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Author: Stephen Chamberlain Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1788030575 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
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Graëlfire is a gripping new twist on Grail mythology. Based on the medieval legend of the Grail as a stone that fell from Heaven, the adventure is set in present-day Switzerland and medieval Occitania within a fictional cosmos where universes emerge from the cosmic soup of Graëlfire—the source of all Creation.
Author: Stephen Chamberlain Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1788030575 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
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Graëlfire is a gripping new twist on Grail mythology. Based on the medieval legend of the Grail as a stone that fell from Heaven, the adventure is set in present-day Switzerland and medieval Occitania within a fictional cosmos where universes emerge from the cosmic soup of Graëlfire—the source of all Creation.
Author: Ted Naifeh Publisher: Oni Press ISBN: Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 28
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A new force, the Amaraddan Guard, rules the streets of Umber, forcing citizens into indentured servitude to pay fines imposed upon them. With Emerane dead and the Furie still in hiding, the city's only hope lies with demi-god Grael. But when the Guard finds and exploits Grael's weakness, who will be left to stop them?
Author: Christina McKenna Publisher: Toby Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 332
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This beautifully rendered portrait of life in rural Ireland charms and delights with its authentic characters and gentle humor. This vivid portrayal of the universal search for love brings with it a darker tale, one that is heartbreaking in its poignancy.
Author: Daniel Gordis Publisher: Crown ISBN: 1400049547 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 304
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In the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis and his family moved to Israel from Los Angeles. They planned to be there for a year, during which time Daniel would be a Fellow at the Mandel Institute in Jerusalem. This was a euphoric time in Israel. The economy was booming, and peace seemed virtually guaranteed. A few months into their stay, Gordis and his wife decided to remain in Israel permanently, confident that their children would be among the first generation of Israelis to grow up in peace. Immediately after arriving in Israel, Daniel had started sending out e-mails about his and his family’s life to friends and family abroad. These missives—passionate, thoughtful, beautifully written, and informative—began reaching a much broader readership than he’d ever envisioned, eventually being excerpted in The New York Times Magazine to much acclaim. An edited and finely crafted collection of his original e-mails, If a Place Can Make You Cry is a first-person, immediate account of Israel’s post-Oslo meltdown that cuts through the rhetoric and stridency of most dispatches from that country or from the international media. Above all, Gordis tells the story of a family that must cope with the sudden realization that they took their children from a serene and secure neighborhood in Los Angeles to an Israel not at peace but mired in war. This is the chronicle of a loss of innocence—the innocence of Daniel and his wife, and of their children. Ultimately, through Gordis’s eyes, Israel, with all its beauty, madness, violence, and history, comes to life in a way we’ve never quite seen before. Daniel Gordis captures as no one has the years leading up to what every Israeli dreaded: on April 1, 2002, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that Israel was at war. After an almost endless cycle of suicide bombings and harsh retaliation, any remaining chance for peace had seemingly died. If a Place Can Make You Cry is the story of a time in which peace gave way to war, when childhood innocence evaporated in the heat of hatred, when it became difficult even to hope. Like countless other Israeli parents, Gordis and his wife struggled to make their children’s lives manageable and meaningful, despite it all. This is a book about what their children gained, what they lost, and how, in the midst of everything, a whole family learned time and again what really matters.
Author: Karen Goldman Publisher: Flashlight Press ISBN: 0983868557 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 218
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The children of the Israeli town of Keshet are born with the ability to bend nature to their will and 13-year-old Jordan has just discovered his gift of the power to transform into water. All of Jordan’s friends have unique powers: Noam can alter cloud formations, Ellah can spin webs, and little Eden can create the strange animals she sees in her dreams. No one knows the source of these powers except, perhaps, Miss Sara, the mysterious town matriarch who helps the children find and control their talents using Kabbalah and other mystical teachings from Israel’s forgotten past. However, someone has discovered the secret of the children of Keshet, and wants to use their powers for his own sinister purposes. To prevent such a disaster, Jordan and his friends must use their gifts to defeat an enemy who wields the power to erase the line between the living and the dead. Incorporating Jewish mythology and referencing various practices of Judaism, this book is a tale of friendship and the power of teamwork in the face of adversity.
Author: Louis Maistros Publisher: Toby Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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It is 1891 in New Orleans, and young Typhus Morningstar cycles under the light of the half-moon to fulfil his calling, re-birthing aborted foetuses in the fecund waters of the Mississippi River. He cannot know that nearby, events are unfolding that will change his life forever-events that were set in motion by a Voodoo curse gone wrong, forty years before he was born. In the humble home of Sicilian immigrants, a one-year-old boy has been possessed by a demon. His father dead, lynched by a mob, his distraught mother at her wit's end, this baby who yesterday could only crawl and gurgle is now walking, dancing, and talking - in a voice impossibly deep. The doctor has fled, and several men of the cloth have come and gone, including Typhu's father, warned off directly by the clear voice of his Savoir. A newspaper man, shamed by the part he played in inciting the lynch mob that cost this boy his father, appalled by what he sees, goes in search of help. Seven will be persuaded, will try to help...and all seven will be profoundly affected by what takes place in that one-room house that dark night. Not all will leave alive, and all will be irrevocably changed by this demonic struggle, and by the sound of the first notes blown of a new musical form: jazz..
Author: Ira T. Berkowitz Publisher: ISBN: 9781881927136 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 460
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SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO BECOME A WOLF BEFORE YOU CAN BE A MAN. Meet 18 year-old Greg Samstag. With his high cheekbones, slanted green eyes, and all-too-graceful gestures, he seems more like a cat than a wolf. Yet a shadowy, nameless force has been haunting Greg, tempting him to lead the simple, brutal life of a wolf. And Greg is sorely tempted. As a wolf, he can return to a long-lost innocence. He can escape his doubts about his masculinity and his relationship with his narcissistic mother. Greg's struggle with the werewolf leads him indirectly to his Jewish roots and to a religious life more satisfying than he has ever imagined, but the werewolf is not easily defeated. When Greg is at his weakest, the werewolf invades Greg's body. Greg must now expel the werewolf in a spiritual battle that requires great tenacity and faith. If he fails, he faces death-or worse. Often moving, sometimes surreally funny, A Wolf in the Soul is always intense. Nuanced, realistic characters mix with over-the-top, absurd personalities. Kabbalistic themes and literary allusions percolate under the surface. But overriding everything else is the story of one young man who struggles with his own worst tendencies and emerges triumphant.
Author: Darryl Wimberley Publisher: Toby Press ISBN: Category : African American teenagers Languages : en Pages : 376
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In their moving and intertwined drama two African-American teens endure the backlash following the integration of their segregated school with the all-white school run by Lafayette County's all-white school board.
Author: Jay Nussbaum Publisher: ISBN: 9781592642014 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 380
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After an act of kindness, J.J. Spencer is beaten bloody, arrested for drink driving and fired from his high-flying job. His perfect life seemingly over, J.J. decides he must dedicate himself to helping the very people who unwittingly lost him everything. It is through that journey that a new life is allowed to rise from the ashes.
Author: Talya Tate Boerner Publisher: One Mississippi Press LLC ISBN: 9781951418052 Category : Languages : en Pages : 326
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In this award-winning, coming-of-age novel, ten-year-old Gracie Lee struggles to make sense out of her life as an Arkansas farm girl in the early 1970s. Wise beyond her age yet imbued with child-like innocence, Gracie focuses on the three things that keep her awake at night: Solving the mystery of the man in the gray house; Surviving another school year at Savage Crossing Elementary; and, Saving her alcoholic Daddy from himself (and thereby saving the whole family and wider world). Gracie feels certain there is more to life beyond school and dull church sermons. She worries about the soldiers in Vietnam and wonders what it must be like to have been born Lisa Marie Presley from Tennessee instead of Gracie Lee Abbott from Arkansas. Mostly, she wishes her Daddy wasn't so mean. Gracie's unchecked imagination leads to Nancy Drew-type adventure. Adventure leads to trouble. She confides in unexpected characters and seeks solace in a mysterious gray house beyond the cotton field. When Gracie faces a difficult family situation, she must make a life-altering decision, one that will test the very essence of her character. "At best, most first novels indicate potential. It would be wrong to say that, when reading Talya Tate Boerner's The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee, I was pleasantly surprised. Actually, I was amazed. There's magic here, in a wonderfully-told story that will find a special place in any reader's heart." Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author. "Boerner's prose is a wonderful medium for unspooling Gracie's story, imbued with all the snark, wonder, and colorful details that characterize childhood... The author addresses real, high-stakes issues without slathering them in melodrama or saccharine sentimentality, and her book hearkens back to an older YA tradition of stories of plucky preteen girls, spooky houses, and inevitable tragedies that help mark the turning point from childhood to adolescence. A stirring novel with a distinctive young narrator." Kirkus Reviews
Author: Stephen Chamberlain
Author: Stephen Chamberlain
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Author: Christina McKenna
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Author: Ira T. Berkowitz
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Author: Jay Nussbaum
Author: Talya Tate Boerner