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 Grandpa Benjamin written by Uriah J. Fields and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of storytelling, Grandpa Benjamin is narrated by Grandpa Benjamin himself. He told his grandson this story that he had been told by his mother about their ancestors beginning with the year 1776 when his great-great-great grandparents, Baatsi and Ashanti Nkrumga, were kidnapped by American slavers in Africa, separated from their two small children, and enslaved in America. This is also the story about Grandpa Benjamin and his half brother, Alexander, also born into slavery, and how they established the Zeals Community and the Zeals School in Wildflower, the place of their birth, where for several generations they and their descendants were nurtured. Their legacy continues to inspire their descendants to live productive and dignity-affirmed lives. Grandpa Benjamin, the first person in his lineage to have the surname Zeals, is a character that, even in contemporary perspective, will live in the readers imagination forever.

Download or read book 4 written by 孙了红 and published by 露露. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After escaping the blizzard, we set off again and found Aning and his horse team at the foot of a slope; at the same time, the mysterious snow-capped mountain in the shadow of the undersea tomb also appeared at the end of our field of vision. Just when we asked the guide how to get there, Shunzi shook his head and said that we would never get there

Download or read book A Short History of Wisconsin written by Erika Janik and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover Wisconsin history from the very beginning. A Short History of Wisconsin recounts the landscapes, people, and traditions that have made the state the multifaceted place it is today. With an approach both comprehensive and accessible, historian Erika Janik covers several centuries of Wisconsin's remarkable past, showing how the state was shaped by the same world wars, waves of new inhabitants, and upheavals in society and politics that shaped the nation. Swift, authoritative, and compulsively readable, A Short History of Wisconsin commences with the glaciers that hewed the region's breathtaking terrain, the Native American cultures who first called it home, and French explorers and traders who mapped what was once called "Mescousing." Janik moves through the Civil War and two world wars, covers advances in the rights of women, workers, African Americans, and Indians, and recent shifts involving the environmental movement and the conservative revolution of the late 20th century. Wisconsin has hosted industries from fur-trapping to mining to dairying, and its political landscape sprouted figures both renowned and reviled, from Fighting Bob La Follette to Joseph McCarthy. Janik finds the story of a state not only in the broad strokes of immigration and politics, but also in the daily lives shaped by work, leisure, sports, and culture. A Short History of Wisconsin offers a fresh understanding of how Wisconsin came into being and how Wisconsinites past and present share a deep connection to the land itself.

Download or read book Fib Tul written by Tel Ghoud and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody will surely agree: Birthdays are fun. Hiking with friends in the forest is fun. Being young, reckless, and stupid is fun. Being curious is simply being human. And being human is considered to be fun, right? And since the day of your creation seems to always be something you want to relive, how about living it so many times you wish you were never born? Hi, I seriously wish I wasn’t. “I feel like I’m going crazy. Either that or I’m in hell.” I’m not a devout believer because no religion entices me like the bold effort it takes to be responsible for my own actions. Alas, I felt like I was in hell. Except, as a normal human being, I liked to exaggerate. After all, I’m not exactly to blame for not knowing I would turn up in a poor excuse of the fiery hole twenty-three deaths later.

Download or read book The Spark written by Kristine Barnett and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary memoir of a mother's love, commitment and nurturing, which allowed her son, originally diagnosed with severe autism, to flourish into a universally recognized genius--and how any parent can help their child find their spark. Today, at 13, Jacob is a paid researcher in quantum physics, working on extending Einstein's theory of relativity. Diagnosed at 1 with severe autism, at 3 he was assigned to life-skills classes and his parents were told to adjust their expectations. The goal: tying his own shoes at 16. Kristine's belief in the power of hope and the dazzling possibilities that can occur when we keep our minds open and learn to fuel a child's true potential changed everything.

Download or read book Cold Fury written by T. M. Goeglein and published by Speak. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Chicago preparatory school student Sara Jane Rispoli must unravel a web of complex mysteries after her family goes missing and she is pursued by unknown enemies.

Download or read book I Am Forbidden written by Anouk Markovits and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular Hasidic sect, the Satmar. In 1939, five-year-old Josef witnesses the murder of his family by the Romanian Iron Guard. He is taken in by a Gentile maid, who raises him as her own son. Five years later, Josef rescues a young girl, Mila, whose parents are killed in the wake of Nazi deportations. Josef helps Mila find safety with Zalman Stern, a leader in the Satmar community, in whose home Mila is raised as a sister to Zalman’s daughter, Atara. The two girls form a fierce bond, but as they mature, Atara feels trapped by the restraints of Jewish fundamentalism, while Mila embraces her faith and her role as a respected young woman in her community. When Josef returns and chooses Mila to be his bride, she eagerly strives to be an ideal wife, but a desperate choice after ten years of childless marriage threatens to separate her from everything—and everyone—she cherishes. A beautifully crafted, emotionally gripping story of what happens when unwavering love, unyielding law, and centuries of tradition collide, I Am Forbidden announces the arrival of an extraordinarily gifted new voice and opens a startling window on a world long closed to most of us, until now.

Download or read book Roots to Wings written by B.L. Skinner and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The '80s of self-indulgence and "It's all about me" has turned us into "Nobody understands what I am going through" and "Nobody cares." There is power in the memoirs on the bookshelves today, with such authors as Dave Pelzer, Carol Burnett, Mackenzie Phillips, Ashley Judd, and Shania Twain. These authors are giving us positive nourishment and starting conversations. We are reconnecting with our neighbors across the street as well as across the g

Download or read book Coda written by Ted Staunton and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spencer O'Toole's brother disappears, launching him on a movie-like chase and plot involving kidnapping and terrorists.

Download or read book Fishers of Men written by Adam Elenbaas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of memoirs like Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012 and Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries, Adam Elenbaas's Fishers of Men chronicles his journey from intense self-destruction and crippling depression to self-acceptance, inner awareness, and spiritual understanding, through participation in mindexpanding-and healing ayahuasca ceremonies in South America and beyond. From his troubled and rebellious youth as a Methodist minister's son in Minnesota, to his sex and substance abuse-fueled downward spiral in Chicago and New York, culminating in a depressive breakdown, Elenbaas is plagued by a feeling of emptiness and a desperate search for meaning for most of his young life. After hitting rock bottom at his grandfather's house in rural Michigan, a chance experience with psychedelic mushrooms convinces him that he must change his ways to achieve the sense of peace that he has always desired. Several subsequent psychedelic experiences inspire him to embark on a quest to South America and take part in a shamanic ceremony, where he consumes ayahuasca, a jungle vine revered for its spiritual properties. Over the course of nearly forty ayahuasca ceremonies during four years, Elenbaas discovers the truth about his own life and past, and begins to mend himself from the inside out. Fishers of Men is the gripping, heartbreaking, and yet ultimately uplifting story of the power to transcend one's past.

Download or read book JOURNAL written by A Pearls and Beads Production and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-12-27 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A super fun read, indeed! Even more entertaining, as you get inspired to participate in this interactive Poetic Musical Production, with Social Media, Family and Friends. You may use this Manuscript, as a real tool, to create and discover your own opportunities to bloom where you’re planted and soar like an eagle to new heights, from the Grace available in the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Please allow our Heavenly Father to lead and inspire you with His Holy Spirit, bringing forth the abundant gifts He placed inside each of you. Co-creating and sharing in the Bounty of Christ. Therefore, benefiting generations to come, all for the Glory of God! Thank You!

Download or read book Be It So written by Oma and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be It So is a book about a common childhood in a communist country. It is about how the life was in a countryside with grandparents. This life had changed because of a trauma that she experienced in her life. Her life was turned upside down. She was disabled, and she had to adjust to how a disabled person lives. She had to go to a high school for physically disabled children.

Download or read book The People of the Sign written by Wade Fransson and published by Something Or Other Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do divorce, kidnapping, ancient prophecies, and the collapse of the Soviet Union have in common with the music of the Beatles? The People of the Sign effortlessly weaves these together, proving once and for all that truth really is far, far stranger than fiction.

Download or read book Tomorrow Is Always Wednesday written by Brian F. Decker and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomorrow Is Always Wednesday By: Brian F. Decker with Lt. Col Mark Halferty (USMC) and Major Gregory Estvander (USMC) Tomorrow Is Always Wednesday is a love story that combines the hardships of war and what men and women on both sides had to endure, either in combat or while waiting on the sidelines. Follow a group of friends just trying to survive the war, a young man trying to return to his family in Japan, and a young woman trying to discover her grandfather’s legacy. This book is for all; but is dedicated to the memory of the young men who never got to grow old and those that did, but have the memories of combat burned into them forever.

Download or read book The Tongue That Wouldn t Keep Still written by Robert Evans Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story expresses life,truth and beauty; it represents a 1950's American Southern way of life; it touches on love, jealousy, life, hate, death and hope. You will see a determination and love for his wife also the quality that he puts forth in all he does.

Download or read book Let Sleeping Dogs Lie written by Rita Mae Brown and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chase is on in New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown’s gripping foxhunting mystery, featuring the irrepressible “Sister” Jane Arnold and the wily antics of her four-legged friends. In Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, a century-old crime reawakens bad will—and stirs up a scandal that chills Sister to the bone. Sister Jane and the Jefferson Hunt Club have traveled from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to the Bluegrass State of Kentucky to ride with the members of the Woodford Hounds—in the teeth of foul weather. Sister knows better than anyone that an ill wind blows no good. After the hunt, Sister Jane and her boyfriend, Gray Lorillard, head to a sumptuous party on a nearby estate, also home to a historic equine graveyard. The revelry is interrupted by jarring news: The discovery of grisly remains in the cemetery that are decidedly not equine. Now Sister and her hounds are on the case, digging up clues to an old murder that links three well-connected Southern families. When mayhem follows the Jefferson Hunt back to Virginia, the deadly doings become all too real: A dear friend of Sister’s is found murdered. Sister and her animal friends must work fast to find a clever killer determined to keep deep-rooted secrets buried. A rollicking, riveting mystery, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie is a masterly novel full of colorful characters, gorgeous country landscapes, and the breathtaking thrill of the hunt. Praise for Let Sleeping Dogs Lie “A knotty murder mystery . . . Cunning foxes, sensible hounds, and sweet-tempered horses are among the sparkling conversationalists in this charming series starring Jane (Sister) Arnold. . . . The biggest thrills are riding out with Sister and her chatty hounds on a cold, crisp morning.”—The New York Times Book Review “[Brown] combines a clever plot, cherished characters and the beauty of nature and rural life to provide an entertaining whodunit.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch “Sister remains an intriguing and challenging sleuth. . . . [Brown’s] foxhunting titles are great for readers who like gentility with a wicked little twist.”—Library Journal “Enjoyable [and] pleasurable . . . Enough with the demographics of foxhunting as most people view it; if I’ve learned one thing from reading Rita Mae Brown, it is to expect the unexpected!”—Huntington News “Whether you’re a fox chaser or not, Brown’s storytelling skills will keep you entertained throughout.”—In & Around Horse Country “As usual, Brown is at her best when relaying the animals’ quirks and conversations, and mischievous foxes are a delight.”—Publishers Weekly “Fun . . . [Let Sleeping Dogs Lie takes] readers on an adventure.”—RT Book Reviews