The Waiting Sky

The Waiting Sky
Author: Lara Zielin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1101575581

One summer chasing tornadoes could finally change Jane's life for the better Seventeen-year-old Jane McAllister can't quite admit her mother's alcoholism is spiraling dangerously out of control until she drives drunk, nearly killing them and Jane's best friend. Jane has only one place to turn: her older brother Ethan, who left the problems at home years ago for college. A summer with him and his tornado-chasing buddies may just provide the time and space Jane needs to figure out her life and whether it still includes her mother. But she struggles with her anger at Ethan for leaving home and feels guilty--is she also abandoning her mom just when she needs Jane most? The carefree trip turned journey of self-discovery quickly becomes more than Jane bargained for, especially when the devilishly handsome Max steps into the picture.

Waiting for the Sky to Fall

Waiting for the Sky to Fall
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 203
Release: 1983
Genre: England
ISBN: 9780192714855

Worried about passing her school examinations, a fifteen-year-old English girl seeks comfort from a new boyfriend but hides the relationship from her bullying father, obese mother, and clinging, younger sister.

Waiting for the Night Song

Waiting for the Night Song
Author: Julie Carrick Dalton
Publisher: Forge Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250269199

Named a Most Anticipated book by Newsweek * USA Today * CNN * Parade * Buzzfeed * Medium * GoodReads * PopSugar * Frolic Media * Betches * The Nerd Daily * SheReads and more "Smart and searingly passionate...an illuminating snapshot of nature, betrayal, and sacrifices set in the evocative New Hampshire wilderness."--Kim Michele Richardson, bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek A startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton's Waiting for the Night Song is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed. Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would surface? An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia brings Cadie, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood home. There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie’s memory then all her other years combined. Now grown up, bound by long-held oaths, and faced with truths she does not wish to see, Cadie must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the forest she loves, as drought, foreclosures, and wildfire spark tensions between displaced migrant farm workers and locals. Waiting for the Night Song is a love song to the natural beauty around us, a call to fight for what we believe in, and a reminder that the truth will always rise. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Pie in the Sky

Pie in the Sky
Author: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152165840

A father and child watch the cherry tree in their back yard, waiting until there are ripe cherries to bake in a pie. Includes a recipe for cherry pie.

The Amelia Six

The Amelia Six
Author: Kristin L. Gray
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534418865

Eleven-year-old Millie and five other girls, snowed in at Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison, Kansas, are on a scavenger hunt when the lights go out and Amelia's aviator goggles go missing.

Finding My Voice

Finding My Voice
Author: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1641291974

The groundbreaking Own Voices YA classic from Korean-American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee, reissued with a new foreword from Wicked Fox author Kat Cho. Seventeen-year-old Ellen Sung just wants to be like everyone else at her all-white school. But hers is the only Korean American family in town, and her classmates in Arkin, Minnesota, will never let her forget that she’s different. At the start of senior year, Ellen finds herself falling for Tomper Sandel, a football player who is popular and blond and undeniably cute . . . and to her surprise, he falls for her, too. Now Ellen has a chance at a life she never imagined, one that defies the expectations of both her core friend group and her strict parents. But even as she stands up to racism at school and disapproval at home, all while pursuing a romance with Tomper, Ellen discovers that her greatest challenge is one she never expected: finding the courage to speak up and raise her voice.

Sarah's Choice

Sarah's Choice
Author: Eleanor Wilner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226900285

In this, her third collection of poems, Eleanor Wilner revises a number of our culture's central myths; invoking figures as diverse as Briar Rose and Miriam the Prophet, she casts upon their stories, and choices, an enlivening feminist perspective. "There is so much that is impressive in Wilner's mature poems. In an era which has been labelled 'The End of History,' she examines history's less obvious lessons. If the past is to teach us, she seems to say, then we must re-invent and re-shape it."—Poetry

The Cambridge Review

The Cambridge Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1881
Genre: College student newspapers and periodicals
ISBN:

Vols. 1-26 include a supplement: The University pulpit, vols. [1]-26, no. 1-661, which has separate pagination but is indexed in the main vol.

Checkmating Aliens

Checkmating Aliens
Author: Soma Vira
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2000
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595156037

Has the corrupted alien captain coverted "Operation Earth Shield" to "Operation Kill Earth?" The Doomsday question confronting both: humans living on man-made islands due to water-logged earth land erosion; and, the alien planet's rulers who had sent their navy captain on the rescue mission. Another dilemma: What's the connection between this crisis and the alien children growing up as humans, who were secretly planted on earth by unknown beings for reasons not yet discovered? And, what about those mysterious blue-skinned species being who reveal themselves only to these homo-alien children? Will the truant captain controlling the fate of two planets win?

The Wizard For All

The Wizard For All
Author: Joan Walsh
Publisher: RWG Publishing
Total Pages: 732
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

FUNNY, SAD, ENLIGHTENING--- THOUGHT PROVOKING INSIGHTS INTO AMERICAN HISTORY AND LIFE IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY-- NOT JUST ANOTHER JADED AMERICAN PYSCHE--- TAKE THE JOURNEY WITH TRAVIS N. TARKINGTON, A ROGUE DRONE KNOWN AS NINER, AND A CLONE NAMED ZEL AS THEY SEARCH FOR ANSWERS TO HOW HU-MANIMALS BECAME THE LEAST VALUED OF ALL SPECIES AND HOW THE ETERNALS CAME TO POWER. HE WEAVES A HUMOROUS YET DARK PICTURE OF THE FUTURE. "It was when I first read CS Lewis that I began to see that astute and watchful men were aware of this progressive movement during the ages in which they lived. Anyway, what Lewis was saying about his world in the 1940's was that socialism already waxed a sway over people. He talks about society being ignorant (willingly so) due to their attachment to the existing humanistic philosophies of his generation. Lewis wasn't the only writer to see this blackness creeping into the political agenda of men. Hundreds of writers throughout history knew of this sinister thread being woven into the mural of mankind. I had only found one small thread. I wanted to know how we got to the point where our own government killed us and called us Hu-manimals instead of people. It is so outrageous, so insane that I couldn't believe it myself, and how did you convince others of a plot even you could not believe? I needed proof. Of course the SG had sent these flying bird drones to kill off us remaining stragglers. The cowards had not come themselves. It was a numbing realization to know you were targeted for extinction. It struck me that reality had flipped flopped. It was hunting season in reverse. Blimy! This time the drone birds had the guns, and they were shooting first!" A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY, TRUTH, AND ONE THAT BY THE END BECOMES AS CLEAR AS A YELLOW BRICK ROAD-