Author: Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307414426
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A young teenager deals with her family's disintegration with the help of a teacher who gives her a summer job working in his garden. Haley's excited about turning 13, but her teenage years start off with a thud when, shortly after her birthday, her mother checks herself into the hospital for severe depression. Her older brother, Otis, is busy with his job selling clothes, and Haley tries to keep her mind off the family problems with her own job, helping a music teacher clean up his backyard garden. As Haley's family life becomes more and more unstable, it's her work and her growing friendship with her employer that sustain her. When Otis gets arrested for selling stolen goods and a social worker takes Haley into a group home, it's her employer she turns to to help her pick up the pieces.
A Piece of Heaven
Author: Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307414426
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A young teenager deals with her family's disintegration with the help of a teacher who gives her a summer job working in his garden. Haley's excited about turning 13, but her teenage years start off with a thud when, shortly after her birthday, her mother checks herself into the hospital for severe depression. Her older brother, Otis, is busy with his job selling clothes, and Haley tries to keep her mind off the family problems with her own job, helping a music teacher clean up his backyard garden. As Haley's family life becomes more and more unstable, it's her work and her growing friendship with her employer that sustain her. When Otis gets arrested for selling stolen goods and a social worker takes Haley into a group home, it's her employer she turns to to help her pick up the pieces.
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307414426
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A young teenager deals with her family's disintegration with the help of a teacher who gives her a summer job working in his garden. Haley's excited about turning 13, but her teenage years start off with a thud when, shortly after her birthday, her mother checks herself into the hospital for severe depression. Her older brother, Otis, is busy with his job selling clothes, and Haley tries to keep her mind off the family problems with her own job, helping a music teacher clean up his backyard garden. As Haley's family life becomes more and more unstable, it's her work and her growing friendship with her employer that sustain her. When Otis gets arrested for selling stolen goods and a social worker takes Haley into a group home, it's her employer she turns to to help her pick up the pieces.
Pieces of Heaven
Author: Natasha Madison
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542337502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
I didn't want this life. But sometimes you're forced to make the best of the crappy hand you've been dealt. I wanted to teach my daughter that. No matter what happens you face your problems head-on. Never cower. Never give up. Then someone took her and I had to put my faith in a system that had failed me, and my hope in a man I didn't know. Serve. Honor. Protect, are the only things I've ever cared about until her case was dropped on my desk. As we searched for her missing daughter, the last woman I thought I'd fall in love with became my reason for living. Then the world came crashing down around us. One secret would change everything, but I had one more hand to be dealt. And if I played my cards right, maybe, just maybe we'd get our piece of heaven.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542337502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
I didn't want this life. But sometimes you're forced to make the best of the crappy hand you've been dealt. I wanted to teach my daughter that. No matter what happens you face your problems head-on. Never cower. Never give up. Then someone took her and I had to put my faith in a system that had failed me, and my hope in a man I didn't know. Serve. Honor. Protect, are the only things I've ever cared about until her case was dropped on my desk. As we searched for her missing daughter, the last woman I thought I'd fall in love with became my reason for living. Then the world came crashing down around us. One secret would change everything, but I had one more hand to be dealt. And if I played my cards right, maybe, just maybe we'd get our piece of heaven.
A Piece of Heaven
Author: Angel Lawson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781090127013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
No good deed goes unpunished.I learned that lesson the hard way when I agreed to helping my friend Justin with a favor.My platonic friend Justin.A favor that helped him with his reputation but turned mine into the trending topic at my school. In a matter of days I go from quiet, nobody to school slut. The problem with that? I'm still a virgin.The whispers, the stares and the constant gossip could bring me down but I'm tired of hiding in the dark, covering up my anxiety and being alone. I decide to take on the bullies and find a few surprising allies along the way; the Allendale Four.Oliver, Anderson, Jackson and Hayden make up this tight-knit circle of friends and they make it their mission to protect my reputation, my heart and my soul.For the first time I'm not alone and I'm not afraid, but will the closed-minded town of Allendale accept our relationship? Please note a Piece of Heaven is a contemporary young adult, Why Choose novel that deals first love, the hardships of high school; including the topics of bullying, social issues and self-harm.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781090127013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
No good deed goes unpunished.I learned that lesson the hard way when I agreed to helping my friend Justin with a favor.My platonic friend Justin.A favor that helped him with his reputation but turned mine into the trending topic at my school. In a matter of days I go from quiet, nobody to school slut. The problem with that? I'm still a virgin.The whispers, the stares and the constant gossip could bring me down but I'm tired of hiding in the dark, covering up my anxiety and being alone. I decide to take on the bullies and find a few surprising allies along the way; the Allendale Four.Oliver, Anderson, Jackson and Hayden make up this tight-knit circle of friends and they make it their mission to protect my reputation, my heart and my soul.For the first time I'm not alone and I'm not afraid, but will the closed-minded town of Allendale accept our relationship? Please note a Piece of Heaven is a contemporary young adult, Why Choose novel that deals first love, the hardships of high school; including the topics of bullying, social issues and self-harm.
A Piece of Heaven
Author: Barbara Samuel
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345445686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Struggling to rebuild her relationship with her troubled teenager, Luna McGraw finds herself drawn to contractor Thomas Coyote, but her growing relationship with him is complicated by his needy ex-wife, her own child's insecurities, and her own past. By the author of No Place Like Home. Reprint.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345445686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Struggling to rebuild her relationship with her troubled teenager, Luna McGraw finds herself drawn to contractor Thomas Coyote, but her growing relationship with him is complicated by his needy ex-wife, her own child's insecurities, and her own past. By the author of No Place Like Home. Reprint.
First Harp Book
Author: B. Paret
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780793555239
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Harp
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780793555239
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Harp
The Ghosts of Heaven
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1626721262
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries later, hiding in the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna, who people call a witch; there in the halls of a Long Island hospital at the beginning of the 20th century, where a mad poet watches the oceans and knows the horrors it hides; and there in the far future, as an astronaut faces his destiny on the first spaceship sent from earth to colonize another world. Each of the characters in these mysterious linked stories embarks on a journey of discovery and survival; carried forward through the spiral of time, none will return to the same place. This title has Common Core connections.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1626721262
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries later, hiding in the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna, who people call a witch; there in the halls of a Long Island hospital at the beginning of the 20th century, where a mad poet watches the oceans and knows the horrors it hides; and there in the far future, as an astronaut faces his destiny on the first spaceship sent from earth to colonize another world. Each of the characters in these mysterious linked stories embarks on a journey of discovery and survival; carried forward through the spiral of time, none will return to the same place. This title has Common Core connections.
The Sword of Heaven
Author: Mikkel Aaland
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1609520076
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
“Any attempt at peace must be attended by a knowledge of self,” discovers writer and photographer Mikkel Aaland, who grew up with a bomb shelter for a bedroom, in terror of nuclear war. At the height of the Cold War, Aaland finds himself drawn into a mysterious Shinto priest’s plan to save the world. Traveling from Norway to the Philippines, Iceland to South Africa, he places pieces of a sacred Shinto sword in key power spots around the world. Along the way, he comes face to face with his deepest childhood fears of war and destruction, encounters the compelling and mysterious Shinto religion, struggles with the uncertainties of love, and learns to face life with an open heart. The Sword of Heaven tells the extraordinary true story of a journey in which all boundaries are pushed—geographical, cultural, and personal—and in which the healing of the world and the healing of one man appear to be inextricably linked.
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 1609520076
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
“Any attempt at peace must be attended by a knowledge of self,” discovers writer and photographer Mikkel Aaland, who grew up with a bomb shelter for a bedroom, in terror of nuclear war. At the height of the Cold War, Aaland finds himself drawn into a mysterious Shinto priest’s plan to save the world. Traveling from Norway to the Philippines, Iceland to South Africa, he places pieces of a sacred Shinto sword in key power spots around the world. Along the way, he comes face to face with his deepest childhood fears of war and destruction, encounters the compelling and mysterious Shinto religion, struggles with the uncertainties of love, and learns to face life with an open heart. The Sword of Heaven tells the extraordinary true story of a journey in which all boundaries are pushed—geographical, cultural, and personal—and in which the healing of the world and the healing of one man appear to be inextricably linked.
Sweet Lamb of Heaven: A Novel
Author: Lydia Millet
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393285553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband. Lydia Millet’s previous work has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Likewise greeted with rapturous praise, Sweet Lamb of Heaven is a first-person account of a young mother, Anna, fleeing her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists—and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife’s world in ways she never could have imagined. A double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending with profound implications for its characters—and for all of us.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393285553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband. Lydia Millet’s previous work has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Likewise greeted with rapturous praise, Sweet Lamb of Heaven is a first-person account of a young mother, Anna, fleeing her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists—and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife’s world in ways she never could have imagined. A double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending with profound implications for its characters—and for all of us.
River of Heaven
Author: Lee Martin
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307407330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
“You have to know the rest of my story, the part I can’t yet bring myself to say. A story of a boy I knew a long time ago and a brother I loved and then lost.” Past and present collide in Lee Martin’s highly anticipated novel of a man, his brother, and the dark secret that both connects and divides them. Haunting and beautifully wrought, River of Heaven weaves a story of love and loss, confession and redemption, and the mystery buried with a boy named Dewey Finn. On an April evening in 1955, Dewey died on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, and the mystery of his death still confounds the people of this small town. River of Heaven begins some fifty years later and centers on the story of Dewey’s boyhood friend Sam Brady, whose solitary adult life is much formed by what really went on in the days leading up to that evening at the tracks. It’s a story he’d do anything to keep from telling, but when his brother, Cal, returns to Mt. Gilead after decades of self-exile, it threatens to come to the surface. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Bright Forever, Lee Martin masterfully conveys, with a voice that is at once distinct and lyrical, one man’s struggle to come to terms with the outcome of his life. Powerful and captivating, River of Heaven is about the high cost of living a lie, the chains that bind us to our past, and the obligations we have to those we love.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307407330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
“You have to know the rest of my story, the part I can’t yet bring myself to say. A story of a boy I knew a long time ago and a brother I loved and then lost.” Past and present collide in Lee Martin’s highly anticipated novel of a man, his brother, and the dark secret that both connects and divides them. Haunting and beautifully wrought, River of Heaven weaves a story of love and loss, confession and redemption, and the mystery buried with a boy named Dewey Finn. On an April evening in 1955, Dewey died on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, and the mystery of his death still confounds the people of this small town. River of Heaven begins some fifty years later and centers on the story of Dewey’s boyhood friend Sam Brady, whose solitary adult life is much formed by what really went on in the days leading up to that evening at the tracks. It’s a story he’d do anything to keep from telling, but when his brother, Cal, returns to Mt. Gilead after decades of self-exile, it threatens to come to the surface. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Bright Forever, Lee Martin masterfully conveys, with a voice that is at once distinct and lyrical, one man’s struggle to come to terms with the outcome of his life. Powerful and captivating, River of Heaven is about the high cost of living a lie, the chains that bind us to our past, and the obligations we have to those we love.
Daily Devotions
Author: Dana Howard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999177938
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Daily Devotions: Time with God is a Christian devotional for each day of the year. It includes a daily scripture and a simple prayer to inspire, encourage, and give hope. Take a moment to breathe in the Word of God and breathe out a little prayer from your heart. This devotional is a great addition to your busy day in a compact book size that you can take with you on the go.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999177938
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Daily Devotions: Time with God is a Christian devotional for each day of the year. It includes a daily scripture and a simple prayer to inspire, encourage, and give hope. Take a moment to breathe in the Word of God and breathe out a little prayer from your heart. This devotional is a great addition to your busy day in a compact book size that you can take with you on the go.