Bright Coin Moon

Author : Kirsten Lopresti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781632202048

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Bright Coin Moon by Kirsten Lopresti Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Lindsey Allen is an A-student who has her heart set on becoming an astronomer. But first she must break away from her mother, an eccentric failed beauty queen who has set up a phony psychic reading shop in their Oregon garage. Lindsey is biding time until she graduates high school, reading tarot cards for the neighbors in her mother’s shop and recording the phases of the moon in her Moon Sign notebook. Her life changes when her mother, Debbie, makes an announcement: they are moving to California to become Hollywood psychics to the stars. Just as they pull out of the driveway, Lindsey looks up at the silver, morning moon. It's a bright coin moon, which means only one thing: what you leave behind today will rise up tomorrow. When mother and daughter arrive in Los Angeles with new names and hair colors, they move into a leaky, run down building at the foot of a highway and spend their nights stalking restaurants and movie premieres to catch that one celebrity they hope will be their ticket. Just when it seems they will never make any money in LA, Lindsey is assigned a new mentor through her school. Joan is a lonely, wealthy widow who can't get past the death of her husband, Saul. Debbie is convinced they've hit the jackpot and plans for a future séance commence. As Lindsey grows closer to Joan, guilt over the scam consumes her and she must make the ultimate decision. But can she really betray her mother? Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Elizabeth Seifert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0884110214

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Bright Coin by Elizabeth Seifert Pdf

Author : David White
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781413479898

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The Hallucinogenic Rooster by David White Pdf

The Hallucinogenic Rooster is a moment captured in time, a dreamlike and nightmarish expansion of one brief moment. In a place called Fairy Tale Town, some years ago, I walked with a girl I was in love with among grimy fantasies; a concrete Pirate ship, a castle and drinking fountains in the form of hippos and tin soldiers. Strange music came over loudspeakers. Three of us (we were baby-sitting her sister's infant) as a sort of makeshift family walked in this strange place. I watched a rooster walk in and out of shadows and light. I hallucinated that I was seeing its molecules and atoms coming apart and reassembling in bright colors. I chose this event to represent the moment when we could have spoken to each other with our hearts but instead kept our silence. . . This book is a sort of poetic expansion of that brief, lonely and beautiful moment.

Author : Michele Bacon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781510723641

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Antipodes by Michele Bacon Pdf

When Erin Cerise steps off her plane in Christchurch, New Zealand, she’s determined to overcome her losses of swim team captainship, her boyfriend Ben, and her reputation. Her mother is certain studying abroad will regain Erin’s chances of a good future. Once Erin meets her uninspiring host family and city, though, she’s not so sure. Before Christchurch, Erin wasn’t always intense and focused. When had her priorities gone upside down? Now, Erin balks at NZ’s itchy school uniforms, its cold houses, and her hosts’ utter inability to pronounce her name correctly. Christchurch does boast amazing rock climbing, gorgeous scenery, and at least one guy who could make her journey worthwhile—if she lets him. With months ahead of her, Erin slowly begins to draw on the years behind her, one step back into her memories at a time. As she rebuilds herself from the other side of the world, she finds that although her life has been turned upside down and she’s far from home, every way she moves takes her closer to where she came from.

Author : Elaine Wolf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781634500289

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Camp by Elaine Wolf Pdf

For most girls, sleepaway camp is great fun. But for Amy Becker, it’s a nightmare. Amy, whose home life is in turmoil, is sent to Camp Takawanda for Girls for the first time as a teenager. Although Amy despises spending summers at home with her German-immigrant mother, who is unduly harsh with Amy’s autistic younger brother, Amy is less than thrilled about going away to camp. And her reluctance about camp is only the beginning. At Takawanda Amy finds herself subjected to a humiliating “initiation” and also to relentless bullying by Rory, the ringleader of the senior campers. As Amy struggles to stop the mean girls from tormenting her, she becomes more confident. But then her cousin reveals dark secrets about Amy’s mother’s past, setting in motion a tragic event that changes Amy and her family forever. Winner of the Forward National Literature Award and a book-of-the-month pick by the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (NY), Camp is an acutely sensitive and compelling novel that will resonate with a wide readership. Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : William Napier
Publisher : Orion
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409116738

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Attila: The Gathering of the Storm by William Napier Pdf

The gripping and bloody story of one of history's most infamous and enigmatic villains - part II in the ATTILA trilogy The 5th century has dawned in blood. The young boy exiled thirty years ago has grown into a man. One stormy autumn day, a mysterious rider is seen out on the plains. Attila has returned, his sentence served, to claim his kingdom. He will ride out at the head of no more than one hundred chosen men, driven by the ambition to unite all the feuding Hunnish and Scythian tribes under single banner and a single king. An impossible ambition. For Attila and his chosen men must triumph over blizzards and deserts, bandit kings and hidden mountain kingdoms, and furious battle with the terrible Kutrigur Huns. But all will flock to his banner, answer his call. His power is mysterious and inexpressible, his strength of character and iron will cannot be opposed. And far to the west lies a promised empire both fabulously wealthy and tottering to its knees. An empire full of gold and silver and dark-eyed slavegirls - the Empire of Rome. And this strange horde from out of the Scythian wilderness will bring a night to fall on that Empire like no other¿

Author : Liz Prince
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781936976553

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Tomboy by Liz Prince Pdf

Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir. By the award-winning author of Will You Love Me If I Wet the Bed? Original. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Breeana Shields
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101937860

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Poison's Cage by Breeana Shields Pdf

An assassin becomes a spy in this heart-pounding sequel to Poison's Kiss. Readers who love the assassin angle in Throne of Glass, the lethal touch in Shatter Me, or the high stakes of The Wrath and the Dawn will want to follow this story to the end. A single kiss could kill. A single secret could save the kingdom. Iyla and Marinda have killed many men together: Iyla as the seductress, Marinda as the final, poisonous kiss. Now they understand who the real enemy is--the Snake King--and together they can take him down. Both girls have felt as though they were living a lie in the past, so moving into the king's palace and pretending to serve him isn't as difficult as it sounds. But when you're a spy, even secrets between friends are dangerous. And each girl has something--or someone--to lose. Does every secret, every lie, bring them closer to the truth . . . or to a trap? In Poison's Kiss, Marinda pulled a dangerous thread. In this sequel, it unravels to a heart-pounding conclusion.

Author : Ilsa J. Bick
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ™
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781512401776

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The Dickens Mirror by Ilsa J. Bick Pdf

Critically acclaimed author of The Ashes Trilogy, Ilsa J. Bick takes her new Dark Passages series to an alternative Victorian London where Emma Lindsay continues to wade through blurred realities now that she has lost everything: her way, her reality, her friends. In this London, Emma will find alternative versions of her friends from the White Space and even Arthur Conan Doyle. Emma Lindsay has nowhere to go. Her friends are dead. Eric and Casey are lost to the Dark Passages. Emma commands the cynosure, a device that allows for safe passage between the Many Worlds, to put her where she might find her friends again. But Emma wakes up in the body of Little Lizzie, all grown up. And in this alternative Victorian London, Elizabeth McDermott is mad. Elizabeth's physician, Dr. Kramer, has drugged her to allow Emma—who's blinked to this London before—to emerge as the dominant personality. Elizabeth is dying, and if Emma can't find a way out, everyone as they exist in this London will die with her.

Author : Emily X.R. Pan
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316464000

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The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan Pdf

A stunning, heartbreaking debut novel about grief, love, and family, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng. Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life. Alternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a stunning and heartbreaking novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love. "Emily X.R. Pan's brilliantly crafted, harrowing first novel portrays the vast spectrum of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor. This is a very special book."--John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down

Author : Gil Adamson
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487006570

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Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson Pdf

Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Winner Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner Ridgerunner is now available as a paperback. November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son’s future. Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old house. Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy longs to return to his family’s cabin, deep in the woods. When Jack finally breaks free, he takes with him something the nun is determined to get back — at any cost. Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamson’s follow-up to her award-winning debut, The Outlander, is a vivid historical novel that draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and steeped in the wild of the natural world.

Author : Lee Siegel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374714000

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The Draw by Lee Siegel Pdf

A "What We're Reading This Summer" Pick by The Atlantic The Draw is a "spellbinding, coming-of-age tour de force" (New York Times Book Review) about a boy striving to make his way up through society and out of a family that has been emotionally and psychologically devastated by economic misfortune. Lee Siegel’s father, Monroe, a kind and decent man, accumulates a crushing debt to the company he works for, a real estate firm that has been paying him an advance, or “draw,” against future commissions. “The more he depended on the Draw to live,” Lee writes of his father, “the more it shrank his life.” As the recession hits in the mid- 1970s, Monroe finds himself without commissions, and thus unable to pay back his employer. Fired from his job, he is pursued by the law, loses his wife to divorce, and eventually declares bankruptcy. Lee’s mother, Lola, confronting a bleak and tenuous future, experiences a breakdown that transforms her into a seductive yet vindictive adversary of Lee, her older son. To escape his mother’s bewildering manipulations and the shame and rage that his father’s fate incites in him, Lee creates an alter ego elevated by literature, music, and art. As he stumbles through a series of menial jobs while trying to succeed as a writer, Lee dreams of the protected space of a great university where he can fulfill his destiny in his work. But in order to attend college, he has to take out loans, unwittingly repeating his father’s trajectory. Propelled by riveting stories and unforgettable portraits, The Draw weaves a defiant stand against a society in which, as the author observes, the struggle with money can turn someone’s innocent weakness into a weapon of self-destruction. As much a flesh-and-blood parable of economics as an intimate memoir brimming with harsh introspection, intellectual reverie, and surprising evocations of sexuality—the way you handle money and the way you have sex are often mutually illuminating, the author writes—Lee Siegel’s youthful odyssey is for anyone who has tried to break through the barriers of family, class, and money to the freedom to choose his or her own path in life.

Author : Drew Mendelson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781664187818

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A Shepherd to Fools by Drew Mendelson Pdf

A Shepherd to Fools is the second of Drew Mendelson’s trilogy of Vietnam War novels that began with Song Ba To and will conclude with Poke the Dragon. Shepherd: It is the ragged end of the Vietnam war. With the debacle of a failing South Vietnamese invasion of Northern Laos as background, A Shepherd to Fools tells the harrowing tale of a covert Hatchet Team of US soldiers and Montagnard mercenaries. They are ordered to find and capture or kill a band of American deserters, called Longshadows, before the world learns of their paralyzing rebellion. An earlier attempt to capture them failed disastrously, the facts of it buried. Captain Hugh Englander commands the Hatchet Team. He is a humorless bastard, sneering and discourteous to every regular army soldier. He cares little for the welfare of his own men and nothing for the lives of the deserters. The conflict between him and Captain David Weisman, the artillery officer assigned to the mission for artillery support, threatens to tear the team apart. Deep in the Laotian jungle, the team is caught in a final, horrific battle facing an enemy armed with Sarin nerve gas, the “worst of the worst” of the war’s clandestine weapons.

Author : Richard Due
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999607111

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The Moon Coin by Richard Due Pdf

Moonbeam Children's Book Award WinnerAs children, Lily and her brother Jasper were captivated by tales of the Moon Realm, with its magical lunamancers, undersea merfolk, winged dragons, and Lily's favorite, the heroic Rinn.Their Uncle Ebb made it sound like he'd been there himself. "Tales, unlike stories, never lie. Would you like to hear one?"He made them sound so real--like place you could visit, like a place you could . . . touch.Illustrated by Carolyn Arcabascio. Volume One of the The Moon Realm Series.

Author : Stacey R. Pollack
Publisher : Stacey R. Pollack
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Bedtime Stories For Adults by Stacey R. Pollack Pdf

This book was created with the listener in mind. Purchase the audiobook version of this book for the best experience! The most important journey is the journey of the self. Enter worlds of imagination, relaxation, and wonder through fairytales and meditation. Are you looking for magic and relaxation? Are you looking for a guided meditation practice that is engaging and creative? Are you looking for something new? Are you curious to explore new worlds? Bedtime Stories For Adults: 15 Bedtime Stories For Guided Meditation, Deep Hypnosis For Stress Relief And Positive Self-Healing For The Mind And Body will add some magic and adventure to your rest time, and help you to improve your meditation practice. Take a journey into fifteen magical worlds, where you can find the place where your inner peace and wonder reside. These stories help you to access a place of meditation, guiding you to a state of deep relaxation as you enter other worlds, and meet fantastical people and creatures. Using lush, magical descriptions, this book creates worlds of its own. You can cast a spell, join the fairies on Midsummer night for a ball, travel through outer space, explore the deepest realms of the sea as a mermaid, follow a magical owl deep into the woods, meet a wise woman, and access a library which contains your innermost secrets. With this book, you get to: -Experience fifteen original tales -Participate in guided meditation -Enter a state of deep relaxation -Become a part of the stories -And more! Fairytales are for people of all ages—not just children. These stories have been created specifically for grown men and women, with the intention of giving you an interesting, creative place to relax and rejuvenate. These aren’t the old didactic fairytales of your childhood, either. The lessons that you learn are entirely up to you, or you can merely utilize this as an escape from your hectic life. These stories put you into the perspective of the main character, placing you directly into the landscape and action of the story, for a first-hand, invigorating experience. You can see and experience everything for yourself, in order to learn more about yourself and your abilities by the time you return to your daily life. Each story is a small vacation—a new journey to explore and tap in to your inner reserves. Most focus on finding the center of your energy and imagination, where it resides, and how to use it. The meditations help you to focus and maintain a meditative stance—something that you can take with you when you finish! This book is an exciting and comforting experience that you won’t want to miss! Go Ahead And Get Your Copy NOW!