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A Chinese American girl describes the festivities surrounding her uncle's Chinese wedding and the customs behind each one.
Author : Lenore Look
Publisher : Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
A Chinese American girl describes the festivities surrounding her uncle's Chinese wedding and the customs behind each one.
Author : Richard A. Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Child molesters
ISBN : 9780963705808
A boy who does not get the attention he needs from his father, and who has been abused by his uncle, believes he may be gay until he talks to a counselor
Author : Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 160977244X
Uncle, he said, you know me, and you know that I have not, that I never had one mercenary thought about your wealth; you know that my fault is to look forward too little in such matters rather than too much, and therefore I dare beg you to reconsider the words which you have uttered; it was idle I know to ask your advice and approval when my own determination was already made. I felt that it would be thus, or I should have consulted you before.
Author : Elizabeth M. Sewell
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2020-07
Category :
ISBN : 384605612X
Author : Apostolos Doxiadis
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 057129569X
Uncle Petros is a family joke. An ageing recluse, he lives alone in a suburb of Athens, playing chess and tending to his garden. If you didn't know better, you'd surely think he was one of life's failures. But his young nephew suspects otherwise. For Uncle Petros, he discovers, was once a celebrated mathematician, brilliant and foolhardy enough to stake everything on solving a problem that had defied all attempts at proof for nearly three centuries - Goldbach's Conjecture. His quest brings him into contact with some of the century's greatest mathematicians, including the Indian prodigy Ramanujan and the young Alan Turing. But his struggle is lonely and single-minded, and by the end it has apparently destroyed his life. Until that is a final encounter with his nephew opens up to Petros, once more, the deep mysterious beauty of mathematics. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture is an inspiring novel of intellectual adventure, proud genius, the exhilaration of pure mathematics - and the rivalry and antagonism which torment those who pursue impossible goals.
Author : Peter Straub
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593818199
“As if Harry Potter was written for grown-ups, Peter Straub’s Shadowland delivers carnage, blood, pain, fairy tales, and flashes of joy and wonder, just like real magic.”—Grady Hendrix You have been there...if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real. Only one of them will make it through.
Author : Peter Gonzalez
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781502571748
A brief account of a Puerto Rican youth growing up and coming of age in New York City in the sixties and seventies. Includes many photographs.
Author : Peter Boczar
Publisher : Peter Boczar
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2016-04-27
Category :
ISBN : 9789881433152
A Promise is a PromiseAt the age of five, I promised my grandmother that I would find her son, Larry Grasha who went missing in a B-24 Liberator bomber in South America on his way to World War II in Europe. This began a search that lasted a lifetime. It not only brought me into contact with others who lost relatives on the flight but mysterious people with special powers that appeared out of nowhere to help me with my search. They not only provided answers but also raised disturbing questions. In this regard, I was sternly warned by a psychic not to pursue this mission due to the involvement of "strong and dangerous forces." In fact, various people who helped me suddenly and unexpectedly died. My search involved two grueling trips to the jungles of French Guiana, from which I did not expect to return. But I had no choice. I gave my word. It was a point of honor. A Promise is a Promise.
Author : Aaron Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442453095
In this Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, The Twilight Zone comes to the carrot patch as a rabbit fears his favorite treats are out to get him. Includes audio! Jasper Rabbit loves carrots—especially Crackenhopper Field carrots. He eats them on the way to school. He eats them going to Little League. He eats them walking home. Until the day the carrots start following him...or are they? Celebrated artist Peter Brown’s stylish illustrations pair perfectly with Aaron Reynold’s text in this hilarious picture book that shows it’s all fun and games…until you get too greedy.
Author : Peter A. Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN :