Author: Scott Langteau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615251257
Category : Humorous stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A young boy discovers that lounging on his favorite sofa playing videogames around the clock is not all it's cracked up to be. His lack of attention to life's basics such as bathing, good food, fresh air, sunlight, and old fashioned exercise wreaks havoc on his young body, and before long our little lad finds himself a prisoner of his own designing, as well as the fascination of many an onlooker as he becomes literally joined at the hip with his increasingly disgusting environment. Sofa Boy is a humorous and beautifully illustrated lesson-learned about moderation - a lesson that can clearly speak to all ages, and goes down easily with a warm and hearty chuckle.
Author: Karen Foxlee
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385753543
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.
Author: Bonnie Lacy
Publisher: Bonnie Lacy
ISBN: 1943647216
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Things happen for a reason, right? Like when an old, blind lady reaches out her trembling hand to Katty at the convenience store and tells her, “Find yourself a faithful man—faithful and true.” The woman’s touch zings Katty’s skin. “You’ll know when you’ve found him. He sees you like a queen ....” Katty was just there to buy booze. Angels gather, drawing her. Babies cry out to her. All she knows is abuse and addiction. She has to find herself before she can be loved by a faithful man. And the only place she can do that is ... Gamma’s closet.
Author: Savann T. Mey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469100878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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Diamond Boy is a unique story of an ordinary child who applies his fathers teachings to help him overcome and move around tight and extraordinary situations. His father was gone most of his growing-up life, and his stepmothers health was deteriorating . Diamond, being the oldest son, takes it upon his shoulder the burden of keeping his broken siblings together, doing all that he can to help out at home. Away from home, pressure from peers, bullies, trouble-makers and gangsters alike. Diamond used his fathers old wisdom and knowledge to get out of any predicament and to prepare himself to reach for the sky with the dream that his father had taught him to dream. Working hard with only one purpose in mind, lifes fix, he never lost sight of his vision, and at the end, Diamond succeeded while all his other schoolmates lives take different coursesfrom straight As and good girls turned bad to working the streets to support their habits and more.
Author: Henry Clark
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484433218
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In this wildly witty, fantasy/adventure debut, three kids discover a mysterious sofa at their bus stop - which leads them on a quest to save the world from an alien invasion!
Author: Ed Bankson
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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Fifty light-years away from our planet and just under fifty years ago, two rogue black holes collided. The epic cosmological merger resulted in the creation of the most powerful force in the universe--a gamma-ray burst. Releasing more energy in a few seconds than our own sun will in its entire ten-billion-year life span, it fired away from the center of the newly formed black hole at the speed of light, headed for Earth. With only six months until its arrival, no one is aware that all life is soon to be irradiated out of existence. No one that is except for an amazingly gifted ten-year-old girl with a mild form of autism and her deceased twin brother. Gamma Jean Proctor along with her brother, Ray, learned before his death that they possessed "special" abilities that enabled the twins to enter the world of subatomic particles by using the strength of their minds. In this quantum world, as they came to call it, they were able to discover the impending doom that was fast approaching Earth and even began to devise a way to manipulate particles in that world in a way that could possibly divert the gamma-ray burst. Unfortunately, Gamma's brother along with their father died in a tragic car accident before the twins could finalize their plan. With time running out, Gamma, with the help of her dead brother who she was able to communicate with, reached out with their "special" abilities to enlist the help of three strangers who possessed their own unique gifts. It was hoped that the three strangers, with training from the ten-year-old girl, might be able to replace her lost brother in the twins' plan to save all of humanity. Noted psychiatrist John Tate, movie star Jessie Mortenson, and Princeton doctoral student Beta Whittmere were summoned to the home of Gamma Proctor by a revelation that was imparted to them in a way that they could perceive because of their uniqueness. With the four gathered, they quickly formed a tight bond as they undertook the seemingly impossible task of learning to act as one in the quantum world, a task they would have to quickly master if humanity had any chance for survival.
Author: Kris Fletcher
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488016925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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They weren't expecting this… Heather Jacobs has a lot in common with Xander Sorenson: they've each got a great kid they adore, and neither of their paths to parenthood started out easy. So he's the perfect guy to help her with her plan to seek joint custody of her daughter. But the perfect guy for her? Not so much, especially when she's not convinced his reckless ways are behind him. Plus, he brings out a side of her that she'd rather keep in check. And then the impossible happens…
Author: David Barry
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1837910588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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While investigating a series of gruesome murders, Swansea police detective Harry Lambert discovers a clear link between the victims: they were all members of a paedophile ring. As the DI and his team delve further into the case, they are plunged into a seedy world of perpetrators, suspects, victims and vigilantes. Initially, the police believe the killer could well be a prior victim of the ring, or a redeemed abuser targeting former associates. But when a television producer becomes a suspect, DI Lambert discovers the motives are not as straightforward as they at first appear, and the answer lies buried somewhere deep in the past. As Lambert unearths the terrible truths about these horrendous crimes - in the process stirring up suspicions about his own family history - he discovers these are truths which could cost him his life...
Author:
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Nicola White
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
ISBN: 1782836446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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'A mesmerising tale of secrets and lies' - VAL MCDERMID 'As good as it gets' - DENISE MINA 'An arresting new talent' - CHRIS BROOKMYRE NOT EVERY CHILD IS A BLESSING... It was Ali who found the body of a murdered newborn baby, hidden in the garden of her convent school. In an Ireland riven by battles of religion and reproduction, the case becomes a media sensation, even as the church tries to suppress it. But this is not the first dead baby Ali has found. For Detectives Vincent Swan and Gina Considine, the pressure to discover the identity of the dead child is little help against a community with secrets to protect. Gina knows all too well how many of Ireland's girls are forced to make difficult decisions in terrible circumstances, silenced by shame. Is Ali one of those girls? Because what evidence there is, points to Ali herself... A compelling mystery that will keep you gripped until the last page, perfect for readers of Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Tana French and Jo Spain. *** WINNER OF THE DUNDEE INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE *** ________________________________________ 'A superb debut' - IRISH TIMES 'A vivid thriller. Engrossing' - IRISH INDEPENDENT 'A compulsive, page-turning crime novel' - DECLAN HUGHES
