Publisher: GAEditori
These are tales that derive from the poet's multiple activities and personal interests. Thanks to his vagabond lifestyle: he was a newsboy, a clandestine oyster fisherman, a washerman, a seal hunter, a war correspondent (Russo-Japanese war), an insurance agent, a boxer, a farmer and the gold digger, before realizing himself, after countless attempts, as a successful writer.
This audiobook explores Native American mythologies to view the relationships between humans and animals. Traditional Native Americans view animals as elder brothers who embody the knowledge sets necessary for survival on this Earth. This vantage point facilitates openness within humans to learn from animals. Animals play the roles of tutelary spirits, helpers, and guides, and sometimes shapeshift from Holy Person to animal or back. This emphasizes the fluidity between the worlds of spirit and matter and highlights animals as oriented toward being helpful to humanity in various ways. As expressed through language and ritual, respect details preserve the relationship between the community, the animals, and the natural landscape. Animals push human beings into interiority. The spirits choose a person and then utilize animals to communicate and transmit spiritual understandings and abilities. It is then up to the individual to bring this vision to usefulness on Earth.Show book
Diwali honors good defeating evil! Students just starting to read on their own can learn all about the Hindu Festival of Lights in this beginning title, including when it happens and who celebrates it. Vibrant photos accompany easy-to-read text to highlight special traditions, while a facts page reinforces the information learned. This low-level title will shine a light on this favorite holiday!Show book
Nine-year-old Ethan Cooper has managed to keep his family together for a year in a Pennsylvania orphanage. Now he and his siblings are boarding a train headed west. He can’t help but worry: Mr. and Mrs. Rush in Nebraska have agreed to adopt all four Cooper children, but what if they change their minds? In the meantime, Ethan and his siblings encounter their first dust storm, explore train cars, and watch friend after friend leave with new parents. The children dream that soon they will have a new ma and pa too. Based on the story of a real family, this second book in the historical Beyond the Orphan Train series reminds us that God never leaves us, no matter how far we journey to find home. Beautifully narrated by award-winning jazz singer Jaimee Paul.Show book
The #1 bestselling Boy's Body Book includes everything you need to know about growing up, even the embarrassing stuff. The newly updated fifth edition provides advice for parents and addresses questions a pre-teen boy may have while maturing through puberty and becoming a man. Everything is changing! How will you survive this trying time in your life? This book made just for boys contains all of the guy stuff you need to know about growing up, from your voice changing to peer pressure. The newly updated fifth edition of The Boy's Body Book helps prepare young boys and their parents for the ups and downs of puberty, middle school, and everything in between. This guide for pre-teen boys addresses issues like changing bodies, personal hygiene, self-confidence, leadership, school safety and personal boundaries. This updated fifth edition book for boys is expanded to include topics like:School safety and consentEmotional health, mindfulness, and self esteemCyberbullying and internet safetyLearning disabilitiesPersonal boundaries, communication, and consentStress managementBuilding healthy friendshipsand more The Boy's Body Book helps prepare boys for puberty and beyond by giving them age appropriate information, tools, tips, and tricks to take care of themselves and grow up in a healthy environment. Kelli Dunham, RN, BSN is a nurse, a comedian, and author of three other books: How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School, How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Your Life as a Nurse, and The Boy's Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You. Additional resources can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.Show book
The hugely popular early chapter book series re-emerges with a new look! Brand-new eye-catching cover art brings a modern feel to this classic monster series for young readers. Melody believes in guardian angels, but the other Bailey School kids aren't convinced. That is until a new woman comes to town who keeps showing up just in time to save people. Melody even says she saw the woman spreading her wings! Could the newcomer really have come to Bailey City on a miracle mission?Show book
The Artificial Man by Clare Winger Harris - Before David’s startled gaze the newcomer placed his right hand to his left shoulder and removed the left arm. He then proceeded to dismember himself until only a torso, head and one arm remained. On the annals of surgery no case has ever left quite as horrible an impression upon the public as did that of George Gregory, a student of Austin College. Young Gregory was equally proficient in scholastic and athletic work, having been for two years captain of the football team, and for one year a marked success in intercollegiate debates. No student of the senior class of Austin or Decker will ever forget his masterful arguments as he upheld the affirmative in the question:—“Resolved that bodily perfection is a result of right thinking.” Gregory gave every promise of being one of the masterful minds of the age; and if masterful in this instance means dominating, he was that—and more. Alas that his brilliant mentality was destined to degradation through the physical body—but that is my story. It was the Thanksgiving game that proved the beginning of George’s downfall. Warned by friends that he would be wise to desist from the more dangerous physical sports, he laughingly—though with unquestionable sincerity—referred to the context of his famous debate, declaring that a correct mental attitude toward life—he had this point down to a mathematical correctness—rendered physical disasters impossible. His sincerity in believing this was laudable, and so far his credence had stood him in good stead. No one who saw his well-proportioned six-foot figure making its way through the opponents’ lines, could doubt that the science of thinking rightly was favorably exemplified in young Gregory.Show book
