Author: Frances Moloney
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
ISBN: 1782693521
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
An anxious boy searches for his missing mum in this heartfelt, funny and unique ode to perfectly imperfect families One day, Jake wakes up to a different world: his mum seems to have vanished into thin air! With his Grandma snoring in the kitchen and older sister Rose spending hours getting ready, Jake starts the search for his mum by making a list of places she might be: Tesco? The EU? Hospital? The Bahamas? Being a detective turns out to be quite hard work and everyone Jake turns to for help seems frustratingly busy. Life at home wasn't perfect, but he can't understand why she would simply run off like this. And why doesn't everyone else seem more concerned?
The Mystery of the Missing Mum
Author: Frances Moloney
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
ISBN: 1782693521
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
An anxious boy searches for his missing mum in this heartfelt, funny and unique ode to perfectly imperfect families One day, Jake wakes up to a different world: his mum seems to have vanished into thin air! With his Grandma snoring in the kitchen and older sister Rose spending hours getting ready, Jake starts the search for his mum by making a list of places she might be: Tesco? The EU? Hospital? The Bahamas? Being a detective turns out to be quite hard work and everyone Jake turns to for help seems frustratingly busy. Life at home wasn't perfect, but he can't understand why she would simply run off like this. And why doesn't everyone else seem more concerned?
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
ISBN: 1782693521
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
An anxious boy searches for his missing mum in this heartfelt, funny and unique ode to perfectly imperfect families One day, Jake wakes up to a different world: his mum seems to have vanished into thin air! With his Grandma snoring in the kitchen and older sister Rose spending hours getting ready, Jake starts the search for his mum by making a list of places she might be: Tesco? The EU? Hospital? The Bahamas? Being a detective turns out to be quite hard work and everyone Jake turns to for help seems frustratingly busy. Life at home wasn't perfect, but he can't understand why she would simply run off like this. And why doesn't everyone else seem more concerned?
She is Heavy - She's My Mother
Author: Jan Carroll
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477147616
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
AND YOU THOUGHT FUNERALS WERE DULL AFFAIRS - NOT THIS ONE SHE IS HEAVY - SHE'S MY MOTHER Motherhood really is till death us do part but will I kill her first or vice versa?
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477147616
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
AND YOU THOUGHT FUNERALS WERE DULL AFFAIRS - NOT THIS ONE SHE IS HEAVY - SHE'S MY MOTHER Motherhood really is till death us do part but will I kill her first or vice versa?
Remember Why You Fear Me
Author: Robert Shearman
Publisher: ChiZine
ISBN: 1927469228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Twenty short stories “from the surreal to the horrific, from dark fantasy to black humor” by the World Fantasy Award–winning author—“a terrific collection” (SF Site). Deliciously frightening, darkly satirical, and always unexpected, Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader’s Prize. Remember Why You Fear Me gathers together his best dark fiction, the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books, and ten new tales that have never been collected before. In this collection, you will read of a woman who rejects her husband’s heart―and gives it back to him, still beating, in a plastic box; a little boy who betrays his father to the harsh mercies of Santa Claus; a widower who suspects his dead wife’s face is growing over his own; and a man who goes to Hell, where he finds he’s roommate to the ghost of Hitler’s dog. Also lurking in these pages are giant spiders, killer angels, ghost cat photography, and the haunted house at the center of the Garden of Eden.
Publisher: ChiZine
ISBN: 1927469228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Twenty short stories “from the surreal to the horrific, from dark fantasy to black humor” by the World Fantasy Award–winning author—“a terrific collection” (SF Site). Deliciously frightening, darkly satirical, and always unexpected, Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader’s Prize. Remember Why You Fear Me gathers together his best dark fiction, the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books, and ten new tales that have never been collected before. In this collection, you will read of a woman who rejects her husband’s heart―and gives it back to him, still beating, in a plastic box; a little boy who betrays his father to the harsh mercies of Santa Claus; a widower who suspects his dead wife’s face is growing over his own; and a man who goes to Hell, where he finds he’s roommate to the ghost of Hitler’s dog. Also lurking in these pages are giant spiders, killer angels, ghost cat photography, and the haunted house at the center of the Garden of Eden.
Sisters ... No Way!
Author: Siobhán Parkinson
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847174019
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Cindy, a with-it and cynical young teen, still traumatised by her mother's recent death, is appalled when her father falls in love with one of her teachers, a woman with two teenage daughters of her own. Surely he can't be serious? She cannot imagine a worse fate than having a teacher as her stepmother, and as for the two prissy girls - she is never going to call them sisters ... no way! But, if Cindy dislikes her prospective stepsisters, they think she is an absolute horror - spoiled, arrogant and atrociously rude to them and their mother when they visit her house. Whatever about their mother marrying again, they can't imagine being landed with Cindy as a sister ... no way! But the parents are going to marry, and the girls are going to be family, like it or not. So who gives in? Is there any room for compromise? Will the unlikely trio of stepsisters ever change their minds about each other? TWO GREAT BOOKS IN ONE In a unique feature the girls' stories are told in two separate back-to-back books, one for Cindy and the other for Ashling and Alva. The reader can choose which story to begin with, getting a very different viewpoint on the girls depending on whose side of the story they read first. Cover of Ashling's diary:
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847174019
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Cindy, a with-it and cynical young teen, still traumatised by her mother's recent death, is appalled when her father falls in love with one of her teachers, a woman with two teenage daughters of her own. Surely he can't be serious? She cannot imagine a worse fate than having a teacher as her stepmother, and as for the two prissy girls - she is never going to call them sisters ... no way! But, if Cindy dislikes her prospective stepsisters, they think she is an absolute horror - spoiled, arrogant and atrociously rude to them and their mother when they visit her house. Whatever about their mother marrying again, they can't imagine being landed with Cindy as a sister ... no way! But the parents are going to marry, and the girls are going to be family, like it or not. So who gives in? Is there any room for compromise? Will the unlikely trio of stepsisters ever change their minds about each other? TWO GREAT BOOKS IN ONE In a unique feature the girls' stories are told in two separate back-to-back books, one for Cindy and the other for Ashling and Alva. The reader can choose which story to begin with, getting a very different viewpoint on the girls depending on whose side of the story they read first. Cover of Ashling's diary:
Sundays at Tiffany's
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316182451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The successful but lonely daughter of a powerful New York theater icon falls for her childhood imaginary friend in this touching love story. As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him. Years later, Jane is in her thirties and just as alone as ever. Then she meets Michael again-as handsome, smart and perfect as she remembers him to be. But not even Michael knows the reason they've really been reunited. Sunday at Tiffany's is a love story with an irresistible twist, a novel about the child inside all of us and the boundary-crossing power of love.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316182451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The successful but lonely daughter of a powerful New York theater icon falls for her childhood imaginary friend in this touching love story. As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him. Years later, Jane is in her thirties and just as alone as ever. Then she meets Michael again-as handsome, smart and perfect as she remembers him to be. But not even Michael knows the reason they've really been reunited. Sunday at Tiffany's is a love story with an irresistible twist, a novel about the child inside all of us and the boundary-crossing power of love.
My Friend Phil
Author: Isabel Maud Peacocke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Mr Lingard finds romance in his life thanks to his friend, Phil.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Mr Lingard finds romance in his life thanks to his friend, Phil.
How to Survive Puberty at 25
Author: Nina Bhadreshwar
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434386317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
'How to Survive Puberty at 25' or rather guns, gangs, family, bullies and puberty is the true story of Nina Bhadreshwar, a young journalist, and her journey through others' stories to her own sanity after 14 years of anorexia and suicidal depression. Puberty is always painful. It is particularly painful when you are 25 years old and then living, as a British mixed race broke ass lass in Watts, Los Angeles shortly after the L.A. riots. And it becomes undeniably explosive when the said overaged adolescent is recruited to work for, write for and be the voice for Death Row Records in Westwood, Los Angeles. How Nina navigates her way through her cultural confusion and anorexia also becomes the chronicle for the little-known real behind-the-scenes of the history-changing episode that was Death Row Records and Los Angeles 1994-1996.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434386317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
'How to Survive Puberty at 25' or rather guns, gangs, family, bullies and puberty is the true story of Nina Bhadreshwar, a young journalist, and her journey through others' stories to her own sanity after 14 years of anorexia and suicidal depression. Puberty is always painful. It is particularly painful when you are 25 years old and then living, as a British mixed race broke ass lass in Watts, Los Angeles shortly after the L.A. riots. And it becomes undeniably explosive when the said overaged adolescent is recruited to work for, write for and be the voice for Death Row Records in Westwood, Los Angeles. How Nina navigates her way through her cultural confusion and anorexia also becomes the chronicle for the little-known real behind-the-scenes of the history-changing episode that was Death Row Records and Los Angeles 1994-1996.
M-Mother
Author: Jenny Elmes
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750964529
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
John 'Hoppy' Hopgood, pilot and 2nd in command in the May 1943 Dambusters raid, died a hero at just 21 years old. Wounded by flak and with his Lancaster M-Mother ablaze, Hoppy had no hope of escape yet managed to gain height for two of his crew to parachute to safety. The plane crashed moments later. Using Hoppy's school diary and letters to his mother and sister, this book tells the story of how a boy from a small Surrey village matured into a gutsy war hero. A veteran of forty-eight bombing sorties and an expert pilot in three Bomber Command Squadrons, this is the man who taught Guy Gibson how to fly a Lancaster.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750964529
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
John 'Hoppy' Hopgood, pilot and 2nd in command in the May 1943 Dambusters raid, died a hero at just 21 years old. Wounded by flak and with his Lancaster M-Mother ablaze, Hoppy had no hope of escape yet managed to gain height for two of his crew to parachute to safety. The plane crashed moments later. Using Hoppy's school diary and letters to his mother and sister, this book tells the story of how a boy from a small Surrey village matured into a gutsy war hero. A veteran of forty-eight bombing sorties and an expert pilot in three Bomber Command Squadrons, this is the man who taught Guy Gibson how to fly a Lancaster.
By the Light of the Coal Oil Lamp
Author: Ruth Woodward-Cameron
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 103911556X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The book begins with our little girl, Ruth, just learning that she can open the lock that is keeping her from leaving the front porch and going down to the street. Her baby brother is born, and her family moves to a small Saskatchewan town where she rides her tricycle in the parade at the end of World War Two. Then they move to the town of Garrick where her Daddy runs a store, her baby sister is born and she watches the men in town put out a scary big fire that is burning down a house. She starts grade one with her two good friends Faye and Elaine. She goes to Yorkton and to Strongfield to visit her grandparents for summer holidays. We learn that there is no electricity in Garrick, lighting in homes and stores is provided by coal-oil lamps. It is not a wealthy town, the people are not all the same, some are kind, some disagree with each other, but they work hard and they build a town where our little girl can have a happy childhood.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 103911556X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The book begins with our little girl, Ruth, just learning that she can open the lock that is keeping her from leaving the front porch and going down to the street. Her baby brother is born, and her family moves to a small Saskatchewan town where she rides her tricycle in the parade at the end of World War Two. Then they move to the town of Garrick where her Daddy runs a store, her baby sister is born and she watches the men in town put out a scary big fire that is burning down a house. She starts grade one with her two good friends Faye and Elaine. She goes to Yorkton and to Strongfield to visit her grandparents for summer holidays. We learn that there is no electricity in Garrick, lighting in homes and stores is provided by coal-oil lamps. It is not a wealthy town, the people are not all the same, some are kind, some disagree with each other, but they work hard and they build a town where our little girl can have a happy childhood.
Bombs and Lambs
Author: Margaret Monkman
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533161577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Several years ago, author Margaret Monkman was among the thousands of children evacuated from London at the start of World War II. This book is her extraordinary memoir written in the form of a child's journal, the author's journal as if she had kept one at the time.
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533161577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Several years ago, author Margaret Monkman was among the thousands of children evacuated from London at the start of World War II. This book is her extraordinary memoir written in the form of a child's journal, the author's journal as if she had kept one at the time.