Author : Garret Freymann-Weyr
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618055456
A new friendship with a boy who is both attractive and intelligent helps fifteen-year-old Sophie sort out her feelings about her younger brother Erhard, who died three years earlier, her self-centered older sister, and her distant father.
Author : Michael D. Langan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1453549420
Michael D. Langan was born in Buffalo, New York, in1937. He grew up in one of its suburbs,Lackawanna, New York.He is a graduate of Canisius College and S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo. Dr.Langan served in public and private educationfor a quarterof a century,19591984. In 1984, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he held several posts with the federal government.He retired from theDepartment of the Treasury in 1999.Dr. Langan has written short stories for the BBC WorldService, articles for The Boston Globe and numerous bookreviews, stories and op ed pieces for The Buffalo News. Thank you for letting me see your sketches from childhood. It is always a beguiling subject and you have touched it nicely and simply. - Paul Horgan, Wesleyan University. A book well-written about a life well-lived. David M. Shribman, Executive Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Langans stories are brimming with wonderful characters and scenes of a small blue-collar city in the 1940s. They offer not only a marvelous sense of place Lackawanna, New York, in the heyday of Big Steel but more importantly, an evocative sense of time. This was the America when mothers feared a polio epidemic, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt thrilled citizens with a drive through town in an open car, and when the only way a young Catholic boy could get out of the house at night was to visit the public library. It wasnt very long ago, but it is long gone. Luckily, Langan has captured it through a childs eyes, and were the richer for it. - Margaret Sullivan, Editor, Buffalo News.
Author : Catherine Ryan Hyde
Publisher : Random House
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 0552776688
From the pen of international bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a compelling, emotional and genuinely heartfelt novel that fans of Jodi Picoult, Susan Lewis, Mitch Alborn and Alice Sebold will absolutely devour. 'A remarkable story of the magic of love' -- Daily Express 'A work of art . . . enchanting' -- San Francisco Chronicle 'Surprisingly wonderful' --Mirror 'Very moving and sensitive' -- ***** Reader review 'I couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'Beautifully written, a charming and insightful story' -- ***** Reader review 'I absolutely loved this book' -- ***** Reader review 'Compelling from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review ****************************************************************** THE QUICKEST DECISION YOU MAKE COULD BE THE ONE THAT SAVES YOUR LIFE... I was doing my best to get out the door. And then the phone rang. I almost let it go. New York, September 11th 2001 Russell Ammiano is rushing to work when he gets a phone call that saves his life. As the city he loves is hit by unimaginable tragedy, Russell must turn his back and hurry home to Kansas. Kansas, September 14th 2001 Ben Ammiano is mentally disabled, and a creature of habit. Any change to his routine sends him into a spin. But now his estranged brother has reappeared, and Ben's simple, ordered world has turned upside down. In a story as heartbreaking as it is uplifting, two brothers must bury their pasts and learn from each other, if they are to survive.
Author : Sarah Valentine
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250146763
The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race. And so Sarah began the difficult and absorbing journey of changing her identity from white to black. In this memoir, Sarah details the story of the discovery of her identity, how she overcame depression to come to terms with this identity, and, perhaps most importantly, asks: why? Her entire family and community had conspired to maintain her white identity. The supreme discomfort her white family and community felt about addressing issues of race–her race–is a microcosm of race relationships in America. A black woman who lived her formative years identifying as white, Sarah's story is a kind of Rachel Dolezal in reverse, though her "passing" was less intentional than conspiracy. This memoir is an examination of the cost of being black in America, and how one woman threw off the racial identity she'd grown up with, in order to embrace a new one.
Author : Vilhelm Moberg
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Swedish fiction
ISBN : 0873519310
At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the poverty-stricken Swedish region of Småland, young Valter, the son of a soldier, explores the world around him and watches his older brothers emigrate to America. In this novel of the life of a farm boy, first published in three volumes in 1946, Vilhelm Moberg sensitively explores his own childhood. When Valter, a boy with great imagination, describes the exciting things he sees so vividly, he is punished for lying, so he learns to write his stories down instead. He willingly leaves school and helps support his family by working in lumber camps and a glass factory. His father’s ill health and death bring even harder times. Through all his toil, he debates whether to honor his father’s wish and remain in Sweden to support his mother. With gentle irony and a loving knowledge of the landscape, the people, and the larger issue of class struggle, Moberg offers American readers a deeply moving view of the other side of Swedish immigration.
Author : Sam Kashner
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0061873039
First student of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Sam Kashner tells with humor and grace his life with the Beats. But the best story is Kashner himself -- the coming-of-age of a young man in the chaotic world of the very idols he hoped to emulate. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Author : M. Desiree
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1456831135
After the death of her parents two and a half years ago, Olivia Mayor moves to Pinecrossing, Wyoming with her sister, Christine. Idaho has been the only state she knows and she feels like there’s truly nothing left for her anymore after she’s forced to move to Pinecrossing, WY. For two and a half years, Olivia has submerged herself deeply into a numb state. The death of her parents was tragic and she can’t accept the fact that they are gone. Rather than accept reality, she pushes herself as far away from it as possible. In denial, she submerges herself deeper and deeper into this numb world that she’s created for herself. However, after being in Pinecrossing for several weeks, the numb state begins to leave her and she is forced to step back into the world...what awaits her is nothing like she thought. Many ‘myths’ are going around the town about the forest. According to the legends, scary things—monsters—come out on the night of the full moon. Olivia knows for a fact that there is nothing going out in the forest like everyone believes...or is there? Tempting fate, Olivia goes out into the heart of the forest on a night of the full moon. What she discovers while there will change her whole thinking. She’s determined to solve whatever it is that’s going on in the forest. Along the journey to discovering answers, she falls deeply in love with the handsome and very mysterious Mark Walker. It does not take Olivia long to realize that he is a part of this mystery, too. He knows what’s going on in the forest on the nights of the full moon, but like everyone else, he pushes her away. Finding comfort in a strange white wolf who always lingers around her home, Olivia begins to open up to the wolf...giving him her whole heart. She doesn’t understand what is going on, but she promises that she will protect her wolf...no matter what. This wolf seems to be apart of her life...sewed to her, even. Without him she is positive that she won’t be able to breathe. But...after discovering the truth, will she feel the same? After Mark suddenly withdraws from her and her world seems like it’s crashing down, she discovers the truth. She discovers what’s really going on in her forest. She also uncovers the truth of what Mark is... On this long journey, can Olivia accept the truth of her parents ́ death and heal? Can she open up and let someone love her, giving her love in return? Can she, all in all, continue on with life even with all the pain and grieve that is a constant companion in her life?
Author : Charles B. Bugg
Publisher : Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781573123891
Many pastors come to ministry with the potentially lethal combination of low self-esteem and high expectations of themselves and others. While the minister is set aside to preach, he or she is not immune to the same struggles that everyone faces. How they deal with themselves as persons is reflected in their proclamations as pastor and preacher. Witness of a Fragile Servant looks at both the preparation of the preacher and the sermon. It tries to call ministers to care for themselves as well as to cultivate effective sermons.
Author : Amy Ehrlich
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2002-02-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763617349
Ten writers reflect on special childhood moments and provide individual explanations of how they became writers.
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Page : 556 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Literature
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