Twice Alive

Twice Alive
Author: Forrest Gander
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811230309

An exciting new book about renewal by the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize–winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations. While conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. Throughout Twice Alive, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness.

Twice Buried, Still Alive

Twice Buried, Still Alive
Author: Rivky Weinstock
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781568714134

Relates the Holocaust experiences of Yitzchok (Beno) Donath, based on interviews and including comments by Weinstock. Donath was born in 1925 in Pressburg, Slovakia, to an Orthodox family, and remained true to his religion throughout the war. In 1942 he travelled to Nitra, where he helped Rabbi Michael Weissmandel in his rescue work. He then fled to Hungary, living first in Nove Zamky and then in Papa, with his parents and three siblings. The entire family was caught and sent to the Sarvar internment camp, and then to Auschwitz. Donath worked in the kitchen and succeeded in keeping his father and brother alive until almost the end of the war. His father died in January 1945 and his brother perished on a transport to Ravensbrück. In that camp, Donath himself was assumed dead and buried up to his face, but was rescued by a Jewish American soldier. After the war he returned to Pressburg and was reunited with his two sisters; his mother was killed in Auschwitz. Donath helped recover ca. 20 Jewish children whom Polish families refused to hand over after caring for them during the Holocaust. In 1948, unwilling to live under communism in Czechoslovakia, he escaped to Vienna.

Girls Only Live Twice

Girls Only Live Twice
Author: Doug Solter
Publisher: Brain Matter Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

She wants out... When sixteen-year-old Emma finds out the truth about her mother's death, it makes her question everything, including her loyalty to The Authority, a secret organization she joined. Feeling trapped, Emma comes up with a desperate plan to escape their control. But Asset One, the leader of Venomous, holds all the cards. Using them to play his own game against the Authority and the Gems. A game with a dramatic ending that will destroy the Authority and kill millions under a mushroom cloud. Emma can refuse to play his game and live happily ever after with her grandmother. Or she can be a hero...and risk losing everything. Girls Only Live Twice is the fifth novel in The Gems Young Adult spy thriller series, although all books in the Gems world can be read as standalone adventures. This is a complex story with a desperate girl, a conflicted boy, a plot with twists and turns and emotional truths, a cute dog, two bad twins, and an evil dude with a deadly falcon. Click or tap the Buy button to read the most emotional Gems novel yet! For ages 13 to adult.

Praying Twice

Praying Twice
Author: Brian A. Wren
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664256708

Wren discusses the thorny issues involving congregational singing today: the indispensable nature of public worship; contemporary worship music; the lyrics of different types of congregational songs, such as choruses, hymns, chants and ritual songs; and the importance of using hymn lyrics as poetry. He shows why hymn lyrics are altered throughout time and how they illustrate theology.

You Only Live Twice

You Only Live Twice
Author: Gumersindo Vidot
Publisher: gumersindo vidot
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0578049473

Latin Alive! Book 1

Latin Alive! Book 1
Author: Karen Moore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781600510557

The Latin Alive! Book One: Teacher's Edition includes a complete copy of the student text, as well as answer keys, extra teacher's notes and explanations, unit tests, and bonus projects and activities.

Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin
Author: Phillip Hoose
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2010-12-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0312661053

"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'" - Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history. Claudette Colvin is the National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, a Newbery Honor Book, A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book.

The Man Who Died Twice

The Man Who Died Twice
Author: Richard Osman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1984881000

An instant New York Times bestseller! The second gripping novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment “It’s taken a mere two books for Richard Osman to vault into the upper leagues of crime writers. . . The Man Who Died Twice. . . dives right into joyous fun." —The New York Times Book Review Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim—the Thursday Murder Club—are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper’s Chase, their posh retirement village. But they are out of luck. An unexpected visitor—an old pal of Elizabeth’s (or perhaps more than just a pal?)—arrives, desperate for her help. He has been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong men and he’s seriously on the lam. Then, as night follows day, the first body is found. But not the last. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can our four friends catch the killer before the killer catches them? And if they find the diamonds, too? Well, wouldn’t that be a bonus? You should never put anything beyond the Thursday Murder Club. Richard Osman is back with everyone’s favorite mystery-solving quartet, and the second installment of the Thursday Murder Club series is just as clever and warm as the first—an unputdownable, laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read.