A Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un tiempo perfecto para so–ar
Title | A Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un tiempo perfecto para so–ar PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Alire S‡enz |
Publisher | Cinco Puntos Press |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2010-08-31 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1933693622 |
Ninety-two-year-old Octavio Rivera has been visited by some very interesting dreams--dreams about piänatas that spill their treasures before him revealing kissing turtles, winged pigs, hitchhiking armadillos and many more fantastic things.
A Dream For Every Season
Title | A Dream For Every Season PDF eBook |
Author | Njie Haddy |
Publisher | Arctis |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2022-09-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781646900237 |
From the excitement of a first snowfall to spring flowers blooming to the magic of summer’s warm winds, A Dream for Every Season will have children dreaming of the natural world in this beautiful bedtime book. The beauty of each season of the year…the change each season brings…the passage of time and its special charm come to life in poetic rhyme, accompanied by gorgeous illustrations in this bedtime book.
Olga Dies Dreaming
Title | Olga Dies Dreaming PDF eBook |
Author | Xochitl Gonzalez |
Publisher | Flatiron Books |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2022-01-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250786193 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · WINNER OF THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRIZE • INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD FINALIST A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots—all in the wake of Hurricane Maria NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus, Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Vogue, Esquire, Book Riot, Goodreads, EW, Reader's Digest, and more! "Don’t underestimate this new novelist. She’s jump-starting the year with a smart romantic comedy that lures us in with laughter and keeps us hooked with a fantastically engaging story." —The Washington Post It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo, are boldfaced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan’s power brokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1 percent but she can’t seem to find her own. . . until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets. Olga and Prieto’s mother, Blanca, a Young Lord turned radical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives. Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico’s history, Xochitl Gonzalez’s Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife, and the very notion of the American dream—all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.
The Last Lecture
Title | The Last Lecture PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Pausch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Cancer |
ISBN | 9780340978504 |
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Dreams of the Golden Age
Title | Dreams of the Golden Age PDF eBook |
Author | Carrie Vaughn |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2014-01-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 076533481X |
More than superhero story, this is a tale of finding your true self and realizing that good and evil often come in various shades ... An adventurous story that is much more about the emotions than ability to fly.
Barcelona Dreaming
Title | Barcelona Dreaming PDF eBook |
Author | Rupert Thomson |
Publisher | Other Press, LLC |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1635420474 |
The Irish Times: Best Book of the Year New York Times Book Review: Editor's Choice The Times (UK): Book of the Week Pick Foreword Reviews: Book of the Day Pick Conde Nast Traveler: Best Book of the Season Pick Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, this evocative novel is made up of three stories linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters. Barcelona Dreaming is narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pianist, and a translator tormented by unrequited love, all of whose lives will be changed forever. Underpinning the novel, and casting a long shadow, is a crime committed against a young Moroccan immigrant. Exploring themes of addiction, racism, celebrity, immigration, and self-delusion, and fueled by a longing for the unattainable and a nostalgia for what is about to be lost, Barcelona Dreaming is a love letter to one of the world’s most beautiful cities and a powerful and poignant fable for our uncertain times.
Deep in a Dream
Title | Deep in a Dream PDF eBook |
Author | James Gavin |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 2011-07-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1569769036 |
This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride. From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeard on the West Coast to become, seemingly overnight, the prince of "cool" jazz--until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Here, drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, James Gavin gives a hair-raising account of the trumpeter's dark journey.