Author: James Harcourt WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Ninth Paradise
Author: James Harcourt WestNinth Ward (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Title)
Author: Jewell Parker RhodesPublisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316088412
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of survival in the face of Hurricane Katrina. Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving caretaker, wise in the ways of the world and able to predict the future. So when Mama Ya-Ya's visions show a powerful hurricane--Katrina--fast approaching, it's up to Lanesha to call upon the hope and strength Mama Ya-Ya has given her to help them both survive the storm. From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Boys and Towers Falling, Ninth Ward is a deeply emotional story about transformation and a celebration of resilience, friendship, and family--as only love can define it.
Paradise on Fire
Author: Jewell Parker RhodesPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1510109846
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
'Addy is a heroine any reader might aspire to be, a teenager who learns to trust her own voice and instincts, who realizes that fire can live within someone, too' - New York Times From award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age survival tale set during a devastating wild fire. Addy is haunted by the tragic fire that killed her parents, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. Now, years later, Addy's grandmother has enrolled her in a summer wilderness programme. There, Addy joins five other Black city kids - each with their own troubles - to spend a summer out west. Deep in the forest, the kids learn new (and to them) strange skills: camping, hiking, rock climbing and how to start and safely put out campfires. Most important, they learn to depend upon each other for companionship and survival. But then comes a furious forest fire ... From award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful survival tale exploring issues of race, class, and climate change.
Poems of the Life Beyond and Within
Author: Giles Badger StebbinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Paradise Built in Hell
Author: Rebecca SolnitPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101459018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.
The International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations from the Literature of the World
Author: William S. WalshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society
Author: Kosma Aiguptiou Monachou Christianike Topographia - The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk
Author: John W. McCrindlePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317108639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Translated from the Greek, and Edited, with Notes and Introduction. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1897.
Kosma Aigyptiou Monachou Christianikē Topographia
Author: Cosmas (Indicopleustes)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Christian Topography of Cosmas
Author: Cosmas (Indicopleustes)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description