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Author: James Riordan
Publisher: Hutchinson Radius
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of traditional tales from around the world each of whose main character is female.
Author: Daniel R. Altschuler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019-07-04
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0198844417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf the 1586 lunar craters that have been named to honour scientists and philosophers, only 28 honor a woman. Who were these women? What has happened to make women
Author: Leah Scragg
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2011-10-15
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780719072451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHis last known work and the only one to be written primarily in verse, The Woman in the Moon is among Lyly’s most entertaining plays. Turning upon the construction of the female character, it has been read as highly misogynistic, and as a sixteenth-century feminist manifesto. The biblical version of the creation of woman is overturned in the first scene when the play’s supreme deity, Nature, presents her ultimate creation, Pandora (memorably played in 1928 by Katharine Hepburn), to a group of Utopian shepherds, who compete for her love. Their amatory pursuit is complicated by the seven planets, whose attributes have been bestowed by Nature on her new creation, and who decide to take revenge by subjecting Pandora to their influence. The action rapidly develops into a dazzling comedy of intrigue, resulting in both an explanation for the female disposition and the creation of an "alternative" version of the myth of the man in the moon. Newly edited from the first edition (1597), The Woman in the Moon will be of interest to all students of sixteenth-century drama. It is complemented by generous notes and commentary, as well as a full introduction and stage history.
Author: Terry Goodkind
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-03-13
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 1510736425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his newest heart-pounding suspense novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind introduces the world to his most unforgettable and deadly character yet. Angela Constantine is a girl born broken. When Angela was young, before she came to realize she had a rare ability, she was a rather ordinary girl. At least, that was what everyone said. But Angela is anything but ordinary. The daughter of a meth addict, she is convinced she was born a freak. Haunted by an abusive childhood, she was forced to become a woman far too soon. And in the process, she became more. Angela Constantine has a secret life. Angela juggles multiple jobs to live a secluded life in a cabin in the mountains. But she also lives a secret life, right under everyone’s noses. Because her family’s bloodline carries the ability to recognize killers, she adopts a solitary, violent existence in service of her own, personal mission in life. When Angela unexpectedly finds herself the prey of a group of international terrorists, she is the only one who knows the truth of what they are about to do. She might look like an unlikely hero. She might also be our only hope. Angela Constantine is . . .The Girl in the Moon.
Author: Jama Kim Rattigan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13: 0316049816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarisa gets to help make dumplings this year to celebrate the New Year. But she worries if anyone will eat her funny-looking dumplings. Set in the Hawaiian islands, this story celebrates the joyful mix of food, customs, and languages from many cultures.
Author: Mark Lawrence
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2022-04-26
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1984806068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the third exhilarating novel in this dazzling epic fantasy series, a young outcast will fight against staggering odds to save her world. On the planet Abeth, a narrow Corridor of green land is surrounded on all sides by ice plains where only the strong survive. Ice triber Yaz has completed a perilous journey and arrived at the Corridor, and it exceeds and overwhelms all of her expectations. Everything seems different but some constants remain: her old enemies are still two steps ahead, bent on her destruction. She makes her way to the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where nuns train young girls who show the old gifts, but like the Corridor itself the convent is packed with peril and opportunity. Yaz has much to learn from the nuns—if they don’t decide to execute her. The fate of everyone squeezed between the Corridor’s vast walls, and ultimately the fate of those laboring to survive out on ice itself, hangs from the moon, and the battle to save the moon centers on the Ark of the Missing, buried beneath the emperor’s palace. Everyone wants Yaz to be the key that will open the Ark – the one the wise have sought for generations. But sometimes wanting isn’t enough.
Author: Elizabeth Berg
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2010-03-23
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0345515420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“This is not a novel about a woman leaving home but rather about a human being finding her way back.”—Chicago Tribune In the middle of her life, Nan decides to leave her husband at home and begin an impromptu trek across the country, carrying with her a turquoise leather journal she intends to fill. The Pull of the Moon is a novel about a woman coming to terms with issues of importance to all women. In her journal, Nan addresses the thorniness—and the allure—of marriage, the sweet ties to children, and the gifts and lessons that come from random encounters with strangers, including a handsome man appearing out of the woods and a lonely housewife sitting on her front porch steps. Most of all, Nan writes about the need for the self to stay alive. In this luminous and exquisitely written novel, Elizabeth Berg shows how sometimes you have to leave your life behind in order to find it. the pull of the moon BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Elizabeth Berg's Once Upon a Time, There Was You. Praise for The Pull of the Moon “Breathtaking . . . [Berg] writes with wry wit and aching lyricism, painting her characters as vividly as anyone writing today.”—The Charlotte Observer “When was the last time you thought about running away? . . . In The Pull of the Moon, Berg shares her strength, the wonderful widening of her soul so that we, too, can take the journey in the ease of our chair.”—Greensboro News & Record “Berg’s gift as a storyteller lies most powerfully in her ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, the remarkable in the everyday.”—The Boston Globe “Reading The Pull of the Moon is like sitting down for a long, satisfying chat with a best girlfriend. . . . [It] pleasantly encourages readers to recover a little life-embracing enthusiasm themselves.”—Orlando Sentinel
Author: Amy Tan
Publisher:
Published: 1992-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780241132791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNai-nai tells her granddaughters the story of her outing, as a seven-year-old girl in China, to see the Moon Lady and be granted a secret wish. Suggested level: primary.
Author: Mary Alice Peaty
Publisher: Mary Alice Peaty
Published: 2008-11-04
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 0557022258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Girl Who Lived on the Moon" is the first book in the children's series themed around two young girls - one from earth, Emily, and one from the moon, Beam who meet, become friends, and share adventures throughout the universe with each other. The first book features both girls focusing on Beam. The original premise for the first book was told to Mary Alice by her father as a bedtime story. These are sweet, old fashioned stories that encourage children's imagination, caring about others, and curiosity about the world and how it works! The website, www.beamandemily.com, supports the books and the three tenants Mary Alice has always believed in Read - Learn - Play. This is a wonderful book to read to your child as well as to let them read to you! Mary Alice's extensive travel throughout our world, as well as that of some of her readers, will be featured in the future adventures of Beam & Emily. Enjoy!
Author: Marge Piercy
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2013-08-07
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 0307761347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHer seventh and most wide ranging collection. In the 1st of 2 sections, the poems move from the amusingly elegiac to the erotic, the classical to the funny. The 2nd section is a series of 15 poems for a calendar based on lunar rather than solar divisions
