The Umbrella Queen
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Author |
: Shirin Bridges |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 46 |
Release |
: 2008-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780060750404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0060750405 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Umbrella Queen by : Shirin Bridges
When Noot is finally allowed to paint umbrellas like the other women and girls in her village, she secretly hopes that she might be chosen as this year's Umbrella Queen. Carefully, she creates serene flowers and butterflies exactly as she has seen her mother and grandmother do for years. But soon her imagination takes over, and Noot finds herself straying from the old patterns, to the dismay of her family, who depend on the traditionally painted umbrellas for their livelihood. Her parents tell her she must go back to the old designs and Noot obeys, knowing that the King is coming soon to name the one who has painted the most beautiful umbrella. After all, the King would never choose a queen who breaks from tradition . . . would he?
Author |
: Elena Arevalo Melville |
Publisher |
: Scallywag Press |
Total Pages |
: 35 |
Release |
: 2024-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781915252395 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1915252393 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Umbrella by : Elena Arevalo Melville
Clara finds an umbrella on the ground at the park and does a good deed by putting it on a bench. The umbrella says "thank you" and invites Clara to make a wish. So unfolds a magical chain of events featuring a new friend, an elephant, musical butterflies, and a naughty fox who learns his lesson. The artwork in this quirky piece of magical realism is packed with humor and character, and the surprising ending is both heart-warming and uplifting.
Author |
: BRIAN. MAY |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2021-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1838164529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781838164522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis QUEEN IN 3-D by : BRIAN. MAY
Queen in 3-D is an inside view of one of the greatest rock acts of all time told in his own pictures and words by founder member, songwriter and guitarist Brian May. Complimentary 3-D OWL viewer included.
Author |
: Bino A. Realuyo |
Publisher |
: Ballantine Books |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2011-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307781574 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307781577 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Umbrella Country by : Bino A. Realuyo
"Certain things are better kept than said. . . . But certain things you have to find out now. . . ." On the tumultuous streets of Manila, where the earth is as brown as a tamarind leaf and the pungent smells of vinegar and mashed peppers fill the air, where seasons shift between scorching sun and torrential rain, eleven-year-old Gringo strives to make sense of his family and a world that is growing increasingly harsher before his young eyes. There is Gringo's older brother, Pipo, wise beyond his years, a flamboyant, defiant youth and the three-time winner of the sequined Miss Unibers contest; Daddy Groovie, whiling away his days with other hang-about men, out of work and wilting like a guava, clinging to the hope of someday joining his sister in Nuyork; Gringo's mother, Estrella, moving through their ramshackle home, holding her emotions tight as a fist, which she often clenches in anger after curfew covers the neighborhood in a burst of dark; and Ninang Rola, wise godmother of words, who confides in Gringo a shocking secret from the past--and sets the stage for the profound events to come, in which no one will remain untouched by the jagged pieces of a shattered dream. As Gringo learns; shame is passed down through generations, but so is the life-changing power of blood ties and enduring love. In this lush, richly poetic novel of grinding hardship and resilient triumph, of selfless sacrifice and searing revelation, Bino A. Realuyo brings the teeming world of 1970s Manila brilliantly to life. While mapping a young boy's awakening to adulthood in dazzling often unexpected ways, The Umbrella Country subtly works sweet magic.
Author |
: Elizabeth Bear |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2013-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429960915 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429960914 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Queen Victoria's Book of Spells by : Elizabeth Bear
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year An anthology featuring all-original tales of gaslamp fantasy from bestselling and award-winning authors including Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked. "Gaslamp Fantasy," or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period. Queen Victoria's Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic. Includes short stories by Delia Sherman, Jeffrey Ford, Genevieve Valentine, Maureen McHugh, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Wein, Elizabeth Bear, James P. Blaylock, Kaaron Warren, Leanna Renee Hieber, Dale Bailey, Veronica Schanoes, Catherynne M. Valente, Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer, Jane Yolen, Gregory Maguire, Tanith Lee, Theodora Goss. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author |
: Marcia Ochoa |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 2014-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822376996 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822376997 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Queen for a Day by : Marcia Ochoa
Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle, gender and sexuality, race and class, and self-fashioning and identity in Venezuela. Beauty pageants play an outsized role in Venezuela. The country has won more international beauty contests than any other. The femininity performed by Venezuelan women in high-profile, widely viewed pageants defines a kind of national femininity. Ochoa argues that as transformistas and misses work to achieve the bodies, clothing and makeup styles, and postures and gestures of this national femininity, they come to embody Venezuelan modernity.
Author |
: Angela Kelly |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1905686749 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781905686742 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dressing the Queen by : Angela Kelly
When The Queen appears in public, she is naturally the centre of attention. What lies behind her unfailing sense of style? Here are first-hand accounts of those directly responsible for The Queen's wardrobe. Learn the process of creating the wardrobe for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and the many months spent in planning and working to deliver this special, historical year.
Author |
: William Penn |
Publisher |
: Pegasus Imprimis Press |
Total Pages |
: 513 |
Release |
: 2013-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis JFK: The Umbrella Conspiracy by : William Penn
In the 1930s, Adolph Hitler had powerful friends in England who agreed with his anti-Semitic and racist policies. On country weekends, some of the most prominent members of English society and even the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James gathered at Cliveden Manor. There on the estate of Lord and Lady Astor, they plotted ways of keeping Great Britain out of the war with Nazi Germany. The Cliveden Set, as they were called, put enormous pressure on British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to appease Herr Hitler. As history records, Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler and the sell-out of the countries overrun by the Nazi war machine led to World War II. As a result, millions of innocent people lost their lives and the Jews of Europe were almost exterminated. Some of the sons and daughters of the men and women lost to the Nazi menace in World War II swore to take revenge on the surviving members of the Cliveden Set. For that purpose, they formed a society so secret its name is still unknown. “JFK: The Umbrella Conspiracy” details how the work of assassins in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 was actually designed to kill more than one Kennedy--and did.
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 772 |
Release |
: 1882 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105062814574 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Law Reports. Queen's Bench Division by :
Author |
: C. Beem |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 199 |
Release |
: 2013-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137272027 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137272023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Name of a Queen by : C. Beem
Itinerarium ad Windsor concerns a central question of the Elizabethan era: Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? The man who poses this controversial question within Itinerarium is none other than Queen Elizabeth's powerful favorite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. On hand to provide answers are the statesman and poet Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, and William Fleetwood antiquary, Recorder of London, and dutiful chronicler of their 1575 conversation. This critical edition of Itinerarium reproduces Fleetwood's text with annotations and a host of interpretive and contextualizing essays from leading scholars. Taken together, they constitute the definitive introduction to this remarkable discussion of regnant queenship, providing a valuable tool for understanding contemporary notions of and underlying fears concerning the efficacy and desirability of female rule in Elizabethan England.