When Vera Was Sick

When Vera Was Sick PDF Author: Vera Rosenberry
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ISBN: 9781595196507
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
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When spots break out all over her body, Vera must stay in the sick room where it is lonely and scary and where she can't fall asleep.

When Vera Was Sick

When Vera Was Sick PDF Author: Vera Rosenberry
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ISBN: 9781595196507
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
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When spots break out all over her body, Vera must stay in the sick room where it is lonely and scary and where she can't fall asleep.

When Vera Was Sick

When Vera Was Sick PDF Author: Vera Rosenberry
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805068320
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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When spots break out all over her body, Vera must stay in the sick room where it is lonely and scary and where she can't fall asleep.

When Vera Was Sick

When Vera Was Sick PDF Author: Vera Rosenberry
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613901444
Category :
Languages : en
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Vera is sick. Mother puts her in the spare room, rubs lotion on all her spots, and brings in Vera's favorite pillow to help her sleep. Any child who has shared the woes of being sick will find comfort and humor in this tender story about one brave little girl. Full-color illustrations.

Vera Runs Away

Vera Runs Away PDF Author: Vera Rosenberry
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ISBN: 9781430100355
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
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When her family seems to be too busy to appreciate her good report card, first-grader Vera decides to find somewhere else to live.

I Had Vera

I Had Vera PDF Author: Gilbert Foster Crane
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741417367
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Vera Gran: The Accused

Vera Gran: The Accused PDF Author: Agata Tuszynska
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307269124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film The Pianist, based on Szpilman’s memoir. Following the war, singer and accompanist, each of whom had lived the same harrowing story, were met with opposing fates: Szpilman was celebrated for his uncanny ability to survive against impossible odds, escaping from a Nazi transport loading site, smuggling in weapons to the Warsaw Ghetto for the Jewish resistance. Gran was accused of collaborating with the Nazis; denounced as a traitor, a “Gestapo whore,” reviled, imprisoned, ultimately exonerated yet afterward still shunned as a performer . . . in effect, sentenced to death without dying . . . until she was found by Agata Tuszyñska, acclaimed poet and biographer of, among others, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel laureate (“Her book has few equals”—The Times Literary Supplement). Tuszyñska, who won the trust of the once-glamorous former singer, then living in a basement in Paris—elderly, bitter, shut away from the world—encouraged Gran to tell her story, including her seemingly inexplicable decision to return to Warsaw to be reunited with her family after she had fled Hitler’s invading army, knowing she would have to live within the ghetto walls and, to survive, continue to perform at the popular Café Sztuka. At the heart of the book, Gran’s complex, fraught relationship with her accompanist, performing together month after month, for the many who came from within the ghetto and outside its walls to hear her sing. Using Vera Gran’s reflections and memories, as well as archives, letters, statements, and interviews with Warsaw Ghetto historians and survivors, Agata Tuszyñska has written an explosive, resonant portrait of lives lived inside a nightmare time, exploring the larger, more profound question of the nature of collaboration, of the price of survival, and of the long, treacherous shadow cast in its aftermath.

Vera Goes to the Dentist

Vera Goes to the Dentist PDF Author: Vera Rosenberry
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805066683
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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On Vera's first visit to the dentist, she has an unexpected reaction when he tries to polish her teeth.

Vera Deakin and the Red Cross

Vera Deakin and the Red Cross PDF Author: Carole Woods
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ISBN: 9781875173105
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This is a biography of Vera Deakin, daughter of the Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, focussing on her work with the Australian Red Cross. At the outbreak of war she gave up her musical studies to initiate the Wounded and Missing Inquiry Bureau of the Red Cross in Cairo and later in London. After the War she championed the needs of limbless veterans. During the Second World War Vera undertook similar work in Melbourne for the Red Cross. She was also involved in other Melbourne charities and welfare bodies, including the Children's hospital and Yooralla.

Butterfly Burning

Butterfly Burning PDF Author: Yvonne Vera
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466806079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Butterfly Burning brings the brilliantly poetic voice of Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera to American readers for the first time. Set in Makokoba, a black township, in the late l940s, the novel is an intensely bittersweet love story. When Fumbatha, a construction worker, meets the much younger Phephelaphi, he"wants her like the land beneath his feet from which birth had severed him." He in turn fills her "with hope larger than memory." But Phephelaphi is not satisfied with their "one-room" love alone. The qualities that drew Fumbatha to her, her sense of independence and freedom, end up separating them. And the closely woven fabric of township life, where everyone knows everyone else, has a mesh too tight and too intricate to allow her to escape her circumstances on her own. Vera exploits language to peel away the skin of public and private lives. In Butterfly Burning she captures the ebullience and the bitterness of township life, as well as the strength and courage of her unforgettable heroine.

For Ava

For Ava PDF Author: Vera Twomey
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN: 1781176841
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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What would you do to save your child? When Vera Twomey's daughter Ava was diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that causes multiple seizures a day, the family's life was thrown into chaos. Where they hoped to find treatment and support in the medical system, they found only frustration. The only medication that would have any effect on Ava's condition is a form of medicinal cannabis that was unavailable in Ireland. Thus began the family's fight to alleviate their daughter's suffering and give her a chance at life. Faced with an intransigent system and political establishment, Vera's campaign eventually culminated in her decision to walk from Cork to Leinster House in Dublin in protest to ask health minister Simon Harris for help in person. For Ava tells the story of the campaign for Ava's medication and the family's move to the Netherlands in order to legally access the medication that would save her life. It also pays tribute to the people who helped Vera achieve her goal. Above all, this is a moving story about the lengths a parent will go to for their child's health and happiness.