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Sylvia & Aki

Author : Winifred Conkling

Publisher : Yearling

Page : 162 pages

File Size : 34,74 MB

Release : 2013-07-09

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 158246345X

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Young Sylvia Mendez never expected to be at the center of a landmark legal battle. Young Aki Munemitsu never expected to be sent away from her home and her life as she knew it. The two girls definitely never expected to know each other, until their lives intersected on a Southern California farm in a way that changed the country forever. Who are Sylvia and Aki? And why did their family stories matter then and still matter today? This book reveals the remarkable, never-before-told story—based on true events—of Mendez vs. Westminster School District, the California court case that desegregated schools for Latino children and set the stage for Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education at the national level.



Take Sylvia's Case

Author : Vitae Bergman

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 135 pages

File Size : 42,89 MB

Release : 2005-03-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1411628241

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War correspondents sometimes lose their nerve. Sylvia is no exception. An ambush kills her three colleagues. She barely escapes with her life. Her body is shattered. Single, middle-aged, demoralized from several failed love affairs, her career in jeopardy, Sylvia's perspective has become fear driven and distorted.A lover from twenty-five years back, the most important man in her life, unaccountably resurfaces, adding to her sense of crisis. And worse, her only friend suddenly dies from cancer. Sylvia has no one to confide in. She is forced to examine the premise of her life entirely on her own. Faulty assumptions and conclusions abound. She tells her story to an invisible "counselor," weaving past and present to a climactic and satisfying ending which surprises her and the reader.



Sylvia Porter's Money Book

Author : Sylvia Porter

Publisher :

Page : 70 pages

File Size : 27,33 MB

Release : 1976

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780380006380

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Executive Presence

Author : Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 46,65 MB

Release : 2014-06-03

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0062246909

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Are you “leadership material?” More importantly, do others perceive you to be? Sylvia Ann Hewlett, a noted expert on workplace power and influence, shows you how to identify and embody the Executive Presence (EP) that you need to succeed. You can have the experience and qualifications of a leader, but without executive presence, you won't advance. EP is an amalgam of qualities that true leaders exude, a presence that telegraphs you're in charge or deserve to be. Articulating those qualities isn't easy, however. Based on a nationwide survey of college graduates working across a range of sectors and occupations, Sylvia Hewlett and the Center for Talent Innovation discovered that EP is a dynamic, cohesive mix of appearance, communication, and gravitas. While these elements are not equal, to have true EP, you must know how to use all of them to your advantage. Filled with eye-opening insights, analysis, and practical advice for both men and women, mixed with illustrative examples from executives learning to use the EP, Executive Presence will help you make the leap from working like an executive to feeling like an executive.



Entranced

Author : Sylvia Mercedes

Publisher : Firewyrm Books

Page : 406 pages

File Size : 31,81 MB

Release : 2021-09-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781942379546

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Perfect for fans of The Cruel Prince and A Court of Thorns and Roses, this romantic series about a mortal girl and her dealings with a roguish Fae Prince will keep you turning pages late into the night! Never Anger the Fae. Never Trust the Fae. Never Love the Fae. Clara is an Obligate-a human servant at the Court of Dawn. She doesn't know why. She knows only that she broke the Pledge and must therefore spend her days obliging the every whim of a capricious fae princess. If she can keep her head down and follow the rules, she might survive to the end of her Obligation. But how can she stop devastatingly beautiful Lord Ivor from looking at her in that special way that makes her heart stutter? And how can she avoid the jealous fury of Princess Estrilde, who seeks to claim Lord Ivor for herself? Most of all, how can she elude the conniving Prince of the Doomed City . . . who is determined to buy her Obligation for his own dark purposes? Do you love all the lethal intrigues of a twisted fae court? Then don't miss Entranced, book 1 of the Prince of the Doomed City series. Bargains and treachery abound in this tale of slow-burn romance and heart-pounding adventure.



Your Own, Sylvia

Author : Stephanie Hemphill

Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 27,3 MB

Release : 2008-12-10

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0307493598

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On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath and Your Own, Sylvia is a portrait of her life, told in poems. With photos and an extensive list of facts and sources to round out the reading experience, Your Own, Sylvia is a great curriculum companion to Plath's The Bell Jar and Ariel, a welcoming introduction for newcomers, and an unflinching valentine for the devoted.



Sylvia's Spinach

Author : Katherine Pryor

Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 36,3 MB

Release : 2018-08-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1430132566

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Sylvia Spivens always says no to spinach. But one day Sylvia's teacher gives her a packet of spinach seeds to plant for the school garden. Overcoming her initial reluctance and giving the seeds a little love and patience, Sylvia discovers the joy of growing food and the pleasure of tasting something new.



Giving Up

Author : Jillian Becker

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 47 pages

File Size : 19,66 MB

Release : 2003-05-12

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1466839775

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Giving Up is Jillian Becker's intimate account of her brief but extraordinary time with Sylvia Plath during the winter of 1963, the last months of the poet's life. Abandoned by Ted Hughes, Sylvia found companionship and care in the home of Becker and her husband, who helped care for the estranged couple's two small children while Sylvia tried to rest. In clear-eyed recollections unclouded by the intervening decades, Becker describes the events of Sylvia's final days and suicide: her physical and emotional state, her grief over Hughes's infidelity, her mysterious meeting with an unknown companion the night before her suicide, and the harsh aftermath of her funeral. Alongside this tragic conclusion is a beautifully rendered portrait of a friendship between two very different women.



Sylvia Long's Thumbelina

Author : Sylvia Long

Publisher : Chronicle Books

Page : 53 pages

File Size : 42,43 MB

Release : 2013-07-30

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1452128626

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From best-selling artist Sylvia Long comes an exquisite version of Hans Christian Andersen's beloved tale about a thumb-size girl and her larger-than-life adventures. Jewel-toned paintings depict the story's settings from light and airy meadows to Mole's dark and dismal underground homewhile whimsical details bring the classic cast of characters to life and make this storytime favorite a visual feast.



The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Author : Sylvia Plath

Publisher : Anchor

Page : 393 pages

File Size : 31,23 MB

Release : 2013-01-16

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 030783039X

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The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives,” and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath’s ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.