Download or read book The Five Wishes of Mr Murray McBride written by Joe Siple and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off wishes one by one.
Download or read book The Final Wish of Mr Murray McBride written by Joe Siple and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Cashman has reached the goal he spent the last twenty years seeking, but instead of feeling content, he feels empty. When he meets Alexandra Lopez, a ten-year-old America-loving girl facing deportation, he is inspired by his old friend, Murray McBride, to give her five wishes before she must leave. They set out to check off as many wishes as possible, but when Jason's transplanted heart begins to fail, he must choose between his obligations to the past and his hope for a future.
Download or read book The Last Dogs written by Joe Siple and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a misunderstanding after humans learn to communicate with dogs leads to the near extinction of the species, two fifth graders attempt to save the lives of the last dogs.
Download or read book The Five Wishes of Mr Murray McBride written by Joe Siple and published by . This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simplified Chinese edition of The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride
Download or read book Charlie Fightmaster and the Search for Perfect Harmony written by Joe Siple and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baseball player learns the secrets to perfect harmony at the plate, only to discover he must use those same secrets to find harmony in the rest of his life.
Download or read book The Town with No Roads written by Joe Siple and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Maxy Awards "Runner-Up Literary Fiction" "Heart and emotion are on full display in this thoughtful and often overwhelming story of love, loss, and forgiveness." -Sublime Book Review When a woman begins finding notes from her comatose father, miracle fever takes over the town. This touching story explores the strength of a father's love. A miracle has come to Sparkling Pond, Minnesota. Memorable objects from Aspen Collins' childhood are appearing in the town square, accompanied by notes in her father's handwriting. The notes relate to things happening in her life now. But that's impossible-Aspen's father is in a coma. The miracle brings chaos in the form of a ghost hunter, three different factions of people with conflicting beliefs about the miracle, and a television reporter who Aspen finds herself falling for. But when everything comes to a head, an impossible choice must be made. And the consequences of either decision could be too much to bear. An enchanting follow-up to Siple's award-winning debut, The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride, The Town with No Roads is a story of forgiveness and redemption that explores whether unconditional love should hold us close or set us free.
Download or read book The Bully of Brantley PA written by William Grattan and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I thought Robert was your friend.” So says Principal Sister Mary Catherine to Michael Novacek. Michael has just failed to intervene in a fight that has left Robert Petrich battered by one of the school bullies. Ashamed of his conduct, Michael embarks on an exploration of what it means to be a (young) man. It’s 1968, the year of Vietnam, assassinations, and political turmoil in America. While coping with the vicissitudes of adolescence — a weight problem, a first crush, the pressures of team sports, and the demands of friendship — 13-year-old Michael is forced to confront the world of adulthood in profound ways — his grandfather’s heart attack; his overbearing father’s win-at-all-costs campaign for mayor; his mother’s gradual withdrawal from the family; and his uncle’s growing depression.
Download or read book That Was Before written by Dan Lawton and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An hour after Randolph Spiers quits his job as a mechanical engineer, he finally approaches the woman he's eyed at the supermarket, only to watch it explode minutes later with her trapped inside. The old Randolph would have gone home to his adulterous wife and forgot about it. That Was Before. The new Randolph tracks down the woman and drives her cross-country without a plan or Midwestern destination in mind. Even with his old life in shambles, that may be the least of his problems. The enigmatic woman next to him is running from her past too, and as trouble closes in and the truth behind the explosion is revealed, he's forced to question everything he thought he ever knew and felt-and everyone. Now he must decide whose side he's on. And he doesn't know who to trust.
Download or read book Virtual Velocity An L A Story written by Anthony Mora and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual Velocity is the story of the curious creation of pop phenomena, Jake Jenkins, America’s most renowned and successful literary novelist. Spanning six decades, through three interconnected stories, Virtual Velocity follows Jake from a sixteen-year-old learning about literature and women, to frenetic rock journalist, to struggling literary novelist, to world-famous author. Journeying through LA’s rock and literary worlds, it is also an homage to the city, tracking its internal and external changing landscape and its cultural shape shifting. Virtual Velocity explores the complicated and often mystifying intersection between fame and art.Virtual Velocity is the story of the curious creation of pop phenomena, Jake Jenkins, America’s most renowned and successful literary novelist. Spanning six decades, through three interconnected stories, Virtual Velocity follows Jake from a sixteen-year-old learning about literature and women, to frenetic rock journalist, to struggling literary novelist, to world-famous author. Journeying through LA’s rock and literary worlds, it is also an homage to the city, tracking its internal and external changing landscape and its cultural shape shifting. Virtual Velocity explores the complicated and often mystifying intersection between fame and art.
Download or read book A Heart Condemned to Roam written by Brian Carmody and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All my life, people have been telling me the meaning of life… Ben Carter, drifter in dreamland, has a broken heart and a wandering mind. His memories are in fragments, played back and forth, like a CD of life’s greatest hits. Devoutly Catholic and reserved philosophy student Ben's conservative sensibilities and romantic inexperience were challenged by intense, eccentric Professor Wilkinson and gothic, beguiling Winona. Winona's European departure and Wilkinson's suicide sent Ben spiraling into depression and doubt. With Winona's return, Ben makes his way across America, finding advice along the way. From the veteran's war philosophy to the hitchhiker's road wisdom to the Kenyan priest's story of redemption, he seeks the meaning of life on the way back to the woman he loves. Spiritual, pensive, and human, A Heart Condemned to Roam is a journey into the heart of America, the way of love, and inscrutable nature of life itself.
Download or read book The 410 Club written by Victor Loun and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasper Bartlett is your typical adolescent in 1970’s Colorado trying to fit in with the teenagers and adults around him. This conundrum is compounded by grief over his dead mother and an absentee, intoxicated father. Yet once he is invited to vacation with his grandparents, Pop and Mimi, in their Maryland farmhouse, his life changes dramatically. Here he is introduced to frog gigging, guns, Christianity and girls. However, unsettling relationships with friends, family, and even his trusted preacher soon begin to ignite and then consume Jasper’s precarious vulnerability and worldview. In desperation, he sets off on a liberating journey across the country with the one adult who still supports him, his Uncle Stewart. Along the way, Jasper strives for forgiveness over betrayal, clarity over confusion, hope over despair. Jasper’s experiences reflect the complex struggles of youth in a society that subtly neglects to protect and nurture them, even today.
Download or read book To Know Her written by Mary Ann Noe and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Juliana... truly? While their teenage daughter, Juliana, lies in a coma because of a car accident, Will and Susan Talbot are given her belongings. From that, they discover a daughter different from the one they thought they knew. They are in deep conflict over whether to withdraw life support. The stories behind each item found by her parents, and the people connected to them, are revealed in flashbacks from Juliana's point of view, stories of tough teenage choices, love relationships, and crucial friendships.
Download or read book Sweet Jane written by Joanne Kukanza Easley and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drunken mother makes childhood ugly. Jane runs away at sixteen, determined to leave her fraught upbringing in the rearview. Vowing never to return, she hitchhikes to California, right on time for the Summer of Love. Seventeen years later, she looks good on paper: married, grad school, sober, but her carefully constructed life is crumbling. When Mama dies, Jane returns for the funeral, leaving her husband in the dark about her history. Seeing her childhood home and significant people from her youth catapults Jane back to the events that made her the woman she is. She faces down her past and the ghosts that shaped her family. A stunning discovery helps Jane see her problems through a new lens.
Download or read book The Coat written by April Grunspan and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seth Feinberg, in spite of being an atheist, has always seen life through a Jewish lens. Inheriting a Nazi officer’s full- length leather coat from his Holocaust-survivor grandfather motivates him to research and write fictional stories about his grandparents’ and the coat’s possible history. Ultimately, he is able to define his personal relationship with the coat, his Judaism, and the world.
Download or read book Ruby Hope Valley written by Diane Williams Gordon and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruby Hope Valley is a delightful and heartwarming book of love, faith, and friendship. Betty Anne, a lonely Christian woman in her fifties, who lives in the town of Ruby Hope Valley, carries a hidden secret in her heart, until she meets a young Amish girl whom she befriends after joining an Amish quilting group. They become lifelong friends and share many experiences of happiness and sorrow. Betty Anne becomes a true friend of Sara Jane and her Amish family as they struggle with Kidney disease, adoption, death and an emotional homecoming.
Download or read book Rock Angel written by Jody French and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emily, a sensitive synesthete from Claremore, Oklahoma, witnesses a heart-wrenching act of domestic violence that orphans her and her older sister, Emily is haunted by the loss of her kindred spirit. She turns to music for comfort, and keeps secret the fact that she has the ability to see other people’s auras and sense their true natures. For Emily, a kaleidoscope of color lofts above everyone she meets. She is instinctively drawn to rare, nurturing Purples like her mother and avoids the cruel Grays like her father, the Monster. Without her mother’s guidance, Emily must learn to trust her instincts and draw her boundaries on her own as she navigates through a newly found career in the music business.
Download or read book Sage Heart written by Benjamin C. Wash and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine you are a fifteen-year-old boy and you have just been abandoned at the side of the road by your abusive mother. The feelings running through your mind and body are at war. You are glad to see her go, but she left you alone in the high desert of eastern Nevada. How will you make it? Sage Heart is the account of young Sam Jackson and his struggle to survive; at first alone as an underage teenager, then through his establishment of a new life in Ely, Nevada. In this coming of age story, Sam befriends four independent teens and follows them through the adventure that is high school and their lives together. Along the way Sam finds a new home filled with love. He also finds that being a gay teenager has its hazards.
