Til Times Get Better

Author : Elle Louise,Arista
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798765231692

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‘Til Times Get Better by Elle Louise,Arista Pdf

Heart wrenching book with triumph over tragedy. Elle found the inner strength and courage to move beyond the devastation that surrounded her. A soul touching read...definitely a 5. -America K. West Palm Beach, FL This book left my heart hurting for Elle and children like her. The family members each hid their own lies and shame... It inspired me to know these same children can become the strength of the world. What we (I) do matters! ... - Jean B. Round Lake, IL From her earliest childhood memories until the age of 17, Elle fought a battle that didn't belong to her but to adults. At 4, she was removed from her parents due to physical abuse...and that was just the beginning. Elle quickly learned how to survive each situation she was given: adoption, foster care, abandonment, sexual, physical, emotional abuse, secrets, and later the search and rejection by her biological father. She was always able to hide under a smile of masks at school. But everything changed the night her father put a gun to her head. That was the defining moment. Elle realized if she didn't take things into her own hands and escape the abuse, she would probably end up dead. This memoir is the true story of Elle’s journey to save her own life and begin a new one. It is an inspiring voyage of relentless courage, self-reliance, and most of all forgiveness. Through her darkest challenges she never lost hope. She found that love and life can still exist if you never give up and remain steadfast in your personal quest for healing. Elle fought being a victim and became a “Survivor.”

Author : Rebecca Stead
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375892691

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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead Pdf

"Like A Wrinkle in Time (Miranda's favorite book), When You Reach Me far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of 'life, death, and the beauty of it all.'" —The Washington Post This Newbery Medal winner that has been called "smart and mesmerizing," (The New York Times) and "superb" (The Wall Street Journal) will appeal to readers of all types, especially those who are looking for a thought-provoking mystery with a mind-blowing twist. Shortly after a fall-out with her best friend, sixth grader Miranda starts receiving mysterious notes, and she doesn’t know what to do. The notes tell her that she must write a letter—a true story, and that she can’t share her mission with anyone. It would be easy to ignore the strange messages, except that whoever is leaving them has an uncanny ability to predict the future. If that is the case, then Miranda has a big problem—because the notes tell her that someone is going to die, and she might be too late to stop it. Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book Five Starred Reviews A Junior Library Guild Selection "Absorbing." —People "Readers ... are likely to find themselves chewing over the details of this superb and intricate tale long afterward." —The Wall Street Journal "Lovely and almost impossibly clever." —The Philadelphia Inquirer "It's easy to imagine readers studying Miranda's story as many times as she's read L'Engle's, and spending hours pondering the provocative questions it raises." —Publishers Weekly, Starred review

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804172707

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316491358

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How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin Pdf

Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories. "Marvelous and wide-ranging." -- Los Angeles Times"Gorgeous" -- NPR Books"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold." -- Entertainment Weekly Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.

Author : Nelly Taylor
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9798889600329

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'Til Next Time by Nelly Taylor Pdf

"I'd never loved anyone as much as I loved Wynter, and somehow, I was expected to just let her go." Fifteen-year-old Seth Rosenberg has just entered his freshman year of high school--isolated, friendless, and eager to have the next three years pass him by as swiftly as possible. But when Wynter Meadows, the widely popular, not to mention Seth's biggest crush, reveals that she is in the midst of a battle against leukemia, his entire world is flipped upside down. Seeing that Seth is the only student to know of Wynter's condition, the two of them end up forming an unlikely yet secret friendship. During which, Seth learns that Wynter has chosen not to treat her disease and, consequentially, has been given less than a year to live. With the monumentally important task of changing Wynter's mind weighing heavily on him, Seth must deal with the intense roller-coaster ride that accompanies being friends with Wynter Meadows while also being painfully aware of the unfortunate reality that awaits if he is to fail his mission.

Author : Meagan Brandy
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398719477

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Fake It 'Til You Break It by Meagan Brandy Pdf

Fake. That's what we are. That's what we agreed to be. So why does it feel so real? I thought it would have been harder, convincing everyone our school's star receiver was mine and mine alone, but I was wrong. We played our parts so well that the lines between us began to blur until they disappeared completely. The thing about pretending, though, someone's always better at it, and by the time I realized my mistake, there was no going back. I fell for our lie. And then everything fell apart. It turned out he and I were never playing the same game. He didn't have to break me to win. But he did it anyway.

Author : Jenn P. Nguyen
Publisher : Swoon Reads
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250308023

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Fake It Till You Break It by Jenn P. Nguyen Pdf

Mia and Jake have known each other their whole lives. They’ve endured summer vacations, Sunday brunches, even dentist visits together. Their mothers, who are best friends, are convinced that Mia and Jake would be the perfect couple, even though they can’t stand to be in the same room together. After Mia’s mom turns away yet another cute boy, Mia and Jake decide they’ve had enough. Together, they hatch a plan to get their moms off their backs. Permanently. All they have to do is pretend to date and then stage the worst breakup of all time—and then they’ll be free. It’s the perfect plan - except that it turns out maybe Mia and Jake don’t hate each other as much as they once thought...

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781781313169

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Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

When historian Goodwin was six years old, her father taught her how to keep score for ‘their’ team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, which forged a lifelong bond between father and daughter. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is a coming-of-age memoir in the era of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider, when baseball truly was a national pastime that brought whole communities together. With her radio by her side and scorecard to hand, she recreates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. Weaved between the games and the seasons, Goodwin tells the story of a changing America – from the lunacy of the Cold War alarm drills to McCarthy and the Rosenburg trials – as well as her own loss of innocence encapsulated by her mother’s death, her father’s lapse into despair and the Dodger’s departure from Brooklyn in 1957 following the destruction of the iconic Ebbets Field stadium. Poignant, unsentimental and deeply eloquent, Wait Till Next Year is a profound memoir about childhood and loss, baseball, and the power of sport to bind families and heal loss and reveal as metaphor the evolving heart of a nation.

Author : Darrell Evers
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449059651

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Til Death Do Us Part by Darrell Evers Pdf

Author : Carl Bernstein
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307268488

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A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein Pdf

The nuanced, definitive biography of one of the most controversial and widely misunderstood figures of our time: the woman running a historic campaign as the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee—Hillary Rodham Clinton. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with colleagues and friends and with unique access to campaign records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Carl Bernstein has given us a book that enables us, at last, to address the questions Americans are insistently—even obsessively—asking: Who is she? What is her character? What is her political philosophy? And, what can we expect from Hillary if we elect her President of the United States?

Author : Matthew Ryan
Publisher : Matthew Ryan
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Til Time: The Frankish Fille by Matthew Ryan Pdf

After discovering their ability to time travel and narrowly escaping the Siege of Kerak, best friends Ashton Sinclair and Imogen Blaine decide to embark on a new adventure in the past. They appear in ninth century France, amidst the tumultuous twilight of the Carolingian Empire. Without a real plan as to what to do on their historical vacation, they meet a young Frankish princess with a bloody mission, and find themselves spiralling deeper into a plot of rebellions, espionage, and mystery. The empire, and the future of Europe itself, hangs in the balance. The stakes are higher than they know. But does the road they walk carry too high a toll?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : PRNC:32101067946523

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The Bankers' Magazine, and Statistical Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117199575

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Bankers' Magazine and State Financial Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : CHI:74885811

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Bankers Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Cotton
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817350437

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Yours Till Death by John Cotton Pdf

"These letters from a yeoman farmer in the Confederate Army to his wife in Coosa County, Alabama, will be of interest to historians not only for the light shed upon the life of the Confederate soldier, but also for frequent allusions to rural life and the operation of the farm in Cotton's absence. He enlisted at Pinckneyville, Alabama, on April 1, 1862, and was paroled at Talladega on May 25, 1865. During the intervening years he saw action in Tennessee and Kentucky, in the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, briefly again in Tennessee, then in Georgia against the forces of Sherman, moving finally into South Carolina.... These letters constitute an authentic record of a typical Confederate soldier's experience," ---Journal of Southern History