The Sweet Relief of Missing Children

The Sweet Relief of Missing Children
Title The Sweet Relief of Missing Children PDF eBook
Author Sarah Braunstein
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 384
Release 2012-02-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0393340759

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Two seemingly separate stories from different points in time interconnect and provide clues to the disappearance of a missing New York City girl.

The Sweet Relief of Missing Children: A Novel

The Sweet Relief of Missing Children: A Novel
Title The Sweet Relief of Missing Children: A Novel PDF eBook
Author Sarah Braunstein
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 366
Release 2011-02-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0393081540

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Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "A magnificent debut filled with characters so vivid, strange, and richly imagined, you emerge feeling changed." —Sarah Shun-lien Bynum In New York City, a girl called Lenora vanishes without a trace. Years earlier and miles upstate, Goldie, a wild, negligent mother, searches for a man to help raise her precocious son, Paul, who later discovers that the only way to save his soul is to run away. The Sweet Relief of Missing Children is a suspenseful novel about the power of running and the desire for reinvention. It explores the terror and transcendence of our most central experiences: childhood, parenthood, sex, love.

Miss Nelson is Missing!

Miss Nelson is Missing!
Title Miss Nelson is Missing! PDF eBook
Author Harry Allard
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 36
Release 1977
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9780395401460

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Suggests activities to be used at home to accompany the reading of Miss Nelson is missing by Harry Allard in the classroom.

How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Title How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children PDF eBook
Author Lewis Burke Frumkes
Publisher iUniverse
Pages 110
Release 2000-07-24
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 0595002366

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Lewis Burke Frumkes, one of America's very best satirists, sharpens his pen on the fads, fears, and fashions of the urban landscape. Here are 49 hilarious ways to cope with them. Explore the benefits of aerobic typing. Wile a friend with "Exotic Gifts from Harry and Larry" including "Road Imperial Valium—America's Favorite Tranquilizer—Only Better." Take charge of your next meeting with Frumkes's "New Rules of Order," which include Blurting, Interrupting, and Bullwhipping. Jump in the saddle and rope a roach—apartment style. And, of course, raise your I.Q. with a delicious "Gifted Child Fricassee."

The Snow Child

The Snow Child
Title The Snow Child PDF eBook
Author Eowyn Ivey
Publisher Reagan Arthur Books
Pages 282
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0316192953

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In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

What Burns Away

What Burns Away
Title What Burns Away PDF eBook
Author Melissa Falcon Field
Publisher Sourcebooks, Inc.
Pages 282
Release 2015-01-27
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1492604577

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"A debut novel with a bighearted sensuality and a bull's-eye precision on a par with our best working writers today. A must-read." —Jan Elizabeth Watson, author of What Has Become of You and Asta in the Wings Good wife, good mother. That's all Claire Spruce is trying to be, but the never-ending snow in this new town and her workaholic husband are making her crazy. Even the sweet face of her toddler son can't pull her out of the dark places in her head. Feeling overwhelmed and alone, she reconnects with her long-lost high school boyfriend, Dean, who offers an intoxicating, reckless escape. But Dean's reappearance is not a coincidence. He wants something from Claire—and she soon finds that the cost of repaying an old favor may lead to the destruction of her entire life. What Burns Away is a story of loyalty, family, and the consequences of the past's inevitable collision with our future. "This novel is captivating...it moves fast, doesn't let you catch your breath, and leaves you shaken." —Sarah Braunstein, author of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children "A new mom's fiery first love is back, and he challenges all she's built for herself, revealing the fragility of suburban dreams." —Bill Roorbach, author of The Remedy for Love and Life Among Giants

Missing Jack

Missing Jack
Title Missing Jack PDF eBook
Author Rebecca Elliott
Publisher Lion Children's
Pages 0
Release 2015-01-07
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780745965789

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"A beautifully illustrated story about elderly cats, young cats, and helping children overcome the death of a pet, from the author of "Just Because," "Sometimes," and" Zoo Girl"Toby's cat, Jack, is the best cat ever. But Jack is getting old, and Toby will miss his furry best friend terribly when he's gone. Then Toby meets a crazy cat called Humphrey."--Provided by publisher.