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I Had Seen Castles
by Cynthia RylantJohn Dante is seventeen when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and he wants to fight for his country. Then he falls in love with Ginny Burton, who is against all war, and his beliefs are suddenly and unexpectedly questioned. But rather than be judged a traitor or a coward, he enlists. Rylant's story is heartbreaking in its honesty; her controlled, elegant prose lends poignancy to the story's emotional depth. A love story, a coming-of-age tale, a book with a passionate anti-war message, I Had Seen Castles is not to be missed.--Publishers Weekly
The Islander
by Cynthia RylantWhen Daniel's parents die, he goes to live with his grandfather on a remote gray island off British Columbia. Daniel is lonely until he meets a mermaid. When he returns to find her, a sea otter tosses him a shell with key inside. What will this magical key unlock? Written by the Newbery Award-winning author of "Missing May. "
Thimbleberry Stories
by Cynthia RylantFour stories about Nigel the Chipmunk and his friends, who live on Thimbleberry Lane.
Becoming a Woman of Excellence
by Cynthia HealdIn the book of Ruth, Boaz describes Ruth as being a woman of excellence. The book of Proverbs compares a woman of excellence to precious jewels. God Himself beckons us to become women of excellence. But what exactly is He asking? Does He intend for us to keep homes as beautiful as Martha Stuart or become women who lead ministries like Beth Moore? Can we even hope to reach the excellence that God invites us to reach for? This Bible study is designed for group or self-led study and explores what excellence really means in areas such as Surrender, Obedience, Discipline, Discretion, Wisdom, and Purity.
Wolfsbane
by Craig ThomasRichard Gardiner is a successful, smalltown English solicitor, whose violent past suddenly catches up with him while on vacation.
Little Brother
by Cory DoctorowMarcus, aka "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-- and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when, having skipped school, he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison, where they're mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state, where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself. Can one teenage hacker fight back against a government out of control? Maybe, but only if he's really careful . . . and very, very smart.
Swift Rivers
by Cornelia MeigsBarred from his family home- stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather’s land and float the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to the lumber mills in Saint Louis. Filled with stories of raft hands and river pilots, this fast-paced novel has all the momentum of the great Mississippi.<P><P> Newbery Honor Book
Inkdeath (Book 3, Inkheart Series)
by Anthea Bell Cornelia FunkeAs Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, asking for Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines.
Vermont: The State with the Storybook Past
by Cora CheneyTraces the history of Vermont from prehistoric times to the present day.
Davy Crockett
by Constance RourkeBlending myth and reality, Constance Rourke aimed to get at the heart of Davy Crockett, whose hold on the American imagination was firm even before he died at the Alamo. Davy Crockett, published in 1934, pioneered in showing the backwoodsman’s transformation into a folk hero. It remains a basic in the Crockett literature.<P><P> A Newbery Honor Book.
The Book of Touch
by Constance ClassenBy delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense, we see how touch developed differently across cultures, how our identities are shaped by touch, how touch is felt by the blind and autistic, and more.
Dancing in the Arms of God: Finding Intimacy and Fulfillment by Following His Lead
by Connie NealStop focusing on what was and what might have been and begin to work with what is and what could be.
The Tender Shoot and Other Stories
by Collette Antonia WhiteEleven stories illustrating the many facets of love by France's incomparable writer
Fourth Grade is a Jinx
by Colleen O'Shaughnessy MckennaCollette thought 4th grade was going to be fun, but that was before the teacher had an accident. Now the substitute teacher is her mother!
Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment
by Colin WilsonThe author devotes much thought to Shaw's formative years, 20-30, and how his novels built up the Shaw persona, and how his success changed him.
Men of Mystery
by Colin Wilson9 articles about Rasputin, Gurdjieff, Blavatsky, Tesla, Crowley, Dashwood, Geller, Mesmer and Nostradamus
Poltergeist! A Study in Destructive Haunting
by Colin WilsonA summary of various cases of unexplained phenomena in the occult world
Ritual in the Dark
by Colin WilsonNovel about a sex-killer who targets young women, mainly prostitutes, who are found battered and mutilated in the dark corners of East End.
The Man Who Walked Through Time
by Colin FletcherFletcher is the first man ever to walk the entire length of the Grand Canyon. This is the story of his journey, 2 months of struggle against heat and cold, lack of water, dwindling supplies, and almost impassable terrain. But more than a mere adventure story, this is also a spiritual odyssey during which one man began to understand mankind's unique place in the vastness of nature.
Stargazer
by Colby HodgeLilly is unsure whether Phoenix is a common criminal or her true love on their quest to save her beloved planet.
The Moon Under Her Feet
by Clysta KinstlerFictional feminist history of Jesus Christ and Biblical events, from the point of view of Mary Magdalene.
Walking Across Egypt
by Clyde EdgertonStory of how an adolescent, illegitimate and delinquent, transforms and is transformed by the Southern family he's dropped into.
Destiny Doll
by Clifford D. SimakThe planet beckoned them from space, and then closed around them like a Venus fly trap.
Immigrant and Other Stories
by Clifford D. SimakThis book is a sampling of Clifford D. Simak's short stories. They range from the satirical to the sad. The main concern is what it means to be a human being in the universe and what it means to become an adult.