Sherri seems to take an introspective look at her life. The twists and turns she takes seem to have given her an innate sense of her relationship with God and his ability to guide her through all the undertaking she has lived through. This book touches the soul and fiber of your being and awakens the fire inside, allowing one to strive for the best. Through trials and tribulations, Sherri shows how holding on and standing in faith will get anyone to the finish line. Sherri agrees with Robin Roberts, cohost of Good Morning America. Robin tells us that her mom would always remind her that "everybody's got something." This quote allowed her to look at families, older, middle-aged, and younger children, and siblings and how everyone is perceived. She noticed that everyone had something going on in their own homes, that quiet dark unspoken drama that takes place that allows one to live in silence and how to keep these private things to oneself. Drama and Satan are one and the same. If you can stand through all the adversities that take place in your life, you can and will succeed. Today, she is still reaching. She has the will of God and encourages everyone to do the same as the power is in his hands. Stand up for God, Stand up for the truth, Live in your truth - No more lies or lying.

“A lyrical novel about grief, love, and finding oneself in the wake of a tragic loss.” —Bustle “Gorgeous prose and heartbreaking storytelling.” —Paste Magazine “Grabs your heart and won’t let go.” —Book Riot A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Three starred reviews for this stunning novel about a mixed-race teen who struggles to find her way back to her love of music in the wake of her sister’s death, from the author of the William C. Morris Award finalist Starfish. Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn’t have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure of—she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Now thousands of miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, being abandoned by her mother, and the absence of music in her life. With the help of the “boys next door”—a teenage surfer named Kai, who smiles too much and doesn’t take anything seriously, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe, who succumbed to his own grief years ago—Rumi attempts to find her way back to her music, to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish. Aching, powerful, and unflinchingly honest, Summer Bird Blue explores big truths about insurmountable grief, unconditional love, and how to forgive even when it feels impossible.

The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.

Deep within the tumultuous kingdom of Soneek, a young blacksmith named Trigger makes a living off his God-given talent to create incredibly powerful swords. Despite his occupation, Trigger is constantly annoyed that the code of his warrior-driven world causes needless death for the sake of useless ideals such as honour and destiny. But his careless attitude for his own future is changed as Trigger discovers that his life has already been placed within a twisted history of fate ready to repeat itself. When a cloaked intruder suddenly runs through his shop one day Trigger is led into interesting encounters with a mysterious young lady that he soon finds himself filled with desire for. He later discovers she is Iflana Corlusia, daughter of the darkest force on the planet. His attempts to be with Iflana despite her aristocratic class, only lead him to imprisonment where his lust for her grows as rapidly as his hatred for the world around him. But when Iflana begs for Triggers help to escape from her own world, he is unwittingly propelled into a fierce life and death clash driven by nothing else than his overwhelming desire for her. The Trigger is an intriguing fantasy story of a mans journey through insanity as he battles against becoming the one thing he hates most a murderous warrior.

Containing full pedigree of all the imported thorough-bred stallions and mares, with their produce.

A classic of ethnology, reproducing in full color 35 sandpaintings from this important Navajo healing ceremony and analyzing their composition and artistic devices. The rites are described and explained and the symbolism and myth they express thoroughly explored.

By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two “unreliable” narrators: the young man who is a student at the “school for fools” and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents of consciousness running through the novel are passionate and profound. Memories of childhood summers at the dacha are contemporaneous with the present, the dead are alive, and the beloved is present in the wind. Here is a tale either of madness or of the life of the imagination in conversation with reason, straining at the limits of language; in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, “an enchanting, tragic, and touching book.”

This spectacular new edition of the best-selling Helm field guide of all time covers all resident, migrant and vagrant species found in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Over 1,300 species are illustrated with full details of all the plumages and major races likely to be encountered. Concise text describes the identification, status, range, habits and voice, with fully updated range maps for each species. This authoritative book will not only be an indispensable guide to the visiting birder, but also a vital tool for those engaged in work to conserve and study the avifauna of the region – East Africa shelters a remarkable diversity of birds, many seriously endangered with small and vulnerable ranges.