The Mercy of the Sky

The Mercy of the Sky
Author: Holly Bailey
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 052542749X

On May 20th, 2013, one of the worst tornadoes on record landed a direct hit on Moore, Oklahoma. This is the suspenseful tale of human courage in the face of natural disaster.

The Mercy of the Sky

The Mercy of the Sky
Author: Holly Bailey
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0143107933

In 2013, one of the worst tornados on record landed a direct hit on the small town of Moore, Oklahoma, destroying a primary school as children cowered inside. Oklahoma native Holly Bailey grew up dreaming of becoming a storm chaser. Instead, she became Newsweek's youngest ever White House correspondent. When Moore was hit, Bailey went back as a journalist and a hometown girl, speaking to those most affected by the tornado. In The Mercy of the Sky is the dramatic, page-turning story about a town that must survive the elements - or die.

The Children of the Sky

The Children of the Sky
Author: Vernor Vinge
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780812579925

On a world of fascinating wonders and terrifying dangers, Vinge has created apowerful novel of adventure and discovery that will entrance the many readersof "A Fire Upon the Deep."

Under a War-Torn Sky

Under a War-Torn Sky
Author: L.M. Elliot
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409591344

Shot down on a mission, 19-year-old bomber pilot Henry is alone in a treacherous land. Desperate to get back to his family and the girl he loves, he is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers and the cunning of the French Resistance. But in his battle to survive the deadly journey across Nazi-occupied Europe, he must face a terrible choice: can he take someone's life to save his own?

A Mercy

A Mercy
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030737307X

A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

Me and the Sky

Me and the Sky
Author: Beverley Bass
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0525645519

The groundbreaking female pilot featured in the hit Broadway musical Come from Away tells her story in this high-flying and inspiring picture-book autobiography! When Beverley Bass was a young girl in the late 1950s, she told her parents she wanted to fly planes--and they told her that girls couldn't be pilots. Still, they encouraged her, and brought her to a nearby airport to watch the planes take off and land. After decades of refusing to take no for an answer, in 1986 Beverley became the first female pilot promoted to captain by American Airlines and led the first all-female crewed flight shortly thereafter. Her revolutionary career became even more newsworthy when she was forced to land in the remote town of Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001, due to US airspace closures. After several days there, she flew her crew and passengers safely home. Beverley's incredible life is now immortalized in the hit Broadway musical Come from Away. Here, discover how she went from an ambitious young girl gazing up at the sky to a groundbreaking pilot smiling down from the cockpit. "Inspiring and up, up, and away all the way."--Kirkus "An inspiring biography about one woman's determination to forge a new path."--Booklist

I Am Mercy

I Am Mercy
Author: Mandi Lynn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2018-12-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781732555761

In 14th century France, Aida is accused of being a witch when the Black Death wipes through her village. Abandoned by her family, she is surrounded by death and disease, but when a woman who may actually be a witch tells her how to cure the plague, it may mean uncovering a dark magic.

Shapes in the Sky

Shapes in the Sky
Author: Josepha Sherman
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781404800977

Describes various types of clouds and explains how clouds form.

The Murderous Sky

The Murderous Sky
Author: Rosemary Daniell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2021-02-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781944884741

Poetry. Women's Studies. In THE MURDEROUS SKY Rosemary Daniell confronts with searing honesty and stunning poetry the pain of her daughter's addiction and her son's schizophrenia. Winner of the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award, this is a book that haunts. As Gordon Walmsley says, "It took courage to write these poems, and it takes courage to read them."

Mercy in the City

Mercy in the City
Author: Kerry Weber
Publisher: Loyola Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2014-01-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0829438939

When Jesus asked us to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, and visit the imprisoned, he didn’t mean it literally, right? Kerry Weber, a modern, young, single woman in New York City sets out to see if she can practice the Corporal Works of Mercy in an authentic, personal, meaningful manner while maintaining a full, robust, regular life. Weber, a lay Catholic, explores the Works of Mercy in the real world, with a gut-level honesty and transparency that people of urban, country, and suburban locales alike can relate to. Mercy in the City is for anyone who is struggling to live in a meaningful, merciful way amid the pressures of “real life.” For those who feel they are already overscheduled and too busy, for those who assume that they are not “religious enough” to practice the Works of Mercy, for those who worry that they are alone in their efforts to live an authentic life, Mercy in the City proves that by living as people for others, we learn to connect as people of faith.