Author: Sindy McKay
Publisher: Treasure Bay, Inc.
ISBN: 9781891327162
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A boy dreams that he and his dog have fantastic adventures.
The New Red Bed
Author: Sindy McKay
Publisher: Treasure Bay, Inc.
ISBN: 9781891327162
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A boy dreams that he and his dog have fantastic adventures.
Publisher: Treasure Bay, Inc.
ISBN: 9781891327162
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A boy dreams that he and his dog have fantastic adventures.
Ted in a Red Bed
Author: Phil Roxbee Cox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781601301345
Category : Beds
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Ted goes to the store to buy a bed, tries it out, falls asleep, and dreams he is traveling in it and wakes up finding himself in the bed at home.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781601301345
Category : Beds
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Ted goes to the store to buy a bed, tries it out, falls asleep, and dreams he is traveling in it and wakes up finding himself in the bed at home.
Cretaceous Oceanic Red Beds
Author: Xiumian Hu
Publisher: SEPM Soc for Sed Geology
ISBN: 1565761359
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher: SEPM Soc for Sed Geology
ISBN: 1565761359
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A Bed of Red Flowers
Author: Nelofer Pazira
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307370860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
As a young girl growing up in 1970s Afghanistan, Nelofer Pazira seems destined for a bright future. The daughter of liberal-minded professionals, she enjoys a safe, loving and privileged life. Some of her early memories include convivial family picnics and New Years’ celebrations overlooking the thousands of red flowers that carpet the hills of Mazar. But Nelofer’s world is shattered when she is just five and her father is imprisoned for refusing to support the communist party. This episode plants a “seed of anger” in her, which is given plenty of opportunity to grow as the years unfold. In 1979, the Soviets invade Afghanistan beginning a ten-year occupation. The country becomes an armed camp with Russians fighting U.S.-backed mujahidin fighters while trying to impose military rule. For Nelofer, daily life includes an endless succession of tanks, rockets screaming overhead and explosions in the street. During this time, she and her best friend, Dyana, seek refuge in their love of poetry. At eleven, the two girls throw stones at Soviet tanks and plot other acts of rebellion at the local school. As Nelofer gets older, she joins the resistance movement, distributes contraband books, studies guerilla warfare and hides a gun in her parent’s mint garden. When Nelofer’s younger brother comes home from school in military garb, the family finally decides to flee Afghanistan. What follows is a perilous, clandestine journey across rugged mountains into Pakistan. But the life of a refugee is not what Nelofer expects. Though she once idealized the mujahidin as freedom fighters, she is shocked, as a woman, to find herself stripped of her personal freedom in their midst. In 1990, Nelofer and her family are offered refugee status in Canada. Here she corresponds with her friend Dyana, whose letters reveal the increasing oppression of life under the Taliban. Fearing that her friend will kill herself, Pazira returns to Afghanistan to rescue her. This search becomes the basis for the acclaimed film Kandahar. Her journey to discover Dyana’s tragedy leads her finally to Russia, the land of her enemy, where she confronts the legacy of the Soviet invasion of her homeland first-hand. A Bed of Red Flowers is a gripping, heart-rending story about a country caught in a struggle of the superpowers – and of the real people behind the politics. Universally acclaimed for its astute insights and extraordinary humanity, Pazira’s memoir won the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize for 2005.The Winnipeg Free Press writes: “Powerfully written, A Bed of Red Flowers is a rare account of a misunderstood country and its intrepid people, trying to live ordinary lives under extraordinary circumstances.” The Gazette (Montreal) describes the book as “an outpouring of passionate non-fiction that captivates like the tales of Sheherazade.… It’s a remarkable journey. An inspiring read.”
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307370860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
As a young girl growing up in 1970s Afghanistan, Nelofer Pazira seems destined for a bright future. The daughter of liberal-minded professionals, she enjoys a safe, loving and privileged life. Some of her early memories include convivial family picnics and New Years’ celebrations overlooking the thousands of red flowers that carpet the hills of Mazar. But Nelofer’s world is shattered when she is just five and her father is imprisoned for refusing to support the communist party. This episode plants a “seed of anger” in her, which is given plenty of opportunity to grow as the years unfold. In 1979, the Soviets invade Afghanistan beginning a ten-year occupation. The country becomes an armed camp with Russians fighting U.S.-backed mujahidin fighters while trying to impose military rule. For Nelofer, daily life includes an endless succession of tanks, rockets screaming overhead and explosions in the street. During this time, she and her best friend, Dyana, seek refuge in their love of poetry. At eleven, the two girls throw stones at Soviet tanks and plot other acts of rebellion at the local school. As Nelofer gets older, she joins the resistance movement, distributes contraband books, studies guerilla warfare and hides a gun in her parent’s mint garden. When Nelofer’s younger brother comes home from school in military garb, the family finally decides to flee Afghanistan. What follows is a perilous, clandestine journey across rugged mountains into Pakistan. But the life of a refugee is not what Nelofer expects. Though she once idealized the mujahidin as freedom fighters, she is shocked, as a woman, to find herself stripped of her personal freedom in their midst. In 1990, Nelofer and her family are offered refugee status in Canada. Here she corresponds with her friend Dyana, whose letters reveal the increasing oppression of life under the Taliban. Fearing that her friend will kill herself, Pazira returns to Afghanistan to rescue her. This search becomes the basis for the acclaimed film Kandahar. Her journey to discover Dyana’s tragedy leads her finally to Russia, the land of her enemy, where she confronts the legacy of the Soviet invasion of her homeland first-hand. A Bed of Red Flowers is a gripping, heart-rending story about a country caught in a struggle of the superpowers – and of the real people behind the politics. Universally acclaimed for its astute insights and extraordinary humanity, Pazira’s memoir won the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize for 2005.The Winnipeg Free Press writes: “Powerfully written, A Bed of Red Flowers is a rare account of a misunderstood country and its intrepid people, trying to live ordinary lives under extraordinary circumstances.” The Gazette (Montreal) describes the book as “an outpouring of passionate non-fiction that captivates like the tales of Sheherazade.… It’s a remarkable journey. An inspiring read.”
Final Report Ordered by Legislature, 1891: Laurentian, Huronian, Cambrian and Lower Silurian formations, by J.P. Lesley
Author: Geological Survey of Pennsylvania
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Quarterly Journal of the Geological society of London
Author: М. Е. Дьяков
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5877850423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5877850423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Author: Geological Society of London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30)
Observations On Fossil Vegetables, Accompanied By Representations Of Their Internal Structure, As Seen Through The Microscope
Author: Henry Witham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description