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Author : Andrew McCarthy
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538754283

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Brat by Andrew McCarthy Pdf

Fans of Patti Smith's Just Kids and Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an 80s Brat pack member. Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment in time. The result is a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction, and masculinity. New York City of the 1980s is brought to vivid life in these pages, from scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park to skipping school in favor of the dark revival houses of the Village where he fell in love with the movies that would change his life. Filled with personal revelations of innocence lost to heady days in Hollywood with John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters, Brat is a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success.

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689851865

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The School Story by Andrew Clements Pdf

After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 0822525879

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Andrew's Story by Anonim Pdf

Details Andrew's life from the diagnosis of his cancer at age three to his recovery.

Author : Andrew Gross
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466892187

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The One Man by Andrew Gross Pdf

“As moving as it is gripping. A winner on all fronts.”—Booklist (starred review) “Heart-pounding...This is Gross’s best work yet, with his heart and soul imprinted on every page.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is torn away from him on arrival, his life’s work burned before his eyes. To the guards, he is just another prisoner, but in fact Mendl—a renowned physicist—holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. And the other is already at work for the Nazi war machine. Four thousand miles away, in Washington, DC, Intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum routinely decodes messages from occupied Poland. Having escaped the Krakow ghetto as a teenager after the Nazis executed his family, Nathan longs to do more for his new country in the war. But never did he expect the proposal he receives from “Wild” Bill Donovan, head of the OSS: to sneak into the most guarded place on earth, a living hell, on a mission to find and escape with one man, the one man the Allies believe can ensure them victory in the war. Bursting with compelling characters and tense story lines, this historical thriller from New York Times bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely new and compelling.

Author : Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0618873163

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Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn Pdf

When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diptheria.

Author : Andrew Leigh
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781922231048

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Battlers and Billionaires by Andrew Leigh Pdf

Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway? In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best. From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth century. Then we became more equal again, with inequality falling markedly from the 1920s to the 1970s. Now, inequality is returning to the heights of the 1920s. Leigh shows that while inequality can fuel growth, it also poses dangers to society. Too much inequality risks cleaving us into two Australias, occupying fundamentally separate worlds, with little contact between the haves and the have-nots. And the further apart the rungs on the ladder of opportunity, the harder it is for a kid born into poverty to enter the middle class. Battlers and Billionaires sheds fresh light on what makes Australia distinctive, and what it means to have – and keep – a fair go.

Author : Andrew Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1926743695

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The Utility of Boredom by Andrew Forbes Pdf

Spitball essays on the off-kilter joys, sorrows and wonder of North America's national pastime. A collection of essays for ardent seamheads and casual baseball fans alike, The Utility of Boredom is a book about finding respite and comfort in the order, traditions, and rituals of baseball. From learning about America through ball-diamond visits to the most famous triple play that never happened on Canadian soil, Forbes invites us to witness the adult conversing with the O-Pee-Chee baseball cards of his youth. Tender, insightful, and with the slow heartbreak familiar to anyone who's cheered on a losing team, The Utility of Boredom tells us a thing or two about the sport, and how a seemingly trivial game might help us make sense of our messy lives. "Baseball, like life, is getting flattened out these days, compressed to noisy highlight clips and shrill pontification. This book cures that flattening, reaching with grace and poetry past all the bludgeoning hot takes and arid statistical analyses to the kinds of absurd and beautiful details--a spectacular throw from deep right; a meandering spring training game; a foul grounder bounding up into the stands, right at you--that first made us all fall in love with the sport. If baseball, like heaven, is a mansion with many rooms, the essays in The Utility of Boredom are like a fat set of janitor's keys unlocking the wide open marvels of the game." -- Josh Wilker, Cardboard Gods and Benchwarmer: A Sports-Obsessed Memoir of Fatherhood "Baseball is a welcome obsession of mine, a comfort. Reading The Utility of Boredom by Andrew Forbes fed that obsession beautifully, warmly. It glows. He writes of baseball as sanctuary, baseball in both general terms and specifics--from the feeling of walking into a ballpark on a summer day to Vin Scully's perfect description of a cloud. He invites us to get on our tiptoes and peek over the fence, smell the grass, hear the crack of the bat. He respects the slow-glory of the game, he loves the game, he's really good at this, and I absolutely trust him with my baseball-heart." -- Leesa Cross-Smith, Every Kiss A War

Author : Robert Munsch
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443148559

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Andrew's Loose Tooth by Robert Munsch Pdf

“Yeow!" shouts Andrew. "Do something about my loose tooth. It hurts!" Andrew's dad breaks his pliers trying to pull that tooth. Andrew's mother can't yank it out, either. Both Andrew's dentist and the Tooth Fairy herself are stumped! Finally Andrew's friend Louis comes up with a special tooth-removing remedy that requires plenty of pepper and a great big sneeze.

Author : Shaun David Hutchinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481403108

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The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson Pdf

Convinced he should have died in the accident that killed his parents and sister, sixteen-year-old Drew lives in a hospital, hiding from employees and his past, until Rusty, set on fire for being gay, turns his life around. Includes excerpts from the superhero comic Drew creates.

Author : Jill Andrews,May Friedman
Publisher : Demeter Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772583090

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Body Stories by Jill Andrews,May Friedman Pdf

Body stories capture a nuanced, interconnected, interactive, and complex telling of our understanding, perception, and experience of and through our bodies. Plenty has been published on body image but image suggests a static fixed body, unmitigated through our social interactions and varying times and spaces. This book is not a "how-to" guide for fat confidence. It's not a compendium of fat suffering. It's simply a collection of narratives about what it's like to survive in a weight-hating world. It resists the ways that marginalized bodies are being written and researched and put into other people's ideas about our existence. The stories in this book are celebratory and are painful. They look at intersections of race and queerness; they destabilize womanhood by presenting a range of possible female embodiments. They explore issues of disability and madness. The full range of possibilities that are collected here give a picture of what it means to live in a society with strong and powerful messages about size, about normalcy, about what a moral and healthy life and body look like. This book is a snapshot of its place and time, but these stories remind us that we're here to stay. The body stories will change but we will keep owning our own narratives. While story, especially written by women, is often seen as outside the academic canon, these stories, these creative offerings, are theory, are research, and are activism. They are nothing less than the blueprint for liberation. Writing about fat and about bodies outside of medicalized narratives, without ignoring the impact of race, sexuality, class, ability, gender, fashion, appearance, and beyond, is radical and rigorous. It is impossible to think about the future without wishing for liberation. Liberation can come in many forms. It can mean an awareness, the ability to confront. The stories in this book display the ways that liberation isn't a finish line or a thing we can complete—rather it is a million small actio

Author : Andrew Larsen
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554532797

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The Imaginary Garden by Andrew Larsen Pdf

An imaginary garden is the center of a special relationship between a girl and her grandfather.

Author : Andrew Larsen
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781771387392

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A Squiggly Story by Andrew Larsen Pdf

Who says there’s only one way to write a story? A young boy wants to write a story, but he only knows his letters, not words. His sister says, “Why don’t you start there, with a letter?” So the boy tries. He chooses an easy letter to begin with. The letter I. And to his delight, with just the power of his vivid imagination, and no written words, an amazing story begins to unfold. Right before his eyes. This playful tale about creativity will inspire budding authors everywhere to envision new ways to write stories of their own. With or without words!

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442493860

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Andrew Clements' School Stories (Boxed Set) by Andrew Clements Pdf

Ten A+ tales from the master of the school story, Andrew Clements, are now available in one collection. Ten of Andrew Clements’s most beloved and bestselling school stories are now available as a boxed set, perfect for collecting or giving as gifts. The included titles are Frindle, The Landry News, The Janitor’s Boy, The School Story, A Week in the Woods, Lunch Money, Room One, No Talking, Lost and Found, and Extra Credit.

Author : Andrew Sean Greer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429945172

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The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer Pdf

A Today Show Summer Reads Pick A Washington Post Book of the Year "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship--how we can ever truly know another person. It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health, but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep, and everything changes. Lyrical, and surprising, The Story of a Marriage is, in the words of Khaled Housseini, "a book about love, and it is a marvel to watch Greer probe the mysteries of love to such devastating effect."

Author : Dennis Ronald MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Acts of Andrew
ISBN : UVA:X001855234

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The Acts of Andrew and the Acts of Andrew and Matthias in the City of the Cannibals by Dennis Ronald MacDonald Pdf