Fragile Night
Title | Fragile Night PDF eBook |
Author | Stella Pope Duarte |
Publisher | Bilingual Review Press (AZ) |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Fifteen stories on the joys and sorrows of being a Hispanic woman. The stories make the point that unlike the Anglo woman, a Hispanic woman is expected to put up with male infidelity and violence as part of her femininity.
Fragile
Title | Fragile PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Unger |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2010-08-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307592340 |
A thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger about the hunt for a missing girl and one community’s intricate yet fragile bonds. “[A] nail-biting nuanced whodunit.”—People Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. It’s a place where neighbors keep an eye on one another’s kids, where people say hello in the grocery store, and where high school cliques and antics are never quite forgotten. As a child, Maggie found living under the microscope of small-town life stifling. But as a wife and mother, she has happily returned to The Hollows’s insular embrace. As a psychologist, her knowledge of family histories provides powerful insights into her patients’ lives. So when the girlfriend of her teenage son, Rick, disappears, Maggie’s intuitive gift proves useful to the case—and also dangerous. Eerie parallels soon emerge between Charlene’s disappearance and the abduction of another local girl that shook the community years ago when Maggie was a teenager. The investigation has her husband, Jones, the lead detective on the case, acting strangely. Rick, already a brooding teenager, becomes even more withdrawn. In a town where the past is always present, nobody is above suspicion, not even a son in the eyes of his father. As she tries to reassure him that Rick embodies his father in all of the important ways, Maggie realizes this might be exactly what Jones fears most. Determined to uncover the truth, Maggie pursues her own leads into Charlene’s disappearance and exposes a long-buried town secret—one that could destroy everything she holds dear.
The Oxford Handbook of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Sleep and Behavior
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Sleep and Behavior PDF eBook |
Author | Amy R. Wolfson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 653 |
Release | 2013-11 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0199873631 |
A compendium of the state-of-the-art for empirically-based basic and applied science and treatment information about infant, child, and adolescent sleep and behavior for behavioral scientists, educators, policymakers, and clinicians.
Fragile Things
Title | Fragile Things PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Gaiman |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061804169 |
“A prodigiously imaginative collection.” —New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice “Dazzling tales from a master of the fantastic.” —Washington Post Book World Fragile Things is a sterling collection of exceptional tales from Neil Gaiman, multiple award-winning (the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Newberry, and Eisner Awards, to name just a few), #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Graveyard Book, Anansi Boys, Coraline, and the groundbreaking Sandman graphic novel series. A uniquely imaginative creator of wonders whose unique storytelling genius has been acclaimed by a host of literary luminaries from Norman Mailer to Stephen King, Gaiman’s astonishing powers are on glorious displays in Fragile Things. Enter and be amazed!
Hell
Title | Hell PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Olen Butler |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2010-10-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802198937 |
“A novel that explores the darker side of human nature while making you laugh so hard iced tea almost comes out your nose.” —The Tampa Tribune One of American literature’s brightest stars and author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain reimagines the underworld in an uproarious novel. Its main character, Hatcher McCord, is an evening news presenter who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He’s not the only one to suffer this fate—in fact, he’s surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters, including Humphrey Bogart, William Shakespeare, and almost all of the popes and most of the US presidents. The question may be not who is in Hell, but who isn’t. McCord is living with Anne Boleyn in the afterlife but their happiness is, of course, constantly derailed by her obsession with Henry VIII (and the removal of her head at rather inopportune moments). One day McCord meets Dante’s Beatrice, who believes there is a way out of Hell, and the next morning, during an exclusive on-camera interview with Satan, McCord realizes that Satan’s omniscience, which he has always credited for the perfection of Hell’s torments, may be a mirage—and Butler is off on a madcap romp about good, evil, free will, and the possibility of escape. Butler’s depiction of Hell is original, intelligent, and fiercely comic, a book Dante might have celebrated. “I’ll never stop believing it: Robert Olen Butler is the best living American writer, period.” —Jeff Guinn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Fragile Spirits
Title | Fragile Spirits PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Lindsey |
Publisher | Philomel Books |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0399161864 |
"Paul has been training his whole life to be a Protector. Together he and his assigned Speaker will help lingering souls move from our world to the next. But no amount of training has prepared him for Vivienne--a Speaker with hot pink hair, piercings, and a blatant disregard for rules"--
Sleep in Children
Title | Sleep in Children PDF eBook |
Author | Carole Marcus |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 2008-02-19 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1040173098 |
Infants and children spend one- to two-thirds of their life asleep. Despite this, very little attention has been paid to understanding both normal sleep and sleep-related abnormalities during child development. There are profound changes in sleep and circadian rhythm during growth and maturation. Sleep is particularly important in children, due to