The Whale Library

The Whale Library

Author: Zidrou

Publisher: Europe Comics

Published: 2021-10-20T00:00:00+02:00

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13:

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A poetic fable for grown-ups full of wisdom and beauty, by two Belgian masters of graphic storytelling.Out on the high seas lives a whale unlike any other, who spends her days reading stories to all who will listen, taken from the vast library hidden in her belly. When the whale bumps into a sea postman's boat one fateful night, it's the beginning of an extraordinary friendship. But not every story can have a happy ending...


Silence Is My Mother Tongue

Silence Is My Mother Tongue

Author: Sulaiman Addonia

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1644451298

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A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba, and her mute brother, Hagos. For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inability to speak, must live vicariously through his sister. Both resist societal expectations by seeking to redefine love, sex, and gender roles in their lives, and when a businessman opens a shop and befriends Hagos, they cast off those pressures and make an unconventional choice. With this cast of complex, beautifully drawn characters, Sulaiman Addonia details the textures and rhythms of everyday life in a refugee camp, and questions what it means to be an individual when one has lost all that makes a home or a future. Intimate and subversive, Silence Is My Mother Tongue dissects the ways society wages war on women and explores the stories we must tell to survive in a broken, inhospitable environment.


Dutch

Dutch

Author: William Z. Shetter

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780415235020

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This new edition presents an accessible description of Dutch, supported throughout by diagrams and examples. An improved pronunciation guide now been introduced and the vocabulary brought up to date.


Short Stories in Dutch for Beginners

Short Stories in Dutch for Beginners

Author: Olly Richards

Publisher: Teach Yourself

Published: 2019-12-26

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1529302870

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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Dutch. "Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in Dutch for Beginners has been written especially for learners from high-beginner to low-intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you, and give you a feeling of progress when reading. What does this book give you? · Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary · Controlled language at your level to help you progress confidently · Realistic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability · Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way · Beautiful illustrations accompanying each story, to set the scene and support your understanding · Pleasure! Research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!' Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy, these stories include key features that will support and consolidate your progress, including: · A glossary for bolded words in each chapter · A bilingual word list · Full plot summary · Comprehension questions after each chapter. As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Dutch for Beginners will make learning Dutch easy and enjoyable.


The Scorpion’s Head

The Scorpion’s Head

Author: Hilde Vandermeeren

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1782277498

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A furiously paced psychological thriller about a woman accused of attempting to murder her son, perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins Shortly after a fractious weekend away with her family, Gaelle wakes up injured in a psychiatric hospital in Berlin. Her seven-year-old son is in a coma in another hospital--and the police suspect her of attempting to murder him. With no memory of what happened but convinced of her innocence, Gaelle escapes and begins a determined hunt for the truth. Michael is a contract killer working for Scorpio, a ruthless organization that spares no-one, where any agent who violates the rules signs their own death warrant. When Michael decides to reject an assignment, he knows he must run for his life. One makes a living by killing, the other would kill to survive. And soon their paths will cross... An exhilarating addition to the Walter Presents Library.


Learn Dutch with Short Stories

Learn Dutch with Short Stories

Author: Kees Van Den End

Publisher: Bermuda Word

Published: 2017-01-06

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781987949827

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Do you want to learn Dutch with real Dutch Literature? It's easy with Dutch and interlinear English. 180+ pages with every word translated so you can keep on reading. This book contains short stories from classic Dutch authors Multatuli (Dekker) and Hildebrand (Beets). We have added an interlinear translation to the Dutch text. This means that the meaning of every Dutch word is immediately accessible, which in turn will make it much easier for you to expand your Dutch vocabulary fast. Check out our interlinear Dutch Beginner Stories as well! Or look for interlinear French, German, Spanish or other languages! Use the following method to attain new Dutch vocabulary. Read the stories and re-read them until you know almost all the words. This is a fast process because there's no lookup time. Then focus on the remaining words that you still don't know by marking those in the text, for example. Because of the literal interlinear text this is the fastest method to learn to read Dutch. When finished with this book, find our other Bermuda Word Learn Dutch books with interlinear Dutch to English translation!The HypLern method entails that you re-read the text until you know the high frequency words just by reading, and then mark and learn the low frequency words in your reader or practice them with our brilliant App.


Everything Is Mama

Everything Is Mama

Author: Jimmy Fallon

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1250193141

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#1 New York Times Bestseller! Jimmy Fallon, one of the most popular entertainers in the world and NBC's Tonight Show host, was on a mission with his first children's book to have every baby's first word be DADA. And it worked! A lot of babies' first words were DADA. However, everything after that was MAMA. Everything is . . . MAMA! So take a lighthearted look at the world from your baby's point of view as different animals try to teach their children that there are other words in addition to MAMA for familiar objects and activities.


Brimful of Asia

Brimful of Asia

Author: Rehan Hyder

Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780754606772

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During the 1990s, Asian pop artists began entering the mainstream of the British music industry for the first time. Bands such as Black Star Liner, Cornershop, Fun Da Mental and Voodoo Queens led those within and without the industry to start asking questions such as what did it mean to be Asian? How did the bands' Asian background affect their music? What did their music say about Asians in Britain? In this book, Rehan Hyder draws on in-depth interviews with musicians from these bands and with critics and record producers to examine the pressures associated with making music as a young Asian in today's multi-ethnic Britain.As the book reveals, these musicians wish to convey an authentic sense of creativity in their music while at the same time wanting to assert a positive ethnic identity. Hyder explores these two impulses against the backdrop of a music industry and a society at large that hold a range of confining stereotypes about what it means to be Asian. The experiences of these bands add considerably to the wider debate about the nature of identity in the contemporary world.