Download or read book I Am the Messenger written by Markus Zusak and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF AND AN UNFORGETTABLE AND SWEEPING FAMILY SAGA. From the author of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller The Book Thief, I Am the Messenger is an acclaimed novel filled with laughter, fists, and love. A MICHAEL L. PRINTZ HONOR BOOK FIVE STARRED REVIEWS Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first ace arrives in the mail. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?

Download or read book Love Me Tinder written by Martin Regan Dove and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Valentines Day in 1994, Thomas Gentry was at home in Secaucus New Jersey, planning an extra special day for his girlfriend Cindy Blevins, when came a knock at his door. Much to his surprise, standing behind the door was Dusty Simmons, his best friend from childhood, who disappeared twelve years prior. Thomas welcomed Dusty into his home overjoyed to see his old friend again. When Cindy came home, she was less than happy to see Dusty, as they also shared a history. As the friends came together, the past came alive. In a moment alone, Cindy reached out to her Uncle Robert Carella, the Chief of Police in Secaucus; asking him to run a background check on Dusty, as she had not seen him for so long. No one was prepared for the revelations to follow. Dusty brought with him a violent past...and a gun. True love comes with a flame, and it is called: Love Me Tinder

Download or read book Three Plays written by Craig Wright and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three plays in this volume -Melissa Arctic, and Orange Flower Water, and The Pavilion - are all set in the fictional town of Pine City, Minnesota. As the name suggests, these plays share a focus on love and relationships and feature a consistent undercurrent of observation and speculation about the nature of time.

Download or read book Living Metal Rebirth written by Matthew Harrington and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Two Many Birds written by Cindy Derby and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with heart, humor, and relevance, this side-splitting picture book, Two Many Birds, by author/illustrator Cindy Derby, opens minds and entertains all at once. As birds line up to perch on a tree, a monitor shouts rules at them: No fluffin' feathers! No pooping on the ground! No nudity! Eventually, the tree fills to capactiy (100 birds), but what happens when two more are accidentally born among the branches?

Download or read book Bark to the Future written by Susan C. Daffron and published by Logical Expressions, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the small town of Alpine Grove, Beth Connelly was the weird, shy kid who hid in the back room of her mother's bookstore. But all that study time led to being the class of 1985 valedictorian, a college scholarship, and a dream job offer in Arizona. Ten years later, her life is almost perfect. But not for long. Beth returns to Alpine Grove after an unfortunate series of events, just in time for the 10-year high school reunion she vowed not to attend. But her vow is no match for a sneaky former cheerleader who tricks her into going. While she's there, she runs into the one person she hoped to never see again: Drew Emery. Drew is just as easy to talk to as ever, and maybe she shouldn't have said all those terrible things to him so long ago. But everyone deserves a second chance, right?

Download or read book Tending to Virginia written by Jill McCorkle and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Virginia Turner Ballard, know to her North Carolina relatives as Ginny Sue. It's also the story of her mother, her grandmother, her great aunts, her closest cousin--three generations of women who gather around Virginia to help her at the end of a hard pregnancy, to tend to her, to help her prepare for the fourth generation. This kind of family attendance, this kind of tending to, is Southern to the core, offering, as it does, the occasion for reviving and trading entwined family stories. Tending to Virginia is a novel of one family's most important stories--how they happened, how they were perceived, how they were remembered, how their truth is revealed. In the end, an eruption of family confessions becomes revelation--revelation as legacy, passed down among a family's women; revelation as a family's gift in celebration of growing up, a process Jill McCorkle knows lasts into old age. In her characterizations of these vivid women playing out their generational roles in the contemporary South, McCorkle presents us with a powerful insight--that the strongest family bonds are, for better or worse, as often created by what is held back as by what is spoken.

Download or read book Fields of Exile written by Nora Gold and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith was a peace activist in Israel, yet in graduate school she discovers that vilifying Israel is the expected norm. When Judith protests the hypocrisy she finds on campus, her life begins to unravel.

Download or read book Health Communication in Practice written by Eileen Berlin Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Communication in Practice: A Case Study Approach offers a comprehensive examination of the complex nature of health-related communication. This text contains detailed case studies that demonstrate in-depth applications of communication theory in real-life situations. With chapters written by medical practitioners as well as communication scholars, the cases included herein cover a variety of topics, populations, contexts and issues in health communication, including: *provider-recipient communication and its importance to subsequent diagnosis and treatment; *decision-making; *social identity, particularly how people redefine and renegotiate their social identity; *communication dynamics within families and with health care providers through unexpected health situations; *delivery of health care; and *health campaigns designed to disseminate health-related information and change behaviors. Reflecting the changes in health communication scholarship and education over the past decade, chapters also explore current topics such as delivering bad news, genetic testing, intercultural communication, grieving families, and international health campaigns. A list of relevant concepts and definitions is included at the end of each case to help students make connections between the scenario and the communication theories it reflects. With its breadth of coverage and applied, practical approach, this timely and insightful text will serve as required reading in courses addressing the application of communication theory in a health-related context.

Download or read book Skin Colored Pointes written by Nyama McCarthy-Brown and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predominantly white casting in ballet has led many to wonder, "Where are all the black swans?" This book sheds light on female dancers of color, including thirteen primary accounts from African American, Latina, and Asian women in ballet. Topics covered include dance training, casting (and color-casting), employment, discrimination, implicit bias, success, and achievement. Dancers discuss in detail the obstacles many dancers of color face during training; considerations facing some women of color when seeking employment; performance challenges related to company work; and the teachers, parents, and community members that paved a way and widened spaces for them. Through the stories and experiences of the women featured here, models of inclusive practices and allyship are shared. The book culminates with a section providing teaching tools to support inclusive learning spaces.

Download or read book Stop Me written by Michelle Jester and published by RopeSwing Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifteen years, Jeselle has waited for revenge. After moving to a new city with her parents as a teen, Jeselle Parsons quickly found friends and a life full of money, power, and privilege. Even though her parents weren’t wealthy like the other kids' parents, Jeselle felt lucky to be welcomed into the circle of friends, until she learned how costly that type of life could be. A life that would cost her everything. With the help of her friend Dennis, Jeselle worked to ensure nothing would stand in the way of her revenge on the people who played a part in ruining her life. All the years of planning, all the years of working, have all come down to this. Soon, her enemies will learn that revenge has never been so cold.

Download or read book Second Life written by Paul Griner and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "smart and darkly glimmering story, a hold-your-breath thriller written in finely wrought prose, and a book that will spark a hundred conversations about risk and love and the dignity" follows one woman's search for her former best friend--into the underworld and beyond (Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies). Elena Kelly was a body broker or "corpse wrangler," and when she was working, she was one of the best in her field. But Elena got too ambitious--cut too many corners and too many ethical (and legal) safeguards. After running afoul of the law and medical profession, triggering a huge scandal in Louisville, Kentucky that quickly went national, she lost everything. Now humbled and on a strict, three-year parole, she works as coroner's assistant in Danville. Though still trying to come to grips with her regret and guilt, she is unexpectedly drawn into the search for her former best friend's missing body. Elena knows what can happen to a body that goes "missing," how it can be salvaged and used indiscriminately for spare parts, and she endeavors to seek salvation in finding Lia and bringing her body home, as complete as possible. Her desperate search drags her back to the underworld of the dead and pits her against a new and nefarious corpse wrangler--one more talented and deadly than she ever was. Pulling back the curtain on those who exist on the edge of the medical profession, the ones who remove skin and tissue and bones from the dead, for use by surgeons, medical students practicing technique, cosmetic surgeons, medical equipment companies and science labs, Second Life thrillingly and philosophically explores our obligation to protect the dead and examines what happens when we--literally--leave the land of the living.

Download or read book The Marriage Pill written by Buddy Strawn and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birds and the bees is supposedly the story of what sex and love is all about, and the speech of all its meanings and lure are presumed to be delivered by mother/father/both or that adult in your life well before any such dealings. Well, now, readers, raise your hand up high if you ever got that talk in due time! Much like the majority of youngsters, the main character in this book, Loddy, never got that speech and therefore was faced with life-altering decisions to make on the fly, so to speak. Sound familiar? More than likely that answer is a big fat yes! So imagine being able to simply take a pill (the marriage pill) that allows a young man to experience all the intangibles, good and bad, of entering into holy matrimony with the one he is presumably in love with and then decide. There is such a pill! And furthermore, its success rate of convincing young men not to enter into the contractual agreement of till death do us part with the enticing young woman of his dreams until at least the age of twenty-nine is and has been 100 percent effective.

Download or read book Bisexuality and Transgenderism written by Fritz Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the common ground—and the important differences—between bisexuality and transgenderism! This book, guaranteed to provoke debate and discussion of sexuality and gender, is the first devoted exclusively to the relationship between transgenderism and bisexuality. Combining the work of scholars and activists, professional writers and lay people, Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others proesents ideas, thoughts, feelings, and insights from a variety of contributors who are committed to understanding—and deepening our understanding of—gender and sexuality. You’ll find scholarly essays, narratives, poetry, and a revealing interview with four male-to-female transsexuals, two of whom are married to women who also participate in the discussion. In addition, the book includes insightful chapters by well-known advocates of transgenderism, including Jamison “James” Green, Coralee Drechsler, and Matthew Kailey. The editors of Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others make the provocative but crucial claim that the larger queer community looks at “B” and “T” lives as mere “add-ons” to “L” and “G.” In this book they focus attention on bisexuality and transgenderism—moving the “margins” to center stage and exploring how sexuality, gender, desire, and intimacy are constructed and circulate in our society. The book’s inclusion of voices and scholarship from Eastern cultures challenges our understanding of sexuality and gender constructions all the more, giving this collection a global scope. Here is a sample of what Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others examines: biphobia and transphobia within the United States’ gay and lesbian community the bi/trans and subversive aspects of the works and images of cultural icons Angelina Jolie and Sandra Bernhardt how bisexual and transgendered identities are socially constructed through relationships the false promise of pomosexual play—why the concepts of postmodern sexuality fail to rewrite the construction of gender why swingers who practice bisexual and transgender behavior are often disdained and marginalized by other GLBT people suicidal thoughts and other mental health concerns of bisexual males and females, as well as transgender people Eastern perspectives on sexual/gender identities—with revealing chapters on gender identity in Japan and Indonesia

Download or read book Our Inheritance Shaken Not Stirred written by James Sturdy and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Grady is a senior level engineer who works at WellGen Defense Systems; an aerospace avionics manufacturing company. He works on a program for the new U.S. Air Force C-X transport aircraft with Braxton Aerospace; an aircraft manufacturing company and WellGen’s customer. At the beginning of the proposal effort Scott considers the C-X opportunity and the potential contract for WellGen: Is it really an opportunity or just another project doomed to problems with cost and schedule overruns? The C-X contract is won and program execution encounters many problems. Wellgen is eventually accused of providing an unsafe product. As finger pointing escalates Scott becomes a scapegoat. Faced with losing his job, Scott must find a way to redeem himself and prove that WellGen is innocent. As everything seems to be falling apart in Scott’s life he searches for answers. As he does he tries to rekindle his relationship with Jesus Christ and rediscovers the truth about his true inheritance as a believer.

Download or read book Love in the Time of the Internet written by Juan Martin Sanchez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A depiction of both love in its budding period and the eternal search for love that cuts across time and distance. A young man suffers his first pangs of romantic emotion, entangling himself in virtual relationships that lead him only to the starting point. Tom wants to possess that which can't be possessed; he yearns for love, but he's not ready for it. But he's on his way to finding the only thing worth living and dying for: love.

Download or read book Undead and Unforgiven written by MaryJanice Davidson and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If Betsy Taylor has learned anything about ruling Hell it's: 1) she can't do it alone, and 2) she doesn't have to. She's got the help of a devoted vampire king, a dateless zombie, an exhausted new mom, an unshowered cop, a bitchy ghost, a kindly dead priest, and her late stepmother ("Go Team Satan!"). But the latest major hurdle in her post-dead life is so big she can't even see it until it's on CNN. Betsy's father and half-sister Laura (a former Anti-Christ with a grudge) have outed Betsy to the world. It doesn't take long for the story to become 24-7 headline news. What's more, people are not only prepared to believe in vampires, they want to kill them. For Betsy, social media has never felt so... unsocial. Before long the mansion on Summit Avenue is swarming with reporters, would-be vampire/zombie killers, and desperate emos begging to be turned. Betsy has been forced into the unenviable role as the reluctant face of the vampire nation. All she knows is, she has to look good ... and stay true to who she is. H8ers be damned"--