83 results for "Words of Stone" between $5.00 and $75.00

Pages: 160, Edition: 1st, Hardcover, Greenwillow Books

Product Description Busy trying to deal with his many fears and his troubled feelings for his dead mother, ten-year-old Blaze has his life changed when he meets the boisterous and irresistible Joselle.

Unbeknownst to Blaze, young Joselle Stark has recently moved into her grandmother's nearby farmhouse after being abandoned by her self-centered mother. When Joselle hears about Reena's death, she feels darkly compelled to write disturbing messages to Blaze, using the stones she finds on the hill between them. In this book, as in his others, Kevin Henkes eloquently builds sympathy for the perpetrator as well as the victim, helping young readers understand the traumas and insecurities that cause...

Pages: 218, Paperback, CreateSpace

"This collection of introductory talks on Buddhism by Tripitaka Master Hua includes the following topics:  Return to nothingness The wonderful way Life is but a dream. What meaning is there to life? How can we determine our own destiny?Born in 1918 near Manchuria, China, Master Hua became a monk at age 19. A dharma heir in the lineage of Bodhidharma and the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng, he taught at the Nan Hua Vinaya Academy in Canton where the Sixth Patriarch taught in the 7th century. Master...

These short essays and reports by the Piedmontese author of Christ Stopped at Eboli vividly chronicle Sicily of the 1950s. The book opens with a magazine article on the return of the Mayor of New York to the town where he was born. In a handsome paper edition by Hesperus Press, dedicated to bringing to print neglected short works of major writers. (ITL652, $15.95)

They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, 'Sit here while I pray.' Mark 14:32. Depicting one of the Bible's most dramatic moments, artist Carlo Bronti captures the scene when Jesus laid down his life to his Father with the words, "Not what I will, but what You will." Full of mystery, this amazingly detailed, two-foot-tall sculpt is cast in 32 lbs. of quality designer resin with a faux stone finish to capture every detail, from folded hands to pious expression. This...

Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. By examining the social choices Israelis make when they speak, and the social meanings such choices produce, Daniel Lefkowitz reveals how Israeli identities are negotiated through language. Lefkowitz studies three major languages and their role in the social lives of Israelis: Hebrew, the dominant language...

Pages: 252, Hardcover, Gorgias Press LLC

Sometimes we need a reminder we can carry with us each day. Simple words of encouragement to help us along the way...A way to heal our soul no matter what we need to do. We have the strength inside us and the will to see it through.

From the Russ Berrie Words of Wisdom collection comes this whimsical faux stone plaque. The First Commandment for the Over the Hill Gang. Thou Shalt Covet Thy Life, For Age and Wisdom Beats Youth and Great Buns. Great paperweight or desk accessory. 4 feet on bottom to protect desktop. 3.5" tall x 5.5" long. Hand painted. Boxed.

Pages: 64, Edition: 1st, Hardcover, Candlewick

Miriam Stone’s mother is dying of cancer, and for the first time in this young writer’s life, words seem impotent. To tell her mother the lifetime of things she wants to say is akin to losing hope. To say goodbye is to give up. Even writing poetry, which once flowed in long streams, no longer comforts - she writes a different poetry now, spare and without answers. As the author conveys in this deeply moving, authentic memoir, poetry is found in every moment of every day, and at the end of words comes...

Inspirational words to place in your garden Decorative home accents piece Can be used as a paper weight Great garden gift with a sentiment

From the Jacket: Child Even in Arms of Stone is an anthology of poems on and about children, poems that sing of lover for this "unattainable earth" as Milosz puts it. There are as many as 30 well-known poets of the world ranging from JoJo T. Boskovsky to Rabindranath Tagore, Kabir to Pablo Neruda and Li Po to W.B. Yeats besides a few tribal songmakers of India. Deep within every sensitive poet, every artist, a child is alive and we hear his voice, we see him play with words, colours and images. The...

This photography book features new monuments added to the park in the last five years, including the Elizabeth Thorn monument and the 11th Mississippi monument, which owns the distinction of being the final monument allowed on the Gettysburg battlefield. With its eighty-five full-color photographs and chronicle of events, Gettysburg: Sentinels of Stone offers the perfect keepsake for park visitors and anyone wanting a photographic record of Gettysburg’s scenery. In words and pictures, it recalls...