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Tap Dancing on the Roof

2007-10-15 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2007-10-15
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 128/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Tap Dancing on the Roof by : Linda Sue Park

Download or read book Tap Dancing on the Roof written by Linda Sue Park. This book was released on 2007-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sijo, a traditional Korean verse form, has a fixed number of stressed syllables and a humorous or ironic twist at the end. Like haiku, sijo are brief and accessible, and the witty last line winds up each poem with a surprise. The verses in this book illuminate funny, unexpected, amazing aspects of the everyday--of breakfast, thunder and lightning, houseplants, tennis, freshly laundered socks. Carefully crafted and deceptively simple, Linda Sue Park's sijo are a pleasure to read and an irresistible invitation to experiment with an unfamiliar poetic form. Istvan Banyai's irrepressibly giddy and sophisticated illustrations add a one-of-a-kind luster to a book that is truly a gem.

Dancing on the Edge of the Roof

2005 Fiction
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Release : 2005
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 74X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dancing on the Edge of the Roof by : Sheila Williams

Download or read book Dancing on the Edge of the Roof written by Sheila Williams. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a life of crime and poverty in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, forty-two-year-old Juanita Lewis, craving a simpler life, drops everything, including her three grown, deadbeat children, to move to Montana. Reprint.

Dancing on My Roof

2001-01-01
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Release : 2001-01-01
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Book Rating : 204/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dancing on My Roof by : Shirley Goulden

Download or read book Dancing on My Roof written by Shirley Goulden. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dancing in the Mosque

2020-12-01 Family & Relationships
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Release : 2020-12-01
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 33X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dancing in the Mosque by : Homeira Qaderi

Download or read book Dancing in the Mosque written by Homeira Qaderi. This book was released on 2020-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People Book of the Week & a Kirkus Best Nonfiction of the Year An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed soldier to point his gun at the pregnant woman’s bulging stomach, terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Frightened and in pain, she was once forced to make her way on foot. Propelled by the love she held for her soon-to-be-born child, Homeira walked through blood and wreckage to reach the hospital doors. But the joy of her beautiful son’s birth was soon overshadowed by other dangers that would threaten her life. No ordinary Afghan woman, Homeira refused to cower under the strictures of a misogynistic social order. Defying the law, she risked her freedom to teach children reading and writing and fought for women’s rights in her theocratic and patriarchal society. Devastating in its power, Dancing in the Mosque is a mother’s searing letter to a son she was forced to leave behind. In telling her story—and that of Afghan women—Homeira challenges you to reconsider the meaning of motherhood, sacrifice, and survival. Her story asks you to consider the lengths you would go to protect yourself, your family, and your dignity.

Dancing in Odessa

2014-01-28 Poetry
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Release : 2014-01-28
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 313/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dancing in Odessa by : Ilya Kaminsky

Download or read book Dancing in Odessa written by Ilya Kaminsky. This book was released on 2014-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the prestigious Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, selected by poet and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Eleanor Wilner who says, "I'm so happy to have a manuscript that I believe in so powerfully, poetry with such a deep music. I love it." One might spend a lifetime reading books by emerging poets without finding the real thing, the writer who (to paraphrase Emily Dickinson) can take the top of your head off. Kaminsky is the real thing. Impossibly young, this Russian immigrant makes the English language sing with the sheer force of his music, a wondrous irony, as Ilya Kaminsky has been deaf since the age of four. In Odessa itself, "A city famous for its drunk tailors, huge gravestones of rabbis, horse owners and horse thieves, and most of all, for its stuffed and baked fish," Kaminksy dances with the strangest — and the most recognizable — of our bedfellows in a distinctive and utterly brilliant language, a language so particular and deft that it transcends all of our expectations, and is by turns luminous and universal.

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