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A Place For Starr
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Author : Howard Schor
language : en
Publisher: JIST Life
Release Date : 2002
A Place For Starr written by Howard Schor and has been published by JIST Life this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Family violence categories.
Starr and her little brother Tyler hide under the bed when her father gets upset and becomes violent--until their mother takes them to a shelter.
Place For Starr
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Author : Howard Schor
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Place For Starr written by Howard Schor and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with categories.
An essential therapeutic tool for children who have experienced family violence." A Place for starr follows a brave girl and her family as they break the cycle of violence.
Billie Starr S Book Of Sorries
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Author : Deborah E. Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Release Date : 2022-10-04
Billie Starr S Book Of Sorries written by Deborah E. Kennedy and has been published by Flatiron Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with Fiction categories.
“Funny yet bitingly realistic look at small-town life...A grim literary mystery and a hopeful family story, this genre-blending novel manages to be both charming and heartbreaking.” —Kirkus “An enthralling suspense thriller...Exquisite prose matches deep characterization. Kennedy deserves to win an Edgar.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Sometimes, a woman has to rescue herself. Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about to make another one. In a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business, down-on-her-luck single mother Jenny is on a first-name basis with the debt collector at the bank, who is moving toward foreclosure. She is constantly apologizing to her precocious young daughter, Billie Starr, who is filling a book with her mother’s sorries, and it seems to Jenny that no apology will ever be enough. Then a pair of strangers in black suits offers her a hefty check to seduce someone known as the Candidate. Finally, something will go her way. But nothing ever goes as Jenny plans, and she is swept into the Candidate’s orbit. Surrounded by a wide universe of new ideas, she realizes how constrained her life has been by the expectations of everyone around her, and she starts to see how much more she might be capable of. And when her world is rocked to its core and Billie Starr may be in danger, Jenny is forced to do what she once thought impossible: trust in herself and her own power to make things right. Shimmering with rage and sparkling with subtle humor, Billie Starr's Book of Sorries showcases Edgar Award-nominee Deborah E. Kennedy's singular voice and shines a light on the town of Benson, Indiana, where lakes, grudges, and family rifts run deep – but so does a mother’s love.
Tough Luck
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Author : Jason Starr
language : en
Publisher: Polis Books
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Tough Luck written by Jason Starr and has been published by Polis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Mickey Prada's a nice kid. He works in a neighborhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He’s got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to help his sick dad. But Mickey’s got a problem. A customer at the fish store, Angelo Santoro, keeps asking Mickey to place bets for him and Angelo keeps losing. As Angelo gets further in the hole, his bad luck is turning out to be Mickey’s too. Now Mickey’s got his bookie after him and Angelo’s showing him the butt of his pistol rather than paying him back. So when his best friend, Chris, asks Mickey to join him on a can’t-lose caper, Mickey decides to go along. But, surefire schemes often have a way of backfiring, and this one is sending Mickey into an uncharted part of Brooklyn, where fish like Chris and Mickey have trouble just staying alive.
A House For A Mouse
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Author : Lisette Starr
language : en
Publisher: Red Beetle Books
Release Date : 2019-09-30
A House For A Mouse written by Lisette Starr and has been published by Red Beetle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with categories.
A delightful rhyming story with fun illustrations and a great positive message! A great read out load picture book that both you and your kids will love reading! "One thundery night I was cosy and warm, under the covers and safe from the storm. I was lying awake counting sheep in my head, when I heard something moving under my bed. Suddenly I was trembling with fear. Could there be a monster about to appear? Then I heard it again, that scuttling sound. It was so scary it made my heart pound!" "A House for a Mouse" is a bright, fun way for younger children to learn about friendship, kindness and generosity. When a young boy hears a noise under his bed, he fears there may be a monster about to appear. But it isn't a monster, it is a little mouse looking for somewhere warm and dry to spend the night. Combining wonderfully vibrant illustrations with the power of rhythm and rhyme, "A House for a Mouse" is a perfect bedtime story and a must read for kids starting their reading journey.
A Place For Starr
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Author : Howard Schor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
A Place For Starr written by Howard Schor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Child abuse categories.
In "A Place for Starr," a courageous young girl tells the story of how she and her brother escape a scary home life and then how their family journeys to a peaceful, hopeful future. This book is created with love as a therapeutic tool. We hope it will be read by anyone and everyone, so they may better understand the experience of family violence. People of all ages will be able to appreciate the beautiful art, memorable story, and enduring message of hope. --
The Book Of Whispers
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Author : Kimberley Starr
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-03
The Book Of Whispers written by Kimberley Starr and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Tuscany, 1096 AD. Luca, young heir to the title of Conte de Falconi, sees demons. Since no one else can see them, Luca must keep quiet about what he sees, or risk another exorcism by the nefarious priest Ramberti. Luca also has dreams—dreams that sometimes predict the future. Night after night Luca sees his father murdered, and vows to stop it coming true. Even if he has to go against his father's wishes and follow him on the great pilgrimage to capture the Holy Lands. Far away in Cappadocia, Suzan has dreams too. Consigned with her mute mother to a life in an underground convent, she has a vision of a brown-haired boy riding through the desert. A boy with an ancient book that holds some inscrutable power. A boy who will take her on an adventure that will lead to places beyond both their understanding. Together, Luca and Suzan will realise their true quest: to defeat the forces of man and demon that wish to destroy the world.
Blood
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Author : Douglas Starr
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-09-05
Blood written by Douglas Starr and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-05 with Science categories.
Essence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals that of any other business--millions of lives have been saved by blood and its various derivatives, and tens of thousands of lives have been lost. Douglas Starr tells how this came to be, in a sweeping history that ranges through the centuries. With the dawn of science, blood came to be seen as a component of human anatomy, capable of being isolated, studied, used. Starr describes the first documented transfusion: In the seventeenth century, one of Louis XIV's court physicians transfers the blood of a calf into a madman to "cure" him. At the turn of the twentieth century a young researcher in Vienna identifies the basic blood groups, taking the first step toward successful transfusion. Then a New York doctor finds a way to stop blood from clotting, thereby making all transfusion possible. In the 1930s, a Russian physician, in grisly improvisation, successfully uses cadaver blood to help living patients--and realizes that blood can be stored. The first blood bank is soon operating in Chicago. During World War II, researchers, driven by battlefield needs, break down blood into usable components that are more easily stored and transported. This "fractionation" process--accomplished by a Harvard team--produces a host of pharmaceuticals, setting the stage for the global marketplace to come. Plasma, precisely because it can be made into long-lasting drugs, is shipped and traded for profit; today it is a $5 billion business. The author recounts the tragic spread of AIDS through the distribution of contaminated blood products, and describes why and how related scandals have erupted around the world. Finally, he looks at the latest attempts to make artificial blood. Douglas Starr has written a groundbreaking book that tackles a subject of universal and urgent importance and explores the perils and promises that lie ahead.
Coast Of Dreams
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Author : Kevin Starr
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-06-22
Coast Of Dreams written by Kevin Starr and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-22 with History categories.
In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the Atlantic Monthly has called “breathtaking”–probes the possible collapse of the California dream in the years 1990—2003. In a series of compelling chapters, Coast of Dreams moves through a variety of topics that show the California of the last decade, when the state was sometimes stumbling, sometimes humbled, but, more often, flourishing with its usual panache. From gang violence in Los Angeles to the spectacular rise–and equally spectacular fall–of Silicon Valley, from the Northridge earthquake to the recall of Governor Gray Davis, Starr ranges over myriad facts, anecdotes, news stories, personal impressions, and analyses to explore a time of unprecedented upheaval in California. Coast of Dreams describes an exceptional diversity of people, cultures, and values; an economy that mirrors the economic state of the nation; a battlefield where industry and the necessities of infrastructure collide with the inherent demands of a unique and stunning natural environment. It explores California politics (including Arnold Schwarzenegger’s election in the 2003 recall), the multifaceted business landscape, and controversial icons such as O. J. Simpson. “Historians of the future,” Starr writes, “will be able to see with more certainty whether or not the period 1990-2003 was not only the end of one California but the beginning of another”; in the meantime, he gives a picture of the place and time in a book at once sweeping and riveting in its details, deeply informed, engagingly personal, and altogether fascinating.
Belle Starr And Her Times
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Author : Glenn Shirley
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2015-04-09
Belle Starr And Her Times written by Glenn Shirley and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-09 with History categories.
Who was Belle Starr? What was she that so many myths surround her? Born in Carthage, Missouri, in 1848, the daughter of a well-to-do hotel owner, she died forty-one years later, gunned down near her cabin in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. After her death she was called “a bandit queen,” “a female Jesse James,” “the Petticoat Terror of the Plains.” Fantastic legends proliferated about her. In this book Glenn Shirley sifts through those myths and unearths the facts. In a highly readable and informative style Shirley presents a complex and intriguing portrait. Belle Starr loved horses, music, the outdoors-and outlaws. Familiar with some of the worst bad men of her day, she was, however, convicted of no crime worse than horse thievery. Shirley also describes the historical context in which Belles Starr lived. After knowing the violence of the Civil War as a child in the Ozarks, She moves to Dallas in the 1860s and married a former Confederate guerilla who specialized in armed robbery. After he was killed, she found a home among renegade Cherokees in the Indian Territory, on her second husband’s allotment. She traveled as far west as Los Angeles to escape the law and as far north as Detroit to go to jail. She married three times and had two children, whom she idolized and tormented. Ironically she was shot when she had decided to go straight, probably murdered by a neighbor who feared that she would turn him in to the police. This book will find a wide readership among western-history and outlaw buffs, folklorists, sociologists, and regional historians. Shirley’s summary of the literature about Belle Starr is as interesting as the true story of Belle herself, who has become the West’s best-known woman outlaw.