America's highways, 1776-1976
Author | : United States. Federal Highway Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Federal aid to transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Federal Highway Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Federal aid to transportation |
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Author | : Mercer Mayer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Contests |
ISBN | : 9781480637597 |
Hoping to participate in the Critterville Kite Flying Contest, Little Critter busily attempts to fly a kite and finds the activity more challenging than anticipated.
Author | : Shelly Oria |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374711755 |
Enter the world of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, where the characters are as intelligent and charming as they are lonely. A couple discovers the ability to stop time together; another couple lives with a constant loud beeping in their apartment, though only one of them can hear it. A father leaves his daughter in Israel to pursue a painting career in New York; a sex worker falls in love with the Israeli photographer who studies her. Together these stories explore the tension between an anonymous, globalized world and an irrepressible lust for connection—they form an intimate document of niche moments between characters who are so brilliantly, subtly, and magically rendered by Shelly Oria's capable hands.
Author | : Azar Nafisi |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2003-12-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1588360792 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading—Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita—their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran. Nafisi’s account flashes back to the early days of the revolution, when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations. In those frenetic days, the students took control of the university, expelled faculty members and purged the curriculum. When a radical Islamist in Nafisi’s class questioned her decision to teach The Great Gatsby, which he saw as an immoral work that preached falsehoods of “the Great Satan,” she decided to let him put Gatsby on trial and stood as the sole witness for the defense. Azar Nafisi’s luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran. It is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, written with a startlingly original voice. Praise for Reading Lolita in Tehran “Anyone who has ever belonged to a book group must read this book. Azar Nafisi takes us into the vivid lives of eight women who must meet in secret to explore the forbidden fiction of the West. It is at once a celebration of the power of the novel and a cry of outrage at the reality in which these women are trapped. The ayatollahs don’ t know it, but Nafisi is one of the heroes of the Islamic Republic.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Nine Parts of Desire
Author | : Kate Beasley |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : JUVENILE FICTION |
ISBN | : 0374302634 |
Holes meets The Goonies in the highly anticipated second middle-grade novel from the author of Gertie's Leap to Greatness!
Author | : Alison Bechdel |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780618871711 |
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
Author | : Judith Heumann |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 080700359X |
As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for readers of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong. “If I didn’t fight, who would?” Judy Heumann was only 5 years old when she was first denied her right to attend school. Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust-surviving parents in New York City, Judy had a drive for equality that was instilled early in life. In this young readers’ edition of her acclaimed memoir, Being Heumann, Judy shares her journey of battling for equal access in an unequal world—from fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” because of her wheelchair, to suing the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her disability. Judy went on to lead 150 disabled people in the longest sit-in protest in US history at the San Francisco Federal Building. Cut off from the outside world, the group slept on office floors, faced down bomb threats, and risked their lives to win the world’s attention and the first civil rights legislation for disabled people. Judy’s bravery, persistence, and signature rebellious streak will speak to every person fighting to belong and fighting for social justice.
Author | : Roxie Munro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780375844515 |
Illustrations and brief text present all kinds of libraries, from bookmobiles and home libraries to the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress.
Author | : Lester S. Levy |
Publisher | : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1967-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780806107592 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 892 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |