Kirby: 517 books
by Kirby Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Jeff and Ben Gill are out to please their grandmother by catching the prize in the Greased Pig Contest at the East End Rodeo. Later, Jeff learns an important lesson about life and death at his grandmother's ranch.
by Kirby Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
My father had decided on the Young Hotel because of Gramma’s weakness for sweets. The hotel boasted the best bakery on Oahu. He also figured she had a nostalgic interest in that hotel because she’d jitterbugged with Alan Ladd in its ballroom. Despite the bakery and the memories, Gramma was leery...
by Kirby Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Two brothers learn a lesson of life and death on their grandmother's remote Hawaiian ranch.
by Jessi Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
In this unforgettable novel, Quinn Sullivan falls for the recipient of her boyfriend’s donated heart. Printz Award winner John Corey Whaley calls it “not just a love story, but one with a ferocious pulse.”
After Quinn’s boyfriend, Trent, dies in an accident their junior year, she reaches...
Der Optiker von Lampedusa
Die Geschichte einer Rettung
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
"Vielleicht kannst du nicht glauben, was ich hier erzähle. Vielleicht kannst du es nicht verstehen, weil du nicht an Bord warst. Aber ich war drin und habe die Menschen gesehen. Und ich sehe sie immer noch. Das, was damals passiert ist, geschieht wieder und wieder …" So beginnt der Optiker...
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
Psych Trap
The Healing Journey of Psychiatric Nurse Who Was Also a Psychiatric Patient
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
During the evening shift, the psychiatrist asked me, the nurse in charge, if I agreed that a young adolescent boy had a mental illness. Immediately disagreeing, I explained that the boy had been severely beaten by his mothers boyfriend, that his anger was understandable. The doctor explained that...
Healing a Friend or Loved One's Grieving Heart After a Cancer Diagnosis
100 Practical Ideas for Providing Compassion, Comfort, and Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Half of all men and one-third of all women in the United States will develop cancer during their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society, and on top of the pain and struggle that patients have to face, a cancer diagnosis can also profoundly affect the lives of their loved ones. Friends...
by W. F. Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The wonder and beauty of butterflies and moths — including their miraculous transformations — have fascinated nature enthusiasts for thousands of years. Rendered from an exquisitely rare nineteenth-century portfolio, the butterfly hues and shapes that have dazzled humankind for centuries are displayed...
by Stan Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
It’s soccer season in Sunnyview and Captain Awesome and Nacho Cheese Man are ready to play! All superheroes are spectacular at sports...right?
Eugene McGillicudy and Charlie Thomas Jones can’t wait to join Sunnyview’s eight-year-old soccer team. These superhero pals have no doubt that...
North Carolina's Amazing Coast
Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Fun and learning come together in North Carolina's Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fauna, and natural history of that fascinating place where land meets sea. Each page includes a full-color illustration and breezy, fact-filled commentary...
Is God a Christian?
Creating a Community of Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
In a world composed of almost seven billion people, about 2.2 billion of them claim to be Christian. And while Christianity is continuing to grow at a modest rate, other religions are growing at a faster pace. Some scholars predict that Islam will overtake Christianity as the world’s largest religion...
Ghent, Belgium Travel Guide
Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Located in the Flemish region of Belgium, Ghent is the capital of the region as well as being the largest city. Tourists who stop in Ghent will be pleasantly surprised by this beautiful city with its notable art and culture. Ghent’s three béguinages (female monastic communities and their...
by Jessica Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...