Download or read book Alvin Can t Jump written by Jacquelyn Hester Colleton-Akins and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alvin went through all kinds of challenges, trials, and tribulations. Nevertheless, he was kind and humble. Why? It was because of his mother. She used physical punishment on him, causing bodily harm. Later, someone came along and accepted him.
Download or read book The Diary written by Frances Potts and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a true story, The Diary is set in Walla Walla in the Northwest when President Roosevelt was attempting to break America free from the grip of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The keeper of the diary is Alvin, a young man dealing with tuberculosis, a contagious disease almost as rampant in that time as unemployment and poverty. Through his daily entries over 17 months of hospitalization, you will come to know his wife, family, a cast of fellow patients who are both humorous and heart-breaking...and the secrets Al thought he had buried so deep inside that not even he would remember them. The story blends day-to-day life in a tuberculosis sanatorium with world affairs that include the threat of war as news from Germany, Japan and Italy floated across the oceans to the men in Ward One. The Diary presents a slice of Americana in simpler times when the bond of family and friends was often paramount in surving the hardships of the times. It is a tale of love, loss and triumph.
Download or read book Hop Til You Drop written by J.M. Griffin and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an Easter egg hunt becomes a crime scene, it’s up to Jules and Bun to crack the case . . . Juliette “Jules” Bridge is devoted to rabbit rescue and rehabilitation on her beloved Fur Bridge Farm in rural New Hampshire, but she also likes to do volunteer work wherever and whenever she can. This spring she’s offered to help hide painted eggs at the Hop ’Til You Drop Easter egg hunt—and of course she’s bringing along her black-and-white rabbit, Bun. In fact, he insists on it. Jules knows, because Bun communicates with her telepathically . . . But their egg hiding is disrupted by a hare-raising scene: their unpleasant supervisor, Della Meany, lies peacefully on the grass with stems of Lily of the Valley on her chest, surrounded by garishly decorated Easter eggs. Is someone sending a message by staging the corpse? As they begin to examine the crime scene, Jules spots a tall, two-legged rabbit fleeing into the woods. Perhaps late for an important date? If their prime suspect is a person in an Easter Bunny costume, it seems a safe bet the killer is a real basket case. Jules and Bun will need to put their heads together—because the hunt is on . . .
Download or read book The Dead Don t Get Out Much written by Mary Jane Maffini and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembrance Day is a proud day for Camilla MacPhee’s good friend, Mrs. Violet Parnell, one of five thousand Canadian women to go overseas during World War II. But the next day she has vanished. Camilla, with only a few letters and documents to guide her, follows her friend to Tuscany, chasing though historic towns, across high promontories and along steep mountain roads. Vanishing old partisans and Allied aircraft crash sites keep Camilla hopping as she tries to find Mrs. P. before someone with a deadly serious reason to keep the past hidden finds her first. The fifth Camilla MacPhee takes the irascible Ottawa lawyer’s adventures to an exotic new locale, with the usual murderous results.
Download or read book After the Sun written by Jonas Eika and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Relentlessly thrilling . . . an orgy of the unpredictable.” —New York Times Book Review “Like Thomas Pynchon taking on late capitalism. . . . surrealistic, granular in its details, and concerned with social entropy and desperate attempts at communion.” —Wall Street Journal From a major new international voice, mesmerizing, inventive fiction that probes the tender places where human longings push through the cracks of a breaking world. Under Cancún’s hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists’ desires, seeing deep into the world’s underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with an unearthly machine. After the Sun opens portals to our newest realities, haunting the margins of a globalized world that’s both saturated with yearning and brutally transactional. Infused with an irrepressible urgency, Eika’s fiction seems to have conjured these far-flung characters and their encounters in a single breath. Juxtaposing startling beauty with grotesquery, balancing the hyperrealistic with the fantastical—“as though the worlds he describes are being viewed through an ultraviolet filter,” in one Danish reviewer's words—he has invented new modes of storytelling for an era when the old ones no longer suffice.
Download or read book Dancing After Hours written by Andre Dubus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury and loneliness, the lack of love and the terror of actually having it. Out of his characters' struggles and small failures--and their unexpected moments of redemption--Dubus creates fiction that bears comparison to the short story's greatest creators--Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor.
Download or read book Seventh Son and Red Prophet written by Orson Scott Card and published by Tor Fantasy. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here in one volume, the first two books in the Alvin Maker series, Seventh Son and Red Prophet. From Orson Scott Card, the New York Times bestselling author of Ender's Game, comes an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real, Alvin is gifted with the power. He must learn to use his gift wisely. But dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl with second sight can protect him. "This beguiling book recalls Robert Penn Warren in its robust blend of folktale, history, parable, personal testimony, and pioneer narrative." --Publishers Weekly on Seventh Son "An American fantasy in the tradition of T. H. White's Sword in the Stone." --School Library Journal At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Inside Moves written by Todd Walton and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Maxwell and his good friend Roary are both handicapped. They divide their time between Max's bar in San Francisco and the bleachers of the Oakland Sports Complex to cheer on the Golden State Warriors. Together the two set out to make Jerry's dream of playing professional basketball a reality. Inside Moves is an off–beat, exuberant and extremely emotional novel focusing on the bonds of friendship between two men brought together by physical and psychological challenges, and their dreams of creating more meaningful lives for themselves and their friends. Often classified as a sports novel, basketball is merely the backdrop to this human comedy of love and sorrow and the healing powers of friendship and community. Released to wide critical acclaim by Doubleday in 1978, Inside Moves went on to sell over 160,000 copies through numerous printings. A motion picture of Inside Moves was released in 1980, directed by Richard Donner with a screenplay by Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin.
Download or read book Troop 402 written by Donald Ladew and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-03-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a commuter plane crashes in a violent storm in the Canadian Rockies, four unlikely passengers must find a way to survive. Each will be tested in ways they can't imagine. Their chances seem impossible at the outset. A determined, obsessive boy scout, an arrogant 'Mr. America,' an old Italian deli man with a bad heart and a pretty flight attendant are thrown together on a Canadian mountainside. Before they can escape to civilization they must confront bad weather, a wounded grizzly bear, criminal trappers and each other. Their greatest test will be to learn to work together, to become a team, in this case, Troop 402.
Download or read book Kid s Box Level 6 Pupil s Book written by Caroline Nixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition of this popular course for young learners - now seven levels including Starter. Perfect preparation for Cambridge English Young Learners: Flyers with Level 6. Well-loved by children and teachers the world over, Kid's Box Second edition is bursting with bright ideas to inspire you and your pupils. Perfect for general use, the course also fully covers the syllabus of the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests, preparing your students for success at Starters, Movers and Flyers. The Pupil's Book 6 presents and practises new language through entertaining stories and fantastic songs and activities, making the learning process a joy. Flyers-type tests in Level 6 assess progress, and familiarise children with the exam format.
Download or read book Knots written by Gunnhild Øyehaug and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug’s radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds. In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud’s thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the quietly morbid and the delightfully comical. A young man is born with an uncuttable umbilical cord and spends his life physically tethered to his mother; a tipsy uncle makes an uncomfortable toast with unforeseeable repercussions; and a dissatisfied deer yearns to be seen. As one character reflects, “You never know how things might turn out, you never know how anything will turn out, tomorrow the walls might fall down, the room disappear.” Cleverly balancing the sensuous, the surreal, and the comical, Øyehaug achieves a playful familiarity with the absurd that never overreaches the needs of her stories. Full of characters who can’t help tying knots in themselves and each other, these tales make the world just a little more strange, and introduce a major international voice of searing vision, grace, and humor.
Download or read book Alien Syndrome written by Noel Huntley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bizarre events disturb the quietude of Gatestown; in fact, something extraordinary is happening to the entire world. There are widespread computer problems; poltergeist phenomena; strange deaths; hyperspace effects; sudden floods; suspected alien invasion; and, in particular, NASAs computers have frozen with hieroglyphics on the screens, incomprehensible to the experts. The puzzle slowly unfolds throughout the story and is essentially solved by a teenage computer wizard named Alvin. Is this an alien invasion or is it a gigantic error by an extraterrestrial civilisation and Earth has haplessly become a victim? The story is based on mainly valid science but is not too technical for the layman. In fact, the Intergalactic Travel Project that is revealed could be achieved practically.
Download or read book Alvin Ho Allergic to Babies Burglars and Other Bumps in the Night written by Lenore Look and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alvin becomes a big brother in the fifth book in the hilarious chapter book series that tackles anxiety in a fun, kid-friendly way. Perfect for both beginning and reluctant readers, and fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid! Alvin, an Asian American second grader who's afraid of everything, has started to notice his mother getting bigger . . . and bigger. Alvin's sure it's all the mochi cakes she's been eating, but it turns out she's pregnant! There are lots of scary things about babies, as everybody knows. There's learning CPR for the newborn and changing diapers (no way). But the scariest thing of all is the fact that the baby could be a GIRL. As a result of the stress, Alvin puts on a few pounds and—in one hilarious misunderstanding—worries that he might actually be pregnant, too! A humorous and touching series about facing your fears and embracing new experiences—with a truly unforgettable character—from author Lenore Look and New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Honor winning illustrator LeUyen Pham. “Alvin’s a winner.” —New York Post
Download or read book A Song For Ms Henrietta written by Darro Jefferson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our story is an historical back to the community where we grew up revisiting the people and a community once rich with neighborly pride and resilience but has over time experienced more than its share of traumatic experiences like many of our inner city and marginalized communities are experiencing today. Our Story is “A Quest of Two Communities From The Same Neighborhood, One Revisiting its Rich History The Other Struggling to Shed its Negative Image in San Francisco’s Sunnydale Public Housing Projects Community” and The Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development SF HOPE, VISIONS DREAMS HOPE TO REVITALIZE THE PHYSICAL IMAGE AND NEIGHBORHOOD FABRIC In San Francisco’s Sunnydale Housing Projects. Our Story is an historical biographical political and social depiction of the obstacles that struggling communities face refusing to succumb to social and racial disparities placed on them. However so, our Story “We hope finds a place in the hearts of struggling communities and individuals seeking to empower themselves learning to rely on a Higher Power much greater than their will to survive and change their ways of living”
Download or read book This Side of Jordan written by Monte Schulz and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seductive novel of southern lyricism. Monte Schulz's prose novel opens in the spring of 1929, as the 19-year-old consumptive farm boy Alvin Pendergast attends an ill-fated dance marathon he's too sickly to participate in. After a year of his life has been stolen by a sanitarium, Alvin knows he's relapsing, and dreads not only the drudgery of his family's homestead, but a return to the hospital. In this state of mind, an invitation for a late-night slice of pie is too seductive to pass up and before he knows it, Alvin crosses the Mississippi River and finds himself working for a slick con artist named Chester Burke. Alvin is no match for Chester, who's not merely a con man, but a gangster from Chicago, following the bootleg liquor trade through the small towns of America's middle border. With Alvin in tow, Chester's insouciant disregard for life serves him well as he embarks upon a series of bank robberies and senseless murders. All summer long, Chester assumes the role of a dark angel on Judgment day, cleansing the scrolls of those whose sad fortune had drawn them across his path. Too ill to flee, too morally weak to object, Alvin resigns himself to what seems like certain doom somewhere down the road. Fortunately, Alvin finds another companion on his journey, a lonely, eccentric, and grandiloquent dwarf named Rascal, whose own infirmity binds his and the farm boy's destiny together. Drawn deeper and deeper into Chester's murderous frolic, they come across a curious assortment of characters, from small town businessmen and religious kooks to wayward girls and dance contestants, spiritualists and sideshow freaks. Caught between Chester's villainy and Alvin's own physical deterioration, the young farm boy must make a decision: stick with Chester, who would surely kill him at the slightest hint of betrayal, or muster the courage to stake his life on faith in Rascal's clever plan to save them both. Tired of being afraid, Alvin finally grasps the need not only to outwit the gangster but to find another road to travel. What he discovers about the meaning of home offers a solution to escape and freedom. This Side of Jordan is a thoroughly American novel told in the voice of a lost generation hurtling toward the Great Depression, and evokes a long ago America of crowded Main Streets and tourist camps, miles of cornfields, rural church¬es, and musty parlors. It ends on the fairgrounds of a traveling wagon circus that beckons gangster, farm boy, and dwarf toward a startling resolution, and a hard-fought absolution for the two young, frightened collaborators. The narrative of this novel has the momentum of a freight train, but told in the seductive, rhythmic tradition of Southern lyricism reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor and Truman Capote, and filled with vivid, outsized literary characters. If Jim Thompson and Carson McCullers went on a collaborative bender by kidnapping Holden Caulfield, Perry Smith, and Ignatius J. Reilly, they'd have come up with something like This Side of Jordan.
Download or read book A Thorn Among the Lilies written by Michael Hiebert and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Michael Hiebert’s haunting and powerful novel, a long-ago tragedy echoes through small-town Alabama as one woman tries to track down a serial killer. Detective Leah Teal is privy to most of the secrets in her hometown of Alvin, but there are always surprises to be had. Like the day she agrees to take her daughter, Caroline, to see a psychic for a reading. The psychic hones in on Leah instead, hinting at a string of gruesome killings and insisting that she intervene to prevent more deaths. When you go looking for trouble, you never know how much you’ll find. Sure enough, the psychic’s scant clues lead Leah to a cold case from six years ago, when a young woman was found shot to death, her eyelids sewn shut. As Leah digs deeper into old files, a second unsolved case surfaces with the same grisly pattern. While her shrewd young son, Abe, observes from the sidelines, Leah races to prevent another horrific murder, unaware of just how deep the roots of evil can go. Taut, suspenseful, and rich in Southern atmosphere, A Thorn Among the Lilies is a mesmerizing novel of loss and vengeance, and the lengths some will go to out of loyalty and love.
Download or read book Prentice Alvin and Alvin Journeyman written by Orson Scott Card and published by Tor Fantasy. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orson Scott Card, author of the bestselling science fiction novel Ender's Game, also created a series to satisfy fantasy readers. Prentice Alvin Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and use his own talent, that of a Maker, else his destiny will be unfulfilled. Alvin Journeyman Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century. Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes to learn the knack of being a Maker. For Alvin has had a vision of the Crystal City he will build, and he knows that he cannot build it alone. But he has left behind in Hatrack River enemies as well as true friends. His ancient foe, the Unmaker, whose cruel whispers and deadly plots have threatened Alvin's life at every turn, has found new hands to do his work of destruction. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
