Book Description
The Jamaican poet presents a collection of verse acknowledging her own ancestors and that of her craft.
Author : Lorna Goodison
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252067884
The Jamaican poet presents a collection of verse acknowledging her own ancestors and that of her craft.
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 2014-08
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781623236212
When a young boy named Roger tries to steal the purse of a woman named Luella, he is just looking for money to buy stylish new shoes. After she grabs him by the collar and drags him back to her home, he's sure that he is in deep trouble. Instead, Roger is soon left speechless by her kindness and generosity.
Author : Hannah Jane Parkinson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 178335237X
'This book is a not-so-small joy in itself.' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Parkinson has the gift of making you look with new eyes at everyday things. The perfect daily diversion.' JOJO MOYES 'Always funny and frank and full of insight, I absolutely love Parkinson's writing.' DAVID NICHOLLS 'I loved this book . . . Parkinson's writing transports you to unexpected places of joy and comfort . . . these pages contain happiness.' MARINA HYDE 'The twenty-first century feels a lot more bearable in Parkinson's company.' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON Drawn from the successful Guardian column, these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days. Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown ('like bathing in marshmallow'), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is charmed by the personalities of fonts ('you'll never see Comic Sans on a funeral notice'), celebrates pockets and gleefully abandons a book she isn't enjoying. Parkinson's everyday exaltations - selected from her immensely successful Guardian column - will utterly delight. FEATURES BRAND NEW MATERIAL 'A compendium of delights.' OBSERVER 'Delightful . . . a love letter to those little moments of bliss that get us through the daily grind.' RED
Author : David Finkel
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 038568097X
No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, Finkel shadowed the men of the US 2-16 Infantry Battalion in Baghdad as they carried out the grueling fifteen-month "surge" that changed them all forever. Now Finkel has followed many of the same men as they've returned home and struggled to reintegrate - both into their family lives and into society at large. In the ironically titled Thank You for Your Service, Finkel writes with tremendous compassion not just about the soldiers but about their wives and children. Where do soldiers belong after their homecoming? Is it reasonable, or even possible, to expect them to rejoin their communities as if nothing has happened? And in moments of hardship, who can soldiers turn to if they feel alienated by the world they once lived in? These are the questions Finkel faces as he revisits the brave but shaken men of the 2-16. More than a work of journalism, Thank You for Your Service is an act of understanding -- shocking but always riveting, unflinching but deeply humane, it takes us inside the heads of those who must live the rest of their lives with the realities of war.
Author : Patricia Polacco
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0399257624
The real-life, classic story of a dyslexic girl and the teacher who would not let her fail. A perfect gift for teachers and for reading students of any age. Patricia Polacco is now one of America's most loved children's book creators, but once upon a time, she was a little girl named Trisha starting school. Trisha could paint and draw beautifully, but when she looked at words on a page, all she could see was jumble. It took a very special teacher to recognize little Trisha's dyslexia: Mr. Falker, who encouraged her to overcome her reading disability. Patricia Polacco will never forget him, and neither will we. This inspiring story is available in a deluxe slipcased edition, complete with a personal letter to readers from Patricia Polacco herself. Thank You, Mr. Falker will make a beautiful gift for the special child who needs encouragement&150or any special teacher who has made a difference in the child's life.
Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Prussia
ISBN :
Author : Frank C. Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Author : Allan Fea
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 1908
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Hely-Hutchinson
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Mark Lemon
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN :