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FROM EVERYTHING TO NOTHING Hurricane IRMA True Story, St.Maarten, Caribbean Island 2017
This is a true story. I was there, I was in St. Maarten when hurricane IRMA unleash her category 5 "power" to the beautiful Caribbean Island. I will never forget this day, September 5th2017. After I faced her rage, I decided to write down my daily thoughts. Helped me clear my mind and to take out the images already hunting me. Felt a little easier to bear the disaster we woke up in just a few hours. After everything I was going through, I couldn't speak about it. It was painful even to remember. Nobody could understand my pain, nobody knew the real story. We all had for a long time "happy faces" forced to move forward. This book helped me heal my heart and share with the people I love, the truth about this life-changing experience. Enjoy!
Poetry & Drama
Pygmalion (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
PYGMALION is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.
In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and the film of that name. (more o: www.wisehouse-classics.com)
In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and the film of that name. (more o: www.wisehouse-classics.com)
Poetry & Drama
Franz Kafka: The Collection (A to Z Classics)
Content :
Unhappiness
The Judgment
Before the Law
The Metamorphosis
A Report to an Academy
Jackals and Arabs
A Country Doctor
In the Penal Colony
A Hunger Artist
The Trial
The Castle
Amerika
A Little Fable
The Great Wall of China
The Hunter Gracchus
The Burrow
Unhappiness
The Judgment
Before the Law
The Metamorphosis
A Report to an Academy
Jackals and Arabs
A Country Doctor
In the Penal Colony
A Hunger Artist
The Trial
The Castle
Amerika
A Little Fable
The Great Wall of China
The Hunter Gracchus
The Burrow
Poetry & Drama
Flovely Sleep-well-Book: Free children's book - Sleeping aid for children
The "Flovely Sleep-well-Book" is a lovely children's book with a nice design and simple rhymes that can easily be remembered and repeated.
Before going to sleep many children like attention, care and a cuddle. This book is the perfect companion for this important ritual at the end of the day.
Clear images in colourful "material design" make the story understandable for small readers and provide a calming effect. The history of the book aims at giving the child a positive feeling of safety. Themes like love, friendship and security are discussed in the book and illustrated with child-friendly pictures.
The story: The sun is slowly setting behind the hills and the hedgehog tells Flovely and her friends a story before bedtime. Then the kids go to bed and sink into the most beautiful dreams. The story goes from dusk till night and reflects the process of falling asleep. The book was developed in collaboration with experienced educators and helps each child to end the day positively and happily.
In short, this is an ideal bedtime book for children from kindergarten to primary school age.
This is a beautiful children's book. Flovely presents high quality children's books, which have been developed in cooperation with educators.
Before going to sleep many children like attention, care and a cuddle. This book is the perfect companion for this important ritual at the end of the day.
Clear images in colourful "material design" make the story understandable for small readers and provide a calming effect. The history of the book aims at giving the child a positive feeling of safety. Themes like love, friendship and security are discussed in the book and illustrated with child-friendly pictures.
The story: The sun is slowly setting behind the hills and the hedgehog tells Flovely and her friends a story before bedtime. Then the kids go to bed and sink into the most beautiful dreams. The story goes from dusk till night and reflects the process of falling asleep. The book was developed in collaboration with experienced educators and helps each child to end the day positively and happily.
In short, this is an ideal bedtime book for children from kindergarten to primary school age.
This is a beautiful children's book. Flovely presents high quality children's books, which have been developed in cooperation with educators.
Poetry & Drama
Flovely children's book of bedtime stories: The best ebook for kids of bedtime stories - Why we sleep
A cute Good-Night preschool bedtime picture book for children:
"Flovely children?s book of bedtime stories" is a lovely children's book with a nice design and simple rhymes that can easily be remembered and repeated. Before going to sleep many children like attention, care and a cuddle. This book is the perfect companion for this important ritual at the end of the day.
Clear images in colourful "material design" make the story understandable for small readers and provide a calming effect. The history of the book aims at giving the child a positive feeling of safety. Themes like love, friendship and security are discussed in the book and illustrated with child-friendly pictures. With light-footed rhymes and high-stepping illustrations, this tale is gentle inspiration for every child with dreams of greatness.
+ the free children?s book "Flovely builds a tree house"
In short, this is an ideal bedtime book for children from kindergarten to primary school age.
About the author:
The author Siegfried Freudenfels has been working as an illustrator for children's books for over 10 years. In 2010, his first free ebook, a new edition of famous children's classics, was published as a free children's book. The works soon became known and apart from further Good Night stories for children, children's games and lullabies appeared, also as free ebooks. The collection now comprises over 20 children's books for digital reading devices.
More matching books by the author:
"Flovely on the flower meadow - A story about true friends and deep friendship - ebook for free""Adventures in Castleland - a bedtime picture book for boys and girls - a free ebook for kids""Flovely Adventures on the houseboat - A funny story to read aloud or read to yourself - Read it free"
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"Flovely children?s book of bedtime stories" is a lovely children's book with a nice design and simple rhymes that can easily be remembered and repeated. Before going to sleep many children like attention, care and a cuddle. This book is the perfect companion for this important ritual at the end of the day.
Clear images in colourful "material design" make the story understandable for small readers and provide a calming effect. The history of the book aims at giving the child a positive feeling of safety. Themes like love, friendship and security are discussed in the book and illustrated with child-friendly pictures. With light-footed rhymes and high-stepping illustrations, this tale is gentle inspiration for every child with dreams of greatness.
+ the free children?s book "Flovely builds a tree house"
In short, this is an ideal bedtime book for children from kindergarten to primary school age.
About the author:
The author Siegfried Freudenfels has been working as an illustrator for children's books for over 10 years. In 2010, his first free ebook, a new edition of famous children's classics, was published as a free children's book. The works soon became known and apart from further Good Night stories for children, children's games and lullabies appeared, also as free ebooks. The collection now comprises over 20 children's books for digital reading devices.
More matching books by the author:
"Flovely on the flower meadow - A story about true friends and deep friendship - ebook for free""Adventures in Castleland - a bedtime picture book for boys and girls - a free ebook for kids""Flovely Adventures on the houseboat - A funny story to read aloud or read to yourself - Read it free"
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Poetry & Drama
Lady Audley’s Secret (Wordsworth Classics)
With an Introduction and Notes by Esther SaxeyThe flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder., It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines. Combining elements of the detective novel, the psychological thriller and the romance of upper class life, Lady Audley's Secret was one of the most popular and successful novels of the nineteenth century and still exerts a powerful hold on readers.
Poetry & Drama
Frankenstein (Young Reading Series 4 Fiction)
In the yellow moonlight, the monster opens his eyes. Dr Frankenstein's quest to create life is complete, but at what cost? Why does the creature now turn against his maker? Is there anything anyone can do to stop him? Part of the Usborne Young Reading series, this retelling of the classic horror story is ideal for newly independent readers.
Poetry & Drama
The Sonnets (Macmillan Collector's Library)
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published in 1609. Filled with ideas about love, beauty and mortality, the sonnets are written in the same beautiful and innovative language that we have come to know from Shakespeare's plays. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man known as the 'Fair Youth', while others are directed at a 'Rival Poet', and a 'Dark Lady'., This Macmillan Collector's Library edition contains all of the poems, which explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and, for many, they are the most complete and moving meditations on love ever written.With an afterword by Peter Harness.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
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Barchester Towers (The Chronicles of Barsetshire)
'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless!' Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope. Barchester Towers is one of the best-loved novels in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, which captured nineteenth-century provincial England with wit, worldly wisdom and an unparalleled gift for characterization. The second book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. Shelley had travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along the river Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim which is just 17 km (10 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before an alchemist was engaged in experiments. Later, she travelled in the region of Geneva (Switzerland)-where much of the story takes place-and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband, Percy Shelley. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved into the story within the novel.
Poetry & Drama
Perfekt Order: Volume 1 (The Ære Saga)
All's fair when you're in love with War. For seventeen-year-old Mia Ahlstrom, a world ruled by order is the only world she allows. A lifetime of chore charts, to-do lists and study schedules have helped earn her a spot at Redwood State University's engineering program. And while her five year plan includes finding her very own happily-evah-aftah, years at an all-girls boarding school left her feeling woefully unprepared for keg parties and co-ed extracurricular activities. So nothing surprises her more than catching the eye of Tyr Fredriksen at her first college party. The imposing Swede is arrogantly charming, stubbornly overprotective, and runs hot-and-cold in ways that defy reason . . . until Mia learns that she's fallen for the Norse God of War; an immortal battle deity hiding on Midgard (Earth) to protect a valuable Asgardian treasure from a feral enemy. With a price on his head, Tyr brings more than a little excitement to Mia's rigidly controlled life. Choosing Tyr may be the biggest distraction-or the greatest adventure-she's ever had."
Poetry & Drama
The Nutcracker and Mouse King (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in 1816. Born in Konigsberg, East Prussia in 1776, Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged to pursue a career in law. However, in his late teens Hoffman became increasingly interested in literature and philosophy, and spent much of his time reading German classicists and attending lectures by, amongst others, Immanuel Kant. Hoffman went on to produce a great range of both literary and musical works. Probably Hoffman's most well-known story, produced in 1816, is 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King', due to the fact that - some seventy-six years later - it inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker. In the same vein, his story 'The Sandman' provided both the inspiration for Leo Delibes's ballet Coppelia, and the basis for a highly influential essay by Sigmund Freud, called 'The Uncanny'. (Indeed, Freud referred to Hoffman as the "unrivalled master of the uncanny in literature.") Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.
Poetry & Drama
Mandy
Mandy's brother, Ned is in trouble. He has been accused of murdering the woman who had been clearly trying to seduce him. Their guardian, the Duke of Margate is summoned to help. Mandy had always assumed he was an old man. But, the duke was far from old. He was, in fact, virile, dashing and oh so good looking. The duke enjoyed being a confirmed bachelor...and then he met Mandy. But, first things first-they had to prove Ned innocent.
Poetry & Drama
Othello
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in the year approximately 1603, and based on the short story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565. This tightly constructed work revolves around four central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army; his beloved wife, Desdemona; his loyal lieutenant, Cassio; and his trusted but unfaithful ensign, Iago. Because of its varied and current themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance, Othello is still often performed in professional and community theatre alike and has been the basis for numerous operatic, film, and literary adaptations.
