with their eyes
with their eyes

Author: Annie Thoms

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2002-08-20

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0060517182

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I could have died that day. September 11, 2001 Monologues from Stuyvesant High School Tuesday, September 11, started off like any other day at Stuyvesant High School, located only a few blocks away from the World Trade Center. The semester was just beginning, and the students, faculty, and staff were ready to begin a new year. But within a few hours on that Tuesday morning, they would all share an experience that transformed their lives. Now, on the tenth anniversary of September 11th, we remember those who were lost and those who were forced to witness this tragedy. Here, in their own words, are the firsthand stories of a day we will never forget.

A Little Piece of Ground
A Little Piece of Ground

Author: Elizabeth Laird

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1608465837

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A Little Piece Of Ground will help young readers understand more about one of the worst conflicts afflicting our world today. Written by Elizabeth Laird, one of Great Britain’s best-known young adult authors, A Little Piece Of Ground explores the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands through the eyes of a young boy. Twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. In response to a Palestinian suicide bombing, the Israeli military subjects the West Bank town to a virtual siege. Meanwhile, Karim, trapped at home with his teenage brother and fearful parents, longs to play football with his friends. When the curfew ends, he and his friend discover an unused patch of ground that’s the perfect site for a football pitch. Nearby, an old car hidden intact under bulldozed building makes a brilliant den. But in this city there’s constant danger, even for schoolboys. And when Israeli soldiers find Karim outside during the next curfew, it seems impossible that he will survive. This powerful book fills a substantial gap in existing young adult literature on the Middle East. With 23,000 copies already sold in the United Kingdom and Canada, this book is sure to find a wide audience among young adult readers in the United States.

The Guardians
The Guardians

Author: Liam Mariz

Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore

Published: 2014-11-28

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1482829231

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Leah is your average girl, till one night a guy comes through her mirror and leaves a plain looking white book behind. Her world is completely turned upside down as she figures out what the book can do and the world it belongs to. But apart from the extremely gorgeous guardians and the beautiful world the book brings into Leah’s life, it also comes with monsters, a terrifying secret and maybe even the desire to kill...Can Leah save the two worlds and the ones she loves without losing herself in the process?...

Arcane
Arcane

Author: Jarah Aurel

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-07-07

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 3757821556

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After an accident killed her parents, Malia's life is turned upside down. She's going to an academy she's never heard of with people who have powers she didn't know existed, preparing for a war she wants to play no part in. Only that she will play a part in it, and one much more important than she could`ve anticipated. Will she be able to keep up with the other students or will she fail? Can she possibly be what people expect from her? And more importantly, how will she possibly survive living in the same place as a certain curly-haired, deeply infuriating boy? Only time will tell. The Wattpad sensation is coming on paper! After winning the hearts of many readers online, the edited version is finally available as a physical copy! Arcane is a uniquely constructed book that plays over the span of multiple years to show the development of two rivals` relationship as they grow up.

Lucas
Lucas

Author: Kevin Brooks

Publisher: Chicken House

Published: 2014-02-06

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1909489190

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Caitlin's life changes the moment she sees Lucas walking across the causeway one hot summer's day. He is the strangest, most beautiful boy she has ever seen - and when she meets him, her world comes alive.

American Farmer
American Farmer

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1869

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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4th ser., v. 1-4 includes the Proceedings of the 1st-11th annual meetings (1848-58) of the Maryland State Agricultural Society.

Hordes
Hordes

Author: Leon De Kock

Publisher: Leon De Kock

Published: 2012-05-11

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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A story that could come true tomorrow When Ishmael Jacobson creates a virus that stops the ageing process in humans and animals alike, chaos could be the only result. Striving towards a dream of eternal life, everybody do what they can to get infected with the virus, even if it means breaking the law. It is up to detective Lindique to try to stop the spread of the virus, but is it too late? Soon the world is filled with people, and every day more and more are born. The ground turns barren, too tired to keep on giving life to billions upon billions of humans who are trying to scrape another morsel of food out of the dust. When there is no more food to eat, there is always the neighbour… In the end, there is only one person who can start the ageing process in humans again, and it is the person who started the whole problem to begin with, coming full circle.

Exile
Exile

Author: David Patterson

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-10-17

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0813158931

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The life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in modem life there is an experience common to all that threatens the very basis of community -- the experience of exile. No one in the modem world has been spared the encounter with homelessness. Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned and disenfranchised grow in number every day. Why does it happen? What does it mean? And how are we implicated? David Patterson responds to these and related questions by examining exile, a primary motif in Russian thought over the last century and a half. By "exile" he means not only a form of punishment but an existential condition. Drawing on texts by such familiar figures as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, and Brodsky, as well as less thoroughly examined figures, including Florensky, Shestov, Tertz, and Gendelev, Patterson moves beyond the political and geographical fact of exile to explore its spiritual, metaphysical, and linguistic aspects. Thus he pursues the connections between exile and identity, identity and meaning, meaning and language. Patterson shows that the problem of meaning in human life is a problem of homelessness, that the effort to return from exile is an effort to return meaning to the word, and that the exile of the word is an exile of the human being. By making heard voices from the Russian wilderness, Patterson makes visible the wilderness of the world.