Thanks Cindy, I put it on hold, and it looks as though there are several copies so should be able to pick it up this week, smile. My student will be very happy. Smile. I finished scanning and am starting to edit the Hot Zone, and I started scanning The Speckled Monster. So... am staying busy with the books I have. Prestige is still in transit, and requested a few other things, some kids, one called Color: A natural History of the Pallet which sounds really good, I have the author's second book scanned Jewels which is very interesting and gives the history and the legends behind Amber, Pearls, Diamond, Emeralds, Sapphires, Rubies and let me think I think that is it. It is really fascinating. Need to take the dog out and get to bed have work tomorrow and a long list of phone calls to make and sigh, not a ton of time to make them in. Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Alumni Association Board www.guidedogs.com Dog ownership is like a rainbow. Puppies are the joy at one end. Old dogs are the treasure at the other. Carolyn Alexander ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:52 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Trying to find a title Heym, Shelley--you're a reference librarian's favorite. smilw. Is your student 12 and over? Is it possible that the book--a novel based on real experiences--is Forgotten Fire, by Adam Bagdasarian? Judging from the summary below, it is indeed harrowing. If this isns't the book you're looking for, I'llkeep looking. Cindy Drawing on his own great-uncle's experiences, Bagdasarian covers the years 1915-1918 when a boy from a wealthy, well-respected family from Bitlis, Turkey, is stripped of everything simply because he is Armenian. Told from an adult perspective through flashbacks, Vahan's narrative covers a harrowing journey beginning with his father's disappearance and, within a week or so, what he describes as the "last day my childhood" at age 12: Turkish gendarmes execute his two older brothers and force the rest of the familyDa brother, two sisters and motherDto walk for days without food or water. Upon his mother's urging, Vahan and his last surviving brother, Sisak, escape one night in the woods, and throughout the rest of the novel he experiences and witnesses unspeakable violence. The prose is often graceful (e.g., loneliness "simply comes, sits in the center of the heart where it cannot be overlooked, and abides") and the events are as gripping as they are horrifying. But unlike Anita Lobel's remarkable WWII memoir No Pretty Pictures, told from the perspective of a child who does not quite grasp what's happening around her, the narrative here maintains an adult sensibility. This point of view both distances readers from Vahan's emotions and makes the events disturbing for even the more mature adolescent readers (Vahan's sister commits suicide in front of him rather than risk rape by a Turk; he himself is sexually molested; he witnesses the rape of a 10-year-old girl). While this is an important history, it may be better suited to sophisticated teens and adults. Ages 12-up. (Oct.) --- "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey you all, > > I am trying to find a title to fill a request of one > of our student > subscribers she is from New Hampshire. > > But she couldn't remember the Author's last name, > and I have forgotten the > title, and well needless to say I can't contact her > easily to get it, smile. > > I believe the book is called Falling Darkness but am > thinking that may be > wrong, is about the Armanian Revolution and the > Genecide that came with it. > > Author's first name is Adam, last name she couldn't > pronounce. RFB and D > does have the title on disk. > > Does anyone know what book this is, and even better > can anyone scan it for > the site? > > As she the student would be really, really happy for > it if it could be > scanned, she said it is quite suspenseful, but... of > course i didn't > remember the title. > > Smile. > > My library doesn't appear to have it or else I am > writing it wrong or > working at it wrong. > > Smile. Thanks for the help if you can remember. > > Talk to you soon. > > > Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI > and Judson, guiding golden > juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. > Graduate Alumni Association Board > www.guidedogs.com > > Dog ownership is like a rainbow. > Puppies are the joy at one end. > Old dogs are the treasure at the other. > Carolyn Alexander > > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. 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