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Author: Adam Johnson Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0812997484 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Ashley N. Grisham Publisher: Ambassador-Emerald International ISBN: 9781620205105 Category : Dental care Languages : en Pages : 0
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Everyone Smiles is a child's educational step-by-step guide on how to keep one's smile clean and healthy. The steps empower all children with an independent sense of pride and responsibility that they too have the ability to keep their smile strong. Advocating that the power of the smile touches each and every culture around the globe, in addition to the easy to learn dental health lesson for kids, this book includes pediatric diversity in the form of age, race, gender and both mental and physical disabilities.
Author: Adam Johnson Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0812997484 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
Book Description
The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Author: David Ezra Stein Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 1536227943 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 43
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Just try not to smile! A positively inspiring picture book from the creator of the Caldecott Honor–winning Interrupting Chicken. Because Amelia smiles as she skips down the street, her neighbor Mrs. Higgins smiles too, and decides to send a care package of cookies to her grandson Lionel in Mexico. The cookies give Lionel an idea, and his idea inspires a student, who in turn inspires a ballet troupe in England! And so the good feelings that started with Amelia’s smile make their way around the world, from a goodwill recital in Israel, to an impromptu rumba concert in Paris, to a long-awaited marriage proposal in Italy, to a knitted scarf for a beloved niece back in New York. Putting a unique spin on "what goes around comes around," David Ezra Stein’s charmingly illustrated story reminds us that adding even a small dose of kindness into the world is sure to spur more and more kindness, which could eventually make its way back to you!
Author: Santhosh Kumar Dubey Publisher: Age@18 book by Santhosh Dubey ISBN: 1947697935 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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A series of short stories with an aim to entertain the readers, this book is an amalgam of real-life incidents laced with the author’s fragments of imagination. The most appealing love story for youngsters, titled Age@18, seeks to give out a message to lovelorn souls that ‘fret not that your love failed, but rise to be better than the best in this world.’ Witty takes on superstitions in the country, tales of teenage and childhood and more are waiting to absorb you into their magical world.
Author: Robin Dunbar Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 1408711729 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 416
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'Fascinating...In essence, the number and quality of our friendships may have a bigger influence on our happiness, health and mortality risk than anything else in life save for giving up smoking' Guardian, Book of the Day Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature over the last decade or so has been that the number and quality of the friendships we have has a bigger influence on our happiness, health and even mortality risk than anything else except giving up smoking. Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who famously discovered Dunbar's number: how our capacity for friendship is limited to around 150 people. In Friends, he looks at friendship in the round, at the way different types of friendship and family relationships intersect, or at the complex of psychological and behavioural mechanisms that underpin friendships and make them possible - and just how complicated the business of making and keeping friends actually is. Mixing insights from scientific research with first person experiences and culture, Friends explores and integrates knowledge from disciplines ranging from psychology and anthropology to neuroscience and genetics in a single magical weave that allows us to peer into the incredible complexity of the social world in which we are all so deeply embedded. Working at the coalface of the subject at both research and personal levels, Robin Dunbar has written the definitive book on how and why we are friends.
Author: Kemmie Michaels Publisher: Bruce Street Publications, LLC ISBN: 1940463157 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
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Luke has almost nothing…no job, no apartment, no stability. His life consists of off-the-books jobs and crashing on the couches of buddies who’ll take him in spite of his screaming PTSD nightmares. He wouldn’t even care about his lack of stability except for one reason: when he comes home from his tour in Afghanistan, Luke is surprised to find he has a two-year-old daughter. He instantly wants to take care of his little girl and protect her from her party-hungry mother. He just has no idea how. Through luck and circumstance, Luke begins fight-training with Marcus Walker, Atlanta’s top MMA fighter. With a proper outlet for his rage and physical tension, Luke pulls his life together one small piece at a time. It’s not until he meets Jennalyn Roche, however, that he understands love, peace, and hope. With the influence of good friends and the woman he calls his angel, even scars as deep as his may heal.
Author: Priti Singhal Publisher: ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 115
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Strengthen your English skills with Class 2 English CBSE Board - Helpful for All Olympiads (MCQ with Solutions)! This comprehensive guide is tailored for Class 2 students following the CBSE curriculum, featuring multiple-choice questions (MCQs) with detailed solutions to aid understanding. Covering essential topics such as grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and sentence formation, this book is ideal for enhancing foundational skills while preparing for various English Olympiads. Each chapter includes engaging exercises and explanations, ensuring students can build confidence and succeed in both school exams and competitive Olympiads.
Author: Jody Slyman Publisher: Virtualbookworm Publishing ISBN: 9781589396586 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
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The Kingdom of Glenfin has enjoyed a long peace under the rule of King Romlay. However, when the King is poisoned, the future of the kingdom and the life of the King rests in the hands of the Princess, Alexandra Romlay. Always wishing for an adventure of her own, the Princess must now find a magical root that only grows on a place called the Island of the Dead. The Princess brings together a diverse group, including knights and archers from the kingdom with the help of a thief, wizard, an elf, two rangers and an undead, to help her in her quest to save her father's life. The unique group must cross the dark forest, the Swamp of Despair, the desert, the mountains, the snow lands and the Great Sea to reach the Island of the Dead. As the group crosses the vast lands, the danger and tension grows with each passing day. Can the group hold itself together long enough to complete the quest and save the King or will they fall victim to the merciless lands?
Author: Gregory Haydel Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1645443426 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 239
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No Phones in Heaven is about two different families. The first family is from south Louisiana. This family of four is very loving and caring for each other, and it shows in every way. Janet is a beautiful six-year-old girl that is looking forward to her seventh birthday. A tragic accident puts Janet in the hospital, and a miracle needs to happen to save her life. The doctors are confident that Janet will live a long life if she can survive the next forty-eight hours. Janet's family and friends are praying for her to recover as soon as possible. Janet struggles to hold on to her life, and that's when she dreams of heaven, and what happens next is a miracle that is believable for the faithful who trusts in God. This story will keep hope alive. The other family is from southeast Texas, and being a large family with many characters, it will give a story of vivid pictures through the pages. The main character's name is Trent, and he is looking forward to retiring in a few weeks. Trent's children are very proud of their dad. They are concerned of their dad's well-being because their mother, his wife, died of breast cancer two years ago. The children give a ticket for a seven-day cruise as Trent's birthday present in the hopes that Trent will find a good woman to share his retirement years. This book will make you laugh, cry, and wish for a miracle.
Author: Adam Johnson
Author: Ashley N. Grisham
Author: Adam Johnson
Author: David Ezra Stein
Author: Santhosh Kumar Dubey
Author: Robin Dunbar
Author: Kemmie Michaels
Author: Priti Singhal
Author: Jody Slyman
Author: Gregory Haydel
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