How We Heal

How We Heal

Author: Adam Schmitt

Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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After Alex scrapes her knee, her big sister Charlie reassures Alex and tells her all the ways her skin works hard to heal itself.


Ollie, The Boy Who Became What He Ate

Ollie, The Boy Who Became What He Ate

Author: Sheena MacRae

Publisher:

Published: 2019-02

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781913187019

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Get your Food Superpowers!! Join Ollie as he wakes up to eat his breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner. Every meal he tries a new food and POP's - he EGG-POP'S, BROCCO-POP'S and GRAPPO-POP's his way through the day, going on incredible food-fuelled, super-powered adventures. After reading the book, even the fussiest of eaters are known to try new foods like broccoli, avocado and fruits. Like Ollie, they want to discover their own food super-powers! These beautiful illustrations invite you and your child into Ollie's fun, food super-powered world. Also a new hit TV series - on CBC Canada, NBC Universal Kids and many more!


Jordan and Max, Race Day

Jordan and Max, Race Day

Author: Suzanne Sutherland

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2024-08-13

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 145983903X

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Key Selling Points Shows that exercise is for everyone, emphasizes collaboration even in competition and encourages empathy, as Jordan realizes his "rival", Ivan, is actually just a shy new kid. The school's Massey Obstacle Olympics (MOO) is a take on the grueling Tough Mudder endurance event, complete with unexpected rain and mud for Jordan to contend with. The third early chapter book featuring Jordan and Max, this book continues the gentle exploration of gender performance and identity. Suzanne Sutherland's debut novel was an ALA Rainbow Book List selection; like Jordan, she got into running as a "decidedly unathletic" kid and loves it to this day. There are 22 black-and-white illustrations throughout.


Tales of the Peculiar

Tales of the Peculiar

Author: Ransom Riggs

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0399538542

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A companion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series! Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar—the collection of fairy tales known to hide information about the peculiar world, including clues to the locations of time loops—first introduced by Ransom Riggs in his #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. Riggs now invites you to share his secrets of peculiar history, with a collection of original stories in this deluxe volume of Tales of the Peculiar, as collected and annotated by Millard Nullings, ward of Miss Peregrine and scholar of all things peculiar. Featuring stunning illustrations from world-renowned woodcut artist Andrew Davidson this compelling and truly peculiar anthology is the perfect gift for all book lovers.


Ollie Tibbles

Ollie Tibbles

Author: Debi Tibbles

Publisher: Medallion Media Group

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1605425087

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When 4-year-old Ollie Tibbles was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he answered, "I'm going to be a train!" Four years later at Union Station-Chicago, at Make-A-Wish Foundation's Grand Ball, Ollie's prediction and wish came true. Ollie's mother shares the story of his struggle with brain cancer and how pain was transformed into possibility.


A Little More than Kin

A Little More than Kin

Author: Ernest Hebert

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0819580570

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The second novel of the Darby Chronicles follows Ollie Jordan, a man with no education, no mentors, and a serious Freudian hang-up. A family history of poverty, stubborn pride, and a culture that runs contrary to mainstream society have robbed Ollie and his people of opportunity, even hope. They live by a culture of "succor and ascendancy." When Ollie is evicted from his shack, he breaks his drinking rules and heads out into the wilderness with his disabled son, Willow, literally chained to him. Father and son are doomed. How that doom plays itself out, as experienced by the disturbed but insightful Ollie Jordan, is what makes A Little More Than Kin unique in contemporary American literature. Hebert gives his rural underclass protagonist the depths of a tragic hero. Though A Little More Than Kin is action-packed and its prose is clean, hard, lyrical, and sometimes very funny, the book is at its heart an exploration into a brilliant mind that has laid waste to itself. This novel will appeal to readers who enjoy prose that explores the human psyche at its most perverse.


The Kinship

The Kinship

Author: Ernest Hebert

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9780874516302

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Two novels from Hebert's acclaimed five-novel Darby series, hailed in The New York Times as a vigorous saga . . . splendidly imagined. In fictional Darby, New Hampshire, Hebert has created a vivid literary landscape where the rural underclass--the shack people--struggle to survive in a rapidly changing society.


THE BOY WHO FOUND CHRISTMAS & THE MAN WHO FORGOT CHRISTMAS

THE BOY WHO FOUND CHRISTMAS & THE MAN WHO FORGOT CHRISTMAS

Author: Max Brand

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 8027222621

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This eBook edition of "THE BOY WHO FOUND CHRISTMAS & THE MAN WHO FORGOT CHRISTMAS" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "It was snowing. A northwester was rushing over the mountains. As the storm wind shifted a few points west and east, the mountains cut it away, so that one valley lay in a lull of quiet air, with the snow dropping in perpendicular lines; or else the mountains caught the wind in a funnel and poured a venomous blast, in which the snow hardened and became cold teeth. The two men lying in a covert saw Skinner Mountain, due south of them, withdraw into the mist of white and again jump out at them, blocking half the sky. The weather and the sudden appearances of Mount Skinner troubled Lou Alp" (The Man Who Forgot Christmas). Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Brand also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare in a series of pulp fiction stories. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. His love for mythology was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it has been speculated that these classical influences accounted in some part for his success as a popular writer. Many of his stories would later inspire films.


Ollie

Ollie

Author: Olivier Dunrea

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2003-08-15

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0547416415

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Friends Gossie and Gertie are waiting and waiting for Ollie to hatch. They try poking, listening, even sitting on top of his egg—but Ollie just won’t come out. Ollie is Ollie and he will decide when it’s time to hatch. Fans of Gossie and Gossie and Gertie will find Ollie just as charming and delightful as the first two books. Any toddler that has had to wait for a new brother or sister will find Ollie irresistible.


Brooklyn Sunset

Brooklyn Sunset

Author: Shel Weissman

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2015-09-10

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1504948211

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This intriguing and entertaining collection of short stories reveals the complexity of living life without a net. Gritty characters are confronted with overpowering dramatic events that are never seamlessly woven. The reader is drawn into their distinctive frailty and yearning to rise above the clamor and fearlessly face their vulnerabilities and faults. Each story is devotedly crafted with evocative features, endearing people, a sense of place, disjointed relationships, endeavoring to attain acceptance and compassion.