Download or read book Birdspell written by Valerie Sherrard and published by DCB. This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corbin Hayes has felt alone for as long as he can remember. His mom’s illness means lost jobs, constant moves, new schools and friendships that never get to grow. There’s a gap in his life that’s been waiting to be filled. So, when a classmate offers Corbin the talking bird she can no longer keep, he’s stoked. But when things begin to spiral out of control, Corbin can no longer get his mom – or himself – through the dark period. At his lowest moment, he’s forced to do the one thing he fears the most.
Download or read book Tumbleweed Skies written by Valerie Sherrard and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellie's grandmother doesn't want her around the farm, but times are tough, and her salesman father can't take her on the road. Ellie's challenge is to break through her grandmother's isolation and find kinship among strangers.
Download or read book Watcher written by Valerie Sherrard and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I knew one thing -- I wasn't going to be rotting in that place for the rest of my life. I was getting out of there. That place turned people into the living dead. In that neighbourhood, it was hard to hear anything that didn't carry the sound of defeat." Sixteen-year-old Porter Delaney has his future figured out, but his nice, neat plans are shaken when a man he believes may be his father suddenly appears in his Toronto neighbourhood. Porter knows that he wants nothing to do with the deadbeat dad who abandoned him and his sister twelve years earlier, but curiosity causes him to re-examine the past. Unfortunately, actual memories are scarce and confusing, and much of what he knows is based on things his mother told him. As Porter looks for answers, it begins to seem that all he's ever going to find are more questions.
Download or read book Accomplice written by Valerie Sherrard and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexie Malton has a secret. Her ex-boyfriend is a heroin addict living on the street, and only she knows that she's the one who put him there. Guilt makes her give into his demands for money, but when he finally seeks treatment, Lexie finds herself drawn back to him, never guessing what a dark and deadly path she has chosen.
Download or read book Testify written by Valerie Sherrard and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Shana helps bring Carrie's molester, Joe, to justice, she uncovers evidence that may prove his innocence.
Download or read book Tumbleweed written by Alice Marguerite Colter and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Open up the Sky written by Heather Cardin and Rob O'Flanagan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Up the Sky is a unique and beautiful correspondence between two poets. Each writer takes up the verses of the other as an inspiration and a provocation, as an invitation to recall and reimagine and recreate the Canadian landscapes that have become home to them. This exchange of language and memory produces a poetry of intimate insight that transcends any particular location and speaks to the broader experience of being human in the world.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Derek Cowell written by Valerie Sherrard and published by DCB. This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek didn’t mean to become popular. His accidental photo bomb — the one that made him internet-famous — took him from invisibility to middle-school fame overnight. And you know what? He’s not sure if he likes it. But his best friend Steve does, and schemes to find other ways to help Derek to remain the talk of the school. But what goes up must come down, and Derek’s reluctant rise is followed by a regrettable crash. Funny, emotionally rich, and inspiring, The Rise and Fall of Derek Cowell is the latest book by award-winning, bestselling author Valerie Sherrard.
Download or read book A Bend in the Breeze written by Valerie Sherrard and published by DCB. This book was released on 2022-04-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eleven-year-old Pascale Chardon finds herself on a lifeboat drifting toward an uncharted island with no memory of how she got there, all she wants is to get back to her family. The islanders, however, have a different objective. For many decades, the islanders have been anticipating the arrival of someone foretold only as the Long Awaited. The Long Awaited is said to have knowledge of the island’s future and will tell the islanders of their fate seventeen days after their arrival. At first Pascale is sure she’s not the Long Awaited, but when strange happenings occur, she finds it impossible to be certain of anything. Could she be the Long Awaited after all? A Bend in the Breeze, award-winning author Valerie Sherrard’s 30th novel, is a delightful tale about the importance of love and compassion.
Download or read book First Bargain written by Billy Guajardo and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Bargain. Gunfighter's Graveyard. This is the story that began the series. Each with 100,000 words, more or less. In return, you'll receive a Novel worth the time, dollar amount, and chill. A Team of Entrepreneurs will end up in the hands of a Monster that the Dead call the Bargainer. In return, he will unleash a horde of ghosts. Like pretty boy billy, Jesse Cricket James, and the most feared yet forgotten Will Bunny. A band of lawmen will vow to gather. They will gather for what an evil clown would call the greatest showdown that any gunfighter would look forward to. An old wooden Indian will talk back to the living through a fortune teller's mixed messages. This team of men and women in the year today will encounter unlimited ghosts. Children left behind eaten by inmates left here as ghosts in the town. Love sweet candy and, of course, granola bars. Scarecrows and Men Blanketed in Salt Starved and Inhuman will reach for the living for a bite to eat. Evil Gold Miner, Cannibals, Gunfighters, and Lawmen Will Grace the pages.
Download or read book Nearer Than The Sky written by T. Greenwood and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author draws readers into the fascinating world of Munchausen syndrome by proxy in this “totally absorbing novel about daughters and mothers” (Ursula Hegi, author of The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls). When Indie Brown was four years old, she was struck by lightning. In the oft-told version of the story, Indie’s life was heroically saved by her mother. But Indie’s own recollection of the event, while hazy, is very different. Most of Indie’s childhood memories are like this—tinged with vague, unsettling images and suspicions. Her mother, Judy, fussed over her pretty youngest daughter, Lily, as much as she ignored Indie. That neglect, coupled with the death of her beloved older brother, is the reason Indie now lives far away in rural Maine. It’s why her relationship with Lily is filled with tension, and why she dreads the thought of flying back to Arizona. But she has no choice. Judy is gravely ill, and Lily, struggling with a challenge of her own, needs her help. In Arizona, faced with Lily’s hysteria and their mother’s instability, Indie slowly begins to confront the truth about her half-remembered past and the legacy that still haunts her family. And as she revisits her childhood, with its nightmares and lost innocence, she finds she must reevaluate the choices of her adulthood—including her most precious relationships. “Lush, evocative.” —The New York Times Book Review “A complicated story of love and abuse told with a directness and intensity that pack a lightning charge.” —Booklist “A lyrical investigation into the unreliability and elusiveness of memory . . . the kaleidoscopic heart of the story is rich with evocative details about its heroine’s inner life.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Standing on Neptune written by Valerie Sherrard and published by DCB Young Readers. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Am I pregnant? This question shatters the peace of seventeen-year-old Brooke Palinder’s life one Monday morning when she realizes her period is late. Although shaken, she’s determined to hide her feelings and go about her daily routine as though nothing is wrong. Brooke’s boyfriend Ryan handles the news poorly, and she can’t bring herself to confide in anyone else, not even her best friend. In an effort to distract herself, Brooke throws herself into a school project about Neptune, which leads her to some startling discoveries and a surprising sense of connection to the distant planet. But by Saturday, she knows she must face the answer to the question that began her week. Standing on Neptune is a novel in verse from the celebrated author of Counting Back from Nine, The Glory Wind, and Birdspell.
Download or read book Tumbleweed written by Margot Dalton and published by Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tumbleweed by Margot Dalton released on May 25, 1992 is available now for purchase.
Download or read book High Skies written by Tracy Daugherty and published by Red Hen Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1950s Texas small town reels from severe weather, Cold War paranoia, and school integration in this novella by the author of American Originals. High Skies recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small west Texas town in the 1950s, changing the futures of the families there and altering their perceptions of America. At the center of this perfect storm is Raymond “Flyboy” Seaker, a respected military veteran, now the vice principal of a school in which Troy, who tells the story, and his disabled friend Stevie will have their lives upended forever. Through a combination of his own well-meaning ambitions and the political maneuverings of others, Flyboy, and the families he serves come to grasp the meaning of community and of individual fortitude. Written with a vivid economy recalling Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams and painting as indelible a portrait of small-town life as Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show, High Skies is a perfectly distilled American epic. Praise for High Skies “Tracy Daugherty’s characters have a stubborn, wonderful realness to them, the sign of a writer absolutely alert to the complex world around us.” —Andrea Barrett, winner of the National Book Award “Daugherty’s writing is deeply rooted in time and place and the historical events that color the characters’ lives. The effect of this is not nostalgia but a perspective on the relationship between the private and the public, the personal and the political. His characters are wholly realized, the writing as clean as sheets on a summer line.” —Robert Boswell, PEN West Award finalist “Daugherty adeptly creates a toxic environment where people’s fears obscure their rationality and impair their judgment. The account of one man left out to dry makes for a stark, memorable outing.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Ski written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tumbleweed Christmas written by Ninie Hammon and published by Sterling & Stone LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shell-shocked veteran. A shattered child. A Christmas miracle. It’s Christmas in 1953 on the dusty High Plains of West Texas. It was lonely enough out there before eleven-year-old Bonnie McGrath lost her mother. Now she aches for her daddy’s return from Korea to fill the emptiness that’s been carved out of her heart ever since Mama’s passing. But the father who left Muleshoe, Texas, three years before has come home as somebody else. After nineteen months in a North Korean prisoner-of-war camp, Beau McGrath has lost the ability to love. A New Mexican blizzard claims the county’s Christmas trees, and the loss is devastating. A symbol of all the good in Bonnie’s life that has been taken away and is now gone forever. Beau must replace the trees, but his only solution takes him even farther away from his daughter. Will the chasm between them grow wide enough that neither of them will ever be able to cross it again?
Download or read book Beneath the Velvet Skies written by Rusty Van Reeves and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BENEATH THE VELVET SKIES is the story of four beleaguered children coming of age in a small Mississippi town in the early 1970s. On the surface, the town seems like any other rural town, but within its city limits lies a fair share of resident evil. Life in Good Hope is all about overcoming the deficits of oneâs birth and upbringing. A fast paced mystery that contains adult language and romance.
