Author : Roy Wilder
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0820320293
A marvelously funny piece of Southern humor and a language-lover's delight, this book preserves and explains the South's linguistic heritage with some 3,000 specimens of the region's most picturesque, metaphorical, and gloriously inventive speech.
Author : Mary Waesche Alessi
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2017-10-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780997688658
Rhoda, a Rhode Island Red hen, frantically tries to keep track of her five chicks as a hungry fox lurks in the barnyard. As the chicks group and regroup themselves, the stage is set for some fabulous mathematics for young children.Are You All Here? is accompanied by a kindergarten unit Rhoda Red and Loretta Longhorn: Working with Fives and Tens and is part of the Contexts for Learning Mathematics series used by many elementary schools around the world.
Author : Mélanie Watt
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1554535905
A rabbit in a picture book is very glad when a reader turns up.
Author : Alexandra Penfold
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0525579664
Join the call for a better world with this New York Times bestselling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated. The perfect back-to-school read for every kid, family and classroom! In our classroom safe and sound. Fears are lost and hope is found. Discover a school where all young children have a place, have a space, and are loved and appreciated. Readers will follow a group of children through a day in their school, where everyone is welcomed with open arms. A school where students from all backgrounds learn from and celebrate each other's traditions. A school that shows the world as we will make it to be. “An important book that celebrates diversity and inclusion in a beautiful, age-appropriate way.” – Trudy Ludwig, author of The Invisible Boy
Author : Mary Waesche Alessi
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2018-03-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780997688696
Rhoda Red and Loretta Leghorn, two mother hens, frantically try to keep track of their two broods, five red chicks and five white chicks: ten chicks all together. A hungry fox lurks in the barnyard--is the gang all here? As the chicks group and regroup themselves, the stage is set for some fabulous mathematics for young children.
Author : Bethany McLean
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1101551054
Hailed as "the best business book of 2010" (Huffington Post), this New York Times bestseller about the 2008 financial crisis brings the devastation of the Great Recession to life. As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers? According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, many devils helped bring hell to the economy. All the Devils Are Here goes back several decades to weave the hidden history of the financial crisis in a way no previous book has done. It explores the motivations of everyone from famous CEOs, cabinet secretaries, and politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers, analysts, and Wall Street traders. It delves into the powerful American mythology of homeownership. And it proves that the crisis ultimately wasn't about finance at all; it was about human nature. Just as McLean's The Smartest Guys in the Room was hailed as the best Enron book on a crowded shelf, so will All the Devils Are Here be remembered for finally making sense of the financial meltdown and its consequences.
Author : K R Holguin
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2020-02-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781652968634
Unfortunately no one gets to choose the start of their life or gets to decide which foot they start off on. Growing up in the Foster care system and enduring every kind of abuse, is not ideal, especially when you're left alone at the end of it all. Eventually in life, you come to make your own choices. With a little bit of forgiveness, hope, and God on your side; you can still thrive and prosper. This book shares a story that could've ended tragically had I let my past define my future and the person I am today.
Author : Esther Safran Foer
Publisher : Crown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525576002
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST • “Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written.”—The Washington Post “Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of the Jewish people, the matriarch of America’s leading literary family, an eloquent defender of the proposition that memory matters. And now, a riveting memoirist.”—Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching. So when Esther’s mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation—that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust—Esther resolves to find out who they were, and how her father survived. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and a hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she finds reshapes her identity and gives her the opportunity to finally mourn. I Want You to Know We’re Still Here is the poignant and deeply moving story not only of Esther’s journey but of four generations living in the shadow of the Holocaust. They are four generations of survivors, storytellers, and memory keepers, determined not just to keep the past alive but to imbue the present with life and more life.
Author : Cory McCarthy
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1492617059
You Were Here is a gripping, emotional novel perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon, Jennifer Niven, and Adam Silvera, that moves seamlessly from prose to graphic novel panels and word art poetry. Jaycee is about to accomplish what her older brother Jake couldn't: live past graduation. Jaycee is dealing with her brother's death the only way she can—by re-creating Jake's daredevil stunts. The ones that got him killed. Jaycee doesn't expect to have help on her insane quest of urban exploration to remember Jake. But she's joined by a group of unlikely friends—all with their own reasons for completing the dares and their own brand of dysfunction: Natalie: the ex-best friend Bishop: the heartbroken poet Zach: the slacker with Peter Pan syndrome, and... Mik: who doesn't speak, but somehow still challenges Jayce to do the unthinkable-reveal the parts of herself that she buried with her brother. From the petrifying ruins of an insane asylum to the skeletal remains of the world's largest amusement park, You Were Here takes you on an unforgettable journey of friendship, heartbreak, and inevitable change. "You Were Here is wrenchingly beautiful in its honest and achingly accurate portrayal of grief and how it breaks us—and the way unconditional friendship puts us back together."—Jo Knowles, award-winning author of See You At Harry's and Read Between the Lines "The urban explorers of You Were Here dive deep into the forgotten man-made spaces all around them—and their own feelings of loss, love, and fear. McCarthy deftly intertwines the characters' stories, filling them with authentic pain and heartache as well as soaring moments of grace and humor. I dare you to read it!" —Maggie Lehrman, author of The Cost of All Things
Author : Alice Fulton-Osborne
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Order
ISBN : 9781932898392
Tired of those organizational binges where you shuffle stuff from one room to another-and just end up with a neater mess? Then let this book show you the secrets of putting your home in order and keeping it that way! Most books tell you how to find a place for everything, then to put everything in its place. Alice Fulton-Osborne and Pauline Hatch add one vital step for lasting success: they show you how to find more places by streamlining first, THEN organizing. With their unique room-by-room approach, they take you through every drawer, closet and cupboard in your home, helping you weed out what you don't like, use, need, want, or have room for, and properly store what's left. You'll learn... The three reasons people cling to things they don't like, use, need, want, or have room for, and how to overcome them, The real definition of clutter, and why it is a stress-maker and an energy-zapper, and what to do with it by using the authors' Eight Streamlining Steps, How to save energy and time (up to two months per year), and create comfortable, productivity-boosting environments, The secrets professional custodians use to clean any bathroom (in five to ten minutes), How to get more help from family members in maintaining the home, simply by creating "reasonable responsibilities", How to create more storage space and take storage areas that currently exist, from the state of "lost in space" to "found in place", How to visually expand living and working spaces and create low-to no-maintenance rooms, Specific ideas for organizing each room in your house-from master bedroom to sewing room, bathroom to baby's room, and family room to back porch-with a variety of kitchen set-up ideas. You'll discover that this system not only helps you keep your house in order, but the familiar feelings of being overbooked, overworked and overwhelmed are eliminated as you eliminate clutter and overload from your home and workplace. It's Here... Somewhere will give you an advantage over whatever your day has to offer! Book jacket.
