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Jenna is an ordinary 12-year-old girl. One summer day, she notices that her body can no longer do the things it used to. She becomes unable to walk, open her eyes, eat, etc. She soon notices that there is something wrong with her. At the end of summer, she is taken to doctors and diagnosed with a rare, chronic, auto-immune, neuromuscular illness called Myasthenia Gravis. Jenna's life is no longer the same, dealing with doctors, medicine, school and friendships all simultaneously. Jenna learns to deal with the illness but starts struggling with the side effects of her medication, taking a huge toll on mental health, such as anxiety. Jenna soon learns that strength isn't something possible solely through muscle, but rather so much more. Read to follow Jenna's journey. Read A Snowflake In The Desert to get raw, emotional and real insight on what life with a rare disease for a young girl is really like, and how an individual's life is affected. This book is a perfect read for people above age 12 to learn about what life with a chronic, rare disease is like, and how to cope with it. By reading this book, you are helping spread awareness about the illness: Myasthenia Gravis If you are someone with a chronic disease yourself, you will definitely enjoy and relate to this book.
It is a high valley edged by serrated peaks, a remote expanse the size of Connecticut lying, as if forgotten, between two mountain ranges. Here, North AmericaÕs tallest sand dunes blow against glacier-gouged summits, the Rio Grande begins its long journey from snowflake to saltwater, and vast reaches of desert scrub hide verdant pocket wetlands. ColoradoÕs San Luis Valley is not a place for the timid. Sizzling hot in summer, frigid cold in winter, this huge landscape is humbling in its openness, a place defined by the rhythms of natureÑand by the thrust and parry of male courting female in the ritual dance of sandhill cranes. These majestic birds arrive by the thousands twice a year to feed, rest, and socialize in the valleyÕs wetlandsÑinvisible except from the airÑand their cries temper the constant wind. Susan Tweit lives in the high desert of southern Colorado not far from the valleyÕs dunes and wetlands. With the precision of a scientist and the passion of a poet, she guides readers through this land of sand dunes and sandhill cranes, describing its natural features and tracing its human history from buffalo hunters and conquistadors to Hispanic farming communities and UFO observatories. And in stunning images, photographer Glenn Oakley brings his intimate feel for light and landscape to portraying not only the subtle beauty of this high-desert sanctuary but also the grandeur of the cranes in flight. As an intimate look at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve and the San Luis Valley, this book reveals a desert place as seductive and sobering as existence itself.
“A timely, sobering message about how humankind’s treatment of the environment impacts the environment’s treatment of humankind.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Ash arrives in Snowflake, Arizona, and finds a small community of people who are sick, including Ash’s stepbrother, Bly. But it isn’t any ordinary sickness: modern life is poisoning them, and when Ash too falls ill, the doctor’s response is, “It’s all in your mind.” Meanwhile, the world beyond is succumbing to a breakdown of civilization only distantly perceived by Ash and the isolated residents of Snowflake, from which there may or may not be a chance for recovery. This humane and thoughtful novel explores the resilience of love and community in the face of crisis.
"A look at what snow crystals are, how they form, different types, their symmetry, and their facets and branches"--
Bai Xiao had married two men in her life. The first was someone she had chased for sixteen years, someone she had loved for sixteen years, someone who was already the most precious part of her life. However, on the anniversary of their wedding, she told him that she had already fallen in love with another person and cruelly swore a divorce oath. Secondly, he used his utmost love to pry open her closed heart. However, when she thought that she had regained her happiness, he told her that everything was just a method to get revenge and push her into hell with his own hands ... Wounded and wounded, she fled in panic. Four years later, she, who had completely transformed, would return in a strong manner, and she would repay for all that she had suffered. Yet, she did not expect that she would be caught unprepared by one truth after another, and what she had to do, and how she had to choose ...
Winter's frozen artistry -- Snowflake watching -- A field guide to falling snow -- Snowflake weather -- Snow crystal symmetry -- Morphogenesis on ice -- Designer snowflakes -- Snowflake photography.
Savior's Day is a work of fiction taken out of today's headlines. Cardinal Arnold Ford, head of the Archdiocese of New York, witnesses a murder on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral. With the old man's dying breath, he hands the Cardinal a sliver of ancient parchment to keep and protect. What follows is a tale woven from an open case that Israel's vaunted spy agency, the Mossad, is afraid to solve. What do they fear? How can the lost pages of an ancient treasure threaten the very existence of the State of Israel? LeShana Thompkins, the NYPD detective assigned to the homicide, interviews Cardinal Ford. As the investigation unfolds, LeShana is conflicted whether to reveal secrets about the priest's past that his adopted missionary parents hid from him. Ford is stunned. He learns from the Detective who his biological father was, what role his father played in history, and how his own DNA primes the priest for the challenge of a lifetime: to broker a Middle East Peace agreement. Savior's Day is by turns a suspense thriller that fictionalizes history into a modern-day drama that will keep you at the proverbial edge of your seat. Surprise after surprise leaps off the pages, based on true facts that will amaze. Move over DaVinci Code, Savior's Day has arrived.
Snowflakes are falling—and this cool new 8 x 8 in the Smithsonian nonfiction line tells young readers why! When does it snow? Why is snow white? How do we know no two snowflakes are alike? (Hint: the proof is in the photographs, first made in the 1890s!) With full-color photographs and the Smithsonian’s famous Wilson Bentley snowflake photos, this new Curious About title looks at the science behind snow, and the history of record-setting blizzards and snowstorms—plus how people have fun in the snow!
“Read Connect by the absurdly brilliant Julian Gough—a mind-expanding techno-thriller with a hotly beating human heart.” —Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of Room In the Nevada desert, in the near future, a family crisis sets off a chain reaction that threatens to bring the networked world to its knees. It starts in the home of Naomi Chiang, a biologist and single mother struggling to balance her research with looking after her painfully awkward, homeschooled, ever-growing teenage son, Colt. Naomi worries about him constantly—he's so socially inept that he struggles to order takeout pizza—but then she has a major breakthrough at the lab that could change their lives, and America's future. For his part, Colt seems focused on one thing only: a globe-spanning immersive gameworld in which his phenomenal coding skills set him apart. But after his first real-life romantic encounter goes awry, he realizes mastery of a virtual existence is not enough. When Colt secretly releases his mother's latest findings, Naomi's worst fears come true. Colt's estranged father crashes into their lives again, backed by the secretive security organization he heads. The U.S. government wants Naomi's research . . . and Colt, who must leave the comfort of virtual reality to discover the pleasures, and pains, of a life fully lived. Meanwhile, Naomi has to decide how far she would go to protect her child. Would she kill a man? Would she destroy the world? Connect is a thrillingly smart novel of ideas that explores what connection—both human and otherwise—might be in a digital age. It is a story of mothers and sons; but it is also about you, your phone, and the future.
This is about a Christmas in the Caribbean, specifically Trinidad and Tobago. Readers are guesting with Anansi and his family a second time. Anansi is usually grumpy and selfish if he does not like the weather, but he is puzzled at the same time because he reflects on a puzzling experience that teaches him to consider the real meaning of Christmas.