Download or read book Hush to Roar written by Toyin M Okunuga and published by Toyin Okunuga. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bas is the only Black child in an all-white village in the UK, growing up surrounded by the unconditional love of her foster family. Suddenly her idyllic, carefree childhood, is shattered when her birth parents decide to take her to Nigeria. Thrown into an alien and confusing world, eight-year-old Bas is renamed Toyin and has to adapt to survive in her new life in West Africa. For the first time Toyin is forced to cope with betrayal, family secrets, and abuse. After sharing her personal insights into the effects of her childhood trauma with readers, and her efforts to comprehend the mindset of her perpetrator, Toyin must ultimately learn to forgive, in order to continue her inspirational journey to recovery. A profoundly moving memoir, yet dotted with hilarious moments, Hush to Roar is the inspiring story of one woman's quest to find her voice and overcome her past to live abundantly in the present.
Download or read book Hush Hush written by Becca Fitzpatrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year old Nora finds forbidden love with a fallen angel, the New York Times Bestseller, now in paperback!
Download or read book The Book of Deacon written by Joseph R. Lallo and published by Joseph R. Lallo. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Deacon is the first book of The Book of Deacon series by Joseph R. Lallo. Myranda Celeste’s world has been built on a legacy of bloodshed. For more than a century, her homeland the Northern Alliance has fought the Kingdom of Tressor in what has come to be known as the Perpetual War. While her people look upon the conflict with reverence, Myranda’s hate for the war has made her an outcast. When she finds a precious sword among the equipment of a fallen warrior, she believes her luck may have changed. Little does she imagine that the treasure will draw her into an adventure of wizards and warriors, soldiers and rebels, and beasts both noble and monstrous. The journey will teach her much about her potential, about the origins of the war, and about the threat her world truly faces. Will Myranda unlock the secret of bringing peace once and for all, or will the world be lost to the Perpetual War?
Download or read book Rumble Grumble Hush written by Kate Banks and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where the Wild Things Are meets Chicka Chicka Boom Boom in this emotionally satisfying picture book tailor-made for reading aloud, which celebrates creativity and the power of imagination. In a spare, lyrical text, young listeners and readers will follow a little boy through his day, from early morning till bedtime, and watch as what fills his active imagination becomes real. Toys grow to life-size: a tin monkey plays a real drum and fiddle--rat-a-tat, toot!--a stuffed lion roars--rumble, grumble--and a dump truck empties its load--BANG! But when quiet time comes, and a hush settles over his bedroom, animals nap, and the boy becomes absorbed in other activities, like reading and drawing. Here is an irresistible read-aloud by a picture-book master that captures all the joy of a child's play, and renders a boy's imagination real. Praise for And If the Moon Could Talk by Kate Banks: "With quiet phrases and luxurious color, Banks . . . evoke(s) a perfectly peaceful bedtime." --Publishers Weekly Praise for City Cat by Kate Banks: "If you have to pack a suitcase, . . . make room in it for this book." --The New York Times
Download or read book American Son A Novel written by Brian Ascalon Roley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers. Told with a hard-edged purity that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, American Son is the story of two Filipino brothers adrift in contemporary California. The older brother, Tomas, fashions himself into a Mexican gangster and breeds pricey attack dogs, which he trains in German and sells to Hollywood celebrities. The narrator is younger brother Gabe, who tries to avoid the tar pit of Tomas's waywardness, yet moves ever closer to embracing it. Their mother, who moved to America to escape the caste system of Manila and is now divorced from their American father, struggles to keep her sons in line while working two dead-end jobs. When Gabe runs away, he brings shame and unforeseen consequences to the family. Full of the ache of being caught in a violent and alienating world, American Son is a debut novel that captures the underbelly of the modern immigrant experience. A Los Angeles Times Best Book, New York Times Notable Book, and a Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist
Download or read book Hush Girl written by Gloria Zachgo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Nicki Reed is desperate to find the answers to her past, someone is desperate for her to never remember. Shortly after her father died, Nicki's nightmares started. They were soon followed by panic attacks. Suspecting her haunting dreams were related to her childhood, Nicki sought professional help, but Nicki was unable to verbalize any memories she had as a child. Bad things happened when she told secrets. When her therapist suggested she write her memories, Nicki started remembering things she had pushed far into the recesses of her mind. She started to doubt her own sanity, and when she began to see a strange woman stalking her, she couldn't be sure if that woman was real or imagined. Yet, Nicki couldn't tell anyone, until-her own family's welfare was threatened.
Download or read book National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry written by Emily Dickinson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color photographs accompany two hundred poems about animals.
Download or read book I Love Trains written by Philemon Sturges and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-04-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to the successful I Love Trucks!, this rhymed picture book introduces the preschool set to trains and the jobs they do.
Download or read book Good Night Engines written by Denise Dowling Mortensen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-10-20 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this imaginative, inviting bedtime book, lyrical verse tells of various vehicles winding down for the night and "rolling off to bed." On alternate spreads, luminous paintings depict a little boy playing with toy engines in his bedroom as well as life-sized engines in the outside world. The soothing text and large, up-close pictures of trucks, planes, and fire engines, among others, will make this a favorite bedtime story of all toddlers and preschoolers who are fascinated with things that go.
Download or read book The White Seal written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Ideals Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about a white seal named Kotick who learns how to get along in his Arctic environment during his herd's first migration. For elementary grades.
Download or read book Mr Tiger Goes Wild written by Peter Brown and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you bored with being so proper? Do you want to have more fun? Mr. Tiger knows exactly how you feel. So he decides to go wild. But does he go too far? From Caldecott Honor artist Peter Brown comes a story that shows there's a time and place for everything...even going wild.
Download or read book Loving the Highlander written by Janet Chapman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance. When Sadie Quill stumbles upon a handsome, naked man lying beside a lake, she is unaware that he is Morgan MacKeage, a medieval Scot who has been transported through time to modern-day Maine.
Download or read book Night Falls on the Berlin of the Roaring Twenties written by Boris Pofalla and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2018 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roam the bright lights, the backstage whispers, and the brittle political consensus of 1920s Berlin. This uniquely evocative book brings together illustration from Robert Nippoldt, descriptive texts by Boris Pofalla, and a CD of 26 rare original recordings into one vivid portrait of the people, places, and ideas of an effervescent metropolis in...
Download or read book Lion Lessons written by Jon Agee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the wit and read-aloud appeal of Peter Brown’s Children Make Terrible Pets and William Steig’s Pete’s a Pizza, this funny, fierce picture book teaches kids just what it takes to be a great lion There are seven steps to becoming a proper lion, including Looking Fierce, Roaring, Prowling Around, and Pouncing. Our young hero, a rather meek and scrawny human boy, does his best to learn the necessary skills during his training with a master instructor (who just happens to be a real lion). After a grueling set of lessons, the boy discovers that that the final step—Looking Out for Your Friends—is the most important of all. That’s how any kid can earn his lion diploma (not to mention the affection of every cat in town).
Download or read book Everyday Classics written by Franklin Thomas Baker and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Am a World of Uncertainties Disguised as a Girl written by Nicole Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I Am A World Of Uncertainties Disguised As A Girl' written by author and poet Nicole Lyons, is a breathtaking collection of poems that blurs the lines between love and madness. A sorceress of words, Nicole Lyons takes the reader to the edge of the abyss of creativity, sanity, and love, and asks the question, 'can one survive both a broken heart and a broken mind?'
Download or read book Rapture written by Emily Maguire and published by Sceptre. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Astonishing . . . a scorching vision of a book' CHARLOTTE WOOD, bestselling author of The Weekend The legend is only half the story... Ninth-century Mainz, in the heart of the Holy Roman Empire. Agnes is the motherless child of an English priest - a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. But when tragedy strikes, she is suddenly forced to choose between what is expected of her and the life she has always dreamed of. Determined to find her own freedom, she disguises herself as a man, securing a place at the revered Fulda monastery and forever altering the course of her existence. Thus begins the life of John the Englishman: a matchless scholar and scribe of Fulda, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, by her middle years, a celebrated teacher in Rome. There, she dazzles the Church hierarchy with her knowledge of the old and new languages of Europe, theology and Church law, and finds herself at the heart of political intrigue in a city where gossip is a powerful - and deadly - currency. And when the only person who knows her identity arrives in Rome, she will risk everything to once again feel what it is to be known - and loved.
