Author : Almria Leonard
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN :
This is a true story from beginning to end. All the things written in this book are true. It all happened to the author. I'm the author. This story spans all over a period of forty-six years. It's hard to believe I lived. My religious convictions brought me through the abuse, both verbal and physical, the pain, and suffering. God was with me through it all.
Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 030747772X
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.
Author : Judi Culbertson
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
ISBN : 9780803476639
Like many other used booksellers, Delhi Laine, proprietor of Secondhand Prose, dreams of making the Great Find if not a Shakespearean Folio, then at least a fragment of an Emily Dickinson or Edgar Allan Poe manuscript. But after receiving a very rare and valuable children's book into her collection, she finds out such treasures can come at a terrible cost the suspicious death of one colleague and another left for dead days later. Her investigation into the true owner of the book reveals that those around her are not what they seem, as she is drawn into a world of deception, backroom dealings, and forgery. Despite the dangers, Delhi is determined to protect the treasure while coping with avaricious booksellers, her estranged famous-poet husband, and whoever is behind the attack who now has her in their sights.
Author : Frédéric Dard
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782272100
A man becomes entangled in a dangerous web of death and deceit in this “hallmark of classic French noir” set in 1960s Paris (The Guardian) Trouble is the last thing Albert needs. Traveling back to his childhood home on Christmas Eve to mourn his mother’s death, he finds the loneliness and nostalgia of his Parisian quartier unbearable. Until, that evening, he encounters a beautiful, seemingly innocent woman at a brasserie, and his spirits are lifted. Still, something about the woman disturbs him. Where is the father of her child? And what are those two red stains on her sleeve? When she invites him back to her apartment, Albert thinks he’s in luck. But a monstrous scene awaits them, and he finds himself lured into the darkness against his better judgment. Unravelling like a paranoid nightmare, Bird in a Cage melds existentialist drama with thrilling noir to tell the story of a man trapped in a prison of his own making.
Author : Cary Fagan
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1554988624
Two lonely souls find each other in this unusual tale of friendship and belonging from award-winning comic writer Cary Fagan featuring vibrant art by Banafsheh Erfanian. Is there someone out there for everyone? Two lonely souls find each other in this unusual tale of friendship and belonging from award-winning comic writer Cary Fagan. In her North American debut, illustrator Banafsheh Erfanian brings ornate artistry to the cage and birds that inhabit this surprisingly human story. A long-empty birdcage takes a chance and leaves behind its attic home to find a bird to keep. Out in the world, the cage encounters many birds and offers shelter to each of them. One by one, they refuse, explaining why they belong elsewhere. The cage feels lonelier than ever – until the cage in search of a bird finds a bird in search of a cage. Based on an aphorism by Franz Kafka, Fagan’s original story will make readers laugh at its absurdity and ponder its meaning long after they finish reading. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0307833275
Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society.
Author : Derek Niemann
Publisher : Short Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1780720947
At Warburg, Germany, in 1941, four British PoWs find an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of internment when they form a birdwatching society, and embark on an obsessive quest behind barbed wire. Through their shared love of birds, they overcome hunger, hardship, fear and stultifying boredom. Their quest draws in not only their fellow prisoners, but also some of the German guards, at great risk to them all... Derek Niemann draws on original diaries, letters and drawings, to tell of how Conder, Barrett, Waterston and Buxton were forged by their experiences as POWs into the giants of post war wildlife conservation. Their legacy lives on, in institutions such as the RSPB and the British Wildlife Trust.
Author : Thomas Andrewes (dealer in birds.)
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 1843
Category :
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Author : Philip C. Stead
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1596437111
Vernon the toad takes the silent Bird on a journey in hopes of finding Bird'shome. Full color.
