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Author: Dianne Wolfer
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 0763680966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Nanna's button tin is very special. It has buttons of all shapes and sizes and they all have a different story to tell. But today, one button in particular is needed. A button for Teddy"--
Author: Kathy Boyd Fellure
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781458369543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The six Blake sisters Susannah, Katie, Marsha, Becky, Kelsey, and Sharon are anxiously awaiting the birth of their newest sibling. Nana suggests the girls make necklaces, brings out her tin of buttons, and tells a special story about each one.
Author: Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0231549067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns—or at once—funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. These stories showcase Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own, outranking its former owner. Written between 1831 and 1842, they span the colorful setting of rural Ukraine to the unforgiving urban landscape of St. Petersburg to the ancient labyrinth of Rome. Yet they share Gogol’s characteristic obsessions—city crowds, bureaucratic hierarchy and irrationality, the devil in disguise—and a constant undercurrent of the absurd. Susanne Fusso’s translations pay careful attention to the strangeness and wonder of Gogol's style, preserving the inimitable humor and oddity of his language. The Nose and Other Stories reveals why Russian writers from Dostoevsky to Nabokov have returned to Gogol as the cornerstone of their unparalleled literary tradition.
Author: Dianne Wolfer
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2018-07-02
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0143787462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A tiny dog, the runt of the litter, is born on a remote cattle station. She shouldn't have survived, but when Elsie finds, names and loves her, the pup becomes a cherished companion. Life is perfect . until War arrives. With Japanese air raids moving closer, Elsie's family leaves the Pilbara for the south and safety. But the small dog has to stay behind. After travelling far from home with drovers and a flying doctor, she becomes a hospital dog and experiences the impact of war on north-western Australia. She witnesses wonderful and terrible things and gives courage to many different humans. But through all her adventures and many names, the little dog remembers Elsie, who girl who loved her best of all. Will she ever find her again?
Author: Stephan V. Beyer
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780791410998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Among Asian languages, Tibetan is second only to Chinese in the depth of its historical record, with texts dating back as far as the eighth and ninth centuries, written in an alphabetic script that preserves the contemporaneous phonological features of the language. The Classical Tibetan Language is the first comprehensive description of the Tibetan language and is distinctive in that it treats the classical Tibetan language on its own terms rather than by means of descriptive categories appropriate to other languages, as has traditionally been the case. Beyer presents the language as a medium of literary expression with great range, power, subtlety, and humor, not as an abstract object. He also deals comprehensively with a wide variety of linguistic phenomena as they are actually encountered in the classical texts, with numerous examples of idioms, common locutions, translation devices, neologisms, and dialectal variations.
Author: Dianne Wolfer
Publisher:
Published: 2022-03-29
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781760991302
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There were 136,000 Australian horses sent to fight during the First World War. Just one came home. From the high country of Victoria to the desert sand of Egypt, from the waters off Gallipoli to the battlefields of France, this is the extraordinary story of Sandy, the only returning warhorse.
Author: Dianne Wolfer
Publisher:
Published: 2024-02-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781760993450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →My granny and her friends go to the beach, and I come too. It looks like lots of fun. But I don t want to go in the water. There are strange things under the waves. A story that many young reluctant swimmers will identify with, Granny Grommet and Me is about the power of our elders to transform scary experiences into exciting ones. Watching Granny and her friends duck and dive and twist and turn, enjoying catching waves and revelling in the bracing and invigorating ocean spray, helps a junior grommet gain enough confidence to appreciate the wonders which lie beneath the surface of the water. The book was inspired by the real Granny Grommets, a group of surfing/boogie boarding ladies in Albany, Western Australia.
Author: Dianne Wolfer
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Published: 2018-06-08
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 192581517X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From fighting for the right to vote to nursing conscripted young men, Rose's life changes forever when World War I arrives in the peaceful English village of Harefield. With an influx of wounded Australian soldiers, the villagers rally around to provide care and comfort, despite suffering their own casualties and grieving for their own losses. Training to nurse Australian soldiers like Jim the Light Horse boy is hard work, but with it comes much for Rose to treasure—in the gaining of a vocation, in confidence won, and in finding new love in a new land.
Author: Dianne Wolfer
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9781921720635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annie loves her pet snails. They have lots of adventures together. She even makes them a special home in an ice-cream container. She thinks they'll be very happy. But will they?
Author: Dianne Wolfer
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0143780549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Only a twin from a shark calling family can appease the ancestors and bring a community back together in this powerful and haunting story. Isabel is on a plane heading back to her island birthplace in Papua New Guinea. Izzy is looking forward to seeing her family again, but there's another tragic reason for the trip. Izzy's twin brother, Ray, died in a freak diving accident, and Izzy and her mum are taking his ashes home for traditional death ceremonies. After they arrive, Izzy realises things have changed since their last visit. Logging threatens the community's way of life and sharks no longer answer the song of the shark callers. Izzy's cousin Noah explains that the clan needs someone to undertake a traditional diving ritual. The person must be a twin from the shark calling lineage. The dive will be perilous. And Izzy is the last twin. Will she have the courage to attempt the dive? And what deep, dark secrets will the ocean reveal if she does?
