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Surviving Sam

Author : Karen Rivers

Publisher : Global Professional Publishi

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 40,80 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9781551925066

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Surviving Sam is Pagan Riddler's story. It begins three years after her twin brother, Sam, dies in an avalanche that roars down the mountain they are climbing together. Now Pagan is in her final year of high school and struggling to come out from under the shadow of Sam's death. She has seen a string of doctors to repair her body and fix her deep depression, but she still wakes up every morning longing for Sam to be alive. Soon life becomes complicated again: her parents might be splitting up, her friends are keeping big secrets from her, and as graudation looms she needs to decide what to do with the rest of her life. Then comes the most difficult blow of all: Sam's body is found at last, and Pagan must accept that her brother is really and truly dead.



Class A

Author : Lucas Mann

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 44,13 MB

Release : 2013-05-07

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 0307907554

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An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself. Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the story of the 2010 season of the Clinton LumberKings. Along the Mississippi River, in a Depression-era stadium, young prospects from all over the world compete for a chance to move up through the baseball ranks to the major leagues. Their coaches, some of whom have spent nearly half a century in the game, watch from the dugout. In the bleachers, local fans call out from the same seats they’ve occupied year after year. And in the distance, smoke rises from the largest remaining factory in a town that once had more millionaires per capita than any other in America. Mann turns his eye on the players, the coaches, the fans, the radio announcer, the town, and finally on himself, a young man raised on baseball, driven to know what still draws him to the stadium. His voice is as fresh and funny as it is poignant, illuminating both the small triumphs and the harsh realities of minor-league ball. Part sports story, part cultural exploration, part memoir, Class A is a moving and unique study of why we play, why we watch, and why we remember.



All Secrets Told

Author : Samantha Carter

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 175 pages

File Size : 25,16 MB

Release : 2012-11-08

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1479729701

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Kate was born to a mother who had already shown signs of an abusive and cruel nature. Her grandmother unsuccessfully tried to keep her eldest granddaughter safe but when the new family emigrated to the other side of the world, young Kates fate was sealed. As the eldest of a large family she knew it was her job to defend and protect her siblings, be the household slave and try to make her mother happy and her father notice her once in a while. Kates job ended when she was forced to marry a man she feared. Her siblings never forgave her for abandoning them; leaving them in the hands of a woman whose rages never ceased. . The die was cast for a life of abuse, fear and depression. The life of Cinderella the doormat. The one thing that kept Kates indomitable spirit alive and safe was hope and a tiny sliver of self-respect that said she didnt deserve the life that she was living, even though she believed she had no choices. Kates survival strategy was to comply with their mothers demands and do all that was demanded of her, while expecting nothing of herself. After many years the strategy failed and Kate found herself down a rabbit hole of insanity. Her journey to free herself from depression and gain awareness had begun A journey to finally put her past to rest and to discover who she is . Kate is soon to realize what courage really means when evil returns to terrorize her. She discovers that she has little time or energy for the one thing that she had previously given herself so freely to..fear ; so when physical pain threatens her very life, she rediscovers that her spirituality is, as always there to protect, heal and give her the strength to survive once again. Most of all Kate knows that the best that life has to offer can never be destroyed, no matter how hot the flames. This is a heroic journey of a woman who is betrayed, abused and abandoned; who meets the true tests of courage and self-belief and who finally reaches enlightenment to discover what love truly is.



Flip Your Classroom

Author : Jonathan Bergmann

Publisher : International Society for Technology in Education

Page : 123 pages

File Size : 23,36 MB

Release : 2012-06-21

Category : Education

ISBN : 1564844684

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Learn what a flipped classroom is and why it works, and get the information you need to flip a classroom. You’ll also learn the flipped mastery model, where students learn at their own pace, furthering opportunities for personalized education. This simple concept is easily replicable in any classroom, doesn’t cost much to implement, and helps foster self-directed learning. Once you flip, you won’t want to go back!



Building with Earth

Author : Gernot Minke

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 30,60 MB

Release : 2012-10-02

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 3764378735

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For a number of years, the healthy and environment-friendly building material earth, in common use for thousands of years, has been enjoying increasing popularity, including in industrialized nations. In hot dry and temperate climate zones, earth offers numerous advantages over other materials. Its particular texture and composition also holds great aesthetic appeal. The author’s presentation reflects the rich and varied experiences gained over thirty years of building earth structures all over the world. Numerous photographs of construction sites and drawings show the concrete execution of earth architecture.



Exoputians

Author : AJ Pagan IV

Publisher : AJ Pagan IV

Page : 437 pages

File Size : 14,93 MB

Release : 2024-04-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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As the Second American Civil War wanes, Mary the Exoputian awaits her chance to contact the Folbulae—a highly advanced species of extraterrestrial, only to be hunted down by the dictator of the Sovereign States of America, Vladimir Booth. With rising tides and thawing tundra, the Exoputians—a new species of human genetically created to live in Space and communicate with the Folbulae, land in the Republic of Texas following a missile strike on their space station. Mary and the other Exoputians learn of the lies their progenitor taught them, training the space-bred crew to use their novel communication to cure the planet they’d never set foot on. As Mary and the others road trip through racially segregated America, they encounter multiple attempts on their lives to follow through with their once-mission of saving the planet from the climate crisis. Discover with Mary what’s worth saving on a planet prepared to destroy her entire species. Content Warning: This novel is about the Second American Civil War, a race war. As such, it contains references to racism, police brutality, war, profanity, hate speech, violence, violence against minorities, racial slurs, sexual violence, drug use, death/murder, descriptions of gore, school shootings, animal death, slavery, terrorism, torture, kidnapping, homophobia, child death, alcohol/ism, and possibly others.



Playing Away

Author : Adele Parks

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 378 pages

File Size : 19,76 MB

Release : 2001-02-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0743418514

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It's sexy. It's roguish. It's hilarious. It's a sensational debut novel from London, a joyously comic take on modern marriage and its fallout. Single people may feel they have it rough...but wait until you see what happens when married folk fall in lust. Connie Green's life should be perfect. She has a hot career, her wonderful husband Luke, and a bunch of great girlfriends. But Connie has a big problem. She has just met overwhelmingly sexy John at a business conference. Her head and her heart said, "no way," but her traitorous body shrieked, "yes, YES!" Now Connie's deep into a tawdry affair, which is destroying her peace of mind and her grand plan for Happily Ever After. Maybe John is her destiny. After all, she's losing weight. It can't be a bad thing if she's losing weight. Can it? Connie longs to confide in her girlfriends. They've always discussed their sex lives before, preferably over cocktails. But this infidelity thing makes it a trifle awkward. Rose would be horrified. For her, it's pretty clear-cut; nice girls don't have affairs. And Daisy is too busy being in love. Sam knows about John but she doesn't want to believe it. How could and why would Connie cheat on her lovely husband? Sam's working hard to ignore the fact that Connie's shagging John every chance she gets. Maybe Lucy would understand; she's bonking a married man herself. Connie just wishes Lucy would be a little less cynical about the whole thing. What Connie wants is...Well, Connie's not quite sure what she wants. And that's exactly the trouble. A novel for every woman juggling the untidy mix of work, romance, sex, and marriage, Playing Away shimmers with equal parts comic relief and penetrating insight. As Connie and her brave, silly, colorful friends search for answers along the precarious paths of love and lust, we glimpse more than a little bit of ourselves. With bold strokes both moving and outrageously funny, Adele Parks has crafted a stunningly revealing portrait of the lives of hip, urban women, poised at the cusp of a millennium.



The Caregiver

Author : Samuel Park

Publisher : Simon & Schuster

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 43,42 MB

Release : 2019-07-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1501178792

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From the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes a “luminous mother-daughter saga” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young woman who is forced to flee 1980s Brazil for California, and in doing so unearths the hidden life of her enigmatic mother. Mara Alencar’s mother Ana is her moon, her sun, her stars. Ana, a struggling voice-over actress, is an admirably brave and recklessly impulsive woman who does everything in her power to care for her little girl in perilous 1980s Rio de Janeiro. With no other family or friends her own age, Ana eclipses Mara’s entire world. They take turns caring for each other—in ways big and small. But who is Ana, really? As she grows older, Mara slowly begins to piece together the many facets of Ana’s complicated life—a mother, a rebel, and always, an actress. When Ana becomes involved with a civilian rebel group attempting to undermine the city’s cruel Police Chief, their fragile arrangement begins to unravel. Mara is forced to flee the only home she’s ever known, for California, where she lives as an undocumented immigrant, caregiving for a dying woman. It’s here that she begins to grapple with her turbulent past and starts to uncover vital truths—about her mother, herself, and what it means to truly take care of someone. A “lovely and heartbreaking” (People) story that is “simultaneously dreamlike and visceral” (The Atlantic), The Caregiver is “a beautiful testament to Samuel Park’s extraordinary talents as a storyteller…that reads, in some moments, like a thriller—and, in others, like a meditation on what it means to be alive…A ferocious page-turner with deep wells of compassion for the struggles of the living—and the sins of the dead” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).



The Italian's Secret Baby

Author : Kim Lawrence

Publisher : Harlequin

Page : 188 pages

File Size : 37,19 MB

Release : 2008-07-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1426818998

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There’s no way he would ever forget this woman, so how is she the mother of his child? A passionate puzzle from the USA Today–bestselling author. Scarlet Smith has kept millionaire Roman O’Hagan’s child hidden from him—and now the arrogant Italian is determined to discover why a woman he’s never slept with is claiming to have his son! Can she keep the truth behind the baby’s birth a secret? Not when Roman wants to take his revenge . . . by sharing Scarlet’s bed!



Reverend Margot Quade Cozy Mysteries Volume 2: A Christian Amateur Detective Mystery Collection

Author : S.E. Biglow

Publisher : Biglow Mystery Reads

Page : 206 pages

File Size : 10,23 MB

Release : 2021-06-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Enjoy this faith-filled cozy collection by S.E. Biglow... Will a new year bring new twists to small-town life? When a New Year’s getaway turns deadly, Reverend Margot Quade dives in, teaming with a fellow amateur sleuth to unravel the mystery. And when local Port Marie families begin suffering strange ailments that may point to a long-standing feud, Margot races against the clock, praying she’s not too late to repair the damage done by a broken soul. But even as she guides her town toward healing, tragedy is poised to strike at the heart of all Margot holds dear. Determined to not let history repeat itself, Margot races headlong into danger, with only a prayer that the Lord will see her through REVEREND MARGOT QUADE COZY MYSTERIES Vol 2. box set bundles the final three stories in this inspiring, Christian cozy mystery series: My Brother’s Keeper, Love They Neighbor and Brothers In Arms. Great for readers who love small town charm, heroic women sleuths and faith-based who-dun-its. If you’re a fan of V.M. Burns, CeeCee James, Hope Callaghan, Rosie Point, Tonya Kappes, Maria DiRico, Kelsey Browning and London Lovett, you’ll love this fast-paced, small-town mystery. Binge the last three books in this fast-paced, faith filled series today. ◆◆◆ Here’s what cozy mystery fans are saying about Reverend Margot Quade: ★★★★★ “I couldn’t put this book down!” – Jodi Sweet (Goodreads review) ★★★★★ “This engaging Christian cozy mystery is short but well written with a diverse set of characters.” – Heather W (Goodreads review) ★★★★★ “Keeps you guessing until the last page” – Grannylovestoread (Bookbub review)