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In today's individualistic Western society, wisdom from our elders' lives and homelands is being lost. A retired lawyer and psychologist, whose Polish roots were virtually unknown to her while she grew up in Canada, author Margaret Ostrowski had been always touched by the historical backgrounds of the immigrant groups she encountered. In Lost Legacies, she embarked on a quest to explore her own heritage - her grandmother (and father's) home in the Russian Partition of Poland and their journey and settlement here. Years of research from a wide range of sources helped her realize that she was a Western Slav from a country with a remarkable Golden Era, with outstanding heroes, scientists, and artisans combined with an unfortunate vulnerable location between aggressive powers that removed Poland from the map for 123 years. Her paternal grandmother's story includes the death of infants, a gold mine, and a Canadian poet. In Lost Legacies, ancestral stories inspire differing views of how to live, help formulate opinions and policies on immigration today, and assist in properly caring for our invitees or alternately aiding them to remain in the homelands they hold in their hearts.

Riley Kos otrzymuje nietypowy spadek. Pogrążona w rozpaczy dziewczyna ma pomóc pewnemu pisarzowi w dotrzymaniu obietnicy zlożonej przed laty jej matce. Zadanie okazuje się wyzwaniem, ponieważ Jan Demczyk jest opryskliwym, niechętnym do wspólpracy odludkiem.Wkrótce okazuje się, że przeszlośc Majki Kos skrywa wiele tajemnic, a sam Demczyk jest jedynie jedną z nich.Co przyniesie spotkanie dwójki tak różnych od siebie ludzi? Czy ich niecodzienna, wybuchowa relacja może doprowadzic do czegoś dobrego?

An Unruly Little Animal unfolds on the most stressful of February days for young worrier Darby Tamm. In the morning, the fifth grader must deliver a pair-presentation with classmate Jennie Phelps-Christianson, and in the afternoon, he must endure a class visit and career-talk on mechanical engineering from his recently estranged father. Additionally, other stressors complicate his day: a) Darby's original fifth grade teacher Mr. Henderson, who had a car-accident-of-unknown-origins back in November, has died that night before, b) the class's substitute teacher Monsieur Substitute has been having an affair with his classmate Jennie's mother Vice Principal Phelps-Christianson, a secret Darby shares with former-friends-turned-dangers Alexander and Them and a secret he must hide from Jennie, and c) throughout the day, Alexander and Them threaten to beat the snot-stuffing-piss-puke out of him and threaten to expose the fact that Darby has stolen from his father's collection of vintage pornography magazines. The complications confounding Darby intensify throughout his day, culminate in a classroom scuffle, and result in a better understanding of his mom, mechanical engineering, sex, and violence. > > Comic, circadian, and literary, the novel's structure alternates between chapter and composition sections: single-day chapters that trace the increasing complications of Darby's day are interspersed with composition sections that reflect and riff on Darby's worried state of mind. Taken altogether, An Unruly Little Animal offers readers a poignant and humorous coming-of-age story.

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Joseph Campbell: "The airplane has replaced the bird in the imagination as the symbol of the release of spirit from the bonds of earth." Hence, Invisible Sea. Part critique, part celebration of technology, these poems explore the symbolic and mythical associations of the historical moment when human beings took flight and, in a sense, became Godlike. The opening section is in the voice of Wilbur Wright as he unlocks the mysteries of human flight and, consequently, pays a heavy price. The next section examines the stories of other early aeronauts, both legendary and real, from Daedalus to John Glenn, orbiting the earth. The title poem of the collection, a serial poem, scans the major discoveries of aeronautics, beginning with Da Vinci's study of fluids and ending with trans-sonic flight.