Ostracized as a child, he held on to a belief that a good life was waiting for him in the years ahead. Now approaching the age of twenty, he's a completely mediocre college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After learning he can sell his remaining years-and just how little they're worth-he chooses to divest himself of all but his last three months. Has Kusunoki truly destroyed his last chance to find happiness...or has he somehow found it?

    It consisted of her old diary entries from 2007-2009 in efforts to show the aftermath of suicide. She provides a free online link but all proceeds will go towards suicide prevention programs. Her intent behind the book is to remind people like her (survivors of suicide) that they are not alone.

    When Jahir, one of the rare and reclusive Eldritch espers, arrives on campus, he's unprepared for the challenges of a vast and multicultural society... but fortunately, second-year student Vasiht'h is willing to take him under his wing. Will the two win past their troubles and doubts and see the potential for a once-in-a-lifetime partnership?Book 1 of the Dreamhealers Duology.

    Fortunately, Scripture is filled with helpful information about our future home—we just have to know where to look.Dr. David Jeremiah has spent a lifetime studying what the Bible has to say about heaven, and now in Answers to Your Questions about Heaven, he has done just that—provided answers to your most pressing questions about heaven, angels, and eternity in a straightforward, easy-to-understand, biblically based book. A perfect gift for friends and family and a handy resource to keep on your own shelf, this handsome little book will ignite your imagination and whet your appetite for all the amazing experiences that await!

    Aya is a lighthearted story about life in the Ivory Coast during the 1970s, a particularly thriving and wealthy time in the country's history.While the stories found in Aya: Love in Yop City maintain their familiar tone, quick pace, and joyfulness, we see Aya and her friends beginning to make serious decisions about their future. When a professor tries to take advantage of Aya, her plans to become a doctor are seriously shaken, and she vows to take revenge on the lecherous man. With a little help from the tight-knit community of Yopougon though, Aya comes through these trials stronger than ever.This second volume of the complete Aya includes unique appendices—recipes, guides to understanding Ivorian slang, street sketches, and concluding remarks from Marguerite Abouet explaining history and social milieu. Inspired by Abouet's childhood, the series has received praise for offering relief from the disaster-struck focus of most stories set in Africa. Aya is the winner of the Best First Album Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival; was nominated for the YALSA's Great Graphic Novels list; and was included on "best of" lists from The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.

    It's hilarious high school dating hi-jinx in a great pocket-sized edition from Archie Comics! This graphic novel collection features hand-picked, favorite stories about the comedically dysfunctional dating scene of friends Archie, Betty and Veronica at Riverdale High.

    Is there another way to see life? Are there other ways to love someone? Are dreams just dreams? Are lady bits irresistible? Is this intro any good? Read on and find out!Ingredients: Humor, friendship, boobs & smooches on boobs, surreal dreamscapes, story-tellings, innuendos, character development, and genuine love for all.

    Taken over a span of 93 days, the book is filled with day-to-day photos as well as illustrations and thoughts and messages by L.L’s Bravo Viewtiful: 그룹 인피니트 엘의 포토에세이 북 인기 그룹 인피니트의 멤버 L(엘)이 손수 사진을 찍고 글을 쓴, 포토 에세이집이다. 카메라를 구입하고 촬영한 93일간을 매일 사진과 짧은 문장, 자필 일러스트, 일기 등으로 자신의 일상을 자연스럽게 담아 냈다. 사진을 촬영하는 모습과 이번 책을 위해서 사진을 고르는 모습 등을 실은 메이킹 DVD, L(엘)이 촬영한 멤버의 사진이 사용된 포스트 카드, 메모노트 등이 함께 수록되어 있어 더욱 의미가 깊다. 카메라를 구입하고 촬영한 93일간을 매일 사진과 짧은 문장, 자필 일러스트나 문자로 쓴 일기처럼 자연스러운 L(엘)의 일상을 담아낸 포토 에세이입니다.또한 사진을 촬영하는 모습과 이번 책을 위해서 사진을 고르는 모습 등을 실은 메이킹 DVD와 L(엘)이 촬영한 멤버의 사진이 사용된 포스트 카드, 메모노트가 특전으로 수록되어 있습니다. http://bravoviewtiful.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=...

    This is the cute story of Yuuya Freeter, who picks up two stray 'Nuko' a species that is more cat than human.フリーターの悠哉(ゆうや)が「ぬこ」に出会った! のんびりローテンションなオカン系男子と、コロコロかわいい不思議な生き物“ぬこ"2匹が繰り広げるまったり癒しショート。

    They have nothing in common and at first, they were just friends. But that’s not enough for Harumi- he wants more from Ryo and he realizes that he has fallen in love with him. Feeling anxious and emotional, he wants to tell him how he feels… but he can’t. Fearing rejection, he’d rather be just friends and not ruin what he has with him. Here- we have a story of pain, sorrow and happiness of being in love.

    His aptitude with numbers earns him a part-time working maintenance on the global virtual reality world, OZ. One day, right before summer vacation, Natsuki asks Kenji to do her a favor -accompany her to her great-grandmother's 90th birthday celebration deep in the Japanese countryside. As Kenji tries to find his footing amongst the boisterous and tightly-knit Jinnouchi clan, receives a mysterious email with a long code and the message: "Solve me." Little does Kenji know what solving that code could lead to... Based on the award-winning and top-selling animated film by Mamoru Hosoda!

    Whether playing table tennis, chatting about favorite TV shows, or just relaxing together, they’re happy to share their days. When Adachi’s friendship turns into romantic attraction, the relationship begins to change, one day at a time. This beloved yuri series has been charming audiences in Japan for years, and now, for the first time ever, read the original Adachi and Shimamura light novels in English--both in paperback and in early ebook editions!

    With her best friend Kat at her side, she was counting the days until the end of high school when they could go away to college together. Then she met Scott, a man who wouldn't touch her but would turn her life upside-down. Katherine Horne is perfectly content being in the background. All she wants is to graduate and get out of the town she's grown to loathe. She'd do anything to avoid confrontation but when she finds herself in increasingly humiliating situations, she realizes some things can't be ignored. Especially when it comes to bullying. With their carefully planned futures unraveling, Kat and Alissa will come to realize the bond of their friendship will be tested... and might not make it through intact.This is book 1 in a 3 part series.

    Between these covers, a Deaf couple fights over their son’s language use, an Australian woman joins the community as an adult, a Deaf woman’s body is fished out a dumpster, and a British Deaf poet wants to keep “zombies”—hearing people—out. The range of perspectives is astonishing, including opposing views. In one story, a hearing journalist tells us about the infamous Milan congress of educators who banned sign language in 1880, while in another story, a Deaf woman tells us what it’s like to have a hearing journalist interview her and her husband for a “human interest” story. Even in pieces that are about just one Deaf person, readers get a powerful sense of life in one of the most vibrant and least understood communities.Its 32 writers include Andria Alefhi, Allison L. Aubrecht, Veronica Bickle, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Amber Ceffalio, Karen Christie, Willy Conley, T. K. Dalton, Mark Drolsbaugh, Donald Grushkin, Frank Gallimore, K. C. Harmon, Christopher Jon Heuer, Paul Hostovsky, Karen Lloyd, Raymond Luczak, Dominic McGreal, Lauren Ridloff, Kristen Ringman, Curtis Robbins, Sarah Segal, Dean Sheridan, Robert Siebert, Eddie Swayze, Pia Taavila-Borsheim, Stephen Tendrich, Michael Uniacke, Clayton Valli, Michele Westfall, Donna Williams, Morgan Grayce Willow, and Pamela Wright.The book will be available as an ebook at Apple iBookstore and on the Kindle.

    There she meets the technologically addicted Eleanor who lives all her life online. Eleanor just happens to run one of the most popular classic rock blogs ever and Mary Frances just happens to discover her grandmother’s extensive Beatles collection up in the attic. A coming of age story all about Beatles, blogs, and best friends. Where the technologically advanced meets a friend tucked away in the delicate folds of real life.

    

    The psychologically-impoverished heiress, the homeless housewife, the closed-minded artist, the car-hating cab driver, the down-to-earth rising star, and the paternally-challenged stay-at-home dad have nothing in common other than the fact that they are miserable. Their lives are filled with problems, but their heads are void of solutions. It is only after coming in contact with a certain piece of enigmatic currency that they find their way to happiness. Inspired by the etymology of the phrase “buck passing,” which recounts that an object (known as a “buck”) was passed during early poker games as a means of indicating which player's turn it was to deal the cards, The Buck Pass is the story of a single dollar bill that acts as an agent of chance and change. Rather than deal the cards, however, the protagonists of The Buck Pass find themselves encouraged to deal inadvertently with their problems – to follow their hearts, leave their mark, and, like the dollar, move on. The Buck Pass – it doesn't stop here.

    It includes the ever famous Yotsuba venturing out into the different places around Japan. These images are taken from 2008 to 2012 that includes her in theme parks, neighborhoods, parks, cities, and beaches.It incorporate real life photo images with animation. (source: animebooks)

    Pub Date :2013-03-07 Pages: 80 Language: English Publisher: Ladybird Books Meet the LEGO Friends - LEGOs gorgeous new range aimed exclusively at girls! Meet the characters - Andrea. Emma. ??Mia. Stephanie and Olivia - read the stories about life in Heartlake City and complete the activities in this lovely 2-in-1 book.

    Redwood’s collection of deeply affecting stories about the enduring effects of colonialism and the Vietnamese War over the course of a century on the Vietnamese and the American and French foreigners who became inextricably connected with their fate. These finely etched, powerful tales span a wide array of settings, from the former imperial capital of Hue at the end of the Nguyen Dynasty, to Hanoi after the American pullout from Vietnam, the Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979, contemporary San Francisco, and Schenectady, New York.   Redwood reveals the inner lives of the Vietnamese characters and also shows how others appear through their eyes. Some of the images and characters in Love Beneath the Napalm—the look that Mr. Tu's burned and scarred face always inflicts on strangers in the title story; attorney and American Vietnam War–veteran Carlton Griswold's complicated relationship with Mary Thuy in "The Summer Associate"; Phan Van Toan's grief and desire, caught between two worlds in "The Stamp Collector"—provide a haunting, vivid portrayal of lives uprooted by conflict. Throughout, readers will find moments that cut to the quick, exposing human resilience, sorrow, joy, and the traumatic impact of war on all those who are swept up in it.   "In his collection Love beneath the Napalm, James Redwood chronicles the choices made by those who survived the Vietnam War and their ensuing consequences. These stories, unusual and unexpected, recount how characters shape and construct their intimate and social landscapes in the wake of conflict. These are important, intimate stories that explore a time that is receding into historical memory. Redwood is an astute writer, and these stories are an impressive debut." —Sharon Dilworth, author of Year of the Ginkgo  "As the escalation of the Vietnam conflict nears its golden anniversary, James Redwood celebrates in quiet sepia, reflecting all the complexities of the war in this shoebox full of grainy and glowing human portraits." —Robert Anderson, author of Ice Age “James D. Redwood’s Love beneath the Napalm is a beautifully written and very human testament to a people who suffered untold horrors during the Vietnam War. A haunting and very powerful collection of stories.” —James Carl Nelson, author of The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War and Five Lieutenants "Love beneath the Napalm recasts the fullness of Vietnam's suffocating and cruel trouble. The stench of the war's horror is given a freshly enraptured perspective that never wanders far from the witches' breath of the violence and lies still calling to sorrows no matter how dispersed. The only witnesses who are 'truly free,' as the author states in these quietly alarming and necessary stories that really do take hold, are wind and water." —David Matlin, author of A HalfMan Dreaming and Up Fish Creek Road and Other Stories

    How can they overcome the distrust they feel to find love? Madeline wants a big, brash, never-defeated-in-battle, Norman knight. What she gets, by order of the king, is a wiry Saxon who once studied for the priesthood instead of warfare. But is this gentle man she has fallen in love with entangled in the rebellion now sweeping the land?Ranulf wants to marry the girl next door. What he gets, by order of the king , is a lush, strong Norman woman who just might be a spy reporting his every move. He wants her in every way a man can possibly want a woman. But can he trust his heart to a woman who might have been sent to root out the struggle for freedom his people are engaged in?

    

    This story is told through the eyes of two friends of the writer, young Orson Meyers and his aunt, Elsie Meyers. They emigrated from Barbados to America, Elsie in the fifties and Orson in the sixties. Paving the way for the latter, President Lyndon B. Johnson had just opened the doors a bit wider with the Immigration Act of 1965. It was a radical break from the policies of the past which selectively favored those of Northern and Western Europe but now welcomes the skilled and educated indiscriminately. These characters are real people, albeit disguised with fictitious names. Their stories are told with echoes of America's good as well as her failings, of subtle and not so subtle racism, of job and housing discrimination in those early years. "The Lure of America" encapsulates the journeys of one family all the way from Barbados and recaps the days of their early indoctrination that America was that reputed "Shining Light on the Hill". This is a story of struggle and survival, of disillusion and determination, of failure but also of triumph. Those who overcame the barriers found good fortune in the land they called their Land of Opportunity.

    During the summer of 1970, they decide to investigate the stories that have been going around for years about their Great-Grandma Bertie. She's a feisty old woman who people in Carleston Corners whisper about behind closed doors. The townspeople talk about what she does to make extra money to supplement her income, and folks come from far and near to get her service. This service, tea leaf reading, is a hush-hush sort of thing. (It's a secret but everyone knows about it.) Red, KarlaMae and Davison Kelsey have heard on many occasions that Great-Grandma Bertie reads the future from the bottom of an old tea cup. They heard she can cast spells and mix potions. They even heard that Red could probably read tea leaves too, if she really tried! This last piece of information makes Red's head spin with questions. What really goes on in Great-Grandma Bertie's newly remodeled shed? How does Great-Grandma Bertie do it? Does what she sees at the bottom of the cup come true? And, does Red really have the power to tell folks' futures? The three adventurers and mystery solvers devise a plan to find out. The plan leads them into hilarious situations, spooky and eerie occurrences and a heart-stopping escapade, which brings them to understanding and appreciating their ethnic heritage. This middle grade novel is suitable for 8-12-year-olds.

    Millions of people around the world have been inspired by Mr. Obama's historic victory and his personal story of determination and success - especially children of color; In The President Looks Like Me and Other Poems, Tony Medina celebrates the diversity that President Obama symbolizes through poems that are multicultural in scope and wide-ranging in style. With distinctly urban settings and an urban flavor, the collection covers a myriad of themes that include childhood, family, friendship, identity, spirituality, social justice and Hip Hop. Medina's poems realistically capture the impact of what it means to be young in a complex world is explored. Yet, they offer hope that resounds more prominently when a child of color can say, the president looks like me.

    Illustrated by Berry’s loose pen and lush colour washes, Carry Me is a sublime example of pure visual storytelling.

    He told the fib so prettily and sincerely that he almost made me believe it for the time being, and I really think he believed it himself. All women were lovely and of good report in his eyes, because of one he had loved. The only time I ever saw Uncle Jesse really angered was when someone in his hearing cast an aspersion on the character of a shore girl.