Download or read book I Asked the Blue Heron written by Lisbeth Coiman and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of female friendship, immigration, and mental illness.
Download or read book Blue Heron written by Avi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is magic really for? As Maggie approaches her thirteenth birthday, she wants to believe that some kind of magic can stop the changes all around her. Her visit with her father and his new family at a lakeside cabin makes her wonder. Will he still love her as much, now that he has a new family, or will he love her baby half-sister more? Her father seems troubled and withdrawn and, while he insists nothing is wrong, she worries. Alone with her own secret thoughts, Maggie finds comfort in the beautiful blue heron she visits at the lake every morning. With each visit, she grows more attached to the bird, and she becomes aware that someone else is watching, too -- someone who's putting the bird in great danger. Through her determination to protect the bird, Maggie begins to understand the magic of change in her own life, and in the constantly changing world around her.
Download or read book Uprising Alzamiento written by Lisbeth Coiman and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lisbeth Coiman is a dazzling new voice. With tender rage, she excavates what it means to love and grieve a homeland." -Ariel Gore, author of Hexing the Patriarchy: 26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to Embolden the Resistance and F*ck Happiness. "Lisbeth Coiman writes 'Before I was born / A pristine future / streamed down from El Ávila tributaries' in the opening of her poem "El Guaire." With these words and beyond, I am also taken to my point in history, the promise that we are all born into without knowing what's to come, and how we are as individuals and as a collective, forced to reckon with a past that we are killing off to chase a promise of a better future. For immigrants, this carries a bigger weight, as we are both killers of self while our selves are so often the victims of a society that wants to kill us. Coiman's collection is a deeply personal work that makes us revisit the guilts and the angers that we carry." -Chiwan Choi, author of The Yellow House "UPRISING/ALZAMIENTO es un libro desgarrador, sincero y nostálgico. Se entremezclan los recuerdos de infancia, el exilio y los retos de la enfermedad mental. Es además un testimonio de vivir y narrar entre lenguas." -Nathalie Bouzaglo, editora de Excesos del Cuerpo, y autora de Ficción Adulterada. "Weaving history, current events, and personal narrative, Lisbeth Coiman takes us on a vivid exploration of what it means to rise up, as a Venezuelan both within the country and from afar, as an immigrant in new lands, and as a woman in patriarchal societies. Longing and loss mix with resolve and resilience as Coiman teaches us that uprisings are never simple or painless, but that they can be beautiful and are almost always necessary on the path towards a more just world. Uprisings / Alzamiento is that "despertador en tu mesa de noche // Una campana en tus oídos" ("clock on your beside table // ringing in your ears") we all need right now, waking us up to the urgent need to take action in the face of injustice even when-especially when-we are afraid of what might come next. -Li Yun Alvarado, author of Words or Water"
Download or read book When the Blue Heron Flies written by Melannie Svoboda and published by Twenty-Third Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Sr. Melannie hopes to pique the curiosity, slow us down, and reaffirm for the mystery and beauty of daily life with its light and shadows, joys and sorrows, perplexities and understanding. She also hpes these prayer-poems will nudge us to prayer. Great spiritual reading!
Download or read book Anything for You written by Kristan Higgins and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before you get down on bended knee… …you should be pretty darn sure the answer will be yes. For ten years, Connor O'Rourke has been waiting for Jessica Dunn to take their on-again, off-again relationship public, and he thinks the time has come. His restaurant is thriving, she's got her dream job at Blue Heron Vineyard—it's the perfect time to get married. When he pops the question, however, her answer is a fond but firm no. If it ain't broke, why fix it? Jess has her hands full with her younger brother, who's now living with her full-time, and a great career after years of waitressing. What she and Connor have is perfect: friends with an excellent benefits package. Besides, with her difficult past (and reputation), she's positive married life isn't for her. But this time, Connor says it's all or nothing. If she doesn't want to marry him, he'll find someone who does. Easier said than done, given that he's never loved anyone but her. And maybe Jessica isn't quite as sure as she thinks…
Download or read book The Perfect Match written by Kristan Higgins and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Honor Holland agrees to a marriage of convenience to help British professor Tom Barlow stay in the country, she begins to wonder if there isn't something more between them.
Download or read book Waiting on You written by Kristan Higgins and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lucas Campbell, who broke her heart ten years earlier, returns to town, bar owner Colleen O'Rourke is tempted to give him a second chance, but wary of being hurt again.
Download or read book The Great Blue Heron written by Robert William Butler and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its striking plumage, the great blue heron is one of the most widely recognized wading birds in North America. Riding on kelp beds in the Queen Charlotte Islands, wading in coastal streams along the mainland, poised motionless at the water's edge on a misty morning, or nesting in the limbs of old-growth forests, this stately bird is a familiar sight on the coast of British Columbia. The largest colonies are on the Fraser River delta, an area of great ecological significance to the north Pacific. Despite a growing body of knowledge regarding many aspects of the species' breeding biology and courtship behaviour, the foraging and population ecology of this bird remains something of an enigma. In his beautifully illustrated book, Robert Butler follows the great blue heron through a year on the coast of British Columbia. He draws on more than a decade of work to throw light on the adaptability of this magnificent bird to a temperate climate, its diet and breeding habits, habitat use, and conservation. Although the great blue heron has become a symbol of wetland conservation, in recent years it has had to face new challenges as a consequence of rapid urbanization of its environment. In The Great Blue Heron the author also describes the B.C. coast and shares a vision for the conservation of the Strait of Georgia and the Fraser River delta.
Download or read book Grk written by Joshua Doder and published by Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While vacationing in the Seychelles, Tim discovers a well-guarded private island where he learns of a devious plot that threatens the endangered local giant tortoise.
Download or read book Bright Dead Things written by Ada Limón and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, Bright Dead Things considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact - tracing in intimate detail the ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth and falls in love. In these extraordinary poems Ada Limón's heart becomes a 'huge beating genius machine' striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. 'I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying,' the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds and Mark Doty, Limón's work is consistently generous, accessible, and 'effortlessly lyrical' (New York Times) - though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt and lived.
Download or read book In Your Dreams written by Kristan Higgins and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she asks Jack Holland to be her escort to her ex-fiancé's wedding and they end up in bed together, Emmaline Neal dismisses it as a one-night stand, but Jack is determined to convince her that it could be something more.
Download or read book The Best Man written by Kristan Higgins and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the best man is the one you least expect… Faith Holland left her hometown after being jilted at the altar. Now a little older and wiser, she's ready to return to the Blue Heron Winery, her family's vineyard, to confront the ghosts of her past, and maybe enjoy a glass of red. After all, there's some great scenery there…. Like Levi Cooper, the local police chief—and best friend of her former fiancé. There's a lot about Levi that Faith never noticed, and it's not just those deep green eyes. The only catch is she's having a hard time forgetting that he helped ruin her wedding all those years ago. If she can find a minute amidst all her family drama to stop and smell the rosé, she just might find a reason to stay at Blue Heron, and finish that walk down the aisle.
Download or read book Blue Heron written by Elizabeth Robinson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Blue Heron delineate a passage through grief and change. Here, personal loss is continuous with threats to other species and landscapes. In response, Robinson has uprooted the terrain of language, “what / bestows itself from / the almost-invisible / and its stain.” If these uprootings are casualties of a poetics seeking to redress imbalance and “pollution,” then they are also opportunities to rethink what can exist in the field of poetic language as “roots also quicken, bruise their plural pronouns, lose tune, / forsake terrain by moving through and on it.” And so Blue Heron links poetic process with organic process, presence with the gap we know as hauntedness. The page is not only a resonant physical field, but also a site of dialogue between human and landscape, between lack and manifestation. If these poems constitute a poetics of loss, they are equally a movement toward a poetics of openness, risk, and renewed balance in which poetry shifts as “a form of weather, a form/of following, falling from the form/as it twists.”
Download or read book Legacy of the Blue Heron written by Harrison C. Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the author's devastating educational experiences, his diagnosis of a learning disability and the incredible work he has done from that pivotal moment.
Download or read book The Most Unusual Pet Ever written by Sondra Perry and published by Jabberwocky Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's relationship with Henry, her "pet" great blue heron, from her first sightings of the animal in the backyard and his appetite for the fish in the ponds to her routine with him and his conflict with other birds in the yard.
Download or read book Henry the Impatient Heron written by Donna Love and published by Sylvan Dell Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry the heron couldn't stand still. He was always moving, and it drove everyone crazy. All herons have to stand still to catch their food, so how would Henry ever be able to eat on his own? Henry learns a valuable lesson from the King of Camouflage, which teaches the importance of just being still. Includes "For Creative Minds" educational section.
Download or read book Becoming the Blue Heron written by Terri Kirby Erickson and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fifth collection, Terri Kirby Erickson's poems "take us to the mysteries of the natural world and the world of family and friends with magical sureness. The language is almost biblical in its intensity and rhythms. Whether dancing to zydeco on 'floorboards glowing like embers' or playing the slots in a casino where 'loss howls from the hills,' we are swept along by Erickson's masterful use of movement and mood."
