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Familiars volume 4
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English
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"Aldwyn, Skylar, and Gilbert must embark on a journey to clear their names and save a Vastia after a necklace they give to Queen Loranella puts her under a dangerous curse"--
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English
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2022 National Book Critics Circle Finalists
2022 New York Times Notables
Indigenous Voices
Staff Reads 3/24/23
2022 New York Times Notables
Indigenous Voices
Staff Reads 3/24/23
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"Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty-with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight-breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future....
Publisher
GT Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When a medical resident loses a patient, he moves back home with his father to rethink his career. His visit is a bittersweet one, overshadowed by memories of the mother he lost 18 years earlier on Christmas Eve. Nathan accepts a coaching position at a local elementary school where he meets Megan, a teacher, and becomes close with a young boy named Charlie. His world is turned upside down when the lives of the woman he loves and an innocent young...
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English
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As a girl, Alia Joy came face to face with weakness, poverty, and loss in ways that made her doubt God was good. There were times when it felt as if God had abandoned her. What she didn't realize then was that God was always there, calling her to abandon herself. In this deeply personal exploration of what it means to be "poor in spirit," Joy challenges our cultural proclivity to "pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps." She calls on readers to embrace...
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English
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"Charlotte Dolinsky is not above playing dress-up and telling a few lies to find out what happened to her only brother. Calling herself Mary and slipping on a kapp, Charlotte will lie to find out why Ethan had to die. But when Charlotte befriends a quiet Amish man named Isaac Miller, she begins to rethink her motives. Isaac's been dealing with family issues for three difficult years. He believes Hannah King is the woman for him, but Hannah is...
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Publisher
Chris Kavelin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Is there a "next world"? Are loved ones who have died somehow still with us? In 1938 the German Reich inflicted a wave of violent, all night attacks on several Jewish communities (Kristallnacht). Far away in Australia, William Cooper, a distinguished Elder of the Yorta Yorta Nation, led a little-known march to the German Consulate to deliver his letter protesting the violation of those human rights. How contemporary Jewish and Aboriginal communities...
8) Tarzan
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Deep within the African jungle, a mama gorilla names an orphaned baby boy 'Tarzan' and adopts him as her own, even though the silverback leader Kerchak shuns the 'hairless wonder'. Growing up alongside his wisecracking ape buddy Terk and neurotic elephant pal Tantor, Tarzan develps all the instincts and prowess of a jungle animal, 'surfing' and swinging through the trees at ligtning speed. But with the sudden appearance of Tarzan's own kind, including...
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Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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In this groundbreaking work of biblical analysis and interpretation, one of the most admired religious leaders of our time shows that religiously inspired violence has as its source misreadings of the texts of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Koran. When religion becomes a zero-sum conceit--i.e., my religion is the only "right" path to God, therefore your religion is by definition "wrong"--Violence between peoples of different beliefs...
11) A neon darkness
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Series
Bright sessions volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Robert Gorham always gets what he wants. But the power of persuasion is as potent a blessing as it is a curse. Robert is alone until a group of strangers who can do impossible things?produce flames without flint, conduct electricity with their hands, and see visions of the past?welcome him. They call themselves Unusuals and they give Robert a new name too: DAMIEN. Finally, finally he belongs. As long as he can keep his power...
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English
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"A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. As the web of modernity draws ever closer, the island represents the last chapter in the Age of Discovery-the final holdout in a completely connected world. In November 2018, a zealous American missionary was killed...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"For readers of Three Cups of Tea; Eat, Pray, Love; and Wild comes the inspiring story of an ordinary American family that embarks on an extraordinary journey. Wide-Open World follows the Marshall family as they volunteer their way around the globe, living in a monkey sanctuary in Costa Rica, teaching English in rural Thailand, and caring for orphans in India. There's a name for this kind of endeavor--voluntourism--and it might just be the future...
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Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Profound essays on nurturing life while facing a terminal diagnosis, from the dedicated humanitarian and young mother whose writings The New York Times called "nothing less than a master class in how to be fully human". "I am holding both my hope and my grief together in the same hands. It is a loose hold, looser than I am accustomed to. My love is so much bigger than me." Nonprofit leader and minister Tallu Schuyler Quinn has spent her adult life...
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English
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The author's premise is that within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. Here, the author unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through these stories and commentaries, the...
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh--these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable...
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