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Calpurnia S Woods
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Author : Mary Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Coal Under Pressure
Release Date : 2008-09
Calpurnia S Woods written by Mary Kelly and has been published by Coal Under Pressure this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with categories.
The Evolution Of Calpurnia Tate
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Author : Jacqueline Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Release Date : 2009-05-12
The Evolution Of Calpurnia Tate written by Jacqueline Kelly and has been published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-12 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In this witty historical fiction middle grade novel set at the turn of the century, an 11-year-old girl explores the natural world, learns about science and animals, and grows up. A Newbery Honor Book. “The most delightful historical novel for tweens in many, many years. . . . Callie's struggles to find a place in the world where she'll be encouraged in the gawky joys of intellectual curiosity are fresh, funny, and poignant today.” —The New Yorker Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger. As Callie explores the natural world around her, she develops a close relationship with her grandfather, navigates the dangers of living with six brothers, and comes up against just what it means to be a girl at the turn of the century. Author Jacqueline Kelly deftly brings Callie and her family to life, capturing a year of growing up with unique sensitivity and a wry wit. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly was a 2010 Newbery Honor Book and the winner of the 2010 Bank Street - Josette Frank Award. This title has Common Core connections. This is perfect for young readers who like historical fiction, STEM topics, animal stories, and feminist middle grade novels. Don't miss the sequel! The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate To follow Calpurnia Tate on more adventures, read the Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet chapter book series: Skunked! Counting Sheep Who Gives a Hoot? A Prickly Problem
Calpurnia
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Author : Audrey Dwyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Calpurnia written by Audrey Dwyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Canadian drama categories.
The Curious World Of Calpurnia Tate
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Author : Jacqueline Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2015-07-07
The Curious World Of Calpurnia Tate written by Jacqueline Kelly and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Whether wrangling a rogue armadillo or stray dog, a guileless younger brother or standoffish cousin, Callie Vee and her escapades will have readers laughing and crying in this return to Fentress, Texas. Travis keeps bringing home strays. And Callie has her hands full keeping the animals—her brother included—away from her mother's critical eye. Will she succeed? This title has Common Core connections.
Calpurnia S Woods A Spell For Santa
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Author : Mary Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Coal Under Pressure
Release Date : 2008
Calpurnia S Woods A Spell For Santa written by Mary Kelly and has been published by Coal Under Pressure this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Letters From Calpurnia Pliny S Wife A D 111 113
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Author : Judith Harrington
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris
Release Date : 2006-12
Letters From Calpurnia Pliny S Wife A D 111 113 written by Judith Harrington and has been published by Xlibris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12 with Fiction categories.
During a Fulbright year (1993-94) in Turkey, I discovered these letters while working in the library of the Christian shrine, Meryamana Evi, located in the mountains above the ruins of Ephesus. Written in Latin and Greek on vellum and papyrus, they were apparently composed by a Roman matron named Calpurnia to her husband, Gaius Plinius, whom she also addresses as Caecilius and Lucius. According to tradition, the shrine of Meryamana Evi is the ancient heart of the Johannine Community whose members composed the Gospel of St. John; it is recognized by Roman Catholics as the location of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven. I found the manuscript among a jumble of archaeological documents, votives left by cured pilgrims, and religious relics donated for decades by Christian and Muslim visitors from all over the world. I traced the manuscript to an ancient papyrus dump discovered by Grenfel and Hunt in the 1890's near 'Behneseh' at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, 300 kilometers south of Alexandria. During the last decade, I have been trying to authenticate my discovery. My attempts were complicated by tragic circumstances of the 1999 earthquake in northwestern Turkey that resulted in the disappearance of the original manuscript; to protect it, I have copyrighted my translation under the title Letters from Calpurnia, Pliny's Wife. This collection, with the letters organized into eight books and an epilogue, is as sequential as I have been able to determine. The selected, annotated bibliography reflects sources I have used in my research. Links to the bibliographic sources may be found on the website indicated in the bibliography. I am currently compiling additional letters for a second volume, with commentary by my friend and colleague, Dr. Arthur Saunier. Apparently, Calpurnia wrote most of the letters* I include here to her husband Pliny the Younger, from Ephesus between 111-113 A.D. while he was Emperor Trajan's legatus in Bithynia, a Roman province in what is now northwestern Turkey. It was from there that Pliny wrote his famous letter to Trajan about the behavior and fate of local Christians. Having studied the letters of Calpurnia side by side with her husband's published letters, I now read Pliny's epistle to Trajan as a frantic plea, couched in legitimate Roman terms, for the safety of innocent members of the new Christian cult, which included his wife. In her letters, Calpurnia tells Gaius about her fascination with this new religious cult, whose god she feels holds the best hope of curing the infertility she has suffered since a miscarriage during the first year of their marriage. It appears that Gaius, in an effort to distract Calpurnia from this risky mission and to keep her mind occupied, asks his wife to send him mundane information like recipes and remedies (which I would caution against trying), notations and lyrics for the music she composes on the kithyra, and her opinions about Roman religion and politics. Gaius also arranges to send her manuscripts from the extensive library of his Uncle Pliny the Elder, together with those he discovers in a network of libraries during his travels throughout the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, telling her to translate parts of them from the original into either Latin or Greek. Calpurnia obediently sends Gaius her translated summaries of bits and pieces of works as diverse as Asclepius's Treatice on Dreams and Soranus's Gynecology. She explains her midwife experience with Soranus, whom she has met at Ephesus, and describes the snake treatment she takes for her infertility at the Asclepion center of healing at Pergamum. Included in her letters are prescriptions for anthrax and other diseases. She also expresses anxiety about the behavior of her young artist protégé, the genius Stephanos (whose artist ancestor, Stephanus, is mentioned in Book XXXVI of Pliny the Elder's Natural History), and worries about what to do with the blood-stained Shrou
Calpurnia
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Author : Anne Scott
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2003
Calpurnia written by Anne Scott and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Fiction categories.
An elegant debut novel about a once grand Philadelphia mansion called Calpurnia; its owner, a painter and pa- trician matriarch who has recently died under mysterious circumstances; and the woman over-seeing the disposal of the estate, who unravels the secrets and intrigues hidden away in the hundred-year-old house. Elizabeth Oliver arrives at Calpurnia to manage the sale but soon finds herself piecing together the mysterious life of Maribel Archibald Davies and her heirs: the prodigal, tennis-playing heir apparent; the fashionable niece, designated as the estate's executor; the loyal neighbor and keeper of the Maribel Davies flame; Davies's heartbroken longtime lover; and the famous portraitist with whom Davies had an affair-become-scandal. Each of them makes one last visit to Calpurnia, and with each arrival, Elizabeth is drawn further into the family's intrigues and mysteries, and closer to a revelation of its secrets. Combining a contemporary sensibility with a rich, timeless gift for storytelling, Anne Scott has given us a classic, uniquely imagined tale of suspense.
Calpurnia
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Author : Jacqueline Kelly
language : fr
Publisher: Ecole des Loisirs
Release Date : 2015-07-30T00:00:00+02:00
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Calpurnia Tate a onze ans. Dans la chaleur de l’été, elle s’interroge sur le comportement des animaux autour d’elle. Elle étudie les sauterelles, les lucioles, les fourmis, les opossums. Aidée de son grand-père, un naturaliste fantasque et imprévisible, elle note dans son carnet d’observation tout ce qu’elle voit et se pose mille questions. Pourquoi, par exemple, les chiens ont-ils des sourcils ? Comment se fait-il que les grandes sauterelles soient jaunes, et les petites, vertes ? Et à quoi sert une bibliothèque si on n’y prête pas de livres ? On est dans le comté de Caldwell, au Texas, en 1899. Tout en développant son esprit scientifique, Calpurnia partage avec son grand-père les enthousiasmes et les doutes quant à ses découvertes, elle affirme sa personnalité au milieu de ses six frères et se confronte aux difficultés d’être une jeune fille à l’aube du XXe siècle. Apprendre la cuisine, la couture et les bonnes manières, comme il se doit, ou se laisser porter par sa curiosité insatiable ? Et si la science pouvait ouvrir un chemin vers la liberté ? Ce livre a reçu le prix Sorcières 2014 dans la catégorie Romans ados.
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Calpurnia
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Author : Laura Cremonini
language : it
Publisher: Self-Publish
Release Date : 2020-01-05
Calpurnia written by Laura Cremonini and has been published by Self-Publish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Una delle epoche più straordinarie e meravigliose della storia fu certamente quella dell'Impero Romano. Roma, fatta padrona del mondo, era divenuta il ricetto delle ricchezze più abbaglianti, delle pompe più fastose dei più prodigiosi ardimenti. Lo straniero, che metteva per la prima volta il piede fra le sue mura, rimaneva attonito alla vista di tanti monumenti sublimi, e non meno sbalordito dalla immensità della popolazione, che da ogni parte dei vasti domini affluiva in seno alla superba dominatrice. Roma era il centro comune, al quale metteva capo tutto quanto di splendido e di grandioso emergeva sopra la terra. Le arti della Grecia si erano trapiantate nel Lazio, erano divenute latine, mentre una poesia tutta locale, tutta piena della vita romana vi sorgeva interprete di gloria insieme e di voluttà. Le più lontane e disparate regioni mandavano alla capitale l'inesausto tributo dei loro prodotti. Frutti deliziosi e non mai veduti, pesci prelibati, vini squisiti, anfore e tappeti per le mense, fiere per il circo, marmi preziosi per le terme e per i templi, gemme per gli ornamenti delle matrone, tutto traboccava in seno alla città colossale. In mezzo a tanta inaudita ricchezza, a tanta incontrastata potenza, abbondavano smisurate ambizioni, indomite ingordigie, libertinaggio sfrenato. Tutte quante le passioni più ardenti vi acquistavano un impeto così fiero, una gagliardia così portentosa, da far quasi credere a un mostruoso cambiamento dell'umana natura. Infine, una gigantesca corruttela, tutto invadendo e trascinando, disperdeva gli ultimi resti delle antiche virtù latine, e traeva a rovina Roma e l'Impero: così la regina del mondo diveniva la schiava di genti barbare e spregiate. Le vicende dell'Impero Romano presentano dunque lo spettacolo della maggiore e più terribile caduta di cui si abbia memoria. Nessuna elevazione più ardita, nessun tracollo più rovinoso si trovano registrati negli annali dell'umanità. E quindi si può considerare codesta come la lezione più efficace ed eloquente che presenti la storia maestra della vita. E siccome avviene sovente che la donna, tanto nel vizio come nella virtù, eccede quei termini, ai quali sogliono limitarsi le azioni dell'uomo, così nei fasti dell'Impero si scorge che le donne, e specialmente quelle che soverchiavano tutte le altre nella potenza passarono innanzi agli uomini nel correre l'arringo delle più sbrigliate passioni. Ond'è che la storia di queste donne, mentre ci porge l'immagine di quel maggior grado di concitazione, al quale siano mai giunte le passioni umane, presenta nello stesso tempo la scena più viva e parlante dell'Impero Romano. Nessun'altra storia ci offre un viluppo più mirabile, una successione più rapida di avvenimenti, e caratteri così singolari, e azioni così straordinarie, e tanti tragici e comici casi insieme variamente intrecciati.