Author : Janice Poon
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554533821
Claire starts a friendship with Sky, a girl from Lovesick Lake community, who tells Claire that the water in the lake is making people sick, has someone has been secretly dumping waste nearby?
Author : Janice Poon
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554533813
Claire starts a friendship with Sky, a girl from Lovesick Lake community, who tells Claire that the water in the lake is making people sick, has someone has been secretly dumping waste nearby?
Author : Claire Llewellyn
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780764133275
Teaches children the different ways to keep safe when in or near the water.
Author : Janice Poon
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2008-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554532868
A girl, her dog and her best friend must catch the Bakery Thief -- a recipe for fun and adventure in a graphic novel that girls will devour.
Author : Regan Claire
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781495484636
Della Doe Deare isn't like most people. Most people begin their life on the day they enter the world; the day they're born. Della, well, hers began on the day she turned eighteen. After all, it was the day she first heard her real name, and that of her mothers. With nothing but a couple of duffel bags and a folder full of questions, she travels home to coastal North Carolina to claim the house she inherited from a grandmother she never knew. She has two goals: discover why her mother ran away from home all those years ago, and avoid the family that had left her to rot in an inept foster care system. Hard to do when the family she's been trying to avoid is dragging her into an unimaginable world... a world on the brink of war, and both sides want her dead. All Della ever wanted was to know who she was, but the journey to self-discovery might just lead to her destruction.
Author : Elizabeth Gilpin
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1538735423
A gripping chronicle of psychological manipulation and abuse at a “therapeutic” boarding school for troubled teens, and how one young woman fought to heal in the aftermath. At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student, a state-ranked swimmer and a rising soccer star, but behind closed doors her undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc on her life. Growing angrier by the day, she began skipping practices and drinking to excess. At a loss, her parents turned to an educational consultant who suggested Elizabeth be enrolled in a behavioral modification program. That recommendation would change her life forever. The nightmare began when she was abducted from her bed in the middle of the night by hired professionals and dropped off deep in the woods of Appalachia. Living with no real shelter was only the beginning of her ordeal: she was strip-searched, force-fed, her name was changed to a number and every moment was a test of physical survival. After three brutal months, Elizabeth was transferred to a boarding school in Southern Virginia that in reality functioned more like a prison. Its curriculum revolved around a perverse form of group therapy where students were psychologically abused and humiliated. Finally, at seventeen, Elizabeth convinced them she was rehabilitated enough to “graduate” and was released. In this eye-opening and unflinching book, Elizabeth recalls the horrors she endured, the friends she lost to suicide and addiction, and—years later—how she was finally able to pick up the pieces of her life and reclaim her identity.
Author : Claire Messud
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781649697295
A JEWEL OF A NOVEL BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CLAIRE MESSUD. When the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Australia feels, to Alice Armstrong, like the end of the earth. Residing in a grand manor on the glittering Sydney Harbour, her family finds their life has turned upside down. As she navigates this strange new world, Alice must find a way to weave an existence from its shimmering mirage. Lies and self-deception are at the heart of this keenly observed story. This is a sharp, biting and playful tale with a cast of unscrupulous characters adrift in a dream life of their own making. Written with the characteristic delicacy of touch, humour and emotional insight that make Claire Messud one of our greatest writers. '[Messud is] among our greatest contemporary writers.' -- The New Yorker 'A perfect frolic of a book, puffed on breezes of beauty and wit: it waltzes you through a little fear, a little darkness, and tips you out, refreshed and laughing, into the sun.' -- Helen Garner 'Witty, arch and acutely observed, A Dream Life expertly captures the excruciating insecurities of class in our supposedly classless society.' -- Geraldine Brooks 'A novelist of unnerving talent.' -- The New York Times
Author : Diana Gabaldon
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307368017
In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears . . . into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it “a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].” Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart’s Blood. 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington’s troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie’s wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces. The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in twentieth-century Scotland. Or not. In fact, Brianna is searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family’s secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy . . . never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself. Written in My Own Heart’s Blood is the brilliant next chapter in a masterpiece of the imagination unlike any other.
Author : Claire Vaye Watkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594488258
The extraordinary debut collection from the Guggenheim Award-winning author of the forthcoming Gold Fame Citrus Winner of the 2012 Story Prize Recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2013 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award Named one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" fiction writers of 2012 Winner of New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award NPR Best Short Story Collections of 2012 A Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Time Out New York Best Book of the year, and more . . . Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it. Her characters orbit around the region's vast spaces, winning redemption despite - and often because of - the hardship and violence they endure. The arrival of a foreigner transforms the exchange of eroticism and emotion at a prostitution ranch. A prospecting hermit discovers the limits of his rugged individualism when he tries to rescue an abused teenager. Decades after she led her best friend into a degrading encounter in a Vegas hotel room, a woman feels the aftershock. Most bravely of all, Watkins takes on - and reinvents - her own troubled legacy in a story that emerges from the mayhem and destruction of Helter Skelter. Arcing from the sweeping and sublime to the minute and personal, from Gold Rush to ghost town to desert to brothel, the collection echoes not only in its title but also in its fierce, undefeated spirit the motto of her home state.
Author : Mary Labatt
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2010-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554534712
Sam, the detective dog, joins his friends Jennie and Beth in an investigation of a mummy in search of his missing shaggy white dog.
