Download or read book Lily and Sam written by Victoria Stonehouse and published by Moosehead Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily is a little girl who loves playing games and having fun with her favourite Uncle, Sam, who has Motor Neurone Disease. Sam is in a wheelchair and needs a ventilator to breathe. But to Lily, he is just fun Uncle Sam. One day they head to their favourite park, but nothing is as it should be. The swing is all tangled, the slide is covered in grime and the roundabout is broken. Using their problem solving skills and with the help of some special friends they set about making things right.All profits from the book will go to the charity, Stand Against MND. The charity was founded by Sam Perkins who was diagnosed with MND at the age of 37. SAM raises money to fund research towards a cure and treatments for MND and also funds palliative care for those affected by MND.

Download or read book Lilliput written by Sam Gayton and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a city full of giants, can one tiny girl find her way home? She is a girl three inches tall with eyes like drops of dew. Her clothes are cut from handkerchiefs and stitched with spider silk. For half her life, she has been suspended in a birdcage while Gulliver, her giant kidnapper, sits below her, writing in a leather-bound book the size of a house. Her name is Lily, and tonight she is planning her 35th escape attempt. She is going to find a way to get home. To Lilliput. Inspired by Gulliver's Travels, Lilliput is an exhilarating and imaginative adventure filled with cunning escape plans, evil clock makers, and talkative parrots. Join Lily as she travels through eighteenth-century London—over rooftops, down chimneys, and into chocolate shops—on a journey to find the one place in the world where she belongs...home.

Download or read book Lily Sam Bertie written by Victoria Stonehouse and published by Moosehead Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily has a great relationship with her favourite Uncle, Sam, who has Motor Neurone Disease. Sam is in a wheelchair and needs a ventilator to breathe. But to Lily he is just fun Uncle Sam. One day Uncle Sam and Aunty Emma bring home a new puppy called Bertie. Bertie is great for Sam and is as cute as can be, but Lily is a bit nervous around dogs. Uncle Sam sets about helping Lily overcome her fear by setting tasks for Bertie. However, Mia the cat is very protective of Lily. She doesn't trust Bertie at all and doesn't want Lily upset. Will they ever all become friends? All profits from the book will go to charity, Stand Against MND. The charity was founded by Sam Perkins who was diagnosed with MND at the age of 37. Stand Against MND raises money to fund research towards finding a cure and developing treatments for MND, also funs palliative care for those affected by MND. Lily, Sam and Bertie is one in a series of books following Lily on her adventures. One of the previous books, Lily and Sam also raised money for Stand Against MND. Praise for Lily and Sam: 'A sweetly illustrated story of a girl and her uncle and the adventure they have fixing up the park. Highly recommended' The Wishing Shelf REVIEW I very much enjoyed this story of a little girl called Lily and her adventure with her Uncle Sam. Firstly, it's important to know that Sam is disabled and is in a wheelchair. And it is this element which is the book's biggest strength. Yes, it's superbly illustrated; yes, the plot is cleverly crafted and the rhyming and rhythm is, for the most part, spot on. But it's the way Sam, despite his disability, can be such a wonderful uncle - and do so much to fix up the playpark - that's so very good. In terms of readership, I suspect this book would go down very well with 5 - 7 year olds. And I would happily recommend it to a school library. Also, parents/teachers looking for a book which highlights 'respect for people with a disability' will find this book fits the bill perfectly. Not only that, but it's also fun to see how excited Lily is when her playpark is all fixed up. And it's all down to Sam, his incredible wheelchair, and the help of Grandad Stash - who has the longest moustache ever! As it says on the final page of the book: There's always a way, don't give up, ever, We can do anything when we work together. A 'Wishing Shelf' Book Rev

Download or read book Sam Ilsa s Last Hurrah written by Rachel Cohn and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestselling duo behind Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily return with twins out to throw the party of a lifetime--or at least the best party of high school! Siblings Sam and Ilsa Kehlmann have spent most of their high school years throwing parties for their friends--and now they've prepared their final blowout, just before graduation. The rules are simple: each twin gets to invite three guests, and the other twin doesn't know who's coming until the partiers show up at the door. With Sam and Ilsa, the sibling revelry is always tempered with a large dose of sibling rivalry, and tonight is no exception. One night. One apartment. Eight people. What could possibly go wrong? Oh, we all know the answer is plenty. But plenty also goes right, as well...in rather surprising ways.

Download or read book Lily written by Holly Webb and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where magic is outlawed, Lily runs wild and neglected. Once rich and powerful magicians, now Lily's family hide away in their crumbling house, while her older sister, Georgie, is trained secretly in magic. But when Lily discovers her parents' dark plan to use Georgie in a terrible plot to restore the country to its magical glory, she knows she must rescue her sister - and flee...

Download or read book When You Trap a Tiger written by Tae Keller and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL • WINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother. Some stories refuse to stay bottled up... When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal--return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni's health--Lily is tempted to agree. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice...and the courage to face a tiger. Tae Keller, the award-winning author of The Science of Breakable Things, shares a sparkling tale about the power of stories and the magic of family. "If stories were written in the stars ... this wondrous tale would be one of the brightest." —Booklist, Starred Review

Download or read book The Portal Sundered written by Sarah Barnard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of The Portal Between, Lily returned alone; Kate's world was rocked again. Sam has problems of her own, the magic is out of control, and Lily can't help this time. Kate tries to pull her life back together but it's hard and she finds comfort where she can. But who else can wield the magic? Who challenges Sam's right to rule?

Download or read book Elizabeth and Lily written by Hilary Bailey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning 30 years from 1886 to 1917, this novel, first published in 1997, follows the lives of two women from different ends of the social scale. They are reunited as adults and find that their friendship helps them through the bitterness and cruelty of war, and the legacies of their own childhoods. Somewhere between Sarah's Water's The Night Watch and William Boyd's Any Human Heart, friendship transcends class divides and the cruelty of war.

Download or read book The Last Good Moment of Lily Baker written by Russell Davis and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Bob and Sam work for the same corporation, but have not seen each other for three years since Sam has been heading the company's new operation in Italy. Sam and his wife, Molly, return for a visit to the United States and invite Bob and

Download or read book Love s Answer written by Betty McLain and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily Hemp wasn't looking for love. After losing her family in an accident, surviving was enough. She grew her flowers and kept to herself, until the day a magic mirror showed her the face of a man who was supposed to be her true love. Les was no stranger to the magic mirror. He knew people who were matched through its power, and knew he would one day see his true love's face staring back at him in the reflection. He never expected his true love to be unhappy to find him. Can Les win her grief-broken heart? And with even the most innocent left lost and alone, can Lily learn to open her heart and accept the new opportunity being offered to her?

Download or read book Lily and the Prisoner of Magic written by Holly Webb and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily and Georgie's father has been imprisoned for being a magician - and they must rescue him. Yet the hidden jail is protected by dark spells, and the girls' own magic isn't strong enough to break through. Searching for someone to help, Lily and Georgie voyage far from home, and find a powerful magician named Rose. But in a world of secrets, is she all that she seems?

Download or read book Dreams Dead Ends written by Jack Shadoian and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Download or read book Dead Souls written by Sam Riviere and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark's Loitering with Intent, this "sublime" and "delightfully unhinged" metaphysical mystery disguised as a picaresque romp follows one poet's spectacular fall from grace to ask a vital question: Is everyone a plagiarist? (Nicolette Polek, author of Imaginary Museums). A scandal has shaken the literary world. As the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls discovers at a cultural festival in central London, the offender is Solomon Wiese, a poet accused of plagiarism. Later that same evening, at a bar near Waterloo Bridge, our narrator encounters the poet in person, and listens to the story of Wiese's rise and fall, a story that takes the entire night—and the remainder of the novel—to tell. Wiese reveals his unconventional views on poetry, childhood encounters with "nothingness," a conspiracy involving the manipulation of documents in the public domain, an identity crisis, a retreat to the country, a meeting with an ex-serviceman with an unexpected offer, the death of an old poet, a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost, an entanglement with a secretive poetry cult, and plans for a triumphant return to the capital, through the theft of poems, illegal war profits, and faked social media accounts—plans in which our narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated. Dead Souls is a metaphysical mystery brilliantly encased in a picaresque romp, a novel that asks a vital question for anyone who makes or engages with art: Is everyone a plagiarist?

Download or read book The Latest Mrs Adams written by George Tibbles and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1979 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Stand In written by Lily Chu and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in USA Today's "Best Rom-Coms" of May 2023 and one of the Washington Post's best romances of the year! "The Stand-In is a charming, engaging rom com that drips in glamour and sparkles with banter. Chu's exploration of multi-racial identity was resonant and nuanced. The Stand-In is truly a stand out romance." — USA Today bestselling author Andie J. Christopher Gracie Reed was just fired by her overly "handsy" boss at the worst possible moment. She's been scraping together every extra dollar to get her mother into a top-notch memory care center. To make matters worse, a paparazzo has mistaken her for a famous Chinese actress in town for a new project and the resulting snapshot's gone viral. Gracie's barely holding it all together...until a mysterious SUV rolls up beside her on the street, and she's offered the opportunity of a lifetime. Gracie can't believe what she's hearing: due to their uncanny resemblance, gorgeous actress Wei Fangli wants Gracie to be her stand-in. The catch? Gracie will have to be escorted by Sam Yao, the other half of Chinese cinema's infamous golden couple. Problem is, Sam is the most attractive—and infuriating—man Gracie's ever met. But if it means getting the money she needs for her mother, Gracie's in. Soon Gracie moves into a world of luxury she never knew existed. But resisting her attraction to Sam, and playing the role of an elegant movie star, proves more difficult than she ever imagined—especially when she learns the real reason Fangli so desperately needs to step out of the spotlight. In the end all the effort in the world won't be able to help Gracie keep up this elaborate ruse without losing herself...and her heart. Readers will delight in this glamourous, swoon worthy enemies-to-lovers romance that is as hilarious as it is heart-wrenching.

Download or read book Consider Lily written by Anne Dayton and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of love, trials, and faith set against a wonderfully drawn portrait of San Francisco, Consider Lily is chick lit with a heart. Lily Traywick thinks she must have been adopted. It’s easier than believing she’s actually related to Jane and Roland Traywick, her power-couple parents who own Traywick’s of San Francisco, the most chichi department store on the West Coast. While her parents party with Muccia in Milan and Gabbana in Paris, Lily hangs out at home in ratty jeans and an old T-shirt. She loves softball, guys, and Jesus, and she’s eager to make her own way in the world. Feeling that her life is on hold, she turns to her best friend Reagan Axness. Reagan, a fashionista who has it all, offers just the solution: a major life makeover. Lily is soon dressing in the latest must-have fashions and pursuing a writing career. She’s even dating the “perfect” guy. But does he love her for who she really is? And will he be able to resist the tempting seductress who has her eye on him? As Lily’s old friends question her new way of life, and public scandal, family drama, and technological disasters add to her confusion, Lily is forced to consider whether her quest to have it all will cause her to lose everything that matters. Hot off their debut success, Emily Ever After, “good-girl” chick-lit trailblazers Dayton and Vanderbilt return with a witty, refreshingly real story of a young woman’s adventures in the high-powered world of San Francisco high fashion.

Download or read book Warrior Queens Quiet Revolutionaries written by Kate Mosse and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women’s history. 'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' – Anita Anand 'Brilliant' – Daisy Buchanan “My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired. It’s a love letter to the importance of history and about how, without knowing where we come from - truthfully and entirely - we cannot know who we are.” Within these pages you’ll meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar; warrior queens and pirate commanders; the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world or to medicine; those women of courage who resisted and fought for what they believed; to the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium. It is global, travelling the world and spanning all periods of time. It is also an intensely moving detective story of the author’s own family history as Kate Mosse pieces together the forgotten life of her great-grandmother, Lily Watson, a famous and highly-successful novelist in her day who has all but disappeared from the record . . . Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is accessible and fascinating in its detail. A beautifully illustrated dictionary of women, it is a love letter to family history and a personal memoir about the nature of women’s struggles to be heard and their achievements acknowledged. Joyous, celebratory and engaging, it is a book for everyone who has ever wondered how history is made. 'A must have for history lovers and feminists' – Glamour