Author: Sandra K. Wilkerson
Publisher: Guardian Books
ISBN: 9781554523573
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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What started out as a simple school program, turned into a night that would change the heart of a mother and the life of a family forever What seemed like an unexplainable tragedy was later revealed to be an answered prayer What appeared to be an unbearable internal pain with no relief in sight, turned into a testimony of God granting a peace that surpasses all understanding In this book you will join Sandra K. Wilkerson on her journey through the worst storm that a parent could ever experience - the loss of a young child. Not only will you share the immense pain she experienced, but you will see how the Lord used supernatural means to provide this family with the comfort that He promised. This book will encourage your heart and strengthen your faith to believe that God will do just what he promised and will champion you through any trial, no matter how dark the storm. Sandra K. Wilkerson, the third youngest of twelve children, married the love of her life and moved to Dallas, Texas where they raised their seven children. The grandmother of four currently enjoys working in her garden with her husband Joe in DeSoto, Texas.
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1429956291
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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From the author of Elsewhere and the Birthright trilogy, Gabrielle Zevin's Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is an imaginative YA novel all about love and second chances. If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief." She'd get all his inside jokes, and maybe he wouldn't be so frustrated with her for forgetting things she can't possibly remember. She'd know about her mom's new family. She'd know about her dad's fiancée. She wouldn't have to spend her junior year relearning all the French she supposedly knew already. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn't have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Author: Cathy Glass
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007445695
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass. When Cathy receives a call about a terminally ill widower terrified of leaving his son all alone in the world, she is wracked with sadness and indecision. Can she risk exposing her own young children to a little boy on the brink of bereavement?
Author: Cherie Currie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061961361
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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At the tender age of fifteen, groundbreaking lead singer Cherie Currie joined a group of talented girls—Joan Jett and Lita Ford on guitar, Jackie Fox on bass, and Sandy West on drums—who could rock like no one else. Arriving on the Los Angeles music scene in 1975, The Runaways catapulted from playing small clubs to selling out major stadiums—headlining shows with opening acts like the Ramones, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, and Blondie while riding a wave of hit songs and platinum albums, and touring the world. A shocking, funny, and touching re-creation of a bygone era of rock and roll that chronicles the Runaways' rise to fame and ultimate demise, Neon Angel is also an intensely personal account of Currie's struggles with drugs, sexual abuse, and violence in a decadent, high-pressure music scene—a world of uncontrolled excess where she and her unsupervised bandmates had to grow up fast and experience things that no teenage girls should.
Author: Jimmy Wayne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501103881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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When he picks the name of a teenager from the Salvation Army's Angel Tree program, businessman Kevin Morell, moved and intrigued by Thomas Reed's list, finally discovers the true meaning of Christmas through a random act of kindness.
Author: Genelle Guzman-McMillan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451635206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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The story of the last survivor pulled from the 9/11 Ground Zero debris after 27 hours and her journey from desperation to a miraculous salvation.
Author: Alan Kaufman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1936740478
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Alan Kaufman has been compared to Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Hubert Selby Jr., even Ernest Hemmingway—his life reads so much like a great movie that the world of cinema has just optioned his first memoir, Jew Boy, for a feature film. Drunken Angel, his new autobiographical work, drops like a sledgehammer. It is the most gripping, chilling and inspiring account ever written of a life-long battle with alcoholism and the struggle to write. Graphic in its grit, an education in pain, Drunken Angel is being hailed as "the Naked Lunch of memoirs." The book chronicles Kaufman’s headlong plunge into the piratical life of a literary drunk, and takes us shamelessly through noirish alleyways of S&M sensuality, forbidden pleasures and pitfalls of adultery, the thrilling horrors of war, plus raging poetry nights, mental illness, homelessness, literary struggle and his strange, magnificent rise into a sobriety of personal triumph as crazily improbable as the famous and notorious figures he meets along the way. Drunken Angel contains revealing portraits of such literary figures as Allen Ginsberg, Kathy Acker, Barney Rosset, Anthony Burgess, Elie Wiesel, Ron Kolm, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jim Feast, Bernard Malamud, Hubert Selby Jr., Bob Holman, Sapphire, not to speak of the gutter dreamers, Nuyorican Poets, Unbearables, Babarians, Slammers, Black foot Indians, commandos, criminals, junkies, renegade cocktail waitresses, hoboes, painters, and a host of others who each in some way, big or small, play their part in peopling the wildly exilerating drama of Kaufman’s passionate and exotic life. Whether the addiction be booze, women, violence, writing or fame, Kaufman honors us with an explicit honesty that only a writer of enormous power and artistic greatness can attain, and his life, as Drunken Angel poignantly shows, is a profoundly meaningful quest for truth and spiritual values.
Author: Angel Costello
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456761838
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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Let this story take you on a young girl's decade long journey of abuse at the hands of her step-father Leon. From the ages of six to sixteen, Angel endured multiple forms of physical, sexual and emotional abuse that led her into a drug fueled life of sex and rebellion. From a family with a long history of violence and abuse; Angel grew from a child of stolen innocence into a young woman pregnant with the seed of her abuser. It seemed the cycle of abuse would never end and the emotional toll would last a lifetime.
Author: Francesca Lia Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061732745
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Lonely City A tangly-haired, purple-eyed girl named Witch Baby lives in glitzy L.A. She loves a guy named Angel Juan. When he leaves for New York she knows she must find him. Looking For Love So she heads for the city of glittery buildings and garbage and Chinese food and drug dealers and subways and kids playing hip-hopscotch. Finding Trouble Her clues are an empty tree house in the park, a postcard on the street, a mannequin in a diner. Angel Juan is in danger, and only Witch Baby's heart-magic can make him safe. When Angel Juan leaves L. A.—and Witch Baby—to play his music and find himself in New York, Witch Baby, wild and restless without him, follows. The story that ensues "is an engagingly eccentric mix of fantasy and reality, enhanced—this time—by mystery and suspense. It is also magical, moving and mischievous, and—literally—marvelous."—SLJ.
Author: Natalie Erin
Publisher: Gryfyn Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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"It's not goodbye. Even though it might be the end." The rebellion has chosen to make its final stand. There will be one last battle, the outcome of which will determine the fate of the realm forever. Prince Keanu has days left to live. With the last of his strength, he gathers his allies against the evil king in a last-ditch effort to unseat him from the throne. Despite being heavily outnumbered, freedom must be obtained at any cost. The king is armed with power and knowledge that no one in the realm has ever witnessed before. The casualties are drastic and the stakes higher than ever. If the king wins, he’ll destroy the realm, annihilate all the magical creatures, and force the world to serve his cruel desires. To obtain victory, a new ruler must rise to challenge the king, and bring the realm into a new age of peace. Either friendship will conquer all, or the tyrant king will bring about the end of all things. Whatever may come, the realm will forever be changed.
