The Wheels -The Friendship Race (Polish Edition)

The Wheels -The Friendship Race (Polish Edition)
Author: Kidkiddos Books
Publisher: Kidkiddos Books Limited
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781525921865

The Wheels -The Friendship Race (Polish Edition) Join three good friends as they discover what real friendship means. They start a race, but decide to finish it together, helping a friend who got in trouble.

Friends Disappear

Friends Disappear
Author: Mary Barr
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 022615646X

In 1974, middle-schooler Mary Barr and a dozen of her friends boys and girls, black and white sat for a photograph on a porch in Evanston, Illinois. Barr s book, both history and ethnography, emerges from her thinking about this photograph and its deep background. Using government documents, newspaper articles, and census data, Barr provides a history of Evanston with a particular emphasis on its neighborhoods, its schools, and its families. Barr also tracked down all of the living people in her photograph and interviewed them about their experiences in Evanston and beyond. Ultimately, Barr comes to better understand the stories and the lies people tell about their communities, as well as the ways that inequality begets inequality, both in a historical sense and in the daily lives of her far-flung friends. "

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Author: Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525541357

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

The Lullaby of Polish Girls

The Lullaby of Polish Girls
Author: Dagmara Dominczyk
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0679645993

Includes an interview featuring Dagmara Dominczyk and Adriana Trigiani A vibrant, engaging debut novel that follows the friendship of three women from their youthful days in Poland to their complicated, not-quite-successful adult lives Because of her father’s role in the Solidarity movement, Anna and her parents immigrate to the United States in the 1980s as political refugees from Poland. They settle in Brooklyn among immigrants of every stripe, yet Anna never quite feels that she belongs. But then, the summer she turns twelve, she is sent back to Poland to visit her grandmother, and suddenly she experiences the shock of recognition. In her family’s hometown of Kielce, Anna develops intense friendships with two local girls—brash and beautiful Justyna and desperately awkward Kamila—and their bond is renewed every summer when Anna returns. The Lullaby of Polish Girls follows these three best friends from their early teenage years on the lookout for boys in Kielce—a town so rough its citizens are called “the switchblades”—to the loss of innocence that wrecks them, and the stunning murder that reaches across oceans to bring them back together after they’ve grown and long since left home. Dagmara Dominczyk’s assured narrative flashes from the wild summers of the girls’ youth to their years of self-discovery in New York and Europe. Her writing is full of grit and guts, and her descriptions of the emotional experiences of her characters resonate with honesty. The Lullaby of Polish Girls captures the passion and drama of friendship, the immigrant’s yearning to be known, and the exquisite and wistful transformation of young women coming of age. Praise for The Lullaby of Polish Girls “A coming-of-age tale of three young Polish women [that is] brimming with teary epiphanies, betrayal and love, as well as the grit of both New York and Kielce. [It’s] Girls with a Polish accent.”—The New York Times “The Lullaby of Polish Girls will make you swoon. Dagmara Dominczyk has written a glorious debut novel inspired by her own emigration from Poland to Brooklyn with depth, intensity, humor, and grace.”—Adriana Trigiani “An ennui-stricken actress returns to the old country—and to the friends of her youth—in Dagmara Dominczyk’s The Lullaby of Polish Girls, in which solidarity is all about summer evenings under the stars with a vodka bottle and a radio playing ‘Forever Young.’ ”—Vogue “Compelling . . . an original portrait of friendship and identity . . . Dominczyk uses a fresh, confident style.”—People “In this arresting debut novel, Polish American film and TV actress Dominczyk pays homage to her native city of Kielce while capturing the joys, insecurities, and struggles of three girlfriends coming of age. Spanning thirteen years, Dominczyk’s absorbing story is a triptych of tsknota (Polish for a kind of yearning) and a profound desire for acceptance, freedom, and home.”—Booklist (starred review) “The Lullaby of Polish Girls is sexy and sensitive, with a raw, openhearted center. Dominczyk’s love for her complicated characters is apparent from the first page to the last, and by the novel’s end the reader cares for them just as deeply.”—Emma Straub Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.

The Wheels -The Friendship Race

The Wheels -The Friendship Race
Author: S. A. Publishing
Publisher: Kidkiddos Books Limited
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2016-11-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781525901539

What is friendship? Join three good friends as they discover what real friendship means. They start a race, but decide to finish it together, helping a friend who got in trouble. This book will teach children positive friendship skills like sharing, supporting, and helping each other.

The Wheels The Friendship Race

The Wheels The Friendship Race
Author: Inna Nusinsky
Publisher: KidKiddos Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 61
Release:
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1772681458

What is friendship? Join three good friends as they discover what real friendship means. They start a race, but decide to finish it together, helping a friend who got in trouble. This book will teach children positive friendship skills like sharing, supporting, and helping each other.

Prince Borghese's Trail

Prince Borghese's Trail
Author: Genevieve Obert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Automobile racing drivers
ISBN: 9781571780850

Genevieve Obert discusses the experiences she had while competing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge in 1997.

The Wheels -The Friendship Race (Italian Book for Kids)

The Wheels -The Friendship Race (Italian Book for Kids)
Author: Kidkiddos Books
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-10-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781525938368

The Wheels -The Friendship Race (Italian edition). Join three good friends as they discover what real friendship means. They start a race, but decide to finish it together, helping a friend who got in trouble.

The Wheels The Friendship Race (Czech Book for Kids)

The Wheels The Friendship Race (Czech Book for Kids)
Author: Inna Nusinsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-03-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781525951190

The Wheels The Friendship Race (Czech edition). Join three friends to discover what friendship means. They start a race, but decide to finish it together, helping a friend who got in trouble.