A House in the Sky

• Author : Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 03 April 2014

The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia-a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace.

• Author : Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett
• Publisher : Viking
• Release : 19 June 2021

A beautifully written story of courage, resilience, and grace. At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her poor hometown to the big city and worked as a cocktail waitress, saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a

• Author : Steve Jenkins
• Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
• Release : 08 May 2018

Caldecott Honor recipient Steve Jenkins shines as the author of this amusing and thorough introduction to animal homes. Turtles, birds, fish, beavers, and kangaroos are just like people--they need homes, and take up residence in unusual places. A simple main text introduces similarities between human and animal homes while sidebars detail the unique qualities of each animal and its home. Stylized yet realistic watercolor illustrations prove that nonfiction can be accurate and elegant, and readers of all ages will appreciate

• Author : Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 10 September 2013

9781476730745:A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

• Author : Robert D. San Souci,Wil Clay
• Publisher : Dial
• Release : 01 January 1996

A lazy, greedy brother gets his comeuppance when he tries to take more than his fair share from a house full of spirits.

• Author : Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett
• Publisher : Large Print Press
• Release : 24 June 2014

Documents the author's backpacking tours through some of the world's most dangerous and war-ridden regions, describing her work as a fledgling television reporter, her brutal 15-month incarceration in Somalia and her founding of a non-profit organization to promote aid, development and education. (biography & autobiography).

• Author : Amanda Lindhout,Sara Corbett
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 June 2021

Documents the author's backpacking tours through some of the world's most dangerous and war-ridden regions, describing her work as a fledgling television reporter, her brutal 15-month incarceration in Somalia and her founding of a non-profit organization to promote aid, development and education. (biography & autobiography).

• Author : Lorinda Stewart
• Publisher : Simon & Schuster
• Release : 17 October 2017

On the day my daughter Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped in Somalia, my life changed forever. This is the story of how, for 460 days, I fought to save her and bring her home. “This book is impossible to put down. As inspiring as it is bone-chilling, this is an incredible story of hope and joy, grit and gumption by a determined mother who will stop at nothing to save her daughter.” —Jann Arden, singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Falling Backwards “A

• Author : Lorraine Ferra
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 June 1986

• Author : Steve Jenkins,Robbin Gourley
• Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
• Release : 11 December 2020

Caldecott Honor recipient Steve Jenkins shines as the author of this amusing and thorough introduction to animal homes. Turtles, birds, fish, beavers, and kangaroos are just like people--they need homes, and take up residence in unusual places. A simple main text introduces similarities between human and animal homes while sidebars detail the unique qualities of each animal and its home. Stylized yet realistic watercolor illustrations prove that nonfiction can be accurate and elegant, and readers of all ages will appreciate

• Author : Nelson Lynch
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 10 April 2017

Young Kayan travels by starship to the little house in the sky with his mother and is saddened at what he sees. A house on fire, wars, starvation amidst plenty and massive destruction of the house itself. Let's observe if the people in the little house in the sky can wake up in time and share their world's resources with one another or will it be too late?

• Author : Ken Klein
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 June 2021

• Author : Hong Yue Guo
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 June 2021

• Author : Ivan Doig
• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Release : 19 February 1980

National Book Award Finalist: A “beautifully written, deeply felt” memoir about growing up in the American West (Los Angeles Times). Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us, but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and

• Author : Branka Arsić
• Publisher : Atopia: Philosophy, Political
• Release : 19 June 2021

The Passive Eye is a revolutionary and historically rich account of Berkeley's theory of vision. In this formidable work, the author considers the theory of the embodied subject and its passions in light of a highly dynamic conception of infinity. Arsic shows the profound affinities between Berkeley and Spinoza, and offers a highly textual reading of Berkeley on the concept of an "exhausted subjectivity." The author begins by following the Renaissance universe of vision, particularly the paradoxical elusive nature of