Author : Nick Earls
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618452958
While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend Naomi, whose active love life is audible through the wall between their bedrooms.
Author : Ashok Banker
Publisher :
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1911373943
I am brown. I am beautiful. I am perfect. I designed this computer. I ran this race. I won this prize. I wrote this book. A joyful celebration of the skin you're in - of being brown, of being amazing, of being you.
Author : Sharon Garlough Brown
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0830865268
Wren Crawford is a social worker whose struggles with anxiety and depression are starting to overcome her. She finds solace in art and spiritual formation along with traditional therapeutic interventions, but a relationship from her past threatens to undo her progress. As Wren seeks healing in this beautifully written novel, readers are invited to move beyond pat answers into an experience of hope that illuminates the darkness.
Author : Sandra L. Pinkney
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780439802512
Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African American children. On board pages.
Author : Sharon Garlough Brown
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0830843051
Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they reluctantly arrive at a retreat center and find themselves drawn out of their separate stories of isolation and struggle and into a collective journey of spiritual practice, mutual support and personal revelation.
Author : Nick Earls
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618457816
From the author of "48 Shades of Brown" comes this funny and touching novel about a 17-year-old boy's last summer before he enters the "real world."
Author : Nick Earls
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143009826
Jon, Rick and Jen are in their mid-twenties and share a house in Brisbane. Together they share food rituals, sporadic cocktail nights and the quest for love. Rick seems destined to long, lonely nights beneath his Porky Pig doona. Jen consumes men like chocolate bars. And Jon gets lucky in a way he's never expected - more women than he knows how to handle. A young doctor with grand plans for the hormone of darkness, he finds his life is spiralling way out of control. Bachelor Kisses is the mess Jon Marshall makes of his life when it stops making sense. It's the story of one man's hilarious search for meaning: a chaotic comedy of misjudgements, misinformation and misguided intimacy.
Author : Stephanie Fleary
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2015-02-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780991556304
Chocolatey Brown wakes up each morning unsure of what makes her beautiful. Her dark skin tone is very different then her family and friends and she struggles with embracing her chocolate skin. She faces ridicule from classmates and doesn't have many role models to follow except for her teacher Ms. Honey. With the encouragement of Ms. Honey, she begins to gain confidence in herself and realizes that if she believes her chocolate brown skin is beautiful than she is in fact beautiful. This book and movement is for the sun kissed beauties both young and old teaching them that all shades of brown are beautiful. Extra Features: Cake Recipes Children's Circle Games A Glossary of Educational Terms Affirmations for Building Self-Esteem Join Ms. Honey as she teaches young Chocolatey Brown the power of self belief."
Author : Karen Katz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1250811155
A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective. Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades. Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people. Karen Katz created The Colors of Us for her daughter, Lena, whom she and her husband adopted from Guatemala six years ago.
Author : Nick Earls
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1743433107
From the disgraceful Crème de Menthe incident in their early med school days in 1981, to their time as Brisbane's maestros of fried chicken, all the way to a disastrous attempt at the 2012 New York marathon, Phil Harris and Frank Green have been an unlikely but enduring duo. For the first time, Green puts all the short stories together with the novel World of Chickens, plus a brand new piece to bring this uneasy friendship all the way to the present.
