Author: Leslie Li
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559707688
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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This powerful, touching memoir vividly recounts how Leslie Li's grandmother's traditional Chinese cuisine helped the author bridge the cultural divide in an America in which she is a minority. Interspersed throughout this poignant memoir are the author's personal recipes, most from her grandmother's kitchen.
Author: Judith Gautier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: Michelanne Forster
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 086473784X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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On June 22, 1954 in a secluded part of Victoria Park in Christchurch, Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker battered Pauline's mother to death. The infamous murder, also depicted in the Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures, arose from the passionate friendship of the two girls.
Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542922203
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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The biography of Wu Chao who rose from being a junior concubine fifth class to Emperor of China in her own right, changing the dynasty name to her own. Along the way, she used her sexual wiles and murdered rivals and her own children.
Author: Suzanne Rentz
Publisher: Harrison House
ISBN: 9781577947998
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Life is filled with choices and challenges. Are your young readers making the best decisions about friendships? Family? Guys? Purity? Faith? Forgiveness? Schoolwork? Temptation? Taking a stand? The future? The good news is that they are not alone. God loves this special group of young believers. He created them with specific personalities and He desires to spend time with them.
Author: Norman Hinsdale Pitman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781537447520
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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This classic Chinese folk tale is part of a series entitled A Chinese Wonder. The series was originally published in anthology form in 1919. Each story has been lovingly reproduced and includes the original (cover) art of Li Chu T'ang. This volume tells the story of a little girl who becomes a goddess.
Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400078997
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1626721262
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries later, hiding in the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna, who people call a witch; there in the halls of a Long Island hospital at the beginning of the 20th century, where a mad poet watches the oceans and knows the horrors it hides; and there in the far future, as an astronaut faces his destiny on the first spaceship sent from earth to colonize another world. Each of the characters in these mysterious linked stories embarks on a journey of discovery and survival; carried forward through the spiral of time, none will return to the same place. This title has Common Core connections.
Author: Christy Wilson Beam
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316381853
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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"Miracles from Heaven is a powerful, healing story about family, love, faith, and hope. It amazed me and it will inspire readers everywhere." -- T.D. Jakes, bestselling author of Destiny In a remarkable true story of faith and blessings, a mother tells of her sickly young daughter, how she survived a dangerous accident, her visit to Heaven and the inexplicable disappearance of the symptoms of her chronic disease. Annabel Beam spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals with a rare and incurable digestive disorder that prevented her from ever living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day when she was able to go outside and play with her sisters, she fell three stories headfirst inside an old, hollowed-out tree, a fall that may well have caused death or paralysis. Implausibly, she survived without a scratch. While unconscious inside the tree, with rescue workers struggling to get to her, she visited heaven. After being released from the hospital, she defied science and was inexplicably cured of her chronic ailment. Miracles from Heaven will change how we look at the world around us and reinforce our belief in God and the afterlife.
Author: Kathleen Robinson
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780816159611
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Romance about captivity, courtship, and courage involving a Gothic warrior and a Roman princess.
