Everything that we see here on earth, in the sea, or in the sky was made somehow. There has been a debate about how it all happened for many years, and scientists on both sides of the issue have studied and explored the earth to find the answers to their questions. Even so, their explorations have only given them even more questions that need to be answered. How did the Grand Canyon happen? Where do dinosaurs fit in this debate? Why can fossils be found anywhere around the world? What is t...

Death of a SpouseCarolyn Wright was born in the beautiful state of Georgia. She is a native of Valdosta. Her family relocated to the city of Jacksonville, Florida when she was 13 years old. She met her husband, Otis Wright, at New Stanton Senior High School in the year of 1958. They were married three years later in 1961. Together, they had three children who then gave birth to seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. In marriage, the couple lived through ...

"In order to talk with the dead you have to know how to wait: they are fearful like the first steps of a child. But if we are patient one day they will answer us with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror, with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace, with a dark return of birds before the glance of a girl who waits motionless on the threshold." —from "In Order to Talk with the Dead"

Originally published in 1999, Sounds Like Home adds an important dimension to the canon of deaf literature by presenting the perspective of an African American deaf woman who attended a segregated deaf school. Mary Herring Wright documents her life from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s, offering a rich account of her home life in rural North Carolina and her education at the North Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, which had a separate campus for African American students. Th...

In the segregated South, a young girl’s life is changed forever: “A beautifully written literary novel [and] a real page-turner.” —Lee Smith, New York Times-bestselling author of Blue MarlinOn a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family’s black maid, Mary Luther. Fo...

Quick and easy reference to the essential vocabulary of the Spanish language as taught in courses from middle school through college or any online, self-taught or tutor-based learning. This durable six page laminated guide will last your entire student career and beyond, as well as any travels to Spanish speaking countries where it will not need to be charged and will take up no space in a backpack. Covering the framework of the language and organized by subjects used in Spanish courses, t...

In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends during the holidays. It's a down-home Christmas story about tradition, family, and the shared experiences of women.Here, in a letter of her own, Lee Smith explains how she was inspired to write this celebrated epistolary novel:Dear Friends,Like me, you probably get Christmas letters every year. I read every word and ...

The Nobel Prize winner 's classic collection of love poems.Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but didn't publish them publicly until 1963. Thi...

Lee Smith is a "teller of tales for tale tellers to admire and envy . . . [and] a reader’s dream" (Houston Chronicle). A celebrated and bestselling writer with a dozen novels under her name, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and The Last Girls, she is just as widely recognized for her exceptional short stories. Here, in Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, Smith collects seven brand-new stories along with seven of her favorites f...

A clever and complex woman builds an ice cream empire after immigrating from Russia in this stunning novel of power, Prohibition, and performance set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America.In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned i...

Traveling to a spanish speaking country or would you just like to learn the basics of spanish. This is a little pocket book for your basic spanish translation needs from greetings, hotel accommodations to the weather and seasons. This trusty handbook also have worksheets and lessons so that you won't be left in the dark the next time you need directions or you encounter a spanish speaking person.  

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of Red at the Bone tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing poems.A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK • WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING BOOK AWARD • A KIRKUS REVIEWS AND BOOK RIOT BEST MIDDLE GRADE BOOK OF THE CENTURY****“Moving and resonant . . . captivating.”—***The Wall Street JournalI am born in Ohio but*the stories of South Carolina alre...