Sentences with phrase «of little wounds»

Her third book, The Kingdom of Little Wounds, received several national awards, including a silver medal from the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award series.

Four Printz Honor Books also were named: «Eleanor & Park,» written by Rainbow Rowell and published by St. Martin's Griffin (Macmillan); «Kingdom of Little Wounds,» written by Susann Cokal and published by Candlewick Press; «Maggot Moon,» written by Sally Gardner, illustrated by Julian Crouch and published by Candlewick Press; and «Navigating Early,» written by Clare Vanderpool and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC, Penguin Random House Company.

Her most recent book was published in October 2013, The Kingdom of Little Wounds.

The Kingdom of Little Wounds doesn't match any of these criteria.

This month, BookPage asked me to review Susann Cokal's debut YA novel, The Kingdom of Little Wounds, published by Candlewick.

Once upon a time, BookPage sent me a copy of The Kingdom of Little Wounds (originally marketed for ages 14 and up) to read and review for the October 2013 issue.

The Kingdom of Little Wounds is a great book.

It can happen that high demand days coincide with days of little wind, for example.

Not exact matches

The supply cut has virtually achieved its stated goal of reducing inventories in developed economies to their five - year average, but OPEC has shown little sign yet of wanting to wind down the deal.

«He has a little bit of wind in his sails,» David Carter, a sports business professor at the University of Southern California, told the New York Times.

«As we announced earlier this week, Valeant and Philidor have reached an agreement providing for the wind - down of their relationship, including allowing Philidor to retain funds otherwise due to Valeant,» said Valeant spokesperson Laurie Little.

«We decided it would pretty hard to build a wind farm while we were still in college, so this was a little bit less capital intensive and aligned with our vision of what we wanted to do.»

«And Piperlime, we wound down in Q1 of last year, so the number looks a little bit funny because of the lack of Piperlime sales this year when we had them last year.

They must also recognize that renewables like wind and solar have zero fuel cost (and zero risk of fuel cost increases) and produce little waste.

People retire on little more than luck and a prayer and are forced back into the workforce by the cold, biting wind of economic reality.

There are all manners of ways for a well - intentioned aid package to wind up getting little bang for its buck, experts said.

Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

Before Wounded Knee, in a military action stirred by gold mining on tribal land, Gen. George Armstrong Custer and 200 U.S. troops were killed in 1876 by Sioux warriors at Little Bighorn, in what is now present day Montana, about 400 miles west of the Standing Rock battle.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Depending on the plan, you could wind up repaying almost $ 44,000 over the course of a little more than 15 years.

When Sparrow Records in Nashville caught wind of Kendall's little - talked - about faith, they decided to partner with their mainstream big brother and sent her out with big named Christian acts such as Third Day, Nichole Nordeman and Delirious.

We are particularly concerned by reports that this order went into effect with little to no consultation with the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security... Ultimately, we fear this executive order will become a self - inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism.

(In case you're curious, it is the invention that puts a little wind generator on the top of a car to create electricity off the forward motion of the car to reduce the amount of energy the car uses.

O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it --

As the Socrates of Plato's Republic acknowledges the likelihood of the world continuing in its evils, he describes the philosopher as someone who retreats from public life «like someone who takes refuge under a little wall from a storm of dust or hail driven by the wind» (Republic 496d).

And for you and many others who are having a tough time understanding what love looks like in the context of our family, maybe we'd be a little less hurt, a little less disappointed, a little less wounded by our family if we truly internalized that a loving God came to earth and was «called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.»

JJMurray we are all different... because I believe the big bang has some credence I am different or alike or what???? You points seem to sway like the wind... and go whichever way a little piece of conversation steers you.

In the world of reality, on the other hand, where it is a question of the individual man, there is this little tiny transition from having understood to doing; it is not always cito citissime [as quickly as possible], not geschwind wie der Wind [fast as the wind], if I may speak German for lack of philosophic teWind [fast as the wind], if I may speak German for lack of philosophic tewind], if I may speak German for lack of philosophic terms.

Something to add, the sentiment the shirt represents shows how little the church understands their «target market» because of how tightly they're wound up in their own mindset, many churches perform so much intellectual incest that they don't see how their viewpoints are malformed.

But recent trends do point toward a changing wind in culture — a sense that sex and nudity and female actors in particular might be deserving of a little more respect than they've been getting over the past decade.

Then blown by every wind of doctrine and preoccupied with fads and the ethos of hypertoleration, now I suffer fools a little less gladly.

people and congregations are blown to and fro by the winds of secularization, but unlike the students they have little or no experience of historical consciousness applied to faith, hence must live in a changed world by means of antiquated pieties and timeworn concepts of authority, morality and the Bible.

That there is such a thing as strength of will which is able to haul up so exceedingly close to the wind that it saves a man's reason, even though he remains a little queer, that too one sees.

Lobbyists and interest groups stir up public opinion demanding action this way or that; the legislators bend to the winds of this pressure; the congressional committees and their friends in the bureaucracy write the immensely detailed and arcane rules that, with little oversight, put legislation into practice.

A average check of the weather will show an unsurprising 16 degrees — that's Fahrenheit, with a wind chill of 3 degrees.During that time of year, «cryogenically frozen» rings a little too close to home.

I went to the Gay Christian Network's «Live It Out» conference in Chicago a little unsure of what to expect, a little perplexed that someone like me would be invited, and a little freaked out about what to say as a straight woman to a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Christians — many of whom have been severely wounded by the Church.

As usual with such texts of Luther's, the letter gathered momentum as it continued: «Your Electoral Grace should not think that Luther is dead...» The letter wound up with a straight ultimatum: «I beg and expect Your Electoral Grace's definite and speedy reply to this letter within fourteen days; if after this appointed fortnight no public answer should appear, my little book Against the Idol at Halle will be released... Written in my wilderness... 1 December 1521.»

I think of life like Rhett Butler / Howard Roark (hard truth tellers) whereas Time is more like Miss Mellie (Gone with the Wind) and Meg (Little Women), i.e. Time is gentle and temperate.

How much can you push something and not have it wind up as just an echo of what it is and was or simply a vehicle of creativity that has little to do with anything?

A steaming bowl of comforting soup is always a nice way to make the frigid cold and wind that howls outside of my house seem just a little bit less daunting.

I just started canning last summer, then started AIP this spring so it took a little wind out of my canning sails, lol....

At first I kind of just wound the two colors around each other, but after the first batch, I put the two ropes together, smooshed them into each other a little and then twirled them.

I'm a super huge fan of tossing them with taco seasoning and serving them on top of tacos / tostadas and though I always intend on topping leafy green salads with these crunchy little nuggets, I always wind up eating the tray by the handful as a wildly addictive snack!

Any out of the ordinary, super fun activity is bound to get my little nuggets super wound up, so I'll probably be a little exhausted by the end... may just have to whip up one of these mug cakes when I get home.

Friday night was a night for winding down after a long week of work and school and we took a little more time to make a meal together because we just had a bit more time.

The first one was set for 4AM because I went to bed last night knowing I still had to write and proofread and format this blog post, and I wound up rolling out of bed a little after 5.

It is not yet fall, but summer is clearly winding down and clearly I am craving a little of the cozier foods.

Despite Arya's youth, she's never made the rash decisions of a little girl; she has a highly developed sense of vengeance and the patience to play the long game (see: The Hound dying slowly of his wounds).

TRACK & FIELD — BILL WOODHOUSE, spunky little Abilene Christian sprinter who has suddenly moved up to challenge nation's best, trailed Bobby Morrow in 9.5 hundred at Dallas, came back two days later in meet at Abilene to beat illustrious teammate by inches in wind - aided 9.3, stepped out to take Morrowless 220 in 20 flat with help of same too - brisk breeze.

A tight driving hole, this little par - 4 offers problems for the player who winds up short of the green in 2.