Author: Jayne Davis
Publisher: Verbena Books
ISBN: 9781999954437
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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England, 1777 After fighting a duel, Will, Viscount Wingrave, is forced to marry. His bride wants a husband who will love and respect her, not a womaniser and a gambler. They meet at the altar. Their new home conceals dangerous secrets that threaten them and the nation. Can they overcome the forces against them and forge a happy life together?

Author: Forrest Gander
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811226972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Book of 2018 Forrest Gander’s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section—a moving transcription of Gander’s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer’s—rise from the page like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and, as one critic noted, “the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.”

Author: Forrest Gander
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811230309
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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An exciting new book about renewal by the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations. While conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. Throughout Twice Alive, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness.

Author: Gerald Cislon
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469181525
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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An adventure brimming with strong, political religious and theological themes, awaits the readers as Gerald Cislon weaves another stellor installment of his arsenal of great fiction series. In his latest published book, "Gander," he transports you back to a time in the 1980s when life, world peace and stability is threatened by religious, thoelogical and fantatic beliefs people would rather follow more then the will of God in one Faith. Cislon takes readers to that time of the year when most religions seperately celebrate God through different denominational values. This is also the time people plan and dream of being together simply to share with their individual familys in Faith. Meanwhile forces of unknown proportion decide to alter the joy and in return bring pain and suffering into others lives. As a plane load of soldiers, gone for over a year now, returns home to their loved ones just in time to celebrate, when the joys of giving are taken from them. The evil scepter of hate destroys the lives and the joy of reunion of loved ones. Join Gerald in the pursuit of tracking and stopping these terrorists before they can strike again. Long after the book ends you as the reader will ponder on how much of this story is based on actual fact.

Author: Iona Archibald Opie
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9781564026200
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Charming watercolor illustrations enhance a delightful collection of sixty classic Mother Goose rhymes, including "Hey Diddle, Diddle," "Pat-a-Cake," "Little Jack Horner," and many others.

Author: Kevin Tuerff
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1487005148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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One of the inspirations for the smash hit Broadway musical Come From Away, Channel of Peace is an unforgettable memoir of the extraordinary kindness afforded to passengers whose flights were re-routed to Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001. When Kevin Tuerff and his partner boarded their flight from France to New York City on September 11, 2001, they had no idea that a few hours later the world — and their lives — would change forever. After U.S. airspace closed following the terrorist attacks, Kevin, who had been experiencing doubts about organized religion, found himself in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, with thousands of other refugees or “come from aways.” Channel of Peace is a beautiful account of how the people of Gander rallied with boundless acts of generosity and compassion for the “plane people,” renewing Kevin’s spirituality and inspiring him to organize an annual and growing “giving back” day. His unforgettable and uplifting story, along with others, has reached thousands of people when it was incorporated into the Broadway musical Come From Away.

Author: Jim DeFede
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062103288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill. As the passengers stepped from the airplanes, exhausted, hungry and distraught after being held on board for nearly 24 hours while security checked all of the baggage, they were greeted with a feast prepared by the townspeople. Local bus drivers who had been on strike came off the picket lines to transport the passengers to the various shelters set up in local schools and churches. Linens and toiletries were bought and donated. A middle school provided showers, as well as access to computers, email, and televisions, allowing the passengers to stay in touch with family and follow the news. Over the course of those four days, many of the passengers developed friendships with Gander residents that they expect to last a lifetime. As a show of thanks, scholarship funds for the children of Gander have been formed and donations have been made to provide new computers for the schools. This book recounts the inspiring story of the residents of Gander, Canada, whose acts of kindness have touched the lives of thousands of people and been an example of humanity and goodwill.

Author: Robyn Walker
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554884632
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Sergeant Gander is a fascinating account of the Royal Rifles of Canada's canine mascot, and his devotion to duty demonstrated during the Battle of Hong Kong in the Second World War. Armed only with his formidable size, an intimidating set of teeth, and a protective instinct, Gander rought alongside his fellow Canadian soldiers. As the Royal Rifles' position become more precarious, the men were forced to retreat into the hills of Hong Kong, and it was here that a group of wounded Canadians, threatened by a live grenade, came to fully appreciate the loyalty of Gander. For his service in battle, Sergeant Gander was awarded the Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent to the Victoria Cross for humans. This honour is dedicated to animals displaying gallantry and devotion to duty while under any control of the armed forces. Sergeant Gander is the nineteenth dog to receive this medal and the first Canadian canine to do so.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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Author: Frances Kelly
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039174841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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Ireland, 1540s. The Silver Gander, set against the tapestry of Celtic society, is a novel about one woman’s devotion to her people, amid a web of political intrigue. Saoirse Brennen, a trusted advisor to her chieftain, must walk a careful path when his son murders a local farmer. But that path is overshadowed when the English king, Henry VIII, claims all of Ireland as his own. The treachery of one chieftain and the cunning of another forces Saoirse into an impossible situation: to submit to English subjugation or watch her people lose their livelihoods. Either way, her way-of-life will be destroyed. When Saoirse becomes chieftain, she realizes the ancient laws of the Celts are failing under the burden of change. Navigating impending economic ruin, discriminatory laws, a scattered family, and murderous interlopers, Saoirse builds alliances and calls on old wisdom to find a new path. But there is a piece of her own past that keeps intruding. Her decision to carry her burden alone threatens to turn away the one man who can help her most. The Silver Gander weaves a story of love and determination amid the last vestiges of an ancient society, a story that, centuries later, is unexpectedly familiar.