Author: Jodie McCallumPublisher:
ISBN: 9780874036305
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Tommy's Afraid to Try
Author: Jodie McCallumPublisher:
ISBN: 9780874036305
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Don't be Afraid, Tommy
Author: Klaus BaumgartPublisher:
ISBN: 9781888444322
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Tommy, who is afraid of absolutely everything, deals with his fears by teaching his new puppy how to face all the things he himself is afraid of.
The Third Parent
Author: Elias WitherowPublisher:
ISBN: 9781945796708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
No one knows where he came from. No one knows what he wants. No one dares ask about his strange physical abnormalities. For a quiet suburban neighborhood, things are about to change. And it starts with a knock at the door. Follow his rules. Don't call the police. Listen to his lessons. That's what Jack and his family were told. Held captive in their own house, they must face a growing storm of mental and physical trauma as they try to just stay alive. But even if Jack can survive the horror of his childhood, will his tormentor ever leave him alone? And who is he really? Who is Tommy Taffy?
The Elephant in the Room
Author: Tommy TomlinsonPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501111620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).
The Candy Country
Author: Louisa May AlcottPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734071372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Candy Country by Louisa May Alcott
Harper's Young People
Author: Lulu's Library, Volume I
Author: Louisa May AlcottPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528788443
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
First published in 1886, this book contains volume I of “Lulu's Library”, a collection of over thirty fantastic stories for children written by Louisa May Alcott's. This wonderful collection is perfect for children and would make for ideal bedtime reading material. The stories include: “A Christmas Dream”, “The Candy Country”, “Naughty Jocko”, “The Skipping Shoes”, “Cockyloo”, “Rosy's Journey”, “How They Ran Away”, “The Fairy Box”, “A Hole In The Wall”, “The Piggy Girl”, “The Three Frogs”, and “Baa! Baa!”. Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet most famous for writing the novel “Little Women”, as well as its sequels “Little Men” and “Jo's Boys”. She grew up in New England and became associated with numerous notable intellectuals of her time, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Henry David Thoreau. Other notable works by this author include: "An Old-Fashioned Girl" (1886), "Eight Cousins" (1869), and "A Long Fatal Love Chase" (1875). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
Sentimental Tommy
Author: J. M. BarriePublisher: Publio Kiadó Kft.
ISBN: 9633818133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair, and he was in sexless garments, which were all he had, and he was five, and so though we are looking at him, we must do it sideways, lest he sit down hurriedly to hide them. That inscrutable face, which made the clubmen of his later days uneasy and even puzzled the ladies while he was making love to them, was already his, except when he smiled at one of his pretty thoughts or stopped at an open door to sniff a potful. On his way up and down the stair he often paused to sniff, but he never asked for anything; his mother had warned him against it, and he carried out her injunction with almost unnecessary spirit, declining offers before they were made, as when passing a room, whence came the smell of fried fish, he might call in, "I don't not want none of your fish," or "My mother says I don't not want the littlest bit," or wistfully, "I ain't hungry," or more wistfully still, "My mother says I ain't hungry." His mother heard of this and was angry, crying that he had let the neighbors know something she was anxious to conceal, but what he had revealed to them Tommy could not make out, and when he questioned her artlessly, she took him with sudden passion to her flat breast, and often after that she looked at him long and woefully and wrung her hands.
Tommy's Monster
Author: Gloria SmithPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477172211
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Background on Tommy Tommy had just had his eighth birthday party. Hardly any of his friends had come. For several weeks, Tommy had been acting strange and some of his friends were not playing with him anymore. He was quiet and didnt talk much He always. Seemed &.that something on his mind usually he dust sat under the big tree on the playground and stared off into space. The Monsters In the neither world of darkness, a monster waited. He waited for night. He had found a child who was afraid of the dark. The monster fed upon fear. The child always kept a light on in his room o the monster couldnt get to him. The only way to reach him was through his dreams. So the monster would wait until the child was asleep. Then he would enter his dreams and make him afraid. The monster would feed on that feat and grow stronger. When he had grown strong enough, he could enter the light and take the childs life force. Then the monster could survive on that life force until he found another child who was afraid. The only way the monster could he stopped was if the child over came his fear. Then the monster would die. Only then would the children of this world be safe. So the monster waited.
Sentimental Tommy
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description