Car Trouble

Author : Jeanne DuPrau
Publisher : Untreed Reads
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781611878448

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Car Trouble by Jeanne DuPrau Pdf

Duff Pringle has bought his first car. (Used.) He's got six days to drive 3,000 miles cross-country to California and start a new hi-tech job that will make him wealthy. (Sort of.) Nothing can stop him. (Or can it?) Uh-oh . . . CAR TROUBLE. Duff's Ford Escort barely makes it a hundred miles from home before breaking down. What's he supposed to do? He's promised his new boss he'll be there by Monday. But he's also promised himself that he'll make this journey by car, so he can really see the country. Using his laptop and some quick thinking, he pieces together a way to continue his trip. What he doesn't plan on are the people he meets along the road. There's Stu, a hitchhiker with a secret; Bonnie, an aspiring singer with a con artist for a mother; two thugs looking for a trunkful of cash; and Moony, the terrier prone to carsickness.

Author : Gus Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942953496

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Family Car Trouble by Gus Powell Pdf

Softcover Edition

Author : Robert Rorke
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062848505

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Car Trouble by Robert Rorke Pdf

From a bright new talent, a witty, moving, and inspirational coming-of-age debut novel set in 1970s Brooklyn about a teenager and his abusive father whose obsession with broken down vintage cars careens wildly out of control. “Such a pleasure to read.... This is a coming of age story, but it is also so much more than that.”—Dominic Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Nicky Flynn is coming-of-age in 1970s Brooklyn, riding into his sophomore year at St. Michaels, the last hurrah of the Diocesan school system. A budding young actor, Nicky is at once sensitive, resilient, exasperated, and keenly observant—especially when it comes to his father, Patrick. Undeniably enigmatic, and coasting on vanity, charm, and desperation, “Himself” as Nicky calls his father, is given to picking up old car junkers, for cheap at NYPD auctions—each sputtering, tail-finned treasure subsidized by poker games. To Patrick, these chrome glamour tanks are his obsessions, repairable reminders of the past when he was young, and everything seemed new and gleaming and possible—before he had a family. For Nicky, each one is a milestone. Whether it’s a harrowing joy ride or a driving lesson, they’re unforgettable markers on his path toward an unpredictable future. But as Patrick’s compulsions slide into alcoholism and abuse, Nicky, his mother, and sisters brace themselves for an inevitable sharp turn in their addled lives. Narrated with humor and a rueful awareness, Car Trouble is an exhilarating novel about acceptance, regret, compassion, and finding your authentic adult self amid the rubble and rumble of growing up.

Author : Frank Berrios
Publisher : Golden/Disney
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385389525

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Tractor Trouble (Disney/Pixar Cars) by Frank Berrios Pdf

Mater and Lightning McQueen team-up to track down runaway tractors in this all-new Little Golden Book featuring all of your favorite characters from Disney/Pixar Cars. It's a must-have for children ages 3-7!

Author : Kelly Rysten
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781926918044

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Car Trouble by Kelly Rysten Pdf

Cassidy Callahan uses her tracking talents for good, but sometimes doing a good job has bad consequences. Follow Cassidy through more crazy adventures as she helps Rusty Michaels bring in a serial killer, deals with tigers, feral dogs and rattlesnakes. Car troubles abound as she sets her sights on the Police Reserve Academy. Cassidy does her best to enter the world of the Joshua Hills Search and Rescue organization, but will she graduate or become Tyrone Trent's next victim? About the Author: Kelly Rysten was born in Florida and raised in the deserts of New Mexico. She and her husband presently reside in southern California where she continues to follow Cassidy's wild adventures and strives to put them into print. Her interest in writing and tracking spans many years, which allows her to bring a real authenticity to her characters and the adventures in her novels. She is the author of "Triple Trouble," the first book in the Cassidy Callahan Adventure series. Kelly and her husband have two grown children and a crazy Shetland sheepdog named Pippin.

Author : Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780547487731

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Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt Pdf

“Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.” But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry’s older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin’s preparatory school, and the accident sparks racial tensions in the school—and in the well-established town where Henry’s family has lived for generations. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, which he and Franklin were going to climb together. Along with Black Dog, whom Henry has rescued from drowning, and a friend, Henry leaves without his parents’ knowledge. The journey, both exhilarating and dangerous, turns into an odyssey of discovery about himself, his older sister, Louisa, his ancestry, and why one can never escape from Trouble.

Author : Mark Leyner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307819611

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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner Pdf

Welcome to Mark Leyner's America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and anabolic steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe where the locals include a speech pathologist with a waterbug fetish, a kamikaze airline pilot, and the lead singer for Brazil's most notoriously nihilistic samba band.

Author : Edna Curry
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304103505

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Double Trouble by Edna Curry Pdf

Rosie, to please her dying mother, agreed to marry Ken Latham, the handsome, rich boss she doesn't love, but who has been regularly proposing to her. She rationalizes that she'll have a good life with him and true love is only a fairy tale anyway. But that promise of a good life turns into a nightmare when Ken is mugged, has amnesia and breaks their engagement. Also, Rosie and Ken have to deal with their company's CEO, Lester, who sends Kirk, Ken's identical twin, to investigate possible embezzlement at their building supply store. And someone is trying to kill Ken and also harassing Rosie. Can they survive long enough to build their attraction into love?

Author : Kathryn Sutherland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 1552684326

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Car Trouble by Kathryn Sutherland Pdf

Author : Arlette Lees
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479406814

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Trouble in Abundance by Arlette Lees Pdf

When Sterling Seabright is found strangled in the woods outside the small farming community of Abundance, Wisconsin, even her closest friends are shocked to learn of her secret life. When a second body is found murdered in a cabin by the lake, it's up to Deputies Robely Danner and Frack Telusky to discover the link. Sterling's classmates hold various pieces of the puzzle, and although they may be talking among themselves, Robely and Frack are unable to break their code of silence.

Author : Jack Gantos
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780374303457

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The Trouble in Me by Jack Gantos Pdf

This fiery autobiographical novel captures a pivotal week or two in the life of fourteen-year-old Jack Gantos, as the author reveals the moment he began to slide off track as a kid who in just a few years would find himself locked up in a federal penitentiary for the crimes portrayed in the memoir Hole in My Life. Set in the Fort Lauderdale neighborhood of his family's latest rental home, The Trouble in Me opens with an explosive encounter in which Jack first meets his awesomely rebellious older neighbor, Gary Pagoda, just back from juvie for car theft. Instantly mesmerized, Jack decides he will do whatever it takes to be like Gary. As a follower, Jack is eager to leave his old self behind, and desperate for whatever crazy, hilarious, frightening thing might happen next. But he may not be as ready as he thinks when the trouble in him comes blazing to life. This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Maud Newton
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812987492

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Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton Pdf

“Extraordinary and wide-ranging . . . a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize • An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern family—and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves—in this “brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observation” (The Boston Globe). ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Esquire, Garden & Gun Maud Newton’s ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother’s father was said to have married thirteen times. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Newton’s family inspired in her a desire to understand family patterns: what we are destined to replicate and what we can leave behind. She set out to research her genealogy—her grandfather’s marriages, the accused witch, her ancestors’ roles in slavery and other harms. Her journey took her into the realms of genetics, epigenetics, and debates over intergenerational trauma. She mulled over modernity’s dismissal of ancestors along with psychoanalytic and spiritual traditions that center them. Searching and inspiring, Ancestor Trouble is one writer’s attempt to use genealogy—a once-niche hobby that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry—to make peace with the secrets and contradictions of her family's past and face its reverberations in the present, and to argue for the transformational possibilities that reckoning with our ancestors offers all of us.

Author : Bettye Griffin
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758266507

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Trouble Down The Road by Bettye Griffin Pdf

From the author of The People Next Door comes a smart, sexy new novel that peeks behind the curtains of one very complicated Florida cul-de-sac, where the neighbors are a little too close for comfort. . . Suzanne and Brad Betancourt have a lot to be grateful for--their home, their children, and each other. They've even survived the fact that Brad's ex-wife lives next door and Suzanne's intrusive mother and siblings are just down the road. But Suzanne's confidence unravels at Brad's fiftieth birthday blowout, when young, voluptuous, neighbor Micheline brings a specially wrapped gift: herself. Suddenly, Suzanne feels like she's the one having the midlife crisis. . . Hoping to impress Brad, and ease family troubles that are already straining their relationship, Suzanne goes into business with a friend. But the endeavor stretches her too thin, leaving Brad hurt and alienated. Soon he begins to distance himself from her--moving right into the waiting arms of Micheline, who is all too ready to ditch her own husband. Now, with marriages on the line across the neighborhood, Suzanne and Brad will have to question their notion of loyalty to one another--and to themselves. Praise For The Novels Of Bettye Griffin "Fear and joy practically leap off the pages. A well-written story you will hate to see end." --Romantic Times on Once Upon a Project "A compelling drama about three families striving for the American dream."--Booklist on If These Walls Could Talk

Author : Steve Kardian,A. Clara Pistek
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : HEALTH & FITNESS
ISBN : 9781501159244

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The New Superpower for Women by Steve Kardian,A. Clara Pistek Pdf

"In The New Superpower for Women, Steve Kardian, a thirty-year veteran of law enforcement, FBI defense tactics instructor, and an expert on the criminal mind, demonstrates how to become a "hard target" and not a "soft target" by simply trusting your gut. Additionally, he shows how the habits of safety can become an integral part of your daily routine"--

Author : Becca Turner
Publisher : Becca Turner
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Cowboy Kind of Trouble by Becca Turner Pdf

After a life-altering car wreck takes his ability to walk, his wife, and his bull riding career, Will Baxter is determined to rescue his struggling ranch from a threat only he believes in. Against his instincts, Will, urged by his brother, begrudgingly agrees to hire Jessi Dixon as his home healthcare aide. Despite the lingering bitterness from his past, Jessi's radiant personality breaks through his stormy demeanor, guiding them on a journey toward healing. Facing challenges not only to the ranch but also to their growing affection, Will navigates through a maze of uncertainties to protect the promise of a future he can share with Jessi. ___ The West isn't won until a cowboy holds your heart. Filled with stubborn and swoony cowboys and heroines with backbones who star in heart-warming small town romances, the Only an Okie Will Do storyverse ticks all the boxes. If you enjoy emotional closed door romance stories with low level heat, you'll want to read them all. Book 1: Cowboy Kind of Trouble Book 2: Cowboy Kind of Commitment Book 3: Cowboy Kind of Reckless Book 4: Cowboy Kind of Peace Book 5: Cowboy Kind of Spark Book 6: Cowboy Kind of Harmony Book 7: Cowboy Kind of Courage Book 8: Cowboy Kind of Hooked Under Oklahoma Skies: An Only an Okie Will Do Collection Under Oklahoma Stars: An Only an Okie Will Do Collection