Author : Georgia Byng
Publisher : Acorns
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781781123034
Life is tough in Victorian times, especially when you're different. Alice Peasbody was born with no nose. People laugh and jeer and call her Pancake Face. Even when she is given a prosthetic nose and moves to the big city to take an office job, she cowers in dark corners, but the arrival of good-natured, loving friends help her accept herself.
Author : Breece D'J Pancake
Publisher :
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 9780316252331
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia.
Author : Andy Dunn
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1477219374
Just thirteen months before the opening match of the 2014 World Cup, Brazil has been declared fi nancially bankrupt and has no alternative other than to withdraw from hosting the tournament. Faced with this unprecedented emergency, the thoroughly inept yet ruthlessly tyrannical President of the Global Confederation de Football, Horst Gasch, and his obtuse sidekick, Senior Vice President, Serge Le Planque, must fi nd another host nation and fast. Both are zealous Anglophobes and are desperate to maintain their strategy of staging the tournament anywhere in the world . . . except England. Meanwhile, due the death of the local MP in extremely sordid circumstances, Alan Boots Boothroyd, football fanatic and manager of Sunday league team, overcomes a personal crisis by deciding to run for Parliament. After becoming sensationally elected, Boots stumbles across the debaucherous nocturnal pursuits of the countrys senior politicians. Armed with information that could bring down the government, Boots ingeniously maneuvers himself into an extraordinary position within the dark, sinister corridors of Westminster. On the fi eld, the English football team is in total disarray. Coached by a hapless manager and deprived of key players by the Premier League managers policy of club before country, the national team has suffered defeat after defeat in the matches leading up to the World Cup. When the tournament fi nally begins, Horst Gasch and the hierarchy of the Global Confederation de Football deviously conspire to engineer a humiliating exit for England. In response, Boots decides to fi ght back and do whatever it takes for England in her quest for a Second Star above the Three Lions Crest.
Author : Thanhha Lai
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0702251178
Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
Author : Chen Xiqianhua
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1647877385
The bright blue glass window had a hint of gold, and the person sleeping peacefully in the room slightly trembled her curls and raised her eyelashes as tight as a fan. After trembling a few times, she slowly opened her eyes, revealing a pair of clear and bright eyes, and with the corner of her mouth slightly raised upwards, she elegantly lifted the quilt, naturally smoothly folding it, and walked towards the bathroom to wash. Her movements were completed in a single breath, and there was no pause or hesitation.
Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 146680422X
From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity "America is a place and a story, made up of exuberance and suspicion, crime and liberation, lynch mobs and escapes; its greatest testaments are made of portents and warnings, biblical allusions that lose all certainty in the American air." It is this story of self-invention and nationhood that Greil Marcus rediscovers, beginning with John Winthrop's invocation of America as a "city on the hill," Lincoln's second inaugural address, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech about his American dream. Listening to these prophetic founding statements, Marcus explores America's promise as a New Jerusalem and the nature of its covenant: first with God, and then with its own citizens. In the nineteenth century, this vision of the nation's story was told in public as part of common discourse, to be fought over in plain speech and flights of gorgeous rhetoric. Since then, Marcus argues, it has become cryptic, a story told more in art than in politics. He traces it across the continent and through time, hearing the tale in the disparate voices of writers, filmmakers, performers, and actors: Philip Roth, David Lynch, David Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sheryl Lee, and Bill Pullman. In The Shape of Things to Come, the future and the past merge in extraordinary and uncanny ways, and Marcus proves once again that he is our most imaginative and original cultural critic.
Author : San Qitu
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 164884958X
She looked panicked. "If you dare to marry more than me, I'll ..." He lifted her chin. "So what?" She gritted her teeth as she glared at him. "Bite you to death!" He had an evil smile on his face, "Alright then, we'll hurt each other!" A certain woman: "..." He had never seen such a shameless man!
Author : Jonathan Kellerman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345540190
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Professor Hope Devane’s male-bashing pop-psych bestseller created a storm of controversy on the talk-show circuit. Now she is dead, brutally slashed on a quiet street in one of L.A.’s safest neighborhoods. The LAPD’s investigation has gone cold, and homicide detective Milo Sturgis turns to his friend Dr. Alex Delaware for a psychological profile of the victim—and a portrait of a killer. “Engrossing . . . mines new realms of psychological terror . . . holds the reader riveted.”—Playboy Hope Devane had very different public and private faces. The killer could be any one of the millions who read her book, or someone from the personal life she kept so carefully separate. As Alex and Milo dig deeper into her shadowy past, they will set an elaborate trap for her killer . . . and reveal the unspeakable act that triggered a dark chain of violence.
Author : Daksha Hathi
Publisher : unisun publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788188234196
A dark comedy to make you tear your hair, split your sides and smack your lips. Two sisters in search of love; parents torn between tradition and transition; matrimonial encounters of the most mirthful, miserable, mercenary and macabre kind. A culinary adventure with the most unholy alliances.
Author : Kara K. Keeling
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1496828364
Food is a signifier of power for both adults and children, a sign of both inclusion and exclusion and of conformity and resistance. Many academic disciplines—from sociology to literary studies—have studied food and its function as a complex social discourse, and the wide variety of approaches to the topic provides multidisciplinary frames for understanding the construction and uses of food in all types of media, including children’s literature. Table Lands: Food in Children’s Literature is a survey of food’s function in children’s texts, showing how the sociocultural contexts of food reveal children’s agency. Authors Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard examine texts that vary from historical to contemporary, noncanonical to classics, and Anglo-American to multicultural traditions, including a variety of genres, formats, and audiences: realism, fantasy, cookbooks, picture books, chapter books, YA novels, and film. Table Lands offers a unified approach to studying food in a wide variety of texts for children. Spanning nearly 150 years of children’s literature, Keeling and Pollard’s analysis covers a selection of texts that show the omnipresence of food in children’s literature and culture and how they vary in representations of race, region, and class, due to the impact of these issues on food. Furthermore, they include not only classic children’s books, such as Winnie-the-Pooh, but recent award-winning multicultural novels as well as cookbooks and even one film, Pixar’s Ratatouille.
