Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Author: Lisa See
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408821621

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Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.

Flowers in the Snow

Flowers in the Snow
Author: Danielle Stewart
Publisher: Random Acts Publishing
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2015-01-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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In the 1960s, Edenville, North Carolina is full of rules. Sagging under the weight of racism and segregation the small community finds itself at a dangerous tipping point. Eleven-year-old Betty Grafton believes the world is fair. She knows there are worse places to live than Edenville. Unaware of the wars waging around her, she spends her days patting horses in the field and running errands for her mother. The world she doesn’t see, full of turmoil and unrest, is hiding just below the surface. One day, she has no choice but to see what’s been right in front of her all along. Alma knows where to walk. She knows who to talk to and which fountain she can drink out of. Her mother, Winnie, spares no opportunity to remind her how dangerous it is to be a little black girl in the South. When a chance encounter puts Betty face to face with the peril that exists in her own hometown, everything she knows turns upside down. The world isn’t as fair or safe as she’d imagined. Her family is the Klan. Her friends are the enemy. And nothing makes sense anymore. Although the world demands they stay apart, Alma and Betty forge a secret friendship. One that could cost them their lives.

Flower, Moon, Snow

Flower, Moon, Snow
Author: Kazue Mizumura
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Haiku
ISBN: 9780690012910

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Thirty poems in praise of the joys of nature.

Snow Flowers

Snow Flowers
Author: Zahava Szász Stessel
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780838641781

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Snow Flowers is a rare study by one of the 1,300 Hungarian Jewish inmates who were "eased out" by the SS to Junkers Company to produce airplane parts in Markkleeberg, Germany. Working conditions and profits shed light on slave labor establishments. Describing prisoners' ways of coping, their spiritual world addresses the question of how it was possible to live in the camp. A recurring theme is the experience of the author and her teenage sister. The 250 French political resistance fighters in the camp shared the death march and the anguish of the Allied bombing. Russian soldiers bent on sexual exploitation were the first disappointment after liberation. Homecoming and life of the survivor are recounted in the concluding chapters. The eight years of research on this book was prompted by the query of a Markkleeberg school teacher. German archival documents, songs, diaries written in the camp, and the testimonies of 110 fellow survivors provide a collective and a personal narrative. The book is part of a traveling exhibit, "The Forgotten Women of Buchenwald." Dr. Stessel is a retired librarian from The New York Public Library.

Flowers in the Snow

Flowers in the Snow
Author: Gwyneth Hoyle
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2005-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780803273443

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Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889?1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians. To achieve her goals, she traveled by any means available, from rowboats in Greenland to trading schooners and coast-guard vessels in Alaska. When necessary, she journeyed by snowshoe or sled in pursuit of her botanical specimens, accompanied only by strangers who served as guides. In Flowers in the Snow, Gwyneth Hoyle paints a vivid portrait of a woman gloriously out of the step with the conventions of her time.

Pretty Flowers In the Snow

Pretty Flowers In the Snow
Author: K.B. Ludlow
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2023-12-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1398481041

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Enter a world of dream and reality. Where the afterlife and our world meet. Where the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. Where death, horror, the surreal, reality and pain meet. Gothic and surreal overtones are just some of the ideas that permeate this collection of poems. Pretty Flowers in the Snow is the second book of the ‘Poppy’ trilogy, revealing that the world Lilith entered is full of flowers, smothered by snow. The flowers are a reflection of her and the torment she is in.

A Flower in the Snow

A Flower in the Snow
Author: Tracey Corderoy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Flowers
ISBN: 9780545517706

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A heartwarming story about the true meaning of friendship between Luna and Bear.

The Scent of Snowflowers

The Scent of Snowflowers
Author: Rivka Leah Klein
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780873064989

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Memoirs of an Orthodox Jew (née Einhorn) from Szombathely. In 1942 she married Yaakov Klein from Ujhely, and they settled in Budapest. Yaakov found work in a textile firm. Soon after the Nazi occupation in March 1944, one day Rivka met Károly Bitter, whose wife Magda worked in Yaakov's firm. The Bitters were Catholics who offered to help the Kleins. Károly himself went into the countryside and brought one of Rivka's sisters and later a brother of hers (who he smuggled out of a ghetto) to Budapest. Rivka gave birth to a daughter in May 1944. The Bitters also had a little daughter. When roundups and deportations of Jews began, the Bitters took the Kleins and ten of their relatives to hide in the their own apartment. Later, the Bitters got another place to live and gave their apartment to the Klein and Einhorn family. Rivka, her husband, and her sister and brother had false papers and could go out to do errands and shopping. The others had to remain silent and indoors all the time. Presents a detailed description of what life was like for hidden Jews, and specifically Orthodox Jews, during the German occupation. When the war ended, the Kleins and Einhorns discovered that almost all the residents of their apartment building were Jews in hiding (all of them had been pretending to be good fascists and Catholics), and that it was built by a wealthy Jewish architect in 1942 specifically for the purpose of hiding his family. All of the residents of this building survived. However, other members of the two families were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. The Kleins later emigrated to New York.

A Flower in the Snow

A Flower in the Snow
Author: Tracey Corderoy
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014
Genre: Flowers
ISBN: 9780545611510

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A heartwarming story about the true meaning of friendship between Luna and Bear.

A Season of Flowers (Tilbury House Nature Book)

A Season of Flowers (Tilbury House Nature Book)
Author: Michael Garland
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0884486257

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Michael Garland (Daddy Played the Blues) displays his impressive illustration range with the stylized, country-quilt, digital collage illustrations of A Season of Flowers. Snowdrops and crocuses yield to tulips and hyacinths, then dogwood blossoms, iris, lupine, daisies, morning glories, daylilies, geraniums, peonies, sunflowers, roses, and chrysanthemums as spring passes to summer, then autumn. At last the garden slumbers into winter under a blanket of snow, preparing next year’s procession of blooms. Like actors crossing a stage, flowers narrate the passing seasons in the first person, each one briefly proclaiming its unique and vital role in the natural world. Backmatter descriptions complete this child’s introduction to a garden year, in which the passage of time is vividly realized. Fountas & Pinnell Level L