One Story a Day

One Story a Day
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Publisher : DC Canada Education Publishing
Total Pages : 71
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ISBN-10 : 9781772059090
ISBN-13 : 1772059099
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis One Story a Day by : Leonard Judge

One Story a Day for is a series of 365 stories in 12 books that touch on a wide variety of topics intended for slightly older children than the Early Readers set. The stories, written by Canadian authors, are inspired by life lessons, fables from around the world, nature, science, and history. The series is designed to foster children's total development—linguistic, intellectual, social, and cultural—through the joy of reading.

One Story

One Story
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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages : 130
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ISBN-10 : 9781683963196
ISBN-13 : 1683963199
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis One Story by : Gipi

Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past and present, a psych ward and the bloody trenches, and told through complex clues ― a lone gas station, an apathetic baroness, found love letters, and shifting from scratchy black-and-white to lush watercolors (sometimes on the same page), One Story documents the origins of pain that serve as the roots of a twisted family tree, and allows the reader to trace the branches.

The Year We Left Home

The Year We Left Home
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9781439175903
ISBN-13 : 143917590X
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis The Year We Left Home by : Jean Thompson

A "New York Times" bestseller and a National Book Award finalist, "The Year We Left Home" chronicles the lives of the Erickson family as the children come of age in 1970's and '80's America.

Monoculture

Monoculture
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Publisher : Red Clover Press
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9780986853814
ISBN-13 : 098685381X
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Monoculture by : F. S. Michaels

Winner of the George Orwell Award. One of The Atlantic's best books of the year. As human beings, we've always told stories: stories about who we are, where we come from, and where we're going. Now imagine that one of those stories is taking over the others, narrowing our diversity and creating a monoculture. Because of the rise of the economic story, six areas of your world - your work, your relationships with others and the environment, your community, your physical and spiritual health, your education, and your creativity - are changing, or have already changed, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. And because how you think shapes how you act, the monoculture isn't just changing your mind - it's changing your life. In Monoculture, F.S. Michaels draws on extensive research and makes surprising connections among disciplines to take a big-picture look at how one story is changing everything. Her research and writing have been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Killam Trusts, and regional and municipal arts councils. Michaels has an MBA, and completed five years of PhD studies in Organizational Analysis. She lives in British Columbia, Canada. "A single lucid narrative that's bound to first make you somewhat uncomfortable and insecure, then give you the kind of pause from which you can step back and move forward with more autonomy, authenticity and mindfulness than ever." - The Atlantic "A thin, enrapturing gem. It's accessible, sensible--exactly the sort of book that should have (and still could + should!) take off and create a tiny little dent in books." - Kenyon Review "A smart and realistic guide to first recognizing the monoculture and the challenges of transcending its limitations." - Maria Popova, BrainPickings.org "I found myself reading non-stop, underlining like crazy...an astute explanation about what I've been feeling recently, something I couldn't put my finger on...[Michaels] writes in clear, energetic prose that's thoughtful, engaging and unforced. She defines and analyzes without judgment or insistence...a breath of fresh air." - NPR "...a singularly brilliant and accessible analysis of some of the fundamental assumptions and driving principles of our time." - Comment Magazine "5 stars: The cause and effect of our world is more surprising than you'd think. With intriguing notions about the driving ideas of stories in every shape of our life, "Monoculture" is an incredibly fascinating way about how the mind works and today's consumer culture." - Midwest Book Review "If you just read one book this year, read this one." - BuriedInPrint.com

One Story, One Song

One Story, One Song
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Publisher : D & M Publishers
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9781553656432
ISBN-13 : 1553656431
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis One Story, One Song by : Richard Wagamese

A new collection of warm, wise and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native Life. Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Native Life. “In quiet tones and luminous language,” wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, “Wagamese shares his hurts and joys, inviting readers to find the ways in which they are joined to him and to consider how they might be joined to others.” In this new book, Richard Wagamese again invites readers to accompany him on his travels. This time his focus is on stories: how they shape us, how they empower us, how they change our lives. Ancient and contemporary, cultural and spiritual, funny and sad, the tales are grouped according to the four essential principles Ojibway traditional teachers sought to impart: humility, trust, introspection and wisdom.

ONE Very Big Bear

ONE Very Big Bear
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 34
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ISBN-10 : 9781613129654
ISBN-13 : 1613129653
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis ONE Very Big Bear by : Alice Brière-Haquet

As far as he can tell, Bear is the biggest thing around. He might even be a giant! It's not long before other, smaller animals set him straight in this charmingly illustrated book about counting and relative size. Together, two walruses, three foxes, and so on, are the same size as Bear, each teasing him for foolishly thinking that there is nothing bigger than he. When six sardines arrive to tell Bear that together, they are just as big as he is, Bear has had enough and gobbles them up for breakfast.

We Should All Be Feminists

We Should All Be Feminists
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 65
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ISBN-10 : 9781101911761
ISBN-13 : 110191176X
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis We Should All Be Feminists by : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics—from the award-winning author of Americanah In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.

One Good Story, That One

One Good Story, That One
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : 9781452940342
ISBN-13 : 1452940347
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis One Good Story, That One by : Thomas King

One Good Story, That One is a collection steeped in native oral tradition and shot through with Thomas King’s special brand of wit and comic imagination. These highly acclaimed stories conjure up Native and Judeo-Christian myths, present-day pop culture, and literature while mixing in just the right amount of perception and experience.

66 Books One Story

66 Books One Story
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Publisher : CF4kids
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 184550819X
ISBN-13 : 9781845508197
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis 66 Books One Story by : Paul Reynolds

Every book of the Bible is the breath of God and the plan of salvation spans all of Scripture. In this Bible overview each book of the Bible is summarised.

One Day

One Day
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780399185830
ISBN-13 : 0399185836
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis One Day by : Gene Weingarten

“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as “ordinary” when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.