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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Lorna Cook
There are some days when you just need a quick bite to keep going. With all the demands of life; with the hustle and bustle of life, there are some days when you'll need quick nourishment for your soul. Spiritual Food on The Go is a 30-day devotional that provides you with the spiritual nourishment you need to keep going. The book provides quick spiritual nuggets that enrich, strengthen and uplift the reader.
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Set in Kenya, Oi is a naughty kitten who lives with his Mummy and siblings in an outdoor shed. Despite Mummy's warnings, Oi has a tendency of wandering off and exploring. But one day, after nearly being attacked by a dog, Oi ends up in an unfamiliar neighbourhood. And this time, he's not sure he'll be able to find his way back home...Oi's adventure is sure to delight children and cat-lovers alike.Fall into this bestselling African adventure beautifully illustrated throughout by Yevheniia Melnyk.'A brave and vivid adventure' Ijeoma Isichei'A sheer delight for all kids, a gem of a story' Okenna Nzelu
Klink is a jittery young owlet who is afraid of just about everything—his wrinkly feet, what to eat, but most of all, cats. His brave brother Dash and sassy sister Tink love to tease him, but when a game of pirates leaves the three in danger and a sly predator creeps closer, it’s down to Klink to muster his courage and prove that he is not a worrywart! An exciting adventure of bravery, self-discovery, and sibling bonds that features vivid illustrations, Klink will prove that even the smallest of us can be mighty heroes!
A surprise spring snowstorm leaves all the newly shorn lambs out in the cold, but Piper has a bigger problem. Peet, her favourite ewe, won’t stop growing wool after she’s sheared! And to top it off, it grows back purple! How does Piper stop the out-of-control wool from taking over the barn? And what is she going to do with all that fleece? Shear Magic is a delightful rhyming story—with hilarious illustrations—about friendships, problem-solving, and a little creativity!
A revealing personal journal, this life story of Lorna Levy follows her from being shaken out of a privileged white upbringing in 1950s South Africa and awakening to the inequity around her amid radical political movements to her exile in England and eventual return to Cape Town. This chronicle shows insights into the struggle to free South Africa from apartheid and reveals how that struggle manifested itself through individuals exiled outside of the country. Searching for an identity and place in a foreign culture while working for decades towards improvements at home, this narrative shows a life stripped of all the myths and explores the complex situation and emotions of returning home.
A moving story about making tough choices when disaster strikes Malia and her family are spending a day outside when they notice something strange. Huge white-and-gray clouds fill the sky, planes zoom overhead, and the air smells funny. A forest fire is sweeping the area, and they need to evacuate their home. Daddy tells Malia that she needs to choose what to bring. "Pick small things. Things important to you," he says. But there's so much that Malia wants to take with her Her pillows and blankets. Her family of teddy bears. LOTS of books. As the pile in her room grows, and chaos swirls around her, Malia comes to realize that what is most important to her won't fit in a backpack: her little brother, her cat, and her dog. This heartfelt and powerful story explores a rare perspective: experiencing a natural disaster through the eyes of a child. Malia's authentic voice will resonate with readers, and the book's challenging subject matter is balanced with gentle lessons in communication, problem-solving, and family.
Renowned poet Lorna Crozier offers a masterful collection of poems inspired by Diane Laundy and Peter Coffman’s photographs taken in the Frontenac Arch Biosphere in Southwestern Ontario. Beginning in this setting, The House the Spirit Builds extends to include any region, any place that ignites the human mind and heart. Something astonishing happens when the poems and photos sit side by side and speak to one another in a language that is timeless, lucid and precise: they bring us to a wisdom that might mitigate the damage we do to others and the natural world. While acknowledging the loss and suffering that infuse our days, the poems and photographs invite us to expand our sense of wonder, our sense that all things are connected, no matter where we live. An image of a slice of light falling across a tablecloth, a black beetle on a leaf: these poems speak of moments “when the dragonfly lands and grips the skin / on the back of your hand” or “rain stops falling / but / hangs around / like the shape of lust / in bedsheets.” The impressions and expressions vary, but remind us that if we pay attention, even the smallest things can bring us joy and remind us we are not alone in our brief sojourn on this earth.
A testament to the miraculous beings that share our planet and the places that they live, The Wild in You is a deeply-felt creative collaboration between one of our time's best nature photographers and a very talented and creative poet. Inspired by the majestic and savage beauty of Ian McAllister's photographs, Lorna Crozier translates the wild emotion of these images into the language of the human heart: poetry. Featuring over 30 beautiful full-size photographs of wolves, bears, sea lions, jellyfish, and other wild creatures paired with 30 original poems, The Wild in You challenges the reader to a deeper understanding of the connection between humans, animals, and our shared earth.
"Lorna is making stories that revolve around women's hockey the norm to write, and she captures glimpses of its history with great stories like this mystery. This story featuring Rap also reminds me about my relationship with my Gram as she always supported me playing hockey." -- Cassie Campbell-Pascall, Team Canada hockey captain, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and broadcaster Rhapsody "Rap" Queen Smith lives with her grandparents and plays for the Ice Angels hockey team, a tight group of girls who spend time together outside of hockey and school. Her focus is on improving her power plays and crossovers until she meets Marion, an older woman who spends her days sitting on a bench outside the arena. Nobody seems to know who she is, but there are two mysterious things about her: she has an in-depth knowledge of hockey strategy and she wears a 1990 Women's World Cup ring. When Marion's ring goes missing, Rap and her friends are determined to find it. Who is Marion, and why does she know so much about hockey? The Ice Angels work together to find out.
The recurrent theme of "home" connects the wide-ranging subjects of Lorna Knowles Blake's Green Hill. These exquisitely crafted poems in free verse and metrical forms include conversations with such masters as Homer, Blake, Lorca, Saint John of the Cross, Giacomo Puccini, and Duke Ellington, in addition to reflections upon marvels of the natural world--oceans, flowering trees, birds' nests. Green Hill is delightful, enlightening and inspirational, and an exceptional winner of the 2017 Able Muse Book Award.PRAISE FOR GREEN HILLIn the poems in Green Hill, Lorna Knowles Blake takes the intimacies of human life and the riots of nature and transmutes them into forms that both discipline and liberate their beauty. By doing so, she also reveals the real, the secret, sovereign of that beauty--the human imagination, of which hers is a triumphant example. -- Vijay Seshadri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of 3 SectionsWhatever subject Lorna Knowles Blake turns her hand to, she displays a prosodic surefootedness and a continual freshness of perception. Poems as different from one another as "Glosa" and "The Allure of the Ledge" will find readers to admire not only Blake's skill but the literary culture that she makes her own. -- Charles Martin, 2017 Able Muse Book Award judge, author of Future PerfectLorna Knowles Blake gives us Green Hill, poems both dark and lightheartedly inventive, the craft casual, poised--and audacious. Here, our twenty-first century Blake boldly converses with her nineteenth-century namesake, William Blake, as well as with Duke Ellington, St. John of the Cross, and others in musically dazzling poems set "free to feel/ the hook, the dock, the sun, the real/ experience." What is the real experience? It is the sense of home. The title poem begins, "So many ways to remember a house," and Blake means all abodes, from a hermit crab's shell to a "refugee's home/ the day after the raid." Relationships, too, become houses as Blake evokes moments of tenderness in a mature marriage and fears for the future--though in this deft, understatedly mythic book, the background world is still shades of green. -- Molly Peacock, author of The AnalystMoving and masterful, the poems in Lorna Knowles Blake's Green Hill don't just reveal an exquisite formal sensibility--they conduct passionate and original meditations on our fundamental need for form. In poems about artwork and landscape, myth and love, Blake considers the ways we give shape and meaning to our lives. And her poems are themselves vital enactments of that same urge. American poetry is richer for this superb collection. -- Peter Campion, author of El DoradoABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lorna Knowles Blake lives in New Orleans and Cape Cod. Her first poetry collection, Permanent Address, won the Richard Snyder Award and was published by Ashland University Press in 2008. She serves on the editorial board of the journal Barrow Street and on the advisory board of Poetry Sunday, a weekly program of WCAI, Cape Cod's public radio station. Her poems, translations, essays, and reviews appear regularly in literary journals, both in print and online. Green Hill was the winner of 2017 Able Muse Book Award.
In this, the second book of the Dragons of Nibiru Series, young warrior-witch Celine and her Dragon companion Fianna face overwhelming challenges: A centuries-old curse dooms Fianna's race--and the universe...Celine's soulmate Jager, captive--on a pirate starship, a universe away...A half-breed alien, obsessed with bloody revenge--against Celine's adoptive father...Monstrous mega-criminals, bent on stealing Jager's body and soul--and enslaving billions.A wicked web of terror, darkness and death grows and spreads--while Celine and the powers of light, courage and kindness rise to meet it.
The adopted daughter of a distinguished starship commander, young Celine is a brilliant student, a promising cadet -- and a secret witch. When a psychotic criminal, bent on revenge against her father, teleports Celinie randomly out into the cosmos, she finds herself stranded on the forbidden planet Nibiru, in the lair of Fianna -- last princess of a dying race of noble dragons. Fianna and Celine face dire perils and overwhelming odds in their quest for the key to the Dragon race's survival, and the lives of everyone Celine holds most dear.
A narrow escape...an interplanetary slave rescue...new friends, new powers, and a pair of princes revealed. Celine and Fianna forge ahead in their heroic quest for freedom and peace.
