Little Children

Author : Tom Perrotta
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429907828

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Unexpectedly suspenseful, but written with all the fluency and dark humor of Tom Perrotta's The Wishbones and Joe College, Little Children exposes the adult dramas unfolding amidst the swingsets and slides of an ordinary American playground. Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have stumbled into a traditional marriage; Richard, Sarah's husband, who has found himself more and more involved with a fantasy life on the internet than with the flesh and blood in his own house; and Mary Ann, who thinks she has it all figured out, down to scheduling a weekly roll in the hay with her husband, every Tuesday at 9pm. They all raise their kids in the kind of sleepy American suburb where nothing ever seems to happen--at least until one eventful summer, when a convicted child molester moves back to town, and two restless parents begin an affair that goes further than either of them could have imagined. Perrotta received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for best screenplay for the film adaptation of Little Children, which was directed by Todd Field and starred Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly.

Author : Sophie Hannah
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062978226

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Perfect Little Children by Sophie Hannah Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders and Woman with a Secret returns with a sharp, captivating, and expertly plotted tale of psychological suspense. All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch him play, and then return home. Just because she knows her ex-best friend lives near the field, that doesn’t mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. Why would Beth do that and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn’t seen Flora for twelve years. She doesn’t want to see her today—or ever again. But she can’t resist. She parks outside the open gates of Newnham House, watches from across the road as Flora arrives and calls to her children Thomas and Emily to get out of the car. Except . . . There’s something terribly wrong. Flora looks the same, only older. Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily were five and three years old. Today, they look precisely as they did then. They are Thomas and Emily without a doubt, but they haven’t changed at all. They are no taller, no older. Why haven’t they grown? How is it possible that they haven’t grown up?

Author : Tamara Starblanket
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780998694788

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Suffer the Little Children by Tamara Starblanket Pdf

Originally approved as a master of laws thesis by a respected Canadian university, this book tackles one of the most compelling issues of our time—the crime of genocide—and whether in fact it can be said to have occurred in relation to the many Original Nations on Great Turtle Island now claimed by a state called Canada. It has been hailed as groundbreaking by many Indigenous and other scholars engaged with this issue, impacting not just Canada but states worldwide where entrapped Indigenous nations face absorption by a dominating colonial state. Starblanket unpacks Canada’s role in the removal of cultural genocide from the Genocide Convention, though the disappearance of an Original Nation by forced assimilation was regarded by many states as equally genocidal as destruction by slaughter. Did Canada seek to tailor the definition of genocide to escape its own crimes which were then even ongoing? The crime of genocide, to be held as such under current international law, must address the complicated issue of mens rea (not just the commission of a crime, but the specific intent to do so). This book permits readers to make a judgment on whether or not this was the case. Starblanket examines how genocide was operationalized in Canada, focused primarily on breaking the intergenerational transmission of culture from parents to children. Seeking to absorb the new generations into a different cultural identity—English-speaking, Christian, Anglo-Saxon, termed Canadian—Canada seized children from their parents, and oversaw and enforced the stripping of their cultural beliefs, languages and traditions, replacing them by those still in process of being established by the emerging Canadian state.

Author : Tom Perrotta
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307370938

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The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta Pdf

The Abstinence Teacher illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern American family life, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. It is elegantly and simply written, characterized by the distinctive mix of satire and compassion that has become Tom Perrotta's trademark. Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children: it's got good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. Parents in the town are involved in their children's lives, and often in other children's lives, too—coaching sports, driving carpool, focusing on enriching experiences. Ruth Ramsey is the high school human sexuality teacher whose openness is not appreciated by all her students—or their parents. Her daughter's soccer coach is Tim Mason, a former stoner and rocker whose response to hitting rock bottom was to reach out and be saved. Tim's introduction of Christianity on the playing field horrifies Ruth, while his evangelical church sees a useful target in the loose-lipped sex ed teacher. But when these two adversaries in a small-town culture war actually talk to each other, a surprising friendship begins to develop.

Author : Tom Perrotta
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593548479

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Election by Tom Perrotta Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Tracy Flick Can't Win comes a darkly hilarious novel about a high school election that brings out the worst in everyone—the basis for the film starring Reese Witherspoon! Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She’s one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister, aka “Mr. M.,” thinks the students deserve better. So he persuades Paul Warren—a well-liked, good-hearted jock—to throw in his hat. But that puts Paul’s sister Tammy in a snit. So she runs too, on an apathy platform, before starting a real campaign...to get herself kicked out of school. The idea was to educate the students at this suburban New Jersey school in the democratic process and the American way. But with all the sex scandals, smear campaigns, and behind-the-scenes power brokers at Winwood High, it doesn’t look as if they need any lessons....

Author : Jo Furniss
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1542045681

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All the Little Children by Jo Furniss Pdf

An Amazon Charts bestseller. When a family camping trip takes a dark turn, how far will one mother go to keep her family safe? Struggling with working-mother guilt, Marlene Greene hopes a camping trip in the forest will provide quality time with her three young children--until they see fires in the distance, columns of smoke distorting the sweeping view. Overnight, all communication with the outside world is lost. Knowing something terrible has happened, Marlene suspects that the isolation of the remote campsite is all that's protecting her family. But the arrival of a lost boy reveals they are not alone in the woods, and as the unfolding disaster ravages the land, more youngsters seek refuge under her wing. The lives of her own children aren't the only ones at stake. When their sanctuary is threatened, Marlene faces the mother of all dilemmas: Should she save her own kids or try to save them all?

Author : Arthur C. Gackley
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1419722263

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Bad Little Children's Books by Arthur C. Gackley Pdf

A posthumously published collection of Arthur C. Gackley's most questionable parody-driven book covers.

Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367716

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The Children of Men by P. D. James Pdf

The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Author : Anita Casavantes Bradford
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469667645

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Suffer the Little Children by Anita Casavantes Bradford Pdf

In this affecting and innovative global history—starting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the U.S. southern border—Anita Casavantes Bradford traces the evolution of American policy toward unaccompanied children. At first a series of ad hoc Cold War–era initiatives, such policy grew into a more broadly conceived set of programs that claim universal humanitarian goals. But the cold reality is that decisions about which endangered minors are allowed entry to the United States have always been and continue to be driven primarily by a "geopolitics of compassion" that imagines these children essentially as tools of political statecraft. Even after the creation of the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors program in 1980, the federal government has failed to see migrant children as individual rights-bearing subjects. The claims of these children, especially those who are poor, nonwhite, and non-Christian, continue to be evaluated not in terms of their unique circumstances but rather in terms of broader implications for migratory flows from their homelands. This book urgently demonstrates that U.S. policy must evolve in order to ameliorate the desperate needs of unaccompanied children.

Author : Donna Leon
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555849061

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Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon Pdf

An assault on a pediatrician reveals a web of corruption and deception in the New York Times–bestselling, Silver Dagger Award–winning series. When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men—a young Carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town—have burst into the doctor’s apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him, and taken away his eighteen-month-old baby boy. What could have motivated an assault by the forces of the state so violent it has left the doctor mute? Who would have authorized such an alarming operation? At the same time, Brunetti’s colleague Inspector Vianello discovers a moneymaking scam between pharmacists and doctors in the city. But it appears as if one of the pharmacists is after more than money . . . This is a smart, suspenseful novel in the series set in a beautifully realized Venice, a glorious city seething with small-town vice. “Leon deserves her place not only with the finest international crime writers (Michael Dibdin and Henning Mankell, for example) but also with literary novelists who explore the agonies of the everyday (Margaret Drabble and Anne Tyler, among others).” —Booklist

Author : Rebecca GILPIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474921698

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Little Children's Nature Activity Book by Rebecca GILPIN Pdf

An imaginative nature-themed activity book for young children, packed with different things to do. As well as lots of colouring and stickering, there are mazes, spotting puzzles, dot to dot, step-by-step drawing, and lots more. Fascinating facts about animals, plants, insects and different natural environments are incorporated into the activities. No equipment is needed apart from some pencils or pens, so this is a perfect activity book for holidays and rainy days. Readers won't realise that they are learning all about nature while they're having fun.

Author : Joanna Faber,Julie King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9781501131653

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How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen by Joanna Faber,Julie King Pdf

"New stories & strategies based on ... 'How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk'"--Cover.

Author : Barbara Davis
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0786022655

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Suffer the Little Children by Barbara Davis Pdf

Author : Sophie Hannah
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444776225

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Haven't They Grown by Sophie Hannah Pdf

'Sophie Hannah, who can twist a conventional plot until it screams for mercy, puts an existential spin on the domestic-suspense novel' New York Times 'Fiendishly clever' Daily Mail 'Complex and sinister' Observer 'A literary high-wire artist' Sunday Express 'Prepare for sleep deprivation!' Red All Beth has to do is drive her son to his Under-14s away match, watch him play, and bring him home. Just because she knows that her former best friend lives near the football ground, that doesn't mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. Why would Beth do that, and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn't seen Flora Braid for twelve years. But she can't resist. She parks outside Flora's house and watches from across the road as Flora and her children, Thomas and Emily, step out of the car. Except... There's something terribly wrong. Flora looks the same, only older - just as Beth would have expected. It's the children that are the problem. Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily Braid were five and three years old. Today, they look precisely as they did then. They are still five and three. They are Thomas and Emily without a doubt - Beth hears Flora call them by their names - but they haven't changed at all. They are no taller, no older. Why haven't they grown?

Author : Jenny Tyler,Lesley Sims
Publisher : Picture Book Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0746098227

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Fairy Tales for Little Children by Jenny Tyler,Lesley Sims Pdf

"This is a beautiful treasury of picture books perfect for young children ... Each story is beautifully illustrated and perfect for either reading aloud or for more confident readers to tackle alone"--Publisher's description.