The Sweet Relief of Missing Children

The Sweet Relief of Missing Children
Author: Sarah Braunstein
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-02-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393340759

Two seemingly separate stories from different points in time interconnect and provide clues to the disappearance of a missing New York City girl.

The Sweet Relief of Missing Children: A Novel

The Sweet Relief of Missing Children: A Novel
Author: Sarah Braunstein
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2011-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393081540

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "A magnificent debut filled with characters so vivid, strange, and richly imagined, you emerge feeling changed." —Sarah Shun-lien Bynum In New York City, a girl called Lenora vanishes without a trace. Years earlier and miles upstate, Goldie, a wild, negligent mother, searches for a man to help raise her precocious son, Paul, who later discovers that the only way to save his soul is to run away. The Sweet Relief of Missing Children is a suspenseful novel about the power of running and the desire for reinvention. It explores the terror and transcendence of our most central experiences: childhood, parenthood, sex, love.

Miss Nelson is Missing!

Miss Nelson is Missing!
Author: Harry Allard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1977
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780395401460

Suggests activities to be used at home to accompany the reading of Miss Nelson is missing by Harry Allard in the classroom.

How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Author: Lewis Burke Frumkes
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2000-07-24
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0595002366

Lewis Burke Frumkes, one of America's very best satirists, sharpens his pen on the fads, fears, and fashions of the urban landscape. Here are 49 hilarious ways to cope with them. Explore the benefits of aerobic typing. Wile a friend with "Exotic Gifts from Harry and Larry" including "Road Imperial Valium—America's Favorite Tranquilizer—Only Better." Take charge of your next meeting with Frumkes's "New Rules of Order," which include Blurting, Interrupting, and Bullwhipping. Jump in the saddle and rope a roach—apartment style. And, of course, raise your I.Q. with a delicious "Gifted Child Fricassee."

The Snow Child

The Snow Child
Author: Eowyn Ivey
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316192953

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

Lost Sloth

Lost Sloth
Author: J. Otto Seibold
Publisher: McSweeney's
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1938073355

Sloth's phone rings and rings. He races across the room to answer the call, but he's a sloth, so it takes a while. The phone says he's won an afternoon shopping spree! Can the sloth get to the store in time to claim his prize? Yes, but it's going to take an impromptu zipline, a missed bus, a parkful of trees, an oblivious ice-cream vendor, a rainbow hang glider, and an out-of-control shopping cart to make it happen. As soon as the spree begins, the sloth crashes into a pillow display and falls asleep, exhausted from excitement. When he awakes, he finds himself the proud and happy owner of several fine new pillows. Mission accomplished.

What Burns Away

What Burns Away
Author: Melissa Falcon Field
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1492604577

"A debut novel with a bighearted sensuality and a bull's-eye precision on a par with our best working writers today. A must-read." —Jan Elizabeth Watson, author of What Has Become of You and Asta in the Wings Good wife, good mother. That's all Claire Spruce is trying to be, but the never-ending snow in this new town and her workaholic husband are making her crazy. Even the sweet face of her toddler son can't pull her out of the dark places in her head. Feeling overwhelmed and alone, she reconnects with her long-lost high school boyfriend, Dean, who offers an intoxicating, reckless escape. But Dean's reappearance is not a coincidence. He wants something from Claire—and she soon finds that the cost of repaying an old favor may lead to the destruction of her entire life. What Burns Away is a story of loyalty, family, and the consequences of the past's inevitable collision with our future. "This novel is captivating...it moves fast, doesn't let you catch your breath, and leaves you shaken." —Sarah Braunstein, author of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children "A new mom's fiery first love is back, and he challenges all she's built for herself, revealing the fragility of suburban dreams." —Bill Roorbach, author of The Remedy for Love and Life Among Giants

Last Seen Leaving

Last Seen Leaving
Author: Caleb Roehrig
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250085624

Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. All eyes are on Flynn—he must know something. After all, he was—is—her boyfriend. They were together the night before she disappeared. But Flynn has a secret of his own. As he struggles to uncover the truth about January's disappearance, he must also face the truth about himself.