Download or read book Parallel Time written by Brent Staples and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize winner Brent Staples, an evocative memoir that poses universal questions: Where does the family end and the self begin? What do we owe our families, and what do we owe our dreams for ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? For Brent Staples there is the added dimension of race: moving from a black world into one largely defined by whites. The oldest song among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia. First a scholarship to a local college and then one for graduate study at the University of Chicago pulled him out of the close family circle. While he was away, the industries that supported the town failed, and drug dealing rushed in to fill the economic void. News of arrests and premature deaths among Brent's childhood friends underscored the precariousness of his perch in a world of mostly white achievers. A younger brother became a cocaine dealer and was murdered by one of his "clients." His death propelled Brent into a reconsideration of his childhood and coming-of-age that offers vivid portraits of family and place, of values that supported and pressures that tore apart, of the appeal and pain of entering a predominantly white world, and of the strengths and vulnerabilities of the black world he grew away from.
Download or read book Growing up a Werewolf written by Fred E. Waldrop and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At thirteen, Jonah wished he was like all the other kids, worrying about pimples or spilt milk on his shirt during lunch. But he had a much worse problem . . . God, I hate this, he would mumble to himself, looking up at the ceiling. I know this is just whining, but come on, why me? What is the purpose of me being this? If there were more like me, I could understand, but just me? Why, God, why does it have to hurt so much? Why every time? Maybe just once, just once, God, maybe I could black out or something, please? I could understand if something good came out of this, but come on. This just bites. And then, he did the one thing he dreaded more than anything else in his lifehe became a monster, a werewolf . . .
Download or read book Growing Up with Wolves written by Richard Hinton and published by Xlibris UK. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As most supporters will know, Following Wolverhampton Wanderers has been a bit of a roller coaster ride over the last 50 years. From Wembley cup finals to successive relegations. From playing in Europe to playing at Scarborough, this book covers many of the experiences I have had over that period, plus one or two of my own observations about the game, controversial as they may be.
Download or read book Growing Up a Werewolf written by Fred E. Waldrop Jr and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At thirteen, Jonah wished he was like all the other kids, worrying about pimples or spilt milk on his shirt during lunch. But he had a much worse problem . . . "God, I hate this," he would mumble to himself, looking up at the ceiling. "I know this is just whining, but come on, why me? What is the purpose of me being this? If there were more like me, I could understand, but just me? Why, God, why does it have to hurt so much? Why every time? Maybe just once, just once, God, maybe I could black out or something, please? I could understand if something good came out of this, but come on. This just bites." And then, he did the one thing he dreaded more than anything else in his life—he became a monster, a werewolf . . .
Download or read book Patterns of Childhood written by Christa Wolf and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1984-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Returning to her native town in East Germany forty years later, accompanied by her inquisitive and sometimes demanding daughter, Wolf attempts to recapture her past and to clarify memories of growing up in Nazi Germany. This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg."--
Download or read book Wolf Pups written by Emmie Chang and published by Gray Duck Creative Works. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you look at a wolf pup, do you see a future deer hunter or singer? If not, you should. The baby animals in this book share about their dreams for adulthood!
Download or read book From School to War written by Wolf Dettbarn and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child in 1930s Germany, Wolf Dettbarn was playful and curious, plopping old ladies hats into a bathtub to see if they would float and watching tadpoles hatch on the banks of the Werra River. At odds with his military family, Wolf dreamed of becoming a doctor, but the rising power of the Nazi Party changed the course of his adolescent life. At thirteen he was sent to the Adolf Hitler Schule in Bavaria and at seventeen he was conscripted into active duty, and all the while he struggled to hide his dislike for the school and the military, and his growing disillusion with the Nazi regime. When the war finally ended, Wolf set aside his military past and worked to rebuild his life and realize his childhood dreams. Wolf, a natural storyteller, describes his transition from schoolboy to soldier to doctor with unaffected candor and insight, painting a picture of the fear, propaganda, and silence that surrounded him as Germany fell to pieces. Wolfs reflection on his young adulthood is a story of devastation and resilience, proof that humanity can grow in the worst of conditions.
Download or read book Sleep Donation written by Karen Russell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly illustrated and available for the first time in years, a haunting novella from the uncannily imaginative author of the national bestsellers Swamplandia! and Orange World: the story of a deadly insomnia epidemic and the lengths one woman will go to to fight it. Trish Edgewater is the Slumber Corps' top recruiter. On the phone, at a specially organized Sleep Drive, even in a supermarket parking lot: Trish can get even the most reluctant healthy dreamer to donate sleep to an insomniac in crisis--one of hundreds of thousands of people who have totally lost the ability to sleep. Trish cries, she shakes, she shows potential donors a picture of her deceased sister, Dori: one of the first victims of the lethal insomnia plague that has swept the globe. Run by the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers, the Slumber Corps is at the forefront of the fight against this deadly new disease. But when Trish is confronted by "Baby A," the first universal sleep donor, and the mysterious "Donor Y," whose horrific infectious nightmares are threatening to sweep through the precious sleep supply, her faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter. Fully illustrated with dreamy evocations of Russell's singular imagination and featuring a brand-new "Nightmare Appendix," Sleep Donation will keep readers up long into the night and long after haunt their dreams.
Download or read book How Wolves Grow Up written by Linda Bozzo and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In springtime, baby wolves are born in the parents' wolf den. They are born totally deaf and blind. Readers will follow these playful pups from birth to when young wolves can hunt with the rest of the pack. Packed with incredible photographs and fascinating facts, this book is guaranteed to provide a howling good time while teaching life science concepts. A Words to Know section in the front of the book introduces readers to unfamiliar vocabulary before they encounter it in the narrative.
Download or read book Weird Wolf written by Margery Cuyler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1991-04-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harry Walpole discovers he is a werewolf, his attempts to break the curse are unsuccessful until he is aided by his pushy friend Abby.
Download or read book Werewolves in Their Youth written by Michael Chabon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the New York Times–bestselling author of Moonglow: “When you read these stories, it may strike you how seldom you come across really beautiful writing” (USA Today). Cherished by readers and critics alike for such extraordinary novels as The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon is at the height of his considerable powers in this striking and bittersweet collection of short stories. An anxious young misfit does nothing to protect his best friend from the scorn of their teachers and classmates. A kleptomaniac real estate agent leads an unhappy couple on a disastrous house tour. A heartbroken grifter finds his ex-girlfriend’s grandmother to be an easy mark—and an unexpected source of redemption. Throughout these stories, Chabon’s characters, suffused with yearning but crippled by broken love, often find themselves at a crossroads—and faced with sudden insight. Michael Chabon is “Updike without the condescension,” wrote James Hynes in the Washington Post Book World, “Cheever without the self-pity, a young American Nabokov who writes with a rueful joie de vivre.” In this darkly funny, achingly delicate collection, he renders the compromises of adulthood and the vivid fantasies of childhood with clarity and warmth. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Download or read book Growing Up with Clemente written by Richard F. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a personal history of the life of Pittsburgh's South Side during the city post-World War II renaissance. It is also the intimate story of an American boy who played baseball on the city's dilapidated playgrounds and rooted for his beloved sports teams while struggling in Pittsburgh's blue-collar neighbourhoods.
Download or read book Curse of the Werewolf Boy written by Chris Priestley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mildew and Sponge don't think much of Maudlin Towers, the blackened, gloom-laden, gargoyle-infested monstrosity that is their school. But when somebody steals the School Spoon and the teachers threaten to cancel their holiday break until the culprit is found, our heroes must spring into action and solve the crime! But what starts out as a classic bit of detectivating quickly becomes weirder than they could have imagined. Who is the ghost in the attic? What's their history teacher doing with a time machine? And why do a crazy bunch of Vikings seem to think Mildew is a werewolf? This brand-new series from Chris Priestley, full of delightfully original wit, is perfect for young readers who like their mysteries with a bit of bite.
Download or read book Red Moon written by Benjamin Percy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Benjamin Percy's brand new speculative thriller, The Ninth Metal, is available to pre-order now* Every teenage girl thinks she's different. When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realises just how different she is. Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and, hours later, stepped off it, the only passenger left alive. A hero. President Chase Williams has vowed to eradicate the menace. Unknown to the electorate, however, he is becoming the very thing he has sworn to destroy. Each of them is caught up in a war that so far has been controlled with laws and violence and drugs. But an uprising is about to leave them damaged, lost, and tied to one another for ever. The night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge, and the battle for humanity will begin.
Download or read book Marci written by B.B. Adams and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marci: Growing Up Wolf By: B.B. Adams Marci, at fifteen, finds being the new girl in school tough. With she and her mother constantly on the move, she is never in one place long enough to settle down. Not to mention… Marci is a werewolf! Despite being careful to maintain her secret identity at school, she is found by the werewolves that killed her father and when tragedy strikes during her monthly hunt, Marci finds herself in protective custody with the Police Sergeant Lance Ronelli. She and her wolf are accepted by the crusty old cop and with his aid, Marci discovers a whole new family to love and protect.
Download or read book A Werewolf s Tale written by Tiana Konyt and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassie Fields has more than a few reservations when her parents decide to move the family from their remote forest home to a small city four hours away. Would she fit in? Would she make new friends? Most importantly, would anyone find out that she and her family are werewolves? Her fears are allayed when she meets a friendly group of students at her new school, but that doesn't last long. She soon realizes something much more sinister is happening in Crescentville. Someone-or something-is abducting supernatural beings and turning them into soulless monstrosities, and panic among her people is spreading like the plague. Fearing for her family's safety, Cassie must rally her new friends to fight back against the evil that threatens them before they all become soldiers in a grotesque and senseless war....
Download or read book Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses written by Kristen O'Neal and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Emotional, thoughtful, and a true testament to the power of friendship”—Locus Magazine Teen Wolf meets Emergency Contact in this sharply observed, hilarious, and heartwarming debut young adult novel about friendship, chronic illness, and . . . werewolves. Priya worked hard to pursue her premed dreams at Stanford, but the fallout from undiagnosed Lyme disease sends her back to her childhood home in New Jersey during her sophomore year—and leaves her wondering if she’ll ever be able to return to the way things were. Thankfully she has her online pen pal, Brigid, and the rest of the members of “oof ouch my bones,” a virtual support group that meets on Discord to crack jokes and vent about their own chronic illnesses. When Brigid suddenly goes offline, Priya does something out of character: she steals the family car and drives to Pennsylvania to check on Brigid. Priya isn’t sure what to expect, but it isn’t the horrifying creature that's shut in the basement. With Brigid nowhere to be found, Priya begins to puzzle together an impossible but obvious truth: the creature might be a werewolf—and the werewolf might be Brigid. As Brigid's unique condition worsens, their friendship will be deepened and challenged in unexpected ways, forcing them to reckon with their own ideas of what it means to be normal.
