Sarah is a little girl of three years, starting kindergarten. There, she begins to experience all of the fun of learning how to read, dance, speak a new language and make great friendships. She also finds a best friend, Tyrone. They do everything together. Then one day, three years later, Tyrone tells Sarah that he is moving away. See how Sarah handles this difficult situation and how they remain BFFs. This title is part of a 4-book series that follows the protagonist Sarah’s experiences growing up in an extended multi-cultural family
Starting over is always difficult. Starting over in a foreign city without family and friends is even more difficult. Add the ever-arrogant Eli to the mix, and then it's just a field day. In hell! My mantra is to stay the hell away from him and disappear from his life as soon as I can, preferably in the middle of the night, leaving a handwritten good-bye on a sticky note. My name is Sarah, and this is my story of how life has a way of screwing up the best-laid plans. What do you do when the woman you promised to marry and spend the rest of your life with is not what your heart wants anymore? And what do you do when the one your heart wants, wants nothing to do with you? Just when I thought I had it all figured out, destiny threw a monkey wrench into my simple equation of a life. Sarah came into my life like a tsunami, knocked me down senseless, and turned my world upside down. I am still not sure if I am permanently oxygen deficient or if she just has the effect of leaving me panting and breathless. My name is Elijah, and this is the story of how love makes us crazy.
About the Book Best Friends follows young vivacious Sarah, her two best friends—her pony Trudy and her dog Hopalong—through a tragedy that changes the ten-year-old’s life. With the help of her family and friends, Sarah works hard to regain her strength and spirit, and in doing so, conceives a way to help many others. Read along as Sarah and those she loves work to bring her dream to life. The author says, “Through the eyes of reading my book, readers feel the things I have experienced. The smell of flowers, noise of creeks moving swiftly, winds blowing through your hair, rabbits running through a field of wildflowers. That the simple things in life can you bring you happiness, that even going through tragedy, you can overcome anything.” About the Author Janet Davis Talbott has been retired for ten years. Her life revolves around her children and her grandchildren. Outside of her family, animals are her second love. Talbott enjoys crafts and gardening when not spending time with her family.
This is the fourth book in Bella Christian’s must-read new series This is Where it Ends… When fourteen-year-old Sarah Simmons discovers her best friend has taken her own life, her world is turned upside down. All year, she’s been aware Jessie Angel was being bullied by Veronica Blackwood and all year Sarah has tried to help. But it hasn’t been enough. Jessie has taken her father’s service revolver and has shot herself in the head. Sarah should have tried harder, done more, told her mother sooner… Devastated by Jessie’s death and plagued with overwhelming guilt, Sarah tries to take her own life. When that fails, she’s thrown even deeper into despair. She starts cutting school, lying to her mom, taking drugs, hanging out with an undesirable crowd. Anything to numb the pain of Jessie’s death and Sarah’s failure to save her. Meanwhile her mom, Holly Walsh, child psychologist extraordinaire, does her best to get Sarah to talk. Talk. As if that’s going to change anything. What good is talk? It’s never going to bring Jessie back or dissolve the mountain of pain and guilt that continues to consume her. And then there’s Veronica Blackwood…the girl who made Jessie’s life a living hell. The girl who bullied Sarah’s best friend to death. Somehow, Sarah must make Veronica pay…or die trying.
Many times children have been born on the same day even if they are in no way related, but rarely are they born at precisely the same time at the same hospital to two different mothers, but that was the case with Amanda Thompson and her close-friend Sarah Smith, who had little girls born at the exact same time at the same exact hospital on July 16,2016 and not surprisingly, not only are the two Mommies close friends, but their two baby girls quickly become BFF's: Best Friends Foreve
Will it be friendship or romance? What's a girl to do when she's secretly in love with a friend and he's married to someone else? She gets over it. That's what Amy Parker has done. Rather than lose her best bud Quinn Whitfield with an ill-timed, crazy confession of affection, she's taken the smart route. She's eased away from him. Just enough to get past the unrequited bits. And you know, it's working. Until the day Quinn announces he's now single. That's right. He's single. And he wants to hang out. With her. Get reconnected the way they used to be. Oh, this is so not good for Amy's equilibrium. Daily doses of Quinn remind her of everything she loves about him. But if he's free…and she's free…well, maybe the time has come for one of those crazy confessions.
When I was twenty-five years old, it came to my attention that I had never had a girlfriend. At the time, I was actually under the impression that I was in a relationship, so this bit of news came as something of a shock. Why was Josh still single? To find out, he tracked down each of the girls he had tried to date since middle school and asked them straight up: What went wrong? The results of Josh's semiscientific investigation are in your hands. From a disastrous Putt-Putt date involving a backward prosthetic foot, to his introduction to CFD (Close Fast Dancing), and a misguided "grand gesture" at a Miss America pageant, this story is about looking for love-or at least a girlfriend-in all the wrong places. Poignant, relatable, and totally hilarious, this memoir is for anyone who has ever wondered, "Is there something wrong with me?" (Spoiler Alert: the answer is no.)
In this free Summer Reading Nonfiction Sampler, Hachette Book Group brings you a taste of several of the enlightening, entertaining books our imprints are publishing in summer 2014. Authors Tory Johnson (The Shift), Beth Macy (Factory Man), Wallace "J." Nichols (Blue Mind), Maximillian Potter (Shadows In The Vineyard), John J. Ratey and Richard Manning (Go Wild), Josh Sundquist (We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, A True Story), and Matthew Paul Turner (Our Great Big American God) represent a wide breadth of expertise in business, journalism, science, medicine, motivation and religion, and each of their books are as entertaining as they are informative. This summer, turn your reading over to the terrific authors of Hachette!
Birt and Etho are best friends, they play on Sudden Hill, making marvellous contraptions out of cardboard boxes. But then a new boy, Shu, wants to join in too. Birt isn't sure that he wants Shu to join them. Eaten up with jealousy, he goes home and refuses to come out to play. Until Etho and Shu come to his house with the most marvellous cardboard contraption so far... A compelling story about accepting someone new, written by Linda Sarah and illustrated by Benji Davies, the bestselling illustrator of The Storm Whale series. Also by Linda Sarah: The Secret Sky Garden, illustrated by Fiona Lumbers Tom's Magnificent Machines, illustrated by Ben Mantle Also illustrated by Benji Davies: When the Dragons Came, written by Naomi Kefford and Lynne Moore Jump On Board the Animal Train, written by Naomi Kefford and Lynne Moore Written and illustrated by Benji Davies: The Storm Whale The Storm Whale in Winter Grandma Bird Grandad's Island
Rich Fritzky poses five questions to forty-five individuals who have devoted much, if not all of their lives, to Abraham Lincoln. The individuals reveal what led them to him in the first place, the attribute or ‘fixed mark’ that sealed their belonging to him, the conversations that they would most have liked to have had with him, the words of his that they were most moved by, and the why and how of his, maybe just maybe, helping save the soul of the Republic yet again in our own time. Among those interviewed were eleven celebrated Lincoln scholars and historians, the leaders of the National Lincoln Forum, the Abraham Lincoln Association, Lincoln Groups, and Civil War Roundtables from coast to coast, two celebrated Lincoln artists, an array of Lincoln impersonators, including Gettysburg’s own, curators, animators, professors, teachers, presenters, and more. They so movingly responded, inspiring and driving the author deep into Lincoln’s universe and into much material that is not often considered especially as to racism and race, his shadow-boxing with God, his faith and doubt, his exquisite humanity and extraordinary ability to lead, his nation of suffering and the torture it exacted upon him, and his rich reverence for both all that America was and could be.
