epub |eng | 2020-05-04 | Author:Gwen Rivers [Rivers, Gwen]

The girl called Pharaildis finishes the dance with a flourish of her hips, her face hidden behind her Veil. Most of her father’s guests clap and remark at her grace ...

epub |eng | 2018-06-15 | Author:Elizabeth Marshall

“Marlys’s Guide to School” and One Hundred Demons Selections from Barry’s long running syndicated Ernie Pook’s Comeek are collected together in the book The Greatest of Marlys.7 The comic chronicles ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kersten Hamilton

Eighteen “SHADOWS came out?” “Yesss. But the light was too bright,” Grizabella said. “Sssso they’re . . . melty bits and melty pieces. The Dogs put all of the little ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ilyasah Shabazz

Studying the dictionary helps pass the time. It feels familiar, like I’m back home at the kitchen table. My brothers and sisters surrounding me. Mom telling another story about her ...

epub |eng | 2021-02-08 | Author:Sara Michaels [Michaels, Sara]

My eyelids felt like two large men were sitting on each one, and when I could eventually open them I saw the sky. That did not make sense. Why was ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ruth Minsky Sender

twenty-one FROM THE MANY barracks in the camp, people I have never met come to see the new baby. They bring small gifts, love, good wishes. They lend a hand. ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Paul Volponi

* * * That Saturday at the Proving Ground was incredibly physical. Players were pounding each other left and right. The yard resembled the Roman Colosseum more than a basketball ...

epub |eng | | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

These are the most memorable circumstances recorded in history of Demosthenes and Cicero which have come to our knowledge. But, omitting an exact comparison of their respective faculties in speaking, ...

epub |eng | 2000-11-15 | Author:William Pollack [Pollack, William S.]

EVERYONE STILL REMEMBERS Brian Barenberg, 11, from Littleton, Colorado When I was in first and second grades, there was this kid who always would make fun of me. He would ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Walter Dean Myers [Myers, Walter Dean]

O’Donnel’s office was really nice. It was on Fifty-seventh Street just off Madison Avenue. It was funny, because his office didn’t have a desk in it. When his secretary told ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Livia Bitton-Jackson (NF)

Gina’s Secret Bratislava, November—December 1947 The lights are still on as I reach the dormitory. My roommates are preparing for bed. Malkele is nowhere to be seen, and I head ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Andrea J. Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz [Buchanan, Andrea J. & Peskowitz, Miriam]

LEAN-TO A lean-to is a very primitive form of shelter that’s little more than a wall or two and a roof. It’s meant to keep you safe from the worst ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Albert Marrin [Marrin, Albert]

During the September Massacres (September 2 to 7, 1792), sansculottes stormed five Paris prisons and murdered thirteen hundred inmates, including 225 Catholic priests, with clubs, knives, and meat cleavers. The ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Peter Collier [Collier, Peter]

Leo in uniform with his Medal of Honor in 1973, after all the POWs had been released. Altogether, there are 258 recipients from the Vietnam War. Medal of Honor Recipients, ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-27 | Author:Kate Schatz [Schatz, Kate]

"I AM HAPPY TO BE ALIVE AS LONG AS I CAN PAINT." It seems like everyone today knows who Frida Kahlo is, but that wasn’t always the case. Like so ...