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26 produkter
She Let Herself Go
Poems
Häftad, 2012
286 kr
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From George Ella Lyon comes a dynamic and humorous collection examining the transformations of one woman's life as she tries on, takes on, and peels off identities learned from family stories, gender, fairy tales, and myths. She Let Herself Go spirals through girlhood, wifehood, motherhood, and …
Choices
Häftad, 1989
177 kr
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" "I don't agree with all the choices people make," says the author. "You probably won't either. My job is to let them tell their stories." And so she does in these thirteen warm, funny, and sad short stories about people making hard decisions for themselves and for their families: · Like Iona, who …
Borrowed Children
Häftad, 1999, 12-15 år
332 kr
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" Golden Kite Award winner, 1989 Booklist, Editor's Choice School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988 Publisher's Weekly, Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to care for her newborn brother and invalid …
Borrowed Children
E-bok, 2010
255 kr
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" Golden Kite Award winner, 1989 Booklist, Editor''s Choice School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988 Publisher''s Weekly, Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to care for her newborn brother and invalid …
Choices
E-bok, 1989
120 kr
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" "I don''t agree with all the choices people make," says the author. "You probably won''t either. My job is to let them tell their stories." And so she does in these thirteen warm, funny, and sad short stories about people making hard decisions for themselves and for their families: · Like Iona, …
Choices
E-bok, 1989
123 kr
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" "I don''t agree with all the choices people make," says the author. "You probably won''t either. My job is to let them tell their stories." And so she does in these thirteen warm, funny, and sad short stories about people making hard decisions for themselves and for their families: · Like Iona, …
Borrowed Children
E-bok, 1999
255 kr
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" Golden Kite Award winner, 1989 Booklist, Editor''s Choice School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988 Publisher''s Weekly, Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to care for her newborn brother and invalid …
Kentucky Christmas
Häftad, 2012
444 kr
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A celebration of holiday poetry, fiction, essays, recipes, and songs by more than sixty of the Bluegrass state's finest writers. Gathered here are writings from some of the legendary voices of Kentucky -- and the nation -- as well as original Christmas stories and poetry from some of the state's …
Kentucky Christmas
E-bok, 2012
279 kr
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"A gigantic gift full of literary goodies . . . holiday stories poems, songs and essays, there should be something for anyone who opens this package." —Kentucky Monthly A celebration of holiday poetry, fiction, essays, recipes, and songs by more than sixty of the Bluegrass state''s finest writers. …
Kentucky Christmas
E-bok, 2012
429 kr
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"Table of Contents A celebration of holiday poetry, fiction, essays, recipes, and songs by more than sixty of the Bluegrass state''s finest writers. Gathered here are writings from some of the legendary voices of Kentucky -- and the nation -- as well as original Christmas stories and poetry from …
Many-Storied House
Poems
Häftad, 2013
374 kr
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Born in the small, eastern Kentucky coal-mining town of Harlan, George Ella Lyon began her career with Mountain, a chapbook of poems. She has since published many more books in multiple genres and for readers of all ages, but poetry remains at the heart of her work. Many-Storied House is her fifth …
Many-Storied House
Poems
E-bok, 2013
343 kr
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Born in the small, eastern Kentucky coal-mining town of Harlan, George Ella Lyon began her career with Mountain , a chapbook of poems. She has since published many more books in multiple genres and for readers of all ages, but poetry remains at the heart of her work. Many-Storied House is her fifth …
Many-Storied House
Poems
E-bok, 2013
343 kr
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Born in the small, eastern Kentucky coal-mining town of Harlan, George Ella Lyon began her career with Mountain , a chapbook of poems. She has since published many more books in multiple genres and for readers of all ages, but poetry remains at the heart of her work. Many-Storied House is her fifth …
With a Hammer for My Heart
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
351 kr
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With a Hammer for My Heart is the story of Lawanda, a precocious, poverty-stricken fifteen-year-old girl from Cardin, Kentucky, who dreams of attending college. When Lawanda's friendship with an alcoholic World War II veteran named Garland is misinterpreted by their fellow townspeople, a tragedy …
With a Hammer for My Heart
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
246 kr
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"A story rich in precise, gorgeous language . . . Tragedies old and new weave a tiny Kentucky town into the center of the universe."—Booklist (starred review) With a Hammer for My Heart is the story of Lawanda, a precocious, poverty-stricken fifteen-year-old girl from Cardin, Kentucky, who dreams …
With a Hammer for My Heart
A Novel
Häftad, 2007
374 kr
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"A rich tale of healing, redemption, and social responsibility." -- Publishers Weekly "A compelling, skillfully told story…. Lyon's finest achievement." -- Lexington Herald-Leader "Lyon gives readers a story rich in precise, gorgeous language that glows like a sword on the forge and cuts as deep…. …
Nu-Way
Poems
Häftad, 2027
236 kr
Kommande
Nu-Way traces the evolution of a writer from a three-year-old sitting on the counter of her daddy’s dry cleaner's to a fully developed poet. George Ella Lyon journeys from her role as the keeper of family stories to the teller of her own. This is a book of becoming, of claiming a self.Growing up in …
Sonny's House of Spies
Häftad, 2007
171 kr
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Sonny is only one of the spies at the Bradshaw house in Mozier, Alabama. But as a child he saw a tray full of dinner come flying across the front hall at his father. His mother's aim was dead on. And Daddy's departure promptly followed.Loretta, Sonny's older sister, spies by eavesdropping. As she …
All the Water in the World
Inbunden, 2011
287 kr
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Faucet wellraincloud sea … from each of these comes water. But where does Water go? To find out, honey, turn the page, dive in with tongue or toes, with eyes and ears and nose— and wonder at the flow of this great world’s life story.
Sonny's House of Spies
E-bok, 2010
106 kr
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Sonny is only one of the spies at the Bradshaw house in Mozier, Alabama. But as a child he saw a tray full of dinner come flying across the front hall at his father. His mother''s aim was dead on. And Daddy''s departure promptly followed. Loretta, Sonny''s older sister, spies by eavesdropping. As …
Boats Float!
Av George Ella Lyon, Benn Lyon
Inbunden, 2015
287 kr
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Sails and engines paddles and oars make the trip from shore to shore.Boats float!From steamships to ghostships, to the little and big in-between ships, this fun, rhyming book explores a wide array of boats. The third in George Ella Lyon's transportation series, Boats Float! Takes to the seas with …
Voices from the March on Washington
Av George Ella Lyon, J. Patrick Lewis
Häftad, 2020
121 kr
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The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the …
Which Side Are You On?
The Story of a Song
Inbunden, 1900
362 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Which Side Are You On? tells the story of the classic union song that was written in 1931 by Florence Reece in a rain of bullets. It has been sung by people fighting for their rights all over the world. Florence's husband Sam was a coal miner in Kentucky. Many of the coal mines were owned by big …
