Author : Xu Xi
Publisher : Typhoon Media Ltd
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 988195343X
Xu Xi, one of Hong Kong's preeminent novelists, examines the lives of four of the city's residents amid the tension and uncertainties leading up to the 1997 handover to China.
Author : Virginia Cheong
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1452531358
The Guardians had always been the protectors of Earth, but an unthinkable betrayal has led to their downfallforcing them to reincarnate as humans and endure lifetimes of pain and suffering. Without any recollection of where they came from and with their powers unknowingly locked in their subconscious minds, the former Guardians can only live the life they know, fighting to survive. But the pain they must endure is so unbearable that most of them lose their minds. Even the leader of the Guardians, the Almighty Dragon, has fallen victim to the Heiling clans evil plot. With the burden of the prophecy on his shoulders, Master Li, his eight-year-old son, and his loyal disciples set out into the Western world to find the Guardians in an attempt to restore peace and harmony to mankind. The dangers they face are beyond anything they envisioned. The Heiling clan seems to always be one step ahead of them, and their vast numbers make it seemingly impossible for Master Li and his followers to fulfill their mission. Filled with adventure, mystery, and cultural diversity, the search of the Guardians brings to Master Li and his followers, experiences that are unforgettable.
Author : Ana Castillo
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307485722
From American Book Award-winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo’s father, Rafa, disappears while crossing over from Mexico, Regina fears the worst. After several days of waiting and with an ominous phone call from a woman who may be connected to a smuggling ring, Regina and Gabo resolve to find Rafa. Help arrives in the form of Miguel, an amorous, recently divorced history teacher; Miguel’s gregarious abuelo Milton; a couple of Gabo’s gangbanger classmates; and a priest of wayward faith. Though their journey is rife with challenges and danger, it will serve as a remarkable testament to family bonds, cultural pride, and the human experience Praise for The Guardians NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE “An always skilled storyteller, [Castillo] grounds her writing in . . . humor, love, suspense and heartache–that draw the reader in.” –Chicago Sunday Sun-Times “A rollicking read, with jokes and suspense and joy rides and hearts breaking . . . This smart, passionate novel deserves a wide audience.” –Los Angeles Times “What drives the novel is its chorus of characters, all, in their own way, witnesses and guardian angels. In the end, Castillo’s unmistakable voice–earthy, impassioned, weaving a ‘hybrid vocabulary for a hybrid people’–is the book’s greatest revelation.” –Time Out New York “A wonderful novel . . . Castillo’s most important accomplishment in The Guardians is to give a unique literary voice to questions about what makes up a ‘family.’ ” –El Paso Times “A moving book that is both intimate and epic in its narrative.” –Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545283442
The adventure continues! In a land no owl knew existed, Soren, Coryn, and the Guardians find danger, knowledge, and new allies.Coryn and the Band have returned to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree and restored order. With the Ember safely hidden away, the tree shakes off its gaudy golden glow and recovers its natural majesty. Meanwhile, deep in the Palace of Mists, Bess finds an ancient map fragment that reveals that there are not 5 owl kingdoms -- as has been thought since time immemorial -- but 6. Coryn and the chaw of chaws set off to find this unknown land. In a landscape of perpetual winter, they discover a monastery of serene, learned owls, the likes of which no one has ever seen before.
Author : Susan Pedersen
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0199570485
"A sweeping global history of the League of Nations' mandates system and the limits of imperial order"--
Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2003
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9780756915858
Lasky brings a fantastical new owl world to life as Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger travel to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, where an order of owls rises each night to perform noble deeds.
Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545509807
Bestselling author Kathryn Lasky takes flight once more with a brand-new Guardians of Ga'Hoole novel! An owlet hatches out onto Stormfast Island and into a world torn by war. For one hundred years, his people have fought off enemy owls from the Ice Talons, but the tide has turned. An invasion is coming, one the Kielian League won't have the strength to resist. Soon the tyrant owl Bylyric will rule over everything, and no honorable owl will be safe. Only the small owl from Stormfast stands between Bylyric and total victory. Lyze is not very impressive to look at, but he has a wild idea for a snake and owl strike unit that just might give the soldiers of the Kielian League the edge they need.This is his story, the story of an ordinary owl who rose to become Ezylryb of the Great Tree. This is the story of what it takes to make a Guardian of Ga'Hoole.
Author : Kinari Webb, M.D.
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250751403
"EMPOWERING...KINARI WEBB IS AN INSPIRATION." --BILL MCKIBBEN "A WONDERFUL BOOK." --JANE GOODALL A TIMELY, HOPEFUL MEMOIR ABOUT A WOMAN SPEARHEADING A GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO HEAL THE WORLD'S RAINFORESTS AND THE COMMUNITIES WHO DEPEND ON THEM Full of hope and optimism, Kinari Webb takes us on an exhilarating, galvanizing journey across the world, sharing her passion for the natural world and for humanity. In our current moment of crisis, Guardians of the Trees is an essential roadmap for moving forward and the inspiring story of one woman’s quest to heal the world. When Webb first traveled to Indonesian Borneo at 21 to study orangutans, she was both awestruck by the beauty of her surroundings and heartbroken by the rainforest destruction she witnessed. As she got to know the local communities, she realized that their need to pay for expensive healthcare led directly to the rampant logging, which in turn imperiled their health and safety even further. Webb realized her true calling was at the intersection of medicine and conservation. After graduating with honors from the Yale School of Medicine, Webb returned to Borneo, listening to local communities about their solutions for how to both protect the rainforests and improve their lives. Founding two non-profits, Health in Harmony in the U.S. and ASRI in Indonesia, Webb and her local and international teams partnered with rainforest communities, building a clinic, developing regenerative economies, providing educational opportunities, and dramatically transforming the region. But just when everything was going right, Webb was stung by a deadly box jellyfish and would spend the next four years fighting for her life, a fight that would lead her to rethink everything. Was she ready to expand her work to a global scale and take climate change head on?
Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545283426
The eleventh title in this best-selling series brings Hoole to kingship and the legends to fulfilment signaling a return to the adventures of Coryn, Soren and the Band.In this final book of the Legends trilogy Hoole reclaims the thrown of his father and goes on to wage a war against the forces of chaos, greed and oppression led by the powerful warlord-tyrants. Grank, the first collier, uses his skills with fire and metals to forge weapons for battle. With great trepidation Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final, decisive battle and wins. At the dawn of a new ear of peace, Hoole searches for the ideal place to establish not a kingdom but an order of free owls and finds the Great Tree. (continued)
Author : Ann Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351040294
Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs is a complete, structured, multisensory programme for teaching reading and spelling, making it fun and accessible for all. This fantastic seven-part resource offers a refreshingly simple approach to the teaching of phonics, alongside activities to develop auditory and visual perceptual skills. Specifically designed to meet the needs of pupils of any age with special educational needs, the books break down phonics into manageable core elements and provide a huge wealth of resources to support teachers in teaching reading and spelling. Book 1: Building Basics introduces basic sounds and explores their relationship with letters. It focuses on sounds and letters where there is a simple 1:1 correspondence between the two, and explores the sounds in simple words that follow the pattern of vowel-consonant or consonant-vowel-consonant. Sounds are grouped into seven sets, with each set containing more than 50 engaging activities, including: sound story, dynamic blending, reading race, spot the word and spelling challenge. Thorough guidance is provided on how to deliver each activity, as well as a lesson planner template, handy word lists and posters for teachers and teaching assistants to use to support learning. Each book in the series gradually builds on children’s understanding of sounds and letters and provides scaffolded support for children to learn about every sound in the English language. Offering tried and tested material which can be photocopied for each use, this is an invaluable resource to simplify phonics teaching for teachers and teaching assistants and provide fun new ways of learning phonics for all children. This book is accompanied by a companion resource, 'Phonics for Pupils with Complex SEND ', to be used alongside the Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs programme. The activities from Books 1-6 of the programme are adapted to be accessible for non-verbal pupils, including AAC users, and those with physical disabilities.
