Summer Girl Winter Boy

Summer Girl Winter Boy
Author: Barbara Elsborg
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Male models
ISBN: 9781544660899

Jai Winter is trying to do the right thing, even though he knows it's wrong. Forced to participate in kinky sex games, the renowned model spends his spare moments creating an impressive list of suicide options. Until a snowy day provides a bit of Summer...a pink-haired burst of sunshine with a ready smile. What begins as the hottest sex of his life turns into a ray of hope. Summer Dey has baggage of her own-literally. Having spent eighteen months in South America trying to escape a shocking accident, Summer finds an illegal nightmare hidden in her suitcase. She doesn't want to put Jai in danger, but his gorgeous face and killer bod prove hard to resist. Boy meets girl, girl falls for boy, and everything would be perfect if it wasn't for blackmail, drug dealers and tragic events in both their pasts. Staying together could be their salvation-or their ultimate undoing.

Cold Summer

Cold Summer
Author: Gwen Cole
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1510707700

Today, he’s a high school dropout with no future. Tomorrow, he’s a soldier in World War II. Kale Jackson has spent years trying to control his time-traveling ability but hasn't had much luck. One day he lives in 1945, fighting in the war as a sharpshooter and helplessly watching soldiers—friends—die. Then the next day, he’s back in the present, where WWII has bled into his modern life in the form of PTSD, straining his relationship with his father and the few friends he has left. Every day it becomes harder to hide his battle wounds, both physical and mental, from the past. When the ex-girl-next-door, Harper, moves back to town, thoughts of what could be if only he had a normal life begin to haunt him. Harper reminds him of the person he was before the PTSD, which helps anchor him to the present. With practice, maybe Kale could remain in the present permanently and never step foot on a battlefield again. Maybe he can have the normal life he craves. But then Harper finds Kale’s name in a historical article—and he’s listed as a casualty of the war. Is Kale’s death inevitable? Does this mean that, one of these days, when Kale travels to the past, he may not come back? Kale knows now that he must learn to control his time-traveling ability to save himself and his chance at a life with Harper. Otherwise, he’ll be killed in a time where he doesn’t belong by a bullet that was never meant for him.

All Summer Long

All Summer Long
Author: Hope Larson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466898186

*A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018!* All Summer Long, a coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel about summer and friendships, written and illustrated by the Eisner Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling Hope Larson. Thirteen-year-old Bina has a long summer ahead of her. She and her best friend, Austin, usually do everything together, but he's off to soccer camp for a month, and he's been acting kind of weird lately anyway. So it's up to Bina to see how much fun she can have on her own. At first it's a lot of guitar playing, boredom, and bad TV, but things look up when she finds an unlikely companion in Austin's older sister, who enjoys music just as much as Bina. But then Austin comes home from camp, and he's acting even weirder than when he left. How Bina and Austin rise above their growing pains and reestablish their friendship and respect for their differences makes for a touching and funny coming-of-age story.

All Out of Love

All Out of Love
Author: Lisa Metallo
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 935787027X

"At 27 years old, Laura’s life is going exactly as planned. She has a great job, a loving family, and is engaged to her true love….until everything changes. Suddenly Laura is forced to recreate her reality and embark on unknown adventures in love and friendships. Rather than a romantic honeymoon, Laura heads off to Europe with her sister Sophia. They enjoy cheese and baguettes by the Eiffel Tower, tapas in Barcelona, and Aperol Spritz in Italy. They practice their Italian, meet New Yorkers that seem like distant cousins, Australians that remind them not to take life too seriously, and most importantly, they discover themselves. Laura begins to see that even though she is missing the love she once had, the love of friends and family is invaluable. Being open to new situations, Laura accepts a job on a cruise ship where she becomes part of an entirely different world. She meets new friends from England, Croatia, Australia, South Africa, and all around the world. She gets to explore countries she never thought to visit. She begins to find happiness as a single woman. She eventually moves into her own condo and celebrates her independence. She becomes open to the online dating world, only to realize that she’s rarely interested in going on a second date with the guys she meets. When she does enter a relationship, she often discovers that unlike her, most men have not moved away from their past or forgiven their exes. Some men, regardless of their age, can tell a lie so well that they’ve fully embraced it as reality. Eventually, lies are revealed, and Laura moves on to find herself once again. She’s adamant to not settle for the sake of being in a relationship. So she returns to her love - travel. Although romances are sometimes short-lived, it brings Laura happiness and reminds her that she doesn’t need anyone. She is enough. Until she meets Connor. From their love of music, concerts, and art, the two are inseparable. She felt chemistry from the moment they met, and their passionate nature made even the mundane of days exciting. But just as she finally lets go of the pain of her past, things drastically take another turn and Laura is no longer safe in her own home. Realizing her independence and happiness are in jeopardy, Laura must find a way to escape and start over once again. She must learn to accept that no matter how much she plans, nothing is ever truly in her control. "

Report[s

Report[s
Author: Great Britain. Commmission on Employment of Children, Young Persons and Women in Agriculture (1867)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 814
Release: 1868
Genre: Agricultural laborers
ISBN:

Report[s, with Appendices]

Report[s, with Appendices]
Author: Great Britain. Commission on employment of children, young persons and women in agriculture (1867)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1274
Release: 1869
Genre: Agricultural laborers
ISBN:

Summer of Salt

Summer of Salt
Author: Katrina Leno
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062493647

Magic passed down through generations. An island where strange things happen. One summer that will become legend. Practical Magic meets Nova Ren Suma’s Imaginary Girls and Laura Ruby’s Bone Gap in this lush, atmospheric novel by acclaimed author Katrina Leno. Georgina Fernweh waits impatiently for the tingle of magic in her fingers—magic that has touched every woman in her family. But with her eighteenth birthday looming at the end of this summer, Georgina fears her gift will never come. Over the course of her last summer on the island—a summer of storms, falling in love, and the mystery behind one rare three-hundred-year-old bird—Georgina will learn the truth about magic, in all its many forms. Praise for Katrina Leno: “Leno’s writing is flawless. Readers of all ages will find themselves swept away.” —VOYA “Charming and sophisticated.” —Kirkus “Crackles with wit, humor, and enormous love.”—Booklist (starred review) “Introduces a fierce new presence.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Winter Boy

The Winter Boy
Author: Sally Wiener Grotta
Publisher: Pixel Hall Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0988387190

A nominee for the prestigious Locus Award and a Bookwatch Reviewers' Choice Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, Mary Doria Russell and Ursula K. LeGuin, The Winter Boyexplores important political and social issues within a dynamic, character-driven otherworld, wrapped up in masterful storytelling. The Valley of the Alleshi is the center of all civilization, the core and foundation of centuries of peace. A cloistered society of widows, the Alleshi, has forged peace by mentoring young men who will one day become the leaders of the land. Each boy is paired with a single Allesha for a season of intimacy and learning, using time-honored methods that include storytelling, reason and sex. However, unknown to all but a hidden few, the peace is fracturing from pressures within and beyond, hacking at the very essence of their civilization. Amidst this gathering political maelstrom, Rishana, a young new idealistic Allesha, takes her First Boy, Ryl, for a winter season of training. But Ryl is a “problem boy,” who fights Rishana every step of the way. At the same time, Rishana uncovers a web of conspiracies that could not only destroy Ryl, but threaten to tear their entire society apart. And a winter that should have been a gentle, quiet season becomes one of conflict, anger and danger. "...a great book... in the 'must read' category for anyone who enjoys a cultural fantasy...” –Charline Ratcliff, Seattle Post-Intelligencer “...A literary triumph” – Dr. Babus Ahmed "...with the kind of mysterious tone and a sense of a complete world apart that is the hallmark of the best.... The Winter Boy... exists in... a mythic, spiritual realm. Even ordinary lines resonate with this sense of the unseen." – Peter Damien Bellis, author of "The Conjure Man"“ “An amazing, tour-de-force literary work completely unlike anything I have ever read.... People will be studying and talking about The Winter Boy for years to come."– Wendy Delmater Thies, Abyss and Apex Magazine A free Study Guide for The Winter Boy, for book clubs, teachers and other book discussion groups is available from the publisher Pixel Hall Press.

Untranslatable

Untranslatable
Author: Alma Alexander
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

There is a story behind every word. There is a word behind every story. Some concepts require a single word in other languages but paragraphs to explain in English. There are times when it is impossible to have a direct translation of something, to understand an idea at once simple to one mind and unutterably impenetrable to another—except through the bridge of story, through a literal journey into another language, another culture, another mind. The 14 stories in this book are bridges made of words—crossing into language landscapes of Japan, of Sweden, of France, of Portugal, of Tierra del Fuego—glimpses into the worldview and the mindset of cultures different enough from our own to produce a single word that encompasses a world of concepts. Translating the untranslatable. “I love Alma Alexander’s writing. Reading one of her stories is like having a beautiful and intense conversation that you walk away from realizing that you’ve learned something you didn’t know about yourself.” – Leigh Grossman, author of The Green Lion and The Lost Daughters, creator of “Sense of Wonder”