Author: Mary-Elle Peak
Publisher: Mary-Elle Peak
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
To more her surprise, at least twenty other people stood there on the roof top whispering amongst themselves and looking up into the distance. Dusting her hands off onto her jeans, Morgan had made her way over to Lucas. “What…what is going on? I don’t see anything. Did someone’s house catch on fire?” Rows of buildings and trees lined the city. Birds flew about but there were no signs of smoke or fire. “No…look,” Lucas tilted her face higher up to the point where she was almost looking directly up. He lifted his arm and pointed to a figure in the sky. It was difficult to see amongst the gray clouds but there it was. A silver-gray, reflective, oval shaped machine with a bulbous bottom floated motionlessly. The object remained still not emitting any sort of signal or sound. “What is that?”
The Usual Suspects
Author: Maurice Broaddus
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006279633X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Fans of Jason Reynolds and Sharon M. Draper will love this oh-so-honest middle grade novel from writer and educator Maurice Broaddus. Thelonius Mitchell is tired of being labeled. He’s in special ed, separated from the “normal” kids at school who don’t have any “issues.” That’s enough to make all the teachers and students look at him and his friends with a constant side-eye. (Although his disruptive antics and pranks have given him a rep too.) When a gun is found at a neighborhood hangout, Thelonius and his pals become instant suspects. Thelonius may be guilty of pulling crazy stunts at school, but a criminal? T isn’t about to let that label stick.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006279633X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Fans of Jason Reynolds and Sharon M. Draper will love this oh-so-honest middle grade novel from writer and educator Maurice Broaddus. Thelonius Mitchell is tired of being labeled. He’s in special ed, separated from the “normal” kids at school who don’t have any “issues.” That’s enough to make all the teachers and students look at him and his friends with a constant side-eye. (Although his disruptive antics and pranks have given him a rep too.) When a gun is found at a neighborhood hangout, Thelonius and his pals become instant suspects. Thelonius may be guilty of pulling crazy stunts at school, but a criminal? T isn’t about to let that label stick.
Summit
Author: Mary-Elle Peak
Publisher: Mary-Elle Peak
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
To more her surprise, at least twenty other people stood there on the roof top whispering amongst themselves and looking up into the distance. Dusting her hands off onto her jeans, Morgan had made her way over to Lucas. “What…what is going on? I don’t see anything. Did someone’s house catch on fire?” Rows of buildings and trees lined the city. Birds flew about but there were no signs of smoke or fire. “No…look,” Lucas tilted her face higher up to the point where she was almost looking directly up. He lifted his arm and pointed to a figure in the sky. It was difficult to see amongst the gray clouds but there it was. A silver-gray, reflective, oval shaped machine with a bulbous bottom floated motionlessly. The object remained still not emitting any sort of signal or sound. “What is that?”
Publisher: Mary-Elle Peak
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
To more her surprise, at least twenty other people stood there on the roof top whispering amongst themselves and looking up into the distance. Dusting her hands off onto her jeans, Morgan had made her way over to Lucas. “What…what is going on? I don’t see anything. Did someone’s house catch on fire?” Rows of buildings and trees lined the city. Birds flew about but there were no signs of smoke or fire. “No…look,” Lucas tilted her face higher up to the point where she was almost looking directly up. He lifted his arm and pointed to a figure in the sky. It was difficult to see amongst the gray clouds but there it was. A silver-gray, reflective, oval shaped machine with a bulbous bottom floated motionlessly. The object remained still not emitting any sort of signal or sound. “What is that?”
Work's Intimacy
Author: Melissa Gregg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745637469
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the knew "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family, and wider social tensions emerging in today’s rapidly changing work environment. Drawing on her extensive research, Gregg shows that new media technologies encourage and exacerbate an older tendency among salaried professionals to put work at the heart of daily concerns, often at the expense of other sources of intimacy and fulfillment. New media technologies from mobile phones to laptops and tablet computers, have been marketed as devices that give us the freedom to work where we want, when we want, but little attention has been paid to the consequences of this shift, which has seen work move out of the office and into cafés, trains, living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms. This professional "presence bleed" leads to work concerns impinging on the personal lives of employees in new and unforseen ways. This groundbreaking book explores how aspiring and established professionals each try to cope with the unprecedented intimacy of technologically-mediated work, and how its seductions seem poised to triumph over the few remaining relationships that may stand in its way.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745637469
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the knew "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family, and wider social tensions emerging in today’s rapidly changing work environment. Drawing on her extensive research, Gregg shows that new media technologies encourage and exacerbate an older tendency among salaried professionals to put work at the heart of daily concerns, often at the expense of other sources of intimacy and fulfillment. New media technologies from mobile phones to laptops and tablet computers, have been marketed as devices that give us the freedom to work where we want, when we want, but little attention has been paid to the consequences of this shift, which has seen work move out of the office and into cafés, trains, living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms. This professional "presence bleed" leads to work concerns impinging on the personal lives of employees in new and unforseen ways. This groundbreaking book explores how aspiring and established professionals each try to cope with the unprecedented intimacy of technologically-mediated work, and how its seductions seem poised to triumph over the few remaining relationships that may stand in its way.
The Fallen Shall Rise
Author: Heather Akena
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469176165
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The precarious balance between human and assassin rested on a knifes edge, but Amelia was one of the few who had successfully mastered it. And, oh, how quickly . . . It all started when I was about 12 years old. The man in black . . . the foreigner . . . but I knew one thing: I loved him. And at some point, Id loved both of them. It couldve all been so much different, couldve ended so many different ways. But the paths we chose led us to the inevitable, led us to each other in a time when everything depended on us to put a stop to the evil that threatened to destroy the world. My name is Amelia Reichert. This is my story. And this is how it all began.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469176165
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The precarious balance between human and assassin rested on a knifes edge, but Amelia was one of the few who had successfully mastered it. And, oh, how quickly . . . It all started when I was about 12 years old. The man in black . . . the foreigner . . . but I knew one thing: I loved him. And at some point, Id loved both of them. It couldve all been so much different, couldve ended so many different ways. But the paths we chose led us to the inevitable, led us to each other in a time when everything depended on us to put a stop to the evil that threatened to destroy the world. My name is Amelia Reichert. This is my story. And this is how it all began.
Just Right
Author: Finley Daniels
Publisher: Elladine Publishing LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
When I agreed to be Lincoln’s fake girlfriend, I never imagined how real it would start to feel… After yet another disastrous date, my night went from bad to worse when my nemesis—who’s now dating my ex—walked into the bar. She taunted me about being dateless for our class reunion until the hot bartender, Lincoln, intervened... And told her he was my boyfriend (he’s not). His plan? He’ll go to my reunion with me. All I have to do is go to his sister’s wedding festivities with him. Oh, and commit to two “dates” a week to get to know each other so that people don’t see right through us. My ground rules are simple: No last names and keep the physical to the minimum necessary to be believable. Now, we’re a month in, and it’s been amazing. But it’s all fake. To him, anyway. Even if he’s giving me mixed messages. Even if it didn’t feel fake when we kissed. Multiple times. My heart—and my body—want more, but my brain reminds me Lincoln doesn’t. Now the wedding is over, so I’m out. Even if it means I have to go stag to my class reunion and face the ridicule of the mean girl from hell… If you love opposites attract, fake-dating romance, this one’s for you! Just Right is a prequel novella in the Elladine Fire romance series. Each book in the series is told in the first person, dual point of view featuring a different couple. If you love small town feels, smart and strong female main characters with sexy main male characters who fall hard for the women in their lives, this series is for you. Oh, did we mention all the main male characters in the books are either firefighters or police? So, if you love romance and like a little bit of steam along with it, dive into the Elladine Fire series by Finley Daniels today. Suggested reading order: Just Right (prequel novella) - can be read at any point in the series but takes place several years before Come Back to Us Come Back to Us- read as the first full length novel in the series Come Dance with Me Stay With Me Only You and Me (releasing November 2024)
Publisher: Elladine Publishing LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
When I agreed to be Lincoln’s fake girlfriend, I never imagined how real it would start to feel… After yet another disastrous date, my night went from bad to worse when my nemesis—who’s now dating my ex—walked into the bar. She taunted me about being dateless for our class reunion until the hot bartender, Lincoln, intervened... And told her he was my boyfriend (he’s not). His plan? He’ll go to my reunion with me. All I have to do is go to his sister’s wedding festivities with him. Oh, and commit to two “dates” a week to get to know each other so that people don’t see right through us. My ground rules are simple: No last names and keep the physical to the minimum necessary to be believable. Now, we’re a month in, and it’s been amazing. But it’s all fake. To him, anyway. Even if he’s giving me mixed messages. Even if it didn’t feel fake when we kissed. Multiple times. My heart—and my body—want more, but my brain reminds me Lincoln doesn’t. Now the wedding is over, so I’m out. Even if it means I have to go stag to my class reunion and face the ridicule of the mean girl from hell… If you love opposites attract, fake-dating romance, this one’s for you! Just Right is a prequel novella in the Elladine Fire romance series. Each book in the series is told in the first person, dual point of view featuring a different couple. If you love small town feels, smart and strong female main characters with sexy main male characters who fall hard for the women in their lives, this series is for you. Oh, did we mention all the main male characters in the books are either firefighters or police? So, if you love romance and like a little bit of steam along with it, dive into the Elladine Fire series by Finley Daniels today. Suggested reading order: Just Right (prequel novella) - can be read at any point in the series but takes place several years before Come Back to Us Come Back to Us- read as the first full length novel in the series Come Dance with Me Stay With Me Only You and Me (releasing November 2024)
Just Call Me Dean
Author: Florene Stewart Poyadue
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462034322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Meet Dean A. A. Poyadue. Dean is many things to many peoplea son, a husband, a college student, and an employee. He is also a man living with Down syndrome. Just Call Me Dean is his remarkable story, which he tells with a little help from his mom, Florene. Deans innocence and wisdom will capture your heart as he takes you on a journey through the key events of his life, from early childhood to the present. Discover how, with a can-do attitude and the help of his family, Dean has conquered lifes milestonescollege, employment, marriage, independence, and more. Full of inspiration of anyone whose life is touched by someone with special needs, Just Call Me Dean seeks to help professionals enhance their empathy and skills. Parents of special needs can broaden their expectations for their own children as they learn of Deans accomplishments. Finally, Deans story can help educate the general public about the millions of Americans living with disabilities. Dean challenges us to seek out lifes adventures. Are you up for the challenge?
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462034322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Meet Dean A. A. Poyadue. Dean is many things to many peoplea son, a husband, a college student, and an employee. He is also a man living with Down syndrome. Just Call Me Dean is his remarkable story, which he tells with a little help from his mom, Florene. Deans innocence and wisdom will capture your heart as he takes you on a journey through the key events of his life, from early childhood to the present. Discover how, with a can-do attitude and the help of his family, Dean has conquered lifes milestonescollege, employment, marriage, independence, and more. Full of inspiration of anyone whose life is touched by someone with special needs, Just Call Me Dean seeks to help professionals enhance their empathy and skills. Parents of special needs can broaden their expectations for their own children as they learn of Deans accomplishments. Finally, Deans story can help educate the general public about the millions of Americans living with disabilities. Dean challenges us to seek out lifes adventures. Are you up for the challenge?
For the Faith
Author: Jeff W. Manship
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490743332
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
What will a man do - what crimes will he commit, what sacrifices will be make - for his faith? Is the radicalism of modern day mullahs and their followers far removed from the strange fanaticism found in our own Christian heritage, perhaps lying dormant within our own family histories? Alan McMurdie confronts these questions when his only son commits suicide, and he is left holding the broken pieces of a family that is torn asunder by tragedies that transcend generations of faithful Mormon ancestors. A young boy conceals his baptism from a step father who despises all religions. Later, as a young man, he discovers a fortune in uranium in the deserts of southeastern Utah, and makes a bold decision to abandon it all for the glory of serving God. As a missionary in the southern United States he witnesses firsthand the heartache and the tragedy that sometimes follow those who choose faith over false traditions. Two generations later another young boy will experience the nightmare of being sexually molested at a Boy Scout camp and later will have to confront the awful truth of his own sexuality, an immutable reality that places him at odds with the strict teachings of his Mormon faith. and an even darker secret lies buried within the family's history, a terrible secret from the distant past of an ancestor involved in one of the most shocking and sordid crimes of the 19th century, a crime made more hideous because it was driven by obsessive, fanatical faith. Throughout five generations the McMurdie family has carried the burden that an overzealous faith sometimes places on its adherents. From triumphs of the human spirit to the very depths of delusion and despair, they have given all, suffered all, and witnessed all . . . for the faith.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490743332
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
What will a man do - what crimes will he commit, what sacrifices will be make - for his faith? Is the radicalism of modern day mullahs and their followers far removed from the strange fanaticism found in our own Christian heritage, perhaps lying dormant within our own family histories? Alan McMurdie confronts these questions when his only son commits suicide, and he is left holding the broken pieces of a family that is torn asunder by tragedies that transcend generations of faithful Mormon ancestors. A young boy conceals his baptism from a step father who despises all religions. Later, as a young man, he discovers a fortune in uranium in the deserts of southeastern Utah, and makes a bold decision to abandon it all for the glory of serving God. As a missionary in the southern United States he witnesses firsthand the heartache and the tragedy that sometimes follow those who choose faith over false traditions. Two generations later another young boy will experience the nightmare of being sexually molested at a Boy Scout camp and later will have to confront the awful truth of his own sexuality, an immutable reality that places him at odds with the strict teachings of his Mormon faith. and an even darker secret lies buried within the family's history, a terrible secret from the distant past of an ancestor involved in one of the most shocking and sordid crimes of the 19th century, a crime made more hideous because it was driven by obsessive, fanatical faith. Throughout five generations the McMurdie family has carried the burden that an overzealous faith sometimes places on its adherents. From triumphs of the human spirit to the very depths of delusion and despair, they have given all, suffered all, and witnessed all . . . for the faith.
S.A.D. (Seek and Destroy)
Author: Darryl Moss
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514495333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Set in Perth, Western Australia. Al Connor is getting worried that his life is on the line and the people in charge just think of him as a number. He is expendable and has no say or is told what is going on. He has to suck it and see. The They People dont give a damn about him and complain if he wrecks a car, or asks for anything necessary for his safety. All they want to do is capture the aliens and their spaceship. Well they try a few different things to capture the aliens and their spaceship, but it always backfires on them. Even when they get to mediate with the aliens, the They People think they are smarter than the aliens. Al finds out that there is something the aliens are after and that we have it. He suggests they give it back, but who is he to say what They are to do. So it goes on and it builds into an all-out offensive by the aliens. Can Al survive the onslaught, or will he perish, as other are doing so?
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514495333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Set in Perth, Western Australia. Al Connor is getting worried that his life is on the line and the people in charge just think of him as a number. He is expendable and has no say or is told what is going on. He has to suck it and see. The They People dont give a damn about him and complain if he wrecks a car, or asks for anything necessary for his safety. All they want to do is capture the aliens and their spaceship. Well they try a few different things to capture the aliens and their spaceship, but it always backfires on them. Even when they get to mediate with the aliens, the They People think they are smarter than the aliens. Al finds out that there is something the aliens are after and that we have it. He suggests they give it back, but who is he to say what They are to do. So it goes on and it builds into an all-out offensive by the aliens. Can Al survive the onslaught, or will he perish, as other are doing so?
Just the Usual Work
Author: Michael Boudreau
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228006910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Born in 1907, Ida Martin spent most of her life in Saint John, New Brunswick. She married a longshoreman named Allan Robert Martin in 1932 and they had one daughter. In the years that followed, Ida had a busy and varied life, full of work, caring for her family, and living her faith. Through it all, Ida found time to keep a daily diary from 1945 to 1992. Bonnie Huskins is Ida Martin's granddaughter. In Just the Usual Work, she and Michael Boudreau draw on Ida's diaries, family memories, and the history of Atlantic Canada to shed light on the everyday life of a working-class housewife during a period of significant social and political change. They examine Ida's observations about the struggles of making ends meet on a longshoreman's salary, the labour confrontations at the Port of Saint John, the role of automobiles in the family economy, the importance of family, faith, and political engagement, and her experience of widowhood and growing old. Ida Martin's diaries were often read by members of her family to reconstruct and relive their shared histories. By sharing the pages of her diaries with a wider audience, Just the Usual Work keeps Ida's memory alive while continuing her abiding commitment to documenting the past and finding meaning in the rhythms of everyday life.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228006910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Born in 1907, Ida Martin spent most of her life in Saint John, New Brunswick. She married a longshoreman named Allan Robert Martin in 1932 and they had one daughter. In the years that followed, Ida had a busy and varied life, full of work, caring for her family, and living her faith. Through it all, Ida found time to keep a daily diary from 1945 to 1992. Bonnie Huskins is Ida Martin's granddaughter. In Just the Usual Work, she and Michael Boudreau draw on Ida's diaries, family memories, and the history of Atlantic Canada to shed light on the everyday life of a working-class housewife during a period of significant social and political change. They examine Ida's observations about the struggles of making ends meet on a longshoreman's salary, the labour confrontations at the Port of Saint John, the role of automobiles in the family economy, the importance of family, faith, and political engagement, and her experience of widowhood and growing old. Ida Martin's diaries were often read by members of her family to reconstruct and relive their shared histories. By sharing the pages of her diaries with a wider audience, Just the Usual Work keeps Ida's memory alive while continuing her abiding commitment to documenting the past and finding meaning in the rhythms of everyday life.
Just Remember This
Author: Colin Bratkovich
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483645193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 941
Book Description
I have completed this manuscript Just Remember This, or as American Pop Singers 1900-1950+, about music before the 1950s in America. It perhaps offers knowledge and insights not previously found in other musical reference books. I have moreover been working on this book very meticulously over the past twelve-plus years. It started as a bit of fun and gradually became serious as I began to listen along with the vocalists of popular music, of the era before 1950, essentially just before the dawn of rock and roll. If you can call it that! Indeed genre and labeling of American music started here, and then from everywhere. While the old adage of always starting from somewhere could be noted in every century, the 1900s had produced the technology. Understanding the necessity, more so, finds a curiosity on the part of a general public hungry for entertainment, despite 6 day work weeks, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483645193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 941
Book Description
I have completed this manuscript Just Remember This, or as American Pop Singers 1900-1950+, about music before the 1950s in America. It perhaps offers knowledge and insights not previously found in other musical reference books. I have moreover been working on this book very meticulously over the past twelve-plus years. It started as a bit of fun and gradually became serious as I began to listen along with the vocalists of popular music, of the era before 1950, essentially just before the dawn of rock and roll. If you can call it that! Indeed genre and labeling of American music started here, and then from everywhere. While the old adage of always starting from somewhere could be noted in every century, the 1900s had produced the technology. Understanding the necessity, more so, finds a curiosity on the part of a general public hungry for entertainment, despite 6 day work weeks, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.