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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Friend
Author: This Way Home
Author: Wes MoorePublisher: Ember
ISBN: 0385741707
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
“Brimming with hard realities about the choices we make, the friendships we keep, and the unlikely allies we find along the way, this affecting novel helps to fill the gaping hole left by Walter Dean Myers’s passing.” —Booklist “A taut, haunting tragedy.” —Kirkus Reviews One young man searches for a place to call home in this gut-wrenching, honest novel from New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore and cowriter Shawn Goodman. Elijah Thomas knows one thing better than anyone around him: basketball. But when a sinister street gang, Blood Street Nation, wants him and his team members to wear the Nation’s colors in the next big tournament, Elijah’s love of the game is soon thrown into jeopardy. The boys gather their courage and take a stand against the gang, but at a terrible cost. Now Elijah must struggle to balance hope and fear, revenge and forgiveness, to save his neighborhood. For help, he turns to the most unlikely of friends: Banks, a gruff ex–military man, and his beautiful and ambitious daughter. Together, the three work on a plan to destroy Blood Street and rebuild the community they all call home. This Way Home is a story about reclamation. It’s about taking a stand for what matters most, and the discovery that, in the end, hope, love, and courage are our most powerful weapons.
The Invisible Web
Author: Patrice KarstPublisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031652493X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
From the author of the million-copy-selling phenomenon The Invisible String comes a moving companion title about our connections to each other, to the world, and to the universe. For twenty years, the modern classic The Invisible String has helped hundreds of thousands of children and adults understand that they are connected to the ones they love, no matter how far apart they are. Now, the author of that bestselling phenomenon uses the same effective bonding technique to explain the very best news of all: All of our strings to one another are interconnected in The Invisible Web. "It breathes as we breathe, pulsating all over our Earth, the single heartbeat of life and love. And do you know what that makes us all? One Very Big Family!" This uplifting inspirational title for all ages puts the concept of "six degrees of separation" into a new context that urges readers to recognize, respect, and celebrate their infinite, unbreakable bonds with the entire human family. Don't miss these other books by Patrice Karst!The Invisible StringThe Invisible String Workbook: Creative Activities to Comfort, Calm, and ConnectThe Invisible Leash: A Story Celebrating Love After the Loss of a Pet
The Invisible Boy
Author: Alyssa HollingsworthPublisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1250155738
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
If no one sees him, does he exist? This superhero-inspired adventure story with short comics between each chapter explores friendship and what it means to be truly brave. Nadia looks for adventure in the pages of her Superman comic books, until a mysterious boy saves her dog from drowning during a storm and then disappears. Now she finds herself in the role of Lois Lane, hunting down the scoop of the Invisible Boy. Suddenly she’s in a real-life adventure that’s far more dangerous than anything in her comic books. The Invisible Boy is a mystery and an adventure story, as well as a story about child labor trafficking. Like Katherine Applegate, author of Crenshaw and Wishtree, Alyssa Hollingsworth takes a difficult subject matter and makes it accessible for middle-grade readers. Featuring illustrations by Deborah Lee
THE APPLE
Author: Ángel Ruiz CedielPublisher: Ángel Ruiz Cediel
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
The most disturbing and exciting thriller of recent years. Agile, surprising, with an action so intense and well elaborated that it won't let the reader breathe. No contemporary novel contains so much action and background at the same time, turning the improbable into an emotion that will shake the reader to the depths of himself. A deeply disturbing novel: a genius. The party of the discontented, Futuro, assumes power at the hands of Elías Salvatierra, political leader of this formation that will try to implement a true revolution of honesty. Once in government, and already with the absolute majority to direct the destinies of the country, the president will find himself submerged against his will in the Great Game of power. A cruel, ruthless, criminal game... and without sanctuaries: the Great Game. A game without absolute truths in which no one is what they seem and that goes far beyond what is imaginable, including a hidden but cruel war of power and survival that has been active for thousands of years and in which the new player will occupy a place of privilege, becoming the central object of the game. The magical and the everyday, the supernatural and the ordinary, and the divine and the human compete without rest, while the populations, ignorant spectators of what happens behind the scenes, remain hostage to beings that do not seem to be of this order or of this world. . The narrative and original agility of Ángel Ruiz Cediel in "La manzana" will convulse the reader with a literature of enormous depth, but without hackneyed truculences, handling betrayals, sex, corruption and the most stormy conditions of the human being in such a way that its intensity will move you, preventing you from abandoning the reading until you have finished the work, and it will seem short, despite its length, because the maximum intrigue is maintained until the last page.
Invisible Companions
Author: J. Bradley WiggerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503609189
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
From the US to Nepal, author J. Bradley Wigger travels five countries on three continents to hear children describe their invisible friends—one-hundred-year-old robins and blue dogs, dinosaurs and teapots, pretend families and shape-shifting aliens—companions springing from the deep well of childhood imagination. Drawing on these interviews, as well as a new wave of developmental research, he finds a fluid and flexible quality to the imaginative mind that is central to learning, co-operation, and paradoxically, to real-world rationality. Yet Wigger steps beyond psychological territory to explore the religious significance of the kind of mind that develops relationships with invisible beings. Alongside Cinderella the blue dog, Quack-Quack the duck, and Dino the dinosaur are angels, ancestors, spirits, and gods. What he uncovers is a profound capacity in the religious imagination to see through the surface of reality to more than meets the eye. Punctuated throughout by children's colorful drawings of their see-through interlocutors, the book is highly engaging and alternately endearing, moving, and humorous. Not just for parents or for those who work with children, Invisible Companions will appeal to anyone interested in our mind's creative and spiritual possibilities.
My Imaginary Jesus
Author: Matt MikalatosPublisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414370156
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Matt Mikalatos liked Jesus a lot. In fact, he couldn’t believe how much they had in common. They shared the same likes, dislikes, beliefs, and opinions. (Though Jesus did have better hair.) So imagine Matt’s astonishment when he finds out that the guy he knows as Jesus . . . isn’t. He’s an Imaginary Jesus: a comfortable, convenient imitation Matt has created in his own image. The real Jesus is still out there somewhere . . . and Matt is determined to find him. In this hilarious, fast-paced, sort-of-true story hailed as “Monty Python meets C. S. Lewis,” Matt embarks on an incredible chase to find the real Jesus and ask him the one question that his Imaginary Jesus has never been able to answer. It’s a wild spiritual adventure like nothing you’ve ever read before . . . and it might bring you face-to-face with an imposter in your own life. This new edition now contains a discussion guide, an interview with the author, and other bonus features! (Previously published as Imaginary Jesus.)
Elijah's Coin
Author: Steve O'BrienPublisher: A & N Publishing
ISBN: 0982073542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A work of didactic fiction somewhat in the mode of Mitch Albom¿s inspirational stories, this novel tells the story of a protagonist who suffers a tragic loss and is rapidly descending into a life of crime. One night, however, he has a fortuitous encounter with a mysterious night watchman, which sends him on a journey of self-discovery. A story about mentors and values, it confronts the reader with ethical questions and the possibility of self-transformation.
Moody Bible Institute Monthly
Author: Elijah the Tishbite: translated from the German
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm KRUMMACHERPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description