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Kasia S Story
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Author : Ken Parejko
language : en
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Release Date : 2023-11-25
Kasia S Story written by Ken Parejko and has been published by Booklocker.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-25 with categories.
Future historians will surely look back at our times as interesting and dangerous. So it was during Europe's Reformation, when a curious and courageous old widow brings Poland's Queen Bona Sforza to a moral tipping point.
Kasia S Surprise
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Author : Stella Gurney
language : en
Publisher: Walker Stories
Release Date : 2010
Kasia S Surprise written by Stella Gurney and has been published by Walker Stories this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Children's stories categories.
A heartwarming story about a feisty young Polish girl determined to be unhappy in her new life in England - but who finds herself settling in despite herself.Kasia wishes that she and her mum hadn't moved to the UK - she misses Poland and all her old friends, and most of all she misses her grandparents. As the long school holidays stretch out in front of her, Kasia wonders how she'll fill them: her mum has promised to take her out for some day trips, but the rest of the time she'll be at work. Then Babcia and Dzadek arrive for a surprise visit, and Kasia is delighted! As she proudly shows her grandparents round her new town, Kasia realizes that maybe she's happier here than she thought.
Kasia S Story
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Author : Ken Parejko
language : en
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
Release Date : 2023-11-25
Kasia S Story written by Ken Parejko and has been published by BookLocker.com, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-25 with Fiction categories.
After the death of her husband, Katarzyna Weiglowa (Kasia) begins to find her own way in the world. She and Melchior, a bookish couple more interested in big ideas than new furniture, had taken their first steps toward answering the question of whether the God in the Church was the same God they found in their hearts. No longer in need of their big house in Krakow, Kasia accepts an offer from Mosche Fiszel, an old friend and customer of her husband’s, to move among his Jewish neighbors in Kazimierz. The adventure of living as a Christian in a Jewish community and exploring Mosche’s brand of spirituality helps to fill an emptiness in her heart. On a trip to Silesia to visit Melchior’s dying brother, she and her son Andrzej cross paths with religious reformers. Kasia joins a community who question their faith by attending salons held by free thinkers from Krakow’s University. She is shaken deeply when she learns that some of the reformers she has met have been executed for their beliefs. But her letters to them, asking deep questions about her faith, have been intercepted by the Church. She is tried for suspicion of heresy. While in prison and after much soul-searching she recants her apostasy and is released with the warning that the next time it will not go so easily for her. Almost a decade later as the Polish legislature debates the question of what to do with the Jews, who are competing with Christian merchants and it is said proselytizing their religion, Kasia becomes the first woman invited to address the Polish Sejm. When she throws Christ’s words at them, reminding them that the true Christian loves his or her neighbor, she becomes persona non gratis to the conservatives, is re-arrested, tried again and sentenced to burn as an unrepentant heretic. Meanwhile, in parallel chapters, Poland’s new queen Bona Sforza struggles to adapt to the Polish climate and culture. Her relationship as a child with Leonardo daVinci, come to Milan to paint his Last Supper, remains a touchstone of her life. Married to the much-older King Zygmunt, Bona struggles to protect herself, her inheritance, and her children by building her own power base at Wawel Castle. At her husband’s request she begins a correspondence with the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman’s wife Roxelana, a Polish woman captured in a slave raid. To strengthen her political base against her husband’s she establishes a surreptitious line of communication with Istanbul, a dangerous and potentially treasonous act. Kasia’s and the Queen’s stories intersect when Kasia’s fate falls into the Queen’s hands. After a miscarriage throws her into her own religious doubts, will she follow her conscience and have Kasia released, or will she give in to political expediency and hand the old woman over to the Church?
Unbound
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Author : Kasia Urbaniak
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Unbound written by Kasia Urbaniak and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Self-Help categories.
Stop being a servant of the life you’re living and become a creator of the world you want. Electrifying lessons in power, influence and persuasion to equalise women in an unequal world. Why do so many women feel they're too much yet not enough? How can you feel ‘good and mad’ yet reluctant to speak up in a meeting or difficult conversation? What causes women to freeze at critical moments? Kasia Urbaniak spent 17 years studying to become a Taoist nun. To foot the bill for her studies, she worked as a high-paid (and extremely successful) dominatrix in dungeons around New York City. What she learned in these two wildly different settings has turned into her life’s work. UNBOUND brings Urbaniak’s unique teachings for women on speaking power, persuading others and navigating conflict to a mainstream audience for the first time. Part polemic, part practical, it opens women’s eyes to why they frequently find it so difficult – personally, professionally and socially – to raise their voices, why they freeze in challenging circumstances and what they can do to change this. Too often women find themselves in the role of ‘sub’ when they need to be more ‘dom’ – in short they are paralysed by their Good Girl Syndrome and a deep-seated need to please everyone and anyone except themselves. UNBOUND offers precise, practical instruction in how to stand in your power, find your voice and use it well. Part manual, part manifesto, it will help you cut through layers of self-censoring and self-doubt to go after what you truly want, and live your wildest, best and most satisfying life.
Geranium
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Author : Kasia Boddy
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2013-02-15
Geranium written by Kasia Boddy and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with Nature categories.
They are sometimes called storksbills and originated in South Africa. They may be star-shaped or funnel-shaped, and they range in color from white, pink, and orange-red to fuchsia and deep purple. The geranium and its many species, much loved and also much loathed, have developed since the seventeenth century into one of the most popular garden plants. In this book, Kasia Boddy tells the story of geranium’s seemingly inexorable rise, unearthing the role it has played in everything from plant-hunting and commercial cultivation to alternative medicine, the philanthropic imagination, and changing styles in horticultural fashion. Boddy shows how geraniums became the latest fad for wealthy collectors and enterprising nurserymen after they were first collected by Dutch plant-hunters on the sandy flats near present-day Cape Town. She explains that the flower would not be rare for long—scarlet hybrids were soon found on every cottage windowsill and in every park bedding display, and the backlash against the innocent plant followed quickly on the heels of its ubiquity. Today, geraniums can be found throughout the world, grown as annuals in the regions too cold for them to regenerate. In addition to exploring the history of geraniums, Boddy reveals the plant’s other uses, including how they are cultivated and distilled for their scents of citrus, mint, pine, rose, and various spices to use in perfumes. With their edible leaves, they are also used to flavor desserts, cakes, jellies, and teas, and some people believe that certain species provide an effective treatment for a cough. Featuring over one hundred illustrations, Geranium shows how the plant is portrayed in painting, literature, film, and popular culture, and provides an intriguing example of the global industrialization of plant production.
Emusoi
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Author : Kasia Parham
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan _
Release Date : 2009-09-30
Emusoi written by Kasia Parham and has been published by Macmillan _ this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Emusoi follows the stories of six very determined Maasai girls who, with the help of the Emusoi Centre, struggle against the traditions of their families and communities in order to get an education. The Emusoi stories are also a testament to the vision, courage and determination of this group of exceptional young women. Each one realized the importance of going to school not only for herself, but for the future survival of her family and community. Coming from a culture where formal education of females was perceived as a threat, the Emusoi girls had to fight for their schooling. Even when their struggle led to division and heartbreak within families and communities, they refused to give up. On a deeper level, the book offers a unique insight into the dilemma facing the Maasai today: the tension between tradition and progress, between preserving the past and adapting for the future. The Maasai are an endangered people. If they do not adapt to the modern world, their culture will die. Adapt too far, and their culture will die anyway. The Emusoi girls are at the very center of the dilemma. They are torn between their conviction that the survival of their people depends on them going to school and their deep loyalty to a culture that does not traditionally have formal education. Emusoi follows on from the success of Dogodogo: Tanzanian street children tell their stories, with a Foreword by Cherie Blair (9780230722125). The excellent work of these sister projects has long been recognized by prominent individuals, companies, organizations and embassies from around the world, with (then) President George W. Bush and Mrs Laura Bush choosing to visit the Emusoi Centre while on tour in Tanzania in 2008.
American Short Story Since 1950
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Author : Kasia Boddy
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-31
American Short Story Since 1950 written by Kasia Boddy and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
The American Short Story since 1950 offers a reappraisal and contextualisation of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period in its history. It offers new readings of important stories by key writers including Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore and Grace Paley. These readings are related throughout to the various contexts in which stories are written and published, including creative writing schools, story-writing handbooks, mass market and 'little' magazines.
Lilac Girls
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Author : Martha Hall Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2016-04-05
Lilac Girls written by Martha Hall Kelly and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-05 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One million copies sold! Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances. “Extremely moving and memorable . . . This impressive debut should appeal strongly to historical fiction readers and to book clubs that adored Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See.”—Library Journal (starred review) New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents—from New York to Paris, Germany, and Poland—as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten. USA Today “New and Noteworthy” Book • LibraryReads Top Ten Pick
Blooming Flowers
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Author : Kasia Boddy
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Blooming Flowers written by Kasia Boddy and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with Nature categories.
An evocative and richly illustrated exploration of flowers and how, over the centuries, they have given us so much sustenance, meaning, and pleasureThe bright yellow of a marigold and the cheerful red of a geranium, the evocative fragrance of a lotus or a saffron-infused paella—there is no end of reasons to love flowers. Ranging through the centuries and across the globe, Kasia Boddy looks at the wealth of floral associations that has been passed down in perfumes, poems, and paintings; in the design of buildings, clothes, and jewelry; in songs, TV shows, and children’s names; and in nearly every religious, social, and political ritual.Exploring the first daffodils of spring and the last chrysanthemums of autumn, this is also a book about seasons. In vibrant detail and drawing on a rich array of illustrations, Boddy considers how the sunflower, poppy, rose, lily—and many others—have given rise to meaning, value, and inspiration throughout history, and why they are integral to so many different cultures.
The Story Of Jesus
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Author : G. L. Rallins
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2020-07-28
The Story Of Jesus written by G. L. Rallins and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with Religion categories.
My book ' The Story of Jesus, The Gnostic View, ' is different from most books about Jesus, in that it goes into his mother's birth and the choosing of her to be Jesus' mother. It also shows Jesus' birth and the real truth as to why he was born in a stable, within a cave, as to what his infancy and childhood was like. He had to learn to handle his powers which was not an easy undertaking!! It then goes into his adolescent years and the burdens of it entailed. His Young manhood presented a problem also as well as his responsibilities to his family and community. Following that is his Ministry which takes place at an alarming rate!! Many of his disciples were chosen way before his Ministry began. My book then goes into ' The Last Supper,' and the Crucifixion, and the following Resurrection, and the circumstances surrounding it. It does not stop there though as many Biblical epics portray. It moves past the Resurrection and takes you into the forty days after it. Following the Resurrection is the time of the Ascension of Jesus to his Father!! It does not end there though. The disciples now had a foundation that has stood the test of time for centuries. (The world has changed the Churches to fit the people,not the people to fit the Church!!) My Book is backed by four books: 1. The Bible (Prophecy and the book itself) 2. The Urantia Book (Urantia Foundation) A. ( I differ slightly about John the Baptist's father's death) 3. Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus by Jeffry Furst (Berkeley Medallion, Coward McCann) 4. The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden (Meridian, New American Library) Jesus was extremely well educated and refined, compared to the image of an uneducated peasant carpenter portrayed by most of the Christian Churches of today. He is the Son of God, not God, as too many Churches say he is. If this is so, who is he praying to, while still on Earth!! He is beyond anything we can achieve in this world at this time!! This is his story as never told before in one book to this world!! It is now time to bring forth " The True Story of Jesus, as channeled through me. It is about a Religion and structure that is so old, yet so new in this time.