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Author: Tedd Arnold
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780590109949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the words and music--and varying forms of the name--of a classic camp song that dates at least from the 1940s.
Author: Jordan Salama
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2022-11-15
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1646221613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk, and how a country recovers from conflict. "Richly observed." —Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel García Márquez’s territory—rumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompox—as much as that of the Middle Eastern immigrants who run fabric stores by its banks. Following the river from its source high in the Andes to its mouth on the Caribbean coast, journeying by boat, bus, and improvised motobalinera, Salama writes against stereotype and toward the rich lives of those he meets. Among them are a canoe builder, biologists who study invasive hippopotamuses, a Queens transplant managing a failing hotel, a jeweler practicing the art of silver filigree, and a traveling librarian whose donkeys, Alfa and Beto, haul books to rural children. Joy, mourning, and humor come together in this astonishing debut, about a country too often seen as only a site of war, and a tale of lively adventure following a legendary river.
Author: Davina Louise Adina
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2018-11-17
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1982215682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMagdalena, the daughter of a Moor and a Welsh woman, has grown up protected by her maternal grandparents after her mother dies. The story chronicles her journey after a jealous aunt sells her into a brothel. It is a time where women are not yet seen as equals and thus as she journeys, she tries to live to survive the best she can. We follow Magdalena from her home to a brothel where tragedy strikes. From this place she is catapulted onto a rocky road of true love, despair, faith and hope to an understanding and acceptance of life as it has meaning for her. Along the way she discovers a new strength within her, she is able to tenaciously hold on to all that is true within herself and in so doing discovers her destiny, a surprising one as she is determined to live according to her highest beliefs. A story of the resilience of the human spirit and the true meaning of love.
Author: Magdalena M. Newman
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1328631834
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Praised by RJ Palacio as "wondrous"--this moving memoir follows a teenage boy with TC syndrome and his exceptional family from diagnosis at birth to now. "This touching memoir is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about the real world experiences of a child with craniofacial differences and his extraordinary family. It's also more than that. It's a story about the love between a mother and a son, a child and his family, and the breadth of friends, helpers, and doctors that step in when the unexpected happens. It's a story that will make young readers reevaluate the word "normal" -- not only as it applies to others, but to themselves. Any book that can do that is pretty wondrous, as far as I'm concerned." --R. J. Palacio, author of Wonder"--
Author: Magdalena Yesil
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2017-10-31
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 158005692X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith empowering insights to help women navigate the narrowest corridors of sexism, tech-industry pioneer Magdalena Yesil shares on-the-ground career advice that is as powerful as any MBA Pioneering Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Magdalena Yesil came to the United States in 1976 with two suitcases and $43, blind to the challenges she would face as a woman and immigrant in Silicon Valley. Today, she is best known as the first investor and a founding board member of Salesforce, the now-multibillion dollar company that ushered in the era of cloud-based computing. In Power Up: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy, Yesil urges women to look beyond the alarming gender statistics of the workplace and feel confident entering tech or any field-but also to be prepared to deal with the challenges. She shares what she experienced as a woman in Silicon Valley with surprising candor and heart, relying not just on her insight but that of more than a dozen top women entrepreneurs to offer pragmatic takeaways on topics such as: · Owning career choices while managing risk · Getting credit for your work · Managing sexual dynamics · Recruiting allies in the movement toward a supportive workplace for everyone Pragmatic, incisive, and full of highly actionable advice, Yesil prepares ambitious women to break glass ceilings and rise to the top in the New Silicon Valley -- and beyond.
Author: Carlos Magdalena
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2018-04-10
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 038554362X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarlos Magdalena is a man on a mission: to save the world’s most endangered plants. In The Plant Messiah, Magdalena takes readers from the forests of Peru to deep within the Australian outback in search of the rare and the vulnerable. Back in the lab—at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, home of the largest botanical collection in the world—we watch as he develops groundbreaking, left-field techniques for rescuing species from extinction, encouraging them to propagate and thrive once again. Passionate and absorbing, The Plant Messiah is a tribute to the diversity of life on our planet, and to the importance of preserving it.
Author: Seth Schermerhorn
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2019-04-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1496213912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Walking to Magdalena, Seth Schermerhorn explores a question that is central to the interface of religious studies and Native American and indigenous studies: What have Native peoples made of Christianity? By focusing on the annual pilgrimage of the Tohono O’odham to Magdalena in Sonora, Mexico, Schermerhorn examines how these indigenous people of southern Arizona have made Christianity their own. This walk serves as the entry point for larger questions about what the Tohono O’odham have made of Christianity. With scholarly rigor and passionate empathy, Schermerhorn offers a deep understanding of Tohono O’odham Christian traditions as practiced in everyday life and in the words of the O’odham themselves. The author’s rich ethnographic description and analyses are also drawn from his experiences accompanying a group of O’odham walkers on their pilgrimage to Saint Francis in Magdalena. For many years scholars have agreed that the journey to Magdalena is the largest and most significant event in the annual cycle of Tohono O’odham Christianity. Never before, however, has it been the subject of sustained scholarly inquiry. Walking to Magdalena offers insight into religious life and expressive culture, relying on extensive field study, videotaped and transcribed oral histories of the O’odham, and archival research. The book illuminates indigenous theories of personhood and place in the everyday life, narratives, songs, and material culture of the Tohono O’odham.
Author: Gabriella Bianco
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2010-12-27
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1456816969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcert for Magdalena (novel): Mozart and Magdalena (screenplay). With Mozart’s brilliant music career and performances in the background, ( 1789 – 1791) the story deals with the passionate love between W.A.MOZART (35) and MAGDALENA POKORNY (25), which ends in a tragedy, causing MOZART’S death. FRANZ HOFDEMEL (35), MAGDALENA’S husband, attacks and kills MOZART, takes his own life and leaves MAGDALENA horribly disfigured. MAGDALENA gives birth to MOZART’S child in 1792 and the child dies in 1804.
Author: John D. Messer
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0595171680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a true story of a woman born in Mexico to a middle class family. Married at the age of sixteen, she was abandoned at twenty-eight after giving birth to four children Accepting a low-level job in the Social Security Hospital in Mexico City she met, and fell in love with what she thought would be her prince charming. After impregnating her he too abandoned her. Hoping to find her way to the United States and a better life. She went to the border town of Tijuana Mexico. There she fell in with a woman called Carmella. Carmella made her living trafficking in illegal border crossings. In search of a better life Maria Magdalena traveled to the great San Joaquin Valley. The long hot days working in the cotton fields did little to improve her opportunities. The twist and turns she took as she learned to live in the sub-culture of the non-documented worker is truly fascinating. You will thrill as you read of her courage and indomitable spirit. Here you will discover the REAL power of a mother’s love. This story is for everyone that loves and appreciates the sacrifices of motherhood.
Author: Alicia Steimberg
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780803292826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe granddaughter of Russian Jews who emigrated to Argentina, and the daughter of parents indifferent to Judaism who embrace Argentine society, a young Argentine woman is in a cultural limbo, caught between one world she cannot forget and another she wants to embrace in this 1992 Planeta Prize-winning novel.
