Jack London

Jack London
Author: Alex Kershaw
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466851694

Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would foster a lifelong interest in socialism. Brilliant and self-taught, he haunted California's waterside bars, brawling with drunken sailors and learning about love from prostitutes. His lust for adventure took him from the beaches of Hawaii to the gold fields of Alaska, where he experienced firsthand the struggles for survival he would later immortalize in classics like White Fang and The Call of the Wild. A hard-drinking womanizer with children to support, Jack London was no stranger to passion when he met and married Charmian Kittredge, the love of his life. Despite his adventurous past, London had never before met a woman like Charmian; she adored fornication and boxing, and willingly risked life and limb to sail and explore. She typed his manuscripts while he churned out novels, serving as his inspiration and his critic. Lover, fighter, and onetime hobo, Jack London lived large and died before he was forty. This is a rare biography, from bestselling historian Alex Kershaw, that proves the truth can be more fascinating--and a far greater adventure--than a fiction.

The Last Valentine

The Last Valentine
Author: James Michael Pratt
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312968229

Beginning with a wife's farewell to her husband in World War II and continuing to the present day.

Love Monster and the Last Chocolate

Love Monster and the Last Chocolate
Author: Rachel Bright
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466895160

From Rachel Bright, creator of the #1 Publishers Weekly bestseller Love Monster comes a new story about sharing and chocolate—perfect for Valentine's Day. When Love Monster comes home from vacation, he discovers a box of chocolates on his doorstep. He knows he should share it with his friends, but what if there's none left for him after everyone has a piece? What if they take his favorite-the double chocolate strawberry swirl? And even worse-what if the only piece left is the coffee-flavored one? Ick! In the end, Love Monster learns that sharing with friends is the sweetest treat of all.

The Last Valentine

The Last Valentine
Author: James Michael Pratt
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0312207271

Television reporter Susan Allison is looking for the perfect story about true love, yet she doubts where such a thing really exists. Neil Thomas, Jr. wants to share his parents' bittersweet love story with the world. On February 14, 1944, Caroline Thomas said good-bye to her beloved husband, a Navy pilot sent to the Pacific. For fifty years, she waited for him--until a miracle happened, and she received his last valentine. In the present day, when Susan and Neil meet, can the story of Neil's parents bring them together in a love as powerful as she dreams of and he remembers? James Michael Pratt's The Last Valentine is the basis for the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie The Lost Valentine, starring Betty White

Paper Valentine

Paper Valentine
Author: Brenna Yovanoff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 085707816X

The city of Ludlow is gripped by the hottest July on record. The asphalt is melting, the birds are dying, petty crime is on the rise, and someone in Hannah Wagnor's peaceful suburban community is killing girls. For Hannah, the summer is a complicated one. Her best friend Lillian died six months ago, and Hannah just wants her life to go back to normal. But how can things be normal when Lillian's ghost is haunting her bedroom, pushing her to investigate the mysterious string of murders? Hannah's just trying to understand why her friend self-destructed, and where she fits now that Lillian isn't there to save her a place among the social elite. And she must stop thinking about Finny Boone, the big, enigmatic delinquent whose main hobbies seem to include petty larceny and surprising acts of kindness. With the entire city in a panic, Hannah soon finds herself drawn into a world of ghost girls and horrifying secrets. She realises that only byconfronting the Valentine Killer will she be able move on with her life - and it's up to her to put together the pieces before he strikes again.

Tiny T. Rex and the Perfect Valentine

Tiny T. Rex and the Perfect Valentine
Author: Jonathan Stutzman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1797205498

Lovable bestselling Tiny T. Rex is back from the critically acclaimed Tiny T. Rex and The Impossible Hug, this time in a Valentine's Day adventure! Valentine's Day is coming, which means showing the ones you love how much they mean to you, so Tiny has decided to make the perfect Valentine for his best friend Pointy. But as Tiny discovers, making a Valentine isn't easy. It might take a few tries—until Tiny realizes the best Valentine might have been there all along. • Teaches a valuable lesson in overcoming obstacles • Sure to delight young dinosaur fans who love adventure • Features adorable art of Tiny and his friend Pointy Tiny may be a small dino in a big world, but that won't stop him from making friends, conquering his fears, and stomping his way into your heart. Author Jonathan Stutzman and illustrator Jay Fleck team up to create an adorable and heartwarming story that shows young readers that love and kindness are the best gift of all. • A sweet Valentine's Day book for the little dinosaur in your life • Go-to choice for parents looking for an adorable, funny story with a holiday twist • Perfect for dinosaur-loving babies and toddlers • You'll love this book if you love books like Llama Llama I Love You by Anna Dewdney, Love from The Very Hungry Caterpillar (The World of Eric Carle) by Eric Carle, and Pete the Cat: Valentine's Day Is Cool by Kimberly and James Dean.

The Last Girls Standing

The Last Girls Standing
Author: L C Valentine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre:
ISBN:

A SUMMER CAMP. AN UNDEAD KILLER. A FINAL GIRL. YOU MIGHT THINK YOU KNOW THIS STORY. THINK AGAIN... A group of teenagers work as camp counsellors at a recently reopened summer camp. A camp that hides a sinister secret. It's home to an undead killer. A monster that picks them off one by one, until there's only one girl left standing. For Ellie Cartwright, that's not how the story ends. That's how it begins. Because Ellie's not the only girl to have faced evil and survived. There are others. And now, they've sworn to protect those in danger. They've sworn to fight back against the creatures that lurk in the darkness. They are the Last Girls Standing. And Ellie's journey is just getting started... SURVIVING WAS JUST THE BEGINNING...

The Ballad of Valentine

The Ballad of Valentine
Author: Alison Jackson
Publisher: Puffin Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006-12-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780142404003

An ardent suitor tries various means of communication, from smoke signals to Morse code to skywriting, in order to get his message to his Valentine.

The Caveman's Valentine

The Caveman's Valentine
Author: George Dawes Green
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2013-07-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0751554197

Romulus Ledbetter has discovered a frozen corpse outside his front door. A fairly unusual circumstance as it is - but even more so as Romulus' front door is a cave in Central Park. A former musical prodigy, Romulus opted out of society and has been living a life of deluded paranoia in the cave for some time. His version of events, involving drug abuse, sexual deviancy and a criminally-inclined celebrity, are viewed with understandable scepticism by the police officers on the case. So Romulus has no choice but to find out what happened on his own...

The Last Valentine's Day Night

The Last Valentine's Day Night
Author: Federica Leva
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2018-04-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1507156413

It’s Valentine’s Day night but, instead of celebrating, the world is dead. The powerful and cruel demon Sinfan lands on the only isle left to explore, in the hope of finding someone to drink from and to infect with madness toxin. He is tired and starts being delirious, like a simple mortal. He doesn’t conceive yet that destruction is a revenge of love and that someone is waiting for him in the dim light of the dying moon. Who lured him to that haunted forest? A woman? A man? Or another demon from his daunting sect?