Just Don't Fall

Author: Emma St. Clair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : First loves
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Before Logan Barnes was hockey’s hottest bad boy, he was my brother’s best friend ... and my first crush. Oh, yeah--and the guy who ghosted me and broke my teenage heart. Now Logan is back in Harvest Hollow, but not willingly. Recovering from an injury (and some bad press), he’s stuck playing for our minor league team. Which means I’ll be working with him almost daily. As the hockey team's social media manager, it’s my job to wrangle all the guys into filming TikTok trending videos. But Logan doesn’t want to be wrangled. Turns out ... neither does my heart. Because my old crush never died. And when Logan becomes my accidental fake boyfriend, those old feelings flare hot enough to melt the ice. But this is all totally one-sided. Totally fake. Isn't it? No matter what signals he seems to be giving me or how real things start to feel, I know Logan’s not home for good. I survived Logan leaving me once. But this time, I’m not so sure my heart will recover ...

Just Don't Fall

Author: Josh Sundquist
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101189886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
Read Josh Sundquist's posts on the Penguin Blog. One moment Josh Sundquist was your typical energetic and inquisitive nine year- old boy. The next, his entire life changed when he was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a particularly virulent cancer strain that would eventually claim Josh's left leg. Told in a wide-eyed, winning, heartbreaking voice, Just Don't Fall is the story of the boy Josh was and of the young man he became. His story begins in a small, close-knit Southern town, where his father-an aspiring pastor questioning his faith, and his mother-- homeschooling an ever- growing brood of children-struggle to make ends meet. Josh journeys through a dizzying array of hospitals and eventually lands at a pivotal place: the nearby mountain, where he makes his first attempt to ski. It is on the slopes, and later, on the race course, that Josh's world bursts wide open in a way no one could have ever anticipated. The inspiration to ski, however, and to become a champion, is not all that Josh has to contend with- there is adolescence to navigate, the transition from homeschool to public high school, and girls. There is an increasingly turbulent and difficult home life, with another cancer scare, a wayward brother, and dwindling finances to pay for training. Finally, there is the wild, bumpy road to the Paralympics in Turin, with a misanthropic coach, training in the Rockies, and a timeless friendship with a charismatic, imposing Brooklyn buddy named Ralph. Through it all, Josh is forced to question his abilities, his sanity, his will, his faith in himself, and his faith in God. Because of, not despite, these myriad obstacles in his path, Josh is able to achieve a genuine grace: the grace to risk failure and to succeed. It is the grace of a young boy becoming a man and of a champion realizing his greatest dream. Josh Sundquist shows us with charm, humility and remarkable strength that even if we fall, this inner grace can lift us up and carry us over the many mountains we all must face.

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Author: Matthew Charles Marshall
Publisher: Matthew Marshall
ISBN: 9780976647607
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description

Just Don't Fall

Author: Josh Sundquist
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593621999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Adapted for young readers from his adult memoir, Just Don't Fall is the the hilarious true story about Josh Sundquist's battle with childhood cancer and how he worked his way to making the United States paralympic ski team. The inspiration for the Apple TV show Best Foot Forward! When he was ten years old Josh Sundquist had his leg amputated to treat bone cancer. But this is not a sad story; on the contrary, this memoir is a story of resilience, heart, and most importantly: humor. Young Josh had a lot of adapting to do after he lost his leg. He had to learn how to walk again. He had to accept that he wouldn't be able to try out for the travel soccer team. He knew his life would never be the same again. But when he sees a poster in the hospital elevator advertising skiing classes, he realized all might not be lost. Equal parts heartbreaking and hilarious, Just Don't Fall is Josh's story of surviving cancer with 50/50 odds, learning to be a professional skiier, and making his way to being a bestselling writer and motivational speaker. Inspirational and moving, Josh's story is one that can be appreciated by readers of all ages.

It's Just Me !

Author: Gwendolyn A. Guity
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105197247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
It's Just Me! Is an coming of age book series. In this book you are introduced to Heaven and her inner circle this includes friends enemies and family. In this book she uses her "trusty old Friend" to help her tell about the summer she realized that things were coming to another level in her life. It's Just Me! is a great book packed with personality and humor which will connect with ages from a "tween" and up

Dramatic Works of Sheridan and Goldsmith. With Goldsmith's Poems

Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description

Crux

Author: Jean Guerrero
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0399592415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
A daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death—now with a new afterword PEN America Literary Award Winner • “The kind of memoir that seems to redefine the genre.”—Los Angeles Review of Books From renowned journalist Jean Guerrero, here is the haunting story of a daughter’s mission to save her father from his demons and to save herself from destruction. Marco Antonio was raised in Mexico, then migrated to California, where he met Jean’s mother, Jeannette, a Puerto Rican woman just out of med school. Marco is a self-taught genius at building things—including mythologies about himself and the hidden forces that drive us. When he goes on the run, Jean follows and embarks on an investigative journey between cultures and languages, the earthly and the mystical, truth and fiction. A distinctive memoir about the search for an elusive parent, Crux is both a riveting adventure story and a profoundly original exploration of the mysteries of our world, our most intimate relationships, and ourselves. “[Guerrero] writes poetically about borders as a metaphor for the boundary of identity between father and daughter and the porous connective tissues that bind them.”—The National Book Review

Secrets

Author: Andleeb Kamal
Publisher: INK FREEDOM PUBLISHERS
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 109

Book Description
A Book "SECRETS" is a collection of poems by a team of authors, Some Of the best writers of country. This book is comical with its distinctive records of write-ups as it consists of some exquisite write-ups reckon in nearly all the genres that leads to make a complete package as it can be your best relief while have stress or negative thoughts. The key motive abaft the Publication of this book is to fabricate devotion and recognition towards Literature among our new descent and to endow the podium for young and passionate emerging writers to screen down their dowry.

Emotional "Photographs"

Author: Adria N. Ross
Publisher: Adria Ross
ISBN: 0557808677
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
A photograph captures the image of one, singular moment in time.These pages expose the "photographs" of my emotions...

Ever, Dirk

Author: John Coldstream
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297856200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1329

Book Description
The hitherto unpublished Dirk Bogarde - the best of his marvellous letters The success of John Coldstream's bestselling biography of Dirk Bogarde demonstrates that the interest in one of Britain's leading actors, memoirists and novelists does not diminish, even though it is a decade since his death. Bogarde was a secretive man, who destroyed many of his own papers and diaries. Fortunately, the recipients of his letters treasured them, enabling John Coldstream to bring together this fascinating collection of hitherto unpublished material. Bogarde wrote to each correspondent according to the nature of the friendship, but invariably he was frank, gossipy, funny and often malicious. The joy of writing, particularly as he grew older and chose to live in France, was never far away. The letters display the qualities familiar to those who knew the private Bogarde: acute observation, laser-like intelligence, impatience with the foolish, compassion for the needy, a relish for the witty metaphor, and a catastrophic disdain for correct spelling and punctuation. Above all, to read his letters is to hear him talk, and no conversation with Dirk Bogarde was dull. Recipients included the film director Joseph Losey, Bogarde's first publisher Norah Smallwood, the film critic Dilys Powell, and the novelist Penelope Mortimer.