Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545347491
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse recreates the body and soul-renewing experience of a summer downpour after a sweltering city heat wave. "Come on, rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess hopes for rain. And when it comes, she and her friends are ready for a surprising and joyous celebration....Through exquisite language and acute observation, Newberry medalist Karen Hesse recreates the glorious experience of a quenching rainstorm on a sweltering summer day. Jon J Muth's masterful and lyrical watercolors perfectly reflect the spirit of the text.
Come On, Rain!
Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545347491
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse recreates the body and soul-renewing experience of a summer downpour after a sweltering city heat wave. "Come on, rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess hopes for rain. And when it comes, she and her friends are ready for a surprising and joyous celebration....Through exquisite language and acute observation, Newberry medalist Karen Hesse recreates the glorious experience of a quenching rainstorm on a sweltering summer day. Jon J Muth's masterful and lyrical watercolors perfectly reflect the spirit of the text.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545347491
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse recreates the body and soul-renewing experience of a summer downpour after a sweltering city heat wave. "Come on, rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess hopes for rain. And when it comes, she and her friends are ready for a surprising and joyous celebration....Through exquisite language and acute observation, Newberry medalist Karen Hesse recreates the glorious experience of a quenching rainstorm on a sweltering summer day. Jon J Muth's masterful and lyrical watercolors perfectly reflect the spirit of the text.
Earthshatter
Author: Albert Nothlit
Publisher: DSP Publications
ISBN: 1634768256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Haven Prime: Book One The world is gone. All that’s left are the monsters. The creatures attacked Haven VII with no warning. An AI named Kyrios, a nearly omnipotent being, should have protected the city during the Night of the Swarm. Except It didn’t. No one knows why It failed, or why It saved eight specific people: the Captain, the Seer, the Sentry, the Messenger, the Engineer, the Alchemist, the Medic, and the Stewardess. They have no idea of the meaning behind the titles they’ve been given, why they were selected and brought together, or what Kyrios expects from them. When they awake from stasis, they find their city in ruins and everyone long dead. They’re alone—or so they think. But then the creatures start pouring out from underground, looking for them. They don’t stand a chance in a fight, and with limited supplies, they can’t run forever. All they know is that the creatures aren’t their only enemies, and there’s only one place they can turn. Kyrios beckons them toward Its Portal, but can It be trusted? In Its isolated shrine in the desert, they might find the answers they need—if they can survive long enough to reach it.
Publisher: DSP Publications
ISBN: 1634768256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Haven Prime: Book One The world is gone. All that’s left are the monsters. The creatures attacked Haven VII with no warning. An AI named Kyrios, a nearly omnipotent being, should have protected the city during the Night of the Swarm. Except It didn’t. No one knows why It failed, or why It saved eight specific people: the Captain, the Seer, the Sentry, the Messenger, the Engineer, the Alchemist, the Medic, and the Stewardess. They have no idea of the meaning behind the titles they’ve been given, why they were selected and brought together, or what Kyrios expects from them. When they awake from stasis, they find their city in ruins and everyone long dead. They’re alone—or so they think. But then the creatures start pouring out from underground, looking for them. They don’t stand a chance in a fight, and with limited supplies, they can’t run forever. All they know is that the creatures aren’t their only enemies, and there’s only one place they can turn. Kyrios beckons them toward Its Portal, but can It be trusted? In Its isolated shrine in the desert, they might find the answers they need—if they can survive long enough to reach it.
Phantasmagoria
Author: Robert Spina
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 179604055X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
There are legends that no one has heard about. There are myths that have yet to become myth. He has walked the earth for seven hundred years, and no one knows it. That is because if he comes for you, you will beg him to kill you. Lucifer is his master. Deceit is his power. Eternal life is his goal, and your youth is what he is after. Retired Special Forces expert Stormy Rain Clouds, known as Rain, has no way of knowing if he is in a dream or in the real world. Will Rain be the first to figure out how to defeat the servant of hell, or will his youth nourish the eternal life of the most evil being walking the earth?
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 179604055X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
There are legends that no one has heard about. There are myths that have yet to become myth. He has walked the earth for seven hundred years, and no one knows it. That is because if he comes for you, you will beg him to kill you. Lucifer is his master. Deceit is his power. Eternal life is his goal, and your youth is what he is after. Retired Special Forces expert Stormy Rain Clouds, known as Rain, has no way of knowing if he is in a dream or in the real world. Will Rain be the first to figure out how to defeat the servant of hell, or will his youth nourish the eternal life of the most evil being walking the earth?
The Country Music Book of Lists
Author: Ace Collins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312187092
Category : Country music
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
More than just charts, star bios, and boring listings, "The Country Music Book of Lists" is the perfect gift or pop reference guide for trivia fans, filled with humor, insight, and "down home fun". 25 photos.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312187092
Category : Country music
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
More than just charts, star bios, and boring listings, "The Country Music Book of Lists" is the perfect gift or pop reference guide for trivia fans, filled with humor, insight, and "down home fun". 25 photos.
Rain
Author: Ebony Olson
Publisher: Ebony Olson
ISBN: 0648766551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The more put together someone looks, the more they have to hide. Rain has spent years trying to recover from the trauma of her youth. She’s pulled her life together, got herself a career, and has even managed to try a relationship. Stuffing down her fight or flight response into a socially acceptable behavior has been hard work, but she’s done it. Still, she feels too broken to ever find true happiness. Until she meets Jet. The gorgeous brother of Rain’s gay best friend, Jet is polar opposites to his brother. When Jet decides to pursue Rain, she’s swept off her feet, but it is not a relationship about which either of their families are happy. It turns out Jet and Rain both have traumas they need to get past. Can two broken souls make a future together?
Publisher: Ebony Olson
ISBN: 0648766551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The more put together someone looks, the more they have to hide. Rain has spent years trying to recover from the trauma of her youth. She’s pulled her life together, got herself a career, and has even managed to try a relationship. Stuffing down her fight or flight response into a socially acceptable behavior has been hard work, but she’s done it. Still, she feels too broken to ever find true happiness. Until she meets Jet. The gorgeous brother of Rain’s gay best friend, Jet is polar opposites to his brother. When Jet decides to pursue Rain, she’s swept off her feet, but it is not a relationship about which either of their families are happy. It turns out Jet and Rain both have traumas they need to get past. Can two broken souls make a future together?
Me, the Old Man
Author: Bill Reed
Publisher: Reed Independent
ISBN: 0994280505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
‘I not only write books. I am this book. The actual person or persons.’ ----------- After a flash flood in 1965 an elderly man became trapped down a Sydney parkland storm drain. Children discovered him but did not tell their parents. Instead they fed him a biscuit and a little water once a day for three weeks. When he was finally rescued, the flesh on his legs had become putrescent. He could not remember how long he had been down there. Bill Reed extends this situation to explore the interaction of innocence and inhumanity that is so prevalent in these days of random violence. Here, the old man, like so many others, has come to Australia with all the hopes of regeneration. But the sun has not shone on him very much and his brother and sister have disowned him. He has had to live in sordid hostels and to endure the barbs of a society that pays respect only to the fittest. As his minds drifts, the old man dreams he is back home in Belfast. He has got beyond the smell of his own rotting flesh and the fleas and rats. He no longer feels the cold or works up the desperation to plead with the children to get help. He floats mentally, waiting for the final water-rush of the coming last storm. And as he does so, the author uses himself as a character to the story, as one of the brutalisers, the sheer fact of writing about the old man in this terrible state possibly morally aligning him to the teasing, torturing children. Using Edward Nugent’s ‘real’ writings to give an authentic voice to the old man doesn’t help his frame of mind either. ---------------- Bill Reed has been involved in writing and publishing for most of his life, in Australia, Britain, Canada and the Subcontinent. He has had nine plays professionally staged and has written thirteen novels, including ‘1001 Lankan Nights’ books 1 and 2. He has won national awards in playwriting, short story and novel categories. He now resides in Sri Lanka. Edward Nugent was born in Belfast in 1900 and migrated to Australia after WW2, eventually living in a Salvation Army home in Adelaide where his major preoccupations were his manual typewriter and his old ‘fiddle’. He tragically died in a room fire in 1979, two days after receiving an advanced copy of this book. The quote above was his reaction.
Publisher: Reed Independent
ISBN: 0994280505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
‘I not only write books. I am this book. The actual person or persons.’ ----------- After a flash flood in 1965 an elderly man became trapped down a Sydney parkland storm drain. Children discovered him but did not tell their parents. Instead they fed him a biscuit and a little water once a day for three weeks. When he was finally rescued, the flesh on his legs had become putrescent. He could not remember how long he had been down there. Bill Reed extends this situation to explore the interaction of innocence and inhumanity that is so prevalent in these days of random violence. Here, the old man, like so many others, has come to Australia with all the hopes of regeneration. But the sun has not shone on him very much and his brother and sister have disowned him. He has had to live in sordid hostels and to endure the barbs of a society that pays respect only to the fittest. As his minds drifts, the old man dreams he is back home in Belfast. He has got beyond the smell of his own rotting flesh and the fleas and rats. He no longer feels the cold or works up the desperation to plead with the children to get help. He floats mentally, waiting for the final water-rush of the coming last storm. And as he does so, the author uses himself as a character to the story, as one of the brutalisers, the sheer fact of writing about the old man in this terrible state possibly morally aligning him to the teasing, torturing children. Using Edward Nugent’s ‘real’ writings to give an authentic voice to the old man doesn’t help his frame of mind either. ---------------- Bill Reed has been involved in writing and publishing for most of his life, in Australia, Britain, Canada and the Subcontinent. He has had nine plays professionally staged and has written thirteen novels, including ‘1001 Lankan Nights’ books 1 and 2. He has won national awards in playwriting, short story and novel categories. He now resides in Sri Lanka. Edward Nugent was born in Belfast in 1900 and migrated to Australia after WW2, eventually living in a Salvation Army home in Adelaide where his major preoccupations were his manual typewriter and his old ‘fiddle’. He tragically died in a room fire in 1979, two days after receiving an advanced copy of this book. The quote above was his reaction.
Montana Rain
Author: Cody Parrish
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304038033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
At home in the city of Atlanta, Rain Lyle has a career and a home and is well on her way to establishing herself as a music producer. But she has forgotten where she came from. Her brother shows up on her doorstep and tells her that he's on his way back to Montana, their home state, to visit the family since he hasn't seen them in so long. Rain decides to accompany him, mostly because she wants to remember a childhood that she lost four years ago...
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304038033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
At home in the city of Atlanta, Rain Lyle has a career and a home and is well on her way to establishing herself as a music producer. But she has forgotten where she came from. Her brother shows up on her doorstep and tells her that he's on his way back to Montana, their home state, to visit the family since he hasn't seen them in so long. Rain decides to accompany him, mostly because she wants to remember a childhood that she lost four years ago...
Rain's Rebellion
Author: ID Johnson
Publisher: Rogue Wolf Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Can one short conversation change Rain's world forever? After the Third World War, women seized the opportunity to overcome the surviving men, creating a new nation in part of what used to be the United States ruled by the Motherhood. From that day forward, all women are raised never to question the new order of things where women have all the power and men are used and discarded like animals. Rain knows in the back of her mind that this way is wrong, but she’s been indoctrinated to believe questioning the Mothers is wrong. All of that changes one afternoon when she’s fulfilling her duties in the Insemination Ward and sees one of the men face-to-face for the first time. Their conversation is brief, but Rain’s life will be changed forever. Now that Rain is aware that the Motherhood isn’t all it appears to be, she’s drawn into a circle of women who want change and are willing to sacrifice everything to overthrow the Motherhood, free the men, and create a world where everyone is appreciated and valued, regardless of gender. The road ahead is full of danger, and with every step, new questions and possibilities are presented to Rain. Will she join the rebellion and work to set men free—or will she continue to be a part of the all-powerful Motherhood? Rain’s Rebellion is book one in a new thrilling dystopian romance series.
Publisher: Rogue Wolf Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Can one short conversation change Rain's world forever? After the Third World War, women seized the opportunity to overcome the surviving men, creating a new nation in part of what used to be the United States ruled by the Motherhood. From that day forward, all women are raised never to question the new order of things where women have all the power and men are used and discarded like animals. Rain knows in the back of her mind that this way is wrong, but she’s been indoctrinated to believe questioning the Mothers is wrong. All of that changes one afternoon when she’s fulfilling her duties in the Insemination Ward and sees one of the men face-to-face for the first time. Their conversation is brief, but Rain’s life will be changed forever. Now that Rain is aware that the Motherhood isn’t all it appears to be, she’s drawn into a circle of women who want change and are willing to sacrifice everything to overthrow the Motherhood, free the men, and create a world where everyone is appreciated and valued, regardless of gender. The road ahead is full of danger, and with every step, new questions and possibilities are presented to Rain. Will she join the rebellion and work to set men free—or will she continue to be a part of the all-powerful Motherhood? Rain’s Rebellion is book one in a new thrilling dystopian romance series.
Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Recovery in School Libraries
Author: Christie Kaaland
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610697308
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
When disaster strikes, school librarians can play a key role in keeping kids safe. This is the only book written specifically to provide school librarians with emergency preparedness and recovery tools as well as curricular tie-ins. No school is immune to disaster, whether in the form of a natural event like a tornado or a tragedy like the violence that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The key to minimizing injury or death in an emergency is preparednesssomething the school librarian is uniquely positioned to lead. This must-have book will show you how to be proactive in getting your school ready for the worst. It provides comprehensive preparedness and recovery plans, check lists, and curricular recommendations on preparedness that can be tailored to your individual library and community. Covering natural disasters, human-made disasters, and school violence, the book shows you how to conduct drills, assess vulnerabilities and risk, communicate preparedness plans, and use bibliotherapy for disaster recovery. It also describes how your library can be a safe haven for students who feel disconnected, bullied, or otherwise disenfranchised. Although the book is primarily intended for school librarians, classroom teachers will also find many ideas here for helping students be better prepared for disasters, whatever their cause or severity.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610697308
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
When disaster strikes, school librarians can play a key role in keeping kids safe. This is the only book written specifically to provide school librarians with emergency preparedness and recovery tools as well as curricular tie-ins. No school is immune to disaster, whether in the form of a natural event like a tornado or a tragedy like the violence that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The key to minimizing injury or death in an emergency is preparednesssomething the school librarian is uniquely positioned to lead. This must-have book will show you how to be proactive in getting your school ready for the worst. It provides comprehensive preparedness and recovery plans, check lists, and curricular recommendations on preparedness that can be tailored to your individual library and community. Covering natural disasters, human-made disasters, and school violence, the book shows you how to conduct drills, assess vulnerabilities and risk, communicate preparedness plans, and use bibliotherapy for disaster recovery. It also describes how your library can be a safe haven for students who feel disconnected, bullied, or otherwise disenfranchised. Although the book is primarily intended for school librarians, classroom teachers will also find many ideas here for helping students be better prepared for disasters, whatever their cause or severity.
Rain's Theory
Author: KC Mills
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1648541623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Rain had only been in love once in her life and it was the kind of love that held onto you so tight that nothing could erase it from your life, not even time or distance. Back in Atlanta after six years Rain was focused on one thing and that was finding the one person who ever truly owned her heart, Theory. Never mind the fact that she moved there with her current situation Jamel, because honestly that was all he would ever be. Theory knew from the from the first time he laid eyes on Rain that she owned his heart. She was the only thing he loved more than the streets that controlled him, so when Rain disappeared from his life he did the only thing he could and just survived. The streets became his priority and women became his past time. Now she's back, and things are as they should be, but will the choices that Theory made affect their chance to finally get it right?
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1648541623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Rain had only been in love once in her life and it was the kind of love that held onto you so tight that nothing could erase it from your life, not even time or distance. Back in Atlanta after six years Rain was focused on one thing and that was finding the one person who ever truly owned her heart, Theory. Never mind the fact that she moved there with her current situation Jamel, because honestly that was all he would ever be. Theory knew from the from the first time he laid eyes on Rain that she owned his heart. She was the only thing he loved more than the streets that controlled him, so when Rain disappeared from his life he did the only thing he could and just survived. The streets became his priority and women became his past time. Now she's back, and things are as they should be, but will the choices that Theory made affect their chance to finally get it right?