Author : Irene Trimble
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375812842
Reading is one of the most important skills a child will ever learn. When you read to children, you are sharing an experience that prepares them to learn to read. Jellybean Books have been written "especially to be read aloud to toddlers and preschoolers aged 3-5 years old. Every book is lively, colorful, filled with fabulous characters, and priced to please.
Author : David Rains Wallace
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780871565853
Wallace details the unbelievable diversity of life in this rich land: pumas, ocelots, peccaries, howler monkeys--and the scarlet macaws and resplendent quetzals, the birds symbolizing two of Costa Rica's earliest parks. The park system became the nucleus of a socio-political network that has successfully battled loggers, miners, ranchers, and government development agencies. Enlivened throughout by the voices of people actually involved in establishing and managing the parks and preserves, Wallace's narrative is by turns suspenseful, humorous, and inspiring.
Author : Nahúm Méndez Vázquez
Publisher : Nahúm Méndez Vázquez
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2024-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In the sacred lands of Danibaan and Liobaa, where gods still whisper among the mountains and jungle, the fate of two souls is intertwined with the future of an entire kingdom. Quetzal, a warrior forged in the flames of battle, and Naya, a princess whose kindness rivals her bravery, must face challenges that will test their love, courage, and faith in a better future. When darkness threatens to consume their world, Quetzal and Naya embark on an epic struggle, not only for the survival of their people but for the promise of a tomorrow filled with hope and unity. With the help of ancient allies and the power of a mysterious talisman, they must confront forces beyond their comprehension and the secrets that lie in the depths of their own history. Heart of Jade is a story of love, sacrifice, and redemption, where past and present intertwine in a mosaic of ancestral traditions and epic conflicts. As legends become reality and myths come to life, the protagonists will discover that true power resides in the heart, and that some battles are fought not only with weapons but with the strength of the spirit.
Author : Ronnie Edwards
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1665534621
This book is about a hero in so many difference ways. In the natural and spiritual world, mankind is in need of a hero, unbeknownst to most, we need THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. Some the following events are based on reality, others are entirely fictional. The names have been changed to conceal all the characters identities. With these pages, we will show you how people are essentially cats. Cat Man is a prophet, blessed with both supernatural and spiritual power. In addition, he is an entrepreneur, a guardian angel who mentors those in need, and a cat with super powers!
Author : Jonathan Evan Maslow
Publisher : Laurel Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780440507086
In 1983 Maslow traveled to Guatemala to locate the endangered quetzal, considered sacred and one of the most beautiful birds on earth. Following the bird's trail, he confronts the horrors of a war-torn nation, where 10,000 people disappear each year.
Author : Jennifer De Leon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1665904186
Caught in the crosshairs of gang violence, a teen girl and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US border in this “engrossing” (Kirkus Reviews) young adult novel from the author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. For seventeen-year-old Maya, trashion is her passion, and her talent for making clothing out of unusual objects landed her a scholarship to Guatemala City’s most prestigious design school and a finalist spot in the school’s fashion show. Mamá is her biggest supporter, taking on extra jobs to pay for what the scholarship doesn’t cover, and she might be even more excited than Maya about what the fashion show could do for her future career. So when Mamá doesn’t come to the show, Maya doesn’t know what to think. But the truth is worse than she could have imagined. The gang threats in their neighborhood have walked in their front door—with a boy Maya considered a friend, or maybe even more, among them. After barely making their escape, Maya and her mom have no choice but to continue their desperate flight all the way through Guatemala and Mexico in hopes of crossing the US border. They have to cross. They must cross! Can they?
Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Tor Science Fiction
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1995-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429966742
A Nebula Award Finalist and Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, Caldé of the Long Sun is the third volume in science fiction Grand Master Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun tetralogy. Journeying aboard the generational starship the Whorl, the young priest Patera Silk becomes a prophet and revolutionary as he questions his faith while confronting a crime lord in a saga where "[Wolfe] continues to prove himself one of the genre's most literate writers and luminescent thinkers" (Library Journal). At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : United States Mint
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Coinage
ISBN :
Author : Paul Kockelman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822374595
In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and ecotourism. In 1990 a group of German ecologists founded an NGO to help preserve the habitat of the resplendent quetzal—the strikingly beautiful national bird of Guatemala—near the village of Chicacnab. The ecotourism project they established in Chicacnab was meant to provide new sources of income for its residents so they would abandon farming methods that destroyed quetzal habitat. The pressure on villagers to change their practices created new values and forced negotiations between indigenous worldviews and the conservationists' goals. Kockelman uses this story to offer a sweeping theoretical framework for understanding the entanglement of values as they are interpreted and travel across different and often incommensurate ontological worlds. His theorizations apply widely to studies of the production of value, the changing ways people make value portable, and value's relationship to ontology, affect, and selfhood.
Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812534204
This is the third volume in the Book of the Long Sun series. In the very distant future, the inhabitants of a great generation starship, The Whorl, have traveled so long and far that they have forgotten their origins and their destiny. In this world, Patera Silk, a young cleric, has been spoken to by a god and given a mission--to save his church buildings.
