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In a Rocket Made of Ice

Author : Gail Gutradt

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 17,45 MB

Release : 2015-06-23

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0804172684

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In 1997 Wayne Dale Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic who served in Vietnam, returned to South East Asia offer his service . With Vandin San, a brilliant young Cambodian aid worker, he transformed Wat Opot, a haunted scrubland behind a ruined temple, into a place of healing and respite. Here children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS—the first generation of children to grow up with AIDS—could find a new family, and live outside of fear or judgment. Disarming, funny, deeply moving, In a Rocket Made of Ice gathers the hopeful stories of children saved and changed by this very special place; the story of a war veteran’s redemption; and the story of the author’s transformation in her contact with the powerful life force of Wat Opot.



In a Rocket Made of Ice

Author : Gail Gutradt

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 375 pages

File Size : 19,2 MB

Release : 2014-08-12

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0385353480

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A beautifully told, inspiring true story of one woman’s volunteer experiences at an orphanage in rural Cambodia—a book that embodies the belief that love, compassion, and generosity of spirit can overcome even the most fearsome of obstacles. Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life when she learned of the Wat Opot Children’s Community. Begun with just fifty dollars in the pocket of Wayne Dale Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic in Vietnam, Wat Opot, a temple complex nestled among Cambodia’s verdant rice paddies, was once a haunted scrubland that became a place of healing and respite where children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS could live outside of fear or judgment, and find a new family—a place that Gutradt calls “a workshop for souls.” Disarming, funny, deeply moving, In a Rocket Made of Ice gathers the stories of children saved and changed by this very special place, and of one woman’s transformation in trying to help them. With wry perceptiveness and stunning humanity and humor, this courageous, surprising, and evocative memoir etches the people of Wat Opot forever on your heart.



Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments

Author : Mike Adamick

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 21,27 MB

Release : 2014-03-18

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 1440570787

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The science behind, "But, why?" Don't get caught off guard by your kids' science questions! You and your family can learn all about the ins and outs of chemistry, biology, physics, the human body, and our planet with Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments. From Rock Candy Crystals to Magnetic Fields, each of these fun science projects features easy-to-understand instructions that can be carried out by even the youngest of lab partners, as well as awesome, full-color photographs that guide you through each step. Complete with 30 interactive experiments and explanations for how and why they work, this book will inspire your family to explore the science behind: Chemistry, with Soap Clouds Biology, with Hole-y Walls Physics, with Straw Balloon Rocket Blasters Planet Earth, with Acid Rain The Human Body, with Marshmallow Pulse Keepers Best of all, every single one of these projects can be tossed together with items around the house or with inexpensive supplies from the grocery store. Whether your kid wants to create his or her own Mount Vesuvius or discover why leaves change colors in the fall, Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments will bring out the mad scientists in your family--in no time!



Ice Time

Author : David Skuy

Publisher : Scholastic Canada

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 47,45 MB

Release : 2016-09-13

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1443148938

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Rocket has finally achieved his dream -- he's been drafted to the NHL! Following a great Major Junior career, Rocket is drafted in the NHL draft! However, thescouts still feel that Rocket needs some retooling to be an NHLer. He is sent to the AHL for seasoning, and told he should hit the weight room as well. At home, Maddy has applied for loans for her first year of university. Rocket assuresher that he'll pay it all off when he's a pro. This changes when his mother is laid off andRocket's income is all the family has -- and an AHL salary doesn't go very far. Through his training with the AHL, Rocket will face many challenges, both on the ice andin his home life. Will Rocket once again beat the odds?



The Rocket Book

Author : Peter Newell

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand

Page : 54 pages

File Size : 11,93 MB

Release : 2018-09-21

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 373404667X

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Book Description

Reproduction of the original: The Rocket Book by Peter Newell



Anti-ice

Author : Stephen Baxter

Publisher : Harper Voyager

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 36,4 MB

Release : 1994-10-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780061054211

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Book Description

Discovering a new element, Anti-Ice, a mysterious substance that unleashes vast energies when warmed, a millionaire industrialist dreams of power from an item that promises world peace--or world destruction. Original.



Ice Cream Soup

Author : Ann Ingalls

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 22,43 MB

Release : 2013-05-16

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0698142136

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Book Description

What happens when you try to make an ice cream cake, but add too much stuff? You end up with ice cream soup! This original Level 1 reader with rhyming text is perfect for beginning readers.



The Girl and the Stars

Author : Mark Lawrence

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 43,98 MB

Release : 2020-04-21

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1984806009

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A stunning new epic fantasy series following a young outcast who must fight with everything she has to survive, set in the same world as Red Sister. In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. Yaz’s people call it the Pit of the Missing and now it is drawing her in as she has always known it would. To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is not the same. Yaz’s difference tears her from the only life she’s ever known, away from her family, from the boy she thought she would spend her days with, and has to carve out a new path for herself in a world whose existence she never suspected. A world full of difference and mystery and danger. Yaz learns that Abeth is older and stranger than she had ever imagined. She learns that her weaknesses are another kind of strength and that the cruel arithmetic of survival that has always governed her people can be challenged.



My Rainy Day Rocket Ship

Author : Markette Sheppard

Publisher : Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 34,92 MB

Release : 2020-05-05

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1534461779

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Rainy summer days are no match for a little astronaut who builds the perfect rocket ship for an indoor space adventure to another galaxy, where the sky is his only limit! A stormy afternoon and an order from Mom to stay inside are no match for this little dreamer, who uses everyday household items—a rocket chair, a cardboard box, an old dish rag, and a super-duper imagination—to whip up a trip around the universe he won’t soon forget. My Rainy Day Rocket Ship is a high-spirited, engaging salute to the imagination of Black boys who use their beautiful minds to transform the mundane into the extraordinary, dream out loud, and boldly go where their sky is the only limit.



The Girl and the Moon

Author : Mark Lawrence

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 417 pages

File Size : 39,64 MB

Release : 2022-04-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1984806068

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In the third exhilarating novel in this dazzling epic fantasy series, a young outcast will fight against staggering odds to save her world. On the planet Abeth, a narrow Corridor of green land is surrounded on all sides by ice plains where only the strong survive. Ice triber Yaz has completed a perilous journey and arrived at the Corridor, and it exceeds and overwhelms all of her expectations. Everything seems different but some constants remain: her old enemies are still two steps ahead, bent on her destruction. She makes her way to the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where nuns train young girls who show the old gifts, but like the Corridor itself the convent is packed with peril and opportunity. Yaz has much to learn from the nuns—if they don’t decide to execute her. The fate of everyone squeezed between the Corridor’s vast walls, and ultimately the fate of those laboring to survive out on ice itself, hangs from the moon, and the battle to save the moon centers on the Ark of the Missing, buried beneath the emperor’s palace. Everyone wants Yaz to be the key that will open the Ark – the one the wise have sought for generations. But sometimes wanting isn’t enough.