Always October

Always October
Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062190059

From Bruce Coville, the master of tween comic suspense, comes a tale of monsters, the bond between brothers, and saving the world. Jake's baby brother, LD, may be a monster (complete with fangs and fur!), but together with his best friend, Lily, Jake isn't going to let anything happen to that baby. Even if it turns out LD may be the key to saving the world—or destroying it. Soon Jake and Lily are on a perilous quest through Always October, a land populated with monsters. Perfect for fans of Bruce Coville's beloved books, such as Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, the Unicorn Chronicles series, and My Teacher Is an Alien series.

Always October

Always October
Author: C. E. Edmonson
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2015-07-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1456625209

Lucas Taylor has lived a long life. Though his body is failing him, his memory is still strong as he recounts his journey through life, love, and loss—and shares an incredible lesson he's learned along the way.

Always Coming Home

Always Coming Home
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2001-02-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780520227354

An "ethnographic" novel that portrays life in California's Napa Valley as it might be a very long time from now, imagined not as a high tech future but as a time of people once again living close to the land.

Peace Like a River

Peace Like a River
Author: Leif Enger
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780871137951

Davy kills two men and leaves home. His father packs up the family in a search for Davy.

The Rest Is Noise

The Rest Is Noise
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2007-10-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1429932880

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

The October Witches

The October Witches
Author: Jennifer Claessen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1665940549

Practical Magic meets Hocus Pocus in this sweet and enchanting middle grade fantasy novel about a young witch who must uncover the secrets of her family’s past to end their longstanding internal feud. Thirteen-year-old Clementine Merlyn lives with her mom, her aunts, and her cousin Mirabelle at Number 15 Pendragon Road. The Merlyns are a family of witches, but because of an ancient falling out with the other branch of the family, the Morgans, they only have powers for a single month of the year: October. And this October may be the one that Clemmie gets her magic. It should be exciting, except that magic is the reason that Mirabelle never talks to her anymore, Aunt Flissie leaves at the end of every September and doesn’t come back until November, and Aunt Temmie…well, is long gone. And the Merlyn bad luck takes an even worse turn this year. After a disastrous attempt by the aunts to recover their lost magic, 15 Pendragon Road is visited by the creepy and cold Morgans. In the wake of the ensuing battle, Clemmie and Mirabelle are left on their own. With no other choice, the cousins must bond together and summon their courage and magic to solve the mystery of what happened between the first Merlyn and Morgan all those centuries ago if they’ll have any hope of ending this feud and getting their family back.

Forever in October

Forever in October
Author: Joey Cortijo
Publisher: Booktango
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2012-08-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468913301

A story about a young man named Jake who has been evicted from his grimy city apartment. He sets out to find a new and quiet town to start over in. Strange things happen in this town and keep happening until Jake isn't sure if he has lost his mind. The character is eventually admitted into a mental hospital where he is told he had made up the town and everyone in it for months walking around the halls of the institution. He finds a way to keep going back to the world he supposedly created by being aggressive towards the staff so that they will inject him. When he falls asleep he is back in the town. This book has a really colorful group of characters while their surroundings are dark and gloomy. People really love this story. They say it reminds them of an adult Coraline, a Tim Burton influence.

The Reading Room/8

The Reading Room/8
Author: Barbara Probst Solomon
Publisher: Great Marsh Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781928863137

A literary journal in book form. Essays, fiction, poetry, and art.

As We Have Always Done

As We Have Always Done
Author: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452956014

Winner: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best Subsequent Book 2017 Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women. In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. Simpson makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. Instead, she calls for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state, including heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation.

In Jesus’ Name – for Women

In Jesus’ Name – for Women
Author: BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
Publisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2023-04-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1424566401

“Whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” John 14:13 NIV Jesus said we can do all that he did in his ministry on earth and even more if we believe in him. This is no small statement! Jesus performed large displays of God’s power through miracles, signs, and wonders. We were never meant to stay small in prayer or in faith. When Jesus said whatever you ask, it included the big, bold prayers that would be impossible to accomplish on our own. As you read these Scriptures, short devotions, and prayers, pray in Jesus’ name with faith! Take him at his word and ask for greater things. Grow bold in the way you ask him to move in your life and in the world around you. He loves to save, heal, comfort, and amaze. We catch a glimpse of the glory and goodness of God through answered prayer. He has not stopped moving in power, so let’s keep asking him to show up in wonderful ways.