Download or read book Call Me Sunflower written by Miriam Spitzer Franklin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunny Beringer hates her first name—her real first name—Sunflower. And she hates that her mom has suddenly left behind her dad and uprooted their family miles away from New Jersey to North Carolina just so she can pursue some fancy degree. Sunny has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, and she’s had to leave her beloved cat and all her friends behind. And no one else seems to think anything is wrong. So she creates “Sunny Beringer’s Totally Awesome Plan for Romance”—a list of sure-fire ways to make her parents fall madly in love again, including: Send Mom flowers from a “Secret Admirer” to make her dad jealous and make him regret letting them move so far away. Make a playlist of his favorite love songs—the mushier the better—and make sure it’s always playing in the car. Ask them about the good old days when they first fell in love. But while working on a photo album guaranteed to make Mom change her mind and rush them right back home, Sunny discovers a photo—one that changes everything. Sunny’s family, the people she thought she could trust most in the world, have been keeping an enormous secret from her. And she’ll have to reconcile her family’s past and present, or she’ll lose everything about their future.

Download or read book The Brilliant Forever written by Kevin MacNeil and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scottish isle hosts a literary festival in this humorous yet tragic novel by the author of A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde. On an island like no other, populated by writers, the annual Brilliant & Forever Festival is a much anticipated event; its participants a story away from either glory or infamy. This year, three best friends—two human, one alpaca—are chosen to compete, so victory is not only about reward. This is a novel like no other; a wonderful, provocative tussle, a whip-cracking, energetic, laugh-out-loud satire on what we value in culture, and in our lives. And yet, written with exquisite warmth and empathy, it’s also a moving exploration of integrity, friendship and belonging. It’ll split your sides and break your heart. Praise for The Brilliant & Forever “Laugh-out-loud funny. It’s so refreshing to read a book that isn’t like anything else.” —David Robinson “A wise warm-hearted meditation on the human condition.” —TheScotsman (UK) “Full of wry detail and satirical flourish, a demonstration of virtuoso storytelling. MacNeil atomizes the process of othering by which communities define themselves. All of that makes it sound overly serious, which it isn’t: MacNeil’s prose style keeps things light, lyrical, and funny.” —The Skinny “The reader will realize that this charming, sad novel is inspired by Italo Calvino . . . . It is a joy to read such an engaging, luminous novel, which dissects rather than enacts our cultural cringe.” —The Guardian (UK)

Download or read book Do Antelope Eat Canteloupe And Other Creatures with Imagined Features written by Margaret Wilhelm and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All creatures have features the world hasn’t known. Just dream and imagine and come up with your own. This whimsical, rhymed romp through an imaginative world of familiar creatures with unusual features will inspire playfulness and creativity in readers from toddlers on up! Charming full-color illustrations are full of surprising and funny details that are the perfect accompaniment to the inventive and sweetly irreverent text.

Download or read book The Fisher s Minnow written by Joseph Geren and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when the love life of Iowa private detective Mike Marcus crumbles, a golden angel enters his life. The angel, it turns out, is Annie Ireland, a nomadic cult sister of the Temple of Atonement who has a dubious and dangerous ministry. Like the stray dogs soft-hearted Mike feeds every morning, he takes Annie under his wing. But hiding her from her cult and a serial killer proves to be the detective's greatest challenge. Annie's abduction back into the temple takes Mike 400 miles to his native Indiana where he pursues a kidnapper, a killer, and a self-appointed messiah named Elijah Ben Yahweh. En route, he encounters the demons and ghosts of his past.

Download or read book An Antelope Ate My Cantaloupe written by C. T. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Antelope Who Loved Cantaloupe written by Celeste Marie Halata and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun story of an Antelope who is joined by a fun assortment of animals as they search for cantaloupes, its favorite snack. From the author of "Antelope's Wild Tune under the Jungle Moon" and "Antelope's Travels Unravel".

Download or read book Nothing Rhymes with Orange written by Adam Rex and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the fruits gather together and enjoy a rhyming party, but poor Orange feels left out because he does not rhyme with anything--until Apple invents a new word.

Download or read book Alpha Omega written by Louis Everstine and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. DEATH After a long, frightening journey, a Seeker of Truth reaches the top of a mountain and finds the cave of the Wise One. He says, O, Wise One, I have come many miles and suffered many hardships, to ask you one question. Ask, says the Wise One. What is the meaning of life? says the pilgrim. The Wise One pauses, smiles slightly, and replies. You have come far and seem to me worthy, so I shall give you what you seekthe truth. The answer is in your question and this journey is your life. Go back down the mountain. When you arrive, you will know how much time you have wasted, and you will have no more time left. So, give me your watch. Why is life so mysterious, and why is its purpose so elusive to us? It may be that we have looked for the meaning of life in the wrong places as though in a nightmarish scavenger hunt arranged by the Prince of Darkness himself. From one moment to another, we thought it was money or power or fame or honor or comfort or some other pleasure of the flesh, only to see them, finally, as false clues leading to a mountain we shouldnt have climbed. This book records an inquiry that found the meaning of life by discovering the meaning of death. This is reflected in the words and behavior of those who decide to die: the suicides. These poor souls have much to teach us, for they have measured out for us the value of death, from which we can calculate the value of life. So a study of suicide leads to the truth about lifeyours and mine. This book guides you to that revelation. The surprise of the book is that you will discover that you knew it all along. The promise of the book is that you will know that you know. II. LIFE The relationships that a person has with other people are the central core of that persons existence. The people you meet, the members of your family, those whom you love, and even your sworn enemy are the motivating forces behind everything you do and the reason for your stay on this planet. In short, the meaning of life is relationship. What if life were relationship, pure and simple, the end and the beginning? If life is relationship, it is not wealth or fame. It is not winning or acquiring or what you accomplish or where you live or how much education you have or the honors you have been given. It is not how law-abiding you are or how devout you are in your religious faith. Your worth is measured not by your bank account, the property in your name, or the trust you established for your child or children. Your worth is measured by the relationships you have formed in your lifetime and the care with which you have conducted them and the way that you treated those other persons. This view of people as enmeshed in relationships with others living in, by, and for them rejects the Cult of Self and the selfishness nourishing that demon. Your lifes meaning is before your eyes each day. In every encounter that you have with another person, every word or glance or touch, life reaches out and embraces you and fulfills your purpose for being here.

Download or read book Come Sunday written by Bradford Morrow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA densely layered journey into the dark heart of the American Dream that spans continents and centuries/div DIVIn Bradford Morrow’s debut novel, lightning-tongued mercenary Peter Krieger travels to Nicaragua to kidnap a man who may be a 480-year-old former conquistador—and therefore could hold the secret to immortality. When Krieger attempts to sell his captive to a reclusive scientist in upstate New York, he sets off on a globe-spanning expedition, in which he encounters an enormous cast of idealists, crackpots, and revolutionaries. And his one-time lover, Hannah Burden, who raises cattle in an illegal loft ranch in Manhattan, still stands between him and his nefarious, astonishing ambitions./divDIV /divDIVA rousingly hilarious, yet tragic epic about the dark side of the American Dream, Come Sunday is fueled by Morrow’s captivating style, breadth of reference, and depth of insight, and spins old myths of the New World into unexpected and haunting forms./div

Download or read book The Joys of Pediatrics written by Mohsen Ziai and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the joy and charm of children, as told by anecdotes from pediatric health care professionals. From humorous misunderstandings, to goofs and giggles at the doctor's office, to heartwarming stories of courage.

Download or read book The Judge written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Mysterious Chinese Book of Everything written by Tim Casart and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Mysterious Chinese Book of Everything, eleven stories deliver a unique, sometimes tender, often laugh-out-loud glimpse into one man's evolution from a strict Catholic upbringing in Midwestern America to an experimental and unorthodox adulthood oceans away. Whether it's a nostalgic story of the first-time, drop-your-drawers physical of a terrified teenage boy, or the fanciful tale of his efforts to stump Dr. Ng's mysterious Chinese volume, the adventures of author Tim Casart are familiar enough to kindle our own coming-of-age memories and offbeat enough to capture our imagination. Casart's entertaining collection reflects one man's, and maybe every man's, valiant attempt to make an extraordinary life out of the ordinary.

Download or read book My Daddy Ate an Apple written by Craig Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So what happens if you eat an apple with a green worm inside? Not just any worm, of course, but a fuzzy one, a buzzy one, a great big fat juicy one! Children will love this story about Daddy Zebra's trip to hospital-and the surprise ending!

Download or read book Gym Candy written by Carl Deuker and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Look, Mick,” he said, “you’re going to find out from somebody in the gym, so you might as well find out from me. Those supplements you’re taking? They might get you a little bigger, but just a little. If you’re after serious results, there’s other stuff that produces better results much faster, stuff that a lot of guys in the gym use.” “What other stuff?” “You know what I’m talking about—gym candy.” Runningback Mick Johnson has dreams: dreams of cutting back, finding the hole, breaking into the open, and running free with nothing but green grass ahead. He has dreams of winning and of being the best. But football is a cruel sport. It requires power, grace, speed, quickness, and knowledge of the game. It takes luck, too. One crazy bounce can turn a likely victory into sudden defeat. What elite athlete wouldn’t look for an edge? A way to make him bigger, stronger, faster? This novel explores the dark corners of the heart of a young football player as he struggles for success under the always glaring—and often unforgiving—stadium lights.

Download or read book Out of the Desert written by Ali Al-Naimi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary memoir of global oil's former central banker Ali Al-Naimi is the former Saudi oil minister - and OPEC kingpin - a position he held for the two decades between August 1995 and May 2016. In this time, Al-Naimi's briefest utterances moved markets. But it wasn't always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the baking Arabian deserts. From his first job as a shepherd boy, aged four, to his appointment to one of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, Out of the Desert charts Al-Naimi's extraordinary rise to power. Described by Alan Greenspan as 'the most powerful man you've never heard of', Al-Naimi's incredible journey proves that anyone can make it - even a poor Bedouin shepherd boy. This is his exclusive inside story of power, politics and oil. His Excellency Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi is the former Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. One of the most powerful economic and political jobs in the world, he held this post from August 1995 to May 2016. Prior to that he held a wide range of leadership positions in the Kingdom's national oil company, Saudi Aramco. He was the first Saudi national to be named President of the company in 1984 and became the first Saudi CEO in 1988. Al-Naimi joined the company, then called Aramco, as an office boy in 1947. A Bedouin, he was born in the deserts of eastern Arabia in 1935.

Download or read book Can You Eat written by Joshua David Stein and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a new board-book format: a whimsical word book of rhyming things that can – or can't – be eaten! Can you eat... A pea? A pear? A bee? A bear? In this spin-off board book to the bestselling picture-book companion, food critic (and dad) Joshua David Stein asks the question, "Can you eat...?" followed by a lyrical list of illustrated items. From familiar items like apple pie and pineapple to the more nonsensical, like underpants and elephants, this read-aloud twist on a first book of food offers plenty of giggles, with simple yet sophisticated hand-drawings by Julia Rothman that provide authenticity and a balance of seriousness to the silliness at hand. Ages 1-3