You Will Know Me

You Will Know Me
Author: Megan Abbott
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316231088

A "shocking and perfect" bestseller about family and ambition from the award-winning author of Dare Me and The Turnout (New York Times Book Review​). How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful, compete. For the Knoxes there are no limits -- until a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community and everything they have worked so hard for is suddenly at risk. As rumors swirl among the other parents, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together while also finding herself irresistibly drawn to the crime itself. What she uncovers -- about her daughter's fears, her own marriage, and herself -- forces Katie to consider whether there's any price she isn't willing to pay to achieve Devon's dream. From a writer with "exceptional gifts for making nerves jangle and skin crawl" (Janet Maslin), You Will Know Me is a breathless rollercoaster of a novel about the desperate limits of parental sacrifice, furtive desire, and the staggering force of ambition.

Night Hoops

Night Hoops
Author: Carl Deuker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0395979366

While trying to prove that he is good enough to on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and erratic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.

History of Julius Caesar Illustrated

History of Julius Caesar Illustrated
Author: Jacob Abbott
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2021-08-25
Genre:
ISBN:

This is a story about a historical figure written by Abbott. The author describes in detail the youth of Caesar nd his role in the Sylla and Marius conflict. Readers learn a lot of interesting facts. One of which is revealed at the end of the book, namely the murder of Caesar on the day when he was going to be crowned King of the Roman Empire.

Wallace

Wallace
Author: Jacob Abbott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1850
Genre: Boats and boating
ISBN:

A young girl and her brother spend the summer holidays in upstate New York with their aunt and cousins.

The Monster in the Box

The Monster in the Box
Author: Ruth Rendell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439150338

From the author called the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world ("Time") comes her newest novel featuring Inspector Wexford.

Rodolphus

Rodolphus
Author: Jacob Abbott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1852
Genre: Brothers and sisters
ISBN:

Enterprising Youth

Enterprising Youth
Author: Monika Elbert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2008-06-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135898537

"Recommended" by Choice Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children’s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to children by adults. The essays in this book reveal the contradictions involved in the perceptions of children as active or passive, as representatives of a new order, or as receptacles of the transmitted values of their parents. The question, then, is whether the business of telling children's stories becomes an adult enterprise of conservative indoctrination, or whether children are enterprising enough to read what many of the contributors to this volume see as the subversive potential of these texts. This collection of literary and historical criticism of nineteenth-century American children’s literature draws upon recent assessments of canon formations, gender studies, and cultural studies to show how concepts of public/private, male/female, and domestic/foreign are collapsed to reveal a picture of American childhood and life that is expansive and constrictive at the same time.

Tom's Midnight Garden

Tom's Midnight Garden
Author: Philippa Pearce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780192717771

"Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.