A Child of Sanitariums

• Author : Gloria Paris
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 25 August 2010

This dramatic memoir recounts one woman’s experience with skeletal tuberculosis, which she contracted at the age of five in the 1930s. It recounts her next nine years living in tuberculosis sanatoriums where she underwent many treatments for the disease and was finally released when she was 14. Despite her subsequent disablement, she went on to marry and have three children, work as a micro-biologist, perform as a comedienne, and serve as an advocate for minority groups. By turns deeply affecting

• Author : Barbara Thrash Murphy,Deborah L. Murphy
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 21 December 2006

Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of all major authors and illustrators – past and present. As the only reference volume of its kind available, this book is a valuable research tool that provides quick access for anyone studying black children’s literature – whether one is a student, a librarian charged with maintaining a children’s literature collection, or a scholar of children’s literature. The Fourth Edition

• Author : Susan Leyden
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 04 July 2013

Drawing on theories of child development and on research in the processes of learning, this book examines the challenges that children, parents and teachers may face at various stages of a child's development. Children whose development is unusual in any way may experience particular challenges in forming relationships and in making good progress in school. If we are to help children of exceptional ability to develop into confident and well-adjusted young people, we need to understand what lies behind many

• Author : S.D. Shadden
• Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release : 16 March 2021

Orphaned in the wilderness of Siberia, forced into a Soviet state orphanage, taken by the KGB against her will to become a trained assassin for Moscow Center, KGB agent Anya Ruslanova fights to survive in a world which seeks to dominate and direct her formidable skills.Follow Anya's journey as she struggles to find her freedom and repay those who thrust her into the violent killing fields of "man's inhumanity to man." Anya Ruslanova—the child of the forest, the

• Author : Ben Hecht
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release : 11 February 2020

Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after. “His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely interesting.”—Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time’s list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it “the un-put-downable

• Author : Oliver Jeffers
• Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
• Release : 02 February 2023

#1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 TIME Best Book of the Year for 2017! The exquisite and thought-provoking new book from the multi award-winning, internationally best-selling picture book creator of Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers. Well, hello. And welcome to this Planet. We call it Earth. Our world can be a bewildering place, especially if you've only just got here. Your head will be filled with questions, so let's explore what makes our planet and how we live on it. From land

• Author : Anne Marie Hagen
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 29 March 2022

Striving to develop interdisciplinary dialogue, the essays in this work explore children’s and young adult reading through the theoretical lens of "mediation." They interrogate how values and assumptions about the effects of reading underpin reading practices, facilitation of reading and the study of reading, literature and print culture.

• Author : Lu, Zhongyu (Joan)
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release : 31 August 2012

Daily procedures such as scientific experiments and business processes have the potential to create a huge amount of data every day, hour, or even second, and this may lead to a major problem for the future of efficient data search and retrieval as well as secure data storage for the world’s scientists, engineers, doctors, librarians, and business managers. Design, Performance, and Analysis of Innovative Information Retrieval examines a number of emerging technologies that significantly contribute to modern Information Retrieval (

• Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 1968

• Author : Jean Fullerton
• Publisher : Atlantic Books
• Release : 04 August 2022

A brand new uplifting, emotional and sometimes shocking memoir about life in London's oldest suburb, from the Queen of saga fiction Jean Fullerton . . . * One of my first East London memories is lying in bed, listening to the low boom of the barges as they nudged each other on the Thames, just half a mile away from our estate . . . Life in Cockney London was tough in the post-war years. The government's broken promises had led to a chronic housing shortage, rampant

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 April 1904

• Author : Edinburgh (Scotland). Public Library
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 1890

• Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 March 2023

• Author : G. Budi Subanar
• Publisher : Sanata Dharma University Press
• Release : 17 August 2020

Soegijapranata found the deepest core of his self-identity: a Javanese man had a close encounter with Christianity, and realized his dream as a priest to be able to serve the nation and his God. This newfound identity became the basic foundation for the journey of life onwards. A close encounter with the culture, thought, and spirituality of the West did not remove his basic identity inherent in his self-identity; it only accentuated its definition. This identity of a man born

• Author : Mary Mackie
• Publisher : Canelo
• Release : 12 July 2021

She will uncover truths about herself that had previously been hidden... Lily Clare is the adopted daughter of the rector of Hewinghall. She has never been able to resist taking in waifs and strays. She brings home hungry cats, broken-winged birds, and one day, a filthy girl she finds starving and exhausted in the Hewinghall woods: Jess Henefer. Lily is fiercely protective of Jess, protecting her from the servants’ hostility and providing her with employment. But Lily, with her strange