Download or read book Things Hoped For written by Andrew Clements and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Gwen is preparing to audition for New York City’s top music schools when her grandfather mysteriously disappears, leaving Gwen only a phone message telling her not to worry. But there’s nothing more stressful than practicing for her auditions, not knowing where her grandfather is, and being forced to lie about his whereabouts when her insistent great-uncle demands an audience with him. Then Gwen meets Robert, also in town for music auditions, and the two pair up to brave the city without supervision. As auditions approach and her great-uncle becomes more aggressive, Gwen and Robert make a startling discovery. Suddenly Gwen’s hopes are turned upside down, and she and Robert are united in ways neither of them could have foretold. . . .

Download or read book 169 Pages of My Life written by Taylor Goetz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Taylor, and I wrote this book with the intent that it might help people understand the consequences of doing wrong. Though it may sound that I am glorifying the things I did, if I had the chance to change my life I would have. Though I love where my life is today, there were times I wished I weren't alive. It took a lot more then what can be imagined to get over the life style I was living. I am proof that a bad kid can turn them selves around. If you think that in the end of this book that I haven't, then you are wrong and can look forward to reading my next book. The most important thing I was trying to get across is that every little thing in life including people can be very deceiving and to stick only to what you believe in and nothing else. In the end nothing and I mean nothing will matter except that your heart be in the right place.

Download or read book You Don t Know Me but My Name Is Yea written by Carl Capatina and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All eyes were on Suzy. She was wavering between making a dash to their safe room (a cement bunker located behind a hidden door in their downstairs guest bathroom that she had insisted on constructing when they fi rst moved in, after all, everyone knows that the suburbs are rife with crime) with Guido clutched to her breast or trying to beat Guido to the front door so that she could be the fi rst to see what I had in store for my next trick. She leaned over and softly whispered in my ear Just so you know; if you hurt him I personally will hunt you down! There will be no police, no FBI, no lawyers, no jury, no arrest, no appeal, just me! The Bible says that vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. I say that if it is good enough for God then it is good enough for me.

Download or read book My Torn Heart written by Carla Lamb Marshall and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello. I want to say a quick hello, before talking about my life. I am a very unique girl, I have several powers that surfaced by accident. My name is Essa. My parents are very different in their own way as well. My parents wrote me this story about some of their past and how I became. I sure do hope you enjoy a lot of supernatural wanders. What my family didn't know, I had several secrets that could cause harm or be fine. It scares me to death everyday. I am going to tell you a few things about my book. I sure do hope you read. I am only six years old as of this, but my mom started this when I was born. I am taking over. I am six, but I can pass for a fifteen year old. When my parents went on their honeymoon. They found a very beautiful Island that was off of a Columbia. It had been discovered as well, that my fathers best friend lives their. Should have been first hint. The whole family moved to a small town in Columbia. What some of the family didn't know, it has supernaturals. Witches, vampires, wolves, human and other important supernaturals lived in this town. We moved so that I could go to college. We also didn't want a certain person to find us. It was because of this town being small, that a very famous person meets one of the Water family members. They become very best friends (the human and water member). This famous person doesn't believe this family does not know anything about. It makes the person curious. The family member and this famous person fall in love. The only thing asked of both; are they able to live without the other. There is an accident that has a our newest member of the family is killed. Or are they? The whole family moves to Austria. Columbia, can no longer be stood. There is a sense of urgency as well. A water member's life could be at risk. It is urgent to get to this special country.

Download or read book Herald and Presbyter written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abel and Cain written by Gregor von Rezzori and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing together in English for the first time, two masterpieces that take on the jazz age, the Nuremburg trials, postwar commercialism, and the feat of writing a book, presented in one brilliant volume The Death of My Brother Abel and its delirious sequel, Cain, constitute the magnum opus of Gregor von Rezzori’s prodigious career, the most ambitious, extravagant, outrageous, and deeply considered achievement of this wildly original and never less than provocative master of the novel. In Abel and Cain, the original book, long out of print, is reissued in a fully revised translation; Cain appears for the first time in English. The Death of My Brother Abel zigzags across the middle of the twentieth century, from the 1918 to 1968, taking in the Jazz Age, the Anschluss, the Nuremberg trials, and postwar commercialism. At the center of the book is the unnamed narrator, holed up in a Paris hotel and writing a kind of novel, a collage of sardonic and passionate set pieces about love and work, sex and writing, families and nations, and human treachery and cruelty. In Cain, that narrator is revealed as Aristide Subics, or so at least it appears, since Subics’ identity is as unstable as the fictional apparatus that contains him and the times he lived through. Questions abound: How can a man who lived in a time of lies know himself? And is it even possible to tell the story of an era of lies truthfully? Primarily set in the bombed-out, rubble- strewn Hamburg of the years just after the war, the dark confusion and deadly confrontation and of Cain and Abel, inseparable brothers, goes on.

Download or read book Harper s Weekly written by John Bonner and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Tough Nut to Crack written by Tom Birdseye and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassie’s father and grandfather don’t get along, but despite their differences, Cassie is resolved to bring her family back together, no matter what it takes Cassie Bell’s father and grandfather had a falling-out years ago, so Cassie has never had the chance to meet her grandfather. But when her dad gets a call saying that Grandpa Ruben is in the hospital, the family heads off to Kentucky to make sure he’s all right. Grandpa Ruben is nothing like what Cassie expected. From the way her dad talks about him, she pictured a mean old man, but it turns out that her grandfather is lively, goofy, and loving. Still, Cassie’s dad and Grandpa Ruben can barely be in the same room with each other. A plan slowly starts to form in Cassie’s mind: What if she could find a way to get them back together again? Cassie doesn’t know why her dad and grandpa don’t speak anymore, but she’s determined to find out. If only they weren’t so stubborn! She wants to have her grandfather in her life, and she’s going to solve this problem whether these two like it or not!

Download or read book Black Wings written by Megan Hart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This intriguing twist on the chosen child in an elite school trope confronts the reader with a number of unsettling questions that will linger long after the final page has turned." - Publishers Weekly Briella Blake has always been wicked smart. When she’s invited to attend a special school for gifted students, she finally has the chance to focus on a project that begins to consume her – the ability to recreate and save copies of a person’s entire set of memories. Her friendship with a raven that’s as smart as she is leads to conflict with her mother Marian, who is no longer able to deny that there’s something wrong with her child. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Download or read book Christian Register and Boston Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Grandpa and Frank written by Janet Majerus and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does 12-year-old Sarah McDermott do when her mean uncle Frank threatens to commit her beloved grandpa to the County Nursing Home? She decides to "kidnap" Grandpa, with the help of her friend Joey, and take him to Chicago to find a doctor who will declare him competent. Granted, Grandpa has been doing some strange things since his stroke, but Sarah is convinced he is getting better. The plan is set into motion, and what follows is a wildly hazardous and hilarious 180-mile odyssey from the family farm to Chicago over back roads in an ancient Model-A truck with Joey at the wheel. Joey's observation that Sarah is "always making things sound so simple, and they hardly never end up that away" turns out to be true.

Download or read book The Tell Tail Heart written by Cate Conte and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome back to the charming New England coast, where Maddie James’s cat café is at risk of becoming a crime scene for the purrfect murder. . . Maddie is hoping to have some downtime during Daybreak Island’s off-season to tackle her to-do list. Her grandfather’s house-turned-cat-café is under construction and she’s also scoping out places to open a juice bar on the island. On top of that, her relationship with adorable dog groomer Lucas has taken a pawsitive turn. But easy is getting harder every day for Maddie, especially when a big-name writer who’s on the island working on a new project winds up floating in the canal. This, on the exact same day an eccentric woman shows up at the cafe claiming Maddie’s cat, JJ, is hers. As the investigation into the dead writer picks up, Maddie realizes that even the neighbors she’s known all her life might be keeping secrets that go deep into the heart of this small seaside town. Meanwhile, a killer remains at-large...and on the prowl.

Download or read book A Late Divorce written by A. B. Yehoshua and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of a Jewish family coming together, and coming apart, by an award-winning “master storyteller” (The Wall Street Journal). “Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B. Yehoshua’s A Late Divorce.” —London Review of Books A powerful story about a family—and a country —in crisis. The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits him in America. Narrated in turn by each family member—husband and wife, sons and daughter, young grandson—the drama builds to a crescendo at the traditional family gathering on Passover eve. “Each character here is brilliantly realized. . . . Thank goodness for a novel that is ambitious and humane and that is about things that really matter” —New Statesman “A master storyteller whose tales reveal the inner life of a vital, conflicted nation.” —The Wall Street Journal

Download or read book A Time Before Facebook written by Jimmy James Jr. and published by Jimmy James Jr.. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two families on opposite sides of the US/Canada Border are forever united through a marriage, children, and then a death. Jimmy is now growing up in a time before computers, email and social networking. The stories are true, but some persons and events have been fictionalized where necessary.

Download or read book Grandpa s Shed written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert was almost ten years old, so things like make believe worlds and strange creatures were no mystery to him. He wasn't a complete baby, and realised that was just what they were, make believe. So when his Grandpa started to tell him stories about other realities and the weird and wonderful beings that inhabited them, he thought he was just being told made up stuff. That is, until he took a real look into Grandpa Kenneth's garden shed....

Download or read book Hidden written by Robin Wood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lori, a young mother, struggles for life after years of a mysterious illness. During what appeared to be her last hospital stay before leaving mortality, Joan, her assigned nurse for the night, finds Lori crying out with all the ability of her physically exhausted body, No, not the children, not the children, please, not the children! Joan is quite taken back as she remembers having seen this identical scene two years before. Her own daughter, Bonnie, had cried out in this very same way before she died of an equally mysterious illness. Shocked at the unexplainable similarity, the two women resolve to step out of the norm and discover whats really happening. The truths that unfolded would have been impossible to believe had they not found in the events that followed answers to situations that, against all reason, could have had no other explanation. They stumbled across knowledge of a society hidden from detection. An organized group of people that could enslave, use, and then discard any person they targeted. Lori was being discarded. If she died in a hospital in some normal way, the truth of her slavery would never be disclosed. Nothing short of ready this story is capable of describing the life of a person targeted by this society.

Download or read book Watch Out Don t Get CAught written by Fay Drage and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Writer of this book was driven by a passion to tell this story in the hope that this book will alert and prepare people to watch out for the unfamiliar personalities and circumstances. It is written in plain simple English that everyone and anyone can appreciate. Knowing that awareness is empowering! When you know better, you do better. The Consequences of Not Knowing This is a story of a young girl who was unprepared for the unfamiliar people and the unfamiliar circumstances she would face. She was bought up in a home with Christian morals, where they only knew love and trust in its purest form. Her upbringing is based on a True Story. Some NZ Maori families come from the other side of ‘Once were Warriors’ Her parents brought her up to be kind, loving and caring to all people but never taught her the boundaries of knowing when to say ‘NO’. Maria is a victim of a sociopath or psychopath. She never knew such people existed. She was unprepared. Maria’s parents are also faced with circumstances that are unfamiliar to them. They do not know what to do about these circumstances they are faced with either. They seek help from a society that has people in places that one would think, would know best, and seek to do the best, but they only know a text book result and will stick to the ‘red tape’ rather than common sense. They soon find out that sociopaths are the norm in society. They find a ‘Justice System,’ where an outcome is better than the truth. The whole family is put into unfamiliar ground. The abuse of one person turns this family’s life upside down. This book has all the elements of all human emotions. This young girl experiences a life of tender love and care, and unfamiliar ground with a psychopath. She becomes a victim to his physical abuse and rape. She is unprepared for all that Mr Ian Clarke throws at her. He strips her of her own self worth. Her spirit is taken from her. Killed off by all the abuse she suffered. This book is about when opposite ends meet. This is a MUST READ BOOK. Written in a light hearted manner that makes easy reading, for all ages. Disclaimer: This book is based on some true events however has been fictionalised. Any characters/ persons appearing in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, Living, or dead is purely coincidental Reference 1: Psychopath, same as Sociopath, refer: to traits of a sociopath via internet. www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html Some words in Maori are explained others are place names in New Zealand