Author: Namwali Serpell
Publisher: Undelivered Lectures
ISBN: 9781945492433
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Speculative essays that probe the mythology of the face by the author of The Old Drift
Stranger Faces
Author: Namwali Serpell
Publisher: Undelivered Lectures
ISBN: 9781945492433
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Speculative essays that probe the mythology of the face by the author of The Old Drift
Publisher: Undelivered Lectures
ISBN: 9781945492433
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Speculative essays that probe the mythology of the face by the author of The Old Drift
The Other Face of God: When the Stranger Calls us Home
Author: Mary Jo Leddy
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331059
Category : Church work with refugees
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331059
Category : Church work with refugees
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Stranger with My Face
Author: Lois Duncan
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780316175630
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
A seventeen-year-old senses she is being spied on and probably impersonated, but when she discovers what actually is occurring, it is more unbelievable than she ever imagined.
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780316175630
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
A seventeen-year-old senses she is being spied on and probably impersonated, but when she discovers what actually is occurring, it is more unbelievable than she ever imagined.
The Face
Author: Tash Aw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1632060450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1632060450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage
Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547345984
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Award-winning and best-selling author Lois Lowry explores issues surrounding adoption in this poignant novel. Natalie Armstrong has everything: she’s smart and beautiful, has the perfect boyfriend, early acceptance to college, and a loving family. But the summer she turns seventeen, she finally decides to ask some unanswered questions: Who are her biological parents and why did they give her up when she was born? These questions take her on a journey from the deep woods of Maine to the streets of New York City, from the pages of old phone books and a tattered yearbook photo to the realization that she might actually meet her biological mother face-to-face.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547345984
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Award-winning and best-selling author Lois Lowry explores issues surrounding adoption in this poignant novel. Natalie Armstrong has everything: she’s smart and beautiful, has the perfect boyfriend, early acceptance to college, and a loving family. But the summer she turns seventeen, she finally decides to ask some unanswered questions: Who are her biological parents and why did they give her up when she was born? These questions take her on a journey from the deep woods of Maine to the streets of New York City, from the pages of old phone books and a tattered yearbook photo to the realization that she might actually meet her biological mother face-to-face.
The Face of a Stranger
Author: Anne Perry
Publisher: Fawcett Books
ISBN: 0804108587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Victorian sleuth William Monk wakes up in a hospital with no memory, but Police Inspector Runcorn, insisting that Monk is a detective, assigns him to investigate a "gentleman's" brutal murder involving the underside of British society. Reissue.
Publisher: Fawcett Books
ISBN: 0804108587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Victorian sleuth William Monk wakes up in a hospital with no memory, but Police Inspector Runcorn, insisting that Monk is a detective, assigns him to investigate a "gentleman's" brutal murder involving the underside of British society. Reissue.
Face of a Stranger
Author:
Publisher: Eternal Press
ISBN: 0980413303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher: Eternal Press
ISBN: 0980413303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Face of a Stranger
Author: Dan Roentsch
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595300855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A plague that thinks. A hero afraid to dream. For twenty years dictator Eric Sheel rules supreme in the Martian state of Edom while the plague takes his people. Only Harold Sevillus, Earth's premier scientist, knows the secret of how the plague works. Before he dies, Sevillus leaves an encoded message in the brain of his five year-old son, Maric. Sheel is convinced the message contains the truth about the plague, but he is unable to break the code. As Maric grows older, the message begins to intrude upon his dreams, and then his waking thoughts. At last he is confronted with a choice: Give Sheel what he wants and become part of a horrifying tyranny--or give up everything to save Edom and his soul.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595300855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A plague that thinks. A hero afraid to dream. For twenty years dictator Eric Sheel rules supreme in the Martian state of Edom while the plague takes his people. Only Harold Sevillus, Earth's premier scientist, knows the secret of how the plague works. Before he dies, Sevillus leaves an encoded message in the brain of his five year-old son, Maric. Sheel is convinced the message contains the truth about the plague, but he is unable to break the code. As Maric grows older, the message begins to intrude upon his dreams, and then his waking thoughts. At last he is confronted with a choice: Give Sheel what he wants and become part of a horrifying tyranny--or give up everything to save Edom and his soul.
Day of a Stranger
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A Stranger At Home
Author: Christy Jordan-Fenton
Publisher: Annick Press
ISBN: 1554515939
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Margaret can’t wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected. Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It’s been two years since her parents delivered her to the school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. Coming ashore, Margaret spots her family, but her mother barely recognizes her, screaming, “Not my girl.” Margaret realizes she is now marked as an outsider. And Margaret is an outsider: she has forgotten the language and stories of her people, and she can’t even stomach the food her mother prepares. However, Margaret gradually relearns her language and her family’s way of living. Along the way, she discovers how important it is to remain true to the ways of her people—and to herself. Highlighted by archival photos and striking artwork, this first-person account of a young girl’s struggle to find her place will inspire young readers to ask what it means to belong.
Publisher: Annick Press
ISBN: 1554515939
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Margaret can’t wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected. Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It’s been two years since her parents delivered her to the school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. Coming ashore, Margaret spots her family, but her mother barely recognizes her, screaming, “Not my girl.” Margaret realizes she is now marked as an outsider. And Margaret is an outsider: she has forgotten the language and stories of her people, and she can’t even stomach the food her mother prepares. However, Margaret gradually relearns her language and her family’s way of living. Along the way, she discovers how important it is to remain true to the ways of her people—and to herself. Highlighted by archival photos and striking artwork, this first-person account of a young girl’s struggle to find her place will inspire young readers to ask what it means to belong.