Kiki's Journey

Kiki's Journey
Author: Kristy Orona-Ramirez
Publisher: Children's Book Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780892392148

When eight-year-old Kiki travels to Taos Pueblo, the reservation where her parents grew up, she confronts her identity as both a Tiwa Indian and a big city girl.

Hell Naw!

Hell Naw!
Author: Allanah Dobson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2014-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 149904934X

Trenae' has sass, beauty and brains. She has everything she wants except a loving relationship, one that involves more than just sex. Jamal, an old flame, continues to burn very brightly in her life until she meets Korry. Korry is the perfect man and her ideal soul mate. Everything seems fine until Trenae's life is turned upside down, and she is forced to pick the man best suited for her life. Her best friend and family provide support and humor as she deals with love's battlefield.

On Beauty

On Beauty
Author: Zadie Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0735234469

In this loose retelling of Howard's End, Zadie Smith considers the big questions: Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families—the Belseys and the Kippses—and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kippses, the confusions—both personal and political—of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.

Kiki's Journey: A Tale of Friendship and Adventure

Kiki's Journey: A Tale of Friendship and Adventure
Author: Cindy Monica
Publisher: Cindy Monica
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2024-10-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

In the heart of a vibrant jungle, a young elephant named Kiki embarks on ajourney of discovery and growth after becoming separated from her mother. Alongside her new friends—Miko, Zuri, Juma, and Lala—Kiki learns the importance of friendship, courage, and teamwork as they explore the wonders of their lush surroundings. The adventure begins when Kiki, curious and eager, proposes an expedition to Rainbow Falls, a breathtaking site filled with shimmering colors. Guided by Miko, the group encounters challenges along the way, including slippery paths and the need to support each other. Their bond strengthens as they face obstacles, emphasizing the value of friendship.

Kiki's Tale

Kiki's Tale
Author: Jerri O'Powell
Publisher: Jerri O'Powell
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2020-12-16
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Kiki's Tale Kiki is an 11 year old little girl. Unlike most children in the galaxy, She was born and spent the first 11 years of her life on the pirate ship, The Twenty-Wun Stars. With her parents leaving the ship her first foray into normal life introduced her to her 12 year old Auntie Naya. The occasion of their meeting was a sad one, as Naya’s mom was just killed in an explosion on another planet in a tragic accident. Kiki's first relations with her auntie are to comfort her in her time of loss Soon however they find the explosion that took her mom’s life was not an accident. It was the work of a civil war fugitive, turned confederate president, turned ultra-powerful godlike hero. Kiki’s comforting turned to exposition of pirate law that says when family blood is spilled equal blood must be spilled to satisfy pirate justice. He had to die, but what chance do two little girls on the other side of the galaxy have of killing the president of a confederate world with the powers of a god? Well if one is a powerful shapeshifting, genius, rehuman being and the other is from the high gravity world of Torrey 9… well still slim to none. Over three thousand years after the final battle over the soul mankind, between God, Satan, and Nefarious, destroys the earth, a new chapter begins. The resulting hyperspace blast from the earth’s destruction flings the last of humanity into the furthest reaches of space on their surviving starships. Over a 300 years passes before these star cast seeds of mankind reclaim the stars, and begin to find each other. The first of the new worlds to find each other and reconnect old humanity on new worlds, would eventually form The Confederation of Republic Worlds. This union would be marked with the erection of the Jara Timekeeping Tower on Jara Prime, broadcasting a synced time throughout the known universe. This is the Jara Era. A Short Story Expansion form The Dark Son of Deslar, In the I AM Andrean series.

Funeral for a Dog: A Novel

Funeral for a Dog: A Novel
Author: Thomas Pletzinger
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 039308034X

“The kind of writing that makes us want to read the whole book as soon as possible; a shot of adrenaline that immediately takes us to a new world.”—David Varno, Words Without Borders Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been quarreling with his wife (who is also his editor); he suspects she has other reasons for sending him away.After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated ménage à trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present. Rich with anthropological and literary allusion, this prize-winning debut set in Europe, Brazil, and New York, tells the parallel stories of two writers struggling with the burden of the past and the uncertainties of the future. Funeral for a Dog won the prestigious Uwe-Johnson Prize, and critics raved: "Pletzinger's debut is a real smash hit. It's been a long time since a young German writer has thrown himself into the hurly-burly of life and literature with so much intelligence and bravado" (Wolfgang Hobel, Der Spiegel).

Good Morning, Kiki

Good Morning, Kiki
Author: Sarah Lukas
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780375815331

Cassie's baby sister Kiki greets the morning by eating a hearty breakfast, washing up, and getting dressed--all with a little help from her big sister.

An Albany Trio

An Albany Trio
Author: William Kennedy
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 625
Release: 1996-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0140257861

“Kennedy's justly acclaimed Albany Cycle [is] one of the imperishable products of American literature since the Second World War. These books can be read singly or in sequence, but read they must be. Kennedy is one of our necessary writers.”—GQ Legs inaugurated William Kennedy’s celebrated cycle of novels set in Albany, New York. True to both life and myth. Legs evokes the flamboyant career of the legendary gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond, who was finally murdered in Albany, and his showgirl mistress as they blaze a trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s. The second novel in the Albany cycle depicts Billy Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler, and small-time bookie, as he moves through the lurid nighttime glare of a tough Depression-era town. Full of Irish pluck, he works the fringes of Albany sporting life with his own particular style—until he falls from underworld grace. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Ironweed, Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, and full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany after killing a scab during a workers’ strike, and again after he accidentally—and fatally—dropped his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back, roaming familiar streets and trying to make peace with ghosts of the past and present. William Kennedy’s Albany Cycle of novels reflect what he once described as the fusion of his imagination with a single place. A native and longtime resident of Albany, New York, his work moves from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, chronicling family life, the city’s netherworld, and its spheres of power—financial, ethnic, political—often among the Irish-Americans who dominated the city in this period. The novels in his cycle include, Legs, Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, Ironweed, Quinn’s Book, Very Old Bones, The Flaming Corsage, and Roscoe.

All of Us with Wings

All of Us with Wings
Author: Michelle Ruiz Keil
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1641291354

Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame. But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe—not the family Xochi’s chosen, nor the one she left behind.

The Boy's Own Annual

The Boy's Own Annual
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 894
Release: 1910
Genre: Boys
ISBN:

Stories, articles, interviews, puzzles, games, jokes, and other miscellaneous writings for boys.