Author : Meryl Doney
Publisher : Lion Children's
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780745979854
This is the story of a sparrow who worries about everything - whether there will be enough to eat, where he will build his new nest, how he will find a mate, whether his family will be eaten by a bird of prey. Then he hears about the Great Father who made and cares for all his creation - even the tiniest sparrow. This delightful story has helped, reassured and entertained many thousands of children since it was first published in 1978.
Author : Sarah Moon
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1338032593
The story of a sensitive, gifted African American girl who tells us with mordant humor what it feels like to spend every day wishing so hard that you could fly away from it all Sparrow has always had a difficult time making friends. She would always rather stay home on the weekends with her mother, an affluent IT executive at a Manhattan bank, reading, or watching the birds, than play with other kids. And that's made school a lonely experience for her. It's made LIFE a lonely experience.But when the one teacher who really understood her -- Mrs. Wexler, the school librarian, a woman who let her eat her lunch in the library office rather than hide in a bathroom stall, a woman who shared her passion for novels and knew just the ones she'd love -- is killed in a freak car accident, Sparrow's world unravels and she's found on the roof of her school in an apparent suicide attempt.With the help of an insightful therapist, Sparrow finally reveals the truth of her inner life. And it's here that she discovers an outlet in rock & roll music...
Author : Mary Doria Russell
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345510887
A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end. Praise for The Sparrow “A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them.”—Entertainment Weekly “Powerful . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Provocative, challenging . . . recalls both Arthur C. Clarke and H. G. Wells, with a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure.”—The Dallas Morning News “[Mary Doria] Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense.”—USA Today
Author : Sara Pennypacker
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1368004385
Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds. It was a terrible thought. Her country's leader had called sparrows the enemy of the farmers--they were eating too much grain, he said. He announced a great "Sparrow War" to banish them from China, but Ming-Li did not want to chase the birds away. As the people of her village gathered with firecrackers and gongs to scatter the sparrows, Ming-Li held her ears and watched in dismay. The birds were falling from the trees, frightened to death! Ming-Li knew she had to do something -- even if she couldn't stop the noise. Quietly, she vowed to save as many sparrows as she could, one by one...
Author : Mary Doria Russell
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307414744
In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today. The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future. Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place. Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Children of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell’s special literary magic.
Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 1999-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0684850273
In his rich and dazzling new novel, the author of the bestselling "The Sixteen Pleasures" chronicles the journey of a man awakening from profound sorrow and rediscovering love in a most unexpected time and place.
Author : Jeff Leeland
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1590529332
Describes the lives of children with a variety of medical conditions and the difference made in their lives and those of all involved by Sparrow Clubs USA, an organization that allows a group of children to help a sick child.
Author : A. L. Sowards
Publisher : Covenant Communications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Artois (France)
ISBN : 9781680479386
May, 1915. As a dangerous ring of spies and saboteurs threatens to turn the war against the Allies, Frenchman and British operative Julian Olivier discovers goodness in his enemies' hearts. But even if he survives, will he ever be reunited with the woman whose memory he can't erase? Will Canadian airborn hero Warren Flynn survive the war, and will the Allies' newest operative, Evette, unearth the infiltrator in her own Parisian territory before it's too late?
Author : Rebecca Connolly
Publisher : Phase Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781952103216
Mischief is as mischief does... Clara Harlow is perfectly content with her life as a teacher of art and French at the Miss Masters Finishing School, so nothing startles her more than to discover that the school is far more than it seems, and its purposes more complicated than anything she could have imagined. She finds herself accepting an assignment from the highest powers in England to use her talents for a particular mission: to impersonate the ward of the late Duke of Kirklin, gain access to the estate, and to discern how a strip of the Kent coastline there is being used against the security of England. The present Duke of Kirklin, George Russell, better known as Hawk, does not know what to make of the appearance of the former ward of his late uncle, but he is captivated by her. Her skills in art are unlike anything he has ever seen, and her company grows more agreeable with every passing day. His boring, bachelor life grows less and less appealing, and the company within his walls more perfectly suited for the place than he ever dreamed. What could possibly go wrong?
Author : Meryl Doney
Publisher : Lion Cub Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780745965802
A beautifully illustrated new edition of one of Lion's best-selling picture storybooks
