Fifty Words for Snow

Fifty Words for Snow
Title Fifty Words for Snow PDF eBook
Author Nancy Campbell
Publisher Elliott & Thompson
Pages 224
Release 2021-10
Genre Language and languages
ISBN 9781783966035

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Snow. In Japan it is Yuki-onna -- 'a goddess'. In Icelandic, Hundslappadrifa -- 'flakes as big as a dog's paw'. In Hawai'ian, snow is hau - 'mother of pearl', but also 'love'. Every language and culture has its own words for the feathery, jewel-like flakes that fall from the sky. From Iceland to Greenland, mountain top to frozen forest, school yard to park, snow is welcomed, feared, played with and prized. In this lyrical, evocative and beautiful book, Arctic traveller and award-winning writer Nancy Campbell digs deep into the meanings, etymologies and histories of fifty words for snow from across the globe. Held under her magnifying glass, each of these linguistic snow crystals offers a whole world of myth, culture and story.

Fifty Words for Rain: A GMA Book Club Pick

Fifty Words for Rain: A GMA Book Club Pick
Title Fifty Words for Rain: A GMA Book Club Pick PDF eBook
Author Asha Lemmie
Publisher Penguin
Pages 465
Release 2021-06-08
Genre Fiction
ISBN 152474638X

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A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller! From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Nightingale Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.” Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori” Kamiza’s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents’ imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin. The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity. But when chance brings her older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him an unlikely ally with whom she forms a powerful bond—a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it—a battle that just might cost her everything. Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to be free.

The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language

The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
Title The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language PDF eBook
Author Geoffrey K. Pullum
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 247
Release 1991-07-09
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0226685349

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Contains a collection of twenty-three essays originally appearing in the journal "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory."

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow
Title Smilla's Sense of Snow PDF eBook
Author Peter Høeg
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 513
Release 2010-04-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1429998539

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A Time Best Book of the Year · An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year · A People Best Book of the Year · Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award · A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel First published in 1992, Peter Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow instantly became an international sensation. When caustic Smilla Jaspersen discovers that her neighbor--a neglected six-year-old boy, and possibly her only friend--has died in a tragic accident, a peculiar intuition tells her it was murder. Unpredictable to the last page, Smilla's Sense of Snow is one of the most beautifully written and original crime stories of our time, a new classic.

Snow Bow

Snow Bow
Title Snow Bow PDF eBook
Author Harriet Ziefert
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2014
Genre JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN 9781609054298

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Humorous illustrations and die-cut pages introduce words of the same family, such as beet, feet, and street, and then combine them in often-improbable phrases, including "beet on feet" or "feet meet."

Mama, Will it Snow Tonight?

Mama, Will it Snow Tonight?
Title Mama, Will it Snow Tonight? PDF eBook
Author Nancy White Carlstrom
Publisher
Pages 33
Release 2009
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1590785622

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Three mothers and their offspring--fox, rabbit, and human--wait for the first snow of winter.

Forty Words for Sorrow

Forty Words for Sorrow
Title Forty Words for Sorrow PDF eBook
Author Giles Blunt
Publisher Seal Books
Pages 402
Release 2010-04-30
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307368505

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Now a major television series, CARDINAL, and the first book in the John Cardinal series. When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. Haunted by a criminal secret in his own past and hounded by a special investigation into corruption on the force, Cardinal is on the brink of losing his career—and his family. Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of serial killers. The case as it unfolds proves eerily reminiscent of the Moors murders in Britain, as an unassuming young man and his belligerently loyal girlfriend scout young victims for their macabre games. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. Time isn't only running out for him, but for another young victim, tied up in a basement wondering when and how his captors will kill him.