Swimming Through Clouds

Swimming Through Clouds PDF Author: Rajdeep Paulus
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781493741724
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Senior year kicks off when the words on a Post-it note spark a sticky romance between two unlikely friends. Transfer student Talia Vanderbilt has one goal at her new school: to blend in with the walls. Lagan Desai, basketball captain and mathlete, would do just about anything to befriend the new girl. One Post-it note at a time, Lagan persuades Talia to peel back her heart, slowly revealing a world where hope seems to lie around the corner. She never turns.--Publisher description.

Swimming Through Clouds

Swimming Through Clouds PDF Author: Rajdeep Paulus
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781493741724
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Senior year kicks off when the words on a Post-it note spark a sticky romance between two unlikely friends. Transfer student Talia Vanderbilt has one goal at her new school: to blend in with the walls. Lagan Desai, basketball captain and mathlete, would do just about anything to befriend the new girl. One Post-it note at a time, Lagan persuades Talia to peel back her heart, slowly revealing a world where hope seems to lie around the corner. She never turns.--Publisher description.

Soaring Through Stars

Soaring Through Stars PDF Author: Rajdeep Paulus
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ISBN: 9780996180115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Praise for the Swimming Through Clouds Trilogy "It is the rare author who can end an emotionally compelling trilogy with the same resounding truth from which it was formed, but turned inside out. In Soaring through Stars, Rajdeep Paulus does exactly that. Crafting her characters' inner growth at a believable and often heart-wrenching pace across the series, this final book extends an exquisite peace to hearts where extreme fear used to dwell. This series should be on the shelves of every American high school. Soaring through Stars is a beautiful, perfect ending to a truly exceptional series... Don't miss this one." Serena Chase, USA Today's Happy Ever After blog, author of The Ryn "Rajdeep Paulus writes young adult fiction with a new kind of hero...Despair and cruelty haunt its pages. Raj's most heroic characters find the strength to be compassionate at moments when it would be much easier to stand by and do nothing." Amazon Author Success Story "Tough and touching, resilient and raw-Rajdeep Paulus has crafted a story of love and abuse with the deft touch of a master...and she never averts her pen from the realities that face far too many women and children." Tosca Lee, NY Times Bestselling Author of Havah and The Books of Mortals series with Ted Dekker "Deep, sometimes quite dark, and very emotional YA story." Once Upon a YA Book Blog *** "I live in the in between. Between holding on and letting go. Hurt clings to me. Hope teases me. Home. I can't explain it, but sometimes, I just want to go home." Talia and Jesse Vanderbilt have escaped a childhood full of abuse, and with the help of their friends have found the courage to publicly tell their stories. When they face obstacles trying to have their father convicted, the siblings can't help but consider the option to walk away and move on with their lives. Someone unexpected brings his own secrets, forcing the Vanderbilt teens to revisit their pasts and rethink their plans. Through it all, Lagan and Talia's Post-it love story blossoms, while Jesse and Summer hit roadblocks. From the award-winning author of Swimming Through Clouds and Seeing Through Stones comes a powerful story of freedom and belonging in this final book of the young adult trilogy that began with an invitation on a little Post-it note.

Sky Swimming

Sky Swimming PDF Author: Sylvia Martin
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 1760801232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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'Late afternoon. An isolated lagoon, water glassy, teeming with birdlife—black swans, ducks, a pelican. Sunset begins to tint the sky. I point the camera at the water to catch the clouds reflected there just as a solitary duck swims into view. Everything in the photograph is familiar yet the effect is entirely strange. The duck is swimming across the sky...' The reflections in Sky Swimming can be read as meditations on the enigmas of love, family, ageing, memory, home and belonging. At its heart is a mudbrick house built by two women on an ancient lava flow in the Warrumbungle Mountains, circling back to a childhood filled with music in Melbourne and an early career in the theatre. It fans out across the world to a family mystery in The Netherlands of the 1950s and a friendship in Montreal in the 1990s. Reflections on the process of writing feminist biography are included and the women from Martin’s biographies thread their way through the narrative alongside the people who have helped shape her life, often in unexpected directions.

Swimming to Antarctica

Swimming to Antarctica PDF Author: Lynne Cox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780753820506
Category : Long distance swimming
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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At 14, Lynne Cox swam 26 miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland; at 15 and 16, she broke the men's and women's world records for swimming the English Channel - a 33-mile crossing; at 18, she swam the 20-mile Cook Strait between North and South Islands of New Zealand; she was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the most treacherous 3-mile stretch of water in the world; she was first to swim the Bering Strait from Alaska to Siberia, thereby opening the U.S.-Soviet border for the first time in 48 years; and the first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (a shark emerged from the kelp, its jaws wide open, and was shot as it headed straight for her). And finally she is the first person to have swum a mile in 0 degree water in Antarctica.Lynne Cox writes about swimming the way Saint-Exupery wrote about flying, and one sees how swimming, like flying, can stretch the wings of the spirit. A thrilling, modest, vivid and lyrical, account of an inspiring life.

Water Sings Blue

Water Sings Blue PDF Author: Kate Coombs
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 081187284X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Collection of poems about the sea, accompanied by watercolors by the artist Meilo So.

At Swim, Two Boys

At Swim, Two Boys PDF Author: Jamie O'Neill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743222946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Two young men, Jim, the naive, scholarly son of a Dublin shopkeeper, and Doyler, a rough working boy, struggle with issues of political, religious, and sexual identity in the year leading up to the Easter uprising of 1916.

Swimming Home

Swimming Home PDF Author: Kayla Rodney
Publisher: Unlikely Books
ISBN: 9781733714327
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The first book of poetry by Kayla Rodney focuses on her experiences with New Orleans, tragedy, and hurricanes, especially Katrina.

Taking the Plunge

Taking the Plunge PDF Author: Anna Deacon
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ISBN: 9781785302688
Category : Swimming
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The thrill of plunging--or dipping a toe--into open water brings joy, confidence, adventure, and friendship. It can wash away stress and sadness, pain and grief. Here water is a great healer, a place to feel gloriously, elementally alive and in touch with yourself, with others, and with nature. Full of life-affirming personal stories and breath-taking images of scenery and swimmers, this bookcelebrates the remarkable wild swimming community. With practical advice on how wild swimming works and how to get started--from what you'll need (a swimsuit and a smile ) to where best to go (rivers, oceans, lochs, lakes . . .)--there's never been a better time to take the plunge.

Angel Star

Angel Star PDF Author: Jennifer Murgia
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ISBN: 9780982500538
Category : Angels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Teenager Teagan McNeel falls for a captivating man who carries the mark of an angel. Suddenly she and Garreth find themselves vulnerable to a dark angel's plan.

Swimming Through Clouds (Book One)

Swimming Through Clouds (Book One) PDF Author: Rajdeep Paulus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781310785160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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AWARDS:B.R.A.G. Medallion RecipientSemi-Finalist Genesis Contest (YA Fiction)Finalist (2nd Place) NORWA (YA Fiction)Finalist Women of Faith Full ManuscriptFinalist Wisconsin RWA Honorable Mention (YA Fiction)"With beautifully crafted poetic prose, author Rajdeep Paulus weaves fear and tragedy, hope and romance through a story that dictates you endure emotional anguish right along with her characters. A work of art."~USA TODAY reviewer Serena Chase, author of Eyes of E'veria Series"Tough and touching, resilient and raw -- Rajdeep Paulus has crafted a story of love and abuse with the deft touch of a master. SWIMMING THROUGH CLOUDS is profound, but never preachy. Paulus never allows her characters to be anything less than real and she never averts her pen from the realities that face far too many women and children." --Tosca Lee, NY Times bestselling author of HAVAH and The Books of Mortals series with Ted Dekker"Paulus is an exceptional writer! The essence of the human spirit are illuminated through the characters who come to life in each page. Paulus captures the heart of the reader in SWIMMING THROUGH CLOUDS." - Diana Mao, President of Nomi Network"SWIMMING THROUGH CLOUDS is a heart-wrenching story of both suffering and courage. This book will haunt you long after you finish it." - Darby Karchut, author of Griffin Rising and Finn Finnegan"I'm trapped in the middle of someone's life... And it's only just begun! I need more!!!" - Teenage Reader"There is much to admire about Rajdeep Paulus's writing. Poetic, raw and thought-provoking, her words will indeed send you swimming through clouds." - Selene Castrovilla, author of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, a GalleyCat Best YA Book (2010)__________"I live in the in between. Between what if and what is. It's how I manage. It's the only way I know. Everyone has their way. This is mine."Senior year kicks off when the words on a Post-it note spark a sticky romance between two unlikely friends. Transfer student Talia Vanderbilt has one goal at her new school: to blend in with the walls. Lagan Desai, basketball captain and mathlete, would do just about anything to befriend the new girl. One Post-it note at a time, Lagan persuades Talia to peel back her heart, slowly revealing a world where hope seems to lie around the corner. She never turns.__________RAJDEEP PAULUS decided to be a writer during her junior year in high school after her English teacher gave her an "F" but told her she had potential. She studied English Literature at Northwestern University, and she writes masala-marinated, Young Adult Fiction, blogging weekly at InSearchOfWaterfalls (dot) com.When Paulus is not tapping on her Mac, you can find her dancing with her four princesses, kayaking with her hubs, coaching basketball or eating dark chocolate while sipping a frothy, sugar-free latte. She secretly hopes to one day own a laptop that functions under water! Oops. The secret's out.