Author: Kerriann MacDonald
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1608443345
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
What if you had no control over the outcome of your future? For seventeen-year-old Kelsey Donnelly, her life has never been anything short of perfection. From her perfect grades to her perfect friends, Kelsey appears to be the girl who has it all. That is, until a tragic accident-A murder-occurs and rips Kelsey's perfect life to shreds. Now a senior, Kelsey's ideal life has plummeted after her friendships have been torn apart. Yet out of this series of awful events, a silver lining comes along through a girl named Kenzie. She provides the answers to bringing Kelsey's life back to normal-But it comes at a price. Kenzie is a girl living a life of homicide, and she wants to control every aspect of Kelsey's life. As Kelsey's life continues to spiral out of control, she has to race against time to unravel the web she's made with Kenzie. The question is: Who will win? Kerriann Macdonald is sixteen years-old and resides in New England. She is currently a junior in high school. The setting of her book, as well as the characters, are based off of her life here in Woburn. While in school, Kerriann spends the majority of her time writing in little notebooks filled with short stories. She hardly learns anything in school because she's too busy making up new ideas for books In her free time, Kerriann is a student of the performing arts. She takes modern, contemporary, ballet, and jazz classes at her dance studio and takes acting workshops at a professional theatre. Through this theatre she has been in the ensemble for the productions of West Side Story and The Who's Tommy. When Kerriann isn't at either of these places, she's usually at home taking care of her Facebook addiction.
The Night Our Parents Went Out
Author: Katie Goodman
Publisher: POW! Kids Books
ISBN: 9781576877470
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Loaded with humor and heart,The Night Our Parents Went Outis the only picture book on the market to reassure kids that their parents can handle a date night. In this book, two children brew up increasingly wild adventures that befall mom and dad in an evening. From runaway hot air balloons to vampire movie ushers, the kids reveal that when they are nervous, theirimaginative prowess kicks into high gear. For the fortunate babysitter,The Night Our Parents Went Outis the perfect way to lighten the atmosphere and make the kids feel comfortable when theirparents depart.
Publisher: POW! Kids Books
ISBN: 9781576877470
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Loaded with humor and heart,The Night Our Parents Went Outis the only picture book on the market to reassure kids that their parents can handle a date night. In this book, two children brew up increasingly wild adventures that befall mom and dad in an evening. From runaway hot air balloons to vampire movie ushers, the kids reveal that when they are nervous, theirimaginative prowess kicks into high gear. For the fortunate babysitter,The Night Our Parents Went Outis the perfect way to lighten the atmosphere and make the kids feel comfortable when theirparents depart.
The Day My Daddy Died
Author: Rebecca Mason
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734948806
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When a young boy learns the news of his Father's sudden death, pain and sorrow become abruptly real. His carefree childhood is instantly altered as his once 'normal' world is turned upside down. His grief carries him through a wide range of emotions until one day he finally finds healing within and a way to hold onto his memories. A highly relatable and ultimately triumphant book that helps children reflect on the loss of a parent and find a healthy way to accept and move forward.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734948806
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When a young boy learns the news of his Father's sudden death, pain and sorrow become abruptly real. His carefree childhood is instantly altered as his once 'normal' world is turned upside down. His grief carries him through a wide range of emotions until one day he finally finds healing within and a way to hold onto his memories. A highly relatable and ultimately triumphant book that helps children reflect on the loss of a parent and find a healthy way to accept and move forward.
The Night Dad Went to Jail
Author: Melissa Higgins
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1484683420
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
When someone you love goes to jail, you might feel lost, scared, and even mad. What do you do? No matter who your loved one is, this story can help you through the tough times.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1484683420
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
When someone you love goes to jail, you might feel lost, scared, and even mad. What do you do? No matter who your loved one is, this story can help you through the tough times.
When Roles Reverse
Author: Jim Comer
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN: 1571745009
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A humorous guide to caring for aging parents sheds light on essential issues--including legal documents, Medicaid, end-of-life decisions, and more--and helps individuals prepare for the crises, confusion, and the unexpected joys of caregiving. Original.
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN: 1571745009
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A humorous guide to caring for aging parents sheds light on essential issues--including legal documents, Medicaid, end-of-life decisions, and more--and helps individuals prepare for the crises, confusion, and the unexpected joys of caregiving. Original.
We Are
Author: Kerriann MacDonald
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1608443345
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
What if you had no control over the outcome of your future? For seventeen-year-old Kelsey Donnelly, her life has never been anything short of perfection. From her perfect grades to her perfect friends, Kelsey appears to be the girl who has it all. That is, until a tragic accident-A murder-occurs and rips Kelsey's perfect life to shreds. Now a senior, Kelsey's ideal life has plummeted after her friendships have been torn apart. Yet out of this series of awful events, a silver lining comes along through a girl named Kenzie. She provides the answers to bringing Kelsey's life back to normal-But it comes at a price. Kenzie is a girl living a life of homicide, and she wants to control every aspect of Kelsey's life. As Kelsey's life continues to spiral out of control, she has to race against time to unravel the web she's made with Kenzie. The question is: Who will win? Kerriann Macdonald is sixteen years-old and resides in New England. She is currently a junior in high school. The setting of her book, as well as the characters, are based off of her life here in Woburn. While in school, Kerriann spends the majority of her time writing in little notebooks filled with short stories. She hardly learns anything in school because she's too busy making up new ideas for books In her free time, Kerriann is a student of the performing arts. She takes modern, contemporary, ballet, and jazz classes at her dance studio and takes acting workshops at a professional theatre. Through this theatre she has been in the ensemble for the productions of West Side Story and The Who's Tommy. When Kerriann isn't at either of these places, she's usually at home taking care of her Facebook addiction.
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1608443345
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
What if you had no control over the outcome of your future? For seventeen-year-old Kelsey Donnelly, her life has never been anything short of perfection. From her perfect grades to her perfect friends, Kelsey appears to be the girl who has it all. That is, until a tragic accident-A murder-occurs and rips Kelsey's perfect life to shreds. Now a senior, Kelsey's ideal life has plummeted after her friendships have been torn apart. Yet out of this series of awful events, a silver lining comes along through a girl named Kenzie. She provides the answers to bringing Kelsey's life back to normal-But it comes at a price. Kenzie is a girl living a life of homicide, and she wants to control every aspect of Kelsey's life. As Kelsey's life continues to spiral out of control, she has to race against time to unravel the web she's made with Kenzie. The question is: Who will win? Kerriann Macdonald is sixteen years-old and resides in New England. She is currently a junior in high school. The setting of her book, as well as the characters, are based off of her life here in Woburn. While in school, Kerriann spends the majority of her time writing in little notebooks filled with short stories. She hardly learns anything in school because she's too busy making up new ideas for books In her free time, Kerriann is a student of the performing arts. She takes modern, contemporary, ballet, and jazz classes at her dance studio and takes acting workshops at a professional theatre. Through this theatre she has been in the ensemble for the productions of West Side Story and The Who's Tommy. When Kerriann isn't at either of these places, she's usually at home taking care of her Facebook addiction.
The Covering
Author: Miss Cheyenne Mitchell
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463415753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"EXCELLENT, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED" IS ONLY ONE OF THE FIVE STAR BOOK REVIEWS FOR "THE COVERING". It is like magic once you begin reading this fast-paced, supernatural thriller because it is so very very hard to put down. "THE COVERING" is truly an unusual story about the fabled creatures known to us as VAMPIRES! "WHAT IS NEARLY 200 YEAR OLD VAMPIRES WERE RAISING TWO, NORMAL, TEENAGE DAUGHTERS WHO ARE THEIR OWN FLIESH AND BLOOD?" Set in the early 1930s, seventeen year old Celia Bellis along with her fifteen year old sister, Drew, will take readers on the most terrifying and horrifying journey of their lives as they try to uncover the horrific secret that their family members have been harboring from them since the day they were born. As the two young sisters get older they begin to notice strange as well as abnormal things pertaining to the members of their family. Things that they never bothered to notice before. For one thing, whenever they experience trouble with someone.....anyone.... that person tends to turn up dead somewhere. It is then that Celia and Drew begin to notice that oftentimes these murders seem to coincide with their troubles. When Celia meets a new "boyfriend" who seems to suddenly come out of nowhere, not knowing he means her no good, the girls learn without any doubt what their family members really are. Not only that with the help of two friends and a Ouija board they discover more than they thought they ever would.....including a tragic murder that no one will be able to stop. "THE COVERING" has a shocking ending that no reader will ever forget!!!!
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463415753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"EXCELLENT, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED" IS ONLY ONE OF THE FIVE STAR BOOK REVIEWS FOR "THE COVERING". It is like magic once you begin reading this fast-paced, supernatural thriller because it is so very very hard to put down. "THE COVERING" is truly an unusual story about the fabled creatures known to us as VAMPIRES! "WHAT IS NEARLY 200 YEAR OLD VAMPIRES WERE RAISING TWO, NORMAL, TEENAGE DAUGHTERS WHO ARE THEIR OWN FLIESH AND BLOOD?" Set in the early 1930s, seventeen year old Celia Bellis along with her fifteen year old sister, Drew, will take readers on the most terrifying and horrifying journey of their lives as they try to uncover the horrific secret that their family members have been harboring from them since the day they were born. As the two young sisters get older they begin to notice strange as well as abnormal things pertaining to the members of their family. Things that they never bothered to notice before. For one thing, whenever they experience trouble with someone.....anyone.... that person tends to turn up dead somewhere. It is then that Celia and Drew begin to notice that oftentimes these murders seem to coincide with their troubles. When Celia meets a new "boyfriend" who seems to suddenly come out of nowhere, not knowing he means her no good, the girls learn without any doubt what their family members really are. Not only that with the help of two friends and a Ouija board they discover more than they thought they ever would.....including a tragic murder that no one will be able to stop. "THE COVERING" has a shocking ending that no reader will ever forget!!!!
Wide-Awake Jake
Author: Helen Young
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006608639
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006608639
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Exvangelicals
Author: Sarah McCammon
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250284481
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER "An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon’s story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes and fears of millions of Americans." —Kristin Kobes Du Mez, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus and John Wayne The first definitive book that names the growing social movement of people leaving the church: the exvangelicals. Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather would go to hell unless she could reach him, or that her Muslim friend would need to be converted, and that she, too, would go to hell if she did not believe fervently enough, McCammon was a rule-follower and—most of the time—a true believer. But through it all, she was increasingly plagued by fears and deep questions as the belief system she'd been carefully taught clashed with her expanding understanding of the outside world. After spending her early adult life striving to make sense of an unraveling worldview, by her 30s, she found herself face-to-face with it once again as she covered the Trump campaign for NPR, where she witnessed first-hand the power and influence that evangelical Christian beliefs held on the political right. Sarah also came to discover that she was not alone: she is among a rising generation of the children of evangelicalism who are growing up and fleeing the fold, who are thinking for themselves and deconstructing what feel like the “alternative facts” of their childhood. Rigorously reported and deeply personal, The Exvangelicals is the story of the people who make up this generational tipping point, including Sarah herself. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is the first definitive book that names and describes the post-evangelical movement: identifying its origins, telling the stories of its members, and examining its vast cultural, social, and political impact.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250284481
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER "An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon’s story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes and fears of millions of Americans." —Kristin Kobes Du Mez, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus and John Wayne The first definitive book that names the growing social movement of people leaving the church: the exvangelicals. Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather would go to hell unless she could reach him, or that her Muslim friend would need to be converted, and that she, too, would go to hell if she did not believe fervently enough, McCammon was a rule-follower and—most of the time—a true believer. But through it all, she was increasingly plagued by fears and deep questions as the belief system she'd been carefully taught clashed with her expanding understanding of the outside world. After spending her early adult life striving to make sense of an unraveling worldview, by her 30s, she found herself face-to-face with it once again as she covered the Trump campaign for NPR, where she witnessed first-hand the power and influence that evangelical Christian beliefs held on the political right. Sarah also came to discover that she was not alone: she is among a rising generation of the children of evangelicalism who are growing up and fleeing the fold, who are thinking for themselves and deconstructing what feel like the “alternative facts” of their childhood. Rigorously reported and deeply personal, The Exvangelicals is the story of the people who make up this generational tipping point, including Sarah herself. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is the first definitive book that names and describes the post-evangelical movement: identifying its origins, telling the stories of its members, and examining its vast cultural, social, and political impact.
We Were The Future
Author: Yael Neeman
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 146831386X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In this memoir, an Israeli woman born on a kibbutz recounts her childhood there and examines the movement’s effects on the nation. The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli history. These collective settlements have been written about extensively over the years: The kibbutz has been the subject of many sociological studies, and has been praised as the only example in world history of entire communities attempting, voluntarily, to live in total equality. But there’s a dark side to the kibbutz, which has been criticized in later years, mainly by children who were raised in these communities, as an institution which victimized its offspring for the sake of ideology. In this spare and lucid memoir, Neeman—a child of the kibbutz—draws on the collective memory of hundreds of thousands of Israelis who grew up in a kibbutz during their height and who intimately share their memories with her. We Were the Future is more than merely a compelling personal account of growing up in the kibbutz movement; it is an unstintingly honest examination of the perils of pioneering and a new lens through which to see the history of Israel. Praise for We Were the Future “An eye-opening look at a fascinating era in Israeli history and what happens when a child is part of a sociopolitical experiment.” —Kirkus Review “Readers curious about life on a kibbutz in the 1960s will love this poetic autobiography. Readers who have never wondered about life on a kibbutz should read this book anyway, as they will be well rewarded. . . . The history of the movement and [Neeman’s] own kibbutz are deftly woven together, and readers come away with a sense of this not as merely an autobiography of an individual woman but as the story of the hopes, dreams, and struggles of an entire movement. A spare, and startling book.” —Christine Engel, Booklist “A highly recommended introduction to the kibbutz movement.” —Library Journal “Both beautifully lyric and devastatingly illuminating.” —The Times of Israel
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 146831386X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In this memoir, an Israeli woman born on a kibbutz recounts her childhood there and examines the movement’s effects on the nation. The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli history. These collective settlements have been written about extensively over the years: The kibbutz has been the subject of many sociological studies, and has been praised as the only example in world history of entire communities attempting, voluntarily, to live in total equality. But there’s a dark side to the kibbutz, which has been criticized in later years, mainly by children who were raised in these communities, as an institution which victimized its offspring for the sake of ideology. In this spare and lucid memoir, Neeman—a child of the kibbutz—draws on the collective memory of hundreds of thousands of Israelis who grew up in a kibbutz during their height and who intimately share their memories with her. We Were the Future is more than merely a compelling personal account of growing up in the kibbutz movement; it is an unstintingly honest examination of the perils of pioneering and a new lens through which to see the history of Israel. Praise for We Were the Future “An eye-opening look at a fascinating era in Israeli history and what happens when a child is part of a sociopolitical experiment.” —Kirkus Review “Readers curious about life on a kibbutz in the 1960s will love this poetic autobiography. Readers who have never wondered about life on a kibbutz should read this book anyway, as they will be well rewarded. . . . The history of the movement and [Neeman’s] own kibbutz are deftly woven together, and readers come away with a sense of this not as merely an autobiography of an individual woman but as the story of the hopes, dreams, and struggles of an entire movement. A spare, and startling book.” —Christine Engel, Booklist “A highly recommended introduction to the kibbutz movement.” —Library Journal “Both beautifully lyric and devastatingly illuminating.” —The Times of Israel
Meditations from a Movable Chair
Author: Andre Dubus
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307801926
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
For Andre Dubus, "the quotidian and the spiritual don't exist on different planes, but infuse each other. His is an unapologetically sacramental vision of life in which ordinary things participate in the miraculous, the miraculous in ordinary things. He believes in God, and talks to Him, and doesn't mince words. He believes in ghosts . . . He is open to mystery, and of all mysteries the one that interests him most is the human potential for transcendence." So wrote Tobias Wolff seven years ago, about Andre Dubus's Broken Vessels, and that insight describes perfectly the twenty-five pieces in this powerfully moving new collection, a continuation of Dubus's candid, intensely personal exploration into matters of morality, religion, and creativity. Since that first book of essays, written after the 1986 accident that cost him his leg and, for a time, the ability to write, Mr. Dubus has published Dancing After Hours, a unanimously heralded book of stories "at once harrowing and exhilarating" (Time). Here is Dubus on the rape of his beloved sister, his first real job, a gay naval officer, Hemingway, the blessing of his first marriage, his dear friend Richard Yates, his own crippling, lost autumnal pleasures, having sons and grandsons, his first books, meeting a woman who witnessed his accident, the Catholic church, and, of course, his faith. A writer of immense sensitivity, vulnerability, and thoughtfulness--a master at the height of his talent--whose work "is suffused with grace, bathed in a kind of spiritual glow" (New York Times Book Review).
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307801926
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
For Andre Dubus, "the quotidian and the spiritual don't exist on different planes, but infuse each other. His is an unapologetically sacramental vision of life in which ordinary things participate in the miraculous, the miraculous in ordinary things. He believes in God, and talks to Him, and doesn't mince words. He believes in ghosts . . . He is open to mystery, and of all mysteries the one that interests him most is the human potential for transcendence." So wrote Tobias Wolff seven years ago, about Andre Dubus's Broken Vessels, and that insight describes perfectly the twenty-five pieces in this powerfully moving new collection, a continuation of Dubus's candid, intensely personal exploration into matters of morality, religion, and creativity. Since that first book of essays, written after the 1986 accident that cost him his leg and, for a time, the ability to write, Mr. Dubus has published Dancing After Hours, a unanimously heralded book of stories "at once harrowing and exhilarating" (Time). Here is Dubus on the rape of his beloved sister, his first real job, a gay naval officer, Hemingway, the blessing of his first marriage, his dear friend Richard Yates, his own crippling, lost autumnal pleasures, having sons and grandsons, his first books, meeting a woman who witnessed his accident, the Catholic church, and, of course, his faith. A writer of immense sensitivity, vulnerability, and thoughtfulness--a master at the height of his talent--whose work "is suffused with grace, bathed in a kind of spiritual glow" (New York Times Book Review).