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Author: Julie C. Morse
Publisher: Skyscraper Press (children's)
Published: 2012-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935766377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBilly is five years old and bald because of side effects of his cancer treatment. Billy's teacher helps the other children understand that just because he is bald on the outside doesn't mean that he is any different on the inside.
Author: Ethel Rohan
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2017-02-14
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1250092132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Deeply moving and memorable." —Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger "First-time novelist Rohan shows impressive acuity in portraying the many facets of Billy's and his family's grief." --Booklist At four hundred pounds, Billy Brennan can always count on food. From his earliest memories, he has loved food’s colors, textures and tastes. The way flavors go off in his mouth. How food keeps his mind still and his bad feelings quiet. Food has always made everything better, until the day Billy’s beloved son Michael takes his own life. Billy determines to make a difference in Michael’s memory and undertakes a public weight-loss campaign, to raise money for suicide prevention—his first step in an ambitious plan to save himself, and to save others. However, Billy’s dramatic crusade appalls his family, who want to simply try to go on. Despite his crushing detractors, Billy gains welcome allies: his community-at-large; a co-worker who lost his father to suicide; a filmmaker with his own dubious agenda; and a secret, miniature kingdom that Billy populates with the sub-quality dolls and soldiers he rescues from disposal at the local toy factory where he works. But it is only if Billy can confront the truth of his pain, suffering, and the brokenness around him, that he and others will be able to realize the full rescue and change they need. Set in rural, contemporary Ireland, Ethel Rohan's The Weight of Him is an unforgettable, big-hearted novel about loss and reliance that moves from tragedy to recrimination to what can be achieved when we take the stand of our lives.
Author: Frances Trego Montgomery
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Judith Golightly
Publisher: WestBowPress
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 1490813322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJudith Golightly relates her heart-wrenching personal experience of caring for a seriously ill child and dealing with his loss. In this sensitive, compassionate, and uplifting true story, she provides help and hope for others.
Author: Rick Bass
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0316381179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have the definitive collection of stories, new and old, from the writer Newsweek has called "an American classic." To read his fiction is to feel more alive -- connected, incandescently, to "the brief longshot of having been chosen for the human experience," as one of his characters puts it. These pages reveal men and women living with passion and tenderness at the outer limits of the senses, each attempting to triumph against fate. Bass provides searing insights into the complexity of family and romantic entanglements, and his lush and striking language draws us ineluctably into the lives of these engaging people and their vivid surroundings. The intricate stories collected in For A Little While -- brimming with magic and wonder, filled with hard-won empathy, marbled throughout with astonishing imagery -- have the power both to devastate and to uplift. Together they showcase an iconic American master at his peak.
Author: Chuck Barris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-05-01
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 141653928X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the revolutionary mind of television's legendary mad genius, a story of money, sex, greed, revenge, murder -- and reality TV The year is 2012, and as the Most Famous Television Producer in the World is walking down a wintry New York City block, he's accosted by a homeless-looking cripple who, like everyone else, insists he has the formula for the greatest TV show of all time. As it turns out, he does: Contestants will compete for one hundred million dollars. If they win, they're rich. If they lose, they face immediate on-camera execution. As the Producer begins scheming to steal the idea and revive his fading career, The Big Question introduces the extraordinary characters who will ultimately become the show's contestants -- a brilliantly rendered, Dickensian cast that includes the seventy-something Vera Bundle, with a taste for scotch and encyclopedias; Arthur Durch, a convicted sex offender-turned-relationship therapist; Retta Mae Wagons, a sixteen-year-old prostitute with an IQ of 170 and an ex-con-turned-Muslim fundamentalist boyfriend who doesn't appreciate her; Billy Constable, the Kentucky rube who gets off a bus in New York and promptly finds himself in trouble with the Mob; and Father Brady, the devout Catholic priest with a mortifying secret to hide at any cost. As the first episode is broadcast live in front of millions, the audience, the cast, and the crew behind the scenes do the unthinkable: they sit and watch, rapt and glassy-eyed, as the final contestant left on stage meets an unimaginable fate. To say The Big Question is a novel of greed and immorality would be putting it lightly. But to read this book without laughing out loud at every page would be impossible. This is more than just a funny book, though. With uncanny precision and razor-sharp wit, the inimitable Chuck Barris reveals the inconceivable lengths to which people will go for those priceless fifteen minutes, the fascination we have with the little black box in our homes -- and the horrifying deeds done in the name of entertainment.
Author: Gaye Newman Lisby
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011-03-03
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1257030566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spiritual History of Branson-Land of the Osage is a result of years of research and prophetic intercession. The book chronicles the fascinating history of the "land between the rivers," and explores the prophetic promises for this region. It uncovers strongholds and sins of the past which restrict the growth of the Church today. It is a call to repentance and a call to arms. This expanded, updated and revised work includes prophetic dreams, redemptive threads and verifiable prophetic utterances including the truth about a prophecy attributed to Corrie ten Boom. Perhaps you have been drawn by God's Spirit to this "land between the rivers." Perhaps there is a sense of awe and anticipation within your heart. Perhaps you were brought here for such a time as this. Perhaps . . . The Spiritual History of Branson--Land of the Osage gives reason for the "perhaps."
Author: Christopher Largen
Publisher: ENC Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0975254049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA riotous exploration of prohibition policies, told through the narrative lens of a future America in which the government outlaws junk food in response to widespread obesity.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 1138
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