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4941) Ordinary light: a memoir
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
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349 pages ; 22 cm
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"A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest...
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Mab Graphic
Pub. Date
[2022].
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203 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
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Ys, la ciudad de las riquezas y las maravillas, esconde una historia de oscuros secretos. La reina Malgven ha usado sus poderes para erigir las grandes murallas que mantienen a Ys a salvo del tumultuoso mar. Pero despues de su inexplicable muerte, sus dos hijas deciden tomar caminos diferentes. Rozenn, la heredera al trono, pasa el tiempo en los páramos rodeada de animales silvestres, mientras que Dahut, la más joven, disfruta de los esplendores...
4943) Belzhar: a novel
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Dutton Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
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266 pages ; 22 cm
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Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012
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8 CDs (8 hrs. 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life, from board games to breast pumps, the author argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the Space Age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy....
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With many jurisdictions considering whether or not to implement new assisted-death legislation, Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die is a timely look at the subject for teen readers who may not yet have had much experience with death and dying.
Readers are introduced to the topic of assisted dying through the author's own story. The issue continues to be hotly debated in families, communities and countries around the world, and there are no easy answers....
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A decade after twelve-year-old Jessica loses her mother, Dianne, to cancer complications, she finds herself curious about Dianne's mysterious youth. Armed with a journalism degree, Jessica sets out on a quest to find two of Dianne's former lovers, an old ballroom dance partner and a Vietnam war hero, along with anyone else who can tell her about Dianne.
The Butterfly Groove features Jessica's journalistic approach complemented by reimagined portions...
4947) The Lost Souls
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The Grim Life: Book ThreeTeenage grim reapers Max and Kody are already dealing with being dead… and now they're expected to save the world.
With the help of their guardian angel, Slade, and each other, Max and Kody have finally discovered the destiny God planned for them-help the lost souls languishing in purgatory back to heaven. But they're still growing into their roles. Kody, the Healer, struggles to understand the power born of his empathy,...
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In this suspenseful YA thriller from debut author Marie Hoy-Kenny, four former friends-each with their own dark secret-must team up to solve a murder.
Calista, Zoe, Holly, and Denise were inseparable best friends when they spent their summers together at sleepaway camp. But after an unexplained tragedy forced the camp to close, the girls drifted apart.Years later, reunited at their beloved camp counselor Violet's funeral, the four former best friends...
4949) We Dream Medicine Dreams
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From Dene artist and bioethicist Lisa Boivin comes this healing story of hope, dreams, and the special bond between grandfather and granddaughter.
When a little girl dreams about a bear, her grandfather explains how we connect with the knowledge of our ancestors through dreams. Bear, Hawk, Caribou, and Wolf all have teachings to share to help us live a good life. But when Grampa gets sick and falls into a coma, the little girl must lean on his teachings...
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Break the addiction cycle once and for all with this powerful and compassionate workbook-now fully revised and updated!
If you struggle with addiction, know that you are not alone. Addictive behaviors are often the result of loss-the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, or even the end of a romantic relationship. If you're like many others, you may have turned to drugs, alcohol, or other troubling behaviors to avoid the pain of loss. But, this...
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The Frighteners is a bizarrely compelling, laugh-out-loud exploration of societies' fascination with the dark, spooky, and downright terrifying side of life. The author--self-proclaimed "sinister minister"--opens the book by reflecting on how he went from a horror-obsessed atheist to a God-fearing Christian and then reconciled his love of the macabre with his new faith. In the chapters that follow, Laws takes us on a worldwide romp to shine light...
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When tragedy strikes the Steele Family Farm at harvest time, tearful Maggie finds herself grinding the gears of the giant grain truck, trying her best to replace her big brother, Alex, who died in a fiery car crash. If Maggie is going to escape her worst nightmare (being stuck on the farm forever), she'll need to ignore small-town haters, brave painful setbacks, and defy the heavy pull of gravity itself. As the pole-vault crossbar is raised dangerously...
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Laraine Burrell gets the call to come back to England from the United States just in time to visit briefly with her father before he passes away. Following his death, she is overcome with grief, feeling that she has squandered the time she had with her father. Instead of staying close, she chose to travel the world and seek her own goals as a young woman, always thinking there would be time later on to tell her dad all the things she wanted to tell...
4954) DJ ICE: Roman pour ados
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Marley Johnnywas Dylan est un jeune passionné de musique qui combine le sens des responsabilités avec des hobbies branchés
Le jour, Marley étudie d'arrache-pied pour ne pas perdre sa bourse d'étude dans la très sélect high school que fréquentent de nombreux snobs privilégiés, tout en rêvant à la belle Lea Hall. Le soir, il bosse dans une pizzeria pour payer le loyer et entretenir sa mère héroïnomane. Son rêve ? Devenir un D.J. professionnel,...
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Fourteen-year-old Reese's dream of winning the Black Elk race is shattered when her beloved horse, Trusted Treasure, falls at the last jump. While still reeling from that loss, her family suffers a second tragedy-one that results in the end of their family business, the sale of Trusted Treasure, and irreparable damage to Reese's relationship with her father.
Heartbroken and still longing to find Trusted Treasure, Reese meets Wes, a Lakota Indian,...
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Grief is Only Suppressed Gratitude tells the empowering story of a young woman who finds her way into unconditional self-love and strength.
The moment Danielle's life turns upside down, she realizes that there is loving benevolence that can only be experienced when she chooses to embrace the hidden beauty behind her deepest fear. Even more, Danielle discovers something that she never expected to find....
There is soul-shifting, life-changing gratitude...
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A Family's True Story of Loss and Renewal
It happened in a single moment. Their lives were changed. Their souls shaken. And then, when they were most vulnerable, their hearts opened to the miraculous...Their hour of darkness...became a journey into the Light.
A book that explores some of the most profound questions about our lives, Then An Angel Came is a book of miracles rooted in the everyday reality of all our lives, a book of extraordinary,...
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Radiation Diaries tells of a month of radiotherapy treatment undergone when Janet Todd was president of a Cambridge college and while her father, in his 100th year, was approaching death, with skin cancer. The day-by-day treatment brought into her mind flashes from her early life in Bermuda and Ceylon with her father, in Ghana and Puerto Rico, as a young woman, along with stored poems from childhood. Written each morning and night, it tells of the...
4959) Good Grief, the Ground
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Margaret Ray is pulling back the curtains on our societal performance of culture, guiding an exposing light to the daily performance that is life in a woman's body.
Ray's Good Grief, the Ground interrogates the everyday violences nonchalantly inflicted unto women through personal, political, and national lenses. Moving between adolescence and adulthood, Ray alternates between dark humor and heart-wrenching honesty to explore grief, anxiety, queer...
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For readers of Suleika Jaouad's Between Two Kingdoms
A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the last page.
A lifetime of finding punchlines in his heartache comes to a shuddering stop when comedian and writer Shawn Hitchins loses two great loves, five months apart, to sudden death. In this, deeply poignant memoir that combines sober self-portrait with tender elegy, Hitchins explores the messiness...
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