Author: Laura Apol
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628954442
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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In late April 2017, Laura Apol’s twenty-six-year-old daughter, Hanna, took her own life. Apol had long believed in the therapeutic possibilities of writing, having conducted workshops on writing-for-healing for more than a decade. Yet after Hanna’s death, she had her own therapeutic writing to do, turning her anguish, disbelief, and love into poems that map the first year of loss. This collection is the result of that writing, giving voice to grief as it is lived, moment by moment, memory by memory, event by event. While most writing about loss does so from a distance, Apol chooses instead to write from inside those days and months and seasons, allowing readers to experience alongside the poet the moments, the questions, and the deep longings that shape the first grief-year.
Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545517125
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.
Author: Randell Stroud
Publisher: Lulu
ISBN: 1716146372
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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The Korean Peninsula is geographically, technologically, and culturally, one of the most intriguing and important places on Earth. In this report submitted to the United Nations in Nairobi/Environmental affairs and to the Korean Environmental Ministry, the pros and challenges of North/South unification as well as practical solutions for the eradication and/or reduction of the fine-dust air crisis, is addressed in this title. As an American descendant of those who fought in the Korean war, and adopted family members who share in the ethnic pride of the Joseon people, I owe it to them to offer my pragmatic and innovation solutions to these issues using philosophy, diplomacy, and technology to achieve peace, prosperity, and stability in this important region within our eastern hemisphere. In this title, I also push for hydrogen fuel alternatives and new technologies which are going through the patent pending process in order to help achieve these end-goals. I believe that maintaining responsibility over the Korean Peninsula and keeping our promises to those who died and bled for democracy to thrive there is the best way to maintain the region, and for the sake of my ancestors, I will commit myself to keeping their memories alive.
Author: William Stafford
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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A collection of fifty poems which reflect the ways in which we relate to the world around us.
Author: Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : Purity (Ethics)
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
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Author: Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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The storyline of "The Search" is set during the WWI and follows a spirited girl Ruth Macdonald who helps a lonely soldier to find the true love he was looking for.
Author: Laura Apol
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628951362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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A marvelous, moving new collection of poems, Requiem, Rwanda has its roots in 2006, when Laura Apol made her first trip to Rwanda. Apol’s initial goal was to develop, in conjunction with Rwandan and American colleagues, a project using narrative writing to facilitate healing among young survivors of the 1994 genocide. During the time she spent leading workshops, Apol felt moved to write her own poems, and after the writing-for-healing project ended, she returned to Rwanda several times to continue her creative work. The legacy of the genocide—on the people, on the land itself—makes its presence felt in many of the poems. The poems are also accounts of Apol’s relationships with and understandings of people post-genocide—where their stories go, how they reenter their lives, and how a country that has been deeply wounded by its history continues on. These poems don’t shy away from exploring the complications of being a white woman, a Westerner, and a witness in this setting: Apol relates her sense of compassion, privilege, horror, guilt, voyeurism, obligation, and love. This new collection is a rich testimonial to the strength of a nation and its people. The collection includes a closing essay, "Writer as a Witness."
Author: Isabel Ostrander
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Author: Hugh Howey
Publisher: John Joseph Adams
ISBN: 0544838262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 483
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Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall.
