When Stars Fall from the Sky
Author : LaNona Walker
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2021-07-19
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ISBN : 9781733911245
Author : LaNona Walker
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2021-07-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781733911245
Author : Jerrie Oughton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395779385
A retelling of the Navaho legend that explains the patterns of the stars in the sky.
Author : Emery Rose
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2020-10-17
Category :
ISBN :
Growing up, Jude McCallister was the bane of my existence. My best friend. Fiercest ally. The most annoying boy in the world.At eighteen, the boy I loved to hate became the man I couldn't live without.We were young. Madly in love. Invincible. Strong enough to weather any storm.Cocky enough to believe that no amount of time or distance could destroy us.When Jude finally returned home from overseas, it should have been cause for celebration. But the man I'd fallen in love with was gone, and in his place was someone I no longer recognized. I can't do this, the note said. I'm sorry. Now, after six long years he's back. Only my heart ... it doesn't beat just for him anymore.
Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307429725
Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told “These Hands,” a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away. In “Apples,” a boy comes to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of love, and the bizarre death of his Bible coach. “The Jesus Stories” examines a people trying to accelerate the Second Coming by telling the story of Christ in every possible way. And in the O. Henry Award winning “The Ceiling,” a man’s marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending. Achingly beautiful and deceptively simple, Things That Fall from the Sky defies gravity as one of the most original story collections seen in recent years.
Author : Shannon Messenger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1442450436
A broken past and a divided future can’t stop the electric connection of two teens in this epic series opener from the author of the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has no idea how he survived the category five tornado that killed his parents. And he has no idea if the beautiful, dark-haired girl who’s swept through his dreams every night since the storm is real. But he hopes she is. Seventeen-year-old Audra is a sylph, an air elemental. She walks on the wind, can translate its alluring songs, and can even coax it into a weapon with a simple string of commands. She’s also a guardian—Vane’s guardian—and has sworn an oath to protect Vane at all costs. Even if it means sacrificing her own life. When a hasty mistake reveals their location to the enemy who murdered both of their families, Audra’s forced to help Vane remember who he is. He has a power to claim—the secret language of the West Wind, which only he can understand. But unlocking his heritage will also unlock the memory Audra needs him to forget. And as the storm bears down on them, she starts to realize the greatest danger might not be the warriors coming to destroy them—but the forbidden romance that’s grown between them.
Author : Mary Crawford
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945637391
Being different isn't all it's cracked up to be - until someone loves you just the way you are.
Author : Steven J. Friesen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0195131533
After more than a century of debate about the significance of imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this is the first study to examine both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical text in depth. Friesen argues that a detailed analysis of imperial cults as they were practiced in the first century CE in the region where John was active allows us to understand John's criticism of his society's dominant values. He demonstrates the importance of imperial cults for society at the time when Revelation was written, and shows the ways in which John refuted imperial cosmology through his use of vision, myth, and eschatological expectation.
Author : Juliane Koepcke
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1857889452
On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived. Juliane Koepcke, the seventeen-year-old child of famous German zoologists. She'd been thrown from the plane two miles above the forest canopy, but had sustained only a broken collarbone and a cut on her leg. With incredible courage, instinct and ingenuity, she survived three weeks in the "green hell" of the Amazon - using the skills she'd learned in assisting her parents on their research trips into the jungle - before coming across a loggers hut, and, with it, safety. Now she tells her fascinating story for the first time, and in doing so tells us about her 'Gerald Durrell' childhood - with a menagerie of wild, exotic and sometimes dangerous pets - about how she learned to survive at her parents ecological station deep in the rainforest and about her present-day commitment to this wildlife as a biologist and dedicated environmentalist.
Author : Ignacio De Luna
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1467036072
Ignacio started writing as a way to express what he was experiencing. He grew up in sunny Southern California. At a young age he lived with his parents and siblings in Baldwin Park, Ca. As a teenager they all moved to West Covina where he went to Workman High School and had friends that were close enough to inspire him. Starting at a young age there were many words written with a chance to be cherished by close friends and family. By placing himself in the moment and absorbing the feelings around him, he has captured those things that many people think and wish to express but can't find a way. There is true emotion within each word and phrase. There are pictures that develop in the mind to represent what each word is describing. A vision of words that can be read and felt with the not only the mind but the heart.
Author : Selja Ahava
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1786075423
WINNER OF THE 2016 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE One quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction... A young girl loses her mother when a block of ice falls from the sky. A woman wins the jackpot twice. A man is struck by lightning four times. Coincidence? Or something more? Things That Fall from the Sky is the tale of three lives that are changed forever by random events. But it is also a meditation on the endurance of love, the passage of time and the pain of loss. Selja Ahava, one of Finland's best-loved novelists, weaves these stories together in an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind fable about the twists and turns that can define a lifetime.