![]() Fans of literary nature narratives will be thrilled by his lyrical account, and eager to see where Meiburg goes next. Published by Random House USA Inc, United States, 2022. Meiburg’s evocative prose (“on the sandstone heights, clusters of wild guanacos turned red and gold in the sun, snorting and whinnying to let us know we were seen”) will bring armchair naturalists into the wild with him. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the Worlds Smartest Birds of Prey (Paperback) Jonathan Meiburg. ![]() ![]() A family of birds, caracaras can be found in South America and resemble a “cross between a hawk and a raven.” Meiburg notes how the caracara, with its reputation for stealing people’s hats and other valuables, fascinated Charles Darwin, but he never pursued the questions they’d raised for him, including why they chose the Falkland Islands “for their metropolis.” Meiburg follows a Falklands Conservation biologist to find a dead caracara that “looked like he collapsed from exhaustion” and investigates the rare chimango caracara as its killer, and learns from a falconer (with a devotion to a caracara named Tina) that the birds’ intelligence and sociability are remarkable. Meiburg elevates himself to the top ranks of science writers with this enthralling debut on the obscure caracara. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Mafi confronts issues of mental health, suicidality, racism, and self-love in ways that will leave readers reacting viscerally and powerfully. Woven through this story of trauma and resilience is a soft romance between Shadi and Zahra’s brother, Ali. The expectation of keeping one’s home life private and of separating the political from the personal are themes throughout the book. Everyone is so mired in their own trauma and pain that Shadi, the youngest, often finds herself forgotten, both literally and figuratively. Her father, once a healthy, fit man, recently had a second heart attack, and Shadi’s sister, Shayda, has taken over running the house. She’s behind in her classes and exhausted because she often stays up at night listening to her mother’s agonizing despair over losing Mehdi. ![]() The lack of support leaves Shadi struggling to keep afloat. It’s 2003, and all of this is compounded by the hatred Shadi receives every day at school for being Iranian American and a hijabi. Shadi’s life is slowly falling apart: Her best friend, Zahra, doesn’t talk to her anymore, and her parents are dealing with grief and depression in the aftermath of her brother Mehdi’s sudden death. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() PRINTZ AWARD WINNER, CHRISTOPHER AWARD WINNER, MIDDLE EAST BOOK AWARD WALTER AWARD HONOR Like Scheherazade of One Thousand and One Nights, Daniel spins a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth.Ī tale of heartbreak and resilience and urges readers to speak their truth and be heard. Implementing a distinct literary style and challenging western narrative structures, Nayeri deftly weaves through stories of the long and beautiful history of his family in Iran, adding a richness of ancient tales and Persian folklore. Anywhere becomes the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy, and then finally asylum in the U.S. At the core is Daniel’s story of how they became refugees-starting with his mother’s vocal embrace of Christianity in a country that made such a thing a capital offense, and continuing through their midnight flight from the secret police, bribing their way onto a plane-to-anywhere. ![]() In an Oklahoman middle school, Khosrou (whom everyone calls Daniel) stands in front of a skeptical audience of classmates, telling the tales of his family’s history, stretching back years, decades, and centuries. “A patchwork story is the shame of the refugee,” Nayeri writes early in the novel. It is a powerfully layered novel that poses the questions: Who owns the truth? Who speaks it? Who believes it? A sprawling, evocative, and groundbreaking autobiographical novel told in the unforgettable and hilarious voice of a young Iranian refugee. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. The Lessons Learned In The Wilderness series is a collection of the lessons God has taught (and continues to teach) Ken and his family throughout their day-to-day journey with Him. Today the Genesis 12 journey continues as Ken labors as a bond-servant of the Lord Jesus Christ in the proclamation of the gospel to the end that every person may be presented complete in Christ. ![]() web sara donati s debut novel into the wilderness was hailed as epic in scope. From 2015 until 2018, Ken served as the senior associate pastor of Grove Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. web dawn on a distant shore 2 in the wilderness series paperback 1 july. From 2006 until 2015, Ken served as the vice president of church and partner services of IMB, assisting churches across the US in mobilizing their members to make disciples of all peoples. In 2004, God led Ken, his wife LaVonne, and their two teenagers on a Genesis 12 journey, that resulted in his serving with the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention. Responding to God's call from the business world in 1992 to full-time vocational ministry, Ken Winter joined the staff of First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach, Florida, serving as the associate pastor of administration and global mission. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, in Scotland, Priscilla notices that Hynes has chained Lassie inside her pen and complains to her grandfather. That evening, Sam lectures Joe on the importance of honesty and informs his son that the duke is taking Lassie hundreds of miles away to Scotland for a dog show and will be staying there indefinitely. ![]() At the duke's estate, Joe is somewhat cheered by the presence of Priscilla, the duke's sympathetic young granddaughter, who promises to give Lassie special care. This time Joe runs off and hides with Lassie, but the two are quickly found by Sam, who insists that Joe return Lassie to the duke in person. Lassie soon escapes a second time by jumping over the pen's fence. Although Joe is overjoyed to see Lassie, his parents know that they must return her to the duke and reluctantly hand her over to Hynes. The next day, however, Lassie digs her way out of her pen and shows up at Joe's school at the usual time, four o'clock. ![]() ![]() Lassie, meanwhile, is taken to the duke's kennels, where she is locked in a pen by Hynes, the cruel, Cockney dogkeeper. When Sam and his wife Helen finally break the news, Joe is inconsolable. Unaware that his poor, unemployed father Sam has been forced to sell his beloved collie Lassie to the Duke of Rudling, young Joe Carraclough, of Yorkshire, England, is immediately concerned when the dog fails to meet him, as usual, after school. ![]() ![]() He has also written non-fiction under the pen name Reed Stephens. ![]() INSPIRATIONS: Donaldson's work is heavily inf Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an American fantasy, science fiction, and mystery novelist in the United Kingdom he is usually called "Stephen Donaldson" (without the "R"). Donaldson earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and master's degree from Kent State University. Donaldson spent the years between the ages of 3 and 16 living in India, where his father was working as an orthopaedic surgeon. His father, James, was a medical missionary and his mother, Ruth, a prosthetist (a person skilled in making or fitting prosthetic devices). ![]() ![]() Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an American fantasy, science fiction, and mystery novelist in the United Kingdom he is usually called "Stephen Donaldson" (without the "R"). ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() In short, the editors have wrought a balanced, sweeping, and compelling documentary history. In letters, journals, diaries, official documents, and personal recollections, the timeless figures of the Revolution emerge in all their human splendor and folly to stand beside the nameless soldiers.Profusely illustrated and enhanced by cogent commentary, this book examines every aspect of the war, including the Loyalist and British views treason and prison escapes songs and ballads the home front and diplomacy abroad. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six allows readers to experience events long-entombed in textbooks as they unfold for the first time for both Loyalists and Patriots: the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, and more. Morris have provided a prudent, perceptive answer-the participants themselves-and in the process have fashioned from the vast source material a thrilling chronological narrative. Renowned scholars Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. ![]() "Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? asked John Adams in 1815. One-volume reissue of two-volume original. ![]() The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as told by Participants Return to Article Details The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants by Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Commager, Henry Steele Morris, Richard B. ![]() ![]() ![]() With World War II and Hiroshima still a recent memory, armageddon was not far from any SF writer's mind at the time. But in the end, it's our bugs that defeat them, not our weapons. Their telepathy allows a few of them to know we're coming, which some await with a sense of romantic wonder, and others dread as a tangible threat. ![]() ![]() In some ways, they are so much like us, better and worse in others. The same fate awaits the hapless indigenes of Mars in Ray Bradbury's seminal and elegiac The Martian Chronicles. People came from Europe to settle the Americas, and the natives were wiped out, if not by our arms or our religions, then by our diseases. The spread of human civilization has been a ruthlessly cold-blooded Darwinian process. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives with her husband and, on occasion, some. Shoshanna has always watched over her sister and once again she has to watch over her ailing mother. Laura Hurwitz is an author of six travel-essay books, award-winning childrens books, and young adult fiction. ![]() But as Ella grows worse and worse, events conspire to leave them to face a choice they never could have imagined. The girls don’t wish to leave the only stable home they’ve ever had. Confused and paranoid, Ella is convinced that she and the girls must leave before Adam finds them and extracts revenge. Then their mother’s crippling depression returns. ![]() Finding a safe haven at the farm of kind, elderly Avery Elliot, the four of them find some measure of peace and stability. Their mother, Ella, takes them to San Francisco, where they meet one of her old friends, Judy, and the four of them decide to head off and try to make a life together. In 1970, as the hippie movement is losing its innocence, Shoshanna and her six-year-old sister, Mara, escape from Sweet Earth Farm, a declining commune, run by their tyrannical and abusive father, Adam. ![]() |