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Book Synopsis The Old Story-teller by : Ludwig Bechstein
Download or read book The Old Story-teller written by Ludwig Bechstein and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beautiful Country by : Qian Julie Wang
Download or read book Beautiful Country written by Qian Julie Wang and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world—an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent • A TODAY SHOW #READWITHJENNA PICK In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. And where there is delight to be found, Qian relishes it: her first bite of gloriously greasy pizza, weekly “shopping days,” when Qian finds small treasures in the trash lining Brooklyn’s streets, and a magical Christmas visit to Rockefeller Center—confirmation that the New York City she saw in movies does exist after all. But then Qian’s headstrong Ma Ma collapses, revealing an illness that she has kept secret for months for fear of the cost and scrutiny of a doctor’s visit. As Ba Ba retreats further inward, Qian has little to hold onto beyond his constant refrain: Whatever happens, say that you were born here, that you’ve always lived here. Inhabiting her childhood perspective with exquisite lyric clarity and unforgettable charm and strength, Qian Julie Wang has penned an essential American story about a family fracturing under the weight of invisibility, and a girl coming of age in the shadows, who never stops seeking the light.
Book Synopsis Hadrian the Seventh by : Frederick Rolfe
Download or read book Hadrian the Seventh written by Frederick Rolfe and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fantasy of a shabby London outcast who is elected Pope, shows considerable knowledge of the organisation of the papal court and betrays the author's frustrated desire to become a priest.
Book Synopsis Banshee at the Gate by : Wendy Knight
Download or read book Banshee at the Gate written by Wendy Knight and published by Six Gate Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old half-breed banshee, Seven, likes her life. She leads souls safely to Death and she has the planet’s most awesome dad and little brother. But a cryptic message from Atlantis asking for her help changes all that. And then there’s Death, who has decided it’s time to take her brother’s soul. Now she’s racing across the world, trying to stay one step ahead of Death. Unfortunately, getting to Atlantis from Ireland isn’t easy, and there are evil minions determined to keep her away every time she turns around. But fighting for their lives teaches Seven one very important lesson—she isn’t human, and she isn’t a banshee. She has to be both if she wants to save her brother and make it back home alive.
Book Synopsis The Fairest of Them All by : Maria Tatar
Download or read book The Fairest of Them All written by Maria Tatar and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting.” —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked The story of the rivalry between a beautiful, innocent girl and her cruel and jealous mother has been endlessly repeated and refashioned all over the world. The Brothers Grimm gave this story the name by which we know it best, and in 1937 Walt Disney sweetened their somber version to make the first feature-length, animated fairy tale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Since then, the Disney film has become our cultural touchstone—the innocent heroine, her evil stepmother, the envy that divides them, and a romantic rescue from domestic drudgery and maternal persecution. But each culture has its own way of telling this story of jealousy and competition. An acclaimed folklorist, Maria Tatar brings to life a global melodrama of mother-daughter rivalries that play out in unforgettable variations across countries and cultures. “Fascinating...A strange, beguiling history of stories about beauty, jealousy, and maternal persecution.” —Wall Street Journal “Is the story of Snow White the cruelest, the deepest, the strangest, the most mythopoeic of them all?...Tatar trains a keen eye on the appeal of the bitter conflict between women at the heart of the tale...a feast of rich thoughts...An exciting and authoritative anthology from the wisest good fairy in the world of the fairy tale.” —Marina Warner “The inimitable Maria Tatar offers us a maze of mothers and daughters and within that glorious tangle an archetype with far more meaning than we imagine when we say ‘Snow White.’” —Honor Moore “Shocking yet familiar, these stories...retain the secret whisper of storytelling. This is a properly magical, erudite book.” —Literary Review
Download or read book The International written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dopefiend: by : JaQuavis Coleman
Download or read book The Dopefiend: written by JaQuavis Coleman and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 2 of the Dopeman's Trilogy, JaQuavis Coleman chillingly chronicles the life and crimes of Harlem resident Hazel Brown, as she rises to the highest highs and spirals into an inevitable, devastating downfall. Hazel has nothing and no one in her life; the only thing she "owns" is an insatiable addiction to heroin. Her addiction brings her to the slums, where she quickly learns the tricks of surviving—of hustling and getting her street smarts. She'll do anything to feed her habit, even if that means robbing and conning and selling her own body. Yet no matter how much heroin she does, the pain that's cut so deep within her never goes away in this story so intimate and compellingly written, you'll feel like you're walking in her shoes.
Download or read book Watermelon Guy written by Tanner Cowgill and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rules of becoming a Melon: 1. Receive eight hours of sleep per night on the weekends. 2. Stay uncomfortable while performing uncomfortable acts. 3. Enjoy spending time in your friends' basement. 4. Never openly admit your feelings to the person you're crushing on. 5. Break rule number 4. A quirky, I-don't-know-what-I-wanna-do-with-my-life high school senior-to-be has his comfortable lifestyle turned upside down by the girl he knows is The One. Jaxson, invisible to many, isn't the easiest person to have a conversation with. But when Jordyn not only gets along with him, but shows interest toward Jaxson, will the summer together lead into a lifetime of memories, or a senior year filled with regret?
Download or read book Truth written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mafia Widow written by Annmarie Watson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mafia Widow details Annie’s unique journey of being a wife of a cop, a mistress and wife of a mobster, a widow, and then a wife again. This book provides firsthand insight into the life of a mobster’s wife and the inside workings of the federal witness protection program. This is a story so unique that can only be told by a woman who actually has lived it. This is a must-read.
Book Synopsis The Picture of Dorian Gray by : Oscar Wilde
Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited, heralding the end of a repressive era. Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, Wilde’s uncensored typescript is published here for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition.
Download or read book Harper's Young People written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chinese Fairy Book by : Richard Wilhelm
Download or read book The Chinese Fairy Book written by Richard Wilhelm and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1921 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fairy tales and legends of olden China have in common with the "Thousand and One Nights" an oriental glow and glitter of precious stones and gold and multicolored silks, an oriental wealth of fantastic and supernatural action. And yet they strike an exotic note distinct in itself. The seventy-three stories here presented after original sources, embracing "Nursery Fairy Tales," "Legends of the Gods," "Tales of Saints and Magicians," "Nature and Animal Tales," "Ghost Stories," "Historic Fairy Tales," and "Literary Fairy Tales," probably represent the most comprehensive and varied collection of oriental fairy tales ever made available for American readers. There is no child who will not enjoy their novel color, their fantastic beauty, their infinite variety of subject. Yet, like the "Arabian Nights," they will amply repay the attention of the older reader as well. Some are exquisitely poetic, such as "The Flower-Elves," "The Lady of the Moon" or "The Herd Boy and the Weaving Maiden"; others like "How Three Heroes Came By Their Deaths Because Of Two Peaches," carry us back dramatically and powerfully to the Chinese age of Chivalry. The summits of fantasy are scaled in the quasi-religious dramas of "The Ape Sun Wu Kung" and "Notscha," or the weird sorceries unfolded in "The Kindly Magician." Delightful ghost stories, with happy endings, such as "A Night on the Battlefield" and "The Ghost Who Was Foiled," are paralleled with such idyllic love-tales as that of "Rose of Evening," or such Lilliputian fancies as "The King of the Ants" and "The Little Hunting Dog." It is quite safe to say that these Chinese fairy tales will give equal pleasure to the old as well as the young. They have been retold simply, with no changes in style or expression beyond such details of presentation which differences between oriental and occidental viewpoints at times compel. It is the writer's hope that others may take as much pleasure in reading them as he did in their translation.
Download or read book Ruffino written by Ouida and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Complete Concordance to Shakspeare by : Mary Cowden Clarke
Download or read book The Complete Concordance to Shakspeare written by Mary Cowden Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reversing Adorable Princess by : Di Meiliuguang
Download or read book Reversing Adorable Princess written by Di Meiliuguang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 1685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My family has been ruined and taken to the palace as a slave. In these chaotic times, who can give me shelter from the wind and rain? Is it him that I like? Or is it that noble him?Power makes trouble. This was all someone else's scheme.The left hand is love, the right hand is heart. No matter who it is, it is hard to make a choice.