Author: Desmond Shepherd
Publisher: Benjamin C Young
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Sometimes imagination is more than fun. Sometimes it's a protection. For young Samantha Pruitt, her imagination takes her on great adventures that mask the reality of the life she lives with an abusive stepmother. Samantha wishes she could find a new home; a new family that will love and care for her. When she learns of a group called the SoSo Servers that might be able to help, she sets out on a quest to find them. But doing so means Samantha must find a courage deep within herself and overcome the blurred lines of reality and imagination. Can she succeed? This emotional, heartbreaking, and inspirational tale will show you how imagination can help overcome the most insurmountable obstacles.
Imaginary Me
Author: Desmond Shepherd
Publisher: Benjamin C Young
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Sometimes imagination is more than fun. Sometimes it's a protection. For young Samantha Pruitt, her imagination takes her on great adventures that mask the reality of the life she lives with an abusive stepmother. Samantha wishes she could find a new home; a new family that will love and care for her. When she learns of a group called the SoSo Servers that might be able to help, she sets out on a quest to find them. But doing so means Samantha must find a courage deep within herself and overcome the blurred lines of reality and imagination. Can she succeed? This emotional, heartbreaking, and inspirational tale will show you how imagination can help overcome the most insurmountable obstacles.
Publisher: Benjamin C Young
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Sometimes imagination is more than fun. Sometimes it's a protection. For young Samantha Pruitt, her imagination takes her on great adventures that mask the reality of the life she lives with an abusive stepmother. Samantha wishes she could find a new home; a new family that will love and care for her. When she learns of a group called the SoSo Servers that might be able to help, she sets out on a quest to find them. But doing so means Samantha must find a courage deep within herself and overcome the blurred lines of reality and imagination. Can she succeed? This emotional, heartbreaking, and inspirational tale will show you how imagination can help overcome the most insurmountable obstacles.
Imaginary Me
Author: Desmond Shepherd
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781482698657
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Who am I?" I ask Sammy Pruitt that question all the time. She's a four-year-old girl who imagines me. I'm whoever she wants and whatever she needs. I'm her imaginary friend. She definitely needs me, because there's an evil queen who hates her. She treats Sammy in a way no parent ever should. And Sammy's trapped living with her. But Sammy and I have a plan. A way to forever rid life of the evil queen and be happy. It'll take hard work, imagination, and courage to reach our goal. That's why Sammy imagines me. Because I'm her protection and the means to her escape. Desmond Shepherd writes his most emotional and gripping story yet. Filled with smiles, tears, and triumph, take a journey unlike any other and one you'll never forget in Imaginary Me.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781482698657
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Who am I?" I ask Sammy Pruitt that question all the time. She's a four-year-old girl who imagines me. I'm whoever she wants and whatever she needs. I'm her imaginary friend. She definitely needs me, because there's an evil queen who hates her. She treats Sammy in a way no parent ever should. And Sammy's trapped living with her. But Sammy and I have a plan. A way to forever rid life of the evil queen and be happy. It'll take hard work, imagination, and courage to reach our goal. That's why Sammy imagines me. Because I'm her protection and the means to her escape. Desmond Shepherd writes his most emotional and gripping story yet. Filled with smiles, tears, and triumph, take a journey unlike any other and one you'll never forget in Imaginary Me.
The Imaginary
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134445024
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134445024
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Imaginary Friend
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538731347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
From a New York Times bestselling author, a young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this "epic horror" novel, perfect for fans of Stephen King (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will). Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night. At first, the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. Days later, he emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again. Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Read it with the lights on. One of The Year's Best Books (People, EW, Lithub, Vox, Washington Post, and more)
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538731347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
From a New York Times bestselling author, a young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this "epic horror" novel, perfect for fans of Stephen King (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will). Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night. At first, the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. Days later, he emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again. Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Read it with the lights on. One of The Year's Best Books (People, EW, Lithub, Vox, Washington Post, and more)
A Playful Path
Author: Bernard De Koven
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304351823
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304351823
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.
My Imaginary Friend Was Too Cool to Hang Out with Me
Author: Charles Freericks
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781506103181
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
My first friend was a tree. And so begins this highly original volume of comedic essays about a boy who didn't realize that the reason he didn't have an imaginary friend was because he hadn't imagined one. Told through the eyes of a child and then teenager who really needed a handbook on how life works, these stories about life's foibles are sure to roil up everyone's own memories of their childhoods and the awkward days when life was just a big mystery.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781506103181
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
My first friend was a tree. And so begins this highly original volume of comedic essays about a boy who didn't realize that the reason he didn't have an imaginary friend was because he hadn't imagined one. Told through the eyes of a child and then teenager who really needed a handbook on how life works, these stories about life's foibles are sure to roil up everyone's own memories of their childhoods and the awkward days when life was just a big mystery.
Imaginary
Author: Lee Bacon
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683359690
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The story of a boy and his imaginary friend—told by the imaginary friend Zach should’ve outgrown his imaginary friend by now. He knows this. He’s 11, long past the days when kids are supposed to go on epic make-believe adventures with their invisible friends. But after the death of his father five years ago, all Zach wanted was an escape from the real world. So his imaginary friend, Shovel, hasn’t faded away like the other kids’ have. Their imaginary friendship grew stronger. But now Zach’s in middle school, and things are getting awkward. His best friend ditched him for a cooler crowd. His classmates tease him in the hallways. He still misses his dad. Reality is the worst. Which is why Zach makes regular visits to a fantasy world with Shovel. But is Zach’s overactive imagination helping him deal with loss or just pushing people away? Poignant, humorous, and breathtaking, Imaginary is an inventive story of friendship, loss, and growing up . . . as only an imaginary friend could tell it.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683359690
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The story of a boy and his imaginary friend—told by the imaginary friend Zach should’ve outgrown his imaginary friend by now. He knows this. He’s 11, long past the days when kids are supposed to go on epic make-believe adventures with their invisible friends. But after the death of his father five years ago, all Zach wanted was an escape from the real world. So his imaginary friend, Shovel, hasn’t faded away like the other kids’ have. Their imaginary friendship grew stronger. But now Zach’s in middle school, and things are getting awkward. His best friend ditched him for a cooler crowd. His classmates tease him in the hallways. He still misses his dad. Reality is the worst. Which is why Zach makes regular visits to a fantasy world with Shovel. But is Zach’s overactive imagination helping him deal with loss or just pushing people away? Poignant, humorous, and breathtaking, Imaginary is an inventive story of friendship, loss, and growing up . . . as only an imaginary friend could tell it.
Scenarios of the Imaginary
Author: Josue V. Harari
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501743414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
From Proust to Beckett, from Blanchot to Derrida from Freud to Lacan, and from Lévi-Strauss to René Girard, all of our theories of modernity have been predicated upon a nostalgia for the real. In this lively and perceptive diagnosis of the malaise of contemporary theorists, Josué Harari interprets the French Enlightenment in terms of the relationship between theory and the imaginary, and explores the paradox by which theories that purport to describe the real lack any dimension of reality. Through readings of texts by some of the progenitors of influential modem theories, Harari explores the working strategies of the imaginary. In particular, he illuminates the founding moment, an instant of personal crisis for the author, during which a theory is infused by a fictional scenario: Montesquieu's "phantasm" of the body, resulting in his theory of government; Rousseau's narcissistic delirium in Emile, resulting in his theory of education; the theory of psychoanalysis, resulting from Freud's unconscious motives for choosing the Oedipal theory over the seduction theory of neurosis; and the theory of structural anthropology, generated by a psychodrama in Tristes Tropiques which Harari reads as a symptom of Lévi-Strauss's anguish when he is confronted with reality. Two striking chapters on Sade at the center of the book reveal the operation of the theoretical imaginary in libertine discourse. Scenarios of the Imaginary will find a wide audience among students and scholars of French literature, particularly of the eighteenth century, and of contemporary French thought, and among comparativists, literary theorists, anthropologists, and historians.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501743414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
From Proust to Beckett, from Blanchot to Derrida from Freud to Lacan, and from Lévi-Strauss to René Girard, all of our theories of modernity have been predicated upon a nostalgia for the real. In this lively and perceptive diagnosis of the malaise of contemporary theorists, Josué Harari interprets the French Enlightenment in terms of the relationship between theory and the imaginary, and explores the paradox by which theories that purport to describe the real lack any dimension of reality. Through readings of texts by some of the progenitors of influential modem theories, Harari explores the working strategies of the imaginary. In particular, he illuminates the founding moment, an instant of personal crisis for the author, during which a theory is infused by a fictional scenario: Montesquieu's "phantasm" of the body, resulting in his theory of government; Rousseau's narcissistic delirium in Emile, resulting in his theory of education; the theory of psychoanalysis, resulting from Freud's unconscious motives for choosing the Oedipal theory over the seduction theory of neurosis; and the theory of structural anthropology, generated by a psychodrama in Tristes Tropiques which Harari reads as a symptom of Lévi-Strauss's anguish when he is confronted with reality. Two striking chapters on Sade at the center of the book reveal the operation of the theoretical imaginary in libertine discourse. Scenarios of the Imaginary will find a wide audience among students and scholars of French literature, particularly of the eighteenth century, and of contemporary French thought, and among comparativists, literary theorists, anthropologists, and historians.
Elizabeth and Zenobia
Author: Jessica Miller
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 168335186X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Abandoned by her mother and neglected by her scientist father, timid Elizabeth Murmur has only her fearless friend, Zenobia, for company. And Zenobia’s company can be very trying! When Elizabeth’s father takes them to live in his family home, Witheringe House, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost in the creepy old mansion and forces Elizabeth to hold séances and wander the rooms at night. With Zenobia’s constant pushing, Elizabeth investigates the history of the house and learns that it does hold a terrible secret: Her father’s younger sister disappeared from the grounds without a trace years ago. Elizabeth and Zenobia is a wonderfully compelling middle-grade story about friendship, courage, and the power of the imagination.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 168335186X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Abandoned by her mother and neglected by her scientist father, timid Elizabeth Murmur has only her fearless friend, Zenobia, for company. And Zenobia’s company can be very trying! When Elizabeth’s father takes them to live in his family home, Witheringe House, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost in the creepy old mansion and forces Elizabeth to hold séances and wander the rooms at night. With Zenobia’s constant pushing, Elizabeth investigates the history of the house and learns that it does hold a terrible secret: Her father’s younger sister disappeared from the grounds without a trace years ago. Elizabeth and Zenobia is a wonderfully compelling middle-grade story about friendship, courage, and the power of the imagination.
Imaginary Fred (Read Aloud)
Author: Eoin Colfer
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008126178
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An extraordinary collaboration between Irish Children's Laureate, Eoin Colfer, and picture book superstar, Oliver Jeffers! Sometimes, with a little electricity, or luck, or even magic, an imaginary friend might appear when you need one. An imaginary friend like Fred... Fred floated like a feather in the wind until a lonely little boy wished for him and found a friendship like no other. The perfect chemistry between Eoin Colfer's text and Oliver Jeffer's artwork make for a dazzlingly original colour gift book.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008126178
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An extraordinary collaboration between Irish Children's Laureate, Eoin Colfer, and picture book superstar, Oliver Jeffers! Sometimes, with a little electricity, or luck, or even magic, an imaginary friend might appear when you need one. An imaginary friend like Fred... Fred floated like a feather in the wind until a lonely little boy wished for him and found a friendship like no other. The perfect chemistry between Eoin Colfer's text and Oliver Jeffer's artwork make for a dazzlingly original colour gift book.