Author: LL Eadie Publisher: Dolly Dimple Ink ISBN: 1734737158 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Brice Hamilton has been subjected to her mother’s new way of life ever since her parents’ divorce two years earlier - a move to a lower tax bracket in Chicago, an undesirable school, and her mother’s newest boyfriend: Phil. Jennifer rebels. Her mother’s answer to the “handful-slash-Jennifer” is to pack her up and send her to her grandma’s, whom Jennifer has not seen in almost three years. Her mother’s lusty plan is for Jennifer to reside there 'til Christmas. Jennifer captures her life in Flamingo Junction, Florida, with her grandmother in an ongoing diary of sorts - a sketchbook that she has titled Jenniferology - The Study of Jennifer. Jennifer’s grandmother, Mama Rudeen, lives in a retirement community called Camelot in North Florida. Mama Rudeen is not what Jennifer expected, nor are her grandmother’s friends - the gals: Miss Maggie Pearl, Miss Addie, and Miss Gaynell...and the guy - Sir Stuckie. Jennifer envisioned octogenarians sitting around waiting to take their last breath. She discovers that retirees have a zest for life. And, more importantly, they define to Jennifer what unconditional love truly means. Maybe it takes a retirement village to raise a child.
Author: Tom McCarthy Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1101874686 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize From the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, comes Satin Island, an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world—modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in. U., a “corporate anthropologist,” is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape. In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy captures—as only he can—the way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and discern the narratives we think of as our lives.
Author: Jonathan Locke Hart Publisher: Athabasca University Press ISBN: 1897425902 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 145
Book Description
Musing is a book of sonnets, combining one of poetry's most classic forms with history and landscape. Ranging from the traditional to the innovative, Jonathan Locke Hart captures a piece of European poetic flavour and mingles the experience with North American artistic flair.
Author: James Barrett Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1468572180 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 116
Book Description
The book is a collection of thoughts and poems about life and living. I have included some observations on how to live a loving, caring life. There is a short story about my generation. It is my hope that the reader will find this book as a thought inspirer and maybe a way of life changer.
Author: Dipankar Purkayastha & Dipendu Das Publisher: ISBN: 9788125035305 Category : English poetry Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
Brookside Musings is a carefully edited compilation of poems and short stories in English by British, American and Indian writers. The poems and short stories vary in content, style and purpose and thereby introduce students to a wide range of writing in English. Extracts from longer works have been avoided as a matter of principle and the poems and stories selected, though representative of the writers and their periods, have been kept short in order that they have a wholeness of appeal. Efforts have been made to make reading as pleasurable an experience as possible while opening up to the students the major developments in literature written in English. Meanings and explanations have been provided to guide students through the texts as well as introductions to the authors and the poems or short stories and comprehension sections.
Author: Jacquelyn A. Ottman Publisher: ISBN: 9781987620559 Category : Languages : en Pages : 58
Book Description
'If Trash Could Talk' represents Jacquie Ottman's personal experiences and insights woven into thought-provoking poetry, stories and musings. Designed to amuse, entertain, and inspire conversations and change, the sixty entries in the book were created over the course of Ottman's lifelong journey, beginning at age four when she rescued board games from the neighbor's trash. Reflecting conversations with conversed with fellow waste-haters, consumers, and visitors to Ottman's WeHateToWaste.com global platform, combined with a laser-like focus on New York City's trash culture, the book is packed with insights into why we waste and what we can do to avoid it. Readers will discover new ways to use things up, use stuff longer, pass stuff along, and pass things up altogether in the name of reducing waste. They will smile at their own 'trashy' eccentricities, reflected in Ottman's experiences, shared with humor and self-deprecation. They will see waste through a new set of eyes and be inspired to share with others what it is that they do to cut down on waste. Influencers and teachers looking to catalyze meaningful conversations in their own schools, churches and communities can use these poems, stories and musings as a springboard for discussion, as well as inspiration when creating their own. As Ottman hopes, 'by starting to talk about what we all can do to save a little this, spare a little that, readers will take the first meaningful steps towards making real changes in consumption culture that can eventually help everyone live a whole lot better.' What Readers Say about "If Trash Can Talk" "Jacquie makes poetry fun. It was great hearing the stories of a like-minded person, and I learned so many things too!" "I'm energized and full of new ideas to create community and cut down on waste through sharing." "In these times when backward-looking people now hold power, to make policy around what Jacquelyn has to say takes on great importance. Shes tells us that we can do something. That we can make a difference. That we can be the powers that be. Few understandings are more important."
Author: Matthew Dawson Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 91
Book Description
Dreams really can come true. Fredrik and Gabrielle Renshaw are a testament to that statement. They loved each other from the first moment their eyes met and now fifty years later, they are still completely, utterly and madly in love, as they cruise the world hand in hand, lovers forever.
Author: Suzanne Alexy Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 9781647838560 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 140
Book Description
'Musings of My Mind' is a beautiful book on poetry, by 16 year old writer, Suzanne Alexy, who has weaved her thoughts, emotions and experiences as a compilation of poems and songs, penned between the age of 8 and 16. This is a 'coming of age' poetry book, a labour of love that transcends childhood to teens. While the poems have a classic touch of rhyme and rhythm, the spectrum she covers, resonates with a contemporary context. Some will tickle your funny bone, some will tug your heart, some will have you shed a tear and some will put you in deep thought. So grab your copy today, flip the pages and savour a melange of emotions in her poetic musings.
Author: Angie Wallace Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781523348336 Category : Languages : en Pages : 40
Book Description
I have been writing short stories and poetry since I was a child. This book is a collection of just a few. Some I wrote many years ago and some I wrote just weeks before publishing. Angry Black-Woman Poems and Musings speaks from my heart and is my truth.
Author: LL Eadie
Author: Tom McCarthy
Author: Jonathan Locke Hart
Author: James Barrett
Author: Dipankar Purkayastha & Dipendu Das
Author: Chelsey Minnis
Author: Jacquelyn A. Ottman
Author: Matthew Dawson
Author: Suzanne Alexy
Author: Angie Wallace