Who's On My Side? The Story of Kalen Brown


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Since the age of eight, Kalen Brown has been mentally and physically abused by his alcoholic father, Michael Brown. Now at eighteen years old and in search of a way out of this ten year nightmare, Kalen is given an opportunity to make some fast cash as a pick up man for a major gun runner named, Big Boss. Kalen's summer after graduating high school is filled with many mixed emotions, which leaves him to question his own self worth and also who is really on his side. His best friends, Jesse and Sharee have been doing their best to protect him from his father through the years, but the strained father/son relationship has reached its boiling point. Kalen must face the man who he calls the living devil. One way or another, with all of the conflict that has risen in his life, Kalen's journey with Michael and Big Boss will come to an end during this summer.




My Side of the Mountain


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"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book




The One Who Stood By My Side


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A teenager; arrogant, ignorant, busy with himself, yet focused; like almost all teenager in town finds being a parent is no big deal, mothers are meant to care and that's their given job. Slowly Life unfolds the secrets of itself... He was to soon find out the ordeal of life, most importantly, the ordeal of being a mother in a word spread equality following India. Would he be able to endure the unaware facts around him? Brimming with suspense, laughter, and emotions, The One Who Stood By My Side is an iconic book by Vedant Bhrambhatt. This book can make you laugh, will certainly make you cry. And above all, this will make you think, on issues that really matter. It's on a topic that matters more than any topic you can think of. As stated by a great philosopher love and respect are sub-set of the economy. It simply means that if we are receiving love and respect from someone it's our duty to deliver back the same. But in this modernising and westernising India of kalyuga, this philosophical concept is just limited to its inference and argument. This concept in kalyuga holds no place between the world's purest and selfless relationship of a mother & a child. This book is trying to draw the reader's attention on a topic that holds the highest priority in the list of human conduct with respect to humanity. As here, the concern is about the relationship that develops with the onset of one's very first breath.




The Other Side of the Siderail: Memoirs of a Nurse Who Became a Patient


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After decades of taking care of other people, a nurse suddenly wakes up one morning and can barely walk. Terrified and alone, she struggles to find the cause of her symptoms. After six weeks of frustrating visits to uncaring and distant medical professionals punctuated by a series of painful tests and worsening symptoms, she is almost relieved to learn that she has a lesion on her spinal cord. At least she finally knows what's wrong with her! But the surgery that was supposed to cure her leaves her arms paralyzed and her legs so weak she needs to use a walker. Told with humor and compassion, this true story is both an indictment of the medical professions and a reminder to all of us to see the person inside of the patient.







Angel by My Side


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Relates how a golden retriever named Dakota became an invaluable companion for Mike Lingenfelter during his recovery from two serious heart attacks and open heart surgery.




Who's Schooling Who


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A call to action for transforming America's education system. An important offering to this critical conversation on today's education issues. Who's Schooling Who? helps the reader find their place in making immediate changes.







While We Run


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It's 2127, and the future is at stake . . . Abdi Taalib thought he was moving to Australia for a music scholarship. But after meeting the beautiful and brazen Tegan Oglietti, his world was turned upside down. Tegan's no ordinary girl - she died in 2027, only to be frozen and brought back to life in Abdi's time, 100 years later. Now, all they want is for things to return to normal (or as normal as they can be), but the government has other ideas. Especially since the two just spilled the secrets behind Australia's cryonics project to the world. On the run, Abdi and Tegan have no idea who they can trust - and, when they uncover startling new details about the program, they realize that thousands of lives may be in their hands. Karen Healey offers a suspenseful, page-turning companion to When We Wake that will keep readers on the edge of their seats and make them call into question their own ideas about morality -- and mortality, too.