Lost languages

The Lost Language

✍ Claudia Mills 📂 Fiction 📅 2021 🏛 Holiday House 🌐 en-US ⚖ 221 KB

**The quest to save the words of a dying language - and to find the words to save what may be a dying friendship - lies at the heart of this exquisite verse novel.** Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threaten

The Lost Language

✍ Marianne Villanueva 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Anvil Publishing, Inc. 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 126 KB

A mother pays a surprise visit to the bank teller who accidentally killed her son. Two friends feed their neighbor's dog with a hand found in a dumpster. A son narrates his mother's adulterous affair with her professor. A woman walks out of a car crash and returns home to make dessert for her son. T

The Lost Language

✍ Claudia Mills 📂 Fiction 🌐 en-US ⚖ 221 KB

**The quest to save the words of a dying language - and to find the words to save what may be a dying friendship - lies at the heart of this exquisite verse novel.** Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened

The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai

✍ Ruiyan Xu 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Bloomsbury Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 379 KB

When an explosion reverberates through the Swan Hotel in Shanghai, it is not just shards of glass and rubble that come crashing down. Li Jing and Zhou Meiling find their once-happy marriage rocked to its foundations. For Li Jing, his head pierced by a shard of falling glass, awakens from brain surge

The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai

✍ Ruiyan Xu 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Bloomsbury Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 379 KB

When an explosion reverberates through the Swan Hotel in Shanghai, it is not just shards of glass and rubble that come crashing down. Li Jing and Zhou Meiling find their once-happy marriage rocked to its foundations. For Li Jing, his head pierced by a shard of falling glass, awakens from brain surge

The Lost Language of Cranes

✍ Leavitt, David 📂 Fiction 📅 1986 🏛 Bloomsbury USA 🌐 English ⚖ 228 KB

David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he