The Tall Woman
Author : Wilma Dykeman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780961385910
Tall Woman
Author : Rose Mitchell
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826322036
Book Description
Portrays Navajo weaver and midwife Tall Woman, who held onto traditional Navajo ways, raised twelve children, and cared for the farm throughout her marriage to political leader and Blessingway singer Frank Mitchell.
The Tall Book
Author : Arianne Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1608191109
Book Description
The Tall Book is a celebration of the tall-advantaged, which notes and explores the myriad benefits that come with living large--from the simple pleasures of being able to see over crowds at a parade, to the professional joys of earning more money, and having others perceive you as a natural leader. The Tall Book also offers well-researched explanations into the great unanswered questions of tallness, including: Why are people tall to begin with? How have tall people figured throughout history? Why are CEOs so tall? And how does tallness affect the dating game? Filled with illustrative graphics, charts, and piles of tall miscellanea and factoids, The Tall Book is a wonderful and much-needed exploration of life from on high.
Short
Author : John Schwartz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429953020
Book Description
A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO GROWING UP SHORT. Part science book, part memoir—a book for everyone concerned about looking (or feeling) different. When veteran journalist John Schwartz took a close look at famous height studies, he made a surprising discovery: being short doesn't have to be a disadvantage! Part advice book, part memoir, and part science primer, this fascinating book explores the marketing, psychology, and mythology behind our obsession with height and delivers a reassuring message to kids of all types that they can walk tall—whatever it is that makes them different. Short is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Maigret and the Tall Woman
Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524704865
Book Description
“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré A visit from a tall, thin woman he arrested many years ago—now married to a hapless burglar—leads Maigret on a tortuous investigation in which he struggles with a formidable suspect A face from Maigret's past reappears to tell him about the misadventures of her husband, a safecracker nicknamed “Sad Freddie” who discovered a dead body while committing a burglary and fled the scene in a panic. In a race against the clock, Maigret must use his full arsenal of investigative methods to solve the crime.
Stories by Foreign Authors: The tall woman, by P.A. de Alarcón
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1903
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Dona Flor
Author : Pat Mora
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385376146
Book Description
Doña Flor is a giant woman who lives in a puebla with lots of families. She loves her neighbors–she lets the children use her flowers for trumpets, and the families use her leftover tortillas for rafts. So when a huge puma is terrifying the village, of course Flor is the one to investigate. Featuring Spanish words and phrases throughout, as well as a glossary, Pat Mora’s story, along with Raúl Colón’s glorious artwork, makes this a treat for any reader, tall or small. Award-winning author Pat Mora’s previous book with Raúl Colón, Tomás and the Library Lady, received the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, an IRA Teacher’s Choice Award, a Skipping Stones Award, and was also named a Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List title and an Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature commended title. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Awesome Advantages of Being a Tall Girl
Author : Keith-Spiegel
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780997162691
Book Description
Only 8% of girls grow to be 5 feet 8 inches or taller. Knowing the advantages that tall girls will eventually gain often remains buried during the teenage years when the focus is on surviving adolescence. Awesome Advantages of Being a Tall Girl brings the many blessings of height front-and-center and explores how to manage the disadvantages. Girls who are taller than their peers will find inspiration, insights, and encouragement based on interviews with tall girls and women and exciting scientific findings about the great gift of height.
The Tall Woman
Author : Wilma Dykeman
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 1962
Category : 1960-1969
ISBN :
Book Description
Portrait of a North Carolina woman, a tower of strength for her family during the days of civil war and reconstruction who rises above a harsh environment to affirm her ideals.
The Very Tall Little Girl
Author : Phyllis Krasilovsky
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 1969-06-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780385046916
Book Description
Once a young girl notices that everyone in her family is tall like she is, she stops worrying and sees the special advantages of her size.
