Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573693382
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Wild Nights!: The famously reclusive poetess appears as an uncannily lifelike computerized mannequin brought home by a childless, affluent suburban couple in the hope that their disaffected lives will be ¿enhanced¿ by a poet-genius in their household. Soon, like generations of literary critics and biographers, the Krims find themselves obsessed by the wraithlike Emily. They spy on her writing her riddlesome poems¿they become infatuated with her, in very different ways. Mysterious, cunning, provocative, this ¿Emily Dickinson¿ is also very funny, at the expense of her hosts. After an erotic interlude of shocking¿and comic¿crudeness, Wild Nights! ends on a startling and unexpected romantic note. Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish: 1906:This play traces a Platonic love affair between the 70-year-old Sam Clemens/ ¿Mark Twain¿, the most famous literary man of his time, and a naively innocent 15-year-old schoolgirl who reminds him of his deceased daughter Suzy. In 1906 Clemens is a brilliant but dispirited public man in the twilight of his career¿his great successes like Huckleberry Finn are behind him¿and susceptible to the charms of girls young enough to be his granddaughters, whom he invites to join a ¿prestigious¿ and ¿exclusive¿ club called the Aquarium Club, in which Sam Clemens is the only adult member. Based upon a little-known and scandalous interlude in the later life of Samuel Clemens/ ¿Mark Twain¿ this play explores the poignancy of an elderly man¿s passionate love for a young girl and the disaster that results when his love is reciprocated.
Wild Nights! ; and
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573693382
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Wild Nights!: The famously reclusive poetess appears as an uncannily lifelike computerized mannequin brought home by a childless, affluent suburban couple in the hope that their disaffected lives will be ¿enhanced¿ by a poet-genius in their household. Soon, like generations of literary critics and biographers, the Krims find themselves obsessed by the wraithlike Emily. They spy on her writing her riddlesome poems¿they become infatuated with her, in very different ways. Mysterious, cunning, provocative, this ¿Emily Dickinson¿ is also very funny, at the expense of her hosts. After an erotic interlude of shocking¿and comic¿crudeness, Wild Nights! ends on a startling and unexpected romantic note. Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish: 1906:This play traces a Platonic love affair between the 70-year-old Sam Clemens/ ¿Mark Twain¿, the most famous literary man of his time, and a naively innocent 15-year-old schoolgirl who reminds him of his deceased daughter Suzy. In 1906 Clemens is a brilliant but dispirited public man in the twilight of his career¿his great successes like Huckleberry Finn are behind him¿and susceptible to the charms of girls young enough to be his granddaughters, whom he invites to join a ¿prestigious¿ and ¿exclusive¿ club called the Aquarium Club, in which Sam Clemens is the only adult member. Based upon a little-known and scandalous interlude in the later life of Samuel Clemens/ ¿Mark Twain¿ this play explores the poignancy of an elderly man¿s passionate love for a young girl and the disaster that results when his love is reciprocated.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573693382
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Wild Nights!: The famously reclusive poetess appears as an uncannily lifelike computerized mannequin brought home by a childless, affluent suburban couple in the hope that their disaffected lives will be ¿enhanced¿ by a poet-genius in their household. Soon, like generations of literary critics and biographers, the Krims find themselves obsessed by the wraithlike Emily. They spy on her writing her riddlesome poems¿they become infatuated with her, in very different ways. Mysterious, cunning, provocative, this ¿Emily Dickinson¿ is also very funny, at the expense of her hosts. After an erotic interlude of shocking¿and comic¿crudeness, Wild Nights! ends on a startling and unexpected romantic note. Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish: 1906:This play traces a Platonic love affair between the 70-year-old Sam Clemens/ ¿Mark Twain¿, the most famous literary man of his time, and a naively innocent 15-year-old schoolgirl who reminds him of his deceased daughter Suzy. In 1906 Clemens is a brilliant but dispirited public man in the twilight of his career¿his great successes like Huckleberry Finn are behind him¿and susceptible to the charms of girls young enough to be his granddaughters, whom he invites to join a ¿prestigious¿ and ¿exclusive¿ club called the Aquarium Club, in which Sam Clemens is the only adult member. Based upon a little-known and scandalous interlude in the later life of Samuel Clemens/ ¿Mark Twain¿ this play explores the poignancy of an elderly man¿s passionate love for a young girl and the disaster that results when his love is reciprocated.
Madelyn’s Exciting Beach Adventure
Author: Sharon Joffey
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480899704
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Madelyn is so excited to be at the beach with her parents. After she splashes in the water and collects seashells, she is heading with her mother to the concession stand when she suddenly steps on something sharp. After her mother kisses her foot, Madelyn notices trash blowing around the beach. Soon, Madelyn decides to get a bucket and begin picking up all the discarded bottles, wrappers, and garbage lying on the sand. When she decides to recruit her friends to help the next weekend, Madelyn soon discovers that even the youngest can help save the earth. In this charming tale, a little girl enjoying a day at the beach decides to take matters into her own hands and clean up her environment.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480899704
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Madelyn is so excited to be at the beach with her parents. After she splashes in the water and collects seashells, she is heading with her mother to the concession stand when she suddenly steps on something sharp. After her mother kisses her foot, Madelyn notices trash blowing around the beach. Soon, Madelyn decides to get a bucket and begin picking up all the discarded bottles, wrappers, and garbage lying on the sand. When she decides to recruit her friends to help the next weekend, Madelyn soon discovers that even the youngest can help save the earth. In this charming tale, a little girl enjoying a day at the beach decides to take matters into her own hands and clean up her environment.
Teaching Language and Literature in Elementary Classrooms
Author: Marcia S. Popp
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135605165
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The goal of this book -- a theoretically based, well-organized, useful guide for teaching -- is to help the beginning teacher create a classroom environment that integrates literacy development with learning in all areas of the curriculum. The major components of an integrated language program are identified, and the skills teachers need to implement this kind of program in their own classrooms are described. Designed to be kept and used as a resource in the classroom, this text provides fundamental information about language arts teaching. A constructivist orientation, an emphasis on teachers as reflective decision makers, and vivid portrayals of the classroom as a community of learners and inquirers are woven throughout the book. Key features include: * a wealth of models, suggestions, and step-by-step guidelines for introducing integrated teaching and learning practices into elementary classrooms at the kindergarten, primary, and intermediate levels; * a focus on relevant research in language arts and professional teacher development; * true-to-life classroom narratives that model instructional strategies and demonstrate interactions between real teachers and students; and * an innovative chapter format that makes the text accessible as a resource for student, beginning, and experienced teachers.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135605165
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The goal of this book -- a theoretically based, well-organized, useful guide for teaching -- is to help the beginning teacher create a classroom environment that integrates literacy development with learning in all areas of the curriculum. The major components of an integrated language program are identified, and the skills teachers need to implement this kind of program in their own classrooms are described. Designed to be kept and used as a resource in the classroom, this text provides fundamental information about language arts teaching. A constructivist orientation, an emphasis on teachers as reflective decision makers, and vivid portrayals of the classroom as a community of learners and inquirers are woven throughout the book. Key features include: * a wealth of models, suggestions, and step-by-step guidelines for introducing integrated teaching and learning practices into elementary classrooms at the kindergarten, primary, and intermediate levels; * a focus on relevant research in language arts and professional teacher development; * true-to-life classroom narratives that model instructional strategies and demonstrate interactions between real teachers and students; and * an innovative chapter format that makes the text accessible as a resource for student, beginning, and experienced teachers.
The Book of Dreams
Author: Nina George
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0525572554
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Warm, wise, and magical—the latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the accident, Sam—a thirteen-year old synesthete with an IQ of 144 and an appetite for science fiction—waits by his father’s bedside every day. There he meets Eddie Tomlin, a woman forced to confront her love for Henri after all these years, and twelve-year old Madelyn Zeidler, a coma patient like Henri and the sole survivor of a traffic accident that killed her family. As these four very different individuals fight—for hope, for patience, for life—they are bound together inextricably, facing the ravages of loss and first love side by side. A revelatory, urgently human story that examines what we consider serious and painful alongside light and whimsy, THE BOOK OF DREAMS is a tender meditation on memory, liminality, and empathy, asking with grace and gravitas what we will truly find meaningful in our lives once we are gone.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0525572554
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Warm, wise, and magical—the latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the accident, Sam—a thirteen-year old synesthete with an IQ of 144 and an appetite for science fiction—waits by his father’s bedside every day. There he meets Eddie Tomlin, a woman forced to confront her love for Henri after all these years, and twelve-year old Madelyn Zeidler, a coma patient like Henri and the sole survivor of a traffic accident that killed her family. As these four very different individuals fight—for hope, for patience, for life—they are bound together inextricably, facing the ravages of loss and first love side by side. A revelatory, urgently human story that examines what we consider serious and painful alongside light and whimsy, THE BOOK OF DREAMS is a tender meditation on memory, liminality, and empathy, asking with grace and gravitas what we will truly find meaningful in our lives once we are gone.
Grigori
Author: Lauren Smith
Publisher: Lauren Smith
ISBN: 1956227040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Dragons are real. They live among us. But not for much longer... Strong and powerful Grigori Barinov never thought his very existence could be erased by a mortal woman. But when she discovers proof of his magical bloodline, she threatens to expose him and the rest of the dragon shifters to the world in order to save her job. He kidnaps the woman and carries her off to his lonely palace in Russia. He’s prepared to do whatever it takes to stop her from going public with his fatal secret. He’ll murder, manipulate, imprison... Anything... Except fall in love.
Publisher: Lauren Smith
ISBN: 1956227040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Dragons are real. They live among us. But not for much longer... Strong and powerful Grigori Barinov never thought his very existence could be erased by a mortal woman. But when she discovers proof of his magical bloodline, she threatens to expose him and the rest of the dragon shifters to the world in order to save her job. He kidnaps the woman and carries her off to his lonely palace in Russia. He’s prepared to do whatever it takes to stop her from going public with his fatal secret. He’ll murder, manipulate, imprison... Anything... Except fall in love.
A Simple Change (Home to Amana Book #2)
Author: Judith Miller
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441261435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Judith Miller's Novels Offer a Fascinating Look inside the Amana Colonies Joining the communal society of the Amana Colonies isn't what Jancey Rhoder planned for her future, but when unforeseen circumstances force her family to make some difficult decisions, she chooses to give up her teaching position in a Kansas City orphanage and move with her parents to Iowa. Her besotted suitor, Nathan Woodward, isn't at all happy about the move and is determined to get Jancey to change her mind. And Jancey herself isn't sure what she's gotten herself into when the simple life of the Amana Colonies means she'll be assigned a job and may have to give up teaching for good. Will Nathan woo her back to the city, or will she be forever changed by the mysterious events and new relationships that await her in the quiet villages of the Amana Colonies--and decide to make this unique place her forever home?
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441261435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Judith Miller's Novels Offer a Fascinating Look inside the Amana Colonies Joining the communal society of the Amana Colonies isn't what Jancey Rhoder planned for her future, but when unforeseen circumstances force her family to make some difficult decisions, she chooses to give up her teaching position in a Kansas City orphanage and move with her parents to Iowa. Her besotted suitor, Nathan Woodward, isn't at all happy about the move and is determined to get Jancey to change her mind. And Jancey herself isn't sure what she's gotten herself into when the simple life of the Amana Colonies means she'll be assigned a job and may have to give up teaching for good. Will Nathan woo her back to the city, or will she be forever changed by the mysterious events and new relationships that await her in the quiet villages of the Amana Colonies--and decide to make this unique place her forever home?
Make America Central Again
Author: Matthew Burdett
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1638671966
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Make America Central Again: A Common Sense, Third Party Approach To Taking Back Our Country By: Matthew Burdett For decades, the two party American political system has become outdated! With the Democratic and Republican parties deteriorating, Matthew Burdett shows us how a strong 3rd party can tackle today's issues. Using his knowledge of history and current events, Burdett uses examples to show what steps can be taken to achieve a strong alternative to today's failing political landscape.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1638671966
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Make America Central Again: A Common Sense, Third Party Approach To Taking Back Our Country By: Matthew Burdett For decades, the two party American political system has become outdated! With the Democratic and Republican parties deteriorating, Matthew Burdett shows us how a strong 3rd party can tackle today's issues. Using his knowledge of history and current events, Burdett uses examples to show what steps can be taken to achieve a strong alternative to today's failing political landscape.
Guarding Her Body
Author: Lara Jones
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1646375173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
[Siren Publishing Menage Amour: Erotic Romance, Menage, Contemporary, Suspense, Small Town, MFM, HEA] Madelyn loved writing erotica and liked a quiet life in the country. Because of an obligation, she was in a city she’d never been to and hoped never to see again because it had so many rude people. Then she met them! Two men that could be every woman’s wet dream, and they were there to guard her body. Seth and Cain were hired to protect Madelyn from a psychopathic stalker, and it was something they took seriously even if she didn’t. It didn’t help that they both fell for her at first sight and could tell she felt the same attraction even though she tried to ignore it. Her life almost changes forever when they were taken from her twice, once from a misjudgment and another from a person who wanted Madelyn for themself, and it wasn’t what or who they expected, and it certainly wasn’t her stalker.
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1646375173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
[Siren Publishing Menage Amour: Erotic Romance, Menage, Contemporary, Suspense, Small Town, MFM, HEA] Madelyn loved writing erotica and liked a quiet life in the country. Because of an obligation, she was in a city she’d never been to and hoped never to see again because it had so many rude people. Then she met them! Two men that could be every woman’s wet dream, and they were there to guard her body. Seth and Cain were hired to protect Madelyn from a psychopathic stalker, and it was something they took seriously even if she didn’t. It didn’t help that they both fell for her at first sight and could tell she felt the same attraction even though she tried to ignore it. Her life almost changes forever when they were taken from her twice, once from a misjudgment and another from a person who wanted Madelyn for themself, and it wasn’t what or who they expected, and it certainly wasn’t her stalker.
Confessions of a Griever
Author: Crystal Webster
Publisher: New Degree Press
ISBN: 1641374888
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Grief sucks, but you don't have to. Part memoir, part self-help, part choose your own grief guide; this cheeky and honest book takes a hard look at society's view of grief and flips it the bird. If you've encountered a traumatic loss (of any kind) and you want to use your experiences to make yourself better (and less bitter), then the sugar-coated platitudes everyone gives you just won't cut it. In Confessions of a Griever: Turning a Hot Mess into an Haute Message, Crystal helps readers understand: * Why you should 'Go Duck Yourself' * Why 'You Don't Get to Call her Husband an @$$hole' * Why you should 'Do More Good Sh!t' * How 'You'll Set Yourself Free' This book will help you realize that grief is grief--whatever it is and however you experience it. Everyone experiences it differently and everyone feels crazy while living through it. You're NOT crazy and your feelings ARE normal. You just need to embrace the ride and 'Remember. You're not alone.' If you're a fan of It's Ok That You're Not Ok, The Hot Young Widows Club, and The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving A F*ck then Confessions of a Griever is exactly what you've been looking for!
Publisher: New Degree Press
ISBN: 1641374888
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Grief sucks, but you don't have to. Part memoir, part self-help, part choose your own grief guide; this cheeky and honest book takes a hard look at society's view of grief and flips it the bird. If you've encountered a traumatic loss (of any kind) and you want to use your experiences to make yourself better (and less bitter), then the sugar-coated platitudes everyone gives you just won't cut it. In Confessions of a Griever: Turning a Hot Mess into an Haute Message, Crystal helps readers understand: * Why you should 'Go Duck Yourself' * Why 'You Don't Get to Call her Husband an @$$hole' * Why you should 'Do More Good Sh!t' * How 'You'll Set Yourself Free' This book will help you realize that grief is grief--whatever it is and however you experience it. Everyone experiences it differently and everyone feels crazy while living through it. You're NOT crazy and your feelings ARE normal. You just need to embrace the ride and 'Remember. You're not alone.' If you're a fan of It's Ok That You're Not Ok, The Hot Young Widows Club, and The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving A F*ck then Confessions of a Griever is exactly what you've been looking for!
Finding Her Voice
Author: Willomino Pearl
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982227133
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Her sisters and brother stood around her mother’s bed as she lay dying. As her mother took her last breath, Madelyn shed one tear. As it rolled down her cheek, she looked around at the others to see if they noticed. She was glad she was dead. She wouldn’t have her mother’s voice in her head anymore. All her life, her mother abused her, and now it’s finally over. Or is it?
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982227133
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Her sisters and brother stood around her mother’s bed as she lay dying. As her mother took her last breath, Madelyn shed one tear. As it rolled down her cheek, she looked around at the others to see if they noticed. She was glad she was dead. She wouldn’t have her mother’s voice in her head anymore. All her life, her mother abused her, and now it’s finally over. Or is it?