Author: Thaddaeus English
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479714739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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A Cognitive Story A young girl moves from a small village and away from her mundane depressive life in search of adventure and love, spurred on by the dream of helping her brother she moves to the capital to expand her knowledge and learn something that could help her brothers life get better. She finds disillusioned citizens and corruption filling the air, as unease fills the streets while the city re-establishes itself, a chance meeting with a slick smooth talking inventor takes her life to a place she never thought, delving into a plot to overthrow the corrupt government agenda.
Author: Han Nolan
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547505477
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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A National Book Award–winning author’s “moving” novel about “the emotional costs of mental illness, especially on teens forced to parent their own parents” (Booklist, starred review). His mother has died. His father is going crazy. For fifteen-year-old Jason, the only relief as he tries to hold things together is the group of imaginary friends who offer guidance as he tries not to draw attention to his father’s deteriorating condition—or to himself. But between the traumas of his childhood and the squalor and stress he’s dealing with right now, Jason’s attempts to remain invisible may not be enough. To find a solution to this very real problem, he just might have to reach out to some very real people . . . In this compelling story by the author of Dancing on the Edge, Han Nolan “balances weighty subject matter with humor, offering an intelligent portrayal of a boy’s slow release of burdens too heavy to carry alone” (Publishers Weekly).
Author: Lewis Cooper
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524662682
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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This novel is a sequel to It Was Nothing! and is a totally fictitious, action-packed, intriguing, and no-frills account concerning a gripping insight into kidnapping, blackmail, murder, and the sad costs associated with drugs and vice. The reader is taken along for another exciting, winding, roller-coaster ride of a fusion of emotions involving surprising prejudice, humor, love, and harsh disappointments. Above all, it relates to a fight against crime by persons wishing to perform much public good by employing exceptional investigative practices and, indeed, unconventional methods. Those who have read this account consider it to be a fascinating, totally absorbing, and highly enjoyable experience and were somewhat surprised as to their own emotions concerning a drug cartel. Above all, everyone looks forward to the last of the trilogy.
Author: Coco Simon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442474807
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Worrying about her fashion prospects when she learns that she has to get both braces and glasses, Mia receives help from her stylish mom and is reassured by her Cupcake Club friends that she is still the same old Mia.
Author: Elizabeth M. Carman
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583945709
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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This fascinating exploration of pre-birth consciousness—with over 200 real-life case studies—reveals we do make decisions about the families and circumstances into which we’re born. An affirming and inspirational read for parents and grandparents, regression therapists and spiritual counselors, and anyone interested in near-death experiences. Where was your soul before you were born? If your soul is immortal, did it have a “life” prior to birth? Did you choose your life and parents? Is reincarnation real? Elizabeth and Neil Carman, the authors of Cosmic Cradle, address these questions through interviews with adults and children who report pre-birth experiences (PBEs) not based on regression, hypnosis, or drugs. Instead, interviewees recall their pre-birth existence completely sober and awake. In contrast to near-death experiences (NDEs), which have been well documented to show us what the soul experiences after death, PBEs throw light upon our lives before birth. People with NDEs sense that they “return home” when their spirits cross to the other side. What is the nature of this place we “return” to? PBEs suggest that we come from the same place we return to: we come from the Light and return to the Light. The same eternal "you" progresses through life before life, human life, and life after death. This new edition of Cosmic Cradle explores your soul’s journey into your mother’s womb—where your soul comes from, the origin and purpose of your life, and the process by which you entered an earthly body. In pre-birth communications, parents meet a soul seeking to cross over from the heavenly realm to human birth. Persons with pre-birth memories recall existence in a luminous world before birth, in which they preview the upcoming life with a Divine Planner, and recall how they journeyed to their mothers’ wombs.
Author: Tima Smith
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595330789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Hannah, a photojournalist, insists her nomadic days as a wanderer are long over. She has a job. She works to improve the art she creates with her camera. Her days are steady, predictable. But they are growing complicated. A restless boyfriend, an irritating but interesting mentor, and a silent four-year-old named Robin are beginning to make the life Hannah lived in the '60s seem almost pedestrian. But Hannah's free and idealistic past contains a secret. It's that secret, and the press of unanticipated involvements, to a man and especially to the child, that propels Hannah toward a future as devoid of certainty as any she could imagine.
Author: Dinah Lenney
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619025396
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell? In recalling her experience, Dinah's essays each begin with one thing — real or imaginary, lost or found, rare or ordinary, animal, vegetable, mineral, edible. Each object comes with a memory or a story, and so sparks an opportunity for rue or reflection or confession or revelation, having to do with her coming of age as a daughter, mother, actor, and writer: the piano that holds secrets to family history and inheritance; the gifted watches that tell so much more than time; the little black dress that carries all of youth's love and longing; the purple scarf that stands in for her journey from New York to Los Angeles, across stage and screen, to pursue her acting dream. Read together or apart, the essays project the bountiful mosaic of life and love, of moving to Los Angeles and raising a family; of coming to terms with place, relationship, failures, and success; of dealing with up–ended notions about home and family and career and aging, too. Taken together, they add up to a pastiche of an artful and quirky life, lovingly remembered, compellingly told, wrapped up in the ties that bind the passage of time.
Author: Jennifer McMahon
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385538502
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of The Invited will shock you with a simmering psychological thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters. • "One of the year's most chilling novels." —The Miami Herald West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished. In her search for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother's bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked into the historical mystery, she discovers that she’s not the only person looking for someone that they’ve lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.
Author: Stef Penney
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1529425697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Author of the Costa-prizewinning, world-wide bestseller The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, returns to her snow-covered heartland in this tense mystery set in a small Scandinavian town. Nordland. A region in the Norwegian Arctic; a remote valley that stretches from the sea up to the mountains and glaciers. It is May in what was once a prosperous mining community. The snows are nearly gone and it's a time of spring and school-leavers' celebrations - until Daniel, a popular teenage boy, goes missing. Conflicting stories circulate among his friends, of parties and wild behaviour. As the search for Daniel widens, the police open a disused mine in the mountains. They find human remains, but this body has been there for decades, its identity a mystery. Everyone in this tight knit, isolated community is touched by these events: misanthropic Svea, whose long life in the area stretches back to the heyday of the mines, and beyond. She has cut all ties with her family, except for her granddaughter, Elin, an outsider like her grandmother. Elin and her friend Benny, both impacted by Daniel while he was alive, become entangled in the hunt for answers, while Svea has deep, dark secrets of her own.
Author: Chris Carlsson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780926664074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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A teenage arsonist threatens a partially submerged mid-22nd century San Francisco. As a Public Investigator "tryout" seeks evidence across the utopian city full of canals and veloways, the political and social conflicts of a society based on generalized abundance and commonly held wealth are explored. Here's a vision of post-economic life with the pleasures, pain and confusion characteristic of the human condition across historic periods set in a San Francisco strangely familiar and yet dreamily different. When there is no such thing as private property, what is crime, and how does a utopian society protect itself from bad behavior? Should scientists be as free as artists to create? What is a 'free market' for work without money and commodities? "Many tackle the apocalypse, but not since Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia has a writer envisioned its Left Coast utopian aftermath. In Carlsson's highly imaginative sci-fi thriller, an alienated teen and an arson investigator reveal the fissures in San Francisco's revolutionary new society. After The Deluge deserves a wide readershi for its vivid blueprint of a sustainable direct democracy set among the still-familiar human cultures and neighborhoods - enhanced by greenways and canals - of the City by the Bay." [Laura Lent, librarian, San Francisco Public Library]
