Author : Linda Leopold Strauss
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780761451631
Fourteen-year-old Jill forces her family out of denial when her father pleads guilty to a criminal act that isolates them from their friends and neighbors.
Author : Steven Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1101158018
From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop culture we soak in every day—from Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons—has been growing more sophisticated with each passing year, and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper. After reading Everything Bad is Good for You, you will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again. With a new afterword by the author.
Author : Dean Sikes
Publisher : Dean Sikes
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2024-08-08
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN :
Has someone hurt you? Do you feel rejected, even abandoned? Does it seem as if you don’t matter? Well, join the club. Though everyone wants to belong somewhere, there is one club no one ever wants to join. The members, filled with doubts and questions about themselves, wonder if they’re the only ones. Some even struggle with thoughts of suicide. If you find yourself in this club the good news is you’re not alone. In Everything’s Fine author Dean Sikes tells true stories from real teens just like you and your friends who have courageously shared their personal doubts, questions, and struggles with him. Their stories offer insights and messages of hope when you feel things, such as there’s always so much pressure to perform and measure up; I really don’t like the way I look; I probably deserved what they did to me because I’m so worthless; or nobody really cares about me or what happens to me. These stories also show how it’s possible to turn your pain into purpose, your anger into passion, your rejection into acceptance, and to see how forgiveness leads to freedom. And they help you discover, or rediscover, how much God really loves you. Read these riveting stories and embrace this truth: You were created on purpose, with purpose, for a purpose. You matter!
Author : Tadeusz Borowski
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2007-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810122030
In a brief life deeply and traumatically disrupted by two years in concentration camps as a political prisoner, Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) was tragically destined to become one of the most eloquent witnesses to the Holocaust in Poland. His recollections and stories, the most famous of which is This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, document in stark historical, literary, and personal terms the experience of the camps and its cost to humanity. The correspondence in this volume expands on the insights of Borowski's published work and extends to the less-documented aftermath of the Holocaust in postwar Poland and East Germany. The volume opens with Borowski's letter to his mother from Pawiak Prison the day after his arrest and closes with an unsigned telegram informing his parents of his suicide. This English edition also contains new material in the form of additional letters from the private collection of the family of Anatol Girs.Illustrated throughout with photographs and reproductions, the letters to and from family members, friends, and literary figures offer an indispensable picture of the world in the wake of the Nazis - and of the indelible stain that experience left upon the literature, politics, and life of Eastern Europe, in particular upon one gifted and doomed writer.
Author : Vince Granata
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982133457
Granata was a thousand miles from home when he received shocking news that his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home. Devastated by the grief of losing his mother, Granata was also consumed by the act itself, so incomprehensible that it overshadows every happy memory of life growing up in a seemingly idyllic middle-class family. He decides to examine the disease that irrecoverably changed his family's destiny and piece together his brother's story. In the painstaking process of recovering the image of his remarkable mother and salvaging the love for his brother as Tim faces trial for their mother's murder, Granata provides a powerful and reaffirming portrait of loss and forgiveness. -- adapted from jacket
Author : Stephanie Perkins
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1466863897
Twelve romantic holiday stories by twelve bestselling young adult authors edited by Stephanie Perkins. If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers (Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de La Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Stephanie Perkins, Laini Tayler and Kiersten White), edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there's something here for everyone. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love.
Author : Maxine Thomas
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1449771467
Perhaps Buddy Madsen set her husband goals too high. Th e man who wins her heart must gain her familys approval, be a good provider, love her unconditionally, and, most of all, share her strong faith. David Willoughby, the handsome New York architect who guest lectures her class, does not meet those goals. But Buddy is attracted to him. She petitions God to guard her heart, and they go their separate waysshe to the security of family, he to a marriage that promises social prominence and career advancement. At their next meeting several years later, Buddy recognizes positive changes in David. He has given up his philandering ways. She is delighted with the changes she sees in him. Perhaps they can develop a permanent relationship after all. Perhaps David can avoid the devastating consequences of his previous lifestyle. Or perhaps, for them, its just too late. Through every phase of their relationship, Buddy and David must choose between what is right and what is acceptable, what is honorable and what is selfish. But they are not perfect, and their desire to be together often drives them to take paths that could sideline their future, and their faith.
Author : Daniel Nayeri
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1646140028
A National Indie Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the Year A New York Times Best Book of the Year An Amazon Best Book of the Year A Booklist Editors' Choice A BookPage Best Book of the Year A NECBA Windows & Mirrors Selection A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year A Today.com Best of the Year PRAISE "A modern masterpiece." —The New York Times Book Review "Supple, sparkling and original." —The Wall Street Journal "Mesmerizing." —TODAY.com "This book could change the world." —BookPage "Like nothing else you've read or ever will read." —Linda Sue Park "It hooks you right from the opening line." —NPR SEVEN STARRED REVIEWS ★ "A modern epic." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ "A rare treasure of a book." —Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ "A story that soars." —The Bulletin, starred review ★ "At once beautiful and painful." —School Library Journal, starred review ★ "Raises the literary bar in children's lit." —Booklist, starred review ★ "Poignant and powerful." —Foreword Reviews, starred review ★ "One of the most extraordinary books of the year." —BookPage, starred review A sprawling, evocative, and groundbreaking autobiographical novel told in the unforgettable and hilarious voice of a young Iranian refugee. It is a powerfully layered novel that poses the questions: Who owns the truth? Who speaks it? Who believes it? "A patchwork story is the shame of the refugee," Nayeri writes early in the novel. In an Oklahoman middle school, Khosrou (whom everyone calls Daniel) stands in front of a skeptical audience of classmates, telling the tales of his family's history, stretching back years, decades, and centuries. At the core is Daniel's story of how they became refugees—starting with his mother's vocal embrace of Christianity in a country that made such a thing a capital offense, and continuing through their midnight flight from the secret police, bribing their way onto a plane-to-anywhere. Anywhere becomes the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy, and then finally asylum in the U.S. Implementing a distinct literary style and challenging western narrative structures, Nayeri deftly weaves through stories of the long and beautiful history of his family in Iran, adding a richness of ancient tales and Persian folklore. Like Scheherazade of One Thousand and One Nights in a hostile classroom, Daniel spins a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE (a true story) is a tale of heartbreak and resilience and urges readers to speak their truth and be heard.
Author : Carrie Mac
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 155469597X
Because of a moment of indiscretion, Hope's parents send her to New York to spend the summer with her hipster sister while they travel to Thailand. Miserable, Hope ends up meeting Nat, and developing a powerful crush. The only problem is that Nat is a girl. Hope is pretty sure she isn't gay. Or is she? Struggling with new feelings, fitting in and a strange city far from home, Hope finds that love—and acceptance—comes in many different forms.
Author : Peter Pomerantsev
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1541762134
Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this "insightful" account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times). When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy -- but our very notion of what those words even mean. Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia -- but the answers he finds there are not what he expected. Blending reportage, family history, and intellectual adventure, This Is Not Propaganda explores how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves when reality seems to be coming apart.
