3 Ergebnisse.

When Kealaula, or Ala, and her little sister Virgilia are sent to Hawai¿i Island to learn the secret strand of their mother's story, and by extension their own, Ala learns much more than the origin of her own name. "Part bear and part trout, " as her father calls her, Vermont-born Kealaula forms indestructible bonds with her cousin Nalu and Melody and George Nunes, whose friendship teaches Ala how a person can be two things at once without bei...

There had been a radio transmission, and the report of a wingman who managed to survive the encounter with three, then six, then nine Russian MIGs along the Yalu River, and finally: silence. A vast sky void of evidence. Void of life. And no sign of Charlie or his plane. It had to happen all the time, Violet knew, and the officers seemed hopeful that he might be found. But her heart was like that sky, and though she sounded it again and again, ...

Only the good die young, " croons Billy Joel, and we all know exactly what he's talking about. It is always those who are too light, too bright for this planet that seem to make their exits early. We concede that it could be in part because they are immortalized in the bloom of their youth, too soon to make the mistakes the rest of us make sooner or later and live to regret, but we wonder, somehow, if it isn't something more than that. What...