Author: Nick Earls
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618452958
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend Naomi, whose active love life is audible through the wall between their bedrooms.
48 Shades of Brown
Author: Nick Earls
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618452958
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend Naomi, whose active love life is audible through the wall between their bedrooms.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618452958
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend Naomi, whose active love life is audible through the wall between their bedrooms.
Shades of Light
Author: Sharon Garlough Brown
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830865268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Wren Crawford is a social worker whose struggles with anxiety and depression are starting to overcome her. She finds solace in art and spiritual formation along with traditional therapeutic interventions, but a relationship from her past threatens to undo her progress. As Wren seeks healing in this beautifully written novel, readers are invited to move beyond pat answers into an experience of hope that illuminates the darkness.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830865268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Wren Crawford is a social worker whose struggles with anxiety and depression are starting to overcome her. She finds solace in art and spiritual formation along with traditional therapeutic interventions, but a relationship from her past threatens to undo her progress. As Wren seeks healing in this beautifully written novel, readers are invited to move beyond pat answers into an experience of hope that illuminates the darkness.
I Am Brown
Author: Ashok Banker
Publisher:
ISBN: 1911373943
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
I am brown. I am beautiful. I am perfect. I designed this computer. I ran this race. I won this prize. I wrote this book. A joyful celebration of the skin you're in - of being brown, of being amazing, of being you.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1911373943
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
I am brown. I am beautiful. I am perfect. I designed this computer. I ran this race. I won this prize. I wrote this book. A joyful celebration of the skin you're in - of being brown, of being amazing, of being you.
Beautiful Shades of Brown
Author: Nancy Churnin
Publisher: Creston Books
ISBN: 1954354150
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. As a young woman studying art in Paris, she found inspiration in the works of Matisse and Gaugin to paint the people she knew best. Back in Philadelphia, the Harmon Foundation commissioned her to paint portraits of accomplished African-Americans. Her portraits still hang in Washington DC's National Portrait Gallery, where children of all races can admire the beautiful shades of brown she captured.
Publisher: Creston Books
ISBN: 1954354150
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. As a young woman studying art in Paris, she found inspiration in the works of Matisse and Gaugin to paint the people she knew best. Back in Philadelphia, the Harmon Foundation commissioned her to paint portraits of accomplished African-Americans. Her portraits still hang in Washington DC's National Portrait Gallery, where children of all races can admire the beautiful shades of brown she captured.
Shades of Black
Author: Sandra L. Pinkney
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9780439802512
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African American children. On board pages.
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9780439802512
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African American children. On board pages.
The True Story of Butterfish
Author: Nick Earls
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459624351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
'I'm not about to attack, ' she said. She smirked with one side of her mouth and looked up at me through the black spray of her fringe. Her eyes were dark and already she was playing some kind of game with me, or that's how it seemed. Her voice was a little deeper and huskier than I might have expected, so her last line had come out with a hint o..
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459624351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
'I'm not about to attack, ' she said. She smirked with one side of her mouth and looked up at me through the black spray of her fringe. Her eyes were dark and already she was playing some kind of game with me, or that's how it seemed. Her voice was a little deeper and huskier than I might have expected, so her last line had come out with a hint o..
After Summer
Author: Nick Earls
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618457816
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
From the author of "48 Shades of Brown" comes this funny and touching novel about a 17-year-old boy's last summer before he enters the "real world."
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618457816
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
From the author of "48 Shades of Brown" comes this funny and touching novel about a 17-year-old boy's last summer before he enters the "real world."
Sensible Shoes
Author: Sharon Garlough Brown
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830843051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they reluctantly arrive at a retreat center and find themselves drawn out of their separate stories of isolation and struggle and into a collective journey of spiritual practice, mutual support and personal revelation.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830843051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they reluctantly arrive at a retreat center and find themselves drawn out of their separate stories of isolation and struggle and into a collective journey of spiritual practice, mutual support and personal revelation.
Green
Author: Nick Earls
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743433107
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
From the disgraceful Crème de Menthe incident in their early med school days in 1981, to their time as Brisbane's maestros of fried chicken, all the way to a disastrous attempt at the 2012 New York marathon, Phil Harris and Frank Green have been an unlikely but enduring duo. For the first time, Green puts all the short stories together with the novel World of Chickens, plus a brand new piece to bring this uneasy friendship all the way to the present.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743433107
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
From the disgraceful Crème de Menthe incident in their early med school days in 1981, to their time as Brisbane's maestros of fried chicken, all the way to a disastrous attempt at the 2012 New York marathon, Phil Harris and Frank Green have been an unlikely but enduring duo. For the first time, Green puts all the short stories together with the novel World of Chickens, plus a brand new piece to bring this uneasy friendship all the way to the present.
Bachelor Kisses
Author: Nick Earls
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 0143009826
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Jon, Rick and Jen are in their mid-twenties and share a house in Brisbane. Together they share food rituals, sporadic cocktail nights and the quest for love. Rick seems destined to long, lonely nights beneath his Porky Pig doona. Jen consumes men like chocolate bars. And Jon gets lucky in a way he's never expected - more women than he knows how to handle. A young doctor with grand plans for the hormone of darkness, he finds his life is spiralling way out of control. Bachelor Kisses is the mess Jon Marshall makes of his life when it stops making sense. It's the story of one man's hilarious search for meaning: a chaotic comedy of misjudgements, misinformation and misguided intimacy.
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 0143009826
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Jon, Rick and Jen are in their mid-twenties and share a house in Brisbane. Together they share food rituals, sporadic cocktail nights and the quest for love. Rick seems destined to long, lonely nights beneath his Porky Pig doona. Jen consumes men like chocolate bars. And Jon gets lucky in a way he's never expected - more women than he knows how to handle. A young doctor with grand plans for the hormone of darkness, he finds his life is spiralling way out of control. Bachelor Kisses is the mess Jon Marshall makes of his life when it stops making sense. It's the story of one man's hilarious search for meaning: a chaotic comedy of misjudgements, misinformation and misguided intimacy.