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

Fifty Words for Rain
Title Fifty Words for Rain PDF eBook
Author Asha Lemmie
Publisher Penguin
Pages 464
Release 2020-09-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1524746371

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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."

Light on Snow

Light on Snow
Title Light on Snow PDF eBook
Author Anita Shreve
Publisher Little, Brown
Pages 330
Release 2004-10-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0759512779

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What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.

Beautiful Joe

Beautiful Joe
Title Beautiful Joe PDF eBook
Author Marshall Saunders
Publisher
Pages 426
Release 1907
Genre Children's literature
ISBN

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A dog describes being mistreated by a cruel master but then later being taken in by a kind family.

Please Let It Snow!

Please Let It Snow!
Title Please Let It Snow! PDF eBook
Author Harriet Ziefert
Publisher Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Pages 36
Release 2006
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781402730900

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A young boys gets a new winter coat, boots, gloves and a hat and the waits eagerly for it to snow.

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.