Author: Svenja Münster
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711508030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"I'm a nymph and you're a fairy. I protect the water, you protect the forest. But without water, the forest dies." Flavia is a happy fairy who fulfils her duties as protector of the forest. Her only friend is the nymph Phyllis, whom Flavia remembers from her apprenticeship. However, the nymph drinks a lot of dwarven liquor, which makes her more and more of a burden to Flavia. So Flavia increasingly begins to despise and avoid the nymph. But then a terrible accident happens and Flavia finds herself in a situation in which she has to call on her friend for help. But how much willingness to help can be expected from a neglected and despised friend?
Blind Fairy. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Svenja Münster
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711508030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"I'm a nymph and you're a fairy. I protect the water, you protect the forest. But without water, the forest dies." Flavia is a happy fairy who fulfils her duties as protector of the forest. Her only friend is the nymph Phyllis, whom Flavia remembers from her apprenticeship. However, the nymph drinks a lot of dwarven liquor, which makes her more and more of a burden to Flavia. So Flavia increasingly begins to despise and avoid the nymph. But then a terrible accident happens and Flavia finds herself in a situation in which she has to call on her friend for help. But how much willingness to help can be expected from a neglected and despised friend?
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711508030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"I'm a nymph and you're a fairy. I protect the water, you protect the forest. But without water, the forest dies." Flavia is a happy fairy who fulfils her duties as protector of the forest. Her only friend is the nymph Phyllis, whom Flavia remembers from her apprenticeship. However, the nymph drinks a lot of dwarven liquor, which makes her more and more of a burden to Flavia. So Flavia increasingly begins to despise and avoid the nymph. But then a terrible accident happens and Flavia finds herself in a situation in which she has to call on her friend for help. But how much willingness to help can be expected from a neglected and despised friend?
Blind Ambition
Author: Chad E. Foster
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
ISBN: 1400222656
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
For anyone seeking to live life to its fullest potential, Blind Ambition is an eye-opening account of a tech industry executive who overcame fear and hopelessness to turn his blindness disability into a powerful, competitive strength. While most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black but that didn’t stop him from becoming the first blind person to graduate from the Harvard Business School leadership program and climbing the corporate ladder as a successful finance/sales executive. With determination, ambition, and drive, Chad created what Oracle said would be impossible. He gave millions of people the ability to earn a living by becoming the first to create customer relationship software for the visually impaired. Even if you've been robbed of your self-identity and dreams for the future, you can change your story and achieve your goals. In Blind Ambition, readers and listeners will: Be inspired by Chad’s story of how he transformed the loss of his vision into a gift with unique strengths and abilities he did not have before. See how we choose the stories we tell ourselves about our circumstances and how this either limits us or propels us toward our goals. Gain new perspective on what is possible when you shift your mindset, give up making excuses, and decide that you oversee who you want to be. Learn the mental model that Chad uses to quickly overcome frustrations and stressors. Overcoming the challenges of blindness improved Chad’s perspective, making him more resilient and grateful for the life that he has. Ultimately, Chad's unforgettable lessons and outlook will inspire listeners to overcome their perceived limitations and explore new possibilities where they once may have only seen obstacles. Blind Ambition will teach you how to take advantage of your disadvantages.
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
ISBN: 1400222656
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
For anyone seeking to live life to its fullest potential, Blind Ambition is an eye-opening account of a tech industry executive who overcame fear and hopelessness to turn his blindness disability into a powerful, competitive strength. While most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black but that didn’t stop him from becoming the first blind person to graduate from the Harvard Business School leadership program and climbing the corporate ladder as a successful finance/sales executive. With determination, ambition, and drive, Chad created what Oracle said would be impossible. He gave millions of people the ability to earn a living by becoming the first to create customer relationship software for the visually impaired. Even if you've been robbed of your self-identity and dreams for the future, you can change your story and achieve your goals. In Blind Ambition, readers and listeners will: Be inspired by Chad’s story of how he transformed the loss of his vision into a gift with unique strengths and abilities he did not have before. See how we choose the stories we tell ourselves about our circumstances and how this either limits us or propels us toward our goals. Gain new perspective on what is possible when you shift your mindset, give up making excuses, and decide that you oversee who you want to be. Learn the mental model that Chad uses to quickly overcome frustrations and stressors. Overcoming the challenges of blindness improved Chad’s perspective, making him more resilient and grateful for the life that he has. Ultimately, Chad's unforgettable lessons and outlook will inspire listeners to overcome their perceived limitations and explore new possibilities where they once may have only seen obstacles. Blind Ambition will teach you how to take advantage of your disadvantages.
A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
The Olive Fairy Book
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Twenty-nine tales from the folklore of Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and the Sudan.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Twenty-nine tales from the folklore of Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and the Sudan.
The Poisoned Apple
Author: Anne Lambelet
Publisher: Page Street Kids
ISBN: 9781645670605
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Sometimes bad decisions come back to bite you... The princess is too sweet, too kind—but the witch knows just how to handle a princess like that. One bite from a painstakingly made poisoned apple should do it! Once the apple is in the hands of the princess, the plan is in motion. But when the kindhearted princess gives the apple away, the witch watches as her plot spirals out of control. Can she get the apple back before it’s too late? Who will end up with a happily ever after? What goes around comes around in this darkly humorous fairy tale, sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats and howling with laughter.
Publisher: Page Street Kids
ISBN: 9781645670605
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Sometimes bad decisions come back to bite you... The princess is too sweet, too kind—but the witch knows just how to handle a princess like that. One bite from a painstakingly made poisoned apple should do it! Once the apple is in the hands of the princess, the plan is in motion. But when the kindhearted princess gives the apple away, the witch watches as her plot spirals out of control. Can she get the apple back before it’s too late? Who will end up with a happily ever after? What goes around comes around in this darkly humorous fairy tale, sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats and howling with laughter.
Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales
Author: Ignácz Kúnos
Publisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN: 6059496229
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
THE STORIES comprising this collection have been culled with my own hands in the many-hued garden of Turkish folklore. They have not been gathered from books, for Turkey is not a literary land, and no books of the kind exist; but, an attentive listener to "THE STORY-TELLER" who form a peculiar feature of the social life of the Ottomans, I have jotted them down from time to time, and now present them, a choice bouquet, to the English reading public. The stories are such as may be heard daily in the purlieus of Stamboul, in the small rickety houses of that essentially Turkish quarter of Constantinople where around the tandir the native women relate them to their children and friends. These tales are by no means identical with, nor do they even resemble, those others that have been assimilated by the European consciousness from Indian sources and the "ARABIAN NIGHTS." All real Turkish fairy tales are quite independent of those; rather are they related to the Western type so far as their contents and structure are concerned. Indeed, they may only be placed in the category of Oriental tales in that they are permeated with the cult of Islam and that their characters are Moslems. The kaftan encircling their bodies, the turban on their heads, and the slippers on their feet, all proclaim their Eastern origin. Their heroic deeds, their struggles and triumphs, are mostly such as may be found in the folklore of any European people. It is but natural that pagan superstition, inseparable from the ignorant, should be always cropping up in these stories. Like all real folklore they are not for children, though it is the children who are most strongly attracted by them, and after the children the women. They are mostly woven from the webs of fancy in that delectable realm, Fairyland; since it is there that everything wonderful happens, the dramatis person being as a rule supernatural beings.
Publisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN: 6059496229
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
THE STORIES comprising this collection have been culled with my own hands in the many-hued garden of Turkish folklore. They have not been gathered from books, for Turkey is not a literary land, and no books of the kind exist; but, an attentive listener to "THE STORY-TELLER" who form a peculiar feature of the social life of the Ottomans, I have jotted them down from time to time, and now present them, a choice bouquet, to the English reading public. The stories are such as may be heard daily in the purlieus of Stamboul, in the small rickety houses of that essentially Turkish quarter of Constantinople where around the tandir the native women relate them to their children and friends. These tales are by no means identical with, nor do they even resemble, those others that have been assimilated by the European consciousness from Indian sources and the "ARABIAN NIGHTS." All real Turkish fairy tales are quite independent of those; rather are they related to the Western type so far as their contents and structure are concerned. Indeed, they may only be placed in the category of Oriental tales in that they are permeated with the cult of Islam and that their characters are Moslems. The kaftan encircling their bodies, the turban on their heads, and the slippers on their feet, all proclaim their Eastern origin. Their heroic deeds, their struggles and triumphs, are mostly such as may be found in the folklore of any European people. It is but natural that pagan superstition, inseparable from the ignorant, should be always cropping up in these stories. Like all real folklore they are not for children, though it is the children who are most strongly attracted by them, and after the children the women. They are mostly woven from the webs of fancy in that delectable realm, Fairyland; since it is there that everything wonderful happens, the dramatis person being as a rule supernatural beings.
Story Stretchers for the Primary Grades
Author: Shirley C. Raines
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780876591574
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A collection of ideas for activities to use in conjunction with over 90 children's books.
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780876591574
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A collection of ideas for activities to use in conjunction with over 90 children's books.
The Advocate
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
Fairy Tales as Literature of Literature
Author: Lothar Bluhm
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3662660008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this study, the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales are consistently examined as literature out of literature. Through the history of their creation and transformation, it becomes apparent how literary models were re-declared and transformed into the well-known fairy tale narratives, in the course of the editing process by the Brothers Grimm, essentially by Wilhelm Grimm. By means of a series of model studies – including Rapunzel, Jorinde und Joringel and Der Jude im Dorn – it is shown that the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, contrary to their traditional assessment as 'folk tales', are of literary origin and have a literary character themselves.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3662660008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this study, the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales are consistently examined as literature out of literature. Through the history of their creation and transformation, it becomes apparent how literary models were re-declared and transformed into the well-known fairy tale narratives, in the course of the editing process by the Brothers Grimm, essentially by Wilhelm Grimm. By means of a series of model studies – including Rapunzel, Jorinde und Joringel and Der Jude im Dorn – it is shown that the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, contrary to their traditional assessment as 'folk tales', are of literary origin and have a literary character themselves.
The Tribe of Pyn
Author: David Cowart
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472052888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A study of generational inheritance, engagement, and cross-fertilization in the landscape of literary postmodernism
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472052888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A study of generational inheritance, engagement, and cross-fertilization in the landscape of literary postmodernism