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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Octavia Butler
Octavia the Octopus has an Ostomy
Rebekah Foguth
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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For Commander Black, and her Soldiers, the work never ends. They find themselves kept busy very well. Projects ranging from long planned creative efforts to sudden assaults. They move house and try new jobs of every kind. It's all a learning experience for Old Mother Black, and she takes to the lesson plan with zeal. Larger struggles are looming, yet the present list of tasks is still undone. Questions of poor conduct must be answered and the definition of life itself must be worked out, or at least they have to try.
FIND OUT HOW THE AWARD-WINNING SERIES BEGINS... One tiny discovery can have enormous consequences... Almost 10-year-old Octavia Bloom is looking for adventure, but when it comes it's in the shape of a tiny fairy door.Dragging her reluctant sister and cousins into the mystery, Octavia discovers her family are hiding not ONE but TWO life-changing secrets. Why is her mother searching for an elusive flower? And does she have what it takes to reunite her fractured family? Octavia's certain the answers lie behind the fairy door, if only she could just find the key...Bravery, secrets & magic intertwine in this fantastical adventure. Special 2nd Anniversary cover
Octavia is a spunky little girl who loves to bake cookies with her Mama. Mixing flour, butter and eggs are one of her favourite things to do. Today, Octavia wants to do things differently.When Mama steps out of the kitchen, Octavia takes over with an "I can do it" attitude. But as flour and cocoa cover the walls, cabinets, and countertop, she starts to question herself.Will her cookies turn out as good as Mama's cookies?Octavia Can Do It is the humorous story of a young girl as she discovers that even the most independent people need a little help sometimes.
In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution to the world's grief:a new religion. At the heart of the Panacea Society was a charismatic and autocratic leader, a vicar's widow named Mabel Barltrop. Her followers called her Octavia, and believed that she was the daughter of God, sent to build the New Jerusalem in Bedford. Proclaiming the female aspects of God, Octavia attracted former suffragettes, middle-class Christian women and passionate spiritual seekers to Bedford, where they followed her in rigorous religious practices. She appointed twelve women as her apostles, and put the rest to work to spread her Word: that human beings, through Panacea, could achieve immortal life on earth.Acclaimed historian Jane Shaw found the last living members of the Panacea Society, who revealed to her their immense, painstakingly-preserved archives. She discovered a utopian community that once had seventy residents, thousands of followers, and an international healing ministry that reached 130,000 people around the globe.Octavia, Daughter of God is a fascinating group biography and a revelatory work of cultural and narrative history. Vividly told, by turns funny and tragic, it reveals in intimate detail the complex, out-sized personality of Octavia; the faith of her devoted followers, who believed they would never die; and the intricacies and intrigues of her close-knit community.But Octavia, Daughter of God is also about a moment at the advent of modernity, when a generation of newly empowered women tried to re-make Christianity in their own image. Startlingly modern in their resolve and curiously reactionary in their social views and politics, their story is a portrait of an age. It offers a window into the anxieties and hopes of the interwar years through the lives of ordinary people who believed extraordinary things about God, this world and the next.
Octavia Raspopova: Space Agent: The Riddle of the Omicron's Embryo
C.D. Saitch
PEGASUS ELLIOT MACKENZIE PUBLISHERS
2025
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Octavia Bloom and the Missing Key
Inlustris Publishing
2020
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One tiny discovery can have enormous consequences...
Octavia's Brood
AK Press
2015
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Whenever we envision a world without war, prisons, or capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. These visionary tales span genres--sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism--but all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be. Also features essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a preface by Sheree Renee Thomas."Those concerned with justice and liberation must always persuade the mass of people that a better world is possible. Our job begins with speculative fictions that fire society's imagination and its desire for change. In adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha's visionary conception, and by its activist-artists' often stunning acts of creative inception, Octavia's Brood makes for great thinking and damn good reading. The rest will be up to us." --Jeff Chang, Who We Be: The Colorization of America"Conventional exclamatory phrases don't come close to capturing the essence of what we have here in Octavia's Brood. One part sacred text, one part social movement manual, one part diary of our future selves telling us, 'It's going to be okay, keep working, keep loving.' Our radical imaginations are under siege and this text is the rescue mission. It is the new cornerstone of every class I teach on inequality, justice, and social change....This is the text we've been waiting for." --Ruha Benjamin, professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier"Octavia once told me that two things worried her about the future of humanity: The tendency to think hierarchically, and the tendency to place ourselves higher on the hierarchy than others. I think she would be humbled beyond words that the fine, thoughtful writers in this volume have honored her with their hearts and minds. And that in calling for us to consider that hierarchical structure, they are not walking in her shadow, nor standing on her shoulders, but marching at her side." --Steven Barnes, Lion's Blood"Never has one book so thoroughly realized the dream of its namesake. Octavia's Brood is the progeny of two lovers of Octavia Butler and their belief in her dream that science fiction is for everybody.... Butler could not wish for better evidence of her touch changing our literary and living landscapes. Play with these children, read these works, and find the children in you waiting to take root under the stars " --Moya Bailey and Ayana Jamieson, Octavia E. Butler Legacy"Like Octavia] Butler's fiction, this collection is cartography, a map to freedom." --dream hampton, filmmaker and Visiting Artist at Stanford University's Institute for Diversity in the ArtsWalidah Imarisha is a writer, organizer, educator, and spoken word artist. She is the author of the poetry collectionScars/Stars and facilitates writing workshops at schools, community centers, youth detention facilities, and women's prisons.adrienne maree brown is a 2013 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow writing science fiction in Detroit, Michigan. She received a 2013 Detroit Knight Arts Challenge Award to run a series of Octavia Butler-based writing workshops.
Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society
Institute of Historical Research
2016
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This volume reassesses the life and work of Octavia Hill, housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. In her lifetime she was widely regarded as an authority on a broad range of social problems. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to found, Hill fell from public favour in the twentieth century. This book provides a nuanced portrait of Hill and her work in a broader context of social change, reflecting recent scholarship on nineteenth-century society in general, and on philanthropy and preservation, and women's role in them, in particular.
Paradise has been destroyed. The Great War, the death it brought, and the loss that you can never forget. Commander Black travels in time to save everyone she loves. So much fighting, so much death, and so many trials, never has this small band of soldiers faced so much tribulation. The Apocalypse is real, and it takes the form of men bound and determined to kill each other. Major Octavia and the Soldier Girls can stop it, maybe. They start a propaganda effort that sprouts into so many other, nefarious actions. The life of a spy, a mercenary, it has its cost. Midnight missions, secret orders, and enemies that can't be counted. There might be no end to the killing, and all of it to save the lives of a few dear people. The worst horror of it all, the face of the true enemy might never be seen. Maybe, you can never save paradise.
The worlds of politics and business never slow down, change is constant, and people surrender their liberties willingly when fresh bread is offered freely, and their ticket to the circus is paid for by others. The pathways to restoring a republic are often circuitous, and arduous. Octavia Pomona and her Soldier Girls are given the mission: strike the coup de gr ce, thus restoring liberty. A cinema motion picture must be made, and a king must be brought down. The Soldier Girls go to work, and even while life is changing, they soldier on, doing the bidding of their mistress, and facing the enemy head on. The Ninth Novel of Octavia Pomona and her Soldier Girls takes the small troop far and wide, down many roads, and to a whole new world. Don't bother asking the name, life goes on. Alexander was right: worlds are to be conquered, and that's what the Soldier Girls do, conquer a world under a fresh sunrise as they pin for the vacation they never seem to really get, at least not for a long while. Old friends are revisited, new skills are learned, dinner parties are filled with intrigue, and the Soldier Girls face it with a determination to overcome all obstacles. Will the cost be too high? Will the wear and tear be too much? People are fragile, and they can break when you bend them too much.
Vacation time Honeymoon time The Soldier Girls get the time off they so richly deserve Nothing can go wrong now. Nothing bad can happen at this vacation resort Six weeks of nothing scheduled, nothing other than pool parties, dinner with a show, going to the motion pictures, and lots of fun. No new surprises as far as the eye can see. Octavia Pomona is bound and determined to see to it her girls get the time off they deserve. She won't let anything stand in the way of their good time. Everybody plans to pursue their own favorite, wholesome, activity Girls go shopping, and the boys stand by holding the bags. The worst danger is overdrawing their accounts. There will be sore feet from all the shopping sprees Get ready to have a great time Possibly the final book in the Octavia Pomona series, the author plans to move on to other projects, looking forward, and backward. Open projects must be completed, and new projects crying out for their time will be looked into. No one can say what the future may bring. Simply face it head on.
Octavia est une petite fille fonceuse qui adore pr parer des biscuits avec maman. M langer la farine, le beurre et les oeufs est l'une de ses activit s pr f r es. Aujourd'hui, Octavia veut faire les choses diff remment. Quand maman s'absente de la cuisine, Octavia se dit qu'elle est capable de prendre la situation en main. Toutefois, en voyant la farine et le cacao se r pandre sur les murs, les armoires et le comptoir, elle commence se questionner. Ses biscuits seront-ils aussi bons que ceux de maman ? Octavia est capable raconte avec humour l'histoire d'une jeune fille qui apprend que m me les personnes les plus ind pendantes ont parfois besoin d'aide.
"Soon, you will have a baby brother." Octavia and Ludovic can't wait to meet their new sibling and have lots of fun together. But when the baby arrives, they discover he isn't much fun at all. How will they ever make memories with a sleeping, eating, burping, and crying baby? Octavia and Ludovic Welcome Baby Brother is an amusing story about three siblings who must learn to love, laugh, and bond, even if it isn't easy.
Octavia et Ludovic accueillent un petit frère
Liliana Tommasini
Miriam Laundry Publishing
2023
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Bientôt, vous aurez un petit frère. Octavia et Ludovic ont bien hâte de rencontrer le nouveau membre de la famille et de s'amuser avec lui. Or, quand le bébé arrive, il n'est pas amusant du tout.Comment créer des moments inoubliables avec un bébé qui ne cesse de dormir, manger, faire ses rots et pleurer ?Octavia et Ludovic accueillent un petit frère est une histoire charmante à propos de trois enfants qui doivent apprendre à s'aimer, à rire et à tisser des liens, même si ce n'est pas facile.
