The perks and drawbacks of being young. Life is a Story - story.one

The perks and drawbacks of being young. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Loreley_Silver
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2024-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3711565964

Gedichte und Storys mit direkt aus der Gefühls- und Gedankenwelt einer Teenagerin. In diesem Buch berichtet Loreley_Silver von Situationen die sie selbst erlebt hat. Von traumatischen Erlebnissen, über unerwartete aber erfüllende Liebe und Problemen im Alltag und Allgemeinen. In lyrischen Formen, aber auch Erzählungen reißt sie ihre Leser mit in ihre Welt. Verfasst sind die Storys auf Englisch, um ein anderes Feeling bei den Lesern anzuregen als deutsche Storys. Und wer könnte das besser als jemand, dessen Gehirn 24/7 auf Englisch gepolt ist?

The Giver

The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 054434068X

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.

I Am Not An Adult. Life is a Story - story.one

I Am Not An Adult. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Shahar Varod
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2023-08-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3710890667

Adulthood sucks. No one prepares you for it - at a certain point in life you are simply expected to know what you want to do for a living, find a good partner, get a degree and do your taxes. It is in this time that you also have to go through the most life-changing experiences, grow up, and figure out what makes you trully happy. Everyone must deal with this change during their lives. Yet since it is now my turn to become a functioning, responsible adult, I have decided to whine about it in the best way I know - write a book. I am not adult. Are you?

Fragile Rebellion. Life is a Story - story.one

Fragile Rebellion. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Mia Mitrekanic
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2023-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3710873924

'There was an infantry of letters that had the strength of a revolution' The Upper East Side of Manhattan needed a girl like Ophelia. The approaching writer, on the other hand, absolute perfection. For her success, promised by her charming lecturer, she is willing to subject parallels, melancholic dark memories from her past, as well as controversial aquaintances and acts which will never again make her the person she once was. As 'Fragile Rebellion', she opposes her own youth and puts everything at risk - even if that meant loosing people, feeling eternal regret or even sacrificing oneself for the accomplishment.

Letters to Mr. Darcy. Life is a Story - story.one

Letters to Mr. Darcy. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Beatriz Iara Schoueri
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2024-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3711538932

My dearest Mr. Darcy, allow me to make a sassy prediction: one day, you will read my name on this book cover, and by the time you realize it, you will be reading this letter. Awareness will strike you like lightning; you will drop your act and feel in your bones that you are the one I wrote it to. Pride, then, will take your ego to the highest heights as you remember our time together, but the prejudice resulting from the same period will be the one causing your fingers to tremble and your breath to falter; you will be taking the book home. What's more, I venture to say that, somehow, no matter where I might be, I will know it too. It's an inexplicable feeling, weird but wagerable. In the meantime, I leave you with a more daring question than the single "why?" messing with your head as soon as you started reading me: love rules the world, but as innocent and ardently as it may be, can it conquer it all? Yours truly, the author

When we fall. Life is a Story - story.one

When we fall. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Holly Remenyi
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2024-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3711563643

What runs through your mind when you stand, at night, in the middle of a forest, surrounded by nothing than nature? But the real question is: Why is there standing someone covered in blood? What happened to them? What is their story? Will we ever know? Lets start with what they think about: Why am I here? A mysterious, chaotic and philosophical story about a teenagers life and how time changed things.

14 Stops. Life is a Story - story.one

14 Stops. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Mary Ventura
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2024-03-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3711520561

This book invites you to join an interpreter's inner journey while she tours in Jerusalem, delving into the depth of the holy city and exploring the truth of one's own value.

How Stories Change Us

How Stories Change Us
Author: Elaine Reese
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2024-09-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0197747922

In recent years, gold-standard experimental evidence on the benefits of reading fiction has exploded. Why do we love stories from books, TV and movies, and videogames? What do fictional stories have to do with stories from real life? How do stories impact our own and our children's brain development, reading skills, social understanding, and well-being? In How Stories Change Us, Elaine Reese integrates the latest scientific research on stories from fiction (books, TV shows and movies, videogames) with stories from real life (our personal experiences, including on social media) across the lifespan. The book offers an authoritative yet accessible overview of the new interdisciplinary science of stories, told by a developmental psychologist and autobiographical memory expert with over thirty years of experience conducting research on stories. Throughout, Reese adopts a developmental perspective by tracing the impact of stories from pre-birth to old age. Drawing upon illustrative examples from her 20-year longitudinal study Origins of Memory as well as from her own life, Reese synthesizes cutting-edge research on the benefits and pitfalls of stories and offers practical tips for parents, teachers, librarians, and policymakers. Reese concludes that people have a preferred fictional story delivery system, whether it's reading, watching, or gaming, and she advocates for a more integrated science of stories to allow us to better choose the stories we consume and tell.

A world synopsis. Life is a Story - story.one

A world synopsis. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Oana-Nicoleta Balc
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2024-02-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3711504272

The book "A world synopsis" is written more in a fantasy way, with some beautiful and unbeatable short stories thought in some inspiring moments. Everything described by these pages is more or less felt, detached and imagined. As is starts the first chapters, the stories are a little bit vivid and with a little bit of mystery they create the whole image of the book. Every word written here are more then ever created with passion and written with and for beautiful people. It is an easily readable book with the possibility to help the reader to have more than one interpretation.

Remembering Brown at Fifty

Remembering Brown at Fifty
Author: Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2022-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0252053966

Inspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary, this collection addresses the significance of Brown in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights. Several authors describe their personal roles in the Brown case or similar cases, while others examine and illustrate events, performances, and exhibitions that were part of the anniversary commemoration. The book not only explores the repercussions of the Brown decision, but also stands as a historic document in its own right, preserving the reactions of many prominent intellectuals, artists, and activists fifty years after the decision. Contributors are Kal Alston, Margaret L. Andersen, Kathryn H. Anthony, Nathaniel C. Banks, Bernice McNair Barnett, Christopher Benson, Ed Blankenheim, Julian Bond, Orville Vernon Burton, Jason Chambers, Constance Curry, Joseph A. De Laine Jr., Mary L. Dudziak, Joe R. Feagin, John Hope Franklin, Ophelia De Laine Gona, Lani Guinier, Darlene Clark Hine, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, John Jennings, Ralph Lemon, George Lipsitz, Jim Loewen, Laughlin McDonald, David O'Brien, James C. Onderdonk, Sekou Sundiata, Christopher Teal, Nicholas Watkins, Carrie Mae Weems, Juan Williams, and Joy Ann Williamson.