Author : Jaer Armstead-Jones
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781098377007
A gripping YA story that entertains and addresses a societal issue that many people, especially young people, face: fatherlessness. This story of three teenagers struggling to navigate their personal problems while just trying to be kids, forces them to make decisions that affect their lives and ultimately the lives of those they love. Teens and young adults will love this novel, however, anyone would enjoy the surprising plot twists that affect the likable characters.
Author : Candice Ragland
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Absentee fathers
ISBN : 9781937741556
Why me? As a fatherless daughter, your interpretation of society is a little different. Incomplete is what you constantly feel when you see fathers on television, in the grocery store, and on social media. And no matter how much you try to voice your feelings, you steadily are sucked into life's woes. Perfection is the perfect way for you to mentally escape. Ultimately, you never deal with the trials of your childhood, leaving you to grow into a person that lacks confidence in your emotional voice. Candice's life-changing journey will show you how to come to terms with who you truly are. Full of raw feelings, interesting twists, and a desperate plea for peace, it will help you transform your life into the best "you" you can be. This book is what you've truly been looking for. Join Candice as she takes you on her journey of coming face-to-face with being a fatherless daughter, to living an amazing life filled with healing and wholeness.
Author : Kristen-Paige Madonia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481430718
A Simon & Schuster Book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Author : Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1596438037
Laureth Peak's father has taught her to look for recurring events, patterns, and numbers--a skill at which she's remarkably talented. Her secret: She is blind. But when her father goes missing, Laureth and her 7-year-old brother Benjamin are thrust into a mystery that takes them to New York City where surviving will take all her skill at spotting the amazing, shocking, and sometimes dangerous connections in a world full of darkness. Marcus Sedgwick's She Is Not Invisible is an intricate puzzle of a novel that sheds a light on the delicate ties that bind people to each other. This title has Common Core connections.
Author : Sean R. Simmons
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781649901446
Seven-year-old Sean hopped off the bus after school one Friday afternoon to terrible news. After his first week of second grade his family had to tell him that his father passed away. The Day My Dad Turned Invisible follows Sean as he experiences death for the first time in his life as he tries to get a grasp of what it really means when someone passes away. This true story by Sean R. Simmons shares his experience as a young child going through different emotions as he asks his family members questions to get an understanding of the events that went on after his father passed away. Ultimately Sean grasps the meaning of death and learns to deal with it the best he knows how.
Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524760803
Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017 Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017 Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more. In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.
Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0571266746
'One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling.
Author : Aimee Bender
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030780447X
Aimee Bender’s stunning debut collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, proved her to be one of the freshest voices in American fiction. Now, in her first novel, she builds on that early promise. Mona Gray was ten when her father contracted a mysterious illness and she became a quitter, abandoning each of her talents just as pleasure became intense. The only thing she can’t stop doing is math: She knocks on wood, adds her steps, and multiplies people in the park against one another. When Mona begins teaching math to second-graders, she finds a ready audience. But the difficult and wonderful facts of life keep intruding. She finds herself drawn to the new science teacher, who has an unnerving way of seeing through her intricately built façade. Bender brilliantly directs her characters, giving them unexpected emotional depth and setting them in a calamitous world, both fancifully surreal and startlingly familiar. BONUS MATERIAL: This edition includes an excerpt from Aimee Bender's The Color Master.
Author : Laura Schroff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451648979
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.
Author : Jenny Molberg
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 2017
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781936797929
Poetry. Winner of the Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Press's First/Second Book Award, selected by Jeffrey Harrison. In this award-winning debut collection, the smallest things of the world bear enormous emotive weight. For Jenny Molberg, the invisible and barely visible are forms of memory, articulations of our place in the cosmos. Parsing the intersections between science and personal history, and contemplating archival letters from 17th- and 18th- century scientists along with new studies in biological phenomena, Molberg's poems examine complexities of relationships with parents and the faultiness of certainty about earthly permanence. In the title poem, a child begins by looking at an ant through a microscope, and later, as a husband and father, with the same discerning eye he recognizes the cancer in his wife's breast. MARVELS OF THE INVISIBLE sounds the depths of both grief and amazement, two kinds of awareness inseparably entwined.
