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Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152013899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.

Author: Ardis-Denise Summers
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450085474
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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Author: Dorothy Hamilton
Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House
ISBN: 1912567792
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter is written for all psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists who practise under the broad banner of psychoanalytic thinking. It is also for anyone who loves beauty and wants to think more about its place in the mind.

Author: Jerry Morin
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1602666431
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Morin uses this text to answer common questions Christians struggle with. Among the topics he discusses are church unity, a drop in church attendance, and why Gods power and glory arent seen today. (Social Issues)

Author: Brittany Luby
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316449148
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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A powerful imagining by two Native creators of a first encounter between two very different people that celebrates our ability to acknowledge difference and find common ground. Based on the real journal kept by French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1534, Encounter imagines a first meeting between a French sailor and a Stadaconan fisher. As they navigate their differences, the wise animals around them note their similarities, illuminating common ground. This extraordinary imagining by Brittany Luby, Professor of Indigenous History, is paired with stunning art by Michaela Goade, winner of 2018 American Indian Youth Literature Best Picture Book Award. Encounter is a luminous telling from two Indigenous creators that invites readers to reckon with the past, and to welcome, together, a future that is yet unchartered.

Author: William R. Leach
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400076927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout. From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America's infatuation with butterflies—“flying flowers”—and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysteries of their existence. A product of William Leach's lifelong love of butterflies, this engaging and elegantly illustrated history shows how Americans from all walks of life passionately pursued butterflies, and how through their discoveries and observations they transformed the character of natural history. In a book as full of life as the subjects themselves and foregrounding a collecting culture now on the brink of vanishing, Leach reveals how the beauty of butterflies led Americans into a deeper understanding of the natural world.

Author: Mena Suvari
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0306874490
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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A memoir by award-winning actor Mena Suvari, best-known forher iconic roles in American Beauty, American Pie, and Six Feet Under. The Great Peace is a harrowing, heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Hollywood, in which young teenage model-turned-actor Mena Suvari lost herself to sex, drugs and bad, often abusive relationships even as blockbuster movies made her famous. It's about growing up in the 90s, with a soundtrack ranging from The Doors to Deee-Lite, fashion from denim to day-glo, and a woman dealing with the lasting psychological scars of abuse, yet knowing deep inside she desires so much more from life. Within these vulnerable pages, Mena not only reveals her own mistakes, but also the lessons she learned and her efforts to understand and grow rather than casting blame. As such, she makes this a timeless story of girl empowerment and redemption, of somebody using their voice to rediscover their past, seek redemption, and to understand their mistakes, and ultimately come to terms with their power as an individual to find a way and a will to live—and thrive. Poignant, intimate, and powerful, this book will resonate with anyone who has found themselves lost in the darkness, thinking there's no way out. Ultimately, Mena's story proves that, no matter how hopeless it may seem, there's always a light at the end.

Author: John Waldman
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823249913
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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A groundbreaking new book, Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on the relationship between nature and America’s most prominent city. The volume’s title derives from a telling observation in Robert Sullivan’s contribution that considers how a hawk in the city is perceived so much differently from a hawk in the countryside. Yet it’s still the same hawk. How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Or a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the community? Why does the presence of a community garden or an empty lot ripple so differently through the surrounding neighborhood? Is the city an oasis or a desert for biodiversity? Why does nature even matter to New Yorkers, who choose to live in the concrete jungle? Still the Same Hawk examines these questions with a rich mix of creative nonfiction that ranges from analytical to anecdotal and humorous. John Waldman’s sharp, well-crafted introduction presenting dualism as the defining quality of urban nature is followed by compelling contributions from Besty McCully, Christopher Meier, Tony Hiss, Kelly McMasters, Dara Ross, William Kornblum, Phillip Lopate, David Rosane, Robert Sullivan, Anne Matthews, Devin Zuber, and Frederick Buell. Together these pieces capture a wide range of viewpoints, including the myriad and shifting ways New Yorkers experience and consider the outdoors, the historical role of nature in shaping New York’s development, what natural attributes contribute to New York’s regional identity, the many environmental tradeoffs made by urbanization, and even nature’s dark side where “urban legends” flourish. Still the Same Hawk intermingles elements of natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics, providing fresh insights into nature and the urban environment on one of the world’s great stages for the clash of these seemingly disparate realms—New York City.

Author: Ingri D'Aulaire
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385074544
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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A simple biography of the proud Indian princess who saved the life of John Smith, married an Englishman, and went to England where she met the Queen.

Author: Susan Grogan
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1602665087
Category : Armageddon
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Supernatural rulers of darkness are behind an American Hiroshima, fulfilling Biblical prophecy and ushering in the one-world government of the Antichrist. Jaron Fuller and Mandy Harris are conducting a Bible prophecy conference in Los Angeles, unaware of the impending disaster. Will they leave before Los Angeles is vaporized by the approaching nuclear missile?