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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of...
Publisher
EDC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and gentle look at the circle of life, using Christine Pym's gorgeous animal characters to explore the emotions and facts around death, with questions such as Is it ok to talk about dying? What happens when someone dies? Can I shout and cry and hide away? and How can I stop feeling sad?--
Why do things die? What happens when someone dies? Is it ok to talk about dying? And how can we stop feeling sad? Find out in this beautifully illustrated...
Author
Publisher
Barcelona, Espana : Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Español
Description
Ensayo sobre la muerte, vista desde los respectivos enfoques de la biologia, la psicologia, la sociololia, la medicina y el derecho. El autor aporta explicaciones y recursos para enfrentar la ultima etapa de la vida, asumirla con dignidad -en una sociedad que le teme y la oculta- y aprender a vivirla de otra manera. Entre las numerosas aristas del hecho de morir, son abordadas el envejecimiento, la atencion y relacion con enfermos terminales, los...
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Linda Simanella Keener loved puppies, maybe even just a little more than people, but she did love them both. She had a Sicilian father, John and a German mother Martha, and she favored her father's Italian side of the family. Her father taught her how to play the flute and they performed duets together. In Promise Me You'll Remember, author Ronald E. Keener offers a memoir of Linda's life. Six months after Linda's death from cancer when she was sixty-seven...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. Moving from a Sri Lankan...
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