Author: Carolyn Chute
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 1555848486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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A New York Times Notable Book: A group forms its own surrogate family on the margins of society in this novel by the author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine. Mickey Gammon, fifteen, has dropped out of school and been kicked out of his home. But he has found a new place in the Settlement—a rural cooperative that deals in alternative energy, farm produce, and locally made goods. Run by “The Prophet,” the Settlement is demonized by the media as a compound of sin, but its true nature remains foreign to outsiders. It is here where Mickey meets another deserted child, six-year-old Jane, whose mother is in jail on trumped-up drug charges. Playing “secret agent,” Jane cunningly prowls the Settlement in her heart-shaped sunglasses, imagining that her plans to bring down the community will reunite her with her mother. As they struggle to adjust to their new, complex surrogate family, Mickey and Jane are about to witness mounting unrest within the Settlement’s ranks—which soon builds to a shocking and devastating crescendo. The School on Heart’s Content Road is “a profoundly human novel . . . Absolutely one of a kind” (USA Today), from an author who, “like Flannery O’Connor . . . has a gift for expressing the true spirit of a culture” (San Francisco Chronicle). “Chute can’t help but create characters who live and breathe.” —The Washington Post
Author: Carolyn Chute
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802191932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 725
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“An intellectual page-turner” set in a secretive countercultural community by the author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine (O, The Oprah Magazine). It’s the height of summer 1999, when local Maine newspaper the Record Sun receives numerous tipoffs from anonymous callers warning of violence, weapons stockpiling, and rampant child abuse at the nearby homeschool on Heart’s Content Road. Hungry to break into serious journalism, Ivy Morelli sets out to meet the mysterious leader of the homeschool, Gordon St. Onge—referred to by many as “The Prophet.” Soon, Ivy ingratiates herself into the sprawling Settlement, a self-sufficient counterculture community that many locals suspect to be a wild cult. Despite her initial skepticism—not to mention the Settlement’s ever-growing group of pregnant teenage girls—Ivy finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gordon. Then, a newcomer—a gifted, disturbed young girl with wild orange hair—joins the community, and falls into a complicated relationship with the charismatic Prophet. When the Record Sun finally runs its piece on the leader of the Settlement, lives will be changed both within and beyond the community, in this novel by a writer described by the New York Times Book Review as “a James Joyce of the backcountry, a Proust of rural society.”
Author: Newfoundland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Author: Sarah Ockler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442430400
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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When all signs point to heartbreak, can love still be a rule of the road? A “touching father-daughter story” (Kirkus Reviews) from the author of Bittersweet and Twenty Boy Summer. Jude has learned a lot from her older sisters, but the most important thing is this: The Vargas brothers are notorious heartbreakers. She’s seen the tears and disasters that dating a Vargas boy can cause, and she swore an oath—with candles and a contract and everything—to never have anything to do with one. Now Jude is the only sister still living at home, and she’s spending the summer helping her ailing father restore his vintage motorcycle—which means hiring a mechanic to help out. Is it Jude’s fault he happens to be cute? And surprisingly sweet? And a Vargas? Jude tells herself it’s strictly bike business with Emilio. Her sisters will never find out, and Jude can spot those flirty little Vargas tricks a mile away—no way would she fall for them. But Jude’s defenses are crumbling, and if history is destined to repeat itself, she’s speeding toward some serious heartbreak…unless her sisters were wrong? Jude may have taken an oath, but she’s beginning to think that when it comes to love, some promises might be worth breaking.
Author: Bill Gates
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring
Author: Jeff Baxter
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310576849
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Are you fully prepared to enter the “real world” after high school to become an adult? This book will help you get on the right trail, answering the right questions and getting the right gear for the journey.
Author: Vyletta
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480953644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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Basking in a Plains Foundation A Paradoxical Exposure By: Vyletta Growing up in the Georgia panhandle in the 1950s and ’60s was never easy for Rexi, a black girl in a poor area. Her parents’ marriage was tumultuous. Her family or her neighbors always seemed to be dealing with one hardship or another. Everyone worked hard, but it was uncommon for anyone to get ahead and move up in the world. That was just the way the world worked back then.
Author: Air Cmde K Sanjeevan
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 9352066626
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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This book is about the experiences of an eighty-four-year-old retired officer of the Indian Air Force. He joined the Royal Indian Air Force in 1949 and retired as an Air Commodore from the Indian Air Force in 1986. The book includes his life as an enlisted airman, his experiences as a qualified engineering officer in helicopter, transport and fighter squadrons, his training at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, and subsequent staff appointments, and about his tenure as a military diplomat at the Indian Embassy in Moscow and appointment as the commanding officer of an Air Force Station. Details of his life as an executive in Daimler–Benz Aerospace for a decade after retirement are also mentioned in the narrative.
Author: Manu Avenido
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 935597941X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
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This is precisely the gift that this book gives us: a chance to do what Susa Lara calls “living life twice,” with all its pain and beauty, and to glean from it something we can take to steel or soften us for the next moment. - Carmie Ortego, CNF writer and teacher This book is a laudable undertaking. In an age where teenagers rush to social media to air even their most inane moments, it’s refreshing to see some of them use their pens and ponder on the world around them and the lives that they have lived. The essays are earnest, hopeful, and culturally rooted. - Jude Ortega, editor of Cotabato Literary Journal To the readers, the compilation Pristine Moments, Lucid Dreams precisely does what it promises to do—deliver the fresh insights and the clear inspirations of millennials in Cebu. To the student-writers, it’s an admirable project that oriented new inductees to writing the joy of getting published for the first time. - Haidee Emmie K. Palapar, writer, teacher, heritage worker
Author: Amor Towles
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735222371
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 593
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates
