Book Description
The author recounts her childhood in late-nineteenth-century Nebraska, describes her adult life on a ranch, and discusses her lifelong interest in making quilts
Author : Grace Snyder
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803291645
The author recounts her childhood in late-nineteenth-century Nebraska, describes her adult life on a ranch, and discusses her lifelong interest in making quilts
Author : Giorgio Vasta
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0571282032
Palermo, Sicily, 1978. The Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro has just been kidnapped in Rome by members of the notorious Red Brigades. Two months after his disappearance on 9th May, Moro is found dead in the boot of a car. A trio of eleven-year-old schoolboys, Nimbo, Raggio, and Volo, avidly follow the news of the abduction as their admiration for the brigatisti grows. When the boys themselves resolve to abduct a classmate and incarcerate him in a makeshift 'people's prison', the darkness within their world, and the world of the novel, becomes all-pervasive. A vivid and hellish description of Sicily in the late seventies, Time on my Hands is an unforgettable novel from a significant new voice in Italian fiction.
Author : Giorgio Vasta
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429942681
When does a game stop being a game? And what would cause a young boy to commit an act of savage violence? In Time on My Hands by Giorgio Vasta, the year is 1978, and a chilling drama is unfolding in Rome. Members of a leftist terrorist group known as the Red Brigades have kidnapped the former Italian prime minister, Aldo Moro, and are holding him in a secret prison, while broadcasting their demands to the public. Far from Rome, in Palermo, Sicily, a trio of eleven-year-old schoolboys are following Moro's abduction with intense interest. To their minds, the terrorists are warriors, striking a blow at the stifling conformity and propriety of everyday Italian life. Just like the Red Brigades, the boys give themselves code names: Nimbus, Radius, and Flight. They shave their heads, develop a secret language, and begin a life of escalating crime in worshipful imitation of their heroes. But when Moro's body is discovered in the trunk of a car, riddled with bullets, and as the stakes of the friends' games grow higher, Nimbus, the most innocent of the three, must decide just how far he is willing to go.
Author : Jeanne Walker Harvey
Publisher : Two Lions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780761458104
A train journey in Romare Beardens childhood, inspired by one of his collage paintings
Author : Tony Ross
Publisher : Random House
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1849399522
The Little Princess loves getting her hands dirty. The trouble is . . . she hates washing them. Until she learns all about the nasties and the dirties and all the other horrible things that lurk and make you ill . . .
Author :
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338291424
Children of all ages are invited to a bright and colorful multicultural celebration with We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands! Award-winning illustrator Rafael Lopez brings new life with his adaptation of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," saluting the lives of all young people. The rhythmic verse and repetitive emphasis on "we" and "our" encourages inclusive communities and the celebration of unity and diverse friendships all around the world."We've got you and you got me in our hands.We have the whole world in our hands."Come and read along and sing along as we celebrate the magic of unity. From the rivers to the mountains to the oceans and to the sea -- we've got the whole world in our hands. As an added bonus the sheet music is included in the back of the book for piano, guitar, and recorder for classroom, library, and home sing-alongs.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Communication and traffic
ISBN :
Author : Harry Gordon Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals
Publisher :
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Criminal law
ISBN :
Author : Surendra Nath Sen
Publisher :
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 1923
Category : India
ISBN :