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Xanadu 2
1994
Yolen's second fantasy collection, which includes seventeen stories and nine poems, focuses more on reality than fantasy. Three of the…
stories feature cats, including The Fifth Squashed Cat, about a hitchhiker who stays alive by using the magical bones of dead cats, and A Most Obedient Cat, about a cat that brings home dead bugs--among other things. In the poem Laurel, Again, an old women recalls her youth. Some violence and some strong languageStanding on one foot
1994
Nine essays by blind adults relating experiences regarding their blindness. Kenneth Jernigan writes about the pitfalls of social conditioning and…
of accepting the public's mistaken ideas of a blind person's limitations. Marc Maurer describes becoming a father for the first time, and Gwen Nelson offers her experience as a jurorNominees for the 1990 Nebula Awards. Winners are "The Hemingway Hoax" by Joe Haldeman, "Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang,…
and "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson. Nonfiction entries include tributes to Donald A. Wollheim and Lester del Rey, the Rhysling Award poetry winners, and reviews of the science fiction movies of 1990. Strong language, violence, and some descriptions of sexMost stories struggle with the question, "Is science good or bad?" "Even the Queen," by Connie Willis, addresses the issue…
of medical intervention. "Lennon Spex," by Paul Di Filippo, fea- tures magic eyeglasses that allow one to see the connection between tendrils growing from people's heads and what the tendrils represent. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexOh! Say can you see
Par American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults. 1992
An agency that specializes in services for blind children, elderly blind persons, and deaf-blind individuals provides this volume describing the…
types of assistance and products available through agency offices and government programs. The book introduces readers to a person who is both deaf and blind and to a family with a teenager who was born blind and lost his hearingEssays by thirteen former Peace Corps volunteers who were asked to return to their countries of service or countries in…
which they had lived and to write about them from the perspective of prior experience and current insights. Countries include Ecuador, Kenya, Peru, Somalia, Japan, Cameroon, Grenada, Hungary, and Tanzania. Each account is preceded by a brief survey of the author's service and published booksReinventing education: entrepreneurship in America's public schools
Par Louis V. Gerstner, Roger D. Semerad, Denis Philip Doyle. 1994
Reports the accomplishments of the RJR Nabisco Foundation's Next Century Schools program and outlines plans for the future. The authors…
assert that the principles of quality management that they believe contribute to success in the business world are applicable to the field of educationThe Year's best mystery & suspense stories, 1994
Par Edward D. Hoch. 1994
Twelve stories, including the editor's "A Traffic in Webs," in which a department store attempts to obtain a web display…
to exhibit during the Christmas season and triggers a string of murders in the process. Also includes contributions by other masters of the genre such as Lawrence Block, Kate Wilhelm, Peter Tremayne, Donald E. Westlake, Julian Rathbone, and Miriam Grace Monfredo. Some strong languageEssays concerned with diplomacy of the period between the two world wars. The editors have assembled a study of the…
roles played by personality, foreign service training, tradition, ambition, honesty, loyalty, intuition, secrecy, suspicion, communication devices, and the presence or absence of principles in the making of a diplomatLa malédiction de Novali Lavoie (Z'ados)
Par Danielle Boulianne. 2021
Le monde de Novali s’écroule à l’annonce de la nouvelle fatidique par sa mère : une malédiction plane sur les…
femmes de sa famille. Ces dernières meurent toutes le jour de leur quarantième anniversaire. Aidée de son père, de son meilleur ami Félix et des deux animateurs de la maison des jeunes où elle passe le plus clair de son temps, la jeune fille dispose de six mois pour changer le cours de l’histoire et sauver sa mère… et ainsi pouvoir espérer elle aussi passer le cap de la quarantaine. Réussira-t-elle à vaincre ce sortilège et conjurer cette fatalité ?Bonne nuit les cocos!
Par Mathieu Lavoie. 2021
Bonne nuit les cocos! Mais papa, tu as oublié les pyjamas! Et les doudous! Et les verres d'eau! Le papa…
de cette histoire oublie vraiment tout! Jusqu'au plancher, aux murs et au placard de la chambre qui se matérialisent graduellement sous le regard fasciné des lecteurs surpris par la progression inattendue du récit. Les petits auront-ils tout ce qu'il faut avant le matin? D’abord publié chez Scholastic en 2013 sous le titre Mais papa, Bonne nuit les cocos! est aujourd'hui présenté dans un tout nouveau format."Details of everyday life as blind persons live it." Members of the National Federation of the Blind, including Kenneth Jernigan…
and Mark Maurer, contribute essays. Jernigan explains his methods of shaving and brushing his teeth. Barbara Walker discusses her daughter's attitude about her mother's blindness. Patricia Maurer describes learning to read and write as a teenager in a rural communitySixty-five selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial American presses and magazines. "My Father, Dancing" by…
Bliss Broyard is her first published work. "A Thousand Buddhas," an essay about giving and receiving a massage, is by Brenda Miller, who once worked as a massage therapist. "Night Singing" is by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, W.S. Merwin. Some strong languageChildren's Express, a news service reported and edited by teenagers, interviewed young people around the country about violence. In their…
own words, more than forty teenagers describe the impact of violence on their lives, some as criminals, others as victims. They talk about drugs, guns, abuse in the home, and life on the streets. Violence and strong language. For high school and older readersSex in America: a definitive survey
Par Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, Gina Kolata. 1994
Results of a 1992 study conducted over seven months by the National Opinion Research Center using a random cross-section of…
more than three thousand American households, with about an 80 percent response. The authors dispel many myths regarding sexual activity, answer questions about what behavior is normal, and show how society determines our conduct. Some descriptions of sexLooking for your name: a collection of contemporary poems
Par Paul B. Janeczko. 1993
Anthology of poems by contemporary writers. Focusing on conflict in a range of situations, the poems are designed to evoke…
strong emotions. The opening poem recalls a first-grader's eagerness in raising his hand to be called on for the answer. Other poems deal with such topics as suicide, AIDS, nuclear accidents, and the swift passage of life. Some strong language. For high school and older readersL' ours et la femme venus des étoiles (Sentier de portage)
Par Christine Sioui Wawanoloath. 2021
Il y a de cela bien des lunes, une ourse bleue comme la nuit qui vivait dans le ciel donna…
naissance à Awassos, un petit ourson dont la fourrure brillait autant que les étoiles. Pour protéger son petit d’un grand chasseur, la mère ourse décida de le déposer sur Terre et de le confier aux esprits de la forêt. Awassos grandit dans ce nouveau monde tout en cherchant un moyen de revenir près de sa mère, qui lui manquait terriblement. Puis il rencontra Mkuigo, une femme-étoile qui lui fit découvrir l'amour et lui permit de devenir… le tout premier homme.Entendez-vous dans les campagnes (L' Aube noire)
Par Ahmed Tiab. 2022
Inspecteur de police, Lotfi Benattar se voit confier deux enquêtes : la mort d'un adolescent, dont le cadavre est retrouvé…
près de la forêt du parc naturel régional du Morvan, et la disparition de jeunes pensionnaires d'un centre de déradicalisation à proximité. Il rencontre une journaliste stagiaire au caractère bien trempé qui couvre l'affaire du lycéen.In selecting the twenty stories in this collection, Smiley indicates the order of the stories is artful--like a Chinese meal--so…
that the flavors enhance each other as the feast progresses. These "strange, exotic, rich, and charming" stories include selections by Gish Jen, Ellen Gilchrist, Stephen Dobyns, Kate Braverman, and Jamaica Kincaid. BestsellerGoing where I'm coming from: memoirs of American youth
Par Anne Mazer. 1995
Fourteen multicultural autobiographical tales of young people growing up in America. Some tales explain what it was like to immigrate…
to the United States, and others describe the experience of growing up within two cultures. In "Sound-Shadows of the New World," Ved Mehta, a blind student from India, arrives in America to attend a school for the blind. For junior and senior high readers