Love That Boy

Author: Ron Fournier
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0804140502
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
"[A]n eloquent, brave, big-hearted book…about the timeless anxieties and emotions of parenthood, and the modern twists thereon.” —James Fallows, The Atlantic Love That Boy is a uniquely personal story about the causes and costs of outsized parental expectations. What we want for our children—popularity, normalcy, achievement, genius—and what they truly need—grit, empathy, character—are explored by National Journal’s Ron Fournier, who weaves his extraordinary journey to acceptance around the latest research on childhood development and stories of other loving-but-struggling parents.

The Boy Without a Name / De Jongen Zonder Naam

Author: Idries Shah
Publisher: Teaching Stories
ISBN: 9781958289594
Category :
Languages : nl
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this teaching story, a boy seeks and eventually finds his own name - and also gives away an old dream that he doesn't want, for a wonderful new dream.

The Boy Without a Flag

Author: Abraham Rodriguez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. captures what it's like to grow up too fast amid the crushing poverty of the South Bronx in this collection that depicts a gritty slice of New York Latino life. Boy Without a Flag is "about the rancid underbelly of the American Dream," says the author. "These are the kids no one likes to talk about; they are seen as the enemy by most people. I want to show them as they really are, not as society wishes them to be." In these truth-telling stories about his neighborhood of Puerto Rican adolescents growing up in the South Bronx, Rodriguez introduces us to the youth who fight every day for survival in our cities.

The Boy Without Love

Author: Simon Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912624485
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Simon Dawson is a broadcaster, smallholder and author of several books including humorous life-on-a-farm memoirs. However, his cheery exterior masks a very unhappy past. His mother did not love him, and informed him of this fact often. She spent most of his childhood trying to find someone to whom she could give him away to, played him off against various gangster lovers and abusive boyfriends, failed to feed him and overtly taunted him. Simon, meanwhile, lost his virginity to a much older woman, failed spectacularly at school, and took the blame for their house burning down. But eventually he found a soul mate and together they now care for a menagerie of animals. In his new book he decides not just to face up to the emotional damage his mother inflicted on him, but to try to understand her and achieve some kind of reconciliation before she dies. Was it his innate unloveableness, or was it something that would now be called postnatal depression? Warm, witty and honest, the book charts the humour, the anger, the confusion, the hurt, the hate and the desperation of a mother who can't give love and a son longing for it. All of this is set against the backdrop of present day life on the farm where some animals also mysteriously reject their young.

The Boy Who Said No

Author: Patti Sheehy
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
ISBN: 1608090817
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351

Book Description
As a boy Frank Mederos’ grandfather teaches him to fish, to navigate the seas, and to think for himself, much needed skills under the new Castro regime. When Frank is drafted into the army, he is soon promoted to the Special Forces, where he is privy to top military secrets. But young Frank has no sympathy for Fidel. He thirsts for freedom and longs to join his girlfriend who has left Cuba for America. Frank yearns to defect, but his timing couldn’t be worse. After two unsuccessful escape attempts, Frank learns that the departure of the next available boat conflicts with upcoming military exercises. If he stays, he will miss the boat. If he doesn’t, he will be the object of a massive manhunt. Problems abound: How will Frank escape the army base without being seen? Where will he hide until the boat comes? How can he outwit his commanding officer? And how can he elude hundreds of soldiers ordered to bring him back “dead or alive”? Frank’s true story, a tale of love, loss and courage that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page is turned.

Random Tales Of A Daily Life Without Love

Author: Randhal Wendel Fernando de Souza Santos
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1547565802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description
This book is a simple story about love (or its lack). About how love (or its lack) may change a life. It is about random stories that intersect in the middle of the road. About souls who adopt and end up modifying each other with love. “The faded yellow facade of the old building matched the solitary sunflower of the window of some apartment. Their window would also have a yellow sunflower spinning always in search of the sun. Just like them, who, from now on, would always be looking to a bright and radiant sun that would bring them the hope of a happy and joyful future. The next day they would find out where the Tutelary Council or Juvenile Court of that little town was half hidden at the end of the world. For the first time, life made sense to her, and she finally knew what was missing to her life. It was missing love”.

The Boy Without A Soul

Author: K Duncan Deaton, MD
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1648045243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510

Book Description
The Boy Without a Soul By: K Duncan Deaton, MD The Boy Without a Soul is a thought-provoking novel about the rude confrontation between biblical inerrancy and the strange supernatural beliefs of some Christians, with science and modern morality. Because there is no one fundamentalist position, K Duncan Deaton creates a hybrid sect named the Roman Baptists. The story begins with an atheist oncologist Tom Tanner whose compassion confronts the church’s fundamentalist dogma. It continues with the possibility of cloning Jesus from the communion service’s transubstantiated flesh and blood. And the story ends, as it must, with the enactment of the perfect justice of God as described in the inerrant Bible.

The Boy Crisis

Author: Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1942952724
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science. It's a crisis of mental health. ADHD is on the rise. And as boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It's a crisis of fathering. Boys are growing up with less-involved fathers and are more likely to drop out of school, drink, do drugs, become delinquent, and end up in prison. It's a crisis of purpose. Boys' old sense of purpose—being a warrior, a leader, or a sole breadwinner—are fading. Many bright boys are experiencing a "purpose void," feeling alienated, withdrawn, and addicted to immediate gratification. So, what is The Boy Crisis? A comprehensive blueprint for what parents, teachers, and policymakers can do to help our sons become happier, healthier men, and fathers and leaders worthy of our respect.

Without Love I am Nothing

Author: Des Bowman
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1683507649
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
Many people today have developed addictions and mental illnesses as a result of having been exposed to violence and abuse as young children. Children who have been exposed to violence in the home run a higher risk of being influenced or recruited by drug dealers, gangs, pedophiles, and terrorist groups, as they tend to gravitate towards anyone who shows interest in them. Without Love I Am Nothing assists people with understanding how their childhood situations may contribute to their suffering from depression, substance addiction, violence against others, and self-harming behaviors. It helps them understand why they can't cope with the responsibilities that come with raising their own families, and how childhood domestic violence contributes to those tendencies. Des Bowman guides people to the healing they need, so they too can live life to its fullest potential.

The Giving Tree

Author: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061965103
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!