Download or read book Sparrow written by Sarah Moon and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...
Download or read book Sparrow s Silence written by Lisa Stowe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quest for her roots, and new family responsibilities, give Cody Marsh reasons to settle in Wallace, Idaho. As the curator at a mining museum, she takes on a project mapping the old Nine Mile Cemetery. The history of the place fascinates her, but a solitary headstone, engraved only with 'Sparrow', nags at her with the persistence of a haunting. When a body is discovered, Cody has no reason to believe there is any connection to the mysterious headstone. However, as she follows Sparrow's winding tale into secrecy, betrayal, and loss, an attempt on Cody's life proves a link. Hurt and scared, Cody flees to the safety of those she loves...which is exactly where the killer wants her.
Download or read book The Killing of Sparrows written by Davy Johnson and published by Davy Johnson. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-made millionaire learns the true meaning of treachery as he is kidnapped by six persons whom he thought to be trustworthy. He later discovers, after he is nearly beaten to death, that treachery does have a face. Darryl Simms is now faced with the terrible dilemma of either taking revenge out upon these people or letting fate mete out its own form of justice. If you were Darryl, what would you do?
Download or read book A Nest of Sparrows written by Deborah Raney and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His Fiancée Was the One Woman He’d Loved. Her Children Are All He Has Left. Reserved contractor Wade Sullivan never expected to fall in love with Starr Parnell or to love her three small kids as if they were his own. But that’s exactly what happened. As their wedding draws near, however, tragedy strikes–and Wade must put aside his own grief in order to help Starr’s children cope. As Wade focuses his efforts on caring for the children, he discovers that their tender, young lives give tremendous meaning to his own broken one. Then Starr’s abusive ex-husband shows up to claim the offspring who barely remember him–and Wade prepares for the fight of his life. Will Anyone Believe His Claim to Love the Children More than Their Father Loves Them? A powerful novel of loss and discovery, courage and grace, A Nest of Sparrows masterfully illustrates one man’s struggle to know when to fight, when to let go, and when to simply wait. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book Journey of the Sparrows written by Meryl Friedman and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nile Sparrows written by Ibrahim Aslan and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the author's own Nile-side neighborhood of Warraq, Aslan's second novel, the first to be translated and published in English, chronicles the daily rhythm of life of rural migrants to Cairo and their complex webs of familial and neighborly relations over half a century. It opens with the mysterious disappearance of the tiny grandmother, Hanem, who is over 100 years old and is last seen by her daughter-in-law Dalal. Dalal does not have the heart to tell Hanem that her grown children Nargis and Abdel Reheem have both been dead for some time. Her grandson Mr. Abdalla, who has children of his own and not a few flecks of gray in his hair, reluctantly sets out for their home village to search for her, embarking on a bittersweet odyssey into his family's past and a confrontation with his own aging. In an elliptical narrative, Aslan limns a series of vignettes that mimic the workings of memory, moving backward and forward in time and held together by a series of recurrent figures and images. There is Abdalla's father, the tragic al-Bahey Uthman; his quirky and earthy uncle Abdel Reheem; and his sweet mother, Nargis, who dies with her simplest desires unfulfilled. Aslan's moving portrait of the quotidian dramas that constitute the lives of ordinary Egyptians is untainted by populist pretensions or belittling romanticism, and full of the humor and heartbreaking pathos that have become trademarks of the author's style.
Download or read book Sparrow written by Mary Cecilia Jackson and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak, Mary Cecilia Jackson's devastating but hopeful YA debut is about a ballerina who finds the courage to confront the abuse that haunts her past and threatens her future. There are two kinds of people on the planet. Hunters and prey I thought I would be safe after my mother died. I thought I could stop searching for new places to hide. But you can’t escape what you are, what you’ve always been. My name is Savannah Darcy Rose. And I am still prey. Though Savannah Rose—“Sparrow” to her friends and family—is a gifted ballerina, her real talent is keeping secrets. Schooled in silence by her long-dead mother, Sparrow has always believed that her lifelong creed—“I’m not the kind of girl who tells”—will make her just like everyone else: Normal. Happy. Safe. But in the aftermath of a brutal assault by her seemingly perfect boyfriend Tristan, Sparrow must finally find the courage to confront the ghosts of her past, or lose herself forever.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Cloud of Sparrows written by Takashi Matsuoka and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Exotic, entertaining . . . [an] exceptional first novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle The year is 1861. After two centuries of isolation, Japan has opened its doors to the West. And as foreign ships threaten to rain destruction on the Shogun’s castle in Edo, a small group of American missionaries has arrived to spread the word of their God. They have yet to realize that their future in Japan has already been foreseen. For a young nobleman has dreamt that his life will be saved by an outsider in the New Year. . . and it is said that Lord Genji has the gift of prophecy. What happens next—when the handsome lord meets an appa rently reformed gunslinger and a woman in flight from her own destructive beauty—sets the stage for a remarkable adventure. For as this unlikely band embarks on a journey through a landscape bristling with danger, East and West, flesh and spirit, past and future, collide in ways no one—least of all Genji—could have imagined. Praise for Cloud of Sparrows “The book seizes you from start to finish.”—The Washington Post “Adventure-filled.”—Entertainment Weekly “Rich . . . with an ambitious, unexpected ending that cuts deeper than a samurai sword.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book Children of God written by Mary Doria Russell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Folkloral Voice written by Ian William Sewall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this narrative collage of ancient and contemporary storytelling, modern theory, and personal reflection, Ian William Sewall seeks to infuse western pedagogy with a folkloral teaching voice. Through multilayered conversations with individuals and groups—traditional storytellers, teachers, children—he examines the dynamic nature of oral culture, its embodied nature, its connection to place, and its use of metaphor, laughter, ethnicity, and intergenerational conversation to create unique kinds of interactions and learning. Offering storytelling as an “ancestral template” of good teaching, Sewall demonstrates how teachers can use the folkoral voice to inform and transform classroom practice.
Download or read book Sparrows written by Horace W. C. Newte and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparrows is a novella by Horace W. C. Newte. Excerpt: "To the indifferent observer, the Miss Mees were exactly alike, being meagre, dilapidated, white-haired old ladies, with the same beaked noses and receding chins; both wore rusty black frocks, each of which was decorated with a white cameo brooch; both walked with the same propitiatory shuffle. They were like a couple of elderly, moulting, decorous hens who, in spite of their physical disabilities, had something of a presence. This was obtained from the authority they had wielded over the many pupils who had passed through their hands."
Download or read book Many Sparrows written by Lori Benton and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Either she and her children would emerge from that wilderness together, or none of them would… In 1774, the Ohio-Kentucky frontier pulses with rising tension and brutal conflicts as Colonists push westward and encroach upon Native American territories. The young Inglesby family is making the perilous journey west when an accident sends Philip back to Redstone Fort for help, forcing him to leave his pregnant wife Clare and their four-year old son Jacob on a remote mountain trail. When Philip does not return and Jacob disappears from the wagon under the cover of darkness, Clare awakens the next morning to find herself utterly alone, in labor and wondering how she can to recover her son...especially when her second child is moments away from being born. Clare will face the greatest fight of her life, as she struggles to reclaim her son from the Shawnee Indians now holding him captive. But with the battle lines sharply drawn, Jacob’s life might not be the only one at stake. When frontiersman Jeremiah Ring comes to her aid, can the stranger convince Clare that recovering her son will require the very thing her anguished heart is unwilling to do—be still, wait and let God fight this battle for them?
Download or read book Songs for Kings and Sparrows written by Diego LLisebir and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I believe poetry should be a higher form of expression than normal dialogue. I believe that poetry should at the very least give a clear expression of the artists point of view to the reader. It should be able to establish a sense of understanding and common experience between the artist and the reader. And I believe that poetry should inspire hope in the creation of a better reality, the ideal reality that lives in each persons imagination. Diego LLisebir
Download or read book Tsip the Little Sparrow written by Revathi Selwyn and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Tsip a little female sparrow . Tsip , is rejected as a fledgling ,after an accidental fall from the nest and is saved by the Bakers daughter .Granma sparrow takes Tsip into her nest , she grows up with the other little sparrows ,Pip ,Puff ,Hob ,Aloe and Pisum . Tsip plays with acorn Tops , Palm carts ,Fruit games and hops around schools along with Pip ,Puff and Hob .One day ,Tsip is forcibly taken back to her parents nest and decides to fly away .On her way back to Granmas nest ,Tsip gets lost and is saved by Gab who is from a different tribe of sparrows . Gab drops her back at Sparrow colony ,Tsip is heart broken and is comforted by Bead. Tsip finds a Wonder Seed that glows. Tsip ,the ordinary little sparrow forgets her losses and pain and cares for orphaned fledglings and elderly sparrows with the help of Wonder Seed . Tsip meets the God who cares for the Sparrows and is given a mission to blow the Trumpet and save the Sparrows . Tsip , Bead and Asher save the sparrows of Steeple Colony from Abaddon and his Alley cats .
Download or read book Loud Sparrows written by Aili Mu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If sparrows are but a metaphor, every writer faces the challenge of reality, which is to say, how one catches this sparrow." So writes Bei Dao in his preface to Loud Sparrows, a spirited collection of ninety-one short-shorts, an exciting new form of extreme short-storytelling that has swept the creative consciousness of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The artistic and aesthetic freedoms of short-shorts enable writers to capture the tone, texture, and chaos of their rapidly changing societies in infinitely inventive ways. Written by Chinese authors over the past three decades, the stories in this anthology are culled from newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and personal collections, and their subjects range from humanist ideals and traditional virtues to the material benefits of a commercialized society.
Download or read book The Sparrow written by Mary Doria Russell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Pierced by Love written by Hans Boersma and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy Scripture requires holy reading. Encounter an ancient but fresh way of reading the Bible. Learn from Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, and others. Experience a structured and simple way to focus on Christ, listen to the Spirit, and rest in God's love. Jesus is the point of reading the Bible. Christians read Scripture to encounter Christ and be conformed to his image. Scripture is no mere human text; it is God's living word. So how should we read it? For Christians throughout the centuries, the answer has been lectio divina—"divine reading." em Lectio divina is a sacramental reading. It aims to take us more deeply into the life of God. Through practicing the four movements of emlectio divina—attentive reading, extended meditation, prayerful reflection, and silent resting—we have a structured and simple way to focus on Christ, listen to the Spirit, and rest in God's love. We no longer simply read the words of Scripture; instead, we read the face of God in the eternal Word.
