One Puzzling Afternoon
Title | One Puzzling Afternoon PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Critchley |
Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2023-10-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1728287170 |
One of People Magazine's "must-read" books! "A clever, keep-'em-guessing murder mystery, an empathetic yet realistic portrayal of the toll dementia takes, and a meditation on how the brain can bury the most tragic memories...An outstanding must-read." —Booklist, STARRED review I kept your secret Lucy. I've kept it for more than sixty years... It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living with her eccentric mother and her mother's new boyfriend, she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life. So when the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. Even though Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep. Then Lucy goes missing. Now in 2018, Edie is eighty-four and still living in the same small town, when one afternoon she glimpses Lucy Theddle, still looking the same as she did at fifteen. Her family write it off as one of her many mix ups, there's a lot Edie gets confused about these days. But Edie knows she's the key to finding Lucy. Time is running out and Edie must piece together the clues before Lucy is forgotten forever.
Notes on My Family
Title | Notes on My Family PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Critchley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2018-04-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781911427070 |
Downtown Owl
Title | Downtown Owl PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2008-09-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1416580654 |
Now a major film! New York Times bestselling author and “one of America’s top cultural critics” (Entertainment Weekly) Chuck Klosterman’s debut novel brilliantly captures the charm and dread of small-town life. Somewhere in rural North Dakota, there is a fictional town called Owl. They don’t have cable. They don’t really have pop culture, but they do have grain prices and alcoholism. People work hard and then they die. But that’s not nearly as awful as it sounds; in fact, sometimes it’s perfect. Mitch Hrlicka lives in Owl. He plays high school football and worries about his weirdness, or lack thereof. Julia Rabia just moved to Owl. A history teacher, she gets free booze and falls in love with a self-loathing bison farmer. Widower and local conversationalist Horace Jones has resided in Owl for seventy-three years. They all know each other completely, except that they’ve never met. But when a deadly blizzard—based on an actual storm that occurred in 1984—hits the area, their lives are derailed in unexpected and powerful ways. An unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where local mythology and violent reality are pretty much the same thing, Downtown Owl is “a satisfying character study and strikes a perfect balance between the funny and the profound” (Publishers Weekly).
Everybody Has A Story
Title | Everybody Has A Story PDF eBook |
Author | Lori La Forgia |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 59 |
Release | 2010-10-21 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1453579516 |
Teachers will enjoy these stories, because Ms. La Forgia has captured the day-to-day sense of what goes on with 8 to 11 year old children in every teacher‛s classroom. Parents will enjoy reading these stories with their children, because they will provide an opportunity to talk about the kinds of things children confront in their world every day. Some parents may even have an “Ah ha” moment as they gain new perspective about how to support their children as they work through life‛s challenges. Children will enjoy reading these stories, because they provide an understanding of the work of childhood, and offer new ways to handle the riddles of friendship. As importantly, all readers and listeners will have a chance to laugh, chuckle, gulp, and perhaps even shed a tear, because these stories are ones that connect to each of us in some way or another. And from that connection, we all learn something new. Daniel Armstrong, Ph.D. Director, Mailman Center for Child Development University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Lori La Forgia brings to life through her distinctive writing this current story that touches your heart as it broadens your understanding and acceptance of the difficulties children encounter. This is a must read for school age children, their parents and educators. Lori A. Grabois, M.D.
The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers
Title | The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers PDF eBook |
Author | Emily CRITCHLEY |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2019-04-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781911427094 |
Home
Title | Home PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Critchley |
Publisher | Prototype Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN | 9781913513085 |
Home, the latest collection from writer Emily Critchley, is part experimental confession, part elegiac plea. It is an exploration of the damage done by, in and to many different manifestations of 'home', with poetry about child abuse, wrongful imprisonment, #MeToo, borders, Brexit, 'our lost biophilia' and global warming, among other issues. It is also an attempt to work through the pieces of a broken family, a broken society and a broken planet, with whatever limited tools the poet can summon. Whatever shards of hope may be picked out of the wreckage are in the understanding that we must be capable of doing more than we think - as individuals and collectively - to write a different future for ourselves and those with whom we share, indeed create, 'home'. The collection dreams of a new 'binding ground' - something stabler beneath all our feet, and that a turning point, a 'being otherwise' may be under way.
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
Title | Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too PDF eBook |
Author | Jomny Sun |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2017-06-27 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 0062821229 |
The illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, where he meets all sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and happiness, while learning to feel a little better about himself—based on the enormously popular Twitter account. Here is the unforgettable story of Jomny, an alien sent to study Earth. Always feeling apart, even among his species, Jomny feels at home for the first time among the earthlings he meets. There is a bear tired of other creatures running in fear, an egg struggling to decide what to hatch into, a turtle hiding itself by learning camouflage, a puppy struggling to express its true feelings, and many more. The characters are unique and inventive—bees think long and hard about what love means, birds try to eat the sun, nothingness questions its own existence, a ghost comes to terms with dying, and an introverted hedgehog slowly lets Jomny see its artistic insecurities. At the same time, Jomny’s curious presence allows these characters to open up to him in ways they were never able to before, revealing the power of somebody who is just there to listen. Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too is also the story behind the widely-shared and typo-filled @jonnysun twitter account. Since the beginning, Sun intentionally tweeted from an outsider’s perspective, creating a truly distinct voice. Now, that outsider has taken shape in the character of Jomny, who observes Earth with the same intelligent, empathetic, and charmingly naïve voice that won over his fans on social media. New fans will find it organic, and old fans will delight at seeing the clever words that made them fans in the first place. Through this story of a lost, lonely and confused Alien finding friendship, acceptance, and love among the animals and plants of Earth, we will all learn how to be a little more human. And for all the earth-bound creatures here on this planet, we will all learn how sometimes, it takes an outsider to help us see ourselves for who we truly are.