Author: Tina Greenshaw
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 103913808X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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This book is about friendship, challenges, the environment and history. Can friends be brave enough and overcome obstacles that come their way? Are they able to stand up to their fears and use their knowledge or will they let this fear take over? Will they learn the lessons or will they forget about what their guides have taught them? How will they get back home to hug their loved ones? This futuristic book was written to inspire young people to learn more about history, the environment and to encourage kids to appreciate what they have and to care about their loved ones.
Author: Tina Greenshaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781039138063
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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This book is about friendship, challenges, the environment and history. Can friends be brave enough and overcome obstacles that come their way? Are they able to stand up to their fears and use their knowledge or will they let this fear take over? Will they learn the lessons or will they forget about what their guides have taught them? How will they get back home to hug their loved ones? This futuristic book was written to inspire young people to learn more about history, the environment and to encourage kids to appreciate what they have and to care about their loved ones.
Author: Nf Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625268754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Two college kids on two different roads.Save for the one they share.An email exchange between former college lovers takes them back to their college years at Kent State, the 1970s. The Vietnam War is raging. Anti-war rallies hit the breaking point. It was a time of bell bottoms, vinyl, incense, free love, and travel by thumb.For Kris and Lena, two strangers on two very different paths, a thrown beer bottle shatters the lives they have known, bringing them together by chance. Lena is attracted to Kris and his live-in-the-moment personality. When he invites her to join him on a spring break hitchhiking trip, she kicks aside her uptight attitude and accepts the adventure. The trip is harrowing at times, comical during others, and poignant as Lena and Kris learn about themselves and each other.The events that shape and seal the fate of their relationship in unpredictable ways are revealed in the authors' female/male alternating perspectives.Inspired by true events, A TIME TO WANDER is a magical tale of freedom before the future takes hold.
Author: Susan Pisarcik
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 9781665713023
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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What is it like to find yourself at home while far away in the world? For one curious lamb, it's an enchanting secret, an ongoing nighttime adventure through the world of her dreams. But what will mama think? Follow the story of a little lamb's journey to find courage, strength, wisdom, and kindness in a world full of wonder.
Author: Elaine Sciolino
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242382
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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A New York Times Bestseller "Sciolino’s sharply observed account serves as a testament to…Paris—the city of light, of literature, of life itself." —The New Yorker Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs," Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood’s rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents—the Tunisian greengrocer, the husband-and-wife cheesemongers, the showman who’s been running a transvestite cabaret for more than half a century, the owner of a 100-year-old bookstore, the woman who repairs eighteenth-century mercury barometers—bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. The Only Street in Paris will make readers hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing.
Author: Leif Enger
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802146686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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A man seeks to rediscover his broken Midwestern community in a novel that “brims with grace and quirky charm” by the author of Peace Like a River (Bookpage). Movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Though Virgil survives, his language and memory are altered. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together the past. He is helped by a cast of curious locals—from a stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son, to the vanished man’s enchanting wife, to a local journalist who is Virgil’s oldest friend. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town. Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies, fishing, necking in parked cars, playing baseball and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a journey into the heart of America’s Upper Midwest.
Author: Keri Smith
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143108360
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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From the internationally bestselling creator of Wreck This Journal... wan·der verb \ˈwän-dər\ to walk/explore/amble in an unplanned or aimless way with a complete openness to the unknown Several years ago when Keri Smith, bestselling author of Wreck This Journal, discovered cryptic handwritten notations in a worn copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, her interest was piqued. Little did she know at the time that those simple markings would become the basis of a years-long, life-changing exploration into a mysterious group known only as The Wander Society, as well as the subject of this book. Within these pages, you’ll find the results of Smith’s research: A guide to the Wander Society, a secretive group that holds up the act of wandering, or unplanned exploring, as a way of life. You’ll learn about the group’s mysterious origins, meet fellow wanderers through time, discover how wandering feeds the creative mind, and learn how to best practice the art of wandering, should you choose to accept the mission.
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101199555
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.
Author: Michael C. Corballis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623861X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Corballis argues that mind-wandering has many constructive and adaptive features. These range from mental time travel?the wandering back and forth through time, not only to plan our futures based on past experience, but also to generate a continuous sense of who we are--to the ability to inhabit the minds of others, increasing empathy and social understanding. Through mind-wandering, we invent, tell stories, and expand our mental horizons. Mind wandering , hardly the sign of a faulty network or aimless distraction, actually underwrites creativity, whether as a Wordsworth wandering lonely as a cloud, or an Einstein imagining himself travelling on a beam of light. Corballis takes readers on a mental journey in chapters that can be savored piecemeal, as the minds of readers wander in different ways, and sometimes have limited attentional capacity.
Author: David Ryan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977696819
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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