanda go to keep her family intact? How much corruption can Persephone ignore? And what, exactly, does it mean to be an American abroad when you’re not sure you understand your country anymore? Propulsive and provocative, Embassy Wife asks what it means to be a human in this world, even as it helps us laugh in the face of our own absurd, seemingly impossible states of affairs.
As Time Goes By
Author: Joy Charnley
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443864862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Academic work in a range of disciplines has been making an important contribution to the fraught and confusing debate around ageing, and through writers’ consciousness and experience, literature, just like economics, psychology, history and sociology, can provide valuable insights into the attitudes and prejudices prevalent in society. The present volume adds to this burgeoning field by providing a wide spectrum of literary analyses drawing on a range of approaches (Freud, Lacan, Kristeva and feminist theory, amongst others) and covering a broad geographical area (France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, in addition to Francophone Canada and Morocco). Major writers such as Balzac, Cervantes, Goethe, Mann and Zola are discussed here, as well as a number of important twentieth-century writers (Ben Jelloun, Cixous, Doubrovsky, Ernaux, Roy and Ungaretti) and less well-known figures (Carvalho, Châtelet and Fleutiaux). Within the broad themes which structure the volume, many others also emerge, overlapping and often recurring in several sections. These constant echoes between essays remind us that, whatever the geographical location or the period in history, similar issues remain pertinent across time and space, whether it be family relations, generational solidarity, sadness and loneliness, memory and dementia, class differences, gender differences or sexuality. Together, these essays contribute to the existing body of critical work by providing a series of portraits of what age is, has been and might be in the future. Collectively they demonstrate once more the power of literature to reflect or even prefigure social trends, encouraging us to consider carefully what we think, how we live and how we might shape our future societies.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443864862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Academic work in a range of disciplines has been making an important contribution to the fraught and confusing debate around ageing, and through writers’ consciousness and experience, literature, just like economics, psychology, history and sociology, can provide valuable insights into the attitudes and prejudices prevalent in society. The present volume adds to this burgeoning field by providing a wide spectrum of literary analyses drawing on a range of approaches (Freud, Lacan, Kristeva and feminist theory, amongst others) and covering a broad geographical area (France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, in addition to Francophone Canada and Morocco). Major writers such as Balzac, Cervantes, Goethe, Mann and Zola are discussed here, as well as a number of important twentieth-century writers (Ben Jelloun, Cixous, Doubrovsky, Ernaux, Roy and Ungaretti) and less well-known figures (Carvalho, Châtelet and Fleutiaux). Within the broad themes which structure the volume, many others also emerge, overlapping and often recurring in several sections. These constant echoes between essays remind us that, whatever the geographical location or the period in history, similar issues remain pertinent across time and space, whether it be family relations, generational solidarity, sadness and loneliness, memory and dementia, class differences, gender differences or sexuality. Together, these essays contribute to the existing body of critical work by providing a series of portraits of what age is, has been and might be in the future. Collectively they demonstrate once more the power of literature to reflect or even prefigure social trends, encouraging us to consider carefully what we think, how we live and how we might shape our future societies.
Thinking Themselves Free
Author: Cynthia Miller Coffel
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433109720
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Thinking Themselves Free presents humane, tender portraits of a small group of teen mothers trying to finish high school, and describes the ways in which reading, writing, and schooling shaped these young women's lives. The book suggests ways in which deeply held ideas about class, appropriate gender roles, and the expression of emotion in school affect educators' relationships with students who are different from the middle-class norm. Teachers of teen mothers describe with poignancy the young women's struggles to balance motherhood, work, and school, and suggest how schools could change to become more open to the diversity of life choice these women express. Because this book addresses the problems of struggling readers, working class students, and the teachers who serve them, its greatest audience will be among pre-service and in-service teachers and teacher educators interested in literacy education, qualitative research, education reform, gender equity, social justice, and the teaching of young adult literature.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433109720
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Thinking Themselves Free presents humane, tender portraits of a small group of teen mothers trying to finish high school, and describes the ways in which reading, writing, and schooling shaped these young women's lives. The book suggests ways in which deeply held ideas about class, appropriate gender roles, and the expression of emotion in school affect educators' relationships with students who are different from the middle-class norm. Teachers of teen mothers describe with poignancy the young women's struggles to balance motherhood, work, and school, and suggest how schools could change to become more open to the diversity of life choice these women express. Because this book addresses the problems of struggling readers, working class students, and the teachers who serve them, its greatest audience will be among pre-service and in-service teachers and teacher educators interested in literacy education, qualitative research, education reform, gender equity, social justice, and the teaching of young adult literature.
Integrating Assessment into Early Language Learning and Teaching
Author: Danijela Prošić-Santovac
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1788924835
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The volume unites research and practice on integrating language learning, teaching and assessment at preschool and early school age. It includes chapters written by experts in the field who have studied some of the very youngest (pre-primary) children through to those up to the age of 12, in a variety of private and state contexts across Europe. The collection makes a much-needed contribution to the subject of appropriate assessment for children with the focus of many chapters being classroom-based assessment, particularly formative assessment, or the case for developing assessment skills in relation to even the youngest children. As a whole, the book provides useful case study insights for policymakers, teacher educators, researchers and postgraduate students with interest in or responsibility for how children are assessed in their language learning. It also provides practical ideas for practitioners who wish to implement greater integration of assessment and learning in their own contexts.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1788924835
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The volume unites research and practice on integrating language learning, teaching and assessment at preschool and early school age. It includes chapters written by experts in the field who have studied some of the very youngest (pre-primary) children through to those up to the age of 12, in a variety of private and state contexts across Europe. The collection makes a much-needed contribution to the subject of appropriate assessment for children with the focus of many chapters being classroom-based assessment, particularly formative assessment, or the case for developing assessment skills in relation to even the youngest children. As a whole, the book provides useful case study insights for policymakers, teacher educators, researchers and postgraduate students with interest in or responsibility for how children are assessed in their language learning. It also provides practical ideas for practitioners who wish to implement greater integration of assessment and learning in their own contexts.