Author: Ingo Schulze
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307593215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“A literary event” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung): thirteen new stories from one of Germany’s finest writers. New Year’s Eve 1999, Berlin. At a party to kick off the twenty-first century, Frank Reichert meets Julia, his lost love. Since their separation in the fall of 1989, he’s drifted through life like an exile, remaining apathetic toward the copy-shop business he started even as it flourishes apace. Nothing has the power to move him now: his whole life lies under the shadow of Julia, of the idea that things could have worked out differently. But as night draws on to day, the promised end becomes an unexpected new beginning. Ingo Schulze introduces us to characters as they stray outside the confines of East Germany into other, newer lives—into Egypt, where the betrayal of a lover turns an innocent vacation into a nightmare; into Vienna, where life starts to mimic art; into Estonia, where we meet a retired circus bear in an absurd (and absurdly hilarious) dilemma—or as they simply stay put, struggling to maintain their sense of themselves as the world around them changes. Mixed in with these tragicomic tales are some of the most beautiful love stories ever to feature cell phones. And throughout, Schulze’s masterfully controlled style conceals an understated, but finally breathtaking, intricacy.
More to the Story
Author: Hena Khan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 148149211X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
From the critically acclaimed author of Amina’s Voice comes a new story inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic, Little Women, featuring four sisters from a modern American Muslim family living in Georgia. When Jameela Mirza is picked to be feature editor of her middle school newspaper, she’s one step closer to being an award-winning journalist like her late grandfather. The problem is her editor-in-chief keeps shooting down her article ideas. Jameela’s assigned to write about the new boy in school, who has a cool British accent but doesn’t share much, and wonders how she’ll make his story gripping enough to enter into a national media contest. Jameela, along with her three sisters, is devastated when their father needs to take a job overseas, away from their cozy Georgia home for six months. Missing him makes Jameela determined to write an epic article—one to make her dad extra proud. But when her younger sister gets seriously ill, Jameela’s world turns upside down. And as her hunger for fame looks like it might cost her a blossoming friendship, Jameela questions what matters most, and whether she’s cut out to be a journalist at all…
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 148149211X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
From the critically acclaimed author of Amina’s Voice comes a new story inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic, Little Women, featuring four sisters from a modern American Muslim family living in Georgia. When Jameela Mirza is picked to be feature editor of her middle school newspaper, she’s one step closer to being an award-winning journalist like her late grandfather. The problem is her editor-in-chief keeps shooting down her article ideas. Jameela’s assigned to write about the new boy in school, who has a cool British accent but doesn’t share much, and wonders how she’ll make his story gripping enough to enter into a national media contest. Jameela, along with her three sisters, is devastated when their father needs to take a job overseas, away from their cozy Georgia home for six months. Missing him makes Jameela determined to write an epic article—one to make her dad extra proud. But when her younger sister gets seriously ill, Jameela’s world turns upside down. And as her hunger for fame looks like it might cost her a blossoming friendship, Jameela questions what matters most, and whether she’s cut out to be a journalist at all…
The Story of More
Author: Hope Jahren
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525563393
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
The essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. • “Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?" —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction "The voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warming—from superstorms to rising sea levels—and the actions that we all can take to fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of global change and a lively, personal narrative given to us in Jahren’s inimitable voice, The Story of More is “a superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years" (E. O. Wilson).
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525563393
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
The essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. • “Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?" —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction "The voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warming—from superstorms to rising sea levels—and the actions that we all can take to fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of global change and a lively, personal narrative given to us in Jahren’s inimitable voice, The Story of More is “a superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years" (E. O. Wilson).
Amina's Voice
Author: Hena Khan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481492063
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community"--]cProvided by publisher.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481492063
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community"--]cProvided by publisher.
'Just One More Story'
Author: Dugald Steer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840117080
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Mother Pig reads bedtime stories to her little pigs, including The Pig Prince, The Ugly Pigling, Piggerella, and the Prince and the Porker.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840117080
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Mother Pig reads bedtime stories to her little pigs, including The Pig Prince, The Ugly Pigling, Piggerella, and the Prince and the Porker.
Mom, Tell Me One More Story
Author: Kathleen Barber Lashier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781563831508
Category : Mother and child
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides questions for moms to help them share the story of their son or daughter's childhood as they experienced it. Filled with stories never told, events from the toddler years and a parent's impressions of it all, the book will become a treasure for any son or daughter. Given empty or full, this book makes a great gift.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781563831508
Category : Mother and child
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides questions for moms to help them share the story of their son or daughter's childhood as they experienced it. Filled with stories never told, events from the toddler years and a parent's impressions of it all, the book will become a treasure for any son or daughter. Given empty or full, this book makes a great gift.
There Is More To The Story
Author: Mistress T
Publisher: Mst Entertainment Incorporated
ISBN: 9781999555108
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The memoir of the infamous Dominatrix and fetish porn star, Mistress T.
Publisher: Mst Entertainment Incorporated
ISBN: 9781999555108
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The memoir of the infamous Dominatrix and fetish porn star, Mistress T.
Faith No More
Author: Steffan Chirazi
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN: 9781898141150
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN: 9781898141150
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
One More Story
Author: Ingo Schulze
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307593215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“A literary event” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung): thirteen new stories from one of Germany’s finest writers. New Year’s Eve 1999, Berlin. At a party to kick off the twenty-first century, Frank Reichert meets Julia, his lost love. Since their separation in the fall of 1989, he’s drifted through life like an exile, remaining apathetic toward the copy-shop business he started even as it flourishes apace. Nothing has the power to move him now: his whole life lies under the shadow of Julia, of the idea that things could have worked out differently. But as night draws on to day, the promised end becomes an unexpected new beginning. Ingo Schulze introduces us to characters as they stray outside the confines of East Germany into other, newer lives—into Egypt, where the betrayal of a lover turns an innocent vacation into a nightmare; into Vienna, where life starts to mimic art; into Estonia, where we meet a retired circus bear in an absurd (and absurdly hilarious) dilemma—or as they simply stay put, struggling to maintain their sense of themselves as the world around them changes. Mixed in with these tragicomic tales are some of the most beautiful love stories ever to feature cell phones. And throughout, Schulze’s masterfully controlled style conceals an understated, but finally breathtaking, intricacy.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307593215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“A literary event” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung): thirteen new stories from one of Germany’s finest writers. New Year’s Eve 1999, Berlin. At a party to kick off the twenty-first century, Frank Reichert meets Julia, his lost love. Since their separation in the fall of 1989, he’s drifted through life like an exile, remaining apathetic toward the copy-shop business he started even as it flourishes apace. Nothing has the power to move him now: his whole life lies under the shadow of Julia, of the idea that things could have worked out differently. But as night draws on to day, the promised end becomes an unexpected new beginning. Ingo Schulze introduces us to characters as they stray outside the confines of East Germany into other, newer lives—into Egypt, where the betrayal of a lover turns an innocent vacation into a nightmare; into Vienna, where life starts to mimic art; into Estonia, where we meet a retired circus bear in an absurd (and absurdly hilarious) dilemma—or as they simply stay put, struggling to maintain their sense of themselves as the world around them changes. Mixed in with these tragicomic tales are some of the most beautiful love stories ever to feature cell phones. And throughout, Schulze’s masterfully controlled style conceals an understated, but finally breathtaking, intricacy.
More Story Stretchers
Author: Shirley C. Raines
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780876591536
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Includes 450 lesson plans for use with 90 titles.
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780876591536
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Includes 450 lesson plans for use with 90 titles.
450 More Story Stretchers for the Primary Grades
Author: Shirley C. Raines
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780876591673
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Activities to expand children's favorite books. Primary grades.
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780876591673
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Activities to expand children's favorite books. Primary grades.