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Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston, now seventeen, has no memory of that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.
Author
Series
Sky fall ; 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
While teenaged Vane discovers more of what it means to be a windwalker and his guardian sylph Audra struggles with her deepest desires, both must band together to face greater challenges than they have ever known.
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English
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"London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks's world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie's beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go. Evacuated to the English countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host to the survivors of the Blitz. Awed as she is by...
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Language
English
Description
"Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston...
5) Good bones
Author
Publisher
Tupelo Press
Language
English
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"Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children trying to read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot."--
7) Sun house
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces her with a love that will eventually help heal the Jesuit, the...
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Language
English
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"In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with history ... Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother's...
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Publisher
Hal Leonard
Language
English
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Description
(Easy Piano Songbook). Music is what helped many keep their spirits up during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Here are easy piano arrangements of 100 of the most memorable songs of the decade: As Time Goes By * Blue Moon * Body and Soul * Embraceable You * Georgia on My Mind * The Glory of Love * How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky) * I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) * I Got Rhythm * I'll Be Seeing You * In the Mood * The Lady Is a Tramp * Love...
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Language
English
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Description
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the...
13) The night sky
Author
Language
English
Description
Describes what stars and constellations can be seen in the night sky and provides instructions for finding them.
Author
Publisher
Black Lab Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story of an overlooked hero of World War II, Under a Sunburnt Sky is the unforgettable tale of one boy's heroism when faced with evil and the unbreakable bonds of love.When the Nazis invade Poland and round up the Jews to force them into a ghetto in Warsaw, Jan Kostański, a Polish Catholic teenager, doesn't let the Nazi warnings of executions for those caught helping Jewish people stop him. With his neighbours now living in the...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
"The original edition, published in 1950, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. This new, revised and expanded, edition contains, in addition to the introduction, an index of titles, an index of first lines, and 113 poems not included in the earlier volume."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pronounced dead on the beach during the year-end harbor party, Casey's sudden return to the living is shadowed by the drowning of her best friend, Liddy. She returns home for the summer, only to find that Liddy won't let her go. A series of violent nightmares and soulless whispers threaten to drive Casey mad, but when she watches a boy fall from the sky, she suspects she's actually crossed that line. When Red-- an angel fallen to earth to regain his...
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