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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding...
3) Messenger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Publisher
Fair Winds Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
There was a time when being diagnosed with celiac disease or learning you had a sensitivity to wheat or gluten meant a lifetime of dry, tasteless baked goods that crumbled in your hands and often weren't worth the effort you put in to make them. Not any more!
Today, easy-to-use alternative flours, grains, and flavorings are on supermarket shelves everywhere, which means you don't have to learn any new baking techniques or search the Internet for
...Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious stranger arives at her rancho, Josefina begins to wonder about the tales she has heard while growing up about rumors of gold and silver buried in the hills and a ghostly Weeping Woman.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn Germany. As millions were afflicted by a host of seemingly incurable maladies (including blindness and paralysis), waves of apocalyptic rumors crashed over the land. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores...