Author: Julie Angeli
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922374936
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Edmund White
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408820455
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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A literary treat: a memoir of Edmund White's years among the cultural and intellectual elite of 1980s Paris

Author: George Frederick Kunz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pearl divers
Languages : en
Pages : 828

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Author: Johnette Downing
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 1455614602
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Explains why oysters make pearls and dangerous snakes have diamond-shaped heads.

Author: Tessa Afshar
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802498787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Can a Canaanite harlot who made her living enticing men be a fitting wife for a leader of Israel? Shockingly, the Bible’s answer is yes. This 10th anniversary edition of Pearl in the Sand includes new features that will invite you into the untold story of Rahab’s journey from lowly outcast to redeemed child of God. Rahab’s home is built into a wall, a wall that fortifies and protects the City of Jericho. However, other walls surround her too, walls of fear, rejection, and unworthiness… Years of pain and betrayal have wounded Rahab’s heart—she doubts whether her dreams of experiencing true love will ever come true… A woman with a wrecked past—a man of success, of faith... of pride. A marriage only God would conceive! Through the heartaches of a stormy relationship, Rahab and Salmone learn the true source of one another’s worth and find healing in God.

Author: Mary Olsen Kelly
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442967196
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Tori Murden McClure
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061718866
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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"In the end," writes Tori McClure, "I know I rowed across the Atlantic to find my heart, but in the beginning, I wasn't aware that it was missing." During June 1998, Tori McClure set out to row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a twenty-three-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. Within days she lost all communication with shore, but nevertheless she decided to keep going. Not only did she lose the sound of a friendly voice, she lost updates on the location of the Gulf Stream and on the weather. Unfortunately for Tori, 1998 is still on record as the worst hurricane season in the North Atlantic. In deep solitude and perilous conditions, she was nonetheless determined to prove what one person with a mission can do. When she was finally brought to her knees by a series of violent storms that nearly killed her, she had to signal for help and go home in what felt like complete disgrace. Back in Kentucky, however, Tori's life began to change in unexpected ways. She fell in love. At the age of thirty-five, she embarked on a serious relationship for the first time, making her feel even more vulnerable than sitting alone in a tiny boat in the middle of the Atlantic. She went to work for Muhammad Ali, who told her that she did not want to be known as the woman who "almost" rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. And she knew that he was right. In this thrilling story of high adventure and romantic quest, Tori McClure discovers through her favorite way—the hard way—that the most important thing in life is not to prove you are superhuman but to fully to embrace your own humanity. With a wry sense of humor and a strong voice, she gives us a true memoir of an explorer who maps her world with rare emotional honesty.

Author: Josephine F. Pacheco
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888923
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison. Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants' trial, Josephine Pacheco provides fresh insight into the lives of enslaved blacks in the District of Columbia, putting a human face on the victims of the interstate slave trade, whose lives have been overshadowed by larger historical events. Pacheco also details the Congressional debates about slavery that resulted from this large-scale escape attempt. She contends that although the incident itself and the trials and Congressional disputes that followed were not directly responsible for bringing an end to the slave trade in the nation's capital, they played a pivotal role in publicizing many of the issues surrounding slavery. Eventually, President Millard Fillmore pardoned the operators of the Pearl.

Author: Douglas Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance is the stuff of a great historical novel. It presents the account of the love between Count Nicholas Sheremetev, Russia's richest aristocrat, and Praskovia Kovalyova, his serf and the greatest opera diva of her time.

Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN: 9781423145578
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In a vast ocean, a single grain of sand seems hopelessly small and unimportant. But over time, the sand begins to change. Layer by layer, it grows and transforms. Its beauty starts to shine. Exquisitely crafted by an award-winning author-illustrator team, this luminous, uplifting story reminds us of the amazing capacity for change within us all.