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The legend of the teddy bear (Myths, Legends, Fairy and Folktales Ser.)
Par Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen, Frank Murphy. 2000
Sam Johnson and the blue ribbon quilt
Par Lisa Campbell Ernst. 1992
While mending the awning over the pig pen, Sam discovers that he enjoys sewing the various patches together but meets…
with scorn and ridicule when he asks his wife if he could join her quilting club. For grades K-3Le sillon: Suivi d'un entretien avec l'autrice (Litt©♭rature Littérature)
Par Valérie Manteau. 2019
« Je rêve de chats qui tombent des rambardes, d'adolescents aux yeux brillants qui surgissent au coin de la rue…
et tirent en pleine tête, de glissements de terrain emportant tout Cihangir dans le Bosphore, de ballerines funambules aux pieds cisaillés, je rêve que je marche sur les tuiles des toits d'Istanbul et qu'elles glissent et se décrochent. Mais toujours ta main me rattrape, juste au moment où je me réveille en plein vertige, les poings fermés, agrippée aux draps ; même si de plus en plus souvent au réveil tu n'es plus là. » Autofiction, grand reportage, document politique, roman d'amour, Le Sillon est d'une richesse inclassable, porté par la lecture sensible et engagée de son autriceLoin: Suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
Par Alexis Michalik. 2019
« Comment avoir l'audace de prétendre être en vie si l'on vit sans oser ? » Tout commence par quelques…
mots griffonnés au dos d'une carte postale : « Je pense à vous, je vous aime ». Ils sont signés de Charles, le père d'Antoine, parti vingt ans plus tôt sans laisser d'adresse. Avec son meilleur ami, Laurent, apprenti journaliste, et Anna, sa jeune soeur complètement déjantée, Antoine part sur les traces de ce père fantôme. C'est l'affaire d'une semaine, pense-t-il... De l'ex-Allemagne de l'Est à la Turquie d'Atatürk, de la Géorgie de Staline à l'Autriche nazie, de rebondissements en coups de théâtre, les voici partis pour un road movie généalogique et chaotique à la recherche de leurs origines insoupçonnées. Alexis Michalik a décidément le goût de l'aventure : après le succès phénoménal d'Edmond, le comédien, metteur en scène et dramaturge couronné par cinq Molières, nous embarque à bord d'un premier roman virevoltant, drôle et exaltantAn Elm Creek quilts album: three novels in the popular series (The Elm Creek Quilts)
Par Jennifer Chiaverini. 2006
Tales of Pennsylvania needlecrafters. In The Runaway Quilt, Sylvia discovers her ancestors' involvement with the Underground Railroad. In The Quilter's…
Legacy, Sylvia seeks family heirlooms. In The Master Quilter, the women of Elm Creek secretly make bride-to-be Sylvia a gift. Sequel to An Elm Creek Quilts Sampler (RC 65774). 2004Merry Christmas, everywhere! (Holidays Everywhere! Ser.)
Par Arlene Erlbach, Sharon Lane Holm, Herb Erlbach. 2002
Brief descriptions of Christmas traditions from twenty countries around the world. Presents regional forms of the Merry Christmas greeting, interesting…
facts about different holiday celebrations, and local crafts and recipes for family fun. For grades 3-6. 2002Destination gold!
Par Julie Lawson. 2001
Canada, 1897. Sixteen-year-old Ned Turner leaves his widowed mother and younger sister, Sarah, to seek his fortune in the Klondike…
gold fields. The next year Sarah undertakes the treacherous journey to find him. Along with Catherine, a runaway, she joins Ned and shares his adventures. For grades 6-9. 2000The aloha quilt: an Elm Creek Quilts novel
Par Jennifer Chiaverini. 2010
In the midst of a difficult divorce Bonnie leaves Pennsylvania to help an old friend set up a quilting camp…
in Hawaii. When Bonnie's husband demands half of her share in the Elm Creek quilting business, she's devastated but soon finds solace in the tropical surroundings. 2010Seize the story: a handbook for teens who like to write
Par Victoria Hanley. 2008
Presents creative-writing tips and exercises, from freewriting to understanding the elements of fiction. Provides examples for character development, motivation, and…
perspective. Assesses difficult aspects of writing fiction, such as creating the setting and mood, and infusing your style and voice into the story. For junior and senior high readers. 2008Circle of quilters: an Elm Creek quilts novel (The Elm Creek Quilts #9)
Par Jennifer Chiaverini. 2006
The Pennsylvania Elm Creek Quilters must hire new teachers for their camp. Candidates include Karen, a young mother; Maggie, the…
author of a quilt pattern book; Russ, a widower; Anna, a chef; and Gretchen, a shop owner. Sarah McClure and the other sewers debate each nominee's qualifications and drawbacks. 2006Our shed: a father-daughter building story
Par Robert Broder. 2020
A father teaches his daughter how to build a backyard shed for storing the necessities of family life--a lawn mower,…
sprinkler, sleds, kid toys. For each practical element the dad brings to the project, his daughter adds her own imaginative creative spin. For grades K-3. UnratedHound
Par Vincent Mccaffrey. 2009
Wigrum
Par Daniel Canty, Oana Avasilichioaei. 2011
End of October 1944. Sebastian Wigrum absconds from his London flat. Very little is known about him, except his intense…
curiosity about the world and perhaps his disillusionment in love. The legacy of this man, who lived to collect has left in his wake an inventory of some hundred objects, which shed light on the history of our time.Una noche en el Orient Express
Par Veronica Henry. 2013
Un recado misterioso una promesa hecha a un amigo moribundo una propuesta inesperada un secreto que…
se remonta toda una vida Seis historias cuyo rumbo cambiar en un extraordinario viaje de Londres a Venecia Mientras el tren marcha salen a la luz relaciones confesiones y revelaciones Cuando los pasajeros lleguen a su destino su vida no volver a ser la misma www sumadeletras comVertigo
Par Michael Hulse, W. G. Sebald. 2001
The beguiling first novel by W. G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time. Vertigo,…
W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald--the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness--takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts--Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head," as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so "stunning and strange," as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is "like a dream you want to last forever."A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles
Par Andre Maurois. 2012
"Dangerous, charming, and funny, this elegant miniature rediscovery will delight even brilliant minds."-Simon Van BooyAndré Maurois' novella, published in the…
same year as Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa, is about a couple who become shipwrecked on an uncharted South Seas Island and discover a race of literary zealots for whom every subject and feeling needs to be expressed as a form of literary art. As explained by Alberto Manguel, "An Articole will publish not only his Intimate Journal, but also his Journal of My Intimate Journal; and his wife will publish My Husband's Journal of His Intimate Journal."Any Deadly Thing
Par Roy Kesey. 2013
Following the critical success of his debut collection, All Over, and of his debut novel, Pacazo, Roy Kesey now brings…
us a new gathering of short stories, Any Deadly Thing. These stories first appeared in magazines including McSweeney's, Subtropics, Ninth Letter and American Short Fiction, and have been widely anthologized; among them are winners of a Pushcart Prize special mention, an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Missouri Review's Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in Fiction. With story locales ranging across the Americas to Europe and Asia, Kesey once again makes the full strange world his stage. "Perfect, masterful portraits of an international cross-section of wise, broken souls--hopeful, brutal, funny as hell, and heart-crushing, every last one." -Elizabeth Crane, author of We Only Know So Much "Roy Kesey is one of my favorite contemporary writers, and Any Deadly Thing is another triumph. These stories, reminiscent of William Gass in the remarkable way they combine a virtuoso playfulness and wit with an atmosphere of grimness and grief and heartbreak, range the world over for their brilliantly realized locales, but they share a deeper setting in what Gass calls 'the only holiness we have,' human consciousness. Kesey demonstrates once again that he is a spectacularly deft and empathetic priest of that creed, which is the only one for me." -Michael Griffith, author of TrophyA Slepyng Hound to Wake
Par Vincent Mccaffrey. 2011
Praise for Hound:"There's something charismatic and timeless about the way the story builds and McCaffrey opens Henry's life to the…
reader . . . McCaffrey is. . .just telling a compelling, old-school yarn, the kind of story a man who knows his literature tells."-Time Out Chicago"For the true bibliophile, this is a book you'll love."-The HippoGeoffrey Chaucer said, "It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake." Henry Sullivan, bookhound, is ready to be that sleeping dog: to settle down in his new apartment and enjoy life with his new girlfriend.But the underside of the literary world won't let him go. A bookscout sells Henry a book-and is murdered later that night. An old friend asks him to investigate a case of possible plagiarism involving a local best-selling author. To make matters worse, his violinist neighbor seems to have a stalker. And wherever Henry goes, there's a cop watching him.Henry can read the signs: to save those he loves he has to save himself.Vincent McCaffrey's novel Hound was chosen as a Must-Read Book by the Massachusetts Book Awards. He has owned the Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop for more than thirty years. He has been paid to do lawn work, shovel snow, paint houses, and to be an office-boy, warehouse grunt, dishwasher, waiter, and hotel night clerk. He has chosen at various times to be a writer, editor, publisher, and bookseller. A Slepyng Hound to Wake is his second novel.Vertigo
Par Michael Hulse, W G Sebald. 2001
The beguiling first novel by W. G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time. Vertigo,…
W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald--the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness--takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts--Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head," as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so "stunning and strange," as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is "like a dream you want to last forever."Voy
Par Gabi Mart nez. 2014
Literatura de viajes, nuevo periodismo, autoficción, parodia y metaliteratura en el nuevo libro de Gabi Martínez. «El convencimiento de estar…
donde debes y quieres es una de las grandes experiencias de la vida. Sentí que había llegado a un lugar que de alguna manera buscaba desde hacía mucho. Encontrar un lugar es bueno. Sí, es bueno.» Un joven periodista intenta localizar a Gabi Martínez, el escritor desaparecido en Nueva Zelanda cuando seguía la pista de un ave invisible tan real, o tan imaginaria, como las leyendas que la nombran. El reportero necesita entender qué motivos le llevaron a romper con su vida y desaparecer sin dejar rastro. Como hizo su propio padre, como ocurre con todos aquellos que no creen pertenecer a ningún lugar, los que se marchan mucho antes de emprender un viaje. Pero nunca existe una única versión de la historia. Por eso, la figura del viajero se va componiendo a medida que avanza la investigación, y las voces de su exmujer, alguno de sus amigos, varios guías de sus expediciones, compañeros de viaje o una de sus últimas amantes van perfilando al hombre en esencia, tan mezquino como espléndido, a medida que responden a las preguntas del periodista. No hay sólo una perspectiva, sino tantas como personas compartieron su vida. De la misma manera, Voy no es un único libro sino varios al tiempo. Es ficción, pero también literatura de viajes; es un relato de anhelos, pero también de desengaños; es comedia y a la vez drama. Una obra caleidoscópica que profundiza en el descubrimiento del yo a través de los otros, en la identidad como juego de espejos y en la utopía como final del viaje. Reseñas:«Desnudo literario integral que ve y sube la apuesta autoficcional de Coetzee en Verano.» Daniel Arjona, El Mundo «Un libro que se sale de lo común. Impecable e implacable. Un libro de búsquedas y sueños,de risas y quebrantos, de radical exploración personal a través del espejo que habitan los otros.» Tino Pertierra, La Nueva España «Deslumbrante (e impúdico) cruce entre el making of literario y la autobiografía. Imprescindible.» Jorge de Cominges, escritor «Gabi Martínez es un escritor de viajes introspectivo que encierra un pequeño Homero dentro mucho más revolucionario que en otros escritores. Ha sabido encontrar la manera de renovar la literatura viajera mediante enfoques inusuales, dejándose llevar por la misma osadía -y lucidez- que tuvo su precedente más claro y confeso: Bruce Chatwin, con quien comparte la capacidad de ruptura y de recreación. Literatura en vena.» Adolfo García Ortega, escritor, crítico y traductor, Club Cultura FNAC «Amplía el campo de acción del Verano de Coetzee (...) Me quito el sombrero: debe tenerse libertad y valentía para hacer un libro como éste. Da fuerza.» Mercè Ibarz, escritora «Martínez dista mucho de ser un escritor de viajes al uso y de manual (...). Podemos disfrutar de su originalidad, de un soberbio estilo de escritura y de muchas reflexiones sagaces de quien ha recorrido mundo y sabe de lo que habla. (...) Auténtico e intenso porque también en la vida, como demuestra Gabi en este libro, no debemos conformarnos con hacer turismo en los demás y en nosotros mismos.» Ángeles Prieto, La tormenta en un vaso «Una obra maestra.» La petita llibreria