Annie Somewhere

Author : Al Stevens
Publisher : Mockingbird Songs & Stories
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Annie Somewhere by Al Stevens Pdf

From a low orbit Annie scans Earth for an acceptable location where her people can colonize. Their own planet is burning out, and they have taken to outer space in a desperate search for a new home. Annie is the chosen explorer for an advance mission to Earth, the only planet within reach that can sustain them. During her scans, her craft malfunctions and plummets toward the surface, crashing at an abandoned farm. In a nearby small town seventeen-year-old Mark lingers at his bedroom window hoping for a glimpse of the girl next door. When a fiery object streaks across the nighttime sky, Mark gives up his voyeuristic vigil and hustles to the crash site. He finds Annie and is taken with her beauty and alluring ways. He befriends the fetching alien, and together they begin a struggle to assimilate her people into a new and unfamiliar world. Acceptance does not come easy. They encounter frightened citizens, hostile military forces, the media, and the President of the United States, all of whom treat the visitors and their advanced technology as a threatening alien invasion. Annie Somewhere is a poignant story of social and technical differences, inept government interference, and the struggles of a lone visitor to save her civilization from extinction. The story delves into the unlikely pairing of a star-struck teenage boy and a beautiful and mesmerizing alien woman as they set out to overcome human prejudice and find acceptance for a culture of gentle and caring alien beings. Keywords: young adult, science fiction, space opera, space invaders

Author : Steve Luxenberg
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781401394424

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Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg Pdf

Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Or so everyone thought. Six months after Beth's death, her secret emerged. It had a name: Annie. Praise for Annie's Ghosts "Annie's Ghosts is one of the most remarkable books I have ever read . . . From mental institutions to the Holocaust, from mothers and fathers to children and childhood, with its mysteries, sadness, and joy--this book is one emotional ride."--Bob Woodward, author of The War Within and State of Denial "Steve Luxenberg sleuths his family's hidden history with the skills of an investigative reporter, the instincts of a mystery writer, and the sympathy of a loving son. His rediscovery of one lost woman illuminates the shocking fate of thousands of Americans who disappeared just a generation ago."--Tony Horwitz, author of A Voyage Long and Strange and Confederates in the Attic "I started reading within minutes of picking up this book, and was instantly mesmerized. It's a riveting detective story, a moving family saga, an enlightening if heartbreaking chapter in the history of America's treatment of people born with what we now call special needs." -- Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand and You're Wearing That "This is a memoir that pushes the journalistic envelope . . . Luxenberg has written a fascinating personal story as well as a report on our communal response to the mentally ill." -- Helen Epstein, author of Where She Came From and Children of the Holocaust "A wise, affecting new memoir of family secrets and posthumous absolution." -- The Washington Post "Annie's Ghosts will resonate for many, whether the chords have to do with family secrets, the Depression, memories of a thriving Detroit, the Holocaust's horrors, or the immigrant experience." -- The Detroit Free Press

Author : Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481437882

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Somewhere Among by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu Pdf

In this beautiful and haunting debut novel in verse, called “a tender piece on connectedness” in a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, a Japanese-American girl struggles with the loneliness of being caught between two worlds when the tragedy of 9/11 strikes an ocean away. Eleven-year-old Ema has always been of two worlds—her father’s Japanese heritage and her mother’s life in America. She’s spent summers in California for as long as she can remember, but this year she and her mother are staying with her grandparents in Japan as they await the arrival of Ema’s baby sibling. Her mother’s pregnancy has been tricky, putting everyone on edge, but Ema’s heart is singing—finally, there will be someone else who will understand what it’s like to belong and not belong at the same time. But Ema’s good spirits are muffled by her grandmother who is cold, tightfisted, and quick to reprimand her for the slightest infraction. Then, when their stay is extended and Ema must go to a new school, her worries of not belonging grow. And when the tragedy of 9/11 strikes, Ema, her parents, and the world watch as the twin towers fall… As her mother grieves for her country across the ocean—threatening the safety of her pregnancy—and her beloved grandfather falls ill, Ema feels more helpless and hopeless than ever. And yet, surrounded by tragedy, Ema sees for the first time the tender side of her grandmother, and the reason for the penny-pinching and sternness make sense—her grandmother has been preparing so they could all survive the worst. Dipping and soaring, Somewhere Among is the story of one girl’s search for identity, a sense of peace, and the discovery that hope can indeed rise from the ashes of disaster.

Author : Alan J. Kania
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780874178937

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Wild Horse Annie by Alan J. Kania Pdf

In 1950 Velma Johnston, a shy Nevada ranch wife, came upon a horse trailer leaking blood. When she discovered the destination of the trailer and its occupants—a trio of terrified and badly injured wild horses—she launched a crusade that eventually reached the halls of Congress and changed the way westerners regard and treat the bands of mustangs and burros that roam their region. Wild horses have been a subject of bitter controversy in the West for decades. To some, they are symbols of the West’s wild, free heritage. To others, they are rapacious grazers that destroy habitat and compete with domestic livestock and indigenous wildlife for scanty food and water. For years, free-ranging horses and burros were rounded up and shipped to slaughterhouses to be killed and turned into pet food. This practice provided an income for the “mustangers” who trapped and sold them, but it also involved horrendous cruelty and abuse of the animals. Velma Johnston, who became known as “Wild Horse Annie,” undertook to stop the removal of wild horses and burros from US public lands and protect them from the worst aspects of mustanging. Her campaign attracted nationwide attention, as it led her from her rural Nevada County to state offices and finally to Washington, DC. Author Alan J. Kania worked closely with Johnston for seven years, and his biography provides unique insight into Wild Horse Annie’s life and her efforts to save the West’s wild horse herds through the passage of protective legislation.

Author : David Cruise,Alison Griffiths
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439168466

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Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs by David Cruise,Alison Griffiths Pdf

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Author : Joy Reid
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426947537

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Annie Tries Not to and Annie’S Case Book by Joy Reid Pdf

A sequel to Joy Reids Annie Butchers Jigsaw, Annie Tries Not to and Annies Case Book presents two books in one. Meet Annie Butcher; for some reason, she has a knack for taking seemingly unrelated events and fitting them together and usually solving a crime along the way! In Annie Tries Not to, Annie tries not to be a detective. Shes a teacher, and shed like to keep it that way. But when a Kenyan student goes missing at a local college, Annie cant help herself. She stumbles upon evidence that might just solve the casebut to complete the task, Annie must travel to Kenya, where she discovers the missing girls father is fighting a corruption scandal. Will Annie find the missing girl, or will she become a target too? In Annies Case Book, Annie returns from a trip to find ice and snow in her hometown. She slips and finds herself laid up in the hospital with a broken leg. But mystery seems to find her wherever she goes, and Annie is soon drawn into a suspicious plot at the medical facility. Her friend and ally, Chief Inspector Neil LaCoste, is pulled in by his concern for Annie, and mystery mingles with romance in this fast-paced dual novel.

Author : C. S. Eubank
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504919074

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Kara Richards by C. S. Eubank Pdf

Enter a magical realm where the battle between white and black magic lies in the hands of a group of unlikely teens. Kara Richards thought she had a normal life until she developed powers of vision and telepathy upon her thirteenth birthday. To complicate matters, her long-lost aunt arrives to take her to an island to join other teens with special skills similar to her own. She soon learns she is to be the one to lead the battle against good and evil. Among the evil forces Kara and her friends will battle, Tallemar is the worst and considered the King of Evil.

Author : Angela Woywod
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781098035914

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Saving Annie by Angela Woywod Pdf

This books shares the heartbreaks and struggles of a grandma and others who were involved in the rescue of a little girl from sexual abuse and neglect. Once the government agency "Child and Family Protective Services" (C&FPS) got involved, following the liberal laws of today to keep families together no matter what, the child was put through more misery and neglect, which dragged on for more than a year and a half before finally a decision on her future was made.This book will show how drug addiction destroys lives and how it can turn good people into useless, double-crossing, selfish and uncaring individuals.What made this tragedy even worse and frustrating was the fact that no one could help. Even the lawyers who were hired to get the child out of a bad environment, even though they tried when they first got involved, were hampered and restricted by the liberal laws that are on the books. They seemed to be more on Welfare's side than the client's who paid them for their services.It is hoped that the lawmakers of today will realize that some of our laws are too liberal and need to be changed to make this country safer for "everybody". These liberal laws were created shortly after WW II to protect people from discrimination that were different in culture, ethnicity, behaviorally or of physical or mental impairments, nowadays called the "Vulnerable". But these liberal laws do not help the "Vulnerable", on the contrary, they hamper their treatment, but they hurt the law-abiding, taxpaying citizens.This book may help people that find themselves in a similar situation where a child needs to be rescued from sexual abuse and neglect. Sexual abuse on children should be recognized as the big problem that it is, instead it is largely being ignored by the judicial system. An article in the New York Times on 10/5/2014 called "pedophilia" a disorder, not a crime, an opinion of one very liberal journalist. It may be a disorder, but it definitely is a crime as well and should be punished as such, to prevent pedophiles from acting out on their unnatural behaviors. 20% of American children, about 200,000 per year are victims of sexual molestation, many times perpetrated by family members or friends. These children may suffer for the rest of their lives. The American Psychiatric Association states that pedophiles have been shown to have lower IQs than the general population and are shorter in height. Many are left-handed and some have been sexually abused as children themselves. This automatically gets them included into the category of the "Vulnerable" and they enjoy special treatment by the judicial system and some of them go unpunished, to the detriment of the children.

Author : Hannah Richell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781668036341

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The Search Party by Hannah Richell Pdf

For fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware, a destination thriller about a group of college friends and their families who reunite on a glamping weekend in Cornwall and are forced to confront long-held secrets when a powerful storm leaves them stranded. Five old friends. One glamping weekend. A storm that will change everything. Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race with their twelve-year-old son to set up a glamping site in the wilds of Cornwall. Eager for a dry run ahead of their opening, they invite three old university friends and their families for a long-needed reunion. But the festivities soon go awry as tensions arise between the children (and subsequently their parents), explosive secrets come to light, and a sudden storm moves in, cutting them off from help as one in the group disappears. Moving between the police investigation, a hospital room, and the catastrophic weekend, The Search Party is a propulsive and twisty destination thriller about the tenuous bonds of friendship and the lengths parents will go to protect their children.

Author : Lisa Lees
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780244909260

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Annie's Song by Lisa Lees Pdf

Hard-hitting true account of a journey, adaptation, resilience and recovery. 'Annie's Song' tells a personal story, family story and story of a place and time. 'Annie's Song' is about, motherhood, childhood, trust, betrayal, struggles, within ourselves and beyond ourselves in times of 'war and peace'. It's about mistakes made and how we go on. The author takes the reader into the world of Annie, shares challenges to help Annie in the final weeks of her life, set against a back drop of health and social care cuts, a culture that has not yet adapted, nor let go of past hurts. Like Alan Johnson's 'The Long and Winding Road' and Val Woods 'Stevens War', the resilience of Hull is central, reminding us why Hull deserved its time in the spotlight as the 'City of Culture 2017'. Capturing universal emotions, 'Annie's Song' takes the reader on a journey of their own.

Author : Charles Strouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Exerpts
ISBN : UOM:39015007856977

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Annie by Charles Strouse Pdf

Author : Ken McCoy
Publisher : Piatkus
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748130153

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Annie's Legacy by Ken McCoy Pdf

When Annie Jackson's father doesn't return from war, her mother remarries. But while the outside world thinks Leonard Spode is a loving husband and father, behind closed doors he reveals his true colours - and Annie is forced to grow up very quickly. In her brave attempts to expose Spode for the monster he is, she finds himself branded a trouble-maker, and sent to a children's home - wher she discovers she is pregnant. One thought keeps Annie going: that Spode will one day be brought to justice. If not in her lifetime, then in her daughter's, to whom she plans to tell the full story on her 18th birthday . . . Set in post-war Yorkshire, ANNIE'S LEGACY is a powerful story of one girl's battle against all that life throws at her, and her determination to have the last word.

Author : George Dawes Green
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446562010

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The Juror by George Dawes Green Pdf

Annie Laird is Juror 224. A sculptor with a career going nowhere. A single mother struggling to raise a son. A good citizen who has been summoned to what looks like a rountine tour of civic duty. But the trial she is called to serve on is no ordinary trial. It is a mob trial, whose outcome has been meticulously orchestrated by a man of insidious power and deadly precision. A man who lives by the teachings of Lao Tsu...whose magnetism is irresistible...whose mind is as brilliant as it is twisted. He is know to some as the Teacher, and he's set his sights on Annie Laird. Pulled into the most chilling depths of the criminal underworld, Annie will be seduced by double-edged promises, stalked by the spector of terror, then, finally, driven to a shocking decision by the most basic motivation a woman can know. THE JUROR is a tour de force of crime and obsession, evil and innocence -- a story that taps into fears so primal they linger long after the last page has been read.

Author : David Thomas Kay
Publisher : David Thomas Kay and Ocean Reeve Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922854605

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The Secret Child by David Thomas Kay Pdf

Previous International awards for the series: Circles of Time: Book One - The Sword of Saint Isidores. IRDA Best Fantasy 2022. Book Two - The Ring of Mann. Readers' Favorite. Silver Medal Winner for Young Adult Fantasy. THE SECRET CHILD: Bool 3 in the series Circles of Time. Life in the District is not as it seems. An intriguing family saga of Reincarnation, the Supernatural, Gypsy folklore, fantasy, mystery, and romance. 1740 AD. Mary Atkinson’s life is fading, and the ghost of the white wolf waits patiently as the frail lady re-lives the vision of Freydis, the Viking warrior of revenge. But the saga is ongoing, and the pulse of Freydis, intensifies as the inheritors of the runic ruing are entrapped. 1921 AD. Appleby Castle is awash with scandal, and Annie Burton flees to Bengal. She returns twenty years later with Amelia Atkinson, and the truth slowly unfolds. Helena, a psychic, and Pali, a Gypsy fortune-teller are reincarnate and share inconceivable visions of an ancient past. A white wolf, a full moon, and a mysterious floating island are ingredients that will shape their destiny. Thomas Johnson, a young miner with ancestral links to Helena and Pali, gains possession of the runic ring and suffers misfortune. Life in the district is not as it seems. The novel is set in the English Lake District, Whitehaven collieries, and London during the early reign of Queen Victoria and Albert and the winding down of the East India Company.

Author : Mary Baker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780557172894

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Christmas Annie by Mary Baker Pdf

Marcie Ellis, a Seattle high school student, encounters a strange little bag lady who claims to be an elf. Before she knows it, Marcie and her friends are helping little Annie stand up to a clandestine drug smuggling operation run by one of the largest developers on the city docks. Racing to save their families from ruin, unemployment, and arrest, Marcie and her friends embark on a dangerous voyage to stop a massive shipment of contraband'with only homemade weapons, some fragile elfen gifts, and an indomitable Christmas spirit.