Author: Louise BrindleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Tender Leaves of Hope
Author: Louise BrindleyTender Leaves of Hope
Author: Meghan DeckerPublisher: Cfi
ISBN: 9781462143283
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Meghan Decker, who is happily married to a man, shares her story and the stories of other women who are attracted to women and yet are committed to their faith"--
The Tender Leaves of Hope
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Category : African American children
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The Tender Leaves of Hope is a marvelously crafted story rife with the political and racial tensions found in the middle America of the first half of the twentieth century. The unintentional protagonist, Lacey Crawford, returns to the place of his birth where he triggers events based on memories of lives previously in collision. This book speaks to the discrimination and prejudice that continue to plague contemporary American life. But the story also portrays the innate decency that serves to reconcile us with our past. -- publisher.
The Tender Leaves of Hope
Author: Richard DowisPublisher: Bedside Books
ISBN: 9781589825567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
TLH is a marvelously crafted story rife with the political and racial tensions found in the middle America of the first half of the twentieth century. The unintentional protagonist, Lacey Crawford, returns to the place of his birth where he triggers events based on memories of lives previously in collision. This book speaks to the discrimination and prejudice that continue to plague contemporary American life. But the story also portrays the innate decency that serves to reconcile us with our past.
Leaves of Hope and Phases of Love. Early Poems
Author: Stanley SavillSomething Like Hope
Author: Shawn GoodmanPublisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0375897526
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Shavonne has been in juvenile detention since the seventh grade. Mr. Delpopolo is the first counselor to treat her as an equal, and he helps her get to the bottom of her self-destructive behavior, her guilt about past actions, and her fears about leaving the Center when she turns eighteen. Shavonne tells him the truth about her crack-addicted mother, the child she had (and gave up to foster care) at fifteen, and the secret shame she feels about what she did to her younger brother after her mother abandoned them. Meanwhile, Shavonne's mentally unstable roommate Cinda makes a rash move, and Shavonne's quick thinking saves her life—and gives her the opportunity to get out of the Center if she behaves well. But Shavonne's faith is tested when her new roommate, mentally retarded and pregnant Mary, is targeted by a guard as a means to get revenge on Shavonne. As freedom begins to look more and more likely, Shavonne begins to believe that maybe she, like the goslings recently hatched on the Center's property, could have a future somewhere else—and she begins to feel something like hope. This is a brutally honest but hopeful story of finding yourself and moving beyond your past.
The Expositor and Current Anecdotes
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Category : Homiletical illustrations
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson
Author: The Line Tender
Author: Kate AllenPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735231613
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Funny, poignant, and deeply moving, The Line Tender is a story of nature's enduring mystery and a girl determined to find meaning and connection within it. Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everhart's marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, collecting shark data when she died suddenly. Lucy was seven. Since then Lucy and her father have kept their heads above water--thanks in large part to a few close friends and neighbors. But June of her twelfth summer brings more than the end of school and a heat wave to sleepy Rockport. On one steamy day, the tide brings a great white--and then another tragedy, cutting short a friendship everyone insists was "meaningful" but no one can tell Lucy what it all meant. To survive the fresh wave of grief, Lucy must grab the line that connects her depressed father, a stubborn fisherman, and a curious old widower to her mother's unfinished research on the Great White's return to Cape Cod. If Lucy can find a way to help this unlikely quartet follow the sharks her mother loved, she'll finally be able to look beyond what she's lost and toward what's left to be discovered. ★"Confidently voiced."—Kirkus Reviews, starred ★"Richly layered."—Publishers Weekly, starred ★"A hopeful path forward."—Booklist, starred ★"Life-affirming."—BCCB, starred ★"Big-hearted." —Bookpage, starred ★“Will appeal to just about everyone.” – SLC, starred ★"Exquisitely, beautifully real."—Shelf Awareness, starred
Author: William Shakespeare