All Chalked Up

Author : Amy Keating Rogers
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613241335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Chalked Up written by Amy Keating Rogers and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bubbles is drawing pictures of all the monsters the Powerpuffs have fought, but somehow the pictures are coming alive.

Author : Amy Keating Rogers
Publisher : Volo
ISBN 13 : 9780439160209
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Chalked Up written by Amy Keating Rogers and published by Volo. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bubbles is drawing pictures of all the monster the Powerpuffs have fought, but somehow the pictures are coming alive.

Author : Jennifer Sey
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061351466
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chalked Up written by Jennifer Sey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the 1986 U.S. National Gymnastics champion whose lifelong dream was to compete in the Olympics, until anorexia, injuries, and coaching abuses nearly destroyed her Fanciful dreams of gold medals and Nadia Comaneci led Jennifer Sey to become a gymnast at the age of six. She was a natural at the sport, and her early success propelled her family to sacrifice everything to help her become, by age eleven, one of America’s elite,competing at prestigious events worldwide alongside such future gymnastics’ luminaries as Mary Lou Retton. But as she set her sights higher and higher—the senior national team, the World Championships, the 1988 Olympics—Sey began to change, putting her needs, her health, and her well-being aside in the name of winning. And the adults in her life refused to notice her downward spiral. In Chalked Up Sey reveals the tarnish behind her gold medals. A powerful portrait of intensity and drive, eating disorders and stage parents, abusive coaches and manipulative businessmen, denial and the seduction of success, it is the story of a young girl whose dreams would become eclipsed by the adults around her. As she recounts her experiences, Sey sheds light on the destructiveness of our winning-is-everything culture where underage and underweight girls are celebrated and on the need for balance in children’s lives.

Author : Cala Spinner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534404511
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chalk It Up written by Cala Spinner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amazing things are happening all around town--there's a pirate ship, and a mermaid, and even shooting stars! See kids just like you do incredible things through the power of imagination. You too can dive down deep in the ocean, fly up high in the sky, and even go to outer space without leaving the ground!"--Amazon.com.

Author : John Irving
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307366499
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Hand written by John Irving and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty second event — the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.” The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: “How can anyone identify a dream of the future?” The answer: “Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love.” While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband’s left hand—that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy. This is how John Irving’s tenth novel begins; it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. Yet, in the end, The Fourth Hand is as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. Irving’s previous novels—including The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year—or his Oscar-winning screenplay of The Cider House Rules. The Fourth Hand is characteristic of John Irving’s seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author’s recurring themes—loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change.

Author : Joshua Rivkin
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612197183
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chalk written by Joshua Rivkin and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **A New York Times Editors Choice** "The most substantive biography of the artist to date...propulsive, positive and persuasive."—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review **PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist** **A Marfield Prize Finalist** Cy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history—including his own. Shuttling between stunning homes in Italy and the United States where he perfected his room-size canvases, he managed his public image carefully and rarely gave interviews. Upon first seeing Twombly’s remarkable paintings, writer Joshua Rivkin became obsessed himself with the mysterious artist, and began chasing every lead, big or small—anything that might illuminate those works, or who Twombly really was. Now, after unprecedented archival research and years of interviews, Rivkin has reconstructed Twombly’s life, from his time at the legendary Black Mountain College to his canonization in a 1994 MoMA retrospective; from his heady explorations of Rome in the 1950s with Robert Rauschenberg to the ongoing efforts to shape his legacy after his death. Including previously unpublished photographs, Chalk presents a more personal and searching type of biography than we’ve ever encountered, and brings to life a more complex Twombly than we’ve ever known.

Author : Sonia Hartl
Publisher : Page Street YA
ISBN 13 : 1645670554
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Your #Lovestory written by Sonia Hartl and published by Page Street YA. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #PlaneBae meets Gilmore Girls in this hilarious and heartfelt story about the addictiveness of Internet fame and the harsh realities of going viral. Macy Evans dreams of earning enough income from her YouTube channel, R3ntal Wor1d, to leave her small, Midwestern town. But when she meets a boy named Eric at a baseball game, and accidently dumps her hotdog in his lap, her disastrous “meet-cute” becomes the topic of a viral thread. Now it’s not loyal subscribers flocking to her channel, it’s Internet trolls. And they aren’t interested in her reviews of VHS tapes—they only care about her relationship with Eric. Eric is overly eager to stretch out his fifteen minutes of fame, but Macy fears this unwanted attention could sabotage her “real-life” relationships—namely with the shy boy-next-door, Paxton, who she’s actually developing feelings for. Macy knows she should shut the lie down, though she can’t ignore the advertising money, or the spark she gets in her chest whenever someone clicks on her videos. Eric shouldn’t be the only one allowed to reap the viral benefits. But is faking a relationship for clicks and subscribers worth hurting actual people?

Author : Paul Lisicky
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979211
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Narrow Door written by Paul Lisicky and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky creates a compelling collage of scenes and images drawn from two long-term relationships, one with a woman novelist and the other with his ex-husband, a poet. The contours of these relationships shift constantly. Denise and Paul, stretched by the demands of their writing lives, drift apart, and Paul's romance begins to falter. And the world around them is frail: environmental catastrophes like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, natural disasters like the earthquake in Haiti, and local disturbances make an unsettling backdrop to the pressing concerns of Denise's cancer diagnosis and Paul's impending breakup. Lisicky's compassionate heart and resilience seem all the stronger in the face of such searing losses. His survival--hard-won, unsentimental, authentic--proves that in turning toward loss, we embrace life.

Author : Amy Sherwood
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781975892982
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pawsibly the Best Medicine written by Amy Sherwood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love stories about dogs and how they are able to help people with disabilities, "Pawsibly The Best Medicine" is the book for you. It is based on a real puppy named Dolly Pawton. This book tells a story about Dolly and her siblings as they contemplate and discuss what they want to be when they grow up. Dolly, "chewses" to become a service dog, and this book describes the training she goes through. Prepare to be amazed as she learns to master many tasks. You will love reading about Dolly's many adventures (some scary) while aiding her human companion. The tremendous bond which forms between service dogs and their disabled owners soon becomes wonderfully clear. This story was written for children and readers of all ages.

Author : Rumaan Alam
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062667653
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leave the World Behind written by Rumaan Alam and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?