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Red Bird Sings

Author : Gina Capaldi,Q. L. Pearce
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467738132

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Red Bird Sings by Gina Capaldi,Q. L. Pearce Pdf

"I remember the day I lost my spirit." So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Ša, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Ša willingly left her home at age eight to go to a boarding school in Indiana. But she soon found herself caught between two worlds—white and Native American. At school she missed her mother and her traditional life, but Zitkala-Ša found joy in music classes. "My wounded spirit soared like a bird as I practiced the piano and violin," she wrote. Her talent grew, and when she graduated, she became a music teacher, composer, and performer. Zitkala-Ša found she could also "sing" to help her people by writing stories and giving speeches. As an adult, she worked as an activist for Native American rights, seeking to build a bridge between cultures. The coauthors tell Zitkala-Ša’s life by weaving together pieces from her own stories. The artist's acrylic illustrations and collages of photos and primary source documents round out the vivid portrait of Zitkala-Ša, a frightened child whose spirit "would rise again, stronger and wiser for the wounds it had suffered."

Red Bird

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807068926

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Red Bird by Mary Oliver Pdf

Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader, appearing in unexpected forms and guises until, in a postscript, he explains himself: "For truly the body needs / a song, a spirit, a soul. And no less, to make this work, / the soul has need of a body, / and I am both of the earth and I am of the inexplicable / beauty of heaven / where I fly so easily, so welcome, yes, / and this is why I have been sent, to teach this to your heart." This collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver's work, includes an entirely new direction in the poet's work: a cycle of eleven linked love poems-a dazzling achievement. As in all of Mary Oliver's work, the pages overflow with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog, Percy. But here, too, the poet's attention turns with ferocity to the degradation of the Earth and the denigration of the peoples of the world by those who love power. Red Bird is unquestionably Mary Oliver's most wide-ranging volume to date.

Red Bird Sings

Author : Gina Capaldi,Q. L. Pearce
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541578364

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Red Bird Sings by Gina Capaldi,Q. L. Pearce Pdf

Offers insight into the life of Gertrude Simmons, a Native American girl who left the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota for a boarding school in Indiana at age eight, learned to express herself through music and words, and went on to become an activist for Native American rights.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307477729

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Pdf

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

The Redbird Sings the Song of Hope

Author : Kandy Noles Stevens
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512752816

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The Redbird Sings the Song of Hope by Kandy Noles Stevens Pdf

Not your typical book about grief, the redbird sings the song of hope is the perfect telling of what grieving people wish others knew. Kandy Noles Stevens unapologetically explains what isnt always helpful to the bereaved, but does so with grace and wit. Through her personal stories, she provides practical ideas of how to bring comfort to those who are hurting. In an engaging Southern style, Kandy writes about real people (including some pretty colorful ones) who have loved her family in their darkest days. Infused in every page are hope-filled words of Gods faithfulness, including the sending of one redbird when her family needed it the most.

The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band

Author : Frances Washburn
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780816530823

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The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band by Frances Washburn Pdf

Opening July 4, 1969, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band follows a country western band through a summer of gigs in this novel that is equal parts mystery and community chronicle. At its core is the band's sassy lead singer and guitarist, Sissy Roberts, who must unravel a mysterious death as well as her own future in this story set in Indian Country on the verge of historic changes.

The Yellow Bird Sings

Author : Jennifer Rosner
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250179777

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The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner Pdf

National Jewish Book Award Finalist "Rosner’s exquisite, heart-rending debut novel is proof that there’s always going to be room for another story about World War II....This is an absolutely beautiful and necessary novel, full of heartbreak but also hope, about the bond between mother and daughter, and the sacrifices made for love." —The New York Times In Poland, as World War II rages, a mother hides with her young daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róza and her 5-year-old daughter, Shira, flee, seeking shelter in a neighbor’s barn. Hidden in the hayloft day and night, Shira struggles to stay still and quiet, as music pulses through her and the farmyard outside beckons. To soothe her daughter and pass the time, Róza tells her a story about a girl in an enchanted garden: The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. Music helps the flowers bloom. In this make-believe world, Róza can shield Shira from the horrors that surround them. But the day comes when their haven is no longer safe, and Róza must make an impossible choice: whether to keep Shira by her side or give her the chance to survive apart. Inspired by the true stories of Jewish children hidden during World War II, Jennifer Rosner’s debut is a breathtaking novel about the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter. Beautiful and riveting, The Yellow Bird Sings is a testament to the triumph of hope—a whispered story, a bird’s song—in even the darkest of times.

Red Sings from Treetops

Author : Joyce Sidman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547562131

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Red Sings from Treetops by Joyce Sidman Pdf

Includes a reader's guide and an author's note.

Each Little Bird that Sings

Author : Deborah Wiles
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152051139

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Each Little Bird that Sings by Deborah Wiles Pdf

Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.

The Red Bird Sings

Author : Aoife Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Virago
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349016665

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'A novel that demands you turn the pages' THE TIMES, BEST HISTORICAL FICTION 'Stunning ... simmers with suspense' DAILY MAIL 'A gothic mystery pulsing with suspense' MAIL ON SUNDAY A prize-winning gothic suspense novel based on a real-life murder trial in 1897 West Virginia when the testimony of a ghost was admitted in court West Virginia, 1897. When young Zona Heaster Shue dies only a few months after her wedding, her mother Mary Jane becomes convinced that Zona was murdered - and by none other than her husband, Trout, the handsome blacksmith beloved in their small Southern town. But when Trout is put on trial, no one believes he could have done it, apart from Mary Jane and Zona's best friend Lucy, who was always suspicious of Trout. As the trial raises to fever pitch and the men of Greenbrier County stand aligned against them, Mary Jane and Lucy must decide whether to reveal Zona's greatest secret in the service of justice. But it's Zona herself, from beyond the grave, who still has one last revelation to make. 'An intense, memorable tale' SUNDAY TIMES 'Genuinely brilliant' IRISH TIMES 'Compelling' ANNE ENRIGHT 'I was tenterhooked from the very first to the very last page' JO BROWNING WROE, author of A Terrible Kindness 'Keeps you turning pages right until the end. Loved it' JULIE OWEN MOYLAN, author of That Green Eyed Girl 'Truly superb... Compelling and lyrical in equal measure' VICTORIA MACKENZIE, author of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain 'An historical courtroom drama and ghost story that had me on tenterhooks until the very end. Fitzpatrick gives us a feminist heroine whose loyalty and courage make her unstoppable. I loved The Red Bird Sings' AINGEALA FLANNERY, author of The Amusements

Where the Bird Sings Best

Author : Alejandro Jodorowsky
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632060075

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Where the Bird Sings Best by Alejandro Jodorowsky Pdf

The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky—director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky’s Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American literature. There has never been an artist like the polymathic Chilean director, author, and mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky. For eight decades, he has blazed new trails across a dazzling variety of creative fields. While his psychedelic, visionary films have been celebrated by the likes of John Lennon, Marina Abramovic, and Kanye West, his novels—praised throughout Latin America in the same breath as those of Gabriel García Márquez—have remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. Until now. Where the Bird Sings Best tells the fantastic story of the Jodorowskys’ emigration from Ukraine to Chile amidst the political and cultural upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries. Like One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jodorowsky’s book transforms family history into heroic legend: incestuous beekeepers hide their crime with a living cloak of bees, a czar fakes his own death to live as a hermit amongst the animals, a devout grandfather confides only in the ghost of a wise rabbi, a transgender ballerina with a voracious sexual appetite holds a would-be saint in thrall. Kaleidoscopic, exhilarating, and erotic, Where the Bird Sings Best expands the classic immigration story to mythic proportions. Praise “This epic family saga, reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude in structure and breadth, reads at a breakneck pace. Though ostensibly a novelization of the author's own family history, it is a raucous carnival of the surreal, mystical, and grotesque.” —Publishers Weekly "A man whose life has been defined by cosmic ambitions." —The New York Times Magazine "A great eccentric original....A legendary man of many trades.” —Roger Ebert For more information on Alejandro Jodorowsky, please visit www.restlessbooks.com/alejandro-jodorowsky

Common Birds and Their Songs

Author : Lang Elliott,Marie Read
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0395912385

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Common Birds and Their Songs by Lang Elliott,Marie Read Pdf

Presents the songs and calls of fifty North American birds that are common to residential settings, city parks, and urban areas.

When a Red Bird Flies

Author : Karen Evancic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0985596996

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When a Red Bird Flies by Karen Evancic Pdf

It's 1954 and Lillie's hard life has led to this: abandoned to a lonely hospital bed, ripped away from anything that matters to her. As her disease fully embraces her, she befriends a young nurse named Elizabeth who helps her find a way to face her awful past and protect those she leaves behind. On the other side of the country, Catherine believes she has broken free of her squalid Kentucky farm roots and moved on to life in a big city. But through all of life's twists and turns, and even as love gives Catherine a second chance, she wonders if she will ever fulfill her deepest longing.

Gift of the Red Bird

Author : Paula D'Arcy
Publisher : Crossroad
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0824519566

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Gift of the Red Bird by Paula D'Arcy Pdf

Subtitle on cover: The story of a divine encounter.

A Redbird Christmas

Author : Fannie Flagg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588364210

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A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg Pdf

With the same incomparable style and warm, inviting voice that have made her beloved by millions of readers far and wide, New York Times bestselling author Fannie Flagg has written an enchanting Christmas story of faith and hope for all ages that is sure to become a classic. Deep in the southernmost part of Alabama, along the banks of a lazy winding river, lies the sleepy little community known as Lost River, a place that time itself seems to have forgotten. After a startling diagnosis from his doctor, Oswald T. Campbell leaves behind the cold and damp of the oncoming Chicago winter to spend what he believes will be his last Christmas in the warm and welcoming town of Lost River. There he meets the postman who delivers mail by boat, the store owner who nurses a broken heart, the ladies of the Mystic Order of the Royal Polka Dots Secret Society, who do clandestine good works. And he meets a little redbird named Jack, who is at the center of this tale of a magical Christmas when something so amazing happened that those who witnessed it have never forgotten it. Once you experience the wonder, you too will never forget A Redbird Christmas.