Author: Joan Hicks Boone
Publisher: Koehler Books
ISBN: 9781633935822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Joan's neighborhood is filled with kids of all ages, but even her closest friends don't know how violent Joan's dad is, or how difficult it is for her to navigate the troubled waters of her home life. Joan becomes adept at reading her dad's mood, and trying to prevent him from inflicting harm upon her mom. But, time and again, her dad succeeds in his mission. As the violence escalates, Joan is plagued with the constant fear that her mother may die. Repeatedly she asks the same questions: why is her dad so violent and why can't he be stopped? Throughout the course of her childhood, several heroes enter Joan's life. Readers will cheer for each as they offer Joan gifts of validation, acceptance and hope. Joan's exceptional yet frank storytelling brings the reader directly into her home, providing unembellished awareness of the multiple issues that encompass domestic violence. The Best Girl is a story of resilience and survival and, as the book concludes, readers are left with feelings of possibility and hope: it appears that sixteen-year old Joan is going to make it.
The Best Girl
Author: Joan Hicks Boone
Publisher: Koehler Books
ISBN: 9781633935822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Joan's neighborhood is filled with kids of all ages, but even her closest friends don't know how violent Joan's dad is, or how difficult it is for her to navigate the troubled waters of her home life. Joan becomes adept at reading her dad's mood, and trying to prevent him from inflicting harm upon her mom. But, time and again, her dad succeeds in his mission. As the violence escalates, Joan is plagued with the constant fear that her mother may die. Repeatedly she asks the same questions: why is her dad so violent and why can't he be stopped? Throughout the course of her childhood, several heroes enter Joan's life. Readers will cheer for each as they offer Joan gifts of validation, acceptance and hope. Joan's exceptional yet frank storytelling brings the reader directly into her home, providing unembellished awareness of the multiple issues that encompass domestic violence. The Best Girl is a story of resilience and survival and, as the book concludes, readers are left with feelings of possibility and hope: it appears that sixteen-year old Joan is going to make it.
Publisher: Koehler Books
ISBN: 9781633935822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Joan's neighborhood is filled with kids of all ages, but even her closest friends don't know how violent Joan's dad is, or how difficult it is for her to navigate the troubled waters of her home life. Joan becomes adept at reading her dad's mood, and trying to prevent him from inflicting harm upon her mom. But, time and again, her dad succeeds in his mission. As the violence escalates, Joan is plagued with the constant fear that her mother may die. Repeatedly she asks the same questions: why is her dad so violent and why can't he be stopped? Throughout the course of her childhood, several heroes enter Joan's life. Readers will cheer for each as they offer Joan gifts of validation, acceptance and hope. Joan's exceptional yet frank storytelling brings the reader directly into her home, providing unembellished awareness of the multiple issues that encompass domestic violence. The Best Girl is a story of resilience and survival and, as the book concludes, readers are left with feelings of possibility and hope: it appears that sixteen-year old Joan is going to make it.
Best Girl
Author: Sylvia Maultash Warsh
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554698995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Amanda Moss is a young hairstylist with ambitions to become a musician and play in a band. She was adopted at age three after her parents were killed in a car crash. At least that's what her adoptive mother Shelley has always told her. Shelley is also a hairdresser. But beyond that, mother and daughter don't see eye to eye on much. Then one day Amanda's life changes dramatically when a stranger shows up and tells her a very different story about her parents. Her real mother has just died of cancer while serving a life sentence for the murder of Amanda's father. Suddenly Amanda feels her whole life has been a lie. Was her mother really guilty? When she also discovers that her father was in a successful rock-and-roll band when he was killed, she goes looking for former band members to try to find out what really happened so many years before. In the process she learns some unpleasant truths about her family. She also learns that you can love and hate someone at the same time.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554698995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Amanda Moss is a young hairstylist with ambitions to become a musician and play in a band. She was adopted at age three after her parents were killed in a car crash. At least that's what her adoptive mother Shelley has always told her. Shelley is also a hairdresser. But beyond that, mother and daughter don't see eye to eye on much. Then one day Amanda's life changes dramatically when a stranger shows up and tells her a very different story about her parents. Her real mother has just died of cancer while serving a life sentence for the murder of Amanda's father. Suddenly Amanda feels her whole life has been a lie. Was her mother really guilty? When she also discovers that her father was in a successful rock-and-roll band when he was killed, she goes looking for former band members to try to find out what really happened so many years before. In the process she learns some unpleasant truths about her family. She also learns that you can love and hate someone at the same time.
Good Girl/Best Girl
Author: J.L. Saporta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615902241
Category : Suspense fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"Good Girl/Best Girl" is an absorbing story that tracks the lives of two very different women as they confront unique challenges and battle their inner demons to come to terms with who they are and who they want to be. On one side, Mindy Blair struggles with feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. After a heartbreaking sexual experience with her high-school boyfriend, she becomes promiscuous but is basically a mild-mannered good girl in search of love and acceptance. On the other side, Amanda Best is a high-priced hooker who is good at what she does-and she knows it. Though she occasionally finds herself in dangerous or unwelcome sexual situations, she loves her profession and is in it not just for the money but also for the excitement and for the sex itself. The good girl and the best girl, though vastly different, have something in common: they share a deep, dark secret-and if they choose to confront it, their lives will change forever. A thrilling tale of love, sex, and violence that's also incredibly erotic, "Good Girl/Best Girl" will thoroughly titillate your interests from start to clever finish.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615902241
Category : Suspense fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"Good Girl/Best Girl" is an absorbing story that tracks the lives of two very different women as they confront unique challenges and battle their inner demons to come to terms with who they are and who they want to be. On one side, Mindy Blair struggles with feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. After a heartbreaking sexual experience with her high-school boyfriend, she becomes promiscuous but is basically a mild-mannered good girl in search of love and acceptance. On the other side, Amanda Best is a high-priced hooker who is good at what she does-and she knows it. Though she occasionally finds herself in dangerous or unwelcome sexual situations, she loves her profession and is in it not just for the money but also for the excitement and for the sex itself. The good girl and the best girl, though vastly different, have something in common: they share a deep, dark secret-and if they choose to confront it, their lives will change forever. A thrilling tale of love, sex, and violence that's also incredibly erotic, "Good Girl/Best Girl" will thoroughly titillate your interests from start to clever finish.
My Best Friend's Girl
Author: Dorothy Koomson
Publisher: Bantam Discovery
ISBN: 0440337526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
How far would you go for the best friend who broke your heart? This internationally bestselling novel tells an enchanting tale of life’s most unpredictable loves and heartaches, and the unforgettable bond between a single woman and an extraordinary five-year-old girl. From the moment they met in college, best friends Adele Brannon and Kamryn Matika thought nothing could come between them—until Adele did the unthinkable and slept with Kamryn’s fiancé, Nate. Now, after years of silence, the two women are reuniting, and Adele has a stunning request for her old friend: she wants Kamryn to adopt her five-year-old daughter, Tegan. Besides the difference in skin color—many will assume that headstrong, impulsive Kamryn is Tegan’s nanny—there’s the inconvenient truth that Kamryn is wholly unprepared to take care of anyone, especially someone who reminds her so much of Nate. With crises brewing at work and her love life in shambles, can Kamryn somehow become the mother a little girl needs her to be? In My Best Friend’s Girl, Dorothy Koomson takes us on a warm and wondrous journey through laughter and tears, forgiveness and hope—and the enduring love forged by the unlikeliest of families. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Publisher: Bantam Discovery
ISBN: 0440337526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
How far would you go for the best friend who broke your heart? This internationally bestselling novel tells an enchanting tale of life’s most unpredictable loves and heartaches, and the unforgettable bond between a single woman and an extraordinary five-year-old girl. From the moment they met in college, best friends Adele Brannon and Kamryn Matika thought nothing could come between them—until Adele did the unthinkable and slept with Kamryn’s fiancé, Nate. Now, after years of silence, the two women are reuniting, and Adele has a stunning request for her old friend: she wants Kamryn to adopt her five-year-old daughter, Tegan. Besides the difference in skin color—many will assume that headstrong, impulsive Kamryn is Tegan’s nanny—there’s the inconvenient truth that Kamryn is wholly unprepared to take care of anyone, especially someone who reminds her so much of Nate. With crises brewing at work and her love life in shambles, can Kamryn somehow become the mother a little girl needs her to be? In My Best Friend’s Girl, Dorothy Koomson takes us on a warm and wondrous journey through laughter and tears, forgiveness and hope—and the enduring love forged by the unlikeliest of families. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Best Girl
Author: Emma Harrison
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061880426
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
You Are Cordially Invited . . . to your brother's wedding where he will marry rich, famous Marni Shay, at the River Lodge, the most elite resort in Colorado, the state you chose to go to college in so you could escape your family, except they'll all be there. Enjoy ten fun-filled days of avoiding your mother, who still thinks you're not girly enough; planning your brother's bachelor party, because you are his best man, er, girl; and, oh yeah, trying not to drool all over Hot Connor, who happens to be in your English seminar and work at the River Lodge. Put your best foot forward, and . . . Don't miss the most joyous celebration of the year! Yeah, right.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061880426
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
You Are Cordially Invited . . . to your brother's wedding where he will marry rich, famous Marni Shay, at the River Lodge, the most elite resort in Colorado, the state you chose to go to college in so you could escape your family, except they'll all be there. Enjoy ten fun-filled days of avoiding your mother, who still thinks you're not girly enough; planning your brother's bachelor party, because you are his best man, er, girl; and, oh yeah, trying not to drool all over Hot Connor, who happens to be in your English seminar and work at the River Lodge. Put your best foot forward, and . . . Don't miss the most joyous celebration of the year! Yeah, right.
A Girl's Best Friend
Author: Harriet May Savitz
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595339441
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
"The book shows how, for those who are blind, attitudes about blindness play an important part in the success of everything in life. Laurie has to work through her own attitudes about herself when others treat her differently because she is blind. ...I plan to give each of my nieces a copy of the book for Christmas. It will help the younger members of our family grow up with a better philosophy about blind people." --Peggy Chong - Minnesota Bulletin- a quarterly publication of the National Federation of the Blind of Minnesota Reprinted in Future Reflections, The National Federation of the Blind Magazine for Parents of Blind Children
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595339441
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
"The book shows how, for those who are blind, attitudes about blindness play an important part in the success of everything in life. Laurie has to work through her own attitudes about herself when others treat her differently because she is blind. ...I plan to give each of my nieces a copy of the book for Christmas. It will help the younger members of our family grow up with a better philosophy about blind people." --Peggy Chong - Minnesota Bulletin- a quarterly publication of the National Federation of the Blind of Minnesota Reprinted in Future Reflections, The National Federation of the Blind Magazine for Parents of Blind Children
The Bonbon Girl
Author: Linda Finlay
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008262969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
‘Sure to delight her ever-growing legion of fans’ Dilly Court A heart-warming tale from the queen of West Country sagas, LINDA FINLAY
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008262969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
‘Sure to delight her ever-growing legion of fans’ Dilly Court A heart-warming tale from the queen of West Country sagas, LINDA FINLAY
A Girl in a Million
Author: Betty Neels
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373249500
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Four classic romances by "USA Today"-bestselling author Neels are available once again in stunning new packages. Reissue.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373249500
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Four classic romances by "USA Today"-bestselling author Neels are available once again in stunning new packages. Reissue.
The Best Little Girl in the World
Author: Steven Levenkron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140373202
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This story is based on the theme of anorexia. To her father, Francesca is the best little girl in the world, but at her ballet class she realizes she is fat. With this realization, fat Francesca has to die, and slim Kessa takes her place. Help arrives in the shape of Sandy Sherman, a doctor.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140373202
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This story is based on the theme of anorexia. To her father, Francesca is the best little girl in the world, but at her ballet class she realizes she is fat. With this realization, fat Francesca has to die, and slim Kessa takes her place. Help arrives in the shape of Sandy Sherman, a doctor.
The Best of Cat Girl
Author: RAMZEE
Publisher: Rebellion
ISBN: 9781786185853
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"Wildly entertaining" - Comicbooknews.co.uk The first ever collection of the UK's premier superheroine, this action packed comic is perfect for readers new to the meow-gnificent world of Cat Girl! "A furious, fun, action-packed superhero story" - Broken Frontier The beloved UK superheroine finally pounces into her own collection! From the pages of classic 1960s girls' comic Sally comes the first ever collection of beloved British superheroine The Cat Girl! Cathy Carter is not your average teen. She can jump further, fight longer and climb higher than anyone she knows – with the aid of a magic suit, she is Cat Girl! Facing off in glamorous, globetrotting adventures against supervillains and master criminals, Cathy often finds the hardest fight comes from her bumbling detective father, who doesn’t believe Cathy can fend for herself. Can Cathy save the world when the person trying to hold her back – is her dad? This collection contains Cat Girl's latest adventure, Cat Girl Returns from the Tammy & Jinty special, as well as a purrfect selection of the best classic Cat Girl stories from Sally, and a brand new cover from Elkys Nova.
Publisher: Rebellion
ISBN: 9781786185853
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"Wildly entertaining" - Comicbooknews.co.uk The first ever collection of the UK's premier superheroine, this action packed comic is perfect for readers new to the meow-gnificent world of Cat Girl! "A furious, fun, action-packed superhero story" - Broken Frontier The beloved UK superheroine finally pounces into her own collection! From the pages of classic 1960s girls' comic Sally comes the first ever collection of beloved British superheroine The Cat Girl! Cathy Carter is not your average teen. She can jump further, fight longer and climb higher than anyone she knows – with the aid of a magic suit, she is Cat Girl! Facing off in glamorous, globetrotting adventures against supervillains and master criminals, Cathy often finds the hardest fight comes from her bumbling detective father, who doesn’t believe Cathy can fend for herself. Can Cathy save the world when the person trying to hold her back – is her dad? This collection contains Cat Girl's latest adventure, Cat Girl Returns from the Tammy & Jinty special, as well as a purrfect selection of the best classic Cat Girl stories from Sally, and a brand new cover from Elkys Nova.