Author: Lisa G. Shore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228804864
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A warm summer night, a sky full of stars and a bright, twinkling light. What could it be? Wistful imaginings draw the reader farther and farther away, from a bug up close to finally, face-to-face with Mother Nature! Inspired by a true event, this dreamy bedtime story drifts us into outer space and will change how we look at a night sky forever. Sending us into the heart of the universe, the curious twinkle light unites us all with a wink and a kiss.
Mother Nature's Kiss
Author: Lisa G. Shore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228804864
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A warm summer night, a sky full of stars and a bright, twinkling light. What could it be? Wistful imaginings draw the reader farther and farther away, from a bug up close to finally, face-to-face with Mother Nature! Inspired by a true event, this dreamy bedtime story drifts us into outer space and will change how we look at a night sky forever. Sending us into the heart of the universe, the curious twinkle light unites us all with a wink and a kiss.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228804864
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A warm summer night, a sky full of stars and a bright, twinkling light. What could it be? Wistful imaginings draw the reader farther and farther away, from a bug up close to finally, face-to-face with Mother Nature! Inspired by a true event, this dreamy bedtime story drifts us into outer space and will change how we look at a night sky forever. Sending us into the heart of the universe, the curious twinkle light unites us all with a wink and a kiss.
Mother Natures Dream
Author: Kirsten Merinda Jeffery
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438904037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Mother Nature's Dream is a magical story about Mother Nature and her four daughters; the seasons of spring, summer, fall and winter. Blossom, Sunburst, Autumn and Sparkle are dramatically different in appearance and in personality. Each daughter wishes to share her gift of creating unique beauty on Earth, but soon grows impatient. The daughters learn to appreciate and respect one another's talents with the help of their nurturing mother. Simply turn the pages of this book and allow the illustrations to take you deeper. If you are a child, let this story fill your mind with more wonder. If you are an adult, allow yourself to connect with your inner child that is still breathing inside of you.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438904037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Mother Nature's Dream is a magical story about Mother Nature and her four daughters; the seasons of spring, summer, fall and winter. Blossom, Sunburst, Autumn and Sparkle are dramatically different in appearance and in personality. Each daughter wishes to share her gift of creating unique beauty on Earth, but soon grows impatient. The daughters learn to appreciate and respect one another's talents with the help of their nurturing mother. Simply turn the pages of this book and allow the illustrations to take you deeper. If you are a child, let this story fill your mind with more wonder. If you are an adult, allow yourself to connect with your inner child that is still breathing inside of you.
A Kiss of Shadows
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345446887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet Merry Gentry, paranormal P.I., and enter a thrilling, sensual world as dangerous as it is beautiful, full of earthly pleasures and dazzling magic, and ruled by the all-consuming passions of immortal beings once worshipped as gods . . . or demons. Merry Gentry, princess of the high court of Faerie, is posing as a human in Los Angeles, working as a private investigator specializing in supernatural crime. But now the queen’s assassin has been dispatched to fetch her—whether she likes it or not. Suddenly Merry finds herself a pawn in her dreaded aunt’s plans. The job that awaits her: enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. The reward: the crown—and the opportunity to continue to live. The penalty for failure: death. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Laurell K. Hamilton’s A Shiver of Light. Praise for Laurell K. Hamilton and A Kiss of Shadows “One of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.”—Charlaine Harris “Sexy . . . Merry’s adventures are engaging and keep the reader turning the pages.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Stunning . . . steamy . . . an exciting and original world.”—San Jose Mercury News “I’ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination.”—Diana Gabaldon
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345446887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet Merry Gentry, paranormal P.I., and enter a thrilling, sensual world as dangerous as it is beautiful, full of earthly pleasures and dazzling magic, and ruled by the all-consuming passions of immortal beings once worshipped as gods . . . or demons. Merry Gentry, princess of the high court of Faerie, is posing as a human in Los Angeles, working as a private investigator specializing in supernatural crime. But now the queen’s assassin has been dispatched to fetch her—whether she likes it or not. Suddenly Merry finds herself a pawn in her dreaded aunt’s plans. The job that awaits her: enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. The reward: the crown—and the opportunity to continue to live. The penalty for failure: death. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Laurell K. Hamilton’s A Shiver of Light. Praise for Laurell K. Hamilton and A Kiss of Shadows “One of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.”—Charlaine Harris “Sexy . . . Merry’s adventures are engaging and keep the reader turning the pages.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Stunning . . . steamy . . . an exciting and original world.”—San Jose Mercury News “I’ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination.”—Diana Gabaldon
The Kaiser's Last Kiss
Author: Alan Judd
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150114409X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers"--Copyright page.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150114409X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers"--Copyright page.
Kissed by a Fox
Author: Priscilla Stuckey
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1582438129
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Dissatisfaction with nature flows throughout Western civilization, as deep as its blood, as abiding as its bones. Convinced to the marrow that something is deeply wrong with nature, . . . the Western world tries to remake it into something better." For Priscilla Stuckey, this is a fundamental and heartbreaking misconception: that nature can be fixed, exploited, or simply ignored. Modern societies try to bend nature to human will instead of engaging in give–and–take with a living, breathing land community. Using her personal experiences as the cornerstone, Stuckey explores the depth of relationship possible with the birch tree in our backyard, the nearby urban creek, the dog who settles on our bed each night. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as ancient philosophers and contemporary biologists, Stuckey challenges readers to enact a different story of nature, one in which people and place are not separate, where other creatures respond to human need, and where humans and all others together create the world. With the eloquence of the great nature writers before her, Stuckey encourages us to open ourselves to the unlimited possibilities of a truly connected life.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1582438129
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Dissatisfaction with nature flows throughout Western civilization, as deep as its blood, as abiding as its bones. Convinced to the marrow that something is deeply wrong with nature, . . . the Western world tries to remake it into something better." For Priscilla Stuckey, this is a fundamental and heartbreaking misconception: that nature can be fixed, exploited, or simply ignored. Modern societies try to bend nature to human will instead of engaging in give–and–take with a living, breathing land community. Using her personal experiences as the cornerstone, Stuckey explores the depth of relationship possible with the birch tree in our backyard, the nearby urban creek, the dog who settles on our bed each night. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as ancient philosophers and contemporary biologists, Stuckey challenges readers to enact a different story of nature, one in which people and place are not separate, where other creatures respond to human need, and where humans and all others together create the world. With the eloquence of the great nature writers before her, Stuckey encourages us to open ourselves to the unlimited possibilities of a truly connected life.
The History of the Kiss!
Author: M. Danesi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137376856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
How and when did the kiss become a vital sign of romance and love? In this wide-ranging book, pop culture expert Marcel Danesi takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of the kiss, from poetry and painting to movies and popular songs, and argues that its romantic incarnation signaled the birth of popular culture.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137376856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
How and when did the kiss become a vital sign of romance and love? In this wide-ranging book, pop culture expert Marcel Danesi takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of the kiss, from poetry and painting to movies and popular songs, and argues that its romantic incarnation signaled the birth of popular culture.
The Magazine of the beau monde; or, Monthly journal of fashion [afterw.] The Nouveau beau monde; or Magazine of fashion
Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Lightning Flowers
Author: Katherine E. Standefer
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316450359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. From the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is, in fact, much more complicated. Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to medical technology, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life.
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316450359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. From the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is, in fact, much more complicated. Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to medical technology, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life.