Hardly Children

Author : Laura Adamczyk
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374718688

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Hardly Children by Laura Adamczyk Pdf

Named a Fall Pick by Boston Globe, ELLE, Library Journal and MyDomain An eerie debut collection featuring missing parents, unrequited love, and other uncomfortable moments A man hangs from the ceiling of an art gallery. A woman spells out messages to her sister using her own hair. Children deemed “bad” are stolen from their homes. In Hardly Children, Laura Adamczyk’s rich and eccentric debut collection, familiar worlds—bars, hotel rooms, cities that could very well be our own—hum with uncanny dread. The characters in Hardly Children are keyed up, on the verge, full of desire. They’re lost, they’re in love with someone they shouldn’t be, they’re denying uncomfortable truths using sex or humor. They are children waking up to the threats of adulthood, and adults living with childlike abandon. With command, caution, and subtle terror, Adamczyk shapes a world where death and the possibility of loss always emerge. Yet the shape of this loss is never fully revealed. Instead, it looms in the periphery of these stories, like an uncomfortable scene viewed out of the corner of one’s eye.

Author : Germaine Greer
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780795338144

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Daddy, We Hardly Knew You by Germaine Greer Pdf

“Ferocious psychic need and volcanic energy drive this combined memoir, detective story and travelogue” from the author of The Female Eunuch (The New Yorker). After her father died, influential feminist writer and public intellectual Germaine Greer realizes how little she knows about him. She decides to track the life of her father, an Australian intelligence officer during World War II, to uncover the roots of his secrecy and distance. As she painstakingly assembles the jigsaw pieces of the past, Greer discovers surprising secrets about her father, her family, and herself. During her three-year quest, Greer travels from England to Australia, Tasmania, India, and Malta; searches through scores of genealogical, civil, and military archives; and delves into the memories of the men and women who may—or may not—have known Reg Greer. Yet the heart of her “lyrical but brutal elegy” is her own emotional journey, as the startling facts behind her father’s façade force her to painfully examine her own notions of truth and loyalty, family and obligation (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). “Anyone who has done this kind of search will identify with Ms. Greer’s frustration, admire her persistence, laugh at her accuracy and rejoice in her discoveries.” —The New York Times Book Review “The deeply affecting climax is a remarkable feat of family reconstruction.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Terry Trueman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062216991

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Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman Pdf

This "intense reading experience"* is a Printz Honor Book. Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger. To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life. *Booklist starred review

Author : Bryan Smith
Publisher : Boys Town Press
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781545755860

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Are You Working Hard or Hardly Working?: A story about staying on task until the work is done by Bryan Smith Pdf

Isaac LOVES to have fun! The only thing he loves more than having fun is getting a good laugh from his friends. That’s all well and good until some of Isaac’s fun starts to get in the way of what he’s supposed to be doing. At school, at home, and at tennis practice, he’s so busy having fun, he’s distracting himself and others from the work that needs to get done. Instead of working hard, Isaac is hardly working! With help from his teacher and mom, Isaac learns four steps to staying on task until the job is finished. If Isaac can follow these steps, he can avoid additional work! Author Bryan Smith pens another hilarious and relatable tale for K-5 students in the Stepping Up Social Skills book series.

Author : Catherine Rayner
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781529057973

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Mini and Hardly and the Big Adventure by Catherine Rayner Pdf

Mini is small, and Hardly is smaller – and neither of them are happy about it in this gorgeously illustrated, heart-warming picture book about unicorns from Kate Greenaway Medal-winning Catherine Rayner. Mini and Hardly are fed up of being small. Being grown-up would be so much better! They could eat what they want, stay up all night, and go on adventures. So . . . why wait? But it’s not long before the two little unicorns find themselves on an adventure a little bigger than they'd bargained for. Perhaps being small isn't so bad – after all, it makes you perfect for the BIGGEST cuddles.

Author : Alton Hornsby
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0761836195

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Zell, We Hardly Knew Ye by Alton Hornsby Pdf

Shortly after taking office as Georgia's appointed United States senator in 2002, following the death of incumbent Republican senator Paul Coverdell, former governor Zell Miller stunned the political world with his tilt away from a moderate-liberal to a conservative politician. He further shocked political leaders, particularly in his own Democratic party, when he openly embraced the candidacy of Republican president George Bush for reelection in 2004. In the interim, Miller voted for most of Bush's conservative agenda in the Congress and lambasted his fellow Democrats, in and out of the Senate, as out of touch with contemporary American values. He also accused Democratic leaders of being overtly biased toward his native South. Most of these views were also expressed in his best-selling book, A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat, which was published in 2003. This book investigates what some Democrats have called "the Miller betrayal" in the context of the politics of region, class, gender, and race. It seeks to explain Miller's political turn-about by detailing his southern origins and his devotion to what he and other Southerners view as a unique southern heritage based upon Christian and patriotic values. Professor Hornsby insightfully explores how Miller's "southern values" evolved and changed over time, leading to his oft-times radical swings in positions on major political, economical, and social issues. Prior to his term as senator in Washington, Miller had already acquired the name "Zig-Zag Zell" as a two-term Georgia governor. While political leaders and journalists alike have exhaustively attempted to explain Zell's baffling political conversion, this is the first work to study the topic, derived from what scholars have defined as "southernism", in terms of basic historical and contemporary issues.

Author : Jim Kline
Publisher : RoseDog Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781480962460

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Almost Hardly's Frog Stories by Jim Kline Pdf

This Picture Book for children is the primary grades version of The Adventures of Almost Hardly the Frog, which is intended for middle school level. Both versions provide a lively and humorous poetic narrative relating the antics and adventures of a young frog curiously named Almost Hardly. The intended audience for this version is made up of preschoolers through third graders (K, 1, 2, & 3) and their accompanying retinue of parents, teachers, babysitters, aunts, uncles, Mi-Maws, Poppys, and occasional siblings. It is a lively story told in an uncomplicated poetic format that encourages novice readers to explore poetic speech patterns and repetition to anticipate what comes next and to add some new words to their active reading and oral vocabulary. Helpful reading instruction activities, including the role of poetry in story-telling, can be found on the author’s website: www.instructionalsystems.org This book is about a young frog who almost gets in trouble almost all of the time but hardly ever passes up the opportunity to meet news swamp critters including two children who have totally opposite opinions of frogs. Almost Hardly learns about the abundant rewards and occasional dangers of curiosity as well as the value of persistence and perseverance. Our illustrator has captured Almost’s close calls vividly and memorably. Look for more adventures from Almost Hardly the Frog.

Author : Kenneth P. O'Donnell,David F. Powers
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480437784

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"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye" by Kenneth P. O'Donnell,David F. Powers Pdf

This classic New York Times bestseller is an illuminating portrait of JFK—from his thrilling rise to his tragic fall—by two of the men who knew him best. As a politician, John Fitzgerald Kennedy crafted a persona that fascinated and inspired millions—and left an outsize legacy in the wake of his murder on November 22, 1963. But only a select few were privy to the complicated man behind the Camelot image. Two such confidants were Kenneth P. O’Donnell, Kennedy’s top political aide, and David F. Powers, a special assistant in the White House. They were among the president’s closest friends, part of an exclusive inner circle that came to be known as the “Irish Mafia.” In Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, O’Donnell and Powers share memories of Kennedy, his extraordinary political career, and his iconic family—memories that could come only from intimate access to the man himself. As they recount the full scope of Kennedy’s journey—from his charismatic first campaign for Congress to his rapid rise to national standing, culminating on that haunting day in Dallas—O’Donnell and Powers lay bare the inner workings of a leader who is cherished and mourned to this day, in a memoir that spent over five months on the New York Times bestseller list.

Author : Kelsey Domiana
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781642799026

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Help! My Husband is Hardly Home by Kelsey Domiana Pdf

Help! My Husband is Hardly Home helps women find the happiness and support they need at home. Author, lightworker, mother, and wife, Kelsey Domiana knows all too well what it means to feel unsupported and exhausted with raising a family. As her husband, a professional basketball player, is often traveling, she realized that she needed to reclaim her joy and find a support system. Kelsey knows that it’s not impossible to feel empowered when one’s husband is away. In Help! My Husband Is Hardly Home, she shares her truth of feeling the overwhelm, isolation, and frustration that comes with having a partner who works away from home. Through her empowering eight-step process, she reveals to women: The real reason of resentment The trick to coping with his absence The secret to getting their husband to help out more The key to balancing the family's daily routine with his cameos The easiest way to improve their overall mood and marriage

Author : Becky Parry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137294333

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Children, Film and Literacy by Becky Parry Pdf

Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narrative play is closely connected to identity, literacy and textual practices. Family is key to the encouragement of this social play and, at school, the playground is also an important site for this activity. However, in the literacy classroom, some children encounter a discontinuity between their experiences of narrative at home and those that are valued in school. Through film children develop understandings of the common characteristics of narrative and the particular 'language' of film. This book demonstrates the ways in which children are able to express and develop distinct and complex understandings of narrative, that is to say, where they can draw on their own experiences (including those in a moving image form). Children whose primary experiences of narrative are moving images face particular challenges when their experiences are not given opportunities for expression in the classroom, and this has urgent implications for the teaching of literacy.

Author : E. Dan Stevens
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781457561030

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The Can't Hardly Lumber Company and Other Tales of Growing up in Northern Michigan by E. Dan Stevens Pdf

In the summer of 1960, four of us, students at Atlanta (Michigan) High School, embarked on a pulpwood cutting operation as a way to earn spending money for the coming school year. While scrounging around my dad’s sawmill shed for some tools to use in our enterprise, we found an old sign painted by one of his lumberjacks. It read, “CAN’T HARDLY LUMBER COMPANY.” Not then realizing how prophetic it would be, we took the sign for our pulpwood site. Our experiences that summer, mostly humorous in hindsight, provided the grist for several of the stories and vignettes in this volume. Others chronicle Betty Powell’s 1942 joke on the sheriff, Doug King’s barn-raising bee, and the great porcupine hunt of 1956. All provide a glimpse into northern Michigan life as we experienced it back in the day. After graduating from Atlanta (Michigan) High School in 1961, DAN STEVENS earned B.S. and M.A. degrees from The University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor from T.M. Cooley Law School. He returned to Montmorency County as a businessman and lawyer and represented northeastern Michigan in the Michigan House of Representatives for two terms. Later he served as a policy coordinator for the Florida Governor and was the County Attorney for Hendry County, Florida, over thirteen years. He and his wife Sarah now split their time between Atlanta, Michigan, and Tallahassee, Florida.

Author : Jessie Sima
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534441705

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Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima Pdf

When a house believes she is haunted, she tries everything in her power to stop it in order to get people to move in--until she realizes that she is fine just the way she is.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Medicine
ISBN : IND:30000097824613

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British Medical Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth J. Lysaght
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590631325

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Our General by Elizabeth J. Lysaght Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106494503

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Parliamentary Papers by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf