Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Irinas Story full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Irinas Story ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Hermann Hartfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871232618
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Irina's Story written by Hermann Hartfeld and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Williams
Publisher : Marble City Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1908943777
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Irina's Story written by Jim Williams and published by Marble City Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irina’s Story is the history of the Uspensky family and its attempt to negotiate the perils of 20th century Russia. It begins in the twilight years of the Tsarist empire in the idyllic setting of the family’s country home at Babushkino, and describes a world which is destroyed by war, revolution and Stalin’s terror, and ends with the fall of communism and the beginning of a new Russia of gangsters and crony-capitalism. At the age of 90, Irina Uspenskaya is the last surviving witness of these events. In her Moscow apartment, while her young relative Slavochka and his friends in “the International Syndicate” aspire to become successful drug dealers, Irina collects the letters and diaries of her parents’ generation and sets down the tale of what happened to them all. In turn she describes the doomed marriage of her father Nikolai and her mother Xenia, who love but never understand each other; her idealistic aunt Adalia, who marries the sinister Grodsky; her disreputable uncle Alexander and his feisty wife Tatiana. These and a host of other colourful characters populate the story and we see their world through their eyes and understand it through their thoughts and writings. Our guide, Irina is wry, funny, insightful and humane. Born with a disability, she views events through detached yet sympathetic eyes and reflects on her own history and her unrequited love for a boy she met as a little girl and the family and children she will never have. Irina’s Story is told with verve, compassion and a command of the sweep of Russian history. It is at times funny, romantic, tragic and appalling, but suffused throughout with deep humanity.
Author : Irina Georgescu
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0711241821
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Carpathia written by Irina Georgescu and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romania is a true cultural melting pot, rooted in Greek and Turkish traditions in the south, Hungarian and Saxon in the north and Slavic in the east and west. Carapathia, the first book from food stylist and cooking enthusiast Irina Georgescu, aims to introduce readers to Romania's bold, inventive and delicious cuisine. Bringing the country to life with stunning photography and recipes, it will take the reader on a culinary journey to the very heart of the Balkans, exploring it's history and landscape through it's traditions and food. From fragrant pilafs, sour borsch and hearty stews, to intricate and moreish desserts, this book celebrates the dishes from a culture living at the crossroads of eastern and western traditions.
Author : Philip Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736779408
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Irina written by Philip Warren and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josh Stenberg
Publisher : Merwinasia
ISBN 13 : 9781937385224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Irina's Hat written by Josh Stenberg and published by Merwinasia. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This eclectic anthology gathers stories from established and emerging writers in China that display an astonishing range of style and subject matter"--Back cover.
Author : Irina Reyn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466887362
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Imperial Wife written by Irina Reyn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Imperial Wife is a smart, engaging novel that parallels two fascinating worlds and two singular women. Irina Reyn writes beautifully of immigrants, art and the vagaries of love". --Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, Beautiful Ruins Two women's lives collide when a priceless Russian artifact comes to light. Tanya Kagan, a rising specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband. As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and auction fever kicks in, Reyn takes us into the world of Catherine the Great, the infamous 18th-century empress who may have owned the priceless artifact, and who it turns out faced many of the same issues Tanya wrestles with in her own life. Suspenseful and beautifully written, The Imperial Wife asks whether we view female ambition any differently today than we did in the past. Can a contemporary marriage withstand an “Imperial Wife”?
Author : Victoria Tennant
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618630X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo written by Victoria Tennant and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s and ’40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an embodiment of feminine grace and sophistication. This sumptuous, illustrated history tells the story of the rise of modern ballet and its popularity through the life story of one of ballet’s most glamorous stars, Irina Baronova (1919–2008), prima ballerina for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and later for Ballet Theatre in New York. Drawing on letters, correspondence, oral histories, and interviews, Baronova’s daughter, the actress Victoria Tennant, warmly recounts Baronova’s dramatic life, from her earliest aspirations to her grueling time on tour to her later years in Australia as a pioneer of the art. She begins with the Baronov family’s flight from Russia during the Revolution, which led them to Romania and later Paris, where at the age of thirteen, Baronova became a star, chosen by the legendary George Balanchine to join the Ballets Russes, where she danced the lead in Swan Lake. Tennant provides an intimate account of Baronova’s life as a dancer and rare behind-the-scenes stories of life on the road with the stars of the company. Spectacular photographs, a mix of archival images and family snapshots, offer many rare views of rehearsals, costumes, set designs, and the dancers themselves both at their most dazzling and in their most everyday. The story of Irina Baronova is also the story of the rise of ballet in America thanks to the Ballets Russes, who brought the magisterial beauty and star power of dance to big cities and small towns alike. Irina Baronova and the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo offers a unique perspective on this history, sure to be treasured by dance patrons and aspiring stars.
Author : Irina Reyn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439123133
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (231 download)
Download or read book What Happened to Anna K. written by Irina Reyn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing debut novel that reimagines Tolstoy's classic tragedy, Anna Karenina, for our time Vivacious thirty-seven-year-old Anna K. is comfortably married to Alex, an older, prominent businessman from her tight-knit Russian-Jewish immigrant community in Queens. But a longing for freedom is reignited in this bookish, overly romantic, and imperious woman when she meets her cousin Katia Zavurov's boyfriend, an outsider and aspiring young writer on whom she pins her hopes for escape. As they begin a reckless affair, Anna enters into a tailspin that alienates her from her husband, family, and entire world. In nearby Rego Park's Bukharian-Jewish community, twenty-seven-year-old pharmacist Lev Gavrilov harbors two secret passions: French movies and the lovely Katia. Lev's restless longing to test the boundaries of his sheltered life powerfully collides with Anna's. But will Lev's quest result in life's affirmation rather than its destruction? Exploring struggles of identity, fidelity, and community, What Happened to Anna K. is a remarkable retelling of the Anna Karenina story brought vividly to life by an exciting young writer.
Author : Keisuke Makino
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1685798101
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut (Light Novel) Vol. 2 written by Keisuke Makino and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Nosferatu Project going smoothly, Private Lev Leps is brought back on the roster of cosmonaut candidates, relieving him of his duties as vampire Irina's supervisor. From sunup to sundown, he struggles against his talented rivals in hopes of becoming humanity's first cosmonaut. But what of Irina? She endures post-flight tests by moonlight, and the powers that be have other, more sinister plans in store for her...
Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551996278
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book From The Fifteenth District written by Mavis Gallant and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria now makes a living as an actor in Paris. A group of selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera are incredulous that Mussolini and the Germans may affect their lives. A great writer’s quiet widow blossoms in widowhood, to the surprise and alarm of her children, who send a ten-year-old grandson to Switzerland to keep her company one Christmas. Full of wry humour and penetrating insights, this is Mavis Gallant at her most unforgettable.
Author : Nick Spencer
Publisher : Image Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Morning Glories #30 written by Nick Spencer and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smaller Rebellions.
Author : Ramona Dima
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031388496
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Queer Culture in Romania, 1920–2018 written by Ramona Dima and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in depth, extensive study of Romanian queer cultural products. It brings an essential contribution to the literature on Central and South Eastern European gender studies, post-communism studies, media, and cultural studies, as well as transnational queer studies. The book looks at Romanian queer culture ”from inside”, and from the acknowledgment that the research process is guided by the sensitivity of the approached topics, by the lack of archival footprints, and by a solid dose of media archaeology, especially when looking at the beginning of Romanian LGBT+ activism in the 90s. The book starts from contemporary Romanian cultural products that are focusing on queer topics and/or produced by queer creators. It looks back at the memories of seminal queer and trans activists in extensive interviews conducted for this volume, and fragmented literary and media sources that cover the most part of the 20th century. About the translation This book has been translated from Romanian by Andreea Moise. The Introduction and Chapter 6 were translated by Maria Cohut.
Author : Matilde Gallardo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030277097
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching written by Matilde Gallardo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book examines modern foreign language teachers who research their own and others’ experiences of identity construction in the context of living and teaching in UK institutions, primarily in the Higher Education sector. The book offers an insight into a key element of the educational and socio-political debate surrounding MFL in the UK: the teachers’ voices and their sense of agency in constructing their professional identities. The contributors use a combination of empirical research and personal reflection to generate knowledge about MFL teachers’ identity that can enhance how they are perceived in the social and educational establishments and raise awareness of key issues affecting the profession. This book will be of particular interest to language teachers, teacher trainers, applied linguists and students and scholars of modern foreign languages.
Author : Sunder Krishnan
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1600663079
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Loving God with All You've Got written by Sunder Krishnan and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loving God with All You ve Got will inspire you to develop a deeper intimacy with God through worship, prayer and meditation. More than a book, Loving God is a unique, achievable journey that shows you how to love God with your entire being, fully surrendered to him. This new edition comes complete with a study guide for small groups and Sunday school classes.
Author : Gabriele Rosenthal
Publisher : Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 3866492820
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (664 download)
Download or read book The Holocaust in Three Generations written by Gabriele Rosenthal and published by Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victims and Perpetrators What form does the dialogue about the family past during the Nazi period take in families of those persecuted by the Nazi regime and in families of Nazi perpetrators and bystanders? What impact does the past of the first generation, and their own way of dealing with it have on the lives of their children and grandchildren? What are the differences between the dialogue about the family past and the Holocaust in families of Nazi perpetrators and in families of Holocaust survivors? This book examines these questions on the basis of selected case studies.
Author : Irina Eremia Bragin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595311369
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Subterranean Towers written by Irina Eremia Bragin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man sits on a stool for sixteen hours a day. He must not talk, even to himself. Every five minutes the piercing eye of his jailor scours his tomb-like cell. This, he has been told, will be his life for the next twenty-five years. How will he keep from going mad? A child mysteriously loses her father at the age of five. She grows up among whispers, rumors, accusations. How will she protect her fragile ego against a hostile world? At the height of a brilliant career, general and Vice-Minister of Defense Ion Eremia, Nicolae Ceausescu's archrival, risked everything in order to tell the truth about communism. He was sentenced in 1959 to twenty-five years in prison while his actress wife and young children were persecuted and ostracized. Eventually, Ion's family emigrated to America and was only reunited with him in 1989 after the Romanian revolution. Was Ion's act of principled courage worth the heavy price he and his family paid? Subterranean Towers: A Father-Daughter Story weaves together the contrasting voices of the father in prison and the young daughter growing up in the greater prison outside to explore the meaning of heroism in the modern world.
Author : Irina Reyn
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 1250076048
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Mother Country written by Irina Reyn and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starred reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Award-winning author Irina Reyn explores what it means to be a mother in a world where you can't be with your child Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as an ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor. The war back home is always at the forefront of her reality. On television, Vladimir Putin speaks of the "reunification" of Crimea and Russia, the Ukrainian president makes unconvincing promises about a united Ukraine, while American politicians are divided over the fear of immigration. Nadia internalizes notions of "union" all around her, but the one reunion she has been waiting six years for - with her beloved daughter - is being eternally delayed by the Department of Homeland Security. When Nadia finds out that her daughter has lost access to the medicine she needs to survive, she takes matters into her own hands. Mother Country is Irina Reyn's most emotionally complex, urgent novel yet. It is a story of mothers and daughters and, above all else, resilience.
