[PDF] Take Six eBook

Author : Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1910213764

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Take Six is a celebration of six remarkable Portuguese women writers: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Maria Judite de Carvalho, Hélia Correia, Teolinda Gersão and Lídia Jorge. They are all past mistresses of the short story form, and their subject matter ranges from finding one’s inner fox to a failed suicide attempt to a grandmother and grandson battling the wind on a beach. Stories and styles are all very different, but what the writers have in common is their ability to take everyday life and look at it afresh, so that even a trip on a ferry or an encounter with a stranger or a child’s attempt to please her father become imbued with mystery and humour and sometimes tragedy. Relatively few women writers are translated into English, and this anthology is an attempt to rectify that imbalance and to introduce readers to some truly captivating tales from Portugal.

Author : Veta T Richardson
Publisher : Forbesbooks
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781950863556

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Take Six: Essential Habits to Own Your Destiny, Overcome Challenges, and Unlock Opportunities is designed to do just that. Veta's own life has demonstrated the power of these habits to take her from a shy high school kid aspiring to become a lawyer to the leader of a global bar association. Through the exercises and stories in this book, you'll discover how to design and execute your career, identify skills, present your achievements, and stand up for your values so that you are prepared for any challenge--including the challenges of leadership in difficult times. Veta is proud to be called "the best mentor ever" by many of the hundreds of people she has mentored. This book is her effort to extend that helping hand to many more people than she can work with individually.

Author : Will Firth
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1915568382

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"This is a strong collection, and I look forward to reading the others in the series. I’d also happily read more." -- Lizzie Siddall This volume brings together six unique female voices: Magdalena Blazevic, Tatjana Gromaca, Vesna Peric, Natali Spasova, Sonja Zivaljevic and Ana Svetel from six countries that were part of Yugoslavia until the early 1990s. Elements of a common history shine through in this smorgasbord of classic short stories, travel writing, diarylike accounts and stand-alone chapters from a hard-hitting novel. Despite the intervening wars and crises, the six republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia are 'reunited' - albeit briefly - in this collection

Author : Simon Deefholts
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1912868873

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Take Six: Six Spanish Women Writers is an anthology of short stories by six outstanding Spanish women writers: Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921), Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), Carmen Laforet (1921-2004), Cristina Fernández Cubas (born 1945), Soledad Puértolas (born 1947) and Patricia Erlés (born 1972). The stories span over one hundred years, starting with the indomitable Emilia Pardo Bazán, whose casual and often humorous protrayal of brutal domestic violence set a paradigm for the writers who followed her to explore every aspect of the roles imposed on women by a male-dominated society, delving into subjects ranging from love and betrayal to bereavement, arson and murder, without losing touch with the humorous side of seemingly impossible situations. Take Six; Six Spanish Women Writers was shortlisted for the Spanish Translation Prize in 2023.

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Publisher : Hal Leonard
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1705103928

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(Vocal Selections). Six has received rave reviews around the world for its modern take on the stories of the six wives of Henry VIII and it's finally opening on Broadway! From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an exuberant celebration of 21st century girl power! Songs include: All You Wanna Do * Don't Lose Ur Head * Ex-Wives * Get Down * Haus of Holbein * Heart of Stone * I Don't Need Your Love * No Way * Six.

Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Head of Zeus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784970895

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The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege in the early years of the 20th century, they became prominent as 'bright young things' in the high society of interwar London. Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark – and very public – differences in their outlooks came to symbolize the political polarities of a dangerous decade. The intertwined stories of their stylish and scandalous lives – recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson – hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after WWII.

Author : Markus Zusak
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307433846

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

Author : Third Cousins
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1683058534

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Cory had lived in Denver all his life and he’s getting pretty restless. When he realizes that the most exciting day of his life was when a dog broke into the school, he realizes that he needs to do something about it. The only problem is that not much goes on in Denver, and that doesn't look like it’s about to change any time soon. Sky has spent her entire life dealing with the fact that her parents abandoned her. She thinks that it doesn't affect her, but when she meets a guy who might just be perfect the cracks become apparent. Sky doesn't believe in love. Or, to be more specific, she doesn't believe that anyone can love her. So when she turns up in Denver and catches Cory’s eye, it will only lead to disaster, right? Find out in this full saga and learn how Cory discovers just How Long It Takes!

Author : Ben Shattuck
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1953534090

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A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A New England Indie Bestselller A New York Times Best Book of Summer, a Wall Street Journal and Town & Country Best Book of Spring “A gorgeous reminder that walking is the most radical form of locomotion nowadays.” —Nick Offerman “I think Thoreau would have liked this book, and that’s a high recommendation.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau’s path through the Cape’s outer beaches, from the elbow to Provincetown’s fingertip. This is the first of six journeys taken by Shattuck, each one inspired by a walk once taken by Henry David Thoreau. After the Cape, Shattuck goes up Mount Katahdin and Mount Wachusett, down the coastline of his hometown, and then through the Allagash. Along the way, Shattuck encounters unexpected characters, landscapes, and stories, seeing for himself the restorative effects that walking can have on a dampened spirit. Over years of following Thoreau, Shattuck finds himself uncovering new insights about family, love, friendship, and fatherhood, and understanding more deeply the lessons walking can offer through life’s changing seasons. Intimate, entertaining, and beautifully crafted, Six Walks is a resounding tribute to the ways walking in nature can inspire us all.