Author: Charmaine Powder
Publisher: Beyond Publishing
ISBN: 9781949873634
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Do you have unanswered questions about your life? Family secrets too painful to reveal? This memoir uncovers the unimaginable- secrets untold come to light. Life in the Little Wooden House is a deeply touching and inspiring story, filled with victory and defeat. Struggle and hope. Love lost and new beginnings. Tragedy and joy. A captivating tale of one woman accounting her life through her childhood lens. "As the outside world beckoned to me, I began my short journey through the birth canal, not even aware that I was coming hand first instead of head first, as if eager to grab ahold of the unknown that awaited me". "Moving was a part of her life, it was embedded in her DNA. Moving was necessary to create change; a chance to begin again." "She no longer needed to be Mrs. Timothy to feel secure or loved..." "We press on, no matter how hard it was, knowing that the inevitable was about to happen. Soon there would be no holding back, no more pretenses, no more restrictions. We would break free from the walls that now contain us, break free to enjoy the simple pleasures that awaited us, believing that one day this simple but sometimes complex life would somehow mold and shape us into who we endeavour to become. Allowing us to dream big dreams and have wild imaginations despite our limitations. " "We did it for our school, showcasing the talents our teachers worked hard to cultivate. We did it for our tiny island home, small but bursting with potential and possibility; but most of all we did it for ourselves to show what we were really made of. Confidence oozed from our pores and we knew we could now move mountains. We could now slay the biggest giants in our path." "The only lights now visible are the twinkling stars and a beautiful full moon creating a shimmering path across the dark sea. As the boat slices through the water, like a sharp knife, we hear the sound of the waves calling out as it laps against the side of the boat and the bow dips in rhythm to its call."
Life in the Little Wooden House
Author: Charmaine Powder
Publisher: Beyond Publishing
ISBN: 9781949873634
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Do you have unanswered questions about your life? Family secrets too painful to reveal? This memoir uncovers the unimaginable- secrets untold come to light. Life in the Little Wooden House is a deeply touching and inspiring story, filled with victory and defeat. Struggle and hope. Love lost and new beginnings. Tragedy and joy. A captivating tale of one woman accounting her life through her childhood lens. "As the outside world beckoned to me, I began my short journey through the birth canal, not even aware that I was coming hand first instead of head first, as if eager to grab ahold of the unknown that awaited me". "Moving was a part of her life, it was embedded in her DNA. Moving was necessary to create change; a chance to begin again." "She no longer needed to be Mrs. Timothy to feel secure or loved..." "We press on, no matter how hard it was, knowing that the inevitable was about to happen. Soon there would be no holding back, no more pretenses, no more restrictions. We would break free from the walls that now contain us, break free to enjoy the simple pleasures that awaited us, believing that one day this simple but sometimes complex life would somehow mold and shape us into who we endeavour to become. Allowing us to dream big dreams and have wild imaginations despite our limitations. " "We did it for our school, showcasing the talents our teachers worked hard to cultivate. We did it for our tiny island home, small but bursting with potential and possibility; but most of all we did it for ourselves to show what we were really made of. Confidence oozed from our pores and we knew we could now move mountains. We could now slay the biggest giants in our path." "The only lights now visible are the twinkling stars and a beautiful full moon creating a shimmering path across the dark sea. As the boat slices through the water, like a sharp knife, we hear the sound of the waves calling out as it laps against the side of the boat and the bow dips in rhythm to its call."
Publisher: Beyond Publishing
ISBN: 9781949873634
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Do you have unanswered questions about your life? Family secrets too painful to reveal? This memoir uncovers the unimaginable- secrets untold come to light. Life in the Little Wooden House is a deeply touching and inspiring story, filled with victory and defeat. Struggle and hope. Love lost and new beginnings. Tragedy and joy. A captivating tale of one woman accounting her life through her childhood lens. "As the outside world beckoned to me, I began my short journey through the birth canal, not even aware that I was coming hand first instead of head first, as if eager to grab ahold of the unknown that awaited me". "Moving was a part of her life, it was embedded in her DNA. Moving was necessary to create change; a chance to begin again." "She no longer needed to be Mrs. Timothy to feel secure or loved..." "We press on, no matter how hard it was, knowing that the inevitable was about to happen. Soon there would be no holding back, no more pretenses, no more restrictions. We would break free from the walls that now contain us, break free to enjoy the simple pleasures that awaited us, believing that one day this simple but sometimes complex life would somehow mold and shape us into who we endeavour to become. Allowing us to dream big dreams and have wild imaginations despite our limitations. " "We did it for our school, showcasing the talents our teachers worked hard to cultivate. We did it for our tiny island home, small but bursting with potential and possibility; but most of all we did it for ourselves to show what we were really made of. Confidence oozed from our pores and we knew we could now move mountains. We could now slay the biggest giants in our path." "The only lights now visible are the twinkling stars and a beautiful full moon creating a shimmering path across the dark sea. As the boat slices through the water, like a sharp knife, we hear the sound of the waves calling out as it laps against the side of the boat and the bow dips in rhythm to its call."
The Dutch House
Author: Ann Patchett
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062963694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize Finalist | New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post; O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed From Ann Patchett, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth, comes a powerful, richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are. At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures. Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062963694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize Finalist | New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post; O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed From Ann Patchett, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth, comes a powerful, richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are. At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures. Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.
All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476746605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476746605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Everybody's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Medieval People
Author: Eileen Power
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Our Viceregal Life in India
Author: Harriot Georgina Blackwood Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Most Beloved Animal Tales for Christmas Eve
Author: Beatrix Potter
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
This holiday, Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics and the most beloved animal tales to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter) The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) The Adventures of Reddy Fox (Thornton Burgess) The Adventures of Johnny Chuck (Thornton Burgess) The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess) The Old Mother West Wind (Thornton Burgess) The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting) The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting) The Story of a Nodding Donkey (Laura Lee Hope) Little Bun Rabbit (L. Frank Baum) The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Story of a Stuffed Elephant (Laura Lee Hope) Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs (Eleanor Hallowell Abbott) Kittyboy's Christmas (Amy Ella Blanchard) The Naughty Reindeer (Amelia C. Houghton) Miss Muffet's Christmas Party (Samuel McChord Crothers) The Animals' Christmas Tree (John Punnett Peters) The Mouse and the Moonbeam (Eugene Field) The Cricket on the Hearth (Charles Dickens) The Christmas Cuckoo (Frances Browne) The Silver Hen (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman) The Sparrow and the Fairy (Georgianna M. Bishop) The Wonderful Bird (Georgianna M. Bishop) The Little Mud-Sparrows (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward) The Little Gray Lamb (Archibald Beresford Sullivan) How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty (Charlotte B. Herr) Cat and Dog Stories (Walter Crane)
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
This holiday, Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics and the most beloved animal tales to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter) The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) The Adventures of Reddy Fox (Thornton Burgess) The Adventures of Johnny Chuck (Thornton Burgess) The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess) The Old Mother West Wind (Thornton Burgess) The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting) The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting) The Story of a Nodding Donkey (Laura Lee Hope) Little Bun Rabbit (L. Frank Baum) The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Story of a Stuffed Elephant (Laura Lee Hope) Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs (Eleanor Hallowell Abbott) Kittyboy's Christmas (Amy Ella Blanchard) The Naughty Reindeer (Amelia C. Houghton) Miss Muffet's Christmas Party (Samuel McChord Crothers) The Animals' Christmas Tree (John Punnett Peters) The Mouse and the Moonbeam (Eugene Field) The Cricket on the Hearth (Charles Dickens) The Christmas Cuckoo (Frances Browne) The Silver Hen (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman) The Sparrow and the Fairy (Georgianna M. Bishop) The Wonderful Bird (Georgianna M. Bishop) The Little Mud-Sparrows (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward) The Little Gray Lamb (Archibald Beresford Sullivan) How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty (Charlotte B. Herr) Cat and Dog Stories (Walter Crane)
The Brothers Karamazov (Complete 12 Volumes): A Philosophical Novel by the Russian Novelist, Journalist and Philosopher, Author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The House of the Dead, Notes from Underground and The Gambler
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026837959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1057
Book Description
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves around the subject of patricide.
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026837959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1057
Book Description
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves around the subject of patricide.
It Was An Accident
Author: Jeremy Cameron
Publisher: HopeRoad
ISBN: 1908446404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Nicky Burkett, still incarcerated at the end of Vinnie Got Blown Away, is released on to the streets of Walthamstow in It Was An Accident. He wants to go straight. His girlfriend Noreen wants him to go straight and she won't go near him if he doesn't. He tries. But events and people conspire against him. He is offered "work". He is attacked. His mates are attacked. He runs to Jamaica and is attacked again. Now the fight back begins... Filmed starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Max Beesley and James Bolam, It Was An Accident is the fast, furious, bloody and hilarious follow up to the acclaimed Vinnie Got Blown Away. 'A wonderful thriller... An absolute cracker.' The Independent. 'The pleasure is intense.' Time Out. 'Ingenious, his street talk sizzles with wit and invention.' Literary Review. 'Brilliant, unputdownable' The Big Issue. 'A consistently funny and entertaining book.' The Times.
Publisher: HopeRoad
ISBN: 1908446404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Nicky Burkett, still incarcerated at the end of Vinnie Got Blown Away, is released on to the streets of Walthamstow in It Was An Accident. He wants to go straight. His girlfriend Noreen wants him to go straight and she won't go near him if he doesn't. He tries. But events and people conspire against him. He is offered "work". He is attacked. His mates are attacked. He runs to Jamaica and is attacked again. Now the fight back begins... Filmed starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Max Beesley and James Bolam, It Was An Accident is the fast, furious, bloody and hilarious follow up to the acclaimed Vinnie Got Blown Away. 'A wonderful thriller... An absolute cracker.' The Independent. 'The pleasure is intense.' Time Out. 'Ingenious, his street talk sizzles with wit and invention.' Literary Review. 'Brilliant, unputdownable' The Big Issue. 'A consistently funny and entertaining book.' The Times.
A Century of Town Life
Author: James Frothingham Hunnewell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charlestown (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charlestown (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description