Tasting the Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tasting the Sky write by Ibtisam Barakat. This book was released on 2007-02-20. Tasting the Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors. "When a war ends it does not go away," my mother says."It hides inside us . . . Just forget!" But I do not want to do what Mother says . . . I want to remember. In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ramallah during the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, Ibtisam Barakat captures what it is like to be a child whose world is shattered by war. With candor and courage, she stitches together memories of her childhood: fear and confusion as bombs explode near her home and she is separated from her family; the harshness of life as a Palestinian refugee; her unexpected joy when she discovers Alef, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet. This is the beginning of her passionate connection to words, and as language becomes her refuge, allowing her to piece together the fragments of her world, it becomes her true home. Transcending the particulars of politics, this illuminating and timely book provides a telling glimpse into a little-known culture that has become an increasingly important part of the puzzle of world peace.
Balcony on the Moon
Balcony on the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Balcony on the Moon write by Ibtisam Barakat. This book was released on 2016-10-25. Balcony on the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stand-alone companion to the successful Tasting the Sky, this memoir further examines the author's childhood in Palestine.
Wonders in the Sky
Wonders in the Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wonders in the Sky write by Jacques Vallee. This book was released on 2010-10-28. Wonders in the Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most ambitious works of paranormal investigation of our time, here is an unprecedented compendium of pre-twentieth-century UFO accounts, written with rigor and color by two of today's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena. In the past century, individuals, newspapers, and military agencies have recorded thousands of UFO incidents, giving rise to much speculation about flying saucers, visitors from other planets, and alien abductions. Yet the extraterrestrial phenomenon did not begin in the present era. Far from it. The authors of Wonders in the Sky reveal a thread of vividly rendered-and sometimes strikingly similar- reports of mysterious aerial phenomena from antiquity through the modern age. These accounts often share definite physical features- such as the heat felt and described by witnesses-that have not changed much over the centuries. Indeed, such similarities between ancient and modern sightings are the rule rather than the exception. In Wonders in the Sky, respected researchers Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck examine more than 500 selected reports of sightings from biblical-age antiquity through the year 1879-the point at which the Industrial Revolution deeply changed the nature of human society, and the skies began to open to airplanes, dirigibles, rockets, and other opportunities for misinterpretation represented by military prototypes. Using vivid and engaging case studies, and more than seventy-five illustrations, they reveal that unidentified flying objects have had a major impact not only on popular culture but on our history, on our religion, and on the models of the world humanity has formed from deepest antiquity. Sure to become a classic among UFO enthusiasts and other followers of unexplained phenomena, Wonders in the Sky is the most ambitious, broad-reaching, and intelligent analysis ever written on premodern aerial mysteries.
Gurple and Preen
Gurple and Preen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gurple and Preen write by Linda Sue Park. This book was released on 2020-08-25. Gurple and Preen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This wildly imaginative, crayon-inspired picture book shows that with a bit of teamwork and a universe of creativity, anything is possible! Buzz! Zap! CRASH! Gurple and Preen are in a big mess! When they crash-land onto an unfamiliar planet with nothing but boxes of crayons, they must work together to get the mission back on course. From Newbery Award–winning author Linda Sue Park and illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi comes a story about all the best things that can come out of a box of crayons.
At the Mountain's Base
At the Mountain's Base - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Mountain's Base write by Traci Sorell. This book was released on 2019-09-17. At the Mountain's Base available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this lyrical picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of history-making women pilots. At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war. With an author's note that pays homage to the true history of Native American U.S. service members like WWII pilot Ola Mildred "Millie" Rexroat, this is a story that reveals the roots that ground us, the dreams that help us soar, and the people and traditions that hold us up.
