Author: Publisher: Langenscheidt
ISBN: 3125660165
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 257
Book Description
PONS Power-Sprachkurs Spanisch 1
Author: Publisher: Langenscheidt
ISBN: 3125660165
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 257
Book Description
Author: PONS Power-Sprachkurs Spanisch in 4 Wochen
Author: Publisher: PONS
ISBN: 3125619475
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 222
Book Description
Sprachkurs, der in 28 Tagen bzw. Lerneinheiten zu Niveau A2 der Europäischen Sprachenzertifikate führt. Auf den beiden Audio-CDs zahlreiche Sequenzen zum Training des Hörverstehens. Im Buch Übungen zu Grammatik, Wortschatz und Leseverstehen.
Convention Européenne Pour la Répression Du Terrorisme
Author: SPINNING Chapter Sampler
Author: Tillie WaldenPublisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250171180
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Download a FREE sampler of SPINNING by Tillie Walden! It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again. She was good. She won. And she hated it. Poignant and captivating, Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden’s powerful graphic memoir captures what it’s like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.
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Author: English Pattern Practices
Author: Robert LadoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Simple Recipes
Author: Madeleine ThienPublisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316087130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
With delicate language and wisdom, Madeleine Thien explores the longing of families pulled apart by conflicts between generations, cultures, and values.Each of these stories captures a deeply personal world in which characters struggle to reconcile family loyalty with individual desires. In "House," a 10-year-old girl longs for the alcoholic mother who left the house one day never to return. In "Dispatch," a woman tries to hold her marriage together even after finding proof that her husband is in love with someone else. In "A Map of the City, " a young woman's troubled relationship with her father overshadows the course she takes in her adult life. Thien's fresh perspective and spare, haunting prose have already won her prizes and the praise of established masters. "Simple Recipes" is the beginning of a luminous writing career.
Harraga
Author: Boualem SansalPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620402246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Grudgingly taking her absent brother's flamboyant and pregnant girlfriend into her home in Algeria, long-time recluse Lamia comes to love the rebellious teen, who she worriedly searches for when the latter runs away into a hostile, fundamentalism-driven outside world.
Certainty
Author: Madeleine ThienPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 1551991616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Madeleine Thien’s stunning debut novel fulfills all her early promise and introduces a young novelist of vision, maturity, and style. Gail Lim, a producer of radio documentaries in present-day Vancouver, finds herself haunted by events in her parents’ past in wartorn Asia, a past which remains a mystery that fiercely grips her imagination. As a child, Gail’s father, Matthew Lim, wandered the Leila Road and the jungle fringe with his lovely Ani, a girl whose early bond with Matthew will affect his life always. As children, they found themselves together under the terrifying shadow of war in Japanese-occupied Sandakan, Malaysia. The war shatters their families and splits the two apart until years later, when they remeet only to be separated again. The legacy of their connection is later inherited by Matthew’s wife, Clara, in unexpected ways. Gail’s journey to unravel the mystery of her parents’ lives takes her to Amsterdam, where she meets the war photographer Sipke, who tells his story of Ani and their relationship, which began in Jakarta, a story that will bring Gail face to face with the complications in her own life and lead her closer to the truth. Vivid, poignant, wise, at once sweeping and intimate, Certainty is a novel about the legacies of loss, about the dislocations of war and the redemptive qualities of love. Thien reveals herself as a novelist of rare and potent talent.