Download or read book The Wild Robot written by Peter Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.

Download or read book Tenth of December written by George Saunders and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.

Download or read book The Football Girl written by Thatcher Heldring and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book

Download or read book Simple Abundance written by Sarah Ban Breathnach and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of crisis, countless women have turned to Simple Abundance for comfort and joy -- and now this mega-bestselling guide is updated and expanded for everyone who loved the original book, as well as a new generation that needs it now more than ever. First published in 1995, Simple Abundancetopped the New York Times Bestseller list for over two years and is responsible for introducing two hugely popular concepts -- the "Gratitude Journal" and the term "Authentic Self." With daily inspirational meditations and reflections, the Simple Abundance phenomenon became a touchstone for a generation of women, helping them to reclaim their true selves, find balance during life's busiest moments, and rediscover what makes them truly happy. Simple Abundance's powerful messages are needed now more than ever, as we navigate the discord and stress instigated by a constant stream of "breaking news" cycles, and our 24/7 social media culture. Sarah Ban Breathnach has refreshed her bestselling phenomenon to address the needs of a new generation, with her signature candor, wit, and wisdom that made her a trusted and compassionate confidant for millions of women. A perennial classic whose time has come again, Sarah's work celebrates quiet joys, simple pleasures, and well-spent moments and reminds us how to find the beauty in the everyday.

Download or read book The Undying written by Anne Boyer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION "The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." —Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." —Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. Includes black-and-white illustrations

Download or read book The Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude written by Sarah Ban Breathnach and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised with a fresh introduction, updated quotes, and a charming, contemporary aesthetic. "Gratitude is the most passionate, transformative force in the Cosmos." This beautiful companion journal to the national bestseller Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, the mega-bestselling guide that has led so many women to live fulfilling, harmonious, and joyful lives, has been refreshed for fans of the original Simple Abundance Gratitude Journal -- and a whole new generation of journalers. The Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude offers insight via uplifting, inspirational quotes and gives women a place to record their daily moments of gratitude. Through daily practice, this journal can help you embrace everyday epiphanies: profound moments of awe that forever alter your experience of the world.

Download or read book Unbearable Splendor written by Sun Yung Shin and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Sun Yung Shin: Finalist for the Believer Poetry Award "[her] work reads like redactions, offering fragments to be explored, investigated and interrogated, making her reader equal partner in the creation of meaning."—Star Tribune Sun Yung Shin moves ideas—of identity (Korean, American, adoptee, mother, Catholic, Buddhist) and interest (mythology, science fiction, Sophocles)— around like building blocks, forming and reforming new constructions of what it means to be at home. What is a cyborg but a hybrid creature of excess? A thing that exceeds the sum of its parts. A thing that has extended its powers, enhanced, even superpowered.

Download or read book An Anthropologist on Mars written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality. Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.

Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Strangers I Know written by Claudia Durastanti and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, contemporary and urgent novel from a renowned Italian writer that examines silence in different forms, immigration, family and social class.

Download or read book Getting Ready for the 4th Grade Assessment Tests written by Erika Warecki and published by Learning Express (NY). This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting Ready for the 4th Grade Assessment Test: Help Improve Your Child’s Math and English Skills – Many parents are expressing a demand for books that will help their children succeed and excel on the fourth grade assessment tests in math and English –especially in areas where children have limited access to computers. This book will help students practice basic math concepts, i.e., number sense and applications as well as more difficult math, such as patterns, functions, and algebra. English skills will include practice in reading comprehension, writing, and vocabulary. Rubrics are included for self-evaluation.

Download or read book Letters to My Mommy Notebook written by Family Valley Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get your unique Composition Notebook, A Perfect thoughtful Keepsake gift for new parents!!! This is the perfect Mother's Day composition notebook for your Mom! No more boring marble copy books. This adorable patterned writing school book is wide ruled, perfect for little hands. Printed with vibrant colors on a velvety soft-back cover that easily folds back for writing. Go Mothers Day Gift in style with composition books in the coolest styles! Our Composition Notebooks are perfect for Moms, Aunts and Teachers. You will find a wide variety of beautiful covers and quality interiors for all tastes! More details: 110 Pages High Quality Interior Stock Cute and Elegant designs High Quality Soft Cover Perfect 6"x 9" size Awesome for School, Work, and as a creative Gift. Be optimistic this year.

Download or read book Letters to My Daughter written by one Joyandful Journals and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking to write thoughtful messages, advice, memories, and love letters to your baby girl as she grows?Letters to my Daughter is the perfect baby keepsake gift from a mother to daughter to write sweet letters to her little ones. Offers parents, especially from mom to daughter, a unique way to send love, support, and advice to a girl of any age.Use this lined journal book to capture all of the moving, proud or funny moments throughout your daughters childhood while they are still clear in your mind. Write a personal letter to your daughter on a regular basis to share memories, love, and words of wisdom.One idea is to make writing a letter to your daughter an annual tradition where you write a letter every year on her birthday. Or write your thoughts for your baby girl on a regular basis as you watch her grow.Makes the perfect, personal gift for any parent, baby shower gifts, 1st birthday gifts, new births, birthday party gifts, a mom to be gift, or any other occasion that is special for celebrating your daughter.What special messages would you want to share with your baby daughter?JOURNAL FEATURES: * 6"×9" Softcover Journal Cover * Lined pages in the interior * Can be used as a personal diary, writing journal, or to record your personal thoughts, goals, and things to remember. * A convenient and perfect size to easily fit in your purse or backpack. * Features the words "Letters to my Daughter" on the elegant cover. * Makes the perfect, personal gift for any parent, baby shower gifts, 1st birthday gifts, new births, birthday party gifts, a mom to be gift, or any other occasion that is special for celebrating your daughter.

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Download or read book Letters to My Mom Notebook written by Family Valley Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get your unique Composition Notebook, A Perfect thoughtful Keepsake gift for new parents!!! This is the perfect Mother's Day composition notebook for your Mom! No more boring marble copy books. This adorable patterned writing school book is wide ruled, perfect for little hands. Printed with vibrant colors on a velvety soft-back cover that easily folds back for writing. Go Mothers Day Gift in style with composition books in the coolest styles! Our Composition Notebooks are perfect for Moms, Aunts and Teachers. You will find a wide variety of beautiful covers and quality interiors for all tastes! More details: 110 Pages High Quality Interior Stock Cute and Elegant designs High Quality Soft Cover Perfect 6"x 9" size Awesome for School, Work, and as a creative Gift. Be optimistic this year.

Download or read book Dear Daughter written by Emma's Posh Journals and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect journal to capture thoughts for your DAUGHTER as She grows. Makes a great gift for new or expectant mothers, fathers or parents and Perfect for: Mother's Day gift Father's Day gift baby shower gift mom / dad to be gift new birth gift girl's 1st birthday gift birthday gift for mom and dad Detial: SIZE: 6x9 Inches COVER: Perfect Matte Softcover PAGES: 120 Lined Journal Pages Great gift idea for a new baby /as a baby shower gift and on any occasion. Order today!

Download or read book Letters to My Daughter written by mother's journals publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Letters To My Daughter" is the perfect keepsake notebook from a parent to a child. Create an heirloom piece by leaving advice, thoughts, or support to your child. A 120 page journal notebook perfect as an alternative card for your mother on Mother's Day. The smaller 6 x 9 in size is light and portable, and makes the perfect gift! Some ideas: Milestones (growing up, quotes, funny things kids say) A mother's journal of the strong emotions of babyhood as well as the struggles of a new mother's heart. Birthday letters every year recapping the last year and giving love and support into the next. Letters of advice as your child grows up and things you want him/her to know when older and as they transition into teenage or young adult years. Document your feelings and love as a mother to your child on days as they happen or as the love for your child overwhelms you suddenly as it does occasionally for all parents. Write letters outlining prayers for your child over the years as they grow and their experiences change. journal Features: Premium Soft Cover, Matte Finish 6" x 9" 120 lined pages front and back