My Nest Of Silence

Author : Matt Faulkner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534477629

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My Nest of Silence by Matt Faulkner Pdf

A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.

Author : Susan H. Kamei
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 9781481401456

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When Can We Go Back to America? by Susan H. Kamei Pdf

"An oral history about Japanese internment during World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from the perspective of children and young people affected"--

Author : Matt Faulkner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416916291

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A Taste of Colored Water by Matt Faulkner Pdf

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Author : Kenneth Oppel
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443438643

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The Nest by Kenneth Oppel Pdf

Kenneth Oppel’s most haunting story yet . . . She was very blurry, not at all human looking. There were huge dark eyes, and a kind of mane made of light, and when she spoke, I couldn't see a mouth moving, but I felt her words, like a breeze against my face, and I understood her completely. "We've come because of the baby," she said. "We've come to help." In this beautiful, menacing novel, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, an anxious boy becomes convinced that angels will save his sick baby brother. But these are creatures of a very different kind, and their plan for the baby has a twist. Layer by layer, he unravels the truth about his new friends as the time remaining to save his brother ticks down. With evocative and disquieting illustrations by Caldecott Medal– and Governor General’s Award–winning artist Jon Klassen, The Nest is an unforgettable journey into one boy’s deepest insecurities and darkest fears.

Author : Pete McBride
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780847870868

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Seeing Silence by Pete McBride Pdf

In a world ever more congested and polluted with both toxins and noise, award-winning photographer Pete McBride takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul. We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but it is actually the void where we can hear the sublime notes of nature. In this National Outdoor Book Award winning work, photographer Pete McBride reveals the wonders of these hushed places in spectacular imagery—from the thin-air flanks of Mount Everest to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the high-altitude vistas of the Atacama to the African savannah, and from the Antarctic Peninsula to the flowing waters of the Ganges and Nile. These places remind us of the magic of being “truly away” and how such places are vanishing. Often showing beauty from vantages where no other photographer has ever stood, this is a seven-continent visual tour of global quietude—and the power in nature’s own sounds—that will both inspire and calm.

Author : Matt Faulkner
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781484712139

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Gaijin: American Prisoner of War by Matt Faulkner Pdf

With a white mother and a Japanese father, Koji Miyamoto quickly realizes that his home in San Francisco is no longer a welcoming one after Pearl Harbor is attacked. And once he's sent to an internment camp, he learns that being half white at the camp is just as difficult as being half Japanese on the streets of an American city during WWII. Koji's story, based on true events, is brought to life by Matt Faulkner's cinematic illustrations that reveal Koji struggling to find his place in a tumultuous world-one where he is a prisoner of war in his own country.

Author : Lisa Scottoline,Francesca Serritella
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1429941812

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My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space by Lisa Scottoline,Francesca Serritella Pdf

Critics and readers loved Lisa Scottoline's first collection of true-life stories, which only encouraged her—now she's back with these all-new, exciting adventures. She's farther down the road now, and the scenery has changed—ex-husbands Thing One and Thing Two are in her rear-view mirror, daughter Francesca has moved into an apartment, and Lisa's finding the silver lining in her empty nest, which has lots more room for her shoes. And some things have stayed the same—Mother Mary is still the feistiest octogenarian on the planet, who won't part with her recipe for tomato sauce or her thirty-year old bra. In this book Lisa and Francesca spill all their family secrets—which sound a lot like yours, if you understand that three generations of women is the formula for spontaneous combustion. Inspired by her weekly column entitled, "Chick Wit" for The Philadelphia Inquirer, this is a book you'll have to put down—just to stop laughing.

Author : Madison Smartt Bell
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0349100810

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The Year of Silence by Madison Smartt Bell Pdf

Author : Rita Leganski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062113771

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The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski Pdf

A magical debut novel from Rita Leganski, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow is the tale of a mute boy whose gift of wondrous hearing reveals family secrets and forgotten voodoo lore, and exposes a murder that threatens the souls of those who love him. Bonaventure Arrow didn’t make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. But he was listening, placing sound inside quiet and gaining his bearings. By the time he turns five, he can hear flowers grow, a thousand shades of blue, and the miniature tempests that rage inside raindrops. He also hears the voice of his dead father, William Arrow, mysteriously murdered by a man known only as the Wanderer. Exploring family relics, he opens doors to the past and finds the key to a web of secrets that both hold his family together, and threaten to tear them apart. Set against the backdrop of 1950s New Orleans, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow is a magical story about the lost art of listening and a wondrous little boy who brings healing to the souls of all who love him.

Author : David Levinson
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781565129184

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Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence by David Levinson Pdf

After the mysterious death of her author husband, a young woman attempts to continue life in a small college town in upstate New York until her former mentor, a book critic who ruined her husband's career, shows up with his current protege.

Author : Stieg Larsson
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307593672

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this “thoroughly gripping” (New York Times) continuation of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. • Also known as the Millennium series In the next installment of the Millennium series, with the help of Mikael Blomkvist, Salander will need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll seek revenge—against the man who tried to kill her and against the corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons, coming soon!

Author : Carrie Ryan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780698145566

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Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan Pdf

I’m the daughter of murdered parents. I’m the friend of a dead girl. I’m the lover of my enemy. And I will have my revenge. In the wake of the devastating destruction of the luxury yacht Persephone, just three souls remain to tell its story—and two of them are lying. Only Frances Mace knows the terrifying truth, and she’ll stop at nothing to avenge the murders of everyone she held dear. Even if it means taking down the boy she loves and possibly losing herself in the process. Sharp and incisive, Daughter of Deep Silence by bestselling author Carrie Ryan is a deliciously smart revenge thriller that examines perceptions of identity, love, and the lengths to which one girl is willing to go when she thinks she has nothing to lose.

Author : Michel Serres
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474299954

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The Five Senses by Michel Serres Pdf

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalog it, is disappearing beneath the relentless accumulations of late capitalist society and information technology. Data has replaced sensory pleasure, we are less interested in the taste of a fine wine than in the description on the bottle's label. What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could? The book won the inaugural Prix Médicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307700568

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Into the Silence by Wade Davis Pdf

The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory’s generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis’s rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.

Author : Melissa Shultz
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781492618447

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From Mom to Me Again by Melissa Shultz Pdf

Live your best life—even after your kids leave home When her children left for college, Melissa Shultz was certain that she had prepared them well for their new lives-but her own life was a different matter entirely. Her house was empty, her purpose unclear. If her life was no longer dominated by the day-to-day demands of being "Mom," then who exactly was she? And how would she ever move forward? From Mom to Me Again is the story of one woman's reinvention. Shultz's struggle with the empty nest and the transformation of her marriage, friendships, career, and ultimately herself, is part memoir and part self-help guide. Funny, poignant, and practical, this book tells Shultz's personal story and provides valuable advice for readers preparing to send their children off into the world. She shows women that while they'll always be mothers, it's time for them to take center stage in their own lives once again.