Fire from the Rock

Author: Sharon Draper
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440651361
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Sylvia is shocked and confused when she is asked to be one of the first black students to attend Central High School, which is scheduled to be integrated in the fall of 1957, whether people like it or not. Before Sylvia makes her final decision, smoldering racial tension in the town ignites into flame. When the smoke clears, she sees clearly that nothing is going to stop the change from coming. It is up to her generation to make it happen, in as many different ways as there are colors in the world.

Adding Wood to the Fire

Author: Kathy Ford
Publisher: Office the Common Books
ISBN: 9781945473487
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Adding Wood to theFire¿A Quiltmaker¿s Waycelebrates the creative spirit and puts into words what quilters know intuitively. Being committed to an artistic practice is a way of life and ametaphor for life. The book perfectly captures the connections betweenlife choices and artistic choices. By artfully stitching together personal history with the making of quiltsthe book illustrates how enriching and cathartic the creative process canbe. Pushing boundaries, taking risks, letting go ¿ all are themes that surface in both quilts and in life. By piecing together her life experiences and her quilts in this memoir,Kathy has given more meaning to both.

Braving the Fire

Author: Jessica Handler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250014638
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Loosely based on the Kubler-Ross "Five Stages of Grief," this instructional guide to writing memoirs of grief or loss with honesty includes advice and wisdom from leading doctors and therapists about the physical experience of grieving.

Everygirl's Magazine ...

Author: Rowe Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description

The Northwestern Reporter

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1152

Book Description

THE FIRE WITHIN

Author: Lynda Trent
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459275241
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
Megan Had To Make A Choice Things had changed the day war came to her mountain. Now it was time to decide between the Rebel to whom she'd been promised, and the Union captain, Caleb Morgan. To choose Caleb would mean turning her back on everything that had gone before, yet how could she surrender the man who had captured her heart! Captain Morgan was certain of only two things in life: that he hated the war, and that he loved Megan, a woman of courage and compassion who had rescued him from the cold embrace of death. Yet how could he ask her to leave behind the only life she'd ever known, and break her promise to another man?

What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?: A Novel

Author: António Lobo Antunes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393329488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 608

Book Description
A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the "heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner). The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde—a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts—is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon's most legendary transvestite, who searches for his own identity as he recalls the harrowing death of his father, Carlos; the life of Carlos's lover, Rui, a heroin addict and suicide; as well as the other denizens of this hallucinatory world. Psychologically penetrating, pregnant with literary symbolism, and deeply sympathetic in its depiction of society's dregs, Lobo Antunes's novel ventriloquizes the voices of the damned in a poetic masterwork that recalls Joyce's Ulysses with a dizzying farrago of urban images few readers will forget.

Southern Fire

Author: Juliet E. McKenna
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765314116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
Their coming had not been written in the stars, and no augury had foretold the terror they would bring. The first sign was the golden lights of the beacons, a clear message from every southern isle that a calamity had befallen them. Daish Kheda, warlord, reader of portents, giver of laws, healer and protector of all his many-islanded realm encompasses, must act quickly and decisively to avert disaster. But the people of the Aldabreshin Archipelago not only fear magic, they've abjured it. So what defense can Kheda offer against the threat of a dark magic that threatens to overrun every island of his domain? The American hardcover debut of a writer who has already gathered many fans with the five volumes of her Tales of Einarinn, Southern Fire is an engrossing new epic of magic, intrigue, culture, and politics, in a fantasy setting as colorful as the south seas, as bracing as the ocean wind, and as alluring as the hint of spices in the air of an exotic port.

Fire in the Dark

Author:
Publisher: Ron Talarico
ISBN: 0984706038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 683

Book Description

Quilt Your Story

Author: Kristin La Flamme
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1637412231
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
·An accessible guide to creating sentimental memory quilts for quilters of any skill level that provides easy, how-to instruction ·Goes beyond t-shirt quilting and shows crafters how to use other special fabrics in their memory quilt projects, including service uniforms, baby clothes, hospital scrubs, and more ·Features seven bed-sized quilt projects, each with a companion project for a total of 14 quilt designs ·Projects include step-by-step instructions, coordinating illustrations and photography, and personal backstories behind each memory quilt ·Also contains overviews on basic quilt techniques, how to deconstruct and prep clothing, a gallery of other memory quilts, and more ·A fresh, contemporary guide that takes the memory quilt category farther than it's been done in the past