Na Willa and the House in the Alley
Title | Na Willa and the House in the Alley PDF eBook |
Author | Reda Gaudiamo |
Publisher | Na Willa |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-04-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781912915453 |
Na Willa's days are spent happily in her little house in the alley, until, one day, Pak brings some news that will change her life forever... In this sequel to The Adventures of Na Willa (2019), our heroine Na Willa's days are still filled with excitement and simple joys: playing with her friends, reading new books, and singing along to the radio. And now Pak, her father, is back from sea! Pak takes Na Willa to school, goes for ice cream and paints the house. On the way home, I tell Pak all about my friends Asih, Eko and Endang. I tell him about Joko who speaks only Javanese, Gatot who never finishes his sentences, Sumi who cries every time she doesn't finish her colouring, and Sri who is always laughing at her. By the time I finish all these stories, Pak can't stop laughing. And while he rides, just like Mak, Pak loves to sing and make up his own songs. Mak often sings about the flowers in the garden - the roses and jasmine - but Pak makes up a song all about me and my friends. 'Willa, oh Willa, in her new school she has many friends! There is Gatot, Sumi, Ekoooo, Asih, Endang, Sriiiii, and Jokoooo!' Ahhhh, I love Pak's song.
The Adventures of Na Willa
Title | The Adventures of Na Willa PDF eBook |
Author | Reda Gaudiamo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-03-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781910139592 |
Na Willa is a bright, adventurous girl living in Surabaya's suburbs, her home in the middle of an alley surrounded by cypress trees. She spends her days running after trains, going down to the market, and thinking about how people can sing through radios. Indonesian author Reda Gaudiamo has created a collection of stories of curious adventures and musings of a multicultural girl growing up in Indonesia with an East Indonesian mother and a Chinese-Indonesian father. Set in a time when children spent the day outside, listening to Lilis Suryani's songs on the radio, and when race and gender would still go undiscussed, this is Na Willa's story as she grows up unafraid to ask the big questions.
Municipal Bulletin
Title | Municipal Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | Tacoma (Wash.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Municipal services |
ISBN |
The Joe Hill
Title | The Joe Hill PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Hill |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 1339 |
Release | 2014-08-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062378635 |
Get four bone-chilling novels of psychological and supernatural suspense from New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill in one e-book, including: Heart-Shaped Box, 20th Century Ghosts, Horns, and NOS4A2. Each publication of Hill is beautiful textured, deliciously scary, and greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for works of skin-crawling supernatural terror. Read on if you dare to see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.
The Real Minerva
Title | The Real Minerva PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Sharratt |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2006-01-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547346883 |
A “memorable [and] entertaining” novel of three strong women in 1920s small-town Minnesota by the author of Revelations (The Washington Post Book World). Winner of the Willa Literary Award Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award In a Midwestern farming community in 1923, as book-loving Penny enters adolescence, her mother, Barbara, pulls her out of school to send her to work. Destined to become a cleaning woman like her mother, Penny sees no escape from her bleak existence—until a scandalous figure arrives in the town of Minerva, Minnesota: Cora, very pregnant, very headstrong, and very alone, has come to make a home on her grandfather’s farm. Intrigued by this curious new resident, Penny sets out to work for Cora, setting into motion events that will change multiple lives. Drawing on her mother’s and grandmother’s stories of Minnesota farm life in the early twentieth century, acclaimed author Mary Sharratt has created a suspenseful and moving novel about the strength of women and the unexpected friendships that form between them. “A paean to the bond between mothers and daughters . . . engrossing.” —Booklist “Wonderful.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times-bestselling author of With or Without You
Locust House
Title | Locust House PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Gnade |
Publisher | Bread & Roses Press |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2016-01-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781939899248 |
San Diego-born author Adam Gnade writes about his homeland in the tradition of regionalists like Louise Erdrich and Willa Cather. Gnade's California is a place of border clash, of a glimpse of stormy sea from a top coastal hills or rollercoasters, of ratty beach apartments and punk shows. A collaborative release by Three One G and Pioneers Press, this is a story that asks, What does it mean to hold fast to your dreams, ethics, and beliefs while the whole world tries to tame you?
City of Orphans
Title | City of Orphans PDF eBook |
Author | Avi |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2011-09-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1416971025 |
In 1893 New York, 13-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole a watch from the brand-new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes. Illustrations.