Author: Elizabeth Graver
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Keywords: awake
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-04-07
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0805065393
ISBN-13: 9780805065398
A mother seeks freedom for her young son—and rediscovers her own need for it in the process—in this powerful novel about family, identity, and loveOnce a painter, a traveler, a lover of light, Anna Simon has been living in the dark ever since she gave birth to Max, a child with a rare genetic disease for whom even an hour in sunlight could prove fatal. For years, Anna has home schooled Max and structured her life around his, despite the fact that her husband, Ian, favors mainstreaming. When Anna learns of a camp in upstate New York for children with the disease, she sees room for a comprom
Author: Mark Salzman
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: awake, lying
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0375706062
ISBN-13: 9780375706066
Mark Salzman’s Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman’s soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith.Sister John’s cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God’s radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Publisher: Jove
Keywords: awake, falling
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-10-25
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0515139599
ISBN-13: 9780515139594
A red-hot, suspenseful novel about a free-spirited dream researcher-and the gorgeous man who brings her dreams to life.
Author: Andre Thornton
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: sleep, awake
Number of Pages: 74
Published: 2004-04-22
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 059531838X
ISBN-13: 9780595318384
Awake: Even in Sleep is an eye-opening volume of exotic and hip-nodic poetry that invokes the sub-conscious mind with a diverse fusion of lyrical content that rings the alarm on definite reality.
Author: Elizabeth Coffey
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade
Keywords: bed, awake, ceos, things
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0077099893
ISBN-13: 9780077099893
CEOs must have the correct answer to every question. But where do CEOs turn when they have questions? The one-of-a-kind handbook, "10 Things That Keep CEOs Awake" provides practical answers to the key challenges faced by today’s business leaders. Thought-provoking problem-and-solution scenarios, created by Europe’s best business coaches, provide readers with a unique look at - and prescriptive solutions for - common problems that top executives must confront and conquer every day.
Author: Katherine Paterson
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: princess, awake, wide
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2000-03-20
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0395537770
ISBN-13: 9780395537770
In this amusing, eloquently told story, created by Katherine Paterson specifically for artist Vladimir Vagin to illustrate with his beautifully detailed watercolors, there was born a wise little princess who was different from everyone else. Miranda had been granted the gift of being wide awake all her waking hours. Thus, unlike those before her, she was able to see that the peasants of the kingdom were overworked and starving while the nobles lived in selfish luxury. Miranda, with confidence and determination, forms an innovative plan to help her people overcome their oppression, and in the p
Author: Patricia Whitehouse
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree
Keywords: awake, skunks
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1432926055
ISBN-13: 9781432926052
Explores the behavior of common backyard nocturnal animals.
