Air Mail to the Moon

Air Mail to the Moon

Author: Tom Birdseye

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780440843719

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When the tooth that she was saving for the tooth fairy disappears, Ora Mae sets out to find the thief and send him "airmail to the moon!"


How High the Moon

How High the Moon

Author: Karyn Parsons

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0316484024

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To Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet novel about one girl's journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of the Jim Crow South. "Timely, captivating, and lovely. So glad this book is in the world." —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming In the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in 1944, 12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her light skin tone and whose mother is away pursuing her dream as a jazz singer. So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. Little does she expect the truths she will discover about her mother, the father she never knew, and her family's most unlikely history. After a life-changing month, Ella returns South and is shocked by the news that her schoolmate George has been arrested for the murder of two local white girls. Poignant and eye-opening, How High the Moon is a timeless novel about a girl finding herself in a world all but determined to hold her down.


Dear Neil Armstrong

Dear Neil Armstrong

Author: James R. Hansen

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1612496032

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In the years between the historic first moon landing by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, and his death at age 82 on August 25, 2012, Neil Armstrong received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world, congratulating him, praising him, requesting pictures and autographs, and asking him what must have seemed to him to be limitless—and occasionally intrusive—questions. Of course, all the famous astronauts received fan mail, but the sheer volume Armstrong had to deal with for more than four decades after his moon landing was staggering. Today, the preponderance of those letters—some 75,000 of them—are preserved in the archives at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man on the Moon publishes a careful sampling of these letters—roughly 400—reflecting the various kinds of correspondence that Armstrong received along with representative samples of his replies. Selected and edited by James R. Hansen, Armstrong’s authorized biographer and author of the New York Times best seller First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, this collection sheds light on Armstrong’s enduring impact and offers an intimate glimpse into the cultural meanings of human spaceflight. Readers will explore what the thousands of letters to Neil Armstrong meant not only to those who wrote them, but as a snapshot of one of humankind’s greatest achievements in the twentieth century. They will see how societies and cultures projected their own meanings onto one of the world’s great heroes and iconic figures.


At the Full and Change of the Moon

At the Full and Change of the Moon

Author: Dionne Brand

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2011-05-18

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0307367614

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In 1824, on the island of Trinidad, Marie Ursule, queen of a secret society of militant slaves, plots a mass suicide—a quiet, passionate act of revolt. But she cannot bring herself to kill her small daughter, Bola, whom she smuggles away in the early dawn light. As Bola's children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren spill out across the world to America, Canada and Europe, they find their lives both haunted and vindicated by the dreams and passions of their defiant ancestor. The interconnected stories of six generations of Marie Ursule's descendants form a lush, beguiling and beautifully told history of dispossession, and bring this Governor General's Award-winning writer into the front rank of the world's novelists.


Linking Discourse Studies to Professional Practice

Linking Discourse Studies to Professional Practice

Author: Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1783094079

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This book examines how discourse analysts could best disseminate their research findings in real world settings. Each chapter presents a study of spoken or written discourse with authors putting forward a plan for how to engage professional practice in their work, using this volume's Framework for Application.


The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks

The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks

Author: Umberto Cavallaro

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-05

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 3319921533

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The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times. The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their fight for dominance and efforts to develop needed new technologies. This book will show how beneath these surface similarities, the two competing nations employed very different core tactics. It provides a new perspective of the history of the space race by analyzing that history through philately - that is, from the images on postage stamps, post cards, and letters in circulation at that time. Through this fascinating historical visual record, the author shows how the propaganda-heavy approach of the USSR eventually lost out to the more pragmatic approach of the United States.


Embracing the Moon

Embracing the Moon

Author: Yasmine Galenorn

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2002-09

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781567183047

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Written to encompass both beginning and advanced practitioners, "Embracing the Moon" explores the mystical side of natural magic while keeping a common-sense attitude. Packed not only with spells and rituals, but recipes for oils, spell powders and charms, this book is based on personal experience and provides readers with an insider's view of white magic.