Author: Antonia Phillips Rabb
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467028037
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Have you ever wondered how it all came about, the skyscrapers, the boxes and cans and jars with labels of some special brand or someone's name? It came about, so often, out of the holds of big ships, where men and their families, or men and women alone, or here and there a courageous youngster, wide-eyed and frightened were discarded like refuse on the docks of this country. And how did they produce the boxes, build the hospitals, the colleges, the churches, make the cars, envision supermarkets and department stores, produce the technology that reaches out to others all over the world and even walk the moon? Here's how they did it and here's what sometimes becomes of those who followed.
Last Child in the Woods
Author: Richard Louv
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 156512586X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Book That Launched an International Movement Fans of The Anxious Generation will adore Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller. “An absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe “It rivals Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.” —The Cincinnati Enquirer “I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are,” reports a fourth grader. But it’s not only computers, television, and video games that are keeping kids inside. It’s also their parents’ fears of traffic, strangers, Lyme disease, and West Nile virus; their schools’ emphasis on more and more homework; their structured schedules; and their lack of access to natural areas. Local governments, neighborhood associations, and even organizations devoted to the outdoors are placing legal and regulatory constraints on many wild spaces, sometimes making natural play a crime. As children’s connections to nature diminish and the social, psychological, and spiritual implications become apparent, new research shows that nature can offer powerful therapy for such maladies as depression, obesity, and attention deficit disorder. Environment-based education dramatically improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages and develops skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making. Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that childhood experiences in nature stimulate creativity. In Last Child in the Woods, Louv talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. Louv shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply—and find the joy of family connectedness in the process. Included in this edition: A Field Guide with 100 Practical Actions We Can Take Discussion Points for Book Groups, Classrooms, and Communities Additional Notes by the Author New and Updated Research from the U.S. and Abroad
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 156512586X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Book That Launched an International Movement Fans of The Anxious Generation will adore Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller. “An absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe “It rivals Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.” —The Cincinnati Enquirer “I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are,” reports a fourth grader. But it’s not only computers, television, and video games that are keeping kids inside. It’s also their parents’ fears of traffic, strangers, Lyme disease, and West Nile virus; their schools’ emphasis on more and more homework; their structured schedules; and their lack of access to natural areas. Local governments, neighborhood associations, and even organizations devoted to the outdoors are placing legal and regulatory constraints on many wild spaces, sometimes making natural play a crime. As children’s connections to nature diminish and the social, psychological, and spiritual implications become apparent, new research shows that nature can offer powerful therapy for such maladies as depression, obesity, and attention deficit disorder. Environment-based education dramatically improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages and develops skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making. Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that childhood experiences in nature stimulate creativity. In Last Child in the Woods, Louv talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. Louv shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply—and find the joy of family connectedness in the process. Included in this edition: A Field Guide with 100 Practical Actions We Can Take Discussion Points for Book Groups, Classrooms, and Communities Additional Notes by the Author New and Updated Research from the U.S. and Abroad
The Last Child
Author: John Hart
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429961937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel Heralded by the Washington Post as a "a magnificent creation, Huck Finn channeled through Lord of the Flies", John Hart's The Last Child is his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and courage in the face of evil. Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he'd been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is---confident in a way that he can never fully explain. Determined to find his sister, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown. It is a desperate, terrifying search, but Johnny is not as alone as he might think. Detective Clyde Hunt has never stopped looking for Alyssa either, and he has a soft spot for Johnny. He watches over the boy and tries to keep him safe, but when Johnny uncovers a dangerous lead and vows to follow it, Hunt has no choice but to intervene. Then a second child goes missing . . . Undeterred by Hunt's threats or his mother's pleas, Johnny enlists the help of his last friend, and together they plunge into the wild, to a forgotten place with a history of violence that goes back more than a hundred years. There, they meet a giant of a man, an escaped convict on his own tragic quest. What they learn from him will shatter every notion Johnny had about the fate of his sister; it will lead them to another far place, to a truth that will test both boys to the limit. Traveling the wilderness between innocence and hard wisdom, between hopelessness and faith, The Last Child leaves all categories behind and establishes John Hart as a writer of unique power. Now with an excerpt from John Hart's next book The Hush, available in February 2018.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429961937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel Heralded by the Washington Post as a "a magnificent creation, Huck Finn channeled through Lord of the Flies", John Hart's The Last Child is his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and courage in the face of evil. Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he'd been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is---confident in a way that he can never fully explain. Determined to find his sister, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown. It is a desperate, terrifying search, but Johnny is not as alone as he might think. Detective Clyde Hunt has never stopped looking for Alyssa either, and he has a soft spot for Johnny. He watches over the boy and tries to keep him safe, but when Johnny uncovers a dangerous lead and vows to follow it, Hunt has no choice but to intervene. Then a second child goes missing . . . Undeterred by Hunt's threats or his mother's pleas, Johnny enlists the help of his last friend, and together they plunge into the wild, to a forgotten place with a history of violence that goes back more than a hundred years. There, they meet a giant of a man, an escaped convict on his own tragic quest. What they learn from him will shatter every notion Johnny had about the fate of his sister; it will lead them to another far place, to a truth that will test both boys to the limit. Traveling the wilderness between innocence and hard wisdom, between hopelessness and faith, The Last Child leaves all categories behind and establishes John Hart as a writer of unique power. Now with an excerpt from John Hart's next book The Hush, available in February 2018.
The Hush
Author: John Hart
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250012309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
"A new novel from John Hart"--
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250012309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
"A new novel from John Hart"--
The Lullaby Man
Author: Anni Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648438021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
A decade ago, The Lullaby Man preyed upon young girls in Tallman's Valley. He stole into their lives, whispered in their ears, spoke of love. Abby Wakeland was fourteen then. Now twenty-four, she's found the courage to tell her mother--Senior Detective Kate Wakeland--about what happened. The Lullaby Man was her teacher.What Abby reveals next will lead Kate down dark, twisting tunnels of discoveries that will blow this small town apart.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648438021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
A decade ago, The Lullaby Man preyed upon young girls in Tallman's Valley. He stole into their lives, whispered in their ears, spoke of love. Abby Wakeland was fourteen then. Now twenty-four, she's found the courage to tell her mother--Senior Detective Kate Wakeland--about what happened. The Lullaby Man was her teacher.What Abby reveals next will lead Kate down dark, twisting tunnels of discoveries that will blow this small town apart.
The Silent Town
Author: Anni Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648438038
Category : Detective and mystery fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Book 3 of the Tallman's Valley Detectives seriesSenior Detective Kate Wakeland senses dark undercurrents in her beloved small town, Tallman's Valley.She's glimpsed a silent town lying beneath the valley - a place where the streets and landcapes are the same but where daylight never reaches. But as Kate begins to investigate the silent town, a shocking multiple shooting occurs on the mountain that bookends the valley - Witness Mountain.Kate is forced to suspend all else and focus on the case at hand. How did a frail, elderly man manage to shoot his family? Did he have the help of his grandson - a teenage boy who can't account for his whereabouts that morning?The height of a devastating fire season hinders Kate at every turn. Through the smoky veil hanging in the valley, Kate begins to suspect a connection between the Witness Mountain shootings and the silent town.But the dangers are far greater than Kate ever imagined. There are people who will kill to conceal what they know and what they've done.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648438038
Category : Detective and mystery fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Book 3 of the Tallman's Valley Detectives seriesSenior Detective Kate Wakeland senses dark undercurrents in her beloved small town, Tallman's Valley.She's glimpsed a silent town lying beneath the valley - a place where the streets and landcapes are the same but where daylight never reaches. But as Kate begins to investigate the silent town, a shocking multiple shooting occurs on the mountain that bookends the valley - Witness Mountain.Kate is forced to suspend all else and focus on the case at hand. How did a frail, elderly man manage to shoot his family? Did he have the help of his grandson - a teenage boy who can't account for his whereabouts that morning?The height of a devastating fire season hinders Kate at every turn. Through the smoky veil hanging in the valley, Kate begins to suspect a connection between the Witness Mountain shootings and the silent town.But the dangers are far greater than Kate ever imagined. There are people who will kill to conceal what they know and what they've done.
One Last Child
Author: Antonia Phillips Rabb
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467028037
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Have you ever wondered how it all came about, the skyscrapers, the boxes and cans and jars with labels of some special brand or someone's name? It came about, so often, out of the holds of big ships, where men and their families, or men and women alone, or here and there a courageous youngster, wide-eyed and frightened were discarded like refuse on the docks of this country. And how did they produce the boxes, build the hospitals, the colleges, the churches, make the cars, envision supermarkets and department stores, produce the technology that reaches out to others all over the world and even walk the moon? Here's how they did it and here's what sometimes becomes of those who followed.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467028037
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Have you ever wondered how it all came about, the skyscrapers, the boxes and cans and jars with labels of some special brand or someone's name? It came about, so often, out of the holds of big ships, where men and their families, or men and women alone, or here and there a courageous youngster, wide-eyed and frightened were discarded like refuse on the docks of this country. And how did they produce the boxes, build the hospitals, the colleges, the churches, make the cars, envision supermarkets and department stores, produce the technology that reaches out to others all over the world and even walk the moon? Here's how they did it and here's what sometimes becomes of those who followed.
The Last Child
Author: John Hart
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312359322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Fresh off the success of his Edgar Award-winning, "New York Times" bestseller "Down River," Hart returns with the story of a young boy's hunt for his missing sister, and the dark truths he uncovers in his North Carolina hometown.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312359322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Fresh off the success of his Edgar Award-winning, "New York Times" bestseller "Down River," Hart returns with the story of a young boy's hunt for his missing sister, and the dark truths he uncovers in his North Carolina hometown.
One Last Child
Author: Anni Taylor
Publisher: Tallman's Valley Detectives
ISBN: 9780648438014
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
It was summer in the mountains when five small children vanished from their nursery school picnic. The heat was stifling that day, the tinkle of an ice-cream van in the air.Three and a half years later, in the dead of winter, the children are returned by their abductor... one by one.All except for Ivy - the granddaughter of homicide detective Kate Wakeland. The other four children say Ivy is dead.Speculation grows that the kidnappings were revenge for an offender that Detective Wakeland put in jail years before.She engages in a battle of wits between herself, the kidnapper and the cold, vast expanse of mountains in between.
Publisher: Tallman's Valley Detectives
ISBN: 9780648438014
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
It was summer in the mountains when five small children vanished from their nursery school picnic. The heat was stifling that day, the tinkle of an ice-cream van in the air.Three and a half years later, in the dead of winter, the children are returned by their abductor... one by one.All except for Ivy - the granddaughter of homicide detective Kate Wakeland. The other four children say Ivy is dead.Speculation grows that the kidnappings were revenge for an offender that Detective Wakeland put in jail years before.She engages in a battle of wits between herself, the kidnapper and the cold, vast expanse of mountains in between.
The Last Child
Author: Valerie Crader
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434388433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434388433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Fatal Affair & Heaven's Last Child
Author: Cathy L. Young
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499024894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Fatal Affair soft read takes its readers to terrifying emotionally new heights with its thrilling chilling attraction gone wrong. Dillon Sheldon the owner and founder of Crashers Grocery store fulfill his dream and hire the young, glorious African-American, Mississippian Charlene Rene Youngblood whos married to successful Jester Youngblood. Although married Dillons so driven by his lustful curiosity attraction to black women he purposely hire Charlene, to work for him intending to experience a passionate romantic intimate sizzling affair with her. Their daily encounters bring them into an affair but after several months Dillon ends it leaving Charlene devastated, psychotic and pregnant. Dillon realizes their affair was a mistake and he hoped theyd return to their normal lives. But Charlenes obsessed and possessed and refuses to free him even if it means bloodshed and death. This twisted love affair gone wrong is eminently thrilling, exciting, emotionally stimulating, strikingly provoking and much more! Theres a thin line between life and death. We always believe were right in our own eyes. Being in love could lead to heartache and tears. Heavens Last Child is eminently striking and thought provoking this extraordinary story challenges its readers to take a closer look at race, hatred, love, forgiveness, choices and the power of prayer. Heaven Gardenia is an extraordinary forty year old African-American whos faced with enormous loss including the loss of her four daughters to their fathers. She believes her daughters is all she have but soon understand she have more to gain. After a night of intimacy with her new boyfriend Nate Burns she become ill and believes shes going through menopause but soon discovers shes pregnant by him. Racial tension from his side of the family soon split them a part Heavens left to raise Sky alone but accepts her ex-husband Luke Gardenia back into her life believing shes making the right decision. Heavens devastated when she realizes his racial hatred is deeper than what she thought and taking him back was a mistake. Lukes on a mission to kill her baby because hes by a Caucasian man. Heaven must choose between her only son Sky and Luke her ex-husband from her past. Incredibly powerful Will the villain fulfill his desire or will it crumble? Who will Heaven choose Luke or Sky? This narrated and scripted literature is a part of the Grandmas Rose collection of books.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499024894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Fatal Affair soft read takes its readers to terrifying emotionally new heights with its thrilling chilling attraction gone wrong. Dillon Sheldon the owner and founder of Crashers Grocery store fulfill his dream and hire the young, glorious African-American, Mississippian Charlene Rene Youngblood whos married to successful Jester Youngblood. Although married Dillons so driven by his lustful curiosity attraction to black women he purposely hire Charlene, to work for him intending to experience a passionate romantic intimate sizzling affair with her. Their daily encounters bring them into an affair but after several months Dillon ends it leaving Charlene devastated, psychotic and pregnant. Dillon realizes their affair was a mistake and he hoped theyd return to their normal lives. But Charlenes obsessed and possessed and refuses to free him even if it means bloodshed and death. This twisted love affair gone wrong is eminently thrilling, exciting, emotionally stimulating, strikingly provoking and much more! Theres a thin line between life and death. We always believe were right in our own eyes. Being in love could lead to heartache and tears. Heavens Last Child is eminently striking and thought provoking this extraordinary story challenges its readers to take a closer look at race, hatred, love, forgiveness, choices and the power of prayer. Heaven Gardenia is an extraordinary forty year old African-American whos faced with enormous loss including the loss of her four daughters to their fathers. She believes her daughters is all she have but soon understand she have more to gain. After a night of intimacy with her new boyfriend Nate Burns she become ill and believes shes going through menopause but soon discovers shes pregnant by him. Racial tension from his side of the family soon split them a part Heavens left to raise Sky alone but accepts her ex-husband Luke Gardenia back into her life believing shes making the right decision. Heavens devastated when she realizes his racial hatred is deeper than what she thought and taking him back was a mistake. Lukes on a mission to kill her baby because hes by a Caucasian man. Heaven must choose between her only son Sky and Luke her ex-husband from her past. Incredibly powerful Will the villain fulfill his desire or will it crumble? Who will Heaven choose Luke or Sky? This narrated and scripted literature is a part of the Grandmas Rose collection of books.