Sadi and Her Siblings

Sadi and Her Siblings
Author: Hailey Charbonneau
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2024-02-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Sadi and her siblings, Lyndsey, Cohen, Eve, and Matilda are just kittens waiting to be adopted and find their furever homes. When a woman named Cindy takes the kittens home, they are so happy to be one big, happy family! This happiness doesn’t last forever though. When Cindy gets hurt and has to stay in the hospital, the five kittens must find five special ingredients to save Cindy. Will Sadi and her siblings succeed before it’s too late? About the Author Hailey Charbonneau was born in Enumclaw, Washington, raised in Graham. She is currently in the sixth grade and loves playing soccer.

Identities, discourses and experiences

Identities, discourses and experiences
Author: Nadia Kiwan
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526130378

The 2005 rioting in France’s suburbs caught the world’s attention and exposed the limits of the Republic’s policies on the integration of ‘immigrant-origin’ populations. This book examines academic and public discourses about young people of North African origin in France. The resurgence of such discussions in France, focusing on sensational questions of urban unrest, Islamic fundamentalism and the challenges of increasingly assertive cultural identities, means that it is all the more necessary not to overlook the ‘ordinary’ majority of young French-North Africans. Their own preoccupations often go unnoticed in a context where issues such as violence in the banlieues and the threat of terrorism are pushed to the fore, sometimes with devastating consequences in terms of discrimination and exclusion. The book rebalances and nuances the debates about post-migrant North-African youth by drawing on extensive empirical research carried out in those suburbs of north-east Paris affected by the riots. It studies the construction of identity amongst this invisible majority and, by adopting an ethnographic approach, addresses the disjuncture between the sometimes inflammatory discourses about this population and their own experiences.

Having Our Say

Having Our Say
Author: Sarah Louise Delany
Publisher: Kodansha America
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781568360102

Chronicles the experiences of two African-American women growing up in North Carolina at the turn-of-the-century.

The City Beyond the Stars

The City Beyond the Stars
Author: Zohra Nabi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2024-04-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1398517747

“Zohra is such an exciting storyteller - I was held spellbound throughout.“ Abi Elphinstone, author of Sky Song Set in a lavish world of sorceresses, alchemists, jinn and flying carpets, this spine-tingling middle-grade book is perfect for fans of Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Sophie Anderson. Confined to a besieged Settlement, Yara longs to free her mother from the alchemists in the City of Zehaira. When Yara receives a message from her mother to find the hidden residence of the Grand High Sorceress, it sets her on a different path. Yara and her friends set off on an adventure to find her mother’s home, and to seek out a secret magic that her mother was working on – magic so powerful that it could defeat the alchemists once and for all. But the wicked alchemist Omair Firaaz is on her trail and will stop at nothing to gain the power himself… Can Yara and her friends find the magic that could be the answer to everything … before it destroys them all? From the author of the Waterstone’s Children’s Book of the Month The Kingdom Over the Sea comes a gorgeous, lyrical adventure about family and finding where you belong. Praise for The City Beyond the Stars: "The book shines with magic and the power of storytelling. Spellbinding." – Zillah Bethell, author of The Song Walker "Lyrical, magical and captivating - Zohra Nabi is the ultimate story sorcerer." – Laura Noakes, Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star "Vivid worldbuilding. A brilliant fantasy that children will devour." – Nazima Pathan, author of Dream Hunters "A rare jewel, deftly plotted with thrilling twists and tension - flawless storytelling." – Sarah Driver, author of The Huntress "I adored every second I spent with this book and I can't wait to read it again." – Jacob North, author of The Ice Apprentices Praise for The Kingdom Over the Sea: “Enchanting, immersive and beautifully imagined. Once I’d finished, I couldn’t stop dreaming of this magnificent magical world.” A.F. Steadman, author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief “Spellbinding storytelling - lyrical, heartfelt, and glittering with possibilities.” Sophie Anderson, author of The House with Chicken Legs “Intricately-woven and wholly authentic.” Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocketful of Stars “A glorious debut brimming with magic and warmth. The Kingdom Over The Sea dazzled me every time I turned the page.” – Natasha Hastings, author of The Miraculous Sweetmaker

Truth

Truth
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1632
Release: 1898
Genre:
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Family Papers

Family Papers
Author: Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0374716153

Named one of the best books of 2019 by The Economist and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. A National Jewish Book Award finalist. "A superb and touching book about the frailty of ties that hold together places and people." --The New York Times Book Review An award-winning historian shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic Sephardic Jewish family preserved in thousands of letters For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped chronicle modernity as it was experienced by Sephardic Jews across the Ottoman Empire. The wars of the twentieth century, however, redrew the borders around them, in the process transforming the Levys from Ottomans to Greeks. Family members soon moved across boundaries and hemispheres, stretching the familial diaspora from Greece to Western Europe, Israel, Brazil, and India. In time, the Holocaust nearly eviscerated the clan, eradicating whole branches of the family tree. In Family Papers, the prizewinning Sephardic historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein uses the family’s correspondence to tell the story of their journey across the arc of a century and the breadth of the globe. They wrote to share grief and to reveal secrets, to propose marriage and to plan for divorce, to maintain connection. They wrote because they were family. And years after they frayed, Stein discovers, what remains solid is the fragile tissue that once held them together: neither blood nor belief, but papers. With meticulous research and care, Stein uses the Levys' letters to tell not only their history, but the history of Sephardic Jews in the twentieth century.

A Grammar of Qaqet

A Grammar of Qaqet
Author: Birgit Hellwig
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110765799

This grammar is a first detailed description of Qaqet, a non-Austronesian language spoken in the mountainous interior of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Qaqet belongs to the small Baining language family (comprising six languages), but its wider genetic affiliations remain unclear. It is included among the geographically-defined East Papuan languages. The grammar presents a synchronic description of the language. From a language family perspective, the Baining languages are structurally fairly similar, but there are considerable differences in detail that point to different language-internal developments and grammaticalization paths. From an East Papuan and areal perspective, Qaqet exhibits both typical East Papuan features (e.g., nominal classification, possessor/possessed order, highly compositional lexicon) as well as areal features (e.g., AVO ~ SV constituent order, articles and determiners, prepositions). The description is based on primary data collected during fieldwork (from 2011 onwards), including both natural and elicited data. The description thereby provides new analyses and insights that are relevant to our understanding of the genetic and areal relationships in this region.

ONE EIGHT ONE

ONE EIGHT ONE
Author: Fred Dowd
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1665753013

In 1947, the United Nations passed Resolution 181 which created a two state solution, creating the nation of Israel and Palestine. The Israelis accepted this two state solution at the time. The League of Arab Nations rejected it. Since then, the world has witnessed over seven decades of wars and strife in the Middle East. In this book, President Connor Grant implements Resolution 181 and the consequences of his actions ensue. If you like thrillers and ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, you will like this story.

Metrics

Metrics
Author: Vincanne Adams
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-03-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 082237448X

This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program's fiscal support, the contributors question the ability of metrics to solve global health problems. They capture a moment when global health scholars and practitioners must evaluate the potential effectiveness and pitfalls of different metrics—even as they remain elusive and problematic. Contributors. Vincanne Adams, Susan Erikson, Molly Hales, Pierre Minn, Adeola Oni-Orisan, Carolyn Smith-Morris, Marlee Tichenor, Lily Walkover, Claire L. Wendland