Since the age of eight, Kalen Brown has been mentally and physically abused by his alcoholic father, Michael Brown. Now at eighteen years old and in search of a way out of this ten year nightmare, Kalen is given an opportunity to make some fast cash as a pick up man for a major gun runner named, Big Boss. Kalen's summer after graduating high school is filled with many mixed emotions, which leaves him to question his own self worth and also who is really on his side. His best friends, Jesse and Sharee have been doing their best to protect him from his father through the years, but the strained father/son relationship has reached its boiling point. Kalen must face the man who he calls the living devil. One way or another, with all of the conflict that has risen in his life, Kalen's journey with Michael and Big Boss will come to an end during this summer.

A teenager; arrogant, ignorant, busy with himself, yet focused; like almost all teenager in town finds being a parent is no big deal, mothers are meant to care and that's their given job. Slowly Life unfolds the secrets of itself... He was to soon find out the ordeal of life, most importantly, the ordeal of being a mother in a word spread equality following India. Would he be able to endure the unaware facts around him? Brimming with suspense, laughter, and emotions, The One Who Stood By My Side is an iconic book by Vedant Bhrambhatt. This book can make you laugh, will certainly make you cry. And above all, this will make you think, on issues that really matter. It's on a topic that matters more than any topic you can think of. As stated by a great philosopher love and respect are sub-set of the economy. It simply means that if we are receiving love and respect from someone it's our duty to deliver back the same. But in this modernising and westernising India of kalyuga, this philosophical concept is just limited to its inference and argument. This concept in kalyuga holds no place between the world's purest and selfless relationship of a mother & a child. This book is trying to draw the reader's attention on a topic that holds the highest priority in the list of human conduct with respect to humanity. As here, the concern is about the relationship that develops with the onset of one's very first breath.

"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book

Jarold, aka, Jazz, is a typical sixteen year old boy. He lives at home with his two remarkably un-divorced parents, his holier-than-thou sister, and his overbearing grandmother. It's a life straight out of a TV show. Or so it seem The truth is that Jazz's life is anything but picture perfect. He's seeing a shrink because his mom and dad found out he's gay; his schoolmates torment him every day; and he keeps bumping into his high school teacher at a local gay bar. To make matters worse, his best friend, Al, keeps pulling him into trouble. Jazz knows he has to keep everything together, at least through finals, so he can get away from this life once and for all. But, in his haste to leave everything behind, he comes to find out that the only thing he can't escape is himself. Witty, sardonic, and incredibly funny, My Side of the Story is the perfectly rendered portrait of a precocious, troubled teenager faced with the awkward process of growing up and coming out.

"A rhyming story written to help children understand that a dad's love is forever. Even if they grow up without his presence in their lives"--

Relates how a golden retriever named Dakota became an invaluable companion for Mike Lingenfelter during his recovery from two serious heart attacks and open heart surgery.

In 1959, Jean Craighead George published My Side of the Mountain. This coming-of-age story about a boy and his falcon went on to win a Newbery Honor, and for the past forty years has enthralled and entertained generations of would-be Sam Gribleys. The two books that followed--On the Far Side of the Mountain and Frightful's Mountain--were equally extraordinary. Now all three books are available in one deluxe yet affordable volume for veteran devotees and brand-new fans alike.