Author: Tibor DéryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Niki
Author: Tibor DéryNiki : the story of a dog
Author: Tibor DeryThe Lost Book of the White
Author: Cassandra ClarePublisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN: 1481495127
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series and a thrilling new adventure for High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood, for whom a death-defying mission into the heart of evil is not just a job, it’s also a romantic getaway. The Lost Book of the White is a Shadowhunters novel. Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. They’re living together in a fabulous loft, their warlock son, Max, has started learning to walk, and the streets of New York are peaceful and quiet—as peaceful and quiet as they ever are, anyway. Until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus’s apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. Now Magnus and Alec will have to drop everything to get it back. They need to follow the thieves to Shanghai, they need to call some backup to accompany them, and they need a babysitter. Also, someone has stabbed Magnus with a strange magical weapon and the wound is glowing, so they have that to worry about too. Fortunately, their backup consists of Clary, Jace, Isabelle, and newly minted Shadowhunter Simon. In Shanghai, they learn that a much darker threat awaits them. Magnus’s magic is growing unstable, and if they can’t stop the demons flooding into the city, they might have to follow them all the way back to the source—the realm of the dead. Can they stop the threat to the world? Will they make it back home before their kid completely wears out Alec’s mom?
Breathe Again
Author: Niki HardyPublisher: Revell
ISBN: 1493417886
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
No one gets to skip the tough stuff and when life threatens to drown us we're left gasping for air, merely surviving a life we never ordered. Niki Hardy has been there, screaming, "God, is this it? Where's the abundant life you promised? Are you even listening?" Life might not be fair, but through loss, grief, and cancer, Niki discovered life doesn't have to be pain-free to be full. With sensitivity and without Christianese or stock answers she invites women to replace the lies they believe about themselves and God with sound biblical teaching and his unwavering promises. Through 7 practical steps, with hands-on questions, actions, and prayers, she equips readers to grasp the full life Jesus came to give them, right where they are. No matter how broken a life might seem, the abundant life Jesus promised is available--now and always. Let Niki show you the way.
Niki Nakayama: A Chef's Tale in 13 Bites
Author: Debbi Michiko FlorencePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374390479
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee! Niki Nakayama: A Chef's Tale in 13 Bites is a picture book biography that tells the story of the powerhouse female Japanese-American chef and her rise to fame As a child and adult, Niki faced many naysayers in her pursuit of haute cuisine. Using the structure of a traditional kaiseki meal, the authors Debbi Michiko Florence and Jamie Michalak playfully detail Niki's hunger for success in thirteen "bites" — from wonton wrappers she used to make pizza as a kid to yuzu-tomatillo sauce in her own upscale Los Angeles Michelin-starred restaurant, n/naka. To anyone who tells her a woman can't be a master chef, Niki lets her food do the talking. And oh, does it talk. Niki was featured on the first season of Netflix's culinary documentary series Chef's Table. And Chrissy Teigen proclaimed that Niki's restaurant was one of her absolute favorites. She's currently a featured teacher on MasterClass. A smart, strong woman with starpower, Niki is only just getting started — like the young readers who will devour this book, featuring illustrations by Yuko Jones!
The Golden Hour
Author: Niki SmithPublisher: Little, Brown Ink
ISBN: 0316540315
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
2021 Kirkus Prize Finalist • A Kirkus Best Book of 2021 • An SLJ Best Book of 2021 ★ “Exceptionally graceful and delightful” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ “A beautiful story of resilience.” School Library Journal, starred review ★ “Meaningful and impactful ” — School Library Connection, starred review From the author of The Deep & Dark Blue comes a tender graphic novel, perfect for our time, that gently explores themes of self-discovery, friendship, healing from tragedy, and hope for a better tomorrow. Struggling with anxiety after witnessing a harrowing instance of gun violence, Manuel Soto copes through photography, using his cell-phone camera to find anchors that keep him grounded. His days are a lonely, latchkey monotony until he's teamed with his classmates, Sebastian and Caysha, for a group project. Sebastian lives on a grass-fed cattle farm outside of town, and Manuel finds solace in the open fields and in the antics of the newborn calf Sebastian is hand-raising. As Manuel aides his new friends in their preparations for the local county fair, he learns to open up, confronts his deepest fears, and even finds first love. This title will be simultaneously available in paperback.
Niki’s Honor
Author: Laila Anwarzai AyoubiPublisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1634179153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“Niki’s Honor” is a tragic and powerful story about an innocent victim of “honor killing” practices and the family she seeks to protect. Based on actual events still occurring in many parts of the world, this book reveals the realities of these unspeakable acts committed against girls and women, and usually carried out by their own family members. In a Soviet occupied country, Niki, a beautiful young rural Pashtun village girl, becomes entangled in a series of events that brings an end to her fairy tale dreams. She becomes a casualty of a culture where a family’s honor and pride is more precious than life itself. Suffering in silence, Niki endures great pain and humiliation, yet still refuses to reveal her personal secret, saving her family and particularly her mother from further disgrace. She is engaged at the age of nine to the handsome fifteen year old son of a Khan. They eventually fall in love. Her secret is only shared with him. She committed no crime, but carries the full weight of a heinous act done by another. In “Niki’s Honor” a horrific and cruel subject is shockingly presented. The author, growing up in Afghanistan and knowing its rich history, traditions, and customs, adds a unique and eloquent voice to Niki’s story. Soul searching and provocative this is a story needing to be heard. The story of this poor but beautiful young village girl will have a memorable and lasting effect on you.
Tales from Niki's Midnight Corner
Author: Tamara KendallPublisher: Tawdra Kandle Romance
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
Six of your favorite authors have banded together to remember beloved blogger Niki Mattes. These stories of magic, mating and mayhem celebrate her life and love of books. All of the proceeds of this project will be donated to offset Niki's final medical costs. Locked in Magic by Mia Ellas: Jack Harrington is a lover, not a fighter. The pack playboy is running from his responsibilities and for his life. When Lyla's life is in danger, Jack's wolf takes over. And fighting is what the wolf does best. Escaping the Ashes by Olivia Hardin: I live to serve the gods. A servant, a protector, an assassin. I've given my life and my death to duty, an ongoing cycle I can't escape. But then I've never before has a reason to... Undeniable by Tamara Kendall: Running from a broken heart means losing myself in alcohol and women . . . until I meet an irresistible redhead who offers me the chance to join an organization that will use my mind manipulating powers to do good. But when a mission takes us undercover, revealing a plot for worldwide anarchy, even our undeniable passion takes a back seat to saving our own lives. Never Trust a Dragon by C.G. Powell: Five years after Lenni's death, Tam is still clinging to his past. But with some gentle prodding from his wife's ghost, he decides it's finally time to give life a second chance. Soon Tam finds himself waist deep in Dragons and over his head in Merlins—What's a man to do? Skin Thief by Melissa Lummis: Ninovan Arrighi thought she'd seen it all until she's assigned to track down a skin thief: her ex-partner, Quil Boudinot. But Quil, with his dark good looks and quiet earnestness, couldn't have been the psychotic fiend who peeled the skin of those people while they screamed. Could he? Knead to Know by Liz Schulte: Maggie Edwards can't sleep, eat, or die—but, she can bake. However, just before the Halloween grand opening of her bakery, a pesky reporter witnesses an accident in her kitchen and gets a little too close to the truth. If she can't convince him to keep quiet, not only will she lose her chance at happiness, but they both could lose their lives.
What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: an (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938221316
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A biography by Nicole Rudick told in Saint Phalle's own words, assembled from rare and unseen materials Known best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works that celebrate the abundance and complexity of female desire, imagination and creativity, Niki de Saint Phalle viewed making art as a ritual, a performance--a process connecting life to art. This unconventional, illuminated biography, told in the first person in Saint Phalle's voice and her own hand, dilates large and small moments in Saint Phalle's life which she sometimes reveals with great candor, at other times carefully unwinding her secrets. Editor Nicole Rudick, in a kind of collaboration with the artist, has assembled a gorgeous and detailed mosaic of Saint Phalle's visual and textual works from a trove of paintings, drawings, sketches and writings, many previously unpublished or long unavailable, that trace her mistakes and successes, her passions and her radical sense of joy. Saint Phalle's invocation--her "bringing to life"--writes Rudick, "is an apt summation of the overlap of Saint Phalle's life and art: both a bringing into existence and a bringing to bear. These are visions from the frontiers of consciousness." Born in France, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) was raised in New York and began making art at age 23, pursuing a revelatory vision informed both by the monumental works of Antonin Gaudí and the Facteur Cheval, and by aspects of her own life. In addition to her Tirs ("shooting paintings") and Nanas and her celebrated large-scale projects--including the Stravinsky Fountain at the Centre Pompidou, Golem in Jerusalem and the Tarot Garden in Tuscany--Saint Phalle produced writing and works on paper that delve into her own biography: childhood and her break with her family, marriage to Harry Mathews, motherhood, a long collaborative relationship with Jean Tinguely, numerous health crises and her late, productive years in Southern California. Saint Phalle has most recently been the subject of retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in 2015, and at MoMA P.S.1, in 2021. Nicole Rudick is a critic and an editor. Her writing on art, literature and comics has been published in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Artforum and elsewhere. She was managing editor of the Paris Review for nearly a decade. She is the editor, most recently, of a new edition of Gary Panter's legendary comic Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise (New York Review Comics, 2021).
The Deep & Dark Blue
Author: Niki SmithPublisher: Little, Brown Ink
ISBN: 0316486027
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The Witch Boy meets The Legend of Korra in this breathtaking, epic graphic novel. After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and assume new identities, Hanna and Grayce. Desperation and chance lead them to the Communion of Blue, an order of magical women who spin the threads of reality to their will. As the twins learn more about the Communion, and themselves, they begin to hatch a plan to avenge their family and retake their royal home. While Hawke wants to return to his old life, Grayce struggles to keep the threads of her new life from unraveling, and realizes she wants to stay in the one place that will allow her to finally live as a girl. This title will be simultaneously available in paperback.