Unexpected Stories
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Published: 2020-04-30
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781596069831
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Unexpected
Author: Laura E. Williams
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780439455855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of creepy, mind-bending stories including "Baby from Outer Space," "Marked for Death," and "The Telltale Croak."
Unexpected Magic
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2012-09-25
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 0062244604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaster storyteller Diana Wynne Jones presents ariveting collection of unpredictable tales, including: A cat tells how the kindhearted wizard she owns is suddenly called upon to defeat a horrific Beast. When Anne has mumps, her drawings come to life, and she must protect her home from them. Four children become involved in the intrigue surrounding an innocent prince, an evil count, and a brave outlaw. These fifteen stories and one novella will enchant, startle, and surprise!
Destination Unexpected
Author: Donald R. Gallo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780763631192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers ten stories that provide a look into adventures of discovery.
Rory's Story
Author: Rory O'Connor
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Published: 2020-10-02
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0717189961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNobody thought Rory O'Connor would make it – written off as 'thick' at school, he struggled to find a career he felt he could succeed in. When a hot tip led to a win on the horses it was the beginning of a dangerous spiral into a gambling addiction that gnawed away at his self-esteem even further. How did the man who thought he had nothing to live for go on to become a stand-up comedian selling out venues around Ireland and reaching 800,000 people through his social media platforms? This is Rory's Story. Told with his trademark humour, this straight-talking memoir is a book for anyone who wants to be inspired by an ordinary man's mental health journey.
The Unexpected Daughter
Author: Sheryl Parbhoo
Publisher:
Published: 2016-11-15
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780998231006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree people's lives intersect in a tumultuous yet redeeming way that none of them could have ever predicted. Jenny is a young professional from the South with an upbringing she wants to forget. She meets Roshan, an Indian immigrant who has moved to the United States with his mother, Esha, to escape family ghosts. With strong cultural tradition, Esha has devoted her entire life to her only child, both for his own good and for her personal protection from a painful past. Roshan understands his role as his mother's refuge, and from an early age, he commits himself to caring for her. But when Jenny and Roshan embark on a forbidden, intercultural relationship, all three get tangled into an inseparable web-betrayal, violence, and shame-leaving them forced to make choices about love and family they never wanted to make while finding peace where they never expected to look.
Unexpected
Author: Jenny Frame
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1626399433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelf-made business owner Dale McGuire has always enjoyed two things in life: women and fast cars. Now in her mid thirties, she’s restless and can’t work out why. Then one day a ten-year-old boy turns up, claiming to be her son, and her simple ordered world turns upside down. Rebecca Harper bears the emotional scars of her father’s crimes, and now she has two rules: never let anyone get too close, and never admit weakness. Thanks to an anonymous egg donor, infertility didn’t stop her from having her son Jake. Now pregnant for a second time, she’s horrified when Jake brings home the woman he believes is his other mother. When distrust turns to understanding and passion, can Dale and Rebecca, two women bound by fate, make a family neither expected?
The Great Unexpected
Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 006219013X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it an "enchanting tale to treasure," The Great Unexpected captures the heart and the imagination. Humorous and heartfelt, this is a story of pairs—of young Naomi and Lizzie, both orphans in present-day Blackbird Tree, USA, and of Sybil and Nula, grown-up sisters from faraway Rook's Orchard, Ireland, who have become estranged. Young Naomi Deane is brimming with curiosity and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. She knows all the peculiar people in town—like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. Just like that. A strangely charming Finn boy. And then the Dingle Dangle man appears, asking all kinds of questions. Curious surprises are revealed—three locked trunks, a pair of rooks, a crooked bridge, and that boy—and soon Naomi and Lizzie find their lives changed forever. As two worlds are woven together, Creech reveals that hearts can be mended and that there is indeed a gossamer thread that connects us all.
Boy, Lost
Author: Kristina Olsson
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0702248932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA powerful family memoir from the award-winning author of The China Garden Kristina OlssonOCOs mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms as she boarded a train in the hot summer of 1950. She was young and frightened, trying to escape a brutal marriage, but despite the violence and cruelty sheOCOd endured, she was not prepared for this final blow, this breathtaking punishment. Yvonne would not see her son again for nearly 40 years. Kristina was the first child of her motherOCOs subsequent, much gentler marriage and, like her siblings, grew up unaware of the reasons behind her motherOCOs sorrow, though PeterOCOs absence resounded through the family, marking each one. Yvonne dreamt of her son by day and by night, while Peter grew up a thousand miles and a lifetime away, dreaming of his missing mother. Boy, Lost tells how their lives proceeded from that shattering moment, the grief and shame that stalked them, what they lost and what they salvaged. But it is also the story of a family, the cascade of grief and guilt through generations, and the endurance of memory and faith."
The Unexpected Everything
Author: Morgan Matson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1481404547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a scandal surrounding her father upsets all her carefully laid plans for her future, Andie must learn to accept a new relationship with her father and to embrace a little chaos in her life.
