Author: Paul Podolsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998667300
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A remarkable, true story about raising an unusually challenging child, in this case one who struggles to reciprocate love. Unfolding over nearly 20 years, the story focuses on the struggles of a Russian orphan, Sonya, mistreated early in life, ultimately diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder, and the family that adopted and tried to raise her. Sonya's story will allow a reader to better understand the immeasurable impact of a caregiver early in a child's life and also grasp why some bounce back from terrible childhood adversity and some don't.
Raising a Thief
Author: Paul Podolsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998667300
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A remarkable, true story about raising an unusually challenging child, in this case one who struggles to reciprocate love. Unfolding over nearly 20 years, the story focuses on the struggles of a Russian orphan, Sonya, mistreated early in life, ultimately diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder, and the family that adopted and tried to raise her. Sonya's story will allow a reader to better understand the immeasurable impact of a caregiver early in a child's life and also grasp why some bounce back from terrible childhood adversity and some don't.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998667300
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A remarkable, true story about raising an unusually challenging child, in this case one who struggles to reciprocate love. Unfolding over nearly 20 years, the story focuses on the struggles of a Russian orphan, Sonya, mistreated early in life, ultimately diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder, and the family that adopted and tried to raise her. Sonya's story will allow a reader to better understand the immeasurable impact of a caregiver early in a child's life and also grasp why some bounce back from terrible childhood adversity and some don't.
The Last Tea Bowl Thief
Author: Jonelle Patrick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1645060292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
For three hundred years, a stolen relic passes from one fortune-seeker to the next, indelibly altering the lives of those who possess it. In modern-day Tokyo, Robin Swann’s life has sputtered to a stop. She’s stuck in a dead-end job testing antiquities for an auction house, but her true love is poetry, not pottery. Her stalled dissertation sits on her laptop, unopened in months, and she has no one to confide in but her goldfish. On the other side of town, Nori Okuda sells rice bowls and tea cups to Tokyo restaurants, as her family has done for generations. But with her grandmother in the hospital, the family business is foundering. Nori knows if her luck doesn’t change soon, she’ll lose what little she has left. With nothing in common, Nori and Robin suddenly find their futures inextricably linked to an ancient, elusive tea bowl. Glimpses of the past set the stage as they hunt for the lost masterpiece, uncovering long-buried secrets in their wake. As they get closer to the truth—and the tea bowl—the women must choose between seizing their dreams or righting the terrible wrong that has poisoned its legacy for centuries.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1645060292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
For three hundred years, a stolen relic passes from one fortune-seeker to the next, indelibly altering the lives of those who possess it. In modern-day Tokyo, Robin Swann’s life has sputtered to a stop. She’s stuck in a dead-end job testing antiquities for an auction house, but her true love is poetry, not pottery. Her stalled dissertation sits on her laptop, unopened in months, and she has no one to confide in but her goldfish. On the other side of town, Nori Okuda sells rice bowls and tea cups to Tokyo restaurants, as her family has done for generations. But with her grandmother in the hospital, the family business is foundering. Nori knows if her luck doesn’t change soon, she’ll lose what little she has left. With nothing in common, Nori and Robin suddenly find their futures inextricably linked to an ancient, elusive tea bowl. Glimpses of the past set the stage as they hunt for the lost masterpiece, uncovering long-buried secrets in their wake. As they get closer to the truth—and the tea bowl—the women must choose between seizing their dreams or righting the terrible wrong that has poisoned its legacy for centuries.
Brief Thief
Author: Michaël Escoffier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701315
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When he runs out of toilet paper, Leon must find something else to use. With that, his troubles begin.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701315
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When he runs out of toilet paper, Leon must find something else to use. With that, his troubles begin.
I Am a Thief!
Author: Abigail Rayner
Publisher: NorthSouth Books
ISBN: 0735842892
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
When Eliza Jane Murphy—line leader, captain of the worm rescue team—impulsively pockets a sparkly green stone from her classroom’s “Exploring Green” display table, her heart crumples. My heart stopped singing. My letters went wonky. I was too heavy to swing! I wanted to put it back . . . But what if someone saw? But when she discovers that nearly everyone in her family took something once in their lives—from her baby brother and mom, to her nana with her sausage-stealing dog—Eliza overcomes her shame to make things right. A hilarious and heartfelt story about stealing and finding the courage to do the right thing.
Publisher: NorthSouth Books
ISBN: 0735842892
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
When Eliza Jane Murphy—line leader, captain of the worm rescue team—impulsively pockets a sparkly green stone from her classroom’s “Exploring Green” display table, her heart crumples. My heart stopped singing. My letters went wonky. I was too heavy to swing! I wanted to put it back . . . But what if someone saw? But when she discovers that nearly everyone in her family took something once in their lives—from her baby brother and mom, to her nana with her sausage-stealing dog—Eliza overcomes her shame to make things right. A hilarious and heartfelt story about stealing and finding the courage to do the right thing.
The Thief of Time
Author: John Boyne
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312378042
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In this carefully crafted novel, Boyne juxtaposes history and the buzz of the modern world, weaving together portraits of 1920s Hollywood, the French Revolution, the Wall Street Crash, and other landmark events into one man's story of murder, love, and redemption.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312378042
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In this carefully crafted novel, Boyne juxtaposes history and the buzz of the modern world, weaving together portraits of 1920s Hollywood, the French Revolution, the Wall Street Crash, and other landmark events into one man's story of murder, love, and redemption.
The Baby Thief
Author: Barbara Bisantz Raymond
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786733748
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
For almost three decades, renowned baby-seller Georgia Tann ran a children's home in Memphis, Tennessee -- selling her charges to wealthy clients nationwide, Joan Crawford among them. Part social history, part detective story, part expose, The Baby Thief is a riveting investigative narrative that explores themes that continue to reverberate today.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786733748
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
For almost three decades, renowned baby-seller Georgia Tann ran a children's home in Memphis, Tennessee -- selling her charges to wealthy clients nationwide, Joan Crawford among them. Part social history, part detective story, part expose, The Baby Thief is a riveting investigative narrative that explores themes that continue to reverberate today.
Natural Born Heroes
Author: Christopher McDougall
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307594963
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Used by CrossFit and the late Bruce Lee, the 'Natural Movement' trend is poised to revolutionise the way we think about strength, fitness and our own bodies. In this book, Chris McDougall takes us to pioneering research laboratories in Germany, an assault course in the Brazilian jungle and Parisian parkour routes, exploding common exercise myths.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307594963
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Used by CrossFit and the late Bruce Lee, the 'Natural Movement' trend is poised to revolutionise the way we think about strength, fitness and our own bodies. In this book, Chris McDougall takes us to pioneering research laboratories in Germany, an assault course in the Brazilian jungle and Parisian parkour routes, exploding common exercise myths.
The Birthday Thief
Author: Jennifer E. Gray
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535400565
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
With its playful illustrations and rhyme scheme, Jennifer Gray's The Birthday Thief is a touching tale of two children learning to share the most important day of their lives. It reminds kids that whims of emotion and feelings of jealousy can easily be put to rest by gestures of friendship-an important lesson for children of any age. Written for a 'real life' birthday thief who was diagnosed with Wilms Tumor, a type of kidney cancer in children, all of the author's proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to help children fighting the disease.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535400565
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
With its playful illustrations and rhyme scheme, Jennifer Gray's The Birthday Thief is a touching tale of two children learning to share the most important day of their lives. It reminds kids that whims of emotion and feelings of jealousy can easily be put to rest by gestures of friendship-an important lesson for children of any age. Written for a 'real life' birthday thief who was diagnosed with Wilms Tumor, a type of kidney cancer in children, all of the author's proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to help children fighting the disease.
The Naeseth-Fehn Family History
Author: Gerhard Brandt Naeseth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Memory Thief
Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson
Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN: 1481480219
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
“This expertly crafted story thrums with magic, love, and tense action.” —Booklist (starred review) Perfect for fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, this fantastical and heartfelt first book in a new trilogy from critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson follows a girl who must defeat thirteen evil witches. Twelve-year-old Rosie Oaks’s mom is missing whatever it is that makes mothers love their daughters. All her life, Rosie has known this...and turned to stories for comfort. Then, on the night Rosie decides to throw her stories away forever, an invisible ally helps her discover the Witch Hunter’s Guide to the Universe, a book that claims that all of the evil in the world stems from thirteen witches who are unseen...but also unstoppable. One of these witches—the Memory Thief—holds an insidious power to steal our most precious treasures: our memories. And it is this witch who has cursed Rosie’s mother. In her quest to save her mom—and with her wild, loyal friend “Germ” by her side—Rosie will find the layers hidden under the reality she only thought she knew: where ghosts linger as shades of the past, where clouds witness the world, and a ladder dangles from the moon leading to something bigger and more. Here, words are weapons against the darkness, and witch hunters are those brave enough to wield their imaginations in the face of the unthinkable. The knowledge of her beloved stories is an arsenal in this world, but to unlock their power, Rosie must dare to have hope and believe in herself in the face of daunting odds.
Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN: 1481480219
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
“This expertly crafted story thrums with magic, love, and tense action.” —Booklist (starred review) Perfect for fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, this fantastical and heartfelt first book in a new trilogy from critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson follows a girl who must defeat thirteen evil witches. Twelve-year-old Rosie Oaks’s mom is missing whatever it is that makes mothers love their daughters. All her life, Rosie has known this...and turned to stories for comfort. Then, on the night Rosie decides to throw her stories away forever, an invisible ally helps her discover the Witch Hunter’s Guide to the Universe, a book that claims that all of the evil in the world stems from thirteen witches who are unseen...but also unstoppable. One of these witches—the Memory Thief—holds an insidious power to steal our most precious treasures: our memories. And it is this witch who has cursed Rosie’s mother. In her quest to save her mom—and with her wild, loyal friend “Germ” by her side—Rosie will find the layers hidden under the reality she only thought she knew: where ghosts linger as shades of the past, where clouds witness the world, and a ladder dangles from the moon leading to something bigger and more. Here, words are weapons against the darkness, and witch hunters are those brave enough to wield their imaginations in the face of the unthinkable. The knowledge of her beloved stories is an arsenal in this world, but to unlock their power, Rosie must dare to have hope and believe in herself in the face of daunting odds.