Don t Stand So Close to Me

Don t Stand So Close to Me
Author: Eric Walters
Publsiher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781459827899

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Thirteen-year-old Quinn and her friends can't believe their luck when spring break is extended an extra two weeks—even if it's because of some virus. But when the impact of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic becomes apparent, everyone, not just the students, has to learn to adjust to their new reality. Quinn’s father is an ER doctor and has to self-isolate to protect his family from the virus. Isaac’s mother is the chief of police and now has to enforce new physical-distancing bylaws. Reese can’t visit her grandmother in her care home anymore. And their entire school has moved to online classes. Sacrifices have to be made to keep everyone safe, but there’s more to life than rules and scary news reports. In an effort to find some good in all this uncertainty, Quinn comes up with an idea that she hopes will bring the entire community together.

So Close

So Close
Author: Hélène Cixous
Publsiher: Polity
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780745644363

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In So Close, the internationally renowned writer Hélène Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift through large parts of her past in a land where she never felt at home and, from a young age, knew she must leave. Above all, she must confront the depths of her mother’s rejection of the country that had rejected her despite years of devotion to the poor women of Algiers. As she is struggling with this decision, she receives a message from Zohra Drif, with whom she has had no contact since their school days, which was just before Zohra joined the Algerian FLN and become a heroine in the uprising against French rule in her homeland. They meet in Paris for the first time in more than fifty years and soon afterward the narrator departs for Algiers. The latter part of the narrative brings a rush of sensations, impressions, memories, and new encounters as the narrator revisits sites from her past in Algiers and especially in Oran, the city of her birth, the city of the family’s happiness before her father’s death when she was a young girl. The quest to find his grave again in the overgrown Jewish cemetery of Algiers leads to a startlingly moving scene that closes the voyage and the book.

So Close

So Close
Author: Patrick Mangan
Publsiher: Hachette Australia
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780733630392

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A tribute to the bravest, craziest, unluckiest, most ridiculous defeats in Australian sporting history. Typically, there?s only one way to win ? by being the best. But there are countless ways of having victory snatched from your grasp. Remember Pat Rafter?s 2001 Wimbledon final against the enigmatic Goran Ivanisevic. Think of Allan Border and Jeff Thomson?s titanic last-wicket partnership against England in 1982 that nearly won one of the closest-fought Tests ever. Look no further than Australian walker Jane Saville, only a few hundred metres from a gold medal at Sydney 2000 when she was tragically disqualified. And yet, as Adam Scott shows, a devastating defeat can sometimes spur a champion on to glory. From the calamitous to the hilarious, from the poignant to the absurd, sport is about so much more than gold medals, premiership trophies and urns filled with ashes. And in So Close, some of those sportspeople will finally get the recognition they deserve.

God So Close

God So Close
Author: Becky Thompson
Publsiher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780785244417

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How well do you know the Holy Spirit? How clearly do you hear His voice? How real is He in your everyday life? Bestselling author and creator of the Midnight Mom Devotional community Becky Thompson invites you into a closer relationship with the Holy Spirit by scripturally unpacking who he is and how he moves in and through the life of a believer. In God So Close, Thompson wants to lead you into a deeper understanding of the Holy Spirit so you can have a closer connection with God. Becky will help you explore who the Holy Spirit is and why He is important become aware of God moving around you and within you learn how to listen for the prompting of the Holy Spirit discern when God is leading you Long gone are the days of believing that the Spirit of God only attends certain church services or speaks to or through particular people. God So Close shows you are a carrier of his Spirit and have been filled with his power and presence. It's for His glory that you've been given gifts to impact the world and reveal the message of Jesus.

So Close to Heaven

So Close to Heaven
Author: Barbara Crossette
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2011-08-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780307801906

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A travelogue of Bhutan and its neighbors in the Himalayas that introduces readers to a world that has emerged from the middle ages only to find itself peering into the abyss of modernity. "For anyone with a serious interest in Buddhism, it's essential reading" (Washington Post Book World). For more than a thousand years Tibet, Sikkim, Ladakh, and Bhutan were the santuaries of Tantric Buddhism. But in the last half of this century, geopolitics has scoured the landscape of the Himalayas, and only the reclusive kingdom of Bhutan remains true to Tantric Buddhism.

So Close to Home

So Close to Home
Author: Michael J Tougias
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781681771717

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On May 19, 1942, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. Captained by twenty nine-year-old Iron Cross and King's Cross recipient Erich Wurdemann, the submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia with sixty-two souls on board. Most aboard were merchant seamen, but there were also a handful of civilians, including the Downs family: Ray and Ina, and their two children, eight-year-old Sonny and eleven-year-old Lucille. Fast asleep in their berths, the Downs family had no idea that two torpedoes were heading their way. When the ship exploded, chaos ensued—and each family member had to find their own path to survival. Including original, unpublished material from Commander Wurdemann’s war diary, the story provides balance and perspective by chronicling the daring mission of the U-boat—and its commander’s decision-making—in the Gulf of Mexico. An inspiring historical narrative, So Close to Home tells the story of the Downs family as they struggle against sharks, hypothermia, drowning, and dehydration in their effort to survive the aftermath of this deadly attack off the American coast.

So close yet so far II

So close  yet so far II
Author: N. "Karmakat" Franzetti
Publsiher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2014-05-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781312171473

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Just when things couldn't get any better... Karmakat has settled into a life with his mate and adopted family, wanting for nothing more than a normal life. As normal as it can be for someone in his situation, anyways. Then something changes. Can the hope of a new future mend a soul torn apart by its past? The story of our group continues as they face new trials, encounter new situations and uncover revelations about old enemies and their own legacies.

So close yet so far

So close    yet so far
Author: N. Franzetti
Publsiher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2024
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9781300725114

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