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Author : Nancy Willard
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595138807
In a small Michigan town on the eve of World War II, a young man and woman share a love that is shadowed by tragedy, yet lighted by powers beyond the real.
Author : Nancy Willard
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480481503
The first novel by Newbery Award–winning author Nancy Willard: A stunning story of magic and miracles, and a testament to the enduring power of faith and love Ben and Willie Harkissian are twin brothers (think Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau) growing up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the eve of World War II. A baseball launched into the October sky sets in motion a series of events that transforms many lives. Ben leaves for the front and faces death—figuratively as well as literally. Left behind is Clare Bishop, who has been paralyzed from the waist down. But in exchange she receives some very special gifts. She can see the future, be at one with animals, and chat with Death. Willie Harkissian remains in Michigan as well, though his relationship with his brother will never be the same. A love story interrupted by war, this is also a novel about discovering the ordinary in the extraordinary and finding the miraculous in everyday life.
Author : Sue Wootton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1877577553
Author : Julianne Buchsbaum
Publisher : Ausable Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0967266874
Linguistically brilliant and challenging new voice.
Author : Robert Jon Pensack
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Heart
ISBN : 9780595349524
Raising Lazarus is Dr. Robert Pensack's personal memoir of his battle to maintain his sanity in the face of extraordinary suffering. Dr. Pensack's story chronicles his near life-long struggle with a mortal illness, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, or HCM (formally known as IHSS), a genetic illness marked by abnormality of the heart muscle. After the disease claimed the life of his young mother, the adolescent Pensack--and his brother Richard, who also suffered from HCM--went on to become chronic-research heart patients at The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. They endured a litany of surgeries and multiple near-death experiences caused by cardiac arrests until, thirty years later, both received heart transplants that saved their lives. Remarkably--and coincidentally--Dr. Pensack played a vital role in the evolution of organ transplantation and in his own survival, helping to produce one of the anti-rejection drugs with which he himself was later treated at the time of his greatest need. From recounting his feeling of being condemned to an existence laden with insufferable burden to the hope restored through the ultimate gift of life, Raising Lazarus is Dr. Pensack's inspirational story of survival and triumph. "Extraordinary...A doctor's memoir of his struggle against his own illness...An intimate account of the remarkable medical advances of the last few decades from [a] unique point of view."--New York Times Book Review
Author : John Link
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521769761
"Elliott Carter was born four months after Orville Wright demonstrated the Wright Brothers' Flyer to the U.S. Army, and he died two months after the Voyager 1 spacecraft left the heliosphere at the threshold of interstellar space. Carter's remarkable longevity, and the unusual trajectory of his life and work through more than a century of disruptive change, has affected the reception history of his music in ways that we are only beginning to acknowledge. Over the course of a nearly eighty-year-long career, Carter leveraged his advantages and turned obstacles into opportunities with admirable persistence. He chose projects that not only interested him but also fit into the plans for artistic and professional development that he cultivated assiduously over decades. And he paid close attention to how his artistic objectives could be presented most effectively to the performers, listeners, and patrons on whom his career depended. Together with his wife Helen Frost-Jones Carter, he skillfully steered a course through the turbulent waters of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries with steadily increasing success. The story of Carter's artistic life, as he told it and as it was promoted by several generations of advocates, is one of independence, uncompromising vision, and technical progress. It was astutely tailored to the beliefs and values of its intended audience and, as autobiography, it reports selectively and glosses over or omits events and attitudes deemed unhelpful in building Carter's reputation and authority, and promoting his music"--
Author : Elizabeth Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Birds
ISBN : 0996523197
Praise for bird light"Elizabeth Cohen's book, Bird Light, is an exquisite collection of lyrical and imagistic poems firmly rooted in the natural world. She examines many bird species in these poems, but underneath those descriptions the poems are also rooted in the human, referring in an oblique way to loss and sorrow, joy and love. This is truly a beautiful book about survival and the way the natural world helps to heal us."--Maria Mazziotti Gillanwinner, American Book Award"These poems fluidly move between memory and a present experience of time, place, love, loss, and death while gently reminding readers that sophisticated treatment of these large ideas is a treasure to be sought, a pleasure that Cohen seeks and shares with us. Here are poems full of grace and quiet power." -Catherine Daly "In Egyptian creation mythology, the Bennu bird flew over the surface of primordial chaos and sang a song that punctured the void of silence to gave rise to the world; similarly, in Elizabeth Cohen's "Bird Light," an aviary of words delight and produce poems that take flight, sometimes, as in "The Yes," carrying with it the echo of Emily Dickinson ("had a glass of chilled maybe / with some toasted perhaps"), other times, as in "Clock," lifting sex and space and time in its sleek talons. Each landscape, whether personal or philosophical, metaphorical or syntactically playful, tracks a winged path through the page, lifting finally into that expanse where "the starlings murmurate // become a single moving hand / unwrapping the articulated pink bronchia of the trees." Fleeting and flitting, yet leaving indelibly lasting perceptions, Cohen's latest book is an ornithological poetic masterpiece." -Ravi Shankar"Layering disparate voices --from the colloquially humorous to the quietly elegiac -Elizabeth Cohen creates three-dimensional moments of reckoning. Reading Bird Light, we find ourselves within the constant swerves of avian flight and song, and, with almost unbearable accuracy, within the urgent emotions of our own lives." -Celia Bland
Author : Robin Blackburn McBride
Publisher : Essential Prose
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771832665
"The Shining Fragments is a family saga about the Irish in Canada that explores the ramifications of abandonment, obsession, love, memory, and visionary power. Spanning the years 1882-1904, it follows Joseph Conlon from his early childhood in Ulster to his experiences of youth and adulthood as an immigrant. Left behind as a small boy on a Toronto train-station platform like so much forgotten luggage, Joseph grows up in a city bleak with bigotry. He discovers that he has artistic talent and becomes a designer of stained-glass windows. He is haunted by the spirit of his unborn sister, Annie, and the powerful and often conflicting influences of the women in his life. In the end Joseph is given the gift of hope on the same station platform where he was abandoned as a child."--
Author : Scott Westerfeld
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250300980
This discounted ebundle includes: The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds From Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of the Leviathan trilogy and the Uglies series comes a sweeping space opera. A warrior and a pacifist senator hold the fate of the empire in their hands. They stand at a war between an immortal god-like emperor and relentless cybernetic humans. Only one can prevail. The Risen EmpireCaptain Laurent Zai and his pacifist lover Senator Nara Oxham, separated by lightyears, hold the fate of the empire in their hands. They serve an Emperor who has reigned with his sister the Child Empress for sixteen hundred years as living gods. But even gods might bow to the fanaticism of the Rix, machine-augmented humans, who long for the cybernetic rule of a vast AI. The Killing of Worlds Brilliant tactician Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx faces a suicide mission: stopping the next thrust of the Rix invasion with just his own ship. While ship-to-ship combat rages among the stars, Zai's lover, Senator Nara Oxham, is caught in a deadly political fencing match with the Emperor himself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Sue Wootton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : New Zealand poetry
ISBN : 1877448230
This beautifully presented volume perfectly illustrates the talent of this highly-regarded New Zealand poet. Sue Wootton's poems are tender and playful. They capture a variety of themes with insight and clarity in a style that will appeal to all.
Author : Rodman Philbrick
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781409591054
Max is used to being called Stupid. And he is used to everyone being scared of him. On account of his size and looking like his dad. Kevin is used to being called Dwarf. And he is used to everyone laughing at him. On account of his size and being some cripple kid. But greatness comes in all sizes, and together Max and Kevin become Freak The Mighty and walk high above the world. An inspiring, heartbreaking, multi-award winning international bestseller.
Author : Robin Blackburn McBride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997621508
Birdlight: Freeing Your Authentic Creativity is a beacon for readers yearning to live lives of heart-centered, empowered creativity. It's for those seeking greater alignment with an expanding vision, and a core sense of purpose and authenticity. The book offers a unique perspective: the author released a "secure," successful, and conventional twenty-year teaching career in order to fulfill a long-held dream of writing full time. Living her dream has brought obstacles and discoveries. It's also brought gifts. Now, in addition to working as a writer, Robin is a coach in human potential and creativity, and a teacher of transformation. In this book, she shares her gifts with you! Compelling, unusual and at times deeply personal, Birdlight weaves memoir, fairy tale, poetry, drama and folk lore, along with relevant brain science; it offers practical guidance and simple, powerful exercises for the creative seeker. Seven birds grace these reflections. Each becomes the basis for a separate essay on key qualities freed by courage and trust. Designed to gently embolden and inspire not only vision, but vision-centered living, this is a must-read for artists at heart, innovators and change-makers in the wings, and in any walk of life.
Author : Jay S. Hanna
Publisher : WoodenBoat Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0937822140
Jay S. Hanna was a professional carver and modelmaker for more than 40 years. His models will be found on display in such institutions as the Mariner's Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Maine Maritime Museum, and in many private collections. His carvings adorn many yachts and cruise schooners, as well as stores and homes.
Author : John Hay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0393310019
"Joy Hay is one of our very best essayists on the natural world, and The Bird of Light is a fine example of his work."--Peter Matthiessen
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Gift books
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014247563