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Book Synopsis Twin Adventures from a Simpler Time by : Dotty Cronan
Download or read book Twin Adventures from a Simpler Time written by Dotty Cronan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember when ...? Remember when a massive horse clip-clopped to your curb, pulling a huge wagon full of clear, glass, bottles of milk? Remeber when your days were spent roaming woodlands, climbing sway-in the-breeze trees, and discovering mysterious things? In the 1940's, time was not an issue except to, "get home in time for dinner," and "get back home before dark." If these recollections are stored in your memory bank, here is your chance to relive those carefree days and double your pleasure by experiencing them with a set of mischievous twins: one boy, one girl. For those who did not experience such childhood freedom in later decades, here is an opportunity to enjoy a totally new world, a wonderland where kids got to explore the world around them and learn some valuable lessons along the way. For instance, it's fun to discover mysterious green things hanging in trees, but horrifying to find them loaded with bees.
Download or read book The Fowl Twins written by Eoin Colfer and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One week after their eleventh birthday, the Fowl twins--scientist Myles, and Beckett, the force of nature--are left in the care of house security (NANNI) for a single night. In that time they befriend a troll who has clawed his way through the earth's crust to the surface. Unfortunately for the troll, he is being chased by a nefarious nobleman and an interrogating nun, who both need the magical creature for their own gain, as well as a fairy-in-training who has been assigned to protect him. The boys and their new troll best friend escape and go on the run. Along the way they get shot at, kidnapped, buried, arrested, threatened, killed (temporarily), and discover that the strongest bond in the world is not the one forged by covalent electrons in adjacent atoms, but the one that exists between a pair of twins.
Book Synopsis Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China by : Haun Saussy
Download or read book Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China written by Haun Saussy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "China" and "the West," "us" and "them," the "subject" and the "non-subject"--these and other dualisms furnish China watchers, both inside and outside China, with a pervasive, ready-made set of definitions immune to empirical disproof. But what does this language of essential difference accomplish? The essays in this book are an attempt to cut short the recitation of differences and to answer this question. In six interpretive studies of China, the author examines the ways in which the networks of assumption and consensus that make communication possible within a discipline affect collective thinking about the object of study. Among other subjects, these essays offer a historical and historiographical introduction to the problem of comparison and deal with translation, religious proselytization, semiotics, linguistics, cultural bilingualism, writing systems, the career of postmodernism in China, and the role of China as an imaginary model for postmodernity in the West. Against the reigning simplifications, these essays seek to restore the interpretation of China to the complexity and impurity of the historical situations in which it is always caught. The chief goal of the essays in this book is not to expose errors in interpreting China but to use these misunderstandings as a basis for devising better methodologies for comparative studies.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Isabel by : Candas Jane Dorsey
Download or read book The Adventures of Isabel written by Candas Jane Dorsey and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book one in a mystery series featuring a queer, nameless amateur detective is ambisexual Kinsey Millhone meets Canadian Lisbeth Salander Rescued from torpor and poverty by the need to help a good friend deal with the murder of her beloved granddaughter, our downsized-social-worker protagonist and her cat, Bunnywit, are jolted into a harsh, street-wise world of sex, lies, and betrayal, to which they respond with irony, wit, intelligence (except for the cat), and tenacity. With judicious use of the Oxford comma, pop culture trivia, common mystery tropes, and a keen eye for deceit, our protagonist swaggers through the mean streets of — yes, a Canadian city! — and discovers that what seems at first to be just a grotty little street killing is actually the surface of a grandiose and glittering set of criminal schemes.
Book Synopsis Sun Rise Sun Set: Twin Towers, Outer Realm Adventure by : JK Griffin
Download or read book Sun Rise Sun Set: Twin Towers, Outer Realm Adventure written by JK Griffin and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun Rise Sun Set: Twin Towers, Outer Realm Adventure By: JK Griffin “With great wealth comes great responsibilities” resonates as the Kelly’s continue to mesmerize with their spontaneity incorporating the twin tower buildings into their empire. The final chapters exasperate to retribution when Sean and the G’lani twins discover modern intervention with gems introducing diamonds as a form of new technology: diamond fuel storage units. Futuristic fantasy, the Kelly’s of G-Company embraces their fate encountering extraterrestrial life-form while space-mining for diamonds. Romance, mystery, suspense, and family drama dazzles with interstellar deceptive actions from an international vantage point deep in the outer realm.
Download or read book Dirt written by Bill Buford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) move to Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. But what was meant to be six months in a new and very foreign city turns into a wild five-year digression from normal life, as Buford apprentices at Lyon’s best boulangerie, studies at a legendary culinary school, and cooks at a storied Michelin-starred restaurant, where he discovers the exacting (and incomprehensibly punishing) rigueur of the professional kitchen. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to bring an exotic and unknown world to life, Buford has written the definitive insider story of a city and its great culinary culture.
Book Synopsis Let's Hear It for the Girls by : Erica Bauermeister
Download or read book Let's Hear It for the Girls written by Erica Bauermeister and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bravo! They've given adults and young girls a much-needed treasure map of heroines and 'she-roes'...It blazes an important path in the forest of children's literature."—Jim Trelease.
Book Synopsis Alone in the Mirror by : Barbara Klein
Download or read book Alone in the Mirror written by Barbara Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone in the Mirror: Twins in Therapy presents psychologically-focused real life histories, which demonstrate how childhood experiences shape the twin attachment and individual development. Readers will find the practices and the insights within invaluable, whether they use them to communicate with twin patients, family members, or if they are part of a twinship themselves.
Download or read book Y'all Twins? written by Katherine King and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In l950's Oxford, Mississippi, identical twin sisters, Katherine and Margaret King got away with everything. Why? Because they could. Their stories begin at age six when they hopped a ride on the back of a wagon driven by, unbeknownst to them, a famous member of the community, William Faulkner. Follow the King twins from first grade to sixth grade and experience the kind of antics that only twins can share. These unique stories will have you laughing with them and at them as they take advantage of looking exactly alike. From the first time that they swapped classes, they never looked back. Join Katherine (the mastermind) and Margaret (the co-conspirator) for a nostalgic trip down memory lane!
Book Synopsis The Last Guardian (Volume 8) by : Eoin Colfer
Download or read book The Last Guardian (Volume 8) written by Eoin Colfer and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seemingly nothing in this world daunts the young criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl. In the fairy world, however, there is a small thing that has gotten under his skin on more than one occasion: Opal Koboi. In The Last Guardian, the evil pixie is wreaking havoc yet again. This time his arch rival has reanimated dead fairy warriors who were buried in the grounds of Fowl Manor. Their spirits have possessed Artemis's little brothers, making his siblings even more annoying than usual. The warriors don't seem to realize that the battle they were fighting when they died is long over. Artemis has until sunrise to get the spirits to vacate his brothers and go back into the earth where they belong. Can he count on a certain LEPrecon fairy to join him in what could well be his last stand? New York Times best-selling author and comic genius Eoin Colfer will leave Artemis Fowl fans gasping up to the very end of this thrilling finale to the blockbuster series.
Download or read book Neon Visions written by Brannon Costello and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, Howard Chaykin broke new ground in American comic books with a series of formally innovative, iconoclastic works that turned the traditional action-adventure tales of mainstream comics into a platform for personal expression, political engagement, and aesthetic experimentation. His original creations American Flagg!, Time2, and the notorious Black Kiss, along with his reshaping of familiar titles like The Shadow and Blackhawk, generated acclaim and often controversy as they challenged expectations of the visual design and subject matter permissible in popular comics. Today, Chaykin remains a vital and prolific artist, but despite the original and influential nature of his work, he receives scant critical attention. In Neon Visions, Brannon Costello offers the first book-length critical evaluation of Chaykin’s work and confronts the blind spots in comics scholarship that consign this seminal artist to the margins. He argues that Chaykin’s contributions are often overlooked because his comics eschew any pretensions to serious literature. Instead, Chaykin’s work revels in the cliffhanger thrills of heroic-adventure genres and courts outrage with transgressive depictions of violence and sexuality. Examining Chaykin’s career from his early successes to compelling contemporary series such as City of Tomorrow, Dominic Fortune, and the controversial Black Kiss 2, Costello explores how this inventive body of work, through its evolving treatment of the theme of authenticity, incisively investigates popular culture’s capacity to foster or constrain individual identity and political agency. Challenging prevailing assumptions about the types of comics deemed worthy of scholarly attention, Costello reveals that the work of an artist as distinctive as Howard Chaykin demands a nuanced reading—one that confronts his unique approach to the comics medium, his blending of autobiographical themes and genre trademarks, and his engagement with comic books as artifacts of consumer culture.
Download or read book She Explores written by Gale Straub and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every woman who has ever been called outdoorsy comes a collection of stories that inspires unforgettable adventure. Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, She Explores is a spirited celebration of female bravery and courage, and an inspirational companion for any woman who wants to travel the world on her own terms. Combining breathtaking travel photography with compelling personal narratives, She Explores shares the stories of 40 diverse women on unforgettable journeys in nature: women who live out of vans, trucks, and vintage trailers, hiking the wild, cooking meals over campfires, and sleeping under the stars. Women biking through the countryside, embarking on an unknown road trip, or backpacking through the outdoors with their young children in tow. Complementing the narratives are practical tips and advice for women planning their own trips, including: • Preparing for a solo hike • Must-haves for a road-trip kitchen • Planning ahead for unknown territory • Telling your own story A visually stunning and emotionally satisfying collection for any woman craving new landscapes and adventure.
Book Synopsis Max Schmeer by : William Marshall Enco
Download or read book Max Schmeer written by William Marshall Enco and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Max Schmeer, part boy-genius, part rebel, part nebish as he comes of age while driving everyone else nuts. Full of arrogance and awkward adolescence, Max tries to teach the reader about the struggles of being a gifted kid but in the end he gets quite an education.
Download or read book Maya written by Simon Wolfe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventure awaits as Milo sits and watches the world going by, lingering at the appointed place for the shaman-like Tommy as he chews over the twists and turns that have brought him back to where the echoes seem to know him, where it feels like home. Maya is an illusion of the senses that blocks out our truth, and what is revealed as its journey unfolds, accompanied by memories that resonate, music that’s dear and the too few good friends, is a jumble of yearnings: to belong, to understand, to achieve true happiness, all in a world of treachery where deep running currents are obscured from the eye; where broken relationships, trip-wire pitfalls and the fight with one’s own desires can so often be disastrous. This beautiful tale morphs gently from prosaic history to something less sure, shimmering between what’s gone before, what is yet to come and what may never be, yet all the while remaining honest right through to the surreal conclusion where redemption is found. Full of surprises, this is the heartfelt tale of one who knows. It speaks to us all.
Download or read book Rule of Sympathy written by A. Rai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-06-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rule of Sympathy is a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Although initially associated with feminized or effeminate forms of sentimental discourse (the romance, the novel, the gothic), sympathy came to function as a key technology of gender and race in new evangelical social movements, such as abolitionism and missionizing. Amit Rai argues that sympathy was a paradoxical mode of power. The differences of racial, gender and class inequalities that increasingly divided the object and agent of sympathy were precisely what must be bridged through identification. Yet without such differences, which were differences of power, sympathy itself would be impossible. This paradoxical mode of power transformed the ways in which people came to think of how best to manage, order, and govern individuals and populations in the late eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature by : Charlotte Beyer
Download or read book Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature written by Charlotte Beyer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores contemporary children’s and young adult novels writing back to history and oppression. Divided into three distinct yet interconnected parts, this thematic study analyses selected novels from across the globe, drawing on current critical debates to investigate how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power and language. Examinations of children’s and young adult novels from Britain, Ireland, Sweden, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand offer fresh readings of established texts, and provide important critical perspectives on lesser-known works. The book also examines the use of genre in children’s and young adult literature, including crime fiction, dystopia, coming-of-age, and historical fiction. Addressing vital social justice themes in contemporary children’s and young adult novels, such as human trafficking, postcolonialism, disaster, trauma, and gender and race inequality, the book presents a critically informed analysis of these compelling literary works and their engagement with social and cultural debates.
Book Synopsis Begin the Adventure / How to Break the Light Barrier by A. D. 2070 (second edition) by : Homer B. Tilton
Download or read book Begin the Adventure / How to Break the Light Barrier by A. D. 2070 (second edition) written by Homer B. Tilton and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1905 Einstein found from relativity that there is an impenetrable light barrier. He reiterated this "finden" in 1916, writing, "...We conclude that in the theory of relativity the velocity c plays the part of a limiting velocity, which can neither be reached nor exceeded by any real body." Poincare and Lorentz did not share Einstein's view. Then in a 1921 lecture and a 1922 book, "Sidelights on Relativity," Einstein wrote (pp. 35-6), "Poincare is right. The idea of the measuring-rod and the idea of the clock coordinated with it in the theory of relativity do not find their exact correspondence in the real world." Thus the light barrier was questioned by the same man who erected it, and the last theoretical obstacle to practical star travel was lifted; but few noticed. Fifty years later Mendel Sachs wrote about Einstein's "change of mind," again in 1985, 1993, and at other times; but Sachs' writings were scorned. The first author became aware of Sachs' writings in 2004 and the two exchanged views for a time. This book presents a hard-science case for practical star travel. The first six chapters lay it all out in a logical and factual manner consistent with the theory of relativity. Chapters 7 and 8 outline a "Grand Experiment" designed to probe the light barrier. Chapters 7-9 contain future-fiction accounts of possible scenarios of Humanity's first swaddling steps to the stars. Chapter 10 presents a separate argument questioning the idea of an absolute light barrier.
