Download or read book Hey Kiddo A Graphic Novel written by Jarrett J. Krosoczka and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents. A National Book Award Finalist! In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along. Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's going on. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family, reckoning with his mother and tracking down his father. Hey, Kiddo is a profoundly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the art that helps you survive.

Download or read book The Right Way to Say Goodbye written by Ana Alicia Murby and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Right Way to Say Goodbye by Ana Alicia Murby __________________________________

Download or read book Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle written by Nina LaCour and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl stays home with Mama when Mommy goes off on a work trip in this tender, inviting story that will resonate with every child who has missed a parent. For one little girl, there’s no place she’d rather be than sitting between Mama and Mommy. So when Mommy goes away on a work trip, it’s tricky to find a good place at the table. As the days go by, Mama brings her to the library, they watch movies, and all of them talk on the phone, but she still misses Mommy as deep as the ocean and as high as an astronaut up in the stars. As they pass by a beautiful garden, the girl gets an idea . . . but when Mommy finally comes home, it takes a minute to shake off the empty feeling she felt all week before leaning in for a kiss. Michael L. Printz Award winner Nina LaCour thoughtfully renders a familiar, touching story of a child who misses a parent, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita, whose distinctive style brings charm and playfulness to this delightful family of three.

Download or read book The Mortal Sea written by W. Jeffrey Bolster and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the time of the Vikings, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend on it for survival, and people have shaped the Atlantic. In his account of this interdependency, Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world.

Download or read book A Guide to the Other Side written by Robert Imfeld and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Baylor Bosco does not like ghosts, but as a medium he sees them--including his twin sister Kristina--everywhere but Kristina disappears after a strange ghost shows up and Baylor must try to find her on his own.

Download or read book Baylor s Guide to the Other Side written by Robert Imfeld and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Baylor Bosco does not like ghosts, but as a medium he sees them--including his twin sister Kristina--everywhere but Kristina disappears after a strange ghost shows up and Baylor must try to find her on his own.

Download or read book Goose Chase written by Shawn Doyle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Salems chief of police unexpectedly retires, Detective James OConnor is suddenly burdened with preparing the town for its annual sandcastle competition. As if that is not bad enough, a dead body has just been found, dressed like a leprechaun with a sword through his chest and the killers calling card tied to his big toe. With no witnesses except a freelance reporter whose vague description of the possible assailant is less than helpful, it appears OConnor is now immersed in a challenging case that he must try to solve before the sandcastle competition begins. When an eight-year-old girl is abducted and killed while on her way to school, OConnor once again finds the killers calling card attached to her toe with a strange message. Now OConnor must rely on his street smarts and gut instincts to stay one step ahead of a serial murderer who appears to be randomly killing his victims and smart enough not to leave any concrete evidence behind. Will he manage to catch the killer before another victim falls prey? Goose Chase shares the gripping tale of a serial killers rampage and a determined police detectives quest to stop him.

Download or read book Goodbye written by Leigh Semler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashley Devon wanted to have a Sadie Hawkin's Festival. She also wanted to reunite her friends who play in a band. Ond of them she is in love with. What will happen will not only keep you guessing, but will shock you as the lives of these people unfold and the mysteries are revealed. It grabs you from page one; and you won't be able to put it down until you find out what really happens.

Download or read book Goodbye to the Dead written by Brian Freeman and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Jonathan Stride's first wife, Cindy, died of cancer eight years ago, but her ghost hangs over Stride's relationship with current lover, and fellow detective, Serena Dial. When Serena witnesses a brutal murder outside a Duluth bar, she stumbles onto a case with roots that go all the way back to the last year of Cindy Stride's life. At the time, Cindy and Stride were on opposite sides of a domestic murder investigation. Gorgeous, brilliant Janine Snow--a surgeon transplanted to Duluth from Texas--was the prime suspect in the shooting death of her husband. Cindy believed her friend Janine was innocent, but Stride thought all the evidence pointed to the surgeon--even though the gun was never found. Despite Cindy's attempts to help Janine, the case led to a high-profile murder trial in which Janine was convicted and sent to prison. During the current investigation, Serena finds a gun used in the murder of a woman connected to an organized crime syndicate--a gun that turns out to be the same weapon used to kill Janine Snow's husband. Two unrelated cases years apart suddenly have a mysterious connection. As Stride investigates the possibility that human traffickers are targeting women in the Duluth port, he begins to question whether he made a terrible mistake eight years ago by putting an innocent woman in prison. And whether he will ever be able to make peace with the memory of his beloved wife and give his heart to Serena.

Download or read book The Art of Burglary written by Joan M. Baril and published by Mischievous Books. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRAISE FOR “THE ART OF BURGLARY” Joan Baril creates believable characters. They laugh and love and plot and scheme, like your neighbours. This is literary fun. Highly recommended. ~ Michael Sobota, Journalist and culture critic. Entertaining, vividly-written and diverse, Janet’s stories will steal your heart making you laugh, cry and sigh but also making you question humanity and social injustice. They’ll linger with you long after the last page. Undeniably, Joan Baril is a damn good storyteller. ~Sue Blott, author Joan Baril has a strong voice, a sure hand, and a very sharp eye; these stories are a revelation. ~ Joe Fiorito Joan Baril’s “The Art of Burglary” pits a child’s innocence against an adult world of class prejudice, unjust social norms, and racism. Janet’s endearing curiosity and wonder encourages readers to celebrate mischief and discovery, to revive their own sense of universal humanity. ~ John Pringle, author of Spirals Young Janet, the part-time burglar, steals our hearts in these insightful humorous stories by award-winning author Joan Baril. Brilliantly and delightfully done! ~ Ulrich Wendt, author Wolves on the Road ABOUT THIS BOOK: Janet Marsden is a resourceful girl with insatiable curiosity and a propensity for bending the rules. With a policeman for a father and a mother with the ‘Gift,’ her life in Thunder Bay is definitely not boring. But she and her friends discover that bending the rules can come with unwelcome surprises when they embark on a series of burglaries to snoop on neighbours. As she becomes a woman, Janet embraces her future—and yet the past follows her, unstable as a cloud, twisted as a labyrinth. Full of humour and heartbreak, Janet’s stories are intimate coming-of-age vignettes about love, secrets, and social injustice. This collection will strike a chord with readers everywhere, and they’ll want to share it with their friends. AUTHOR JOAN BARIL, a native of Thunder Bay, Ontario, is a short story writer with ninety pieces published mainly in Canadian literary magazines. She has won many awards for her stories and was nominated for the Journey Prize by The Antigonish Review. She has lead an active literary life including a long running blog, Literary Thunder Bay, and several newspaper columns, including “The Northern Gardener”. The Northwestern Ontario Writer’s Workshop awarded her the Khoui Award for “Outstanding contribution to the literature of Northwestern Ontario.” The federal government awarded her with a citation for her columns on immigrant issues.

Download or read book Ancient Secrets of the Goddesses written by Velva Dawn Silver-Hughes and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Secrets of the Goddesses offers healing to the feminine and masculine energies of the world. The wisdom of thirty-three powerful goddesses appears alongside Velva Dawns own story of how she used the energy from each goddess to heal her emotional wounds. Each goddess carries a powerful energy that can be used to heal ones soul, and this book weaves multidimensional energy with the energies of all of the goddesses. Both a spiritual adventure and guide, this book links crystals and affirmations with each goddess, listing the aura colors of the goddesses to help you identify which goddess may be around you. The book may magically open up for you and show all of the goddesses reaching out to connect with you in a loving way. By exploring the goddess energy and using these sacred healing meditations and words, one will connect with the divine feminine while empowering the feminine within oneself. Readers can find more information at Velva Dawns website,www.velvadawn.com. Through the guidance of these mythic bearers of feminine wisdom, this book will take you on an inward journey of self-discovery and healing. Savor every word. I highly recommend this book. Colette Baron-Reid, number-one bestselling author of The Map: Finding the Magic and Meaning in the Story of Your Life I am honored to have worked with Velva Dawn and the goddesses, and I have seen first hand the healing effects, empowerment, and fulfillment that comes forth when you invite the divine goddess energy into your daily life. Ancient Secrets of the Goddesses author, Velva Dawn Silver Hughes has captured the loving energy and vibrations of these divine beings. This book activates feminine empowerment and enlightens your soul, preparing you for a new and exciting level of spiritual growth. Kathy Huber

Download or read book Stories I Only Tell My Friends written by Rob Lowe and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actor Rob Lowe's memoir presents a wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye. A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood. The Outsiders placed Lowe at the birth of the modern youth movement in the entertainment industry. During his time on The West Wing, he witnessed the surreal nexus of show business and politics both on the set and in the actual White House. And in between are deft and humorous stories of the wild excesses that marked the eighties, leading to his quest for family and sobriety. Never mean-spirited or salacious, Lowe delivers unexpected glimpses into his successes, disappointments, relationships, and one-of-a-kind encounters with people who shaped our world over the last twenty-five years. Rob Lowe's New York Times bestselling autobiography, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, shares tales that are as entertaining as they are unforgettable.

Download or read book Kiss Mommy Goodbye written by Joy Fielding and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in trade paperback for the first time from Anchor Canada, Joy Fielding's first thriller! Those goodbye kisses Donna received from her children when ex-husband Victor picked them up for their day's outing with him were for all time . . . forever. Only Donna did not know that, and the memory of her children's kisses on the day they disappeared come back to haunt her, for Victor did not return. Instead, this handsome, twisted man, who had destroyed their marriage and almost destroyed Donna's sanity, vanished with her little boy and girl. And Donna was left with a lover whose love was no longer enough, a new life that had suddenly turned agonizingly empty, and a terror-filled quest to find her children that would take her across the country and beyond the law . . .

Download or read book Juna s Jar written by Jane Bahk and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her best friend, Hector, moves away, Juna's brother Minho tries to make her feel better by finding things to put in her special kimchi jar, and each night, whatever is in the jar takes her on a magical journey in search of Hector. Includes glossary.

Download or read book Passage written by Connie Willis and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless suspense and cutting-edge science unlike anything you've ever read before. It is the electrifying story of a psychologist who has devoted her life to tracking death. But when she volunteers for a research project that simulates the near-death experience, she will either solve life's greatest mystery -- or fall victim to its greatest terror. At Mercy General Hospital, Dr. Joanna Lander will soon be paged -- not to save a life, but to interview a patient just back from the dead. A psychologist specializing in near-death experiences, Joanna has spent two years recording the experiences of those who have been declared clinically dead and lived to tell about it. It's research on the fringes of ordinary science, but Joanna is about to get a boost from an unexpected quarter. A new doctor has arrived at Mercy General, one with the power to give Joanna the chance to get as close to death as anyone can. A brilliant young neurologist, Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a psychoactive drug. Dr. Wright is convinced that the NDE is a survival mechanism and that if only doctors understood how it worked, they could someday delay the dying process, or maybe even reverse it. He can use the expertise of a psychologist of Joanna Lander's standing to lend credibility to his study. But he soon needs Joanna for more than just her reputation. When his key volunteer suddenly drops out of the study, Joanna finds herself offering to become Richard's next subject. After all, who better than she, a trained psychologist, to document the experience? Her first NDE is as fascinating as she imagined it would be -- so astounding that she knows she must go back, if only to find out why this place is so hauntingly familiar. But each time Joanna goes under, her sense of dread begins to grow, because part of her already knows why the experience is so familiar, and why she has every reason to be afraid.... And just when you think you know where she is going, Willis throws in the biggest surprise of all -- a shattering scenario that will keep you feverishly reading until the final climactic page is turned.

Download or read book The Naked and the Dead written by Norman Mailer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-08-05 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a platoon of Marines stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei in World War II.

Download or read book The Photographer and the Wrestler written by Robyn Kelsey and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raye is hired at her dream job and goes to the company Christmas party. While at the party, she meets Carson and there is an instant connection between them. Carson wants to see Raye again but Raye is apprehensive because of her past and thinks that she isn't good enough for Carson but will the spirt of the Christmas season help Raye let go of her past and let Carson in or will the haunting of her past keep her from opening up and letting love conquer all?