Author: Noel Streatfeild
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008244049
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A thrilling, classic children’s adventure with a courageous heroine, from the beloved author of Ballet Shoes.
Thursday’s Child
Author: Noel Streatfeild
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008244049
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A thrilling, classic children’s adventure with a courageous heroine, from the beloved author of Ballet Shoes.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008244049
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A thrilling, classic children’s adventure with a courageous heroine, from the beloved author of Ballet Shoes.
Havana Thursdays
Author: Virgil Suàrez
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611921717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
One phone call shatters the facade of tranquility presented by the entire Torres family, pitching its members into shockwaves of emotional upheaval that reveal the unsavory realities the clan prefers to ignore. Told in a fast-paced documentary style, Havana Thursdays is a compelling collection of voices of a Cuban-American family gathering during the crucial aftermath of a family memberÍs death. In alternating chapters, six strong-willed and vibrant women unfurl before the reader the richly hued tableau of their lives. Suàrez delivers a hopeful message that human dignity and good will provide the resilience to help overcome crises. Ultimately, the Torres family of Cuban exiles is no different in its sorrows and joys than any other American family, regardless of ethnicity. With forays into the individual psyches of characters in crisis over love and loyalty, growing up and growing old, marrying and dissolving, SuàrezÍs portrayal of women is as daring as their resolve to pioneer generational changes for this conservative clan.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611921717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
One phone call shatters the facade of tranquility presented by the entire Torres family, pitching its members into shockwaves of emotional upheaval that reveal the unsavory realities the clan prefers to ignore. Told in a fast-paced documentary style, Havana Thursdays is a compelling collection of voices of a Cuban-American family gathering during the crucial aftermath of a family memberÍs death. In alternating chapters, six strong-willed and vibrant women unfurl before the reader the richly hued tableau of their lives. Suàrez delivers a hopeful message that human dignity and good will provide the resilience to help overcome crises. Ultimately, the Torres family of Cuban exiles is no different in its sorrows and joys than any other American family, regardless of ethnicity. With forays into the individual psyches of characters in crisis over love and loyalty, growing up and growing old, marrying and dissolving, SuàrezÍs portrayal of women is as daring as their resolve to pioneer generational changes for this conservative clan.
All That Work and Still No Boys
Author: Kathryn Ma
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In All That Work and Still No Boys, Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement. Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California’s Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss. A boy exposed to racial hatred finds out the true difference between his mother and his father. Two old rivals briefly lay down their weapons, but loneliness and despair won’t let them forget the past. A young Beijing tour guide with a terrible family secret must take an adopted Chinese girl and her American family to visit an orphanage. And in the prize-winning title story, a mother refuses to let her son save her life, insisting instead on a sacrifice by her daughter. Intimate in detail and universal in theme, these stories give us the compelling voice of an exciting new author whose intelligence, insight, and wit impart a sense of grace to the bitter resentments and enduring ties that comprise family love. Even through the tensions Ma creates so deftly, the peace and security that come from building and belonging to one’s own community shine forth.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In All That Work and Still No Boys, Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement. Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California’s Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss. A boy exposed to racial hatred finds out the true difference between his mother and his father. Two old rivals briefly lay down their weapons, but loneliness and despair won’t let them forget the past. A young Beijing tour guide with a terrible family secret must take an adopted Chinese girl and her American family to visit an orphanage. And in the prize-winning title story, a mother refuses to let her son save her life, insisting instead on a sacrifice by her daughter. Intimate in detail and universal in theme, these stories give us the compelling voice of an exciting new author whose intelligence, insight, and wit impart a sense of grace to the bitter resentments and enduring ties that comprise family love. Even through the tensions Ma creates so deftly, the peace and security that come from building and belonging to one’s own community shine forth.
Sex, Pot and Politics
Author: Lucie Pagé
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984551868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Josephine’s life takes a new turn when her husband, Robert—Bobby among close friends—is elected minister of finance. She soon realizes that the questionable relationships he has are becoming more frequent and that his values and principles are losing ground. To add to that, Josephine makes a discovery that scandalizes her: her youngest son smokes pot! First shocked, she then tries it herself and gets great pleasure out of it. Seeing that her marriage is going downhill since her husband is minister, this gives her an idea. With the complicity of her best friend, Lilly, and her domestic workers, Mamadou and Ping, she prepares a special meal that her husband will host in honor of several influential public personalities. If she wanted to spice up her everyday life, Josephine will have reached her goal. But the discoveries she will make will change her life . . . and that of the planet.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984551868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Josephine’s life takes a new turn when her husband, Robert—Bobby among close friends—is elected minister of finance. She soon realizes that the questionable relationships he has are becoming more frequent and that his values and principles are losing ground. To add to that, Josephine makes a discovery that scandalizes her: her youngest son smokes pot! First shocked, she then tries it herself and gets great pleasure out of it. Seeing that her marriage is going downhill since her husband is minister, this gives her an idea. With the complicity of her best friend, Lilly, and her domestic workers, Mamadou and Ping, she prepares a special meal that her husband will host in honor of several influential public personalities. If she wanted to spice up her everyday life, Josephine will have reached her goal. But the discoveries she will make will change her life . . . and that of the planet.
Thursday Night Pizza, Second Edition
Author: Fr. Dominic Garramone, OSB
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
ISBN: 1681065657
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Since the first edition of Thursday Night Pizza was published in 2010, Fr. Dominic has continued to experiment with new flavors, ingredients, and cooking methods, and this new edition reflects the best of his pizza innovations. In addition to his clear instructions on making and shaping crusts, you’ll find a new recipe for the Neapolitan dough which has been gaining in popularity in recent years, as well as a primer on backyard pizza ovens and how to choose the one that’s right for your needs. But if you are strictly an indoor pizza maker, you’ll find plenty of good advice on how to turn out exceptional pies in an ordinary gas or electric oven. New pizzas include a Sicilian sausage pizza with pistachio pesto cream sauce, a tomato bacon galette topped with gorgonzola cheese, and “Piggy in the Vineyard,” with ham, shallots, smoked gouda, and red grape halves, drizzled with honey and garnished with fresh thyme. Go beyond red sauce and mozz, and let Fr. Dom help you unleash your inner pizzaiola!
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
ISBN: 1681065657
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Since the first edition of Thursday Night Pizza was published in 2010, Fr. Dominic has continued to experiment with new flavors, ingredients, and cooking methods, and this new edition reflects the best of his pizza innovations. In addition to his clear instructions on making and shaping crusts, you’ll find a new recipe for the Neapolitan dough which has been gaining in popularity in recent years, as well as a primer on backyard pizza ovens and how to choose the one that’s right for your needs. But if you are strictly an indoor pizza maker, you’ll find plenty of good advice on how to turn out exceptional pies in an ordinary gas or electric oven. New pizzas include a Sicilian sausage pizza with pistachio pesto cream sauce, a tomato bacon galette topped with gorgonzola cheese, and “Piggy in the Vineyard,” with ham, shallots, smoked gouda, and red grape halves, drizzled with honey and garnished with fresh thyme. Go beyond red sauce and mozz, and let Fr. Dom help you unleash your inner pizzaiola!
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Author: Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101476001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the sixth novel of the renowned Thursday Next series, “geeky humor jostles with genuine insight” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) as Thursday embarks on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England. [One of Our Thursdays Is Missing] is jam-packed with spot-on parody, puns, and wry observations about words and genres that will delight literary-minded fans.”—Los Angeles Times Thursday Next is back! . . . Or at least one of her is. It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. Then, a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. But all is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, who labors to keep her own small series from the grim specter of being remaindered. Now she must answer the call, save the BookWorld, evade capture, and find the actual Thursday! With her clockwork butler Sprockett and her Designated Love Interest Whitby Jet in tow, written Thursday reluctantly agrees to undertake an investigation for Jurisfiction—only to realize that she must journey up the mysterious Metaphoric River and visit the RealWorld to find the answers. Don’t miss any of Jasper Fforde’s delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels: THE EYRE AFFAIR • LOST IN A GOOD BOOK • THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS • SOMETHING ROTTEN • FIRST AMONG SEQUELS • ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING • THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101476001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the sixth novel of the renowned Thursday Next series, “geeky humor jostles with genuine insight” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) as Thursday embarks on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England. [One of Our Thursdays Is Missing] is jam-packed with spot-on parody, puns, and wry observations about words and genres that will delight literary-minded fans.”—Los Angeles Times Thursday Next is back! . . . Or at least one of her is. It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. Then, a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. But all is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, who labors to keep her own small series from the grim specter of being remaindered. Now she must answer the call, save the BookWorld, evade capture, and find the actual Thursday! With her clockwork butler Sprockett and her Designated Love Interest Whitby Jet in tow, written Thursday reluctantly agrees to undertake an investigation for Jurisfiction—only to realize that she must journey up the mysterious Metaphoric River and visit the RealWorld to find the answers. Don’t miss any of Jasper Fforde’s delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels: THE EYRE AFFAIR • LOST IN A GOOD BOOK • THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS • SOMETHING ROTTEN • FIRST AMONG SEQUELS • ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING • THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT
Call Her Thursday
Author: Ennis Padley
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453574743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This is a story of a womans survival, through child abuse and domestic violence. Gaining confidence starting out again at 59.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453574743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This is a story of a womans survival, through child abuse and domestic violence. Gaining confidence starting out again at 59.
The Man Who Was Thursday
Author: Chesterton G.K.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521057315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Гилберт Кит Честертон – один из классиков английской литературы XX века, известный своими яркими персонажами, тонким юмором и необычными сюжетами. "Человек, который был Четвергом" – это сатирическая притча о вечном противостоянии анархистов и сторонников порядка, двух половинок человеческой сущности. Роман содержит в себе философскую составляющую, облачённую в сюрреалистическую обложку абсурда, а читатель до самого конца не подозревает, к чему же приведёт сюжет... Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521057315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Гилберт Кит Честертон – один из классиков английской литературы XX века, известный своими яркими персонажами, тонким юмором и необычными сюжетами. "Человек, который был Четвергом" – это сатирическая притча о вечном противостоянии анархистов и сторонников порядка, двух половинок человеческой сущности. Роман содержит в себе философскую составляющую, облачённую в сюрреалистическую обложку абсурда, а читатель до самого конца не подозревает, к чему же приведёт сюжет... Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
Because of Thursday
Author: Patricia Polacco
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481421409
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
"Annie Fetlock--born on Thursday, met the love of her life on Thursday, and when a special cat comes into her life on Thursday, she knows he has found the right home"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481421409
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
"Annie Fetlock--born on Thursday, met the love of her life on Thursday, and when a special cat comes into her life on Thursday, she knows he has found the right home"--
Works
Author: Ronald Ray
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312168803
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A collection of free verse poetry with a dash of prosetry; dark, humorous, bizarre and surreal.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312168803
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A collection of free verse poetry with a dash of prosetry; dark, humorous, bizarre and surreal.