Get Well Soon, Grandpa!

Get Well Soon, Grandpa! PDF

Author: An Swerts

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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When her grandfather suffers a stroke, Faye learns that he cannot do all the things he used to be able to do but that his love for her remains the same.

Grandpa's Clock

Grandpa's Clock PDF

Author: Rachna Gilmore

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2006-03

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1551433338

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Cayley and her grandfather have made nineteen clocks together, but now he has had a heart attack, and Cayley must help him to heal before they can return to making clocks.

Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul

Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul PDF

Author: Jack Canfield

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1453279059

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Today's kids face grave issues and harder decisions than ever before. Gang warfare, violence, drugs, alcohol, smoking, pregnancy, depression and suicide have found their way into middle and elementary schools. Divorce splits apart families every day. These issues make kids feel as if they must understand and accept all the troubles of the world.

Stories for Boys: A Memoir

Stories for Boys: A Memoir PDF

Author: Gregory Martin

Publisher: Hawthorne Books

Published: 2012-08-20

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0983850461

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In this memoir of fathers and sons, Gregory Martin struggles to reconcile the father he thought he knew with a man who has just survived a suicide attempt; a man who had been having anonymous affairs with men throughout his thirty-nine years of marriage; and who now must begin his life as a gay man. At a tipping point in our national conversation about gender and sexuality, rights and acceptance, Stories for Boys is about a father and a son finding a way to build a new relationship with one another after years of suppression and denial are given air and light. Martin’s memoir is quirky and compelling with its amateur photos and grab-bag social science and literary analyses. Gregory Martin explores the impact his father’s lifelong secrets have upon his life now as a husband and father of two young boys with humor and bracing candor. Stories for Boys is resonant with conflicting emotions and the complexities of family sympathy, and asks the questions: How well do we know the people that we think we know the best? And how much do we have to know in order to keep loving them?

A Galaxy of Verse, Vol. 36, No. 2

A Galaxy of Verse, Vol. 36, No. 2 PDF

Author: Barbara Blanks, Editor

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-11-06

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1365510131

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A Galaxy of Verse Literary Foundation is a non-profit 501-c (3) organization that publishes member-submitted poems, hosts cash-prize contests, and aims to produce two issues of its anthology each year. Membership is $20/year. Members receive two anthologies, and may enter contests at no additional charge. (Non-members may enter contests for $5 each. Winners are published, but anthologies must be purchased.) Many of GOV's members are award-winning and/or published poets. For complete information about A Galaxy of Verse, please visit www.barbara-blanks.com, and click on the appropriate pages.

The Solace Tree

The Solace Tree PDF

Author: M. D. Frank Tejada

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1449022758

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Maria Isidora Schalalci's husband, Albert, is suffering from kidney failure but refuses to accept the standard form of treatment. Albert if a curmudgeon, however Maria stays with him and tolerates his shenanigans, and through her tenacity Albert escapes the inevitable. The willow tree by the pond, her hiding place from her husband, helps her maintain her sanity.

Reading the World's Stories

Reading the World's Stories PDF

Author: Annette Y. Goldsmith

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-08-11

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1442270861

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Reading the World’s Stories is volume 5 in the Bridges to Understanding series of annotated international youth literature bibliographies sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. USBBY is the United States chapter of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), a Switzerland-based nonprofit whose mission is bring books and children together. The series promotes sharing international children’s books as a way to facilitate intercultural understanding and meet new literary voices. This volume follows Children’s Books from Other Countries (1998), The World though Children’s Books (2002), Crossing Boundaries with Children’s Books (2006), and Bridges to Understanding: Envisioning the World through Children’s Books (2011) and acts as a companion book to the earlier titles. Centered around the theme of the importance of stories, the guide is a resource for discovering more recent global books that fit many reading tastes and educational needs for readers aged 0-18 years. Essays by storyteller Anne Pellowski, author Beverley Naidoo, and academic Marianne Martens offer a variety of perspectives on international youth literature. This latest installment in the series covers books published from 2010-2014 and includes English-language imports as well as translations of children’s and young adult literature first published outside of the United States. These books are supplemented by a smaller number of culturally appropriate books from the US to help fill in gaps from underrepresented countries. The organization of the guide is geographic by region and country. All of the more than 800 entries are recommended, and many of the books have won awards or achieved other recognition in their home countries. Forty children’s book experts wrote the annotations. The entries are indexed by author, translator, illustrator, title, and subject. Back matter also includes international book awards, important organizations and research collections, and a selected directory of publishers known for publishing books from other countries.

Nutcracker

Nutcracker PDF

Author: Shana Alexander

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 150400681X

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New York Times Bestseller: The “compelling” story of Frances Schreuder, who persuaded her son to kill her multimillionaire father, Franklin Bradshaw (The Washington Post Book World). In August of 1983 Shana Alexander, acclaimed journalist and chronicler of the lives and criminal trials of Jean Harris and Patty Hearst, wrote to New York City ballet patron Frances Schreuder on the eve of her murder trial. Schreuder stood accused of unlawfully causing the death of her father, Franklin Bradshaw, and of soliciting, encouraging, and aiding her prep school–student son in the homicide in the hope of financial gain. Alexander never received a response, but she flew to Salt Lake City and met with Schreuder’s mother, the matriarch of the Mormon dynasty—eighty-year-old Berenice Bradshaw. Nutcracker is the true story of this crime—the twisting four-year police investigation, the derailed cover-up and conspiracy, the dramatic trials. It is also the tale of a family riven by greed and madness. Drawing on interviews with all the major players, Alexander paints a powerful portrait of a psychopathic woman driven by avarice, so depraved that she persuaded her own son to commit grand-patricide. A finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, Nutcracker is “a Chekovian family tragedy [that] builds in intensity around this uniquely twisted woman” (The Washington Post Book World).

Keep Getting Up

Keep Getting Up PDF

Author: Belinda Holloway

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2015-02-20

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1496951476

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Everybody goes through hardship. Read to see how I triumph over all my hardships and how I came out the other end.