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Daily reflections
Par Helen Rice. 1990
Bible scriptures are combined with inspirational poetry and brief prayers in this collection of meditations. Chapter themes include, "Prayer," "Faith,"…
"Peace," and "New Beginnings." Each section contains a brief prayer by Virginia J. RuehlmannBlack heroes of the American Revolution
Par Burke Davis. 1976
Although Revolutionary War history has traditionally focused on the courage of George Washington, Paul Revere, Ethan Allen, and other white…
Americans, black Americans also made heroic contributions to the War of Independence. This book tells the stories of Peter Salem, Oliver Cromwell, James Forten, and other African-Americans who fought, sacrificed, and performed valiantly in that effort. For grades 6-9 and older readersI, Columbus: my journal, 1492-3
Par Christopher Columbus. 1990
Christopher Columbus was one of the most able and accomplished sailors of his day. His life's dream was to discover…
a new way to reach the East, fabled for its riches. Unlike those before him, he would sail west to reach the Indies. With the backing of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, he embarked in 1492. Here is the record of his voyage, in his very own words. For grades 6-9 and older readersNow it your time!: The African-American struggle for freedom
Par Walter Myers. 1991
Against the historical backdrop of the constant struggle of African-Americans for freedom and equality, Myers weaves the personal stories of…
influential and ordinary people--slaves, soldiers, inventors, artists, and political leaders. For grades 6-9 and older readers. Coretta Scott King AwardIn memoriam, Maud and other poems
Par Alfred Tennyson. 1974
"In Memoriam" is a series of poems inspired by the changing moods of the author's regret for his dead friend.…
It describes the gradual transformation of this sorrow into a wider love of God and humanity. "Maud" is a monodrama in which the narrator, a man of morbid temperament, describes significant events in his life. Also includes some of Tennyson's best-known works, such as "The Charge of the Light Brigade."The bestiary of Christ
Par Louis Charbonneau-Lassay. 1991
Abridged version of work first published in France in 1940. Meditations on the symbolic meaning of animals in religious literature.…
The author researched artwork and documents from sources as diverse as ancient Egypt and the Renaissance, examining real and imagined animals from all parts of the worldBoys from different generations of the same family reveal what it is like to grow up in Europe in the…
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Michael, apprenticed to a merchant at fourteen, asserts his rights as he forges his career. Homesick Friederich is coached by his mother about girls and spending money. Stephan Carl pays for his adventuresome spiritColumbus and the world around him
Par Milton Meltzer. 1990
Meltzer, in this meticulously researched account, moves beyond Columbus's skills as a navigator to paint a picture of an arrogant,…
obsessive dreamer. Driven by greed for wealth and power and by a dubious interest in converting "the heathens," Columbus, like his comtemporaries, saw non-Europeans as inferior being ripe for enslavement, and their lands ripe for European exploitation. For grades 6-9 and older readersCollected verse of Edgar A. Guest
Par Edgar Guest. 1934
The color of Mesabi bones: poems and prose
Par John Caddy. 1989
John Caddy is a third-generation native of the Mesabi Range, a string of iron-ore mining towns in Minnesota. Sections of…
this book of poems and prose are entitled "Something for Everyone," "The Marriage of Salamanders," "The Color of Mesabi Bones," "Finding the Snake," "Changeling," "Bracken Time," and "Gyrfalcon." Caddy articulates his bittersweet feelings for the people and the harsh reality of the placeFunny business: an outsider's year in Japan
Par Gary Katzenstein. 1989
Katzenstein, chosen as one of fifteen Americans to be Luce Scholars, spent a year studying in Japan. With degrees in…
business and computer science, he felt well equipped to work at Sony. However, with no first-hand knowledge of Asia, he found a world so totally different from America that he made a cross-cultural mess of things. Sony gave up on him, but with ingenuity he found another job in JapanSomething big has been here
Par Jack Prelutsky. 1990
A delightful collection of short, witty, zany poems including "The Turkey Shot out of the Oven" (it was stuffed with…
unpopped popcorn), "My Frog Is a Frog" (a hoarse frog with a frog in its throat), and "My Sister Ate an Orange" (and a yellow, a purple, and a blue--crayon). For grades 2-4 and older readersMeditations for women who do too much
Par Anne Schaef. 1990
A book of daily meditations for women whose many responsibilities leave little time for reflection. Men, too, will appreciate these…
brief passages that help refocus attention on life's meaning. Each begins with a quotation and ends with a thought for the dayI shall not be moved
Par Maya Angelou. 1990
Eckankar: the key to secret worlds
Par Paul Twitchell. 1987
The science of Eckankar shows how to free the soul from the body and allow it to travel to other…
places, or even other dimensions. Twitchell, who was an ECK Master, presents accounts of how others have left their human bodies, and provides a step-by-step account of the four techniques--the emotional, the sound, the secret, and the master--by which a person might attain soul projection and a nearness to GodI hope
Par Raisa Gorbacheva. 1991
In her introduction, the wife of Michail Gorbachev states that her book is not an autobiography but rather a story…
about herself, past and present, and her reactions to historical events. In a series of five interviews held with Georgi Pryakhin, and translated by David Floyd, Raisa Gorbachev describes the role she came to play as the Soviet Union's first ladyThe August coup: the truth and the lessons
Par Mikhail Gorbachev. 1991
The Soviet Union's first democratically elected president describes the three-day coup d'etat that occurred in August of 1991. Gorbachev defends…
his actions during his confrontation with the plotters, addresses rumors concerning the incident, and discusses events that occurred immediately after the coup, such as the withdrawal of the Baltic States from the Union. He outlines his hopes for the USSRAnd so this is christmas: 51 seasonally adjusted poems
Par Brian Bilston. 2023
It's that time of year again . . . With his signature wit, Brian Bilston returns with And So This…
is Christmas , fifty-one poems in celebration of the festive season: from bizarre family traditions to the office Christmas party; from voting day for turkeys to the impossible art of gift-giving. So hang your stockings, grab your mistletoe and curl up with this heart-warming collection of Christmas crackersL' Horizon par hasard
Par Anne Parent. 2023
Depuis l’enfance, une femme avance, se perd, se métamorphose jusqu’à la disparition, ses pieds dans le sable, ses cheveux au…
soleil, ses mains ouvertes, son corps fatigué. L’intimité de sa chambre abandonnée explose de mystère et révèle à voix basse l’histoire de ses joies et de ses douleurs. En un réseau serré d’échos poétiques, Anne Martine Parent intrique silhouettes et fantômes, constellations, forêts, villes de sable et plages en ruines. Les peaux raccommodées de feuilles mortes, les corps féminins trahis et disloqués, qui se défont et se recomposent, deviennent autant de lieux de réparation, d’horizons fulgurants qu’on échafaude en retenant son souffle.The practice of the presence of God
Par Lawrence. 1974
A classic work by a humble man who was a soldier, a footman, and a monastery cook. His one desire…
was for communion with God, and he became a Carmelite lay brother in 1666 in Paris, taking the name Brother Lawrence