That Makes Me Mad!

That Makes Me Mad!
Author: Steven Kroll
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2002-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 158717183X

A little girl gets mad at a lot of things in her daily life but is comforted that her mother understands her anger.

Nina in That Makes Me Mad!

Nina in That Makes Me Mad!
Author: Hilary Knight
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1935179101

Lots of little, everyday frustrations make Nina mad, and she is very good at expressing her feelings.

When Life Makes Me Mad

When Life Makes Me Mad
Author: Sheila Stewart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1422296091

Life doesn't always go the way you want it to. You mess up, people let you down, and things don't work out. Anger is a normal response, but it's not always the best one. When you get angry, sometimes you lose control, and that doesn't help anything—in fact, a lot of times it makes things worse. Learning how to stay calm when you are angry can help you stay in control of the situation. You won't ever be able to control everything (like weather and other people, for example), but figuring out how to take charge of your own reactions and emotions goes a long way.

Murder Makes Me Mad

Murder Makes Me Mad
Author: Ferguson Findley
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2022-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504072952

A brother and sister’s reunion is cut short by murder in this 1956 hard-boiled detective novel by the author of Waterfront and Counterfeit Corpse. After twenty-four years serving with the US navy, Arkansas-native Rex Howard has settled down in Manhattan. He has a private detective’s license but works mostly in security. With his work, his navy pension, and a few stocks, Rex has enough to live comfortably. It’s a life that’s tidy and shipshape. Then one day he receives a message to contact a Mrs. Gillian at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. It turns out to be his sister, Janice, whom he hasn’t seen in four years. She’s recently married and in town waiting for her husband while he’s on a business trip in Canada. Rex decides to take his sister out for the evening, and they hit up his favorite bar for a drink. But their night takes a turn for the worse when Janice falls over dead from poisoned whiskey. Now, the police are on the case, but that’s not enough for Rex. He wants revenge on whoever killed his sister and will stop at nothing to get it . . . “Out-Spillanes Mickey Spillane!” —Real Magazine

Jesus Drives Me Crazy!

Jesus Drives Me Crazy!
Author: Leonard Sweet
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2009-12-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310862698

The gospel presents a life-changing NUTS wisdom that conflicts with normal ways of making sense of the world. There is the World According to Normal. There is the World According to NUTS . . . where NUTS is an acronym for Never Underestimate the Spirit. The wisdom of Jesus is a NUTS wisdom.—From the book All people are different, but some are more different than others. Christians are meant to be the most different of all. Yet we often “normalize” God. We judge what is a successful Christian and a successful church by the world according to Normal, not the world according to NUTS, the wisdom of Jesus.In Jesus Drives Me Crazy!, Leonard Sweet reminds us of the “crazy wisdom” of Christ and how our lives and our churches can and should be different from the way “normal” people live. He says, “Jesus wants to drive you crazy . . . crazy in love with God, with life.” Jesus Drives Me Crazy! challenges you to make the upside-down wisdom of God your own, inspiring you to live an extraordinary Christian life that does not conform to the world, but transforms the world.When you truly grasp the freeing truth that we do not have to conform to this world, then you can become the crazy, zany, unpredictable, but powerful force for Jesus you were intended to be. Jesus Drives Me Crazy! shows how, by losing your mind, you can find your soul.

She Drives Me Crazy

She Drives Me Crazy
Author: Kelly Quindlen
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250209161

“A little sweet, a little sharp.” —Booklist, starred review High school nemeses fall in love in Kelly Quindlen's She Drives Me Crazy, a queer YA rom com perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Casey McQuiston. After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. Irene is as mean as she is beautiful, so Scottie makes a point to keep her distance. When the accident sends Irene’s car to the shop for weeks’ worth of repairs and the girls are forced to carpool, their rocky start only gets bumpier. But when an opportunity arises for Scottie to get back at her toxic ex—and climb her school’s social ladder—she bribes Irene into an elaborate fake- dating scheme that threatens to reveal some very real feelings. From author Kelly Quindlen comes a new laugh-out-loud romp through the ups and downs of teen romance, perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli.

Ancient Sins . . . Modern Addictions

Ancient Sins . . . Modern Addictions
Author: R. Scott Sullender
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2013-07-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1620326906

There is a virtual epidemic of addiction in the United States, both traditional addictions to drugs and alcohol but also newer addictions, like sex, gambling, rage, work, and food/eating. Some authorities have labeled addictions the number one mental health problem in America. We are spending millions of dollars annually trying to prevent, understand, and treat this epidemic--and yet by any measure of success we are losing this "war." In this cultural context Dr. Sullender invites us to look again at the spiritually based scheme of the Seven Deadly Sins, which originated at the dawn of Western civilization. He suggests that what our spiritual forebears meant by "deadly" is best captured in the modern concept of "addiction." Based on this thesis, this book explores what is addictive about the sins of pride, envy, anger, greed, gluttony, sloth, and lust, and suggests that these sins are all obsessive, and as such become the mental component in the addictive cycle. Each chapter concludes by offering some spiritual resources, practices, and insights that can help us win the battle against addiction, which is ultimately won or lost on a mental or spiritual plane.

Vintage PKD

Vintage PKD
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307430049

A master of science fiction, a voice of the changing counterculture, and a genuine visionary, Philip K. Dick wrote about reality, entropy, deception, and the plight of being alive in the modern world. Through his remarkable career Dick has established himself as a writer of the first order and his dreams of the future have proven to be eerily prophetic and even more prescient than when he wrote them. Vintage PKD features extracts from The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, VALIS, and stories including “The Days of Perky Pat,” “A Little Something for Us Tempunauts," and “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,” along with essays and letters currently unavailable in book form. Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions.