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A Blue Hand
In 1961, Allen Ginsberg Left New York By Boat For Bombay. He Brought With Him His Troubled Lover, Peter Orlovsky, And A Plan To Meet Up With Poets Gary Snyder And Joanne Kyger. He Left Behind Not Only Fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, And William Burroughs, But Also The Relentless Notoriety That Followed The Publication Of Howl, The Epic Work That Branded Him The Voice Of A Generation. Drawing From Extensive Research, Undiscovered Letters, Journals, And Memoirs, Acclaimed Biographer Deborah Baker Has Woven A Many-Layered Literary Mystery Out Of Ginsberg S Odyssey. A Blue Hand Follows The Poet And His Companions As They Travel From The Ashrams Of The Himalayan Foothills To Delhi Opium...
The Loneliest Christmas Tree
The little tree was a very lonely tree. In fact, he was the loneliest Christmas tree in the forest. He watched as all of the other trees around him were taken away to become beautiful Christmas trees in happy people s homes. Slowly, a large city grew up around him. Life as a tree in the big city wasn t too bad. Until, one day, a developer decided that the tree had to go in order to put in a parking lot. He would get his way, too, if not for the efforts of an unlikely savior and her equally unlikely friends! In her first book, award winning and Grammy nominated singer, Deborah Allen, tells a charming story of hope and inspiration. This book is beautifully illustrated by Molly Brooks."
Siege
Hurtling towards its inevitable and tragic conclusion, Deborah Snow draws us into a vortex of police missteps, extraordinary bravery and profound grief to reveal what happened during that awful day. 'I'm sure you [will be] as shocked and bewildered by what you've learnt, as I was.' 'Afterword', Louisa Hope, Lindt Cafe hostage On 15 December 2014, just ten days before Christmas, the unthinkable happened. A terrorist attack on Australian soil. For seventeen hours Islamic State-inspired gunman Man Haron Monis held his captives in a terrifying drama that paralysed Sydney and kept a nation glued to its television screens. Two hostages were killed and three seriously wounded. The others would have...
Dancing in the Wings
Sassy wants to be a ballerina more than anything, but she worries that her too-large feet, too-long legs, and even her big mouth will keep her from her dream. When a famous director comes to visit her class, Sassy does her best to get his attention with her high jumps and bright leotard.
The Cat at the Wall
A remarkable and thought-provoking new novel set on Israel’s West Bank, by the author of The Breadwinner. On Israel’s West Bank, a cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house that has just been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath the floorboards. Should she help him? After all, she’s just a cat. Or is she? It turns out that this particular cat is not used to thinking about anyone but herself. She was once a regular North American girl who only had to deal with normal middle-school problems — staying under the teachers’ radar, bullying her sister and the uncool kids at school, outsmarting her clueless ...
The Accusation
Authored by an anonymous writer and smuggled out of North Korea, The Accusation is the first work of fiction to come out of the country and a moving portrayal of life under a totalitarian regime. In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung’s totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and published around the world, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking window into this most secretive of countries. Bandi’s profound, deeply moving, vividly characterized stories tell of ordinary men and women facing the terrible absurdity of daily life in North Korea: a factory supervisor cau...
A Long Way from the Strawberry Patch
"Born in 1923 in Madisonville, Louisiana, Leah Chase would marry into the Chase restaurant family in nearby New Orleans, but that small geographic move would end up taking her worlds away. [She became] a national-award-winning cook and civic figure. This [book], told in the form of letters to God, shares her inspirational journey with middle-grade readers"--Publisher marketing.
Moon at Nine
In 1988 Tehran, teenaged girls Farrin and Sadira are sentenced to death for homosexuality. Farrin prays that her wealthy family will be able to save them before it is too late. Based on a true story.-- "Publisher"
Bonds of Community
Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as well. Although they lacked control over land and were second-class citizens, these rural women did not occupy a "separate sphere." Individually and collectively, they responded to inequality by actively enlarging the dimensions of sharing in their relationships with men. Nancy Grey Osterud uses a rich store of diaries, letters, and other first-person documents, in addition to public and organizational records, to reconstruct the everyday lives o...
The FIERCE System
The FIERCE System” was designed with you in mind. Mindset is everything. What you focus on will be what you bring to fruition. I was born to be an entrepreneur and excel. So too are you born to excel. This system is an amazing tool that you can use to have growth, self-development, and even reinvent yourself. The goal of this book for you to become fierce in your pursuit to win even fulfill your purpose. Through this system, you will be strong and fiercely move toward your destiny. Understand that it takes grit to win. It is our time to walk fiercely in destiny and authority in life. This is a book that will inspire, liberate and motivate you no matter what season in life you are in. You are fierce and built to last.
