Download or read book Different A Great Thing to Be written by Heather Avis and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This joyful rhyming book encourages children to value the “different” in all people, leading the way to a kinder world in which the differences in all of us are celebrated and embraced. Macy is a girl who’s a lot like you and me, but she's also quite different, which is a great thing to be. With kindness, grace, and bravery, Macy finds her place in the world, bringing beauty and laughter wherever she goes and leading others to find delight in the unique design of every person. Children are naturally aware of the differences they encounter at school, in their neighborhood, and in other everyday relationships. They just need to be given tools to understand and appreciate what makes us “different,” permission to ask questions about it, and eyes to see and celebrate it in themselves as well as in those around them.

Download or read book An Amish Family Christmas written by Marta Perry and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the holidays in Amish Country Heart of Christmas by Marta Perry Amish teacher Susannah Miller suddenly has two new students: the children of her former love. Widowed father Toby Unger broke Susannah's heart ten years ago, but now the handsome Amish man desperately needs help with his troubled little ones. Can the joy of the season reunite two lonely hearts in time for Christmas? A Plain Holiday by Patricia Davids Outspoken nanny Sally Yoder left her Amish community for her rumspringa. Though her heart is back home, the Amish man she loves, Ben Lapp, will never love a bold woman like her. But when a snowstorm strands her, her young charges and Ben on a remote farm at Christmastime, they both might discover that love is the true holiday spirit.

Download or read book Fading in Darkness written by Robert S. Wilson and published by Empire of Blood Books. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second installment in the Empire of Blood dystopian trilogy, Hank Evans is headed back to Necropolis, but this time he won't be running for his life... or will he? Tensions between the American Empire and the vampires of Necropolis have risen to an all time high. With the Emperor threatening Toby's life, Hank's new position as the mediator has just been unofficially upgraded to Imperial spy. But his internal hunger for revenge and newfound sense of purpose can't stay hidden forever. Hank must now find a way to release the hold the Emperor has over him in order to fight back. But an unexpected struggle will put him at odds with who he really is and who he has yet to truly become. Especially when his dreams begin to reveal a terrifying future. And when the city of the dead goes up in flames, and the vampires of Necropolis are forced to flee to the Queen's hive, there is no turning back from civil war. Cover design by Elena Helfrecht, you can find her and her work at http://apokryphia.weebly.com/

Download or read book Tell the Wolves I m Home written by Carol Rifka Brunt and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartfelt story of love, grief, and renewal about two unlikely friends who discover that sometimes you don’t know you’ve lost someone until you’ve found them “A dazzling debut novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Tremendously moving.”—The Wall Street Journal “Touching and ultimately hopeful.”—People 1987. The only person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus is her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can be herself only in Finn’s company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June’s world is turned upside down. But Finn’s death brings a surprise acquaintance into June’s life. At the funeral, June notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd. A few days later, she receives a package in the mail containing a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finn’s apartment, and a note from Toby, the stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to spend time together, June realizes she’s not the only one who misses Finn, and that this unexpected friend just might be the one she needs the most. WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • School Library Journal

Download or read book Yes And written by Cynthia Gunderson and published by Button Press. This book was released on with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He lost his ambition. She can't find her perspective. Will joining forces bring them the meaning they need? College student Toby is desperate for direction. Pausing his higher education, he relocates to Portland and rents a townhouse in hopes of reconnecting to his roots. But he didn't expect his passion for soap operas to lead to the relationship he's always needed. At eighty-seven-years-old, Jo's mind and body aren't what they used to be. But even at her senior age, she's sharp enough to know her nursing aids are after her generous family trust. So when a kind and honest young man moves in next door, she quickly enlists his help in catching the sneaky bandits. Forging a deep connection with his elderly friend through their scheming, Toby finally lights upon his purpose. And with her partner in crime helping her navigate everyday adventures from roller skates and uneven ground to downtown parking, Jo rediscovers a joy she had long forgotten. Will this unlikely duo unlock the secret of life? For fans of A Man Called Ove or The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Yes, And is a charming novel about love, life, and loss. Start the story now.

Download or read book Sophie Washington Things You Didn t Know About Sophie written by Tonya Duncan Ellis and published by Page Turner Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Losers Don't Have Cell Phones... That's what Sophie thinks in the beginning of this hilarious and heartwarming, illustrated chapter book about fitting in. She feels like an outsider because she's the only one in her class without a cell phone, and her crush, new kid Toby Johnson, has been calling her best friend Chloe. To fit in, Sophie changes who she is. Her plan to become popular works for a while, and she and Toby start to become friends. Things get more complicated when Sophie "borrows" a cell phone and gets caught. If her parents make her tell the truth, what will her friends think? Turns out Toby has also been hiding something, and Sophie discovers the best way to make true friends is to be yourself. Here's what Goodreads reviewers say about Sophie Washington: Things You Didn't Know About Sophie: "Sophie is a real character with flaws and it is fun reading how she matures. The story line was funny and realistic." "Virtues like honesty, friendship and being true to yourself are always in style, and this book teaches that in a fun way. Also, it's great to learn a little bit about Texas too!" "Very well written middle school book." This is the third book in the Readers' Favorite five star rated Sophie Washington book series that includes: Sophie Washington: Queen of the Bee (Book 1) Sophie Washington: The Snitch (Book 2) Sophie Washington: Things You Didn't Know About Sophie (Book 3) Sophie Washington: The Gamer (Book 4) Sophie Washington: Hurricane (Book 5) Sophie Washington: Mission: Costa Rica (Book 6) Sophie Washington: Secret Santa (Book 7) Sophie Wasington: Code One (Book 8) Sophie Washington: Mismatch (Book 9) Sophie Washington: My BFF (Book 10) Kids Ages 8-12.

Download or read book A Valediction written by Ellis Friedman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uneasy about the impending responsibilities of adulthood, July can’t figure out where she wants her life to go. When romance ignites with Toby, a middle-aged man shell-shocked by the dissolution of his family, July clings to the idea that a future with Toby might save her from the decisions of post-university life. In an attempt to celebrate his divorce and new relationship, Toby takes July on a winter trip to Florence, Italy, where the vacation romance devolves into ruminations on disappointment, failure, and the future. The appearance of enigmatic, charming Massimo awakens in July the excitement of possibility and chance, but mires her further in her doubts. Meanwhile, Toby’s ex-wife remarries almost immediately, sending him into a tailspin. A wry, often humorous novel about loss, discovery, and family, A Valediction examines the way we delude ourselves ­— and the repercussions that result.

Download or read book Seeing Red written by Holley Trent and published by Holley Trent. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Megan Coffman needs to put her divorce from one of rock and roll’s biggest womanizers behind her and fast. Dubbed “Poor Meg” by the music media, she’s sick of being pitied and thinks the best way to show the public she’s moved on is to flash her brand-new engagement ring. She didn’t think she’d need to follow up with a man and a wedding to go with that ring. Russian expatriate Seth Rozhkov likes the idea of an instant family and agrees to play husband for a year for a virtual stranger. At thirty-five, he’s weary from batting zero in the dating game. Women want him for just one thing, and it’s not a happily-ever-after. Mutual friend Sharon swears if he plays his cards right, he could have Meg for keeps. He’s willing to try. Meg finds the gentle giant his friends call “Red” an enigma. He’s solicitous, almost to a fault, and the no-strings-attached sex is amazing, but she’s used to being used. What’s Seth getting out of the deal? How can she trust a man who hasn’t asked her for anything in return? This is a revised, second edition of the book first published by Lyrical Press/Kensington in 2014.

Download or read book The Wall on 7th Street written by Diane Martineau and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After learning of his parents' plans to divorce and moving with his mother and sister to a rough urban neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Toby and his new friend, a homeless man, become magically connected to an ancient Iroquois Indian hero and help the community stand up to a violent gang.

Download or read book Storm Flight written by Mark Berent and published by Mark Berent. This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth and final novel in this Vietnam series encompasses a daring raid on a POW camp to get evidence that could effect the war. Read by Paul Ukena.

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Download or read book Beer and Clay Part One A Box Set written by Sean Michael and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beer and Clay: Part One Malting Sometimes unpredictable is exactly what's needed, but can Corner Pub owner Damon convince shy Thursday night regular Toby of that? Damon loves his life—his bar, his employees and his beer. He especially loves Thursdays. That's when the mysterious little red-head dances into his bar, drinks two honey wheat brews, and flits right back out. Toby's comfortable. He has a good job, great friends, and he gets paid to do what he loves—sculpt. His life is great, if a little predictable. And if he secretly wears a plug to Corner Pub every Thursday, well...that's nobody's business but his. But when Toby meets Damon, his predictable little life flies right out the window. Damon shows him the big, wide world of the Dom/sub lifestyle, plugs and piercings, and teaches him that maybe, unpredictable is exactly what Toby needed all along. Milling Toby and Damon's whirlwind romance continues, but can they find a balance between love and work? Do they even want to? Toby can scarcely believe that his life has changed so much in less than two weeks, but it has. His predictable little life has gone from routine to sexually adventurous in a matter of days. And to be honest, he wouldn't have it any other way. Damon's just as into Toby, more interested in exploring with his new lover than spending all his time at the bar. Luckily things are running fairly smoothly there with his hand only occasionally needed on the rudder. Their idyllic love affair has a few bumps to withstand, though, in the form of an intruder with a gun. Can Toby and Damon survive what happens next? Mashing Life is good for Toby and Damon—maybe too good. What happens when someone seems intent on destroying their happiness? Toby and Damon are growing closer every day, with Toby recovering from the shot to his shoulder and Damon trying to keep him from pushing too hard too fast. Things are good between them. They're even better in the bedroom, where Toby is learning all sorts of new things and Damon is happily pushing his limits. They've almost forgotten that someone doesn't seem as happy with their closeness as they are, when Toby walks into his studio to find it trashed and his little apartment ransacked. Are the authorities going to be able to apprehend the culprit before Toby decides the best course of action is to remove himself from the equation?

Download or read book Annie written by Val Wood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can her courage lead her to a life of happiness? Annie Swinburn is harbouring a terrible secret. She has killed a man. The man was evil in every possible way, but she knows that her only fate if she stays in the slums of Hull is a hanging. And so she runs. As fast as she can, and as far as she can – up the river, along hidden paths of the Humber and into a new and familiar territory where she can start a new life. There she meets Toby Linton – a man born into a good life but now estranged from his family. He and his brother Matt earn a dangerous living as smugglers, but Annie soon realises they have more in common than she thought. And this new way of life might just offer her the chance of love, in spite of all the tragedy that has gone before... If you enjoy books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity.

Download or read book Fleishman Is in Trouble written by Taffy Brodesser-Akner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • “A masterpiece” (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition Coming soon as an FX limited series on Hulu, starring Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Brody ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Entertainment Weekly, The New York Public Library ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Washington Post, USA Today Vanity Fair, Vogue, NPR, Chicago Tribune, GQ, Vox, Refinery29, Elle, The Guardian, Real Simple, Financial Times, Parade, Good Housekeeping, New Statesman, Marie Claire, Town & Country, Evening Standard, Thrillist, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, BookRiot, Shelf Awareness Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations. He could not have predicted that one day, in the middle of his summer of sexual emancipation, Rachel would just drop their two children off at his place and simply not return. He had been working so hard to find equilibrium in his single life. The winds of his optimism, long dormant, had finally begun to pick up. Now this. As Toby tries to figure out where Rachel went, all while juggling his patients at the hospital, his never-ending parental duties, and his new app-assisted sexual popularity, his tidy narrative of the spurned husband with the too-ambitious wife is his sole consolation. But if Toby ever wants to truly understand what happened to Rachel and what happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen things all that clearly in the first place. A searing, utterly unvarnished debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble is an insightful, unsettling, often hilarious exploration of a culture trying to navigate the fault lines of an institution that has proven to be worthy of our great wariness and our great hope. Alma’s Best Jewish Novel of the Year • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book

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Download or read book Cold Justice written by Lee Weeks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GRIPPING AND FAST-PACED CRIME FICTION FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FROZEN GRAVE AND COLD KILLERS. A killer seeking revenge. A community protecting its own. The most explosive case yet for DC Willis and DI Carter. Cornwall, 2000. Jenna wakes up after a drug-laced party to the realization that she has been raped. And it looks like it involved her new boyfriend, who has come down from London for the summer. But the case is assigned to a corrupt local police sergeant, who knows he can extort money from the boy's father, prominent London MP Jeremy Forbes-Wright, in return for his silence. Fifteen years later and Jeremy Forbes-Wright is found dead under highly suspicious circumstances. On the same day, his two-year-old grandson Samuel is kidnapped on a London street and DC Ebony Willis and DI Dan Carter are called in to find the missing boy. They soon realize all roads lead to Cornwall and to find the little boy they must finally get justice for Jenna. But someone is murdering the people they need to speak to and time is running out … Praise for Lee Weeks' novels: 'One of the best crime novels I've read in a long time' ANNA SMITH, author Kill Me Twice 'A gritty and atmospheric read' Closer 'Bursts off the page like arterial spray from a newly slaughtered body' Daily Mail

Download or read book Deception in Baldwin County written by Frank Anthony and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deception in Baldwin County Murder, Power, and Greed. Mix in politics, the news media and insane hysteria, along with Jamie Lake's painful secret. Detective Higgins is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend to protect a counterfeiting ring, while Curtis Lake is under investigation for shooting an FBI agent, and his wife. Moppa, a renegade FBI agent turned biker, aids in the investigation to no avail. A contract is sent out to kill Moppa. Assistant District Attorney Paul Chavez badgers Lake and his team, threatening to indict all. Witnesses disappear one after the other, and Jamie is kidnapped because Curtis refuses to let go of the investigation. With four victims dead, wedding plans for Sue and Curtis have been set aside as the case spreads over seven states. Curtis goes on a rampage. Doc Ryan the county medical examiner now has seven dead bodies, and each tells a different story, making it difficult for him to pin the murders to anyone. One detective who uncovers the main clue is killed before he can relay information to Curtis. Bodies are piling up with no-end in sight. Baldwin County's criminal investigation team is being depleted one by one. "Dashing characters with intriguing suspense. A most delightful series." --Dot Moore, The Fox 10 Dot Moore Show. "Anthony's imaginative mind, combined with a bizarre sense of humor that lightens the pages, makes the series a fun and easy read for anyone." --Nikki Wittner, The Independent.