Mr. Brandon's School Bus

Mr. Brandon's School Bus PDF Author: Tom Brandon
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603064125
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
A delightful new book from Tom Brandon, "2013 Steve Harvey Bus Driver of the Year," reminds us of the wisdom of children and their uncanny ability to teach adults a thing or two. Mr. Brandon's School Bus, published by NewSouth Books, collects in one volume the insightful and often humorous conversations children have had while riding on Brandon's big yellow school bus over the years. You know the things your child hears at home that you don't want repeated elsewhere? Tom Brandon says you can count on them to be told with gusto on the way to school. So climb on board and, as "Mr. Mucus" would say, "Sit back and enjoy the ride." Hey, there are some things you just can't make up. Of author Tom Brandon, Larry Lee, Alabama's foremost education blogger, says, "Each school bus is a little magic kingdom where fantasies come alive and the sweet innocence of childhood sometimes meets reality. With the keen eye and ear of a good storyteller, Tom Brandon has chronicled the great adventures of his riders with a talent that makes you see the smile and hear the giggles. Thanks to him for doing so."

Grandfather's Will

Grandfather's Will PDF Author: Gary B. Boyd
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1491825987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
SPC Charles Craigton's life was on the line. To save himself and his squad from sure defeat, he had to draw on an inner strength that transcended the military training he had received. His struggle to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds demonstrates that the past and the future are inseparable in the fight for survival.

Scott Free

Scott Free PDF Author: John Gilstrap
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743482352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
One of America's most acclaimed suspense writers now serves up a bracingly original nail-biter that takes us deep into the rugged terrain of the Utah mountains. Sherry Carrigan O'Toole can't seem to apply the prescriptions she offers in her bestselling self-help books to her own life. Six years after her marriage to Brandon disintegrated and he won custody of their son, Scott, there's no room in their lives for her. Hoping to win back the teenager's heart, Sherry arranges a week's skiing at the plush SkyTop Village resort. But Scott has other plans. Determined to evade his mother's clutches, he jumps at the chance to join a foolhardy adventure: flying a Cessna through a nighttime storm to Salt Lake City for a Metallica concert. After the plane crashes, Scott is lost and alone in the frozen wilderness, miles from anywhere anyone would search for him. As Brandon and Sherry revisit the old battles that tore them apart, they have to fight a bureaucracy that wants to abandon the search even as their son struggles to survive impossible odds. Barely alive, Scott finally finds a cabin for shelter. He thinks his troubles are over. When he discovers the truth about the man who lives there, however, it's clear that his terror has hardly begun. With his latest page-turner, John Gilstrap cements his position among today's most ingenious thriller writers.

A Murder Over a Girl

A Murder Over a Girl PDF Author: Ken Corbett
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 0805099212
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate On Feb. 12, 2008, at E. O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed his classmate, Larry King, who had recently begun to call himself "Leticia" and wear makeup and jewelry to school. Profoundly shaken by the news, and unsettled by media coverage that sidestepped the issues of gender identity and of race integral to the case, psychologist Ken Corbett traveled to LA to attend the trial. As visions of victim and perpetrator were woven and unwoven in the theater of the courtroom, a haunting picture emerged not only of the two young teenagers, but also of spectators altered by an atrocity and of a community that had unwittingly gestated a murder. Drawing on firsthand observations, extensive interviews and research, as well as on his decades of academic work on gender and sexuality, Corbett holds each murky facet of this case up to the light, exploring the fault lines of memory and the lacunae of uncertainty behind facts. Deeply compassionate, and brimming with wit and acute insight, A Murder Over a Girl is a riveting and stranger-than-fiction drama of the human psyche.

Wimpy Is the New Cool

Wimpy Is the New Cool PDF Author: Zainab Abdullahi
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468579266
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
Will Martin just started a group called Wimpy Club as he thinks wimpy is the new cool. Its about new life, new friends, lots of adventures, and lots of stuff that you havent expected.

The Tashkent Crisis

The Tashkent Crisis PDF Author: William J. Craig
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504021355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Superpowers play a deadly game of brinkmanship in this “unputdownable” Cold War thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Enemy at the Gates(Manchester Evening News). The Soviet Union delivers an ultimatum to the president of the United States: Surrender unconditionally within 72 hours or a secret weapon of unprecedented capabilities will take millions of American lives. President William Mellon Stark ran on a campaign of peace and kept his promises, slashing the military budget and pouring millions into domestic programs. Now the nation is years behind in the technology of mass destruction. Desperate measures are Stark’s only options. In Soviet Asia, a team of Special Forces saboteurs led by Colonel Joe Safcek attempts to vaporize the mystery weapon with a miniature atom bomb. Closer to home, the president stages an explosive hoax to justify evacuating Washington, DC. But as zero hours approaches, Stark realizes that it might already be too late, and that he will bear the terrible responsibility of leading the United States into the ultimate confrontation.

The Cold War Thrillers

The Cold War Thrillers PDF Author: William J. Craig
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504057066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
Two explosive novels set in the perilous days when the world stood on the brink of chaos—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Enemy at the Gates. For almost fifty years after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union played a dangerous game in the shadows. And from those shadows would emerge unsung heroes who would fight for freedom . . . The Strasbourg Legacy: Investigating the possible Soviet theft of US munitions, CIA agent Matt Corcoran hears rumors that German communists and Aryan terrorists are conspiring to assassinate political leaders. But far more ominous is the underground cadre of surviving Nazi officers bent on starting the Fourth Reich . . . The Tashkent Crisis: As tensions rise between the superpowers, the Soviets deliver an ultimatum: surrender unconditionally or a devastating secret weapon will kill millions of Americans. Now a Special Forces team led by Col. Joe Safcek must infiltrate a secret Soviet base and destroy the mystery weapon. But the closer they get, the more Safcek realizes it may already be too late . . . With these “furious-paced” novels of “timeclock suspense” William Craig takes readers back to a time when the Cold War could have started burning with a single spark (Kirkus Reviews).

Rogue

Rogue PDF Author: Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101596732
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Kiara has Asperger’s syndrome, and it’s hard for her to make friends. So whenever her world doesn’t make sense—which is often—she relies on Mr. Internet for answers. But there are some questions he can’t answer, like why she always gets into trouble, and how do kids with Asperger’s syndrome make friends? Kiara has a difficult time with other kids. They taunt her and she fights back. Now she’s been kicked out of school. She wishes she could be like her hero Rogue—a misunderstood X-Men mutant who used to hurt anyone she touched until she learned how to control her special power. When Chad moves in across the street, Kiara hopes that, for once, she’ll be able to make friendship stick. When she learns his secret, she’s so determined to keep Chad as a friend that she agrees not to tell. But being a true friend is more complicated than Mr. Internet could ever explain, and it might be just the thing that leads Kiara to find her own special power. In Rogue, author Lyn Miller-Lachmann celebrates everyone’s ability to discover and use whatever it is that makes them different.

Sensual Healing

Sensual Healing PDF Author: Michelle Harris
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583482792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
Sensual Healing is an enticing, contemporary romance of human emotion that reveals the foundations of love, passion, betrayal and desire. Follow the tentative steps of Ariel Ashton, a beautiful, young, and naive grade school teacher, who's volunteered at her city's hospital. Among the many familiar faces she knows at the hospital, she meets the enigmatic Dr. Brandon Shields. His cold and hard visage fuels a forbidden longing deep within Ariel touching the very cords of her young heart. A disaster of fiery rumors circulate around the hospital and suddenly Ariel and Dr. Shields are thrown into a situation that can only reveal the depths of their hearts....
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