Books with title The Heart Of A Warrior

In this beautiful story of kindness and empathy, loneliness and love, one creature finds that the help he needs is just a song and a sigh away.Whale's beautiful song winds its way through the ocean, reaching the farthest of faraways. His song is one of happiness and hope, magic and wonder--and Whale's fellow sea creatures are calmed, cheered, and lulled by it. But though Whale sings his tender song day after day, night after night, Whale wonders why he has no song to fill his empty heart. So when he lets out a mournful sigh, the ocean carries it like a wish through its fathoms, bringing it to just the right place. Filled with stunning art and poetic language, this poignant story reminds us that being kind and helping a friend in need is sometimes the most beautiful thing of all.Praise for The Heart of a Whale:"A picture book . . . that touches on the wistfulness of solitude and the joy of finding a companion." --The Wall Street Journal* "Lyrical text . . . dreamlike . . . A sweet cetacean story." --Kirkus Reviews,*STARRED REVIEW** "This visually stunning story is as beautiful to see as it is to read." --SLJ, *STARRED REVIEW*"This is a quiet, gentle love story that will appeal to youngsters." --Booklist"The text is lyrical and imagistic . . . the illustrations evince an undulating dreaminess. This is a calming and peaceful bedtime readaloud." --BCCB

Since the tragic death of her mother, Shawn Mckinney’s life has turned upside down. She has moved from place to place all over the country; her soul has become shrouded in an icy anger that she has come to regard as a familiar friend; and the horses that once had been the love of her life are gone, forced from her heart by a fear that she won’t even admit exists. Then she meets Cora Roberts and her life begins to change once more. Cora, the daughter of a horsewoman who breeds pure blooded Indian horses, is like the cool breeze on a hot summer day; ever cheerful and ready to lend a helping hand. Brought together by a history project assignment, the two girls become unlikely friends, forcing Shawn to spend time at the horse ranch. Confused by Shawn’s strange aversion to the horses, Cora and Jeremy Blankship, the boy who works at the ranch, try to untangle the mysterious knot that is their new friend. However, it is the horses themselves that unravel Shawn’s secrets, force her to face her worst fears, help her accept the loss of her mother, and put her on the pathway to healing. One horse in particular…a horse with the heart of a warrior.

Tribe: A Warrior's Heart is a hard-hitting devotional for teen guys who are burned out on phony faith. This book is for gutsy young men who hunger for a real relationship with God―a genuine Christian walk that's committed to knowing, serving, and obeying Jesus Christ. Join the adventure in this challenging, 28-day devotional journey that will strengthen your faith and deepen your desire to walk boldly with God.

Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, her love for writing blazes anew. Her compassion and commitment lead her to respond to the fiery times by becoming the northern coordinator of Martin Luther King's history-making quest. A tempestuous, earthy woman, she promises her heart to one man only to have it stolen, virtually on her weding day, by a passionate African freedom fighter. Filled with unforgettable vignettes of famous characters, from Billie Holiday to Malcolm X, The Heart of a Woman sings with Maya Angelou's eloquent prose -- her fondest dreams, deepest disappointments, and her dramatically tender relationship with her rebellious teenage son. Vulnerable, humorous, tough, Maya speaks with an intimate awareness of the heart within all of us.From the Paperback edition.

When the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., went into the wholesale raising of silver foxes for a world market, its two partners brought to the enterprise a comfortable working capital and an uncomfortable ignorance of the brain-reactions of a fox.They had visited the National Exhibition of silver foxes. They had spent days at successful fox farms, studying every detail of management and memorising the rigid diet-charts. They had committed to memory every fact and hint in Bulletin No. 1151 of the United States Department of Agriculture—issued for the help of novice breeders of silver foxes.They had mastered each and every available scrap of exact information concerning the physical welfare of captive silver foxes. But, for lack of half a lifetime’s close application to the theme, their knowledge of fox mentality and fox nature was nil.2Now one may raise chickens or hogs or even cattle, without taking greatly into account the inner workings of such animals’ brains. But no man yet has made a success of raising foxes or their fifth cousin, the collie, without spending more time in studying out the mental than the physical beast.On the kitchen wall of the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., was the printed dietary of silver foxes. On the one library shelf of the kennel was all the available literature on silver fox breeding, from government pamphlets to a three-volume monograph. In the four-acre space within the kennel enclosure were thirty model runways, twenty by twenty feet; each equipped with a model shelter-house and ten of them further fitted out with model brood nests.In twenty-four of these thirty model runways abode twenty-four model silver foxes, one to each yard at this autumn season—twenty-four silver foxes, pedigreed and registered—foxes whose lump value was something more than $7,400. Thanks to the balanced rations and meticulous care lavished on them, all twenty-four were in the pink of form.All twenty-four seemed as nearly contented as can a wild thing which no longer has the zest of gambling with death for its daily food and which is stared at with indecent closeness and frequency by dread humans.- Taken from "The Heart of a Dog" written by Albert Payson Terhune

An ordinary, but wealthy young woman, Louise Harris, leads a prosaic luxurious life. She walks the dogs, hunts in autumn and skates in winter like hundreds of other average well-mannered English ladies. When Luke de Mountford, the nephew and Lord Radcliffe’s heir, asks her to marry him, she takes her time to think about it. Suddenly, another nephew of the uncle appears...