If I Survive

Author : Jonathan Escoffery
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771001185

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If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction A September 2022 IndieNext Pick A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller. In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on first through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart, the family remains motivated, often to its own detriment, by what their younger son, Trelawny, calls “the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.” Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You center on Trelawny as he struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism, and flat-out bad luck. After a fight with Topper-himself reckoning with his failures as a parent and his longing for Jamaica-Trelawny claws his way out of homelessness through a series of odd, often hilarious jobs. Meanwhile, his brother, Delano, attempts a disastrous cash grab to get his kids back, and his cousin, Cukie, looks for a father who doesn’t want to be found. As each character searches for a foothold, they never forget the profound danger of climbing without a safety net. Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery’s debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and white supremacy. With If I Survive You, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.

Author : Andrew Klavan
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781401688127

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If We Survive by Andrew Klavan Pdf

They came on a mission of mercy, but now they’re in a fight for their lives. High schooler Will Peterson and three friends journeyed to Central America to help rebuild a school. In a poor, secluded mountain village, they won the hearts of the local people with their energy and kindness. But in one sudden moment, everything went horribly wrong. A revolution swept the country. Now, guns and terror are everywhere—and Americans are being targeted as the first to die. Will and his friends have got to get out fast. But streets full of killers . . .hills patrolled by armies . . . and a jungle rife with danger stand between them and the border. Their one hope of escape lies with a veteran warrior who has lost his faith and may betray them at any moment. Their one dream is to reach freedom and safety and home. If they can just survive.

Author : George Wilson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307775252

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If You Survive by George Wilson Pdf

"If you survive your first day, I'll promote you." So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, helping take the small towns of northern France and Belgium building by building. Of all the men and officers who started out in Company F of the 4th Infantry Division with him, Wilson was the only one who finished. In the end, he felt not like a conqueror or a victor, but an exhausted survivor, left with nothing but his life -- and his emotions. If You Survive One of the great first-person accounts of the making of a combat veteran, in the last, most violent months of World War II.

Author : Alex Morel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101575390

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Survive by Alex Morel Pdf

Hatchet meets Lost in this modern-day adventure tale of one girl's reawakening Jane is on a plane on her way home to Montclair, New Jersey, from a mental hospital. She is about to kill herself. Just before she can swallow a lethal dose of pills, the plane hits turbulence and everything goes black. Jane wakes up amidst piles of wreckage and charred bodies on a snowy mountaintop. There is only one other survivor: a boy named Paul, who inspires Jane to want to fight for her life for the first time. Jane and Paul scale icy slopes and huddle together for warmth at night, forging an intense emotional bond. But the wilderness is a vast and lethal force, and only one of them will survive.

Author : Mel Mallory
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781978595910

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Survive and Keep Surviving by Mel Mallory Pdf

After being sexually assaulted at a party, Mara started experiencing paranoia and delusional thoughts which resulted in a public psychotic episode freshman year. Now a senior in high school, Mara feels like an outcast who would rather keep to herself than risk being judged. However, the only way she'll graduate is if she can pass her least favorite class: public speaking. Mara is ready to publicly reclaim her own story—but will she find acceptance this time around?

Author : Larry Hayes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471198359

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How to Survive Without Grown-Ups by Larry Hayes Pdf

Get set for the new hilarious out-of-this-world adventure series for readers aged 8+ – this is the perfect new series for fans of Tom Gates, David Solomons and Star Wars! Highly illustrated throughout by the brilliantly funny Katie Abey. Mum and Dad have left – gone to Mars, and they’re never coming back . . . FREEDOM AT LAST! But this isn’t one of Dad’s weird jokes; it’s REAL. It’s up to ten-year-old Eliza and her genius little brother, Johnnie, to find out what’s going on, and launch a rescue . . . Can they handle vampire squids, a suspicious villain, a secret island full of traps and a trip into space? And – more importantly – will they ever get their parents back? The funniest, zaniest, most out-of-this-world adventure you’ll read all year! Look out for Eliza and Johnnie's second adventure, How to Survive Time Travel. Out now!

Author : Matt Doeden,Jim Penn
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429673495

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Can You Survive the Jungle? by Matt Doeden,Jim Penn Pdf

"Describes the fight for survival in the jungle"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Barbara Miller
Publisher : Faces of Eve
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0995369186

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If I Survive by Barbara Miller Pdf

"This is a true story of Holocaust survival. The story of Nazi Germany and the Jews is a story of anti-Semitism, gas chambers, genocide and World War 11. The Warsaw ghetto where the Nazis had imprisoned the Jews was being emptied as Adolph Hitler's Final Solution to murder all of European Jewry was put into action. Lena kept thinking, "It's my turn next." As some Jews escaped Treblinka and exposed it as being a death camp not a labour camp, young men and women in the ghetto decided to make a stand. Lena helped in the resistance which became the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by gathering light bulbs from empty houses which could be used for Molotov cocktails. By a miracle, she escaped the ghetto before it became an inferno. But where could she hide? After 18 months in hiding, she found herself tossed out on the streets of war-torn Warsaw. The Poles had risen up against the Germans who crushed the resistance and levelled the city. Where could Lena hide? How did she maintain the will to survive? When it was over and she could walk free, the tears she had held back flooded out because she was all alone and there was no one to care that she had survived and no one to go to. How to rebuild from all the destruction? Author Barbara Miller adds to Holocaust history by skilfully weaving her research with Lena's diary and interviews to bring her biography to life. Lena helped her companions in hiding to survive with her humour and compassion. She is 100 in January 2019 and her miraculous story of survival against the odds will inspire you to not give up no matter how dark the time or difficult the situation or cruel the people around you."--Publisher's website.

Author : Celeste-Marie Bernier
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474439732

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If I Survive by Celeste-Marie Bernier Pdf

Provides a new topographical methodology for the study of cinema and the Holocaust

Author : Roberto Canessa,Pablo Vierci
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476765457

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I Had to Survive by Roberto Canessa,Pablo Vierci Pdf

"This is a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading pediatric cardiologists. Canessa played a key role in safeguarding his fellow survivors, eventually trekking with a companion across the hostile mountain range for help. This fine line between life and death became the catalyst for the rest of his life. This uplifting tale of hope and determination, solidarity and ingenuity gives vivid insight into a world famous story. Canessa also draws a unique and fascinating parallel between his work as a doctor performing arduous heart surgeries on infants and unborn babies and the difficult life-changing decisions he was forced to make in the Andes."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Max Brallier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451608802

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Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? by Max Brallier Pdf

Inside these pages lies unspeakable horror. Bloodsplattering, brain-impaling, flesh-devouring horror. You’ve probably read your fair share of zombie stories. But this time it’s different. No longer can you sit idle as a bunch of fools make all the wrong moves. All hell is about to break loose—and YOU have a say in humanity’s survival. You have choices to make. Moral dilemmas. Strategic decisions. Weapons. Vehicles. Will you be a hero? Or will you cover your own ass at all costs? Can you withstand the coming hours, days, weeks, and months? Or will you die amidst the chaos and violence of a zombie uprising? Or, worst of all, will you become one of them?

Author : Danielle Vega
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101631324

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Survive the Night by Danielle Vega Pdf

Stephen King meets Pretty Little Liars in this pulse-pounding novel from the author of The Merciless Just back from rehab, Casey regrets letting her friends Shana, Julie, and Aya talk her into coming to Survive the Night, an all-night, underground rave in a New York City subway tunnel. Surrounded by frightening drugs and menacing strangers, Casey doesn’t think Survive the Night could get any worse... ...until she comes across Julie’s mutilated body in a dank, black subway tunnel, red-eyed rats nibbling at her fingers. Casey thought she was just off with some guy—no one could hear her getting torn apart over the sound of pulsing music. And by the time they get back to the party, everyone is gone. Desperate for help, Casey and her friends find themselves running through the putrid subway tunnels, searching for a way out. But every manhole is sealed shut, and every noise echoes eerily in the dark, reminding them they’re not alone. They’re being hunted. Trapped underground with someone—or something—out to get them, Casey can’t help but listen to Aya’s terrified refrain: “We’re all gonna die down here.”

Author : Charlie Jane Anders
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781250800022

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Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST RELATED WORK From Charlie Jane Anders, the award-winning author of novels such as All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night, this is one of the most practical guides to storytelling that you will ever read. The world is on fire. So tell your story. Things are scary right now. We’re all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it’s easy to feel helpless. But we’re not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and other ways of living are possible. Full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency, Never Say You Can’t Survive is the perfect manual for creativity in unprecedented times. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : John Grandits
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618788224

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Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break If You Want to Survive the School Bus by John Grandits Pdf

Before Kyle rides a school bus for the first time, his older brother gives him a list of rules he must follow, but after breaking every single one on the first day, Kyle discovers the rule his brother left out.

Author : Jonathan Escoffery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008685797

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If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery Pdf