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| Author | : Randa Jarrar |
| Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2008-09-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590513274 |
Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family's last flight to Texas. Nidali mixes humor with a sharp, loving portrait of an eccentric middle-class family, and this perspective keeps her buoyant through the hardships she encounters: the humiliation of going through a checkpoint on a visit to her father's home in the West Bank; the fights with her father, who wants her to become a famous professor and stay away from boys; the end of her childhood as Iraq invades Kuwait on her thirteenth birthday; and the scare she gives her family when she runs away from home. Funny, charming, and heartbreaking, A Map of Home is the kind of book Tristram Shandy or Huck Finn would have narrated had they been born Egyptian-Palestinian and female in the 1970s.
| Author | : David Havird |
| Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
| Total Pages | : 89 |
| Release | : 2013-06-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1937875075 |
In the poem that opens this career-spanning odyssey, a blind weaver, who is at once a grandmotherly Penelope and a Homeric bard, “maps you home”—home finally, as the concluding poem reveals, to the Swamp Fox-haunted lowlands of Havird’s native South. Along the way, which threads through Hardy’s Wessex, the Greece of Homer and Seferis, and Jack London’s Valley of the Moon, we take our bearings in “elliptical” terrain, as Rosanna Warren describes the typical setting—landscapes through whose gaps emerge the ghosts of memory and myth to engage the living in scenes of infinite moment. In Map Home, as in Havird’s award-winning chapbook, Penelope’s Design—but amply here—“the memories of ‘a dream-disheveled child’ in the Deep South unfold,” as Eleanor Wilner observes, “into the meditative travels of the literary man in elegant poems riddled with starlight.”
| Author | : Charles L. Novak |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019-02-26 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781633310322 |
As a young man living in rural Kansas in the 1940s, Charles Novak took a job with the federal government--not because he liked the work but because he heard it paid well. That job shaped his life in ways he could never have imagined. As a surveyor for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Charles was tasked with measuring the unmapped American landscape. Over the years this would take him from being eaten up by mosquitoes in Alaska, to eating steak and lobster on oil rigs in Louisiana. His career became even more adventurous when his family later hit the road with him, making their home in a caravan of trailers as the survey team traversed the nation. The measurements taken by Charles and the team eventually helped build today's GPS technology. But such a contribution was the furthest thing from the minds of Charles and his family as they experienced life on the road during a time of astounding change in American life. From segregated trains, to Cold War military bases, and back to Kansas, Charles's family found that home is more than a place on a map.
| Author | : Randa Jarrar |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2009-08-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0143116266 |
From America to the Middle East and back again— the sparkling story of one girl’s childhood, by an exciting new voice in literary fiction In this fresh, funny, and fearless debut novel, Randa Jarrar chronicles the coming-of-age of Nidali, one of the most unique and irrepressible narrators in contemporary fiction. Born in 1970s Boston to an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, the rebellious Nidali—whose name is a feminization of the word “struggle”—soon moves to a very different life in Kuwait. There the family leads a mildly eccentric middle-class existence until the Iraqi invasion drives them first to Egypt and then to Texas. This critically acclaimed debut novel is set to capture the hearts of everyone who has ever wondered what their own map of home might look like.
| Author | : Katherine Scraper |
| Publisher | : Benchmark Education Company |
| Total Pages | : 20 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
| ISBN | : 1410874982 |
In this book, learn to identify the rooms in a house on a map.
| Author | : Jennifer Boothroyd |
| Publisher | : Lerner Publications |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 2013-08-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1467717398 |
See how a boy makes a map of his home showing fire escape routes. Simple text takes early readers step by step through the types of features a fire safety map needs to have.
| Author | : Benchmark Education Company |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2006-01-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781410874993 |
| Author | : Pam Johnston |
| Publisher | : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 101 |
| Release | : 2021-10-20 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1098077156 |
A Road Map Home is a compelling story of the actual heart-wrenching accounts of an abusive life suffered for years in secret by the author and her sister. No one in their family ever knew of the horrific events that they both lived through for years. They lived in the same house, and they didn't know what the other was going through until this book. The author shares with you the journeys of hopelessness and despair to a life filled with grace and a purpose. For anyone who has a story of their own, A Road Map Home will encourage and enlighten your path of hope.
| Author | : Jeanette Ferrara |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2022-10-04 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1338836749 |
A perfect first introduction to maps and map skills for young readers! Families can live in all kinds of homes. From apartment buildings and townhouses to farmhouses, homes can look different but still have a lot in common. Learn how to use map features like a key, compass rose, and a scale to answer questions about direction, measurement, and symbols. Look at photos of different types of homes and use the maps inside the book to navigate and compare what is the same and what is different about living in them. At the end, you will be ready to draw a map of your own house. All this and more in Mapping My House! ABOUT THE SERIES: Starting from their bedroom, and moving to their home, street, neighborhood, town, state, country, continent, and finally, planet, children will gain a whole new understanding of their place in the world with this engaging picture book series. With illustrated maps drawn at different scales and vibrant photographs throughout to illustrate real locations, children will learn about map features, how to read maps and answer questions, and how to draw their own maps. Maps are everywhere and understanding them is key to navigating our world. With this brand new and original four-book series, children will expand their role as citizens.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 552 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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