Fruit of the Lemon

Fruit of the Lemon

Author: Andrea Levy

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2007-01-23

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1429912340

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From the award-winning author of Small Island, “a bittersweet exploration of an outsider’s experience of British culture” (Bookmarks). Faith Jackson knows little about her parents’ lives before they moved to England. Happy to be starting her first job in the costume department at BBC television, and to be sharing a house with friends, Faith is full of hope and expectation. But when her parents announce that they are moving “home” to Jamaica, Faith’s fragile sense of her identity is threatened. Angry and perplexed as to why her parents would move to a country they so rarely mention, Faith becomes increasingly aware of the covert and public racism of her daily life, at home and at work. At her parents’ suggestion, in the hope it will help her to understand where she comes from, Faith goes to Jamaica for the first time. There she meets her Aunt Coral, whose storytelling provides Faith with ancestors, whose lives reach from Cuba and Panama to Harlem and Scotland. Branch by branch, story by story, Faith scales the family tree, and discovers her own vibrant heritage, which is far richer and wilder than she could have imagined. “Levy has chosen her title shrewdly: like the lemon, her loaded satire is bright and alluring, but its bite is sharp.” —Booklist “Levy’s raw sense of realism and depth of feeling infuses every line.” —Elle “Bright and inventive . . . Levy’s command of voices, whether English or Jamaican, is fine, fresh and funny.” —The Observer


A Career in Your Suitcase - a Practical Guide to Creating Meaningful Work... Anywhere

A Career in Your Suitcase - a Practical Guide to Creating Meaningful Work... Anywhere

Author: Joanna Parfitt

Publisher:

Published: 2013-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781909193147

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Do you want to find a career that is: a) based on what you love to do more than anything; b) created from your strongest skills and best assets; c) will let you work anywhere; d) can be sustained and developed even if you move again? then you need A Career in Your Suitcase. In this fully revised and updated 4th edition, A Career in Your Suitcase enters its 15th year of inspiring, motivating and supporting men and women who want to love what they do for a living. Now packed with over 20 exercises that combine to create your unique Career Passport, the new edition covers everything you need from finding your passion, to developing a brand, networking on and offline and marketing. This time, career consultant, Colleen Reichrath-Smith, joins serial expat entrepreneur, Jo Parfitt, in the latest and most comprehensive incarnation of this best selling book. "A 'how to' manual for the career oriented person wanting to thrive wherever he or she may be living in the world, No one knows how to do that better than Jo Parfitt. If you buy only one book this year, this is it." Yvonne McNulty, PhD, author of Managing Expatriates: A Return on Investment Approach "Not only is this is the bible for global nomads looking to establish their careers abroad, but it is so rich and informative it is also a must-have for those looking to start their next career adventure - wherever that may be." Donnalee Bell, Senior Consultant, The Canadian Career Development Foundation, www.ccdf.ca "Identifying passions and values is as critical to professional success abroad as it is on home turf. This step-by-step approach will guide the reader through the challenging process of maintaining a professional identity based on skill set, not physical location. " Alison Cavatore, Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Global Living Magazine. www.GlobalLivingMagazine.com


Lemons

Lemons

Author: Melissa D. Savage

Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1524700126

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After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sitings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.


The Book Jumper

The Book Jumper

Author: Mechthild Gläser

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Published: 2017-01-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1250086671

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Amy Lennox doesn't know quite what to expect when she and her mother pick up and leave Germany for Scotland, heading to her mother's childhood home of Lennox House on the island of Stormsay. Amy's grandmother, Lady Mairead, insists that Amy must read while she resides at Lennox House—but not in the usual way. It turns out that Amy is a book jumper, able to leap into a story and interact with the world inside. As thrilling as Amy's new power is, it also brings danger: someone is stealing from the books she visits, and that person may be after her life. Teaming up with fellow book jumper Will, Amy vows to get to the bottom of the thefts—at whatever cost.


The Dreadful Lemon Sky

The Dreadful Lemon Sky

Author: John Dann MacDonald

Publisher: Fawcett

Published: 1996-04-20

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0449224791

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It's almost four in the morning when McGee is jarred awake by a breathless ghost from his past. Carolyn Milligan desperately needs Travis to keep a package full of cash safe and sound. What's in it for him? Ten grand and no questions asked. She'll be back in a month. But two weeks later, Carrie dies in a roadside 'accident, ' leaving Travis with a fortune and a nagging conscience. Now he's obsessed with tracking down the mysterious truth about Carrie: what she was involved with, and why she had to die....


Garbage Bag Suitcase

Garbage Bag Suitcase

Author: Shenandoah Chefalo

Publisher:

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781943995035

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Garbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of Shenandoah Chefalo's wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents. She endured numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness. Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother's retirement community, she asked to be put into foster care. Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother? It turns out that it was not the storybook ending she had hoped for. With foster parents more interested in the income received by housing a foster child, Shen was once again neglected emotionally. The money she earned working at the local grocery store was taken by her foster parents to "cover her expenses." When a car accident lands her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one came to visit her during her three-week stay, she realizes she is truly all alone in the world. Overcoming her many adversities, Shen became part of the 3% of all foster care children who get into college, and the 1% who graduate. She became a successful businesswoman, got married, and had a daughter. Despite her numerous achievements in life though, she still suffers from the long-term effects of neglect, and the coping skills that she adapted in her childhood are not always productive in her adult life. Garbage Bag Suitcase is not only the inspiring and hair-raising story of one woman's journey to over- come her desolate childhood, but it also presents grass-root solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system.


Bullet Train

Bullet Train

Author: Kotaro Isaka

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781529116267

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*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BRAD PITT AND SANDRA BULLOCK* Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura has tracked him onto the bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Nanao, the self-proclaimed 'unluckiest assassin in the world', and the deadly partnership of Tangerine and Lemon are also travelling to Morioka. A suitcase full of money leads others to show their hands. Why are they all on the same train, and who will get off alive at the last station?


Unclaimed Baggage

Unclaimed Baggage

Author: Jen Doll

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0374306079

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*A New York Times Staff Pick* *An NPR Best Book of 2018* *A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2018* In Jen Doll's young adult debut novel, Unclaimed Baggage, Doris—a lone liberal in a conservative small town—has mostly kept to herself since the terrible waterslide incident a few years ago. Nell had to leave behind her best friends, perfect life, and too-good-to-be-true boyfriend in Chicago to move to Alabama. Grant was the star quarterback and epitome of "Mr. Popular" whose drinking problem has all but destroyed his life. What do these three have in common? A summer job working in a store called Unclaimed Baggage cataloging and selling other people's lost luggage. Together they find that through friendship, they can unpack some of their own emotional baggage and move on into the future.