Holding Up The Earth

Author : Dianne Gray
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547996160
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holding Up The Earth written by Dianne Gray and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been eight years since Hope’s mom died in a car accident. Eight years of shuffling from foster home to foster home. Eight years of trying to hold on to the memories that tether her to her mother. Now Sarah, Hope’s newest foster mom, has taken her from Minneapolis to spend the summer on the Nebraska farm where Sarah grew up. Hope is set adrift, anchored only by her ever-present and memory-heavy backpack. Accustomed to the clamor of city life, Hope is at first unsettled by the silence that descends over the farm each night. But listening deeply, she begins to hear the quiet: the crickets’ chirp, the windsong, the steady in and out of her own breath. Soon the silence is replaced by voices, like echoes sounding across time — the voices of girls who inhabited the old farmhouse before her. Reluctantly, Hope begins to stretch down roots in the earth and accept this new family as her own.

Author : Pixie Lighthorse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998295398
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Is Holding You written by Pixie Lighthorse and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Is Holding You is an all-ages illustrated book by author Pixie Lighthorse and painter Flora Bowley. This lovely, free-flowing book offers gentle guidance to develop our relationship with the earth in order to help us handle the big feelings that arise as we live life and pursue our dreams. It is about holding on to inspiration, allowing feelings to move through us, facing our fears, persevering through hardship, learning to trust, and valuing our creativity and wellness. Connect with animals, plants and minerals for support for being on earth. Seek shelter in trees, clouds, mountains, rivers, and lakes. Nurture your spirit with rainbows, inspire your feelings to flow like waterfalls, be energized by the creative forces of lightning, become resilient and trusting by remembering that everything in nature contains just what it needs to be well.

Author : Cecil Castellucci
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545388104
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Day on Earth written by Cecil Castellucci and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world."We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big nothings.""I know what I am."Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Yet loving the world -- or, at least, an idea of the world. Then he meets Hooper. Who says he's from another planet. And may be going home very soon.

Author : Ocean Vuong
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525562044
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous written by Ocean Vuong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!

Author : Dianne E. Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780605012004
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holding Up the Earth written by Dianne E. Gray and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James McDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998294902
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am Earth written by James McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am Earth introduces kids to the basic concepts of earth science while also encouraging the importance of taking care of our special planet through environmental awareness and sustainability. Keeping Earth a happy healthy place to live is important for everyone big and small. In this Earth science book for beginners, kids learn what makes our planet so uniquely special and how people can work together to keep it a healthy home.

Author : Jozef Wittlin
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782274723
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salt of the Earth written by Jozef Wittlin and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic pacifist novel by a major Polish writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize At the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian mountains lead a simple life, much as they have always done. Among them is Piotr, a bandy-legged peasant, who wants nothing more from life than an official railway cap, a cottage, and a bride with a dowry. But then the First World War reaches the mountains and Piotr is drafted into the army. All the weight of imperial authority is used to mould him into an unthinking fighting machine, forced to fight a war he does not understand, for interests other than his own. The Salt of the Earth is a classic war novel and a powerfully pacifist tale about the consequences of war for ordinary men.

Author : Marjorie B. Kellogg
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1101664533
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Earth written by Marjorie B. Kellogg and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the adventures of the four elemental dragons and their human guides in the first book of the history-spanning Dragon Quartet fantasy series. "In the beginning of the World, four dragons were raised from elemental energies and set to work creating a climate and atmosphere. They were called Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. When their job was done and the World was set in motion, the four found lairs where they expected to sleep out this particular world's history and not rise again until World's End." But long before World's End something has begun to go horribly wrong, and Erde, only daughter of a powerful lord, is the one person who seems able to sense it. With her mother and grandmother dead, and no one left to protect her from the madness being spread by a priest ready to sacrifice anything and anyone to his cause, Erde flees her father's castle. In her flight, she stumbles across the dragon called Earth. Drawn together by their mutual peril and need, Erde and Earth have no choice but to join forces on a quest to find Earth's mage, the one human who, perhaps, can set the World back on its proper course.

Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958051
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Earth Is Weeping written by Peter Cozzens and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of narrative history” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won—and lost. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.

Author : Gary Snyder
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222683
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth House Hold written by Gary Snyder and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969-06-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Pound and Williams have shown a good poet can revitalize prose style. Earth House Hold (a play on the root meaning of "ecology"), drawn from Gary Snyder's essays and journals, may prove a landmark for the new generation. "As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe." He develops, as replacement for shattered social structures. a concept of tribal tradition which could lead to "growth and enlightenment in self-disciplined freedom. Whatever it is or ever was in any other culture can be reconstructed from the unconscious through meditation...the coming revolution will close the circle and link us in many ways with the most creative aspects of our archaic past."