Everybody Knew Pete

Everybody Knew Pete
Author: Marian Mathews Hersrud
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Maine
ISBN: 1449014984

A ten-year-old murder in a coastal town in Maine brings together a former resident who may have witnessed the crime and a Miami crime reporter writing a play about the murder.

Everybody Knew

Everybody Knew
Author: Michael Clemenger
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1446491404

'Holding me around the waist he drew me close to him. "And which of us do you prefer, Michael? You can tell me, it won't get back to Brother Price."' Michael Clemenger was handed over as a baby to the unloving care of a religious-run children's home. Aged eight, he was transferred to St Joseph's Industrial School. Chosen as their 'favourite' by two Christian Brothers, Michael endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of both men. Brother Price struck at night, while Brother Roberts took pleasure in a weekly bathtime ritual. Although everybody at the institution knew, even the two Brothers' 'protection' did not save Michael from merciless beatings by other sadistic men charged with his care. Despite the unbelievable trauma of his early life, Michael emerged unbroken and determined to make something of himself. Everybody Knew is a story of remarkable spirit and courage.

What If . . . Everyone Knew Your Name

What If . . . Everyone Knew Your Name
Author: Liz Ruckdeschel
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0307434117

Meet Haley Miller. She’s a 15-year-old girl of average height, average weight, and an average sense of style. Installed in her first public high school, Haley faces the toughest choices of her young life. And guess what? She’s all yours. In this interactive novel, readers lead Haley through the halls of Hillsdale High for better or for worse. Until graduation do you part. Do you guide her away from the pitfalls of peer pressure? Or into the vortex of bad boys and parties? Send her to homecoming with the captain of the soccer team . . . or have her skip the dance to go on a road trip with the hot rebel. Give Haley a makeover or teach her to love herself the way she is. Pick which crowd she’ll hang with. Tell her how often to do her homework. And decide whether she drinks or inhales. You determine her fortune. Her grades, her friends, her love life, her future. With Haley’s many positive traits, you should have no trouble achieving success . . . or will you? It’s all in the way you work, love, and play with Haley Miller, the girl with the most potential at Hillsdale High.

Everybody's Autobiography

Everybody's Autobiography
Author: Gertrude Stein
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2013-03-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307829774

“Alice B. Toklas wrote hers and now everybody will write theirs.” In 1933 Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists, and the author found herself a celebrity. Everybody’s Autobiography is the very Steinian account of her soul-satisfying next five years in France, England, and America, where she made a triumphant tour of the country. Here are Stein’s devastating analyses of some of the major figures of the day whom she met—among them Dashiell Hammett, Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso, Marianne Moore, Mrs. Roosevelt, and Sherwood Anderson—and also of her own life and work.

Finding Dignity

Finding Dignity
Author: J. Marie Darden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451639929

J. Marie Darden delivers the sequel to Enemy Fields with this powerful coming-of-age novel about identity and finding peace by finding yourself. Dignity Jackson is having an identity crisis. She is a child of interracial parents, and the ambiguity of her ancestry is confusing her more than ever. Since her mother has abandoned Dignity at age three, and since her father has died before she is born, Dignity has been raised by her strict Aunt Lette and Uncle Sam. And though she is raised with love, she still feels out of place. No one ever explained to her how race affects her identity and her path to self-discovery. At age eighteen, Dignity accepts a scholarship to Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Yet she still doesn't seem to fit in. Dignity's neurotic quirks make it difficult for her to bond with Sal, her Italian boyfriend, and her friends, Stacy and Khalil. A pilgrimage through the South helps Dignity uncover many truths about her heritage. It is there, on her road to self-discovery and acceptance, that Dignity realizes the past may be the key to her future. Author J. Marie Darden, herself an alumnus of Morgan State University, perfectly captures the fundamental essence of attending a historically black university. With dynamic characters and a passionate protagonist, Finding Dignity will lead readers not only on Dignity's journey, but on a journey of their own.

A Soul for Australia?

A Soul for Australia?
Author: John Gatt-Rutter
Publisher: ATF Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1921511222

Fosco speaks as a member of Post-Christian Society that has emerged from the Great Walk-Out from established religion but as one who cannot subscribe to the Economic Myth of Rational Humanism. Fosco's text, which he dubs My Reality, is republished in this volume, accompanied by six exploratory essays, ranging from the supportive to the dismissive, which seek to open up debate on the issues which he poses. Can we work towards a society in which humane values prevail, or must we accept that ours is, for lack of a better, the best of possible worlds?

The Execution Channel

The Execution Channel
Author: Ken MacLeod
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008-06-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765320674

From the modern master of political SF, a tale of Apocalypse Soon