Author: Sebastiao Salgado
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781419719219
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sebastião Salgado documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals steeped in history and pride. The book spans a decade of research into the world of coffee, highlighting relationships characterized by respect, fair exchange, and a shared understanding that ever-improving quality has the power to improve lives.
Scent of a Dream
Author: Sebastiao Salgado
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781419719219
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sebastião Salgado documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals steeped in history and pride. The book spans a decade of research into the world of coffee, highlighting relationships characterized by respect, fair exchange, and a shared understanding that ever-improving quality has the power to improve lives.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781419719219
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sebastião Salgado documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals steeped in history and pride. The book spans a decade of research into the world of coffee, highlighting relationships characterized by respect, fair exchange, and a shared understanding that ever-improving quality has the power to improve lives.
Dream of the Blue Room
Author: Michelle Richmond
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 055390700X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Jenny and Amanda Ruth were best friends in a small Alabama town until eighteen-years-old Amanda Ruth was murdered. Now, fourteen years later, Jenny has traveled with her husband to China to scatter Amanda Ruth’s ashes and finally fulfill her friend’s dream of visiting her Chinese father’s homeland. It’s also, Jenny hopes, an opportunity to repair her own troubled marriage. But as she journeys through a foreign landscape, the guilty secrets of Jenny’s past rise up and her life will be inexorably altered. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog (“Highly recommended [for fans of] authors like Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard” —Library Journal, starred review) and No One You Know (“Luminous . . . will keep you thinking long after the last page has been turned”—Family Circle), Michelle Richmond’s stunning novel captivates with its depiction of the powerful intimacies of marriage, friendship, and family that shape our paths and the bonds of home that buoy us—wherever home may be.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 055390700X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Jenny and Amanda Ruth were best friends in a small Alabama town until eighteen-years-old Amanda Ruth was murdered. Now, fourteen years later, Jenny has traveled with her husband to China to scatter Amanda Ruth’s ashes and finally fulfill her friend’s dream of visiting her Chinese father’s homeland. It’s also, Jenny hopes, an opportunity to repair her own troubled marriage. But as she journeys through a foreign landscape, the guilty secrets of Jenny’s past rise up and her life will be inexorably altered. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog (“Highly recommended [for fans of] authors like Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard” —Library Journal, starred review) and No One You Know (“Luminous . . . will keep you thinking long after the last page has been turned”—Family Circle), Michelle Richmond’s stunning novel captivates with its depiction of the powerful intimacies of marriage, friendship, and family that shape our paths and the bonds of home that buoy us—wherever home may be.
The Super King of Cheating
Author: Jiu XuanSha
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647670322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
After the high school student Qi Jin had obtained his special ability, he had relied on his special ability to cheat in order to gain admission to the Criminal Police Academy. He was sent to be a spy in the police force, and his superpower was constantly being upgraded. There were countless ways to cheat, and with the liveliness of the city, people with all sorts of identities proudly rose to the top, becoming an immortal legend.
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647670322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
After the high school student Qi Jin had obtained his special ability, he had relied on his special ability to cheat in order to gain admission to the Criminal Police Academy. He was sent to be a spy in the police force, and his superpower was constantly being upgraded. There were countless ways to cheat, and with the liveliness of the city, people with all sorts of identities proudly rose to the top, becoming an immortal legend.
A Dream of Blue Roses
Author: Mrs. Hubert Barclay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Blue Willow
Author: Pam Conrad
Publisher: Philomel
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
On the banks of the Wen River, the legend of the Blue Willow is brought radiantly to life as two lovers face the storms that besiege them. Brilliant color illustrations highlight this warm story about undying love.
Publisher: Philomel
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
On the banks of the Wen River, the legend of the Blue Willow is brought radiantly to life as two lovers face the storms that besiege them. Brilliant color illustrations highlight this warm story about undying love.
Dreaming with Mariposas
Author: Sonia Gutiérrez
Publisher: Flowersong Press
ISBN: 9781953447999
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The novel embraces food as a communal practice with the ability to heal a family through storytelling.
Publisher: Flowersong Press
ISBN: 9781953447999
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The novel embraces food as a communal practice with the ability to heal a family through storytelling.
Dark Secrets 2
Author: Elizabeth Chandler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442433671
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
In No Time to Die, the drama is deadly. Jenny is going undercover for the summer at the theater camp where her sister, Liza, was murdered just a year earlier. Though Jenny is still grieving the loss of her sister and feels completely out of place on stage, she is determined to discover why Liza was murdered—and more importantly, who killed her. Soon she thinks she hears Liza speaking to her, and suspects someone may be following her. The drama is even more twisted than she thought…. In The Deep End of Fear, Kate thought she was done with daring adventures after her childhood friend Ashley tragically drowned in an icy pond. But when she returns to her childhood home, it all comes flooding back. To stop history from repeating itself, Kate must face the childhood fears that have haunted her for so long….
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442433671
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
In No Time to Die, the drama is deadly. Jenny is going undercover for the summer at the theater camp where her sister, Liza, was murdered just a year earlier. Though Jenny is still grieving the loss of her sister and feels completely out of place on stage, she is determined to discover why Liza was murdered—and more importantly, who killed her. Soon she thinks she hears Liza speaking to her, and suspects someone may be following her. The drama is even more twisted than she thought…. In The Deep End of Fear, Kate thought she was done with daring adventures after her childhood friend Ashley tragically drowned in an icy pond. But when she returns to her childhood home, it all comes flooding back. To stop history from repeating itself, Kate must face the childhood fears that have haunted her for so long….
Peony in Love
Author: Lisa See
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408811790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Peony has neither seen nor spoken to any man other than her father, a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Nor has she ever ventured outside the cloistered women's quarters of the family villa. As her sixteenth birthday approaches she finds herself betrothed to a man she does not know, but Peony has dreams of her own. Her father engages a theatrical troupe to perform scenes from The Peony Pavilion, a Chinese epic opera, in their garden amidst the scent of ginger, green tea and jasmine. 'Unmarried girls should not be seen in public,' says Peony's mother, but her father allows the women to watch from behind a screen. Here, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man and is immediately bewitched. So begins her unforgettable journey of love, desire, sorrow and redemption.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408811790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Peony has neither seen nor spoken to any man other than her father, a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Nor has she ever ventured outside the cloistered women's quarters of the family villa. As her sixteenth birthday approaches she finds herself betrothed to a man she does not know, but Peony has dreams of her own. Her father engages a theatrical troupe to perform scenes from The Peony Pavilion, a Chinese epic opera, in their garden amidst the scent of ginger, green tea and jasmine. 'Unmarried girls should not be seen in public,' says Peony's mother, but her father allows the women to watch from behind a screen. Here, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man and is immediately bewitched. So begins her unforgettable journey of love, desire, sorrow and redemption.
Composite Architecture
Author: Quang Truong
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3035619522
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Composite materials in architecture.
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3035619522
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Composite materials in architecture.
Swimming Lessons
Author: Claire Fuller
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1941040527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
An Oprah Editor's Pick and NPR Best Book of the Year From the author of the award-winning and word-of-mouth sensation Our Endless Numbered Days comes an exhilarating literary mystery that will keep readers guessing until the final page. Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he’s getting older and this unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her father and to try to finally discover what happened to Ingrid. But what Flora doesn’t realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her. Scandalous and whip-smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious truths of a passionate and troubled marriage.
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1941040527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
An Oprah Editor's Pick and NPR Best Book of the Year From the author of the award-winning and word-of-mouth sensation Our Endless Numbered Days comes an exhilarating literary mystery that will keep readers guessing until the final page. Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he’s getting older and this unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her father and to try to finally discover what happened to Ingrid. But what Flora doesn’t realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her. Scandalous and whip-smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious truths of a passionate and troubled marriage.