Download or read book The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

Download or read book Freak the Mighty written by Rodman Philbrick and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max is used to being called Stupid. And he is used to everyone being scared of him. On account of his size and looking like his dad. Kevin is used to being called Dwarf. And he is used to everyone laughing at him. On account of his size and being some cripple kid. But greatness comes in all sizes, and together Max and Kevin become Freak The Mighty and walk high above the world. An inspiring, heartbreaking, multi-award winning international bestseller.

Download or read book Double Dork Diaries 3 written by Rachel Renee Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special bumper edition of dorkiness featuring Dear Dork and Holiday Heartbreak from the bestselling DORK DIARIES series! From agony aunt to prom princess, Nikki Maxwell's life is never dull and always dorky! With mega-embarrassing families, BFF dilemmas and swoon-worthy crushes, get ready to enjoy some of her best cringe-worthy moments in this dork-tastic bind-up! It's time to embrace your inner dork!

Download or read book Only Magic written by Robert K. Swisher Jr. and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny, a 14-year-old girl in California, begins to have vivid dreams and visions of Magic, a wild horse in New Mexico, and decides that somehow she will own him one day.

Download or read book Wi written by Bill Reed and published by Reed Independent. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surely you remember Wi, a name especially chosen to fit our attention spans? The world-record kidnappee, nabbee, swipee, snatchee, hoisted so many times even he’s lost count? (How about those three times in five minutes effort? That takes rare raw talent, that does.) I mean, if it wasn’t for our Wi how many of these yabbers, yarns, shaggy dogs and yank-your-chain whoppers could I trot out for you? Even getting across one’s not easy when it’s always against the wind from people laughing in your face. No, really, without our Wi, where would all the odd-balls be, drowning their sorrows by ingesting the food in Dominic’s Eatery, swallowing whole mouthfuls without a thought for their own safety? Would any plate get the Wi wipe and come out miraculously unscathed from what had been just laid upon it? Without Wi, how many screwballs could have hired him to do all they’ve always wanted to do? God knows, and the Talls say ‘God knows’ because, if you take it that God made him in His own image, then maybe you’ve stumbled across the one time God spoke too soon. Okay, setting that aside, coming to you is a cast of Lankan characters – and you’d cast too -- and barf, and burp – if you had some of Dominic’s food inside you, let’s not kid ourselves. Not all of us have cast-iron guts and can absorb what could canonize you if you kept it down. And our Wi can’t help being White, either. Did he ever ask for the hoists he’s had to suffer, or complained about the lack of duty-of-care his kidnappers have shown him -- their kidnappee, after all? No. All he asked was a hideaway high above the stars so bright. At least he got that. And, though having to watchfully wait, at least he received the epiphs, too. With the epiphs, he could epiphicatedly dream, so I guess he had something going for him. And let’s not forget he’s Talls recorded as having said, ‘Just let me know if I’m breathing too much and I’ll stop’. Hey, what kidnappee or country like Australia gets a kidnappee so considerate? Is he a peach of a pooch, or what? ---------------------- Bill Reed is an Australian novelist, playwright and short-story writer with national awards for all three. He now lives in both Australia and Sri Lanka.

Download or read book A Murder for Max written by John Lawrence Reynolds and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping the pressures of big-city policing, Maxine Benson is happy to be appointed police chief in the resort town of Port Ainslie. Max's biggest challenge is to overcome skepticism at her ability to deal with major crimes—like the murder of Billy Ray Edwards. Few people mourn Billy Ray's passing. He was a bully and was also intent on derailing the biggest development project in the town's history. But murder's murder, and Max is ready to solve it on her own and prove her worth to the townspeople. And maybe even to herself.

Download or read book The Year the War Came Home written by Richard W. Patterson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Vietnam-era novel, Max Carboni erects roadside crosses for family members of loved ones killed in highway accidents. He comes to believe that this part of the family florist business is something people should do for themselves. As Max prepares to accept the Vietnam draft, his overbearing father hires anti-war Francie to sing hymns alongside Max at highway accident sites. Francie, who has no real family of her own, desperately wants to be part of the Carbonis. She is an aspiring musician, fresh from Woodstock, and has dreams of being a sensation in music festivals. At first, Max resents her barging into the family, especially her influence on his younger sister. Then Francie begins to have an even stronger effect on him. She makes Max confront those things he absolutely must do for himself, things he can neither delegate nor abdicate. Together, they must figure out why the corrupt local sheriff is trying to also wedge his way into the family business. Max and Francie fall in love amid the swirl of epic historic events, the after-Woodstock festivals, the My-Lai massacre, the first draft lottery, and the Kent State shootings. They contend with ways to make peace, love, and music and arrive at very different solutions.

Download or read book Native Son written by Richard Wright and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1989 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Max S Passage written by Peter D Langerman and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxs Passage is a coming of age tale set in and around Cape Town and Johannesburg. The Lord Charles Somerset Private School in Cape Town forms the backdrop for the development of the relationship between Deputy Head Prefect Max Long and the enigmatic and beautiful Lily Solomon. The beauty of Cape Town is set against the brutality of Johannesburg as the threats to Max and Lilys relationship threaten to destroy them and those whom they love. In the end, will their love last, or will Lily leave Max to marry Dr Martin Wellman and save her family from financial ruin?

Download or read book The Revenge of Joe Wild written by Andrew Komarnyckyj and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revenge of Joe Wild is a young adult novel about a semi-literate 12-year-old boy growing up in mid-19th century Southern Illinois, an outsider who can’t fit in with the norms of society. When Joe is accused of murdering his friend Ervan Foster, he flees the authorities and goes on the run, vowing to one day return as an adult, find out who the real killer is, clear his name, and avenge Ervan’s death. While on the run, Joe has many funny, dangerous, and eye-opening adventures which include joining the Union army and fighting in the American Civil War. When the war ends, Joe returns to his hometown, an armed and battle-tested sixteen-year-old. He confronts his accusers, but when Joe finds out the truth behind Ervan's murder, he makes peace with the man who falsely accused him, as well as with himself. In the great tradition of such 19th-century American authors Mark Twain, James Fennimore Cooper, and Stephen Crane, The Revenge of Joe Wild is a humorous, tense, action-filled novel set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War, with themes involving racism, sexuality, and misinformation that are just as relevant in the 21st century as they were during the time of Joe Wild.

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Download or read book Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran Contra Affair written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Max Eastman written by Christoph Irmscher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual

Download or read book Dr Feelgood written by Richard A. Lertzman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Max Jacobson, whom the Secret Service under President John F. Kennedy code-named “Dr. Feelgood,” developed a unique “energy formula” that altered the paths of some of the twentieth century’s most iconic figures, including President and Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis. JFK received his first injection (a special mix of “vitamins and hormones,” according to Jacobson) just before his first debate with Vice President Richard Nixon. The shot into JFK’s throat not only cured his laryngitis, but also diminished the pain in his back, allowed him to stand up straighter, and invigorated the tired candidate. Kennedy demolished Nixon in that first debate and turned a tide of skepticism about Kennedy into an audience that appreciated his energy and crispness. What JFK didn’t know then was that the injections were actually powerful doses of a combination of highly addictive liquid methamphetamine and steroids. Author and researcher Rick Lertzman and New York Times bestselling author Bill Birnes reveal heretofore unpublished material about the mysterious Dr. Feelgood. Through well-researched prose and interviews with celebrities including George Clooney, Jerry Lewis, Yogi Berra, and Sid Caesar, the authors reveal Jacobson’s vast influence on events such as the assassination of JFK, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy-Khrushchev Vienna Summit, the murder of Marilyn Monroe, the filming of the C. B. DeMille classic The Ten Commandments, and the work of many of the great artists of that era. Jacobson destroyed the lives of several famous patients in the entertainment industry and accidentally killed his own wife, Nina, with an overdose of his formula.

Download or read book Allusive Aftershock written by Susan Griscom and published by Susan Griscom. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a major earthquake changes your entire world, and the boy you thought you hated ends up saving your life? Three times! Courtland Reese is the guy everyone hates and makes fun of because ... well, he is weird. He communicates with animals. Strange or interesting, I can’t quite figure out, but when he saves me from being trampled by my horse, I start to understand him a little better, and maybe I'd like to get to know him better. But, Max—my best friend/dream guy/someday-to-be-my-husband-only-he-doesn’t-know-it-yet—hates Courtland with a passion. I want to know why except neither one of them wants to talk about it. When Max leaves me stranded in his parents' wine cave with his worst enemy, Courtland, after what the experts are calling a “megathrust” earthquake, I begin to question my loyalty to Max as steamy kisses in a dark, damp cellar only fuel my emotions with more conflict. But do I really have time to worry about that when fire, destruction, and mayhem surround me? A Young Adult Novel about friendship, betrayal, and love.

Download or read book The Rover Boys at College Or The Right Road and the Wrong written by Edward Stratemeyer and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Rover Boys at College; Or, The Right Road and the Wrong' by Edward Stratemeyer, readers are taken on a thrilling adventure following the exploits of the three Rover brothers as they navigate the challenges of college life. Originally published in 1899, this book is part of the beloved Rover Boys series which was a popular series of children's adventure novels. Stratemeyer's writing style is characterized by its fast-paced plot, vibrant characters, and moral lessons beautifully woven into the narrative. The book offers a glimpse into the societal norms and values of the time, making it a fascinating literary work to explore for both young readers and adults alike. Edward Stratemeyer, a prolific American writer, is best known for creating several successful series including the Rover Boys, Nancy Drew, and Hardy Boys. His writing reflects his deep understanding of the young reader's psyche and his ability to craft engaging stories that resonate with audiences across generations. Stratemeyer's legacy continues to endure as his books remain timeless classics in the world of children's literature. I highly recommend 'The Rover Boys at College' to anyone looking for an exciting and nostalgic read that captures the essence of adventure, camaraderie, and life lessons. This book is a true gem that showcases Stratemeyer's storytelling prowess and enduring appeal.