Book Description
Simply retold and wonderfully illustrated, this series brings together charming tales that children will enjoy. Each story takes approximately 10 minutes to read.
Author : Belinda Gallagher
Publisher : Miles Kelly Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9781848105010
Simply retold and wonderfully illustrated, this series brings together charming tales that children will enjoy. Each story takes approximately 10 minutes to read.
Author : Dorothy Gallagher
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400033063
Dorothy Gallagher began her literary career fabricating stories about celebrities for a pulp magazine. Nothing she invented, however, could rival the facts surrounding her own family. In a singular voice–intimate, fierce, hilarious–Gallagher takes you into the heart of her Russian Jewish heritage with stories as elegant and stylish as fiction. From the wrenching last stages of her parents’ lives, Gallagher moves back through time: to her parents’ beginnings, the adventures of her extended family, and the communist ideology to which they cling. Her aunt Lily sells lingerie to prostitutes; a family friend is found murdered in a bathtub; her cousin Meyer returns to the Ukraine to find his village near death from starvation; and a young Gallagher endures sessions in self-criticism at a Workers’ Children’s camp. Together these episodes tell the larger story of a generation living through tumultuous history, and record the acts of loving defiance of a daughter on her path to independence.
Author : Dorothy Gallagher
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681374811
A delicate and darkly witty reflection on loss, marriage, writing, and life in New York from an acclaimed biographer and memoirist. Dorothy Gallagher’s husband, Ben Sonnenberg, died in 2010. He had suffered from multiple sclerosis for many years and was almost completely paralyzed, but his wonderful, playful mind remained quite undimmed. In the ten sections of Stories I Forgot to Tell You, Gallagher moves freely and intuitively between the present and the past to evoke the life they made together and her life after his death, alone and yet at the same time never without thoughts of him, in a present that is haunted but also comforted by the recollection of their common past. She talks—the whole book is written conversationally, confidingly, unpretentiously—about small things, such as moving into a new apartment and setting it up, growing tomatoes on a new deck, and as she does she recalls her missing husband’s elegant clothes and British affectations, what she knew about him and didn’t know, the devastating toll of his disease and the ways they found to deal with it. She talks about their two dogs and their cat, Bones, and the role that a photograph she never took had in bringing her together with her husband. Her mother, eventually succumbing to dementia, is also here, along with friends, an old typewriter, episodes from a writing life, and her husband’s last days. The stories Gallagher has to tell, as quirky as they are profound, could not be more ordinary, and yet her glancing, wry approach to memory and life gives them an extraordinary resonance that makes the reader feel both the logic and the mystery of a couple’s common existence. Her prose is perfectly pitched and her eye for detail unerring. This slim book about irremediable loss and unending love distills the essence of a lifetime.
Author : Belinda GALLAGHER
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2019-04-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781786178824
Prepare to laugh out loud with this fantastically entertaining collection of mischief and mayhem. This book features favourite funny stories and extracts from authors such as Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling. Finished with colourful illustrations, packed with humour, this rib-tickling collection will encourage a love of reading in children.
Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0807886254
More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, what was lost--not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides readers through the stories told in recent film and art, showing how these stories have both reflected and influenced the political, social, and racial currents of their times.
Author : Belinda Gallagher
Publisher : Miles Kelly Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Anansi (Legendary character)
ISBN : 9781848104952
Simply retold and wonderfully illustrated, this series brings together charming tales that children will enjoy. Each story takes approximately 10 minutes to read.
Author : Josie Gray
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A collection of short stories by Josie Gray and Tess Gallagher.
Author : Ally Carter
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1423148088
Friendship. Romance. Espionage. The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is no ordinary boarding school. Don't miss a moment of the New York Times bestselling series--now with a bonus epilogue! The last thing Cammie Morgan remembers is leaving the Gallagher Academy to protect her friends and family from the Circle of Cavan-an ancient terrorist organization that has been hunting her for over a year. But when Cammie wakes up in an alpine convent and discovers that months have passed, she must face the fact that her memory is now a black hole. The only traces left of Cammie's summer vacation are the bruises on her body and the dirt under her nails, and all she wants is to go home. Once she returns to school, however, Cammie realizes that even the Gallagher Academy now holds more questions than answers. Cammie, her friends, and mysterious spy-guy Zach must face their most difficult challenge yet as they travel to the other side of the world, hoping to piece together the clues that Cammie left behind. It's a race against time. The Circle is hot on their trail and willing stop at nothing to prevent Cammie from remembering what she did last summer.
Author : Liz Prather
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 2019-09-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780325099507
When we read a nonfiction text, what is the difference between one that keeps us interested and one that merely informs? Especially when the topic may be a bit, well, dry? The difference is narrative. The writer who threads a story throughout her text - using the tools of human connection, of narrative - is the writer who brings information to life. The argument she makes is compelling and real, because we care about the story within her story. This writer understands the power of narrative. In Story Matters, Liz Prather provides activities, lessons, exercises, mentor texts, and student samples to help teens learn to seamlessly weave narrative into their nonfiction writing. She provides concrete ideas for using the tools and techniques of narrative, including: - finding stories within any topic - using characters - creating tension - exploring structure - selecting details - crafting words and sentences. Give Liz's ideas a try and watch your students' writing rise to new levels. Because story matters.
Author : Belinda GALLAGHER
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2019-04-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781786178817
This wonderfully entertaining collection of nonsensical tales contains a feast of silly shenanigans, mischievous tomfoolery and hilarious goings-on. Includes stories by the nonsense greats Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, as well as Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang and Joseph Jacobs.