Author: Robert Roennfeldt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781876288464
Category : Platypus
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Deep in her burrow, at the edge of the silver stream, Mother Platypus waits for her babies to hatch. Soon a new cycle of life will begin and she will encourage her young to discover the beauty and wonder of the silver stream.
Author: Jillian Sullivan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869705893
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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In a society of the future, the government restricts its citizens' rights and punishes people who disagree with its regime by sending them to work camps. Lorna's father was killed at a protest meeting and now her mother has disappeared, so Lorna makes a decision that will put her own freedom, and even her life, at risk. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.
Author: Fred M. White
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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"The Silver Stream" is an entertaining story of two men who defended the honor of their university in rowing. There were only two men in the small craft, and as they were double sculling, with a long clean sweep, making a musical click of paddlers in the rowlocks, there was little opportunity for conversation. They proceeded with a steady fast rhythm until they were almost in the bridge's shadow. But can they get to their goal after several obstacles fall in their way?
Author: R.A. Salvatore
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
ISBN: 0786954051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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The epic tale of everyone’s favorite dark elf reaches new heights when Drizzt and his companions set out to reclaim a lost dwarven stronghold—the fifth chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-inspired fantasy series. Drizzt Do'Urden still struggles with his own inner voices, voices that call him back to the pitless depths of the Underdark. But louder still are the voices of his newfound friends Bruenor, Wulfgar, and Regis—and the call of a dream that, at long last, Bruenor has decided to fulfill. Long ago, Bruenor and his people were driven from their home in Mithral Hall by a shadow dragon of the Underdark. Now, Bruenor is determined to reclaim his homeland and his rightful seat as its king. Aided by the combined might of his friends, Bruenor sets out on a treacherous quest for Mithral Hall, finding obstacles at every turn. But despite the terrors of the Trollmoors and the racism aimed at Drizzt, the group continues to fight—together. Streams of Silver is the second book in the Icewind Dale Trilogy and the fifth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.
Author: Walter de la Mare
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571314716
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Slowly, silently, now the moonWalks the night in her silver shoon;This way, and that, she peers, and seesSilver fruit upon silver trees; One spring evening, the fairies gather in the woods. Two sleepy children join in the parade to a wonderful, dream-like fairy party. Illustrated by bright new talent, Carolina Rabei, this Walter de la Mare poem is brought to life with shimmery, ethereal illustrations, making it the perfect book for bedtime. One of four seasonal Walter de la Mare picture books that form a set, each with complementing colour palates and illustrations by rising young star Carolina.
Author: Ross Douthat
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0593237366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffering reveals. “A powerful memoir about our fragile hopes in the face of chronic illness.”—Kate Bowler, bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason In the summer of 2015, Ross Douthat was moving his family, with two young daughters and a pregnant wife, from Washington, D.C., to a sprawling farmhouse in a picturesque Connecticut town when he acquired a mysterious and devastating sickness. It left him sleepless, crippled, wracked with pain--a shell of himself. After months of seeing doctors and descending deeper into a physical inferno, he discovered that he had a disease which according to CDC definitions does not actually exist: the chronic form of Lyme disease, a hotly contested condition that devastates the lives of tens of thousands of people but has no official recognition--and no medically approved cure. From a rural dream house that now felt like a prison, Douthat's search for help takes him off the map of official medicine, into territory where cranks and conspiracies abound and patients are forced to take control of their own treatment and experiment on themselves. Slowly, against his instincts and assumptions, he realizes that many of the cranks and weirdos are right, that many supposed "hypochondriacs" are victims of an indifferent medical establishment, and that all kinds of unexpected experiences and revelations lurk beneath the surface of normal existence, in the places underneath. The Deep Places is a story about what happens when you are terribly sick and realize that even the doctors who are willing to treat you can only do so much. Along the way, Douthat describes his struggle back toward health with wit and candor, portraying sickness as the most terrible of gifts. It teaches you to appreciate the grace of ordinary life by taking that life away from you. It reveals the deep strangeness of the world, the possibility that the reasonable people might be wrong, and the necessity of figuring out things for yourself. And it proves, day by dreadful day, that you are stronger than you ever imagined, and that even in the depths there is always hope.
Author: R. A. Salvatore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786937622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Dark elf Drizzt D'Urden and his companions, Bruenor, Wulfgar, and Regis, dwarven warriors each with their own special tribulation, fight to preserve their ancestral home, Mithril Hall, in a hardcover edition of the classic dark elf tale. Originally in paperback. 75,000 first printing.
Author: Hena Khan
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811879054
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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In simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl and her family guide the reader through the traditions and colors of Islam. Full color.
Author: A Benedictine Monk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781621382195
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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In 2007, Our Lord and Our Lady began to speak to the heart of a monk in the silence of adoration. He was prompted to write down what he received, and thus was born In Sinu Jesu, whose pages shine with an intense luminosity and heart-warming fervor that speaks directly to the needs of our time with a unique power to console and challenge.
Author: William K. Hartmann
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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In the Stream of Stars is the first book to bring together rarely seen soviet and American space art. Features essays by Alan Bean, Alexei Leonov, and others, plus introductory essay by Ray Bradbury, and over 200 full-color reproductions. Full-color throughout author's tour.
