The Vast Wonder of World

2018-11-01 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Mélina Mangal
Release : 2018-11-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 955/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Vast Wonder of World written by Mélina Mangal. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A must-purchase picture book biography of a figure sure to inspire awe and admiration among readers."—School Library Journal (starred review) Extraordinary illustrations and lyrical text present pioneering African American scientist Ernest Everett Just. Ernest Everett Just was not like other scientists of his time. He saw the whole, where others saw only parts. He noticed details others failed to see. He persisted in his research despite the discrimination and limitations imposed on him as an African American. His keen observations of sea creatures revealed new insights about egg cells and the origins of life. Through stunning illustrations and lyrical prose, this picture book presents the life and accomplishments of this long overlooked scientific pioneer.

Ernest From Earth

2020-04-25 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Luke Nielsen
Release : 2020-04-25
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 254/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Ernest From Earth written by Luke Nielsen. This book was released on 2020-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest is a twelve-year-old boy growing up on Earth in the Twenty-Second Century, an Earth that exists free of poverty, bigotry, famine, or war. The citizens of Earth live in peace, traveling the cosmos as readily as they once navigated country highways; but Ernest is separated from his family on one such trip and finds himself on a planet eerily similar to Earth's past, with the exception of its red- and blue-skinned inhabitants. Ernest befriends a red boy named Dat, and he is forced to live in a world of racial tension and division the likes of which he has never known. Ernest operates as both an observer and a participant in the struggles around him, all while facing the challenges of growing up. Ernest and his friend Dat face bullies and a sense of isolation. They learn of tragedy and friendship, and they are thrown into a powerful legal battle that continues to shape their understanding of existence and their places in it. Ernest's experiences leave him torn between his desire to return to his family and his idyllic life and the kinship he has formed with his adopted family, especially as they struggle through a glaringly unjust world. Ultimately, Ernest begins to question what is really right, and if his own world is as perfect as it seems.

Hey, Vern! It's the Ernest P. Worrell Book of Knowledge

1985 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Ernest P. Worrell
Release : 1985
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 003/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Hey, Vern! It's the Ernest P. Worrell Book of Knowledge written by Ernest P. Worrell. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Place on Earth

2009-03-01 Fiction

Author : Wendell Berry
Release : 2009-03-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 699/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Place on Earth written by Wendell Berry. This book was released on 2009-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Margaret, and his daughter–in–law Hannah, whose son will be born after news comes that Hannah’s husband Virgil is missing. "The earth is the genius of our life,” Wendell Berry writes here. “The final questions and their answers lie serenely coupled in it."

Returning to Earth

2007-12-01 Fiction

Author : Jim Harrison
Release : 2007-12-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 491/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Returning to Earth written by Jim Harrison. This book was released on 2007-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The longtime chronicler of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula . . . gives eloquent expression to death and the grieving process.” —Booklist Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a master . . . who makes the ordinary extraordinary, the unnamable unforgettable,” beloved author Jim Harrison returns with a masterpiece—a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig’s Disease. His condition deteriorating, he realizes no one will be able to pass on to his children their family history once he is gone. He begins dictating to his wife, Cynthia, stories he has never shared with anyone as around him, his family struggles to lay him to rest with the same dignity with which he has lived. Over the course of the year following Donald’s death, his daughter begins studying Chippewa ideas of death for clues about her father’s religion, while Cynthia, bereft of the family she created to escape the malevolent influence of her own father, finds that redeeming the past is not a lost cause. Returning to Earth is a deeply moving book about origins and endings, making sense of loss, and living with honor for the dead. It is among the finest novels of Harrison’s long, storied career, and confirms his standing as one of the most important American writers. “A deeply felt meditation on life and death, nature and God, this is one of Harrison’s finest works.” —Library Journal

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