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Broken Strings

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735266255
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Broken Strings written by Eric Walters and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A violin and a middle-school musical unleash a dark family secret in this moving story by an award-winning author duo. For fans of The Devil's Arithmetic and Hana's Suitcase. It's 2002. In the aftermath of the twin towers -- and the death of her beloved grandmother -- Shirli Berman is intent on moving forward. The best singer in her junior high, she auditions for the lead role in Fiddler on the Roof, but is crushed to learn that she's been given the part of the old Jewish mother in the musical rather than the coveted part of the sister. But there is an upside: her "husband" is none other than Ben Morgan, the cutest and most popular boy in the school. Deciding to throw herself into the role, she rummages in her grandfather's attic for some props. There, she discovers an old violin in the corner -- strange, since her Zayde has never seemed to like music, never even going to any of her recitals. Showing it to her grandfather unleashes an anger in him she has never seen before, and while she is frightened of what it might mean, Shirli keeps trying to connect with her Zayde and discover the awful reason behind his anger. A long-kept family secret spills out, and Shirli learns the true power of music, both terrible and wonderful.

The Broken String: A Short Story

Author : Diane Chamberlain
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1743537018
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Broken String: A Short Story written by Diane Chamberlain and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short story from Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Midwife's Confession and Necessary Lies. Some secrets need to be told . . . As a child, Riley always suspected there was a secret her parents and brother protected her from, a secret that ruined the bond between her and her brother and threatened to tear her family apart. Now seventeen years old, Riley is flying out to visit her brother Danny who has been wounded whilst fighting in Iraq. And she's is determined to find out what this secret is. But will uncovering the truth bring her and her brother together again and give her the answers she craves, or will it simply lead to more questions . . . The Broken String is perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Jodi Picoult.

Song of the Broken String

Author : Stephen Watson
Publisher : Sheep Meadow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Song of the Broken String written by Stephen Watson and published by Sheep Meadow Press. This book was released on 1991-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The /Xam Bushmen, hunters, gatherers, some poets among them, were a stone age people who survived nearly 5,000 years in the region now known as the Cape Province of South Africa. By the turn of this century they had completely disappeared, destroyed finally by the murderous European settlement of the interior. Song of the Broken String has its provenance in the oral tradition of this ancient culture. In the 1860s, a German linguist named W. H. Bleek become aware of the genocide in progress. Taking into his service three /Xam Bushmen he found working as convict laborers in a chain gang, he set about preserving a small part of their heritage. After devising a phonetic notation of the /Xam's language, he transcribed the personal narratives, songs, and folktales of these three men and translated them into English. Housed in an archive at the University of Cape Town, the 12,000 pages of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection are all that remains of this people and their language. Stephen Watson, a contemporary South African poet, has explored this archive, "re-translating" Bleek's word-for-word English prose into poems in which something of the power of those original voices lives on, however filtered through the 19th century ethnographer and the 20th century writer. The results not only offer a path into a powerful oral tradition, but also raise questions about the ways in which we listen to and "translate" cultures that are distant or lost. Song of the Broken String does not bring back the /Xam, it is not a collection of artifacts. Something survives here that is almost monumental, certainly beautiful. Stephen Watson, a contemporary South African poet and writer, has explored this archive, "re-translating" Bleek's word- for- word English prose into poems in which the power of these original voices would live on. However filtered through the 19th century ethnographer and the 20th century writer, poetry seemed the obvious form for this dialogue. The results not only offer a way into a powerful oral tradition but also raise questions about the ways in which we listen to and "translate" cultures that are distant or lost, cultures in whose fate we are somehow complicit. Song of the Broken String does not bring back the /Xam, but it makes their ghosts vital presences in our own literary tradition.

The Broken String

Author : Neil Bennun
Publisher : Neil Bennun
ISBN 13 : 9780670912506
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Broken String written by Neil Bennun and published by Neil Bennun. This book was released on 2004 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San people were a South African tribe who lived in the scrubland and communicated in a distinct click language. During the nineteenth century they were labelled as sub-human and hunted as animals by the Boers and the British. sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd, befriended some San bushmen and gradually began to document their language, resulting in an extraordinary archive of material. beautiful rock art and powerful fables. The fables will run throughout the book.

The Silent Sister

Author : Diane Chamberlain
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250010721
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Silent Sister written by Diane Chamberlain and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Silent Sister, Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As Riley works to uncover the truth, her discoveries will put into question everything she thought she knew about her family. Riley must decide what the past means for her present, and what she will do with her newfound reality, in this engrossing New York Times bestselling mystery from Diane Chamberlain.

Broken Strings

Author : Maria Farrer
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 140714054X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Broken Strings written by Maria Farrer and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jess's dream to be a violinist dies when she fails an audition for music school - until her estranged grandmother shows up promising six months of tuition in exchange for Jess living with her in London and following her rules. There, Jess will uncover a devastating secret which tore her family apart and links directly to Jess's own musical dream.

Itzhak Perlman's Broken String

Author : Jacqueline Jules
Publisher : Evening Street Press
ISBN 13 : 1937347397
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Itzhak Perlman's Broken String written by Jacqueline Jules and published by Evening Street Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 winner of the Helen Kay Chapbook Prize In the apocryphal story told about Yitzhak Perlman during his concert at Lincoln Center in 1995 when one of the four violin strings suddenly tore, and he proceeded to reconceive and play the entire work with three remaining strings, he said that “sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can make with what you have left.” If ever there were a work that explores the aftermath of loss, it is this powerful and highly original collection by Jacqueline Jules. “Every life is lived on a high wire,/ strung over the treetops…//Don’t expect to feel safe.” The poet reminds us not to waste time grieving over “stolen credit cards” and a “broken car on the day of a big interview.” Reminds us how “Joy sits on a seesaw with Grief.” If it’s divinity we seek, best we gather the “stone tablets” and carry them through the wilderness of time. Consolation can be “sunlight/streaming through/serrated shapes…like fingers” that “wipe” away “tears.” —Myra Sklarew, Author of Lithuania: New & Selected Poems What plucks at the heart strings of Jacqueline Jules’ intense poems of Itzhak Perlman’s Broken String is a dialectic between faith and loss where science mediates. “Both Science and Faith insist/ nothing is random.” Grief is a squatter—an unwanted presence after friends and family leave the bereaved. The poet dares to challenge Jean-Paul Sartre on despair and suggests to the physical therapist “better to tease a tiger/ than poke a pain.” Everything connects: Emily Dickinson, vending machines, a gypsy girl with rocks in her pockets who steps into a river. This is a smart and smarting journey through the human condition. —Karren L. Alenier, author of The Anima of Paul Bowles This lovely and moving collection explores what happens when grief is chronic. After the shock of initial loss, when grief becomes a daily companion, we must learn, as Jacqueline Jules wisely writes, to find music in our crippled instruments. Like Jean-Paul Sartre, we “cross that cruel river”; like Isaac Newton, our personal math proves “we are vulnerable to falling objects.” —Kim Roberts, founding editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly

The Mitten String

Author : Jennifer Rosner
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 037598173X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Mitten String written by Jennifer Rosner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original Jewish folktale about a girl who knits, a deaf woman, and a piece of blue yarn. When her family invites a deaf woman and her baby to stay, Ruthie, a talented knitter of mittens, wonders how the mother will know if her child wakes in the night. The surprising answer inspires Ruthie to knit a special gift that offers great comfort to mother and baby—and to Ruthie herself. With language and imagery reminiscent of stories told long ago, this modern Jewish folktale will resonate with those who love crafts, anyone who’s encountered someone with physical differences—and with everyone who has ever lost a mitten in the depths of winter.

The Art of String Figures

Author : International String Figure Association
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486835510
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Art of String Figures written by International String Figure Association and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in tribal customs and cultural traditions from around the world, making string figures is an ancient pastime that continues to charm people of all ages. This compilation of projects from String Figure Magazine presents easy-to-follow photographs and simple, step-by-step directions for creating more than two dozen captivating string figures that can jump, flip, and perform other tricks. In addition to basic instructions on how to get started, this guide features brief accounts of each figure's historical background. They include "Kidnapped Baby" and "Broken Home, Mended Home" from Hawaii, "A Flock of Birds" and "Old Man Chewing" from the Solomon Islands, and the Australian "Setting Sun." From the Congo come "Leopard's Mouth," "Rubber Band" from Tibet, and from India, "Scissors." Other figures spotlight the traditions of North America's Navajo and Kwakiutl peoples and natives of Brazil, Guyana, and Argentina. A great travel pastime and on-the-go activity, making string figures is a delightful, inexpensive, and easily acquired hobby.

Strings Attached

Author : Joanne Lipman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471125769
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Strings Attached written by Joanne Lipman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strings Attachedis the story of a brilliant, but ferocious music teacher who came to be known as Mr K. A Ukrainian immigrant who survived an abusive childhood to become a noted resident and teacher, Mr K used music as a means of escape. The authors, who spent their childhoods in the late 60s and 70s, rehearsing and playing together as young musicians, bring the extraordinary character of Mr K to life - from his days as a forced Nazi labourer; to his home life as a husband to an invalid wife; to his heart-breaking search to find his missing daughter; to the terrifying challenges he hurtled from behind the music stand.

The Broken String

Author : Diane Chamberlain
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 146687791X
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Broken String written by Diane Chamberlain and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of the forthcoming novel The Silent Sister, Diane Chamberlain introduces Riley MacPherson in the e-short story The Broken String. As seventeen-year-old Riley MacPherson rushes to the side of her brother who has been gravely injured in Iraq, she recalls their growing up years when he was her protector and best friend. Why did that relationship fall apart? She longs for a second chance to connect with her brother, not realizing that family secrets may prevent them from ever having that closeness again.

Strings Attached

Author : Judy Blundell
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 1407130382
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Strings Attached written by Judy Blundell and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kit Corrigan has always dreamed of being a star. But in order to get there, she needs to break up with Billy, who's going to Korea, and leave her family behind in Providence, RI, to move to New York City. She finds small roles, and a hard city to live in. She finds out that she's made a deal with Billy's father, Nate (a lawyer who defends mobsters), and has to do what he asks of her. And she finds a mystery that she needs to solve in order to protect the people she loves.

The Length of a String

Author : Elissa Brent Weissman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073522949X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Length of a String written by Elissa Brent Weissman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imani is adopted, and she's ready to search for her birth parents. But when she discovers the diary her Jewish great-grandmother wrote chronicling her escape from Holocaust-era Europe, Imani begins to see family in a new way. Imani knows exactly what she wants as her big bat mitzvah gift: to find her birth parents. She loves her family and her Jewish community in Baltimore, but she has always wondered where she came from, especially since she's black and almost everyone she knows is white. Then her mom's grandmother--Imani's great-grandma Anna--passes away, and Imani discovers an old journal among her books. It's Anna's diary from 1941, the year she was twelve and fled Nazi-occupied Luxembourg alone, sent by her parents to seek refuge in Brooklyn, New York. Anna's diary records her journey to America and her new life with an adoptive family of her own. And as Imani reads the diary, she begins to see her family, and her place in it, in a whole new way.

An Invisible Thread

Author : Laura Schroff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451648979
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book An Invisible Thread written by Laura Schroff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.

From Star Strings

Author : Akihito Tsukushi
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1645056724
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book From Star Strings written by Akihito Tsukushi and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Made in Abyss, bestselling creator Akihito Tsukushi took you deep into the earth. Now, in this riveting manga, he recounts the tale of an epic journey into the sky--and far, far beyond. When Kororu, a little girl living alone on a distant planet, finds a mysterious string hanging from the sky, she's left with just one choice: to climb it. Where does the string lead? And will she survive the journey to the other end?

The House of Broken Angels

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316516252
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The House of Broken Angels written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death." In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. "Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining." -- New York Times Book Review"Intimate and touching . . . the stuff of legend." -- San Francisco Chronicle"An immensely charming and moving tale." -- Boston GlobeNational Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary Hub

Hawaiian String Games

Author : Joseph S. Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Hawaiian String Games written by Joseph S. Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: