Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810844407
A lively and informative look at the careers, works, and characteristics of the major librettists of the American theatre. Included are dozens of men and women who wrote the "books" for Broadway musicals over the past one hundred years, from George M. Cohan to the present day. Boy Loses Girl presents a whole new perspective for looking at the American musical theater. For film students, scholars and enthusiasts of the American musical theatre.
Author : John Bul Dau
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1426307292
One of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two convey the best of African values while relating searing accounts of famine and war. There’s warmth as well, in their humorous tales of adapting to American life. For its importance as a primary source, for its inclusion of the rarely told female perspective of Sudan’s lost children, for its celebration of human resilience, this is the perfect story to inform and inspire young readers.
Author : Peter Straub
Publisher :
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Abandoned houses
ISBN : 9780007142309
A new psychological thriller with links to his acclaimed bestsellers KOKO and THE THROAT -- from the co-author of the massive international No 1 bestseller BLACK HOUSE. From the prolific and ferocious imagination of Peter Straub, the acclaimed master of literary horror, springs a groundbreaking story of the persistence of evil told with tantalizing ambiguity and formal audacity. A woman kills herself for no apparent reason. A week later, her teenage son disappears. The vanished boy's uncle, Timothy Underhill -- familiar to Straub's readers from Koko and The Throat -- is compelled to return to his hometown of Millhaven to discover what he can. A madman known as the Sherman Park Killer has been haunting the neighbourhood, but Underhill believes that Mark's obsession with a local abandoned house is at the root of his disappearance. He fears that in peeling back the house's hideous secrets, Mark came across its last and greatest secret -- a lost girl, one who has coaxed Mark deeper and deeper into her mysterious domain where he must encounter a fearsome adversary.
Author : Lisa Schroeder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442443995
Very good friends, her poetry notebooks, and a mysterious "ninja of nice" give 17-year-old Rae the strength to face her mother's neglect, her stepfather's increasing abuse, and a new boyfriend's obsessiveness.
Author : Peter Straub
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2004-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0449149919
A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son– fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill–vanishes. His uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide, Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.
Author : Julie Beard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780028631967
Takes the budding romance novelist through the entire process of developing story ideas, editing, finding publishers, and marketing.
Author : Louis Sachar
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0747589771
An action-packed, humorous tale from mega-selling Louis Sachar, author of HOLES.
Author : Sangu Mandanna
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062082337
Eva's life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination—an echo. She was made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her "other," if she ever died. Eva spends every day studying that girl from far away, learning what Amarra does, what she eats, what it's like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready. But sixteen years of studying never prepared her for this. Now she must abandon everything and everyone she's ever known—the guardians who raised her, the boy she's forbidden to love—to move to India and convince the world that Amarra is still alive. What Eva finds is a grief-stricken family; parents unsure how to handle this echo they thought they wanted; and Ray, who knew every detail, every contour of Amarra. And when Eva is unexpectedly dealt a fatal blow that will change her existence forever, she is forced to choose: Stay and live out her years as a copy or leave and risk it all for the freedom to be an original. To be Eva. From debut novelist Sangu Mandanna comes the dazzling story of a girl who was always told what she had to be—until she found the strength to decide for herself.
Author : Anne Ursu
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062275119
Three starred reviews A Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of 2019 Anne Ursu, author of the National Book Award nominee The Real Boy, returns with a story of the power of fantasy, the limits of love, and the struggles inherent in growing up. When you’re an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant—and from their first moments in the world together, they’ve never left each other’s side. Everyone around them realized early on what the two sisters already knew: they had better outcomes when they were together. When fifth grade arrives, however, it's decided that Iris and Lark should be split into different classrooms, and something breaks in them both. Iris is no longer so confident; Lark retreats into herself as she deals with challenges at school. And at the same time, something strange is happening in the city around them, things both great and small going missing without a trace. As Iris begins to understand that anything can be lost in the blink of an eye, she decides it’s up to her to find a way to keep her sister safe.
Author : Marghanita Laski
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Missing children
ISBN :
Hilary Wainright, a young English poet, had lost his wife and child in France during the war.
