Author: Natalliah Bowdoin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578490991
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Brooklyn, a high school sophomore, struggles with grief, loneliness, and depression, after the death of her loved ones, including her only best friend. As a result, she becomes a loner, making it difficult for her to make new friends. Then, she meets some "Peculiar" friends and experiences an unexpected series of magical adventures. Is it t possible for Brooklyn to become more social or will the pressure of stepping out of her comfort zone keep her in the shadows of life?
Author: Marta Arteaga
Publisher: Cuento de Luz
ISBN: 8415619316
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Winner of the Living Now Awards 2013, International Latino Book Awards 2013 and Moonbeam Children Books Awards 2013. There is a door in every one of us that leads to our imagination, a world where anything is possible. Dou you dare to embark on the most wonderful journey to our inner-self? One day when I was reading my story, I breathed in one of the words and something magical happened... I entered my imagination! We have always been told about the power of imagination, but what is imagination? How does it work? There is a magical place where you can always be yourself. In there you can turn on your light and illuminate your life with it. That place is your imagination. Your imagination has a life and a voice of its own. It is like a voice that speaks inside of you and paints everything around you with vivid colors. Within your imagination you are the king or queen of your creation. Open the door and discover how that place where we can always be ourselves is like and how does it work. And within your imagination... what is there? Read the first pages of Inside my imagination here below:
Author: Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316039802
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child. This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don't -- but you go on. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on. With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCracken considers the nature of love and grief. She opens her heart and leaves all of ours the richer for it.
Author: Pam Oken-Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735515908
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Author: Charles Mosley
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973643456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 45
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Christians are called to love God with all their hearts. In Is It Just My Imagination?, the relationship between imagination and love of God is explored. The private world of one’s imagination impacts public expressions of loving God.
Author: Gareth Moore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441132678
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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In this highly readable book Gareth moore examines some of the principle arguments and styles of argument advanced by Christians, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, in support of Christian standards in sexual ethics. Catholic teaching has sought to present those standards and values as ones which anyone can embrace; ones which they should be able to see as right if only they think about them in the right way. Arguments have been drawn from Scripture and also from philosophy and experience, the latter being particularly important at a time when the Church can no longer 'lay down the law', but has to be able to persuade. But are these arguments valid, or are they flawed? Moore's study covers such wide-ranging topics as sexual pleasure, the purpose of sex, sexual gestures, marriage, contraception and homosexuality; and in these areas, and the more specific sexual issues he covers, he often finds the Church's case to be defective. Though the Church has valuable things to say, its supporting arguments can be unconvincing. Better arguments, he claims, are needed; or, alternatively, the possibility has to be faced that the Churches' teaching needs modification. Whatever the case, the Church needs to do more thinking about sex.
Author: Jonathan D. Voss
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250314550
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Beloved characters Hoot and Olive return in this beautiful picture book from Jonathan D. Voss about imagination, rainy day adventures, and the spirit of friendship. Olive is a little girl with a big, bright imagination. Hoot is her stuffed-animal owl...and her best friend. The two love adventures of all sorts. But on the rainiest of days, there is only one thing to do: stay inside and imagine a whole new world. Just as they’re about to begin their adventure, Hoot makes a shocking discovery—his imagination is broken! Like the best of best friends, Olive comes up with some ideas to help him. But nothing is working: not the head unscrambler, the earmuffs, or the hypnosis. Just as the two are about to give up, Olive remembers the secret ingredient to imagination, and they give it one more try. Fans of Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin, George and Martha, and Frog and Toad are certain to fall in love with the next adventure in the Hoot & Olive series, Imagine That.
Author: Azar Nafisi
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698170334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatened—and just as invaluable—in America today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.
Author: Rebecca Balcárcel
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452170002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Quijana is a girl in pieces. One-half Guatemalan, one-half American: When Quijana's Guatemalan cousins move to town, her dad seems ashamed that she doesn't know more about her family's heritage. One-half crush, one-half buddy: When Quijana meets Zuri and Jayden, she knows she's found true friends. But she can't help the growing feelings she has for Jayden. One-half kid, one-half grown-up: Quijana spends her nights Skyping with her ailing grandma and trying to figure out what's going on with her increasingly hard-to-reach brother. In the course of this immersive and beautifully written novel, Quijana must figure out which parts of herself are most important, and which pieces come together to make her whole. This lyrical debut from Rebecca Balcárcel is a heartfelt poetic portrayal of a girl growing up, fitting in, and learning what it means to belong.
Author: Salvador Corona
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 150651250X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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The answer to enter wholehearted to whatever path is God. At the age of fourteen, his elementary teacher sowed in Salvador Corona the seed of writing a book. Since then, he gave himself to the task of writing, writing, and writing without knowing much about it. Nearly after fourteen years of practice and pursuit of his dream, he entered the ways of God and emerged, due to his persistence, with this magnificent work, How Many Am I?, from God to the poet, from the poet to your senses. In Quiet Messages, the author shares in verses and voices of the soul, inspiration that will move you to do the following: Find yourself Inspire you in the challenges Bring to life the voices Share messages that motivate Paint life the color of your passion Besides this being a rampant Passion, I share in Requests, Challenges, and Achievements works of art in which you will see that we have something in common. I hope in God that this message will be printed in your heart.
