Author: Laura Restrepo
Publisher: Alfaguara
Keywords: heroes, spanish, demasiados
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2009-05-30
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1603966420
ISBN-13: 9781603966429
Lorenza and Mateo feel lost in their own history. He cannot understand why his father, Ramon an Argentine militant in the resistance against Videla s dictatorship decides to disappear without a trace. She cannot find the words to explain to her son why his father suddenly became a threat. In searching for Ramon while reconstructing the fragments that make up their past, these two characters, at times close partners, at times opponents, return to Buenos Aires. Scouring the city, Lorenza talks to Mateo about the life she and Ramon led during the dictatorship. Quieting the pain, fear and loss, th
Authors:J. Patrick Lewis, Jim Cooke,
Publisher: Dial
Keywords: heroes, everyday, amazing, poems, roes
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2005-03-17
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0803729251
ISBN-13: 9780803729254
Twenty-one entertaining, thought-provoking poems chronicle the good that people have done in service of others. Bypassing those of mere fame, this striking collection is a celebration of such persons as Gandhi, Rosa Parks, teachers, a thirteen-year-old child-labor crusader, firefighters, Cesar Chavez, a feisty nun, and: . . . the valiant and the brave. Those simple people known by Two simple words: They gave. Each portrait includes an expressive illustration and additional factual material, and an eloquent afterword tells of Mr. Lewis’s own childhood hero. This memorable book invites
Author: Douglas C. Jones
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Keywords: heroes, history, civil, war, colonial, linking, story, texas, sometimes, spanish
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1557288070
ISBN-13: 9781557288073
Douglas C. Jones (1924-1998) ranks right there with Larry McMurtry and A. B. Guthrie. Author of nineteen historical westerns, including The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer, Jones won numerous Golden Spur awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime acheivement. His final novel, Sometimes There Were Heroes, is the riveting tale of the brave and driven men and women of early Texas. This history is made rich with intrigue, danger, murder, and love as disparate cultures clash and bond on the American frontier. Here are Sam Houston and Santa Ana, the Alamo, the founding of the Repu
Authors:Janet Benge, Geoff Benge,
Publisher: Y W A M Pub
Keywords: christian, heroes, amp, hearts, touching, scudder, healing, bodies, ida
Number of Pages: 189
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 157658285X
ISBN-13: 9781576582855
Ida stamped her foot. Her friends were wrong. "I will not be a missionary to India like my parents!" she retorted. "Don’t any of you say I will be, because I won’t - never, ever, ever." Ida had never forgotten the faces of starving Indian children. She hated India - it was full of horrible situations she could do nothing about.Ida Scudder was sure she would never follow in the footsteps of her medical missionary father. But when she witnessed Indian women dying because their religious beliefs didn’t allow male doctors to treat them, Ida heard herself pray, ’God, if You
Author: Tayomi Igus
Publisher: Just Us Books
Keywords: book, heroes, black, struggle, women
Number of Pages: 107
Published: 1991-11-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0940975262
ISBN-13: 9780940975262
Authors:Janet Benge, Geoff Benge,
Publisher: Y W A M Pub
Keywords: heroes, amp, christian, obliged, carey, william
Number of Pages: 211
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 1576581470
ISBN-13: 9781576581476
Author: L.R. Brow
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: heroes
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2008-08-13
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1435759184
ISBN-13: 9781435759183
