The Lightkeeper's Daughters
The Lightkeeper's Daughters

Author: Jean E. Pendziwol

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-07-04

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1443452238

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A Toronto Star bestseller * A Globe and Mail bestseller * A New York Post "must-read" book The Light Between Oceans meets The Language of Flowers in this beautiful debut novel by an acclaimed Canadian children’s author. Elizabeth's eyes have failed. She can no longer read the books she loves or see the paintings that move her spirit, but her mind remains sharp and music fills the vacancy left by her blindness as she ruminates on the secrets in her family's past. When her late father's journals are discovered on a shipwrecked boat, she enlists the help of a delinquent teenager, Morgan, who is completing community service at the senior home where Elizabeth lives. An unlikely relationship develops between the two as they work to decipher the books and are drawn into the musty words he penned more than seventy years before as he manned the lighthouse on Porphyry Island. In the process they come to realize that they are both connected to the isolated island, their lives touched by Elizabeth's enigmatic twin sister Emily and the beautiful but harsh Lake Superior environment. While the discovery of Morgan's connection sheds light onto her own family mysteries, the faded pages of the journals hold more questions than answers for Elizabeth, and threaten the very core of who she is. Combining an emotional story of human connection with a mystery spanning decades, this tale of family, identity, and art will captivate and resonate with readers.

A Book of Secrets
A Book of Secrets

Author: Michael Holroyd

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2011-08-02

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1429969210

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A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011 On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael Holroyd's new book are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone unites them all. A Book of Secrets is a treasure trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements, and family mysteries. With grace and tender imagination, Holroyd brings a company of unknown women into the light. From Alice Keppel, the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; to Eve Fairfax, a muse of Auguste Rodin; to the novelist Violet Trefusis, the lover of Vita Sackville-West—these women are always on the periphery of the respectable world. Also on the margins is the elusive biographer, who on occasion turns an appraising eye upon himself as part of his investigations in the maze of biography. In A Book of Secrets, Holroyd gives voice to fragile human connections and the mystery of place.

When Charley Met Emma
When Charley Met Emma

Author: Amy Webb

Publisher: Beaming Books

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1506480233

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Winner of the 2019 Foreword INDIES Award Bronze Medal, When Charley Met Emma teaches kids about disability, empathy, and the beauty of friendships with people who are different from you. When Charley goes to the playground and sees Emma, a girl with limb differences who gets around in a wheelchair, he doesn't know how to react at first. But after he and Emma start talking, he learns that different isn't bad, sad, or strange--different is just different, and different is great! This delightful book will help kids think about disability, kindness, and how to behave when they meet someone who is different from them.

Awesomely Emma
Awesomely Emma

Author: Amy Webb

Publisher: Beaming Books

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1506466672

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Fans of When Charley Met Emma will love seeing Emma champion her inner awesomeness in this inspirational sequel that teaches readers about the power of self-advocacy. Emma has limb differences, but different isn't bad, sad, or strange. It's just different! But when some accessibility problems get in the way at the local art museum, it ruins the fun of a class trip...and then Emma's friend Charley makes things even worse! In the middle of a really bad day, Emma has to call upon her sense of inner awesome to stand up for herself and teach everyone a lesson about the transformative power of feeling awesome in your own skin.

Amy Webb's follow-up to When Charley Met Emma, Awesomely Emma will have all kids cheering as they learn to see the inner awesome in themselves and those around them.

The Pink Fairy Book
The Pink Fairy Book

Author: Andrew Lang

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2020-06-10

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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The Pink Fairy Book is a part of the Langs' Fairy Books series. It is a collection of forty-one Japanese, Scandinavian, and Sicilian traditional tales, stories and legends._x000D_ Table of Contents:_x000D_ The Cat's Elopement_x000D_ How the Dragon Was Tricked_x000D_ The Goblin and the Grocer_x000D_ The House in the Wood_x000D_ Uraschimataro and the Turtle_x000D_ The Slaying of the Tanuki_x000D_ The Flying Trunk_x000D_ The Snow-man_x000D_ The Shirt-collar_x000D_ The Princess in the Chest_x000D_ The Three Brothers_x000D_ The Snow-queen_x000D_ The Fir-tree_x000D_ Hans, the Mermaid's Son_x000D_ Peter Bull_x000D_ The Bird 'Grip'_x000D_ Snowflake_x000D_ I Know What I Have Learned_x000D_ The Cunning Shoemaker_x000D_ The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife_x000D_ Catherine and Her Destiny_x000D_ How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter_x000D_ The Water of Life_x000D_ The Wounded Lion_x000D_ The Man Without a Heart_x000D_ The Two Brothers_x000D_ Master and Pupil_x000D_ The Golden Lion_x000D_ The Sprig of Rosemary_x000D_ The White Dove_x000D_ The Troll's Daughter_x000D_ Esben and the Witch_x000D_ Princess Minon-minette_x000D_ Maiden Bright-eye_x000D_ The Merry Wives_x000D_ King Lindorm_x000D_ The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther_x000D_ The Little Hare_x000D_ The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue_x000D_ The Story of Ciccu_x000D_ Don Giovanni De La Fortuna

The Curse of Kim's Daughters
The Curse of Kim's Daughters

Author: Kyŏng-ni Pak

Publisher: Homa & Sekey Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1931907102

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Songsu Kim is orphaned when his father runs away from home and her mother takes poison. Raised by his uncle, he inherits the family pharmacy and later invests in a small fishing fleet. He marries Punshi of his uncle's choosing and has five daughters, but curse is the undercurrent of their lives--the eldest daughter by an allegation of baby murder; the second daughter by a failed love affair; the third by insanity resulting from her shameless pursuit of personal happiness; and the fourth by a grave misfortune at sea.

The Hidden Lamp
The Hidden Lamp

Author: Zenshin Florence Caplow

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-10-21

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1614291330

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The Hidden Lamp is a collection of one hundred koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In these pages we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road. Each story is accompanied by a reflection by a contemporary woman teacher--personal responses that help bring the old stories alive for readers today--and concluded by a final meditation for the reader, a question from the editors meant to spark further rumination and inquiry. These are the voices of the women ancestors of every contemporary Buddhist.