David Matthews
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English
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A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are.
When David Matthews's mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish. For the next twenty years, he would be torn between his actual life as a black boy in the ghetto of 1980s Baltimore and a largely imagined world of white privilege.
While his father, a black activist who counted Malcolm X among his friends, worked long...
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English
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No one thought Bertie Simmonds could speak. So, when he is, heard singing an Easter hymn, this is not so much the miracle, some think as a bolt drawn back, releasing long-repressed emotions with potentially devastating consequences...A decade later, Bertie marries Anstace, a woman old enough to be his mother, and another layer of mystery starts to peel away. Beginning in a village in Kent and set between the two World Wars, That They Might Lovely...
Author
Language
English
Description
David Matthews has been a long time worker of wood: from laminated wood beams so big they had to be shipped by rail to building a log cabin from trees that he planted as a child. When cancer struck him a few years ago, he was forced to choose smaller pieces to work with, which inspired him to create miniature things such as antique cars, covered wagons, trucks, trains and stagecoaches. He has also created windmills, rocking chairs, stoves, a cave-man...
4) True Blue
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Language
English
Description
Whatever happened to middle England? Two of our funniest writers set out on a journey through conservative country - with hilarious results.
The Women's Institute. Polo matches. The Duke of Edinburgh. Nimbys, shooting and game fairs. Pall Mall clubs, the Countryside Alliance and Boris Johnson. Hampshire Police's brass band, the rubber chicken circuit - and of course the Conservative party itself.
Middle England, with all the social rituals, institutions...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Equal parts fab and frightening, Killer Style explores the ways in which make-up, clothing, and accessories have killed, maimed, or tormented those who wear and make them. From the story of hatters felled by mercury poisoning to tulle-burnt ballerinas to the victims of the modern craze for sandblasted denim, no one is safe from these crimes of fashion."--
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Series
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Set provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Urdu, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Urdu with confidence. Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking,...
11) Urdu
Author
Series
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
Provides both the basics and more advanced instructions on speaking, understanding, and writing Urdu.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Atlantic City, February 1924: Picking up 8 months after the events of Season 3, Nucky Thompson is laying low at the end of the Boardwalk after barely surviving an overthrow by gangster Gyp Rosetti. But the calm will be short-lived, as Nucky faces new challenges, including a clash with a violent Harlem power broker, a battle with his brother Eli over Eli's college-age son, and the irresistible lure of lucrative- and perilous- opportunities in Florida....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A childhood friend of humanitarian Stefan Templeton describes Templeton's love for high-stakes adventure, his participation in one of Scandinavia's biggest jewel heists, and eventual transformation into an international humanitarian.
18) #irl: poems
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Language
English
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Description
"...the enduring light in the absorbing collection is love." Kirkus Reviews #irl is a ravishing and provocative odyssey across the landscape of life. Matthew David Wachsman's collection of poems is a full-throated celebration of our ability to love, reason, cure, support and honor each other. It is also an unflinching exploration of why we can and must do better. He inspires us to believe in ourselves while laying out the possible implications of...