The Things They Ve Taken

Author : Katie McElhenney
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781633759749

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The Things They've Taken by Katie McElhenney Pdf

All Lo Campbell wants is to be a normal teenager—to go to one high school, live in one place, and have one real friend. Instead, she travels the country with her mother, chasing the unknown, the supernatural waiting out there... Until one day, the supernatural chases back. Determined to rescue her mom from whatever otherworldly being took her, Lo is going to need a Tracker—and lucky for her, she finds one. Shaw is strong, good-looking, possibly available, and utterly infuriating. Sure, he may have secrets, and his help costs more than a brand-new car, but she’ll have to deal with him if she wants to find her mother—and get her home alive.

Author : Aoibheann Sweeney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101202227

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Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney Pdf

Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeney's beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for intimacy. For Miranda, the adolescence spent in her fog-shrouded Maine home has been stark and isolated-alone with her troubled father, a man consumed with his work translating Ovid's Metamorphoses, her mother mysteriously gone from their lives. Now, having graduated from high school, Miranda's father arranges for her to stay with old friends in Manhattan, and she embarks on a journey that will open up her father's past and her own world, in ways she cannot begin to imagine.

Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547420295

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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Pdf

Look for O’Brien’s new book, American Fantastica, on sale October 24th A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Author : Aoibheann Sweeney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594201307

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Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney Pdf

Raised by a brilliant but elusive scholar father after the abandonment of her mother at the age of three, Miranda emerges from a childhood marked by loneliness and a vivid fantasy life when she is sent away to live with her father's friends in Manhattan.

Author : Claire Keegan
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802160157

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Foster by Claire Keegan Pdf

An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas’ house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end. Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker, this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan’s great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers.

Author : Orna Donath
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623171384

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Regretting Motherhood by Orna Donath Pdf

Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds, sociologist Orna Donath treats regret as a feminist issue: as regret marks the road not taken, we need to consider whether alternative paths for women currently are blocked off. She asks that we pay attention to what is forbidden by rules governing motherhood, time, and emotion, including the cultural assumption that motherhood is a “natural” role for women—for the sake of all women, not just those who regret becoming mothers. If we are disturbed by the idea that a woman might regret becoming a mother, Donath says, our response should not be to silence and shame these women; rather, we need to ask honest and difficult questions about how society pushes women into motherhood and why those who reconsider it are still seen as a danger to the status quo. Groundbreaking, thoughtful, and provocative, this is an especially needed book in our current political climate, as women's reproductive rights continue to be at the forefront of national debates.

Author : Kevin Sites
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062099228

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The Things They Cannot Say by Kevin Sites Pdf

“The harrowing accounts detail the experiencesof 11 US soldiers and Marines who have been ravaged by modern warfare and its psychological aftermath. What makes Kevin’s reporting unique and essential is that it didn’t stop on the battlefield—he followed his subjects home.” — Vice An important look at the unspoken and unknown truths of war and its impact, told through the personal stories of those who have been there. In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a courage that transcends battlefield heroics—they share the truth about their wars. For each it means something different: one struggles to recover from a head injury he believes has stolen his ability to love, another attempts to make amends for the killing of an innocent man, while yet another finds respect for the enemy fighter who tried to kill him. Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars: What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what’s right? What can you never forget? Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction. He learns that war both gives and takes from those most involved in it. Some struggle in disequilibrium, while others find balance, usually with the help of communities who have learned to listen, without judgment, to the real stories of the men and women it has sent to fight its battles.

Author : Mike Trainor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780557138432

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Fat Things by Mike Trainor Pdf

They Might Not Make You Fat, But You Have Them in Common With Fat People.Stand-up comic Mike Trainor runs down a list of his favorite fat things. Things like:You and a five year old have the same favorite foods.You've licked the inside of a bag of chips.You can eat an entire McRib sandwich without wondering what it is made of.You're sweating reading this. With illustrations by Mauricio Restrepo and a "Fat Forward" by the Author. More fun with Mike Trainor can be found at GiantComedy.com.

Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819573780

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Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa Pdf

This collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is “a major contribution to the body of literature grappling with Vietnam” (Poetry). Yusef Komunyakaa is renowned for his ability to blend memory and history with strikingly evocative poetic imagery. Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Komunyakaa served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. In Dien Cai Dau, he applies this unique sensibility to his experience of the Vietnam War. The resulting poems have been called some of the finest Vietnam testimony ever documented in verse or prose. “So finely tuned are Komunyakaa’s images, so faultless his vision, that the reader sees precisely what the poet recalls . . . A powerful must-read for those who have forgotten those days.” ―Booklist

Author : F. Anstey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Authors
ISBN : NYPL:33433074859962

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Lyre and Lancet by F. Anstey Pdf

Author : Stephan Loy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557551293

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Last Days and Times by Stephan Loy Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : UCAL:B5104357

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The Drug Problem in Sioux City--a Multistate Approach to Drug Control by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : David A. Robertson
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781553796961

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When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson Pdf

When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother’s garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history, and, ultimately, one of empowerment and strength. Also available in a bilingual Swampy Cree/English edition. When We Were Alone won the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award in the Young People's Literature (Illustrated Books) category, and was nominated for the TD Canadian's Children's Literature Award.

Author : Ron Niccum
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780557142637

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Secrets of the Adversarial Interview by Ron Niccum Pdf

Techniques, technologies, and applications - the arts and sciences of interrogating criminal suspects, their victims, and the witnesses to their crimes. Sounds exciting, don’t it? ad–ver–saŕ–ial!“Oooooh,†kindâ€a gets you all tingly. Wow! And doesn’t it just set you to thinking about gladiators locked in the deadly dance of hand-to-hand combat? Secrets takes you through the entire process of interrogation from start to finish; BUT, if you were expecting â€waterboarding†and other inefficient methods of torture – FORGET IT! The Adversarial Interview not only works but it’s legal!

Author : Nigel Walkling
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781470960155

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A fatal shot on Dover beach by Nigel Walkling Pdf

Dramatised real historical events. A story of the clash of two powerful larger than life historical characters in the first quarter of the nineteenth century which culminated in a fatal shot fired on Dover beach in 1826.