Author: Joanne Garland
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662423152
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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My memoir encompasses a wide range of topics, beginning with my lonely and abusive childhood. Added to that mix, I recount in detail my personal struggles with hyperhidrosis and depression. I also chronicle my son's life, with his eventual diagnosis of autism, and the subsequent awareness of my own autism, playing a leading role in the telling of my story. I include excerpts from my own poetry to assist me in telling that story.
Author: Jamie Marina Lau
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566896002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Fifteen-year-old Monk drifts through a monotonous existence in a grimy Chinatown apartment with her “grumpy brown couch” of a dad, until she meets high school senior Santa Coy (
[email protected]). For a moment, it looks like he might be her boyfriend. But when Monk's dad becomes obsessed with Santa Coy's artwork, Monk finds herself shunted to the sidelines as her father and the object of her affections begin to hatch a scheme of their own. To keep up, Monk must navigate a combustible cocktail of odd assignments, peculiar places, and murky underworld connections. In Jamie Marina Lau's debut novel, shortlisted for Australia's prestigious Stella Prize when she was nineteen years old, hazily surreal vignettes conjure a multifaceted world of philosophical angst and lackadaisical violence.
Author: E M Inkpen
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178901798X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Pikas are small animals with big round ears, long whiskers and very loud whistles. Kinnikinnick is a pika who lives in the Canadian Rockies and dreams of a pink mountain with wings of ice. What can he do but set out to search for it! In his adventures he meets animal friends and foes and deals with the fatal tragedy of a friend. After spending the long winter underground in a pika community, he starts out in spring with a new friend. Then Kinnikinnick nearly drowns in a river, joins the search for a lost caribou calf and wonders if he will ever find the pink mountain. There is a happy ending! Issues of loss and tragedy as well as high adventure and friendship are dealt with, accompanied by illustrations of animals that will be both familiar and new to children (caribou, pikas, grizzly bears and marmots). Aimed at 7 - 11 year olds, this is a fictional tale that will capture the young readers’ minds as well as hearts.
Author: B. Jean Temple
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434353494
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Coal Miners and their families have a life that is filled with trial and tragedy. The Pink Mountain, reminds us all of the daily dangers these families face and overcome. This story is dedicated to the Coal Mining Community of Capels, West Virginia.
Author: P. H. Sparks
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450205720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Bryan Delman was sure of his position with the company he worked for, until his greedy boss pointed to a possible conspiracy and moved to steal Bryan's biggest contract. Bryan agrees let the investigation to clear his name run it's course, and decides to leave town on vacation with two friends, two men he called brothers. While away, the investigation becomes a frame, and Bryan is thrown into a world he never knew he was a part of, or meant to return to. He is forced to leave the world he knew behind him, and face a darker part of himself. He must face his biggest challenge, to be human, or to be the monster that threatens to overwhelm him in a world he knows nothing about.
Author: Jonathan Emmett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416936521
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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A new version of the traditional American folk song, in which the expected guest will be wearing frilly pink pajamas and juggling with jelly when she comes.
Author: P. H. Sparks
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781450205719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Book Description
Bryan Delman was sure of his position with the company he worked for, until his greedy boss pointed to a possible conspiracy and moved to steal Bryans biggest contract. Bryan agrees let the investigation to clear his name run its course, and decides to leave town on vacation with two friends, two men he called brothers. While away, the investigation becomes a frame, and Bryan is thrown into a world he never knew he was a part of, or meant to return to. He is forced to leave the world he knew behind him, and face a darker part of himself. He must face his biggest challenge, to be human, or to be the monster that threatens to overwhelm him in a world he knows nothing about.
Author: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316052604
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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Book Description
A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection! A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.
Author: Shangyang Fang
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619322455
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants and snow, a boy’s desire is transfigured into the indifference of mountains and rivers, and loneliness finds its place in the wounded openness of language. From the surface of a Song Dynasty ink-wash painting to a makeshift bedroom in Chengdu, these poems thread intimacy, eros, and grief. Evoking the music of ancient Chinese poetry, Fang alloys political erasure, exile, remembrance, and death into a single brushstroke on the silk scroll, where names are forgotten as paper boats on water.
Author: Cynthia Rylant
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140548750
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Caldecott Honor Book! "An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, taking baths in the kitchen, sharing family times, each is eloquently portrayed here in both the misty-hued scenes and in the poetic text." -Association for Childhood Education International
