epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:John Elder Robison [Robison, John Elder]

Rockets, rocket fuel, and explosives make some kids dream of being astronauts. Not Cubby. He dreamed of becoming an organic chemist. I wasn’t surprised that Cubby found explosives fascinating. Ever ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1982-01-01 | Author:John Gardner [Gardner, John]

14 REPELLENT INSECTS The VP70 automatic was in Bond’s hand as he reached the door of Cedar’s cabin, seconds after the first scream. His right leg came up in a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-02 | Author:Jodi Picoult [Picoult, Jodi]

I`m not a baby! Willow. Mom put a hand on your arm, but you threw it off, knocking over the cup and sending Coke all over the place. I`m not! ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Susan A. Bliler [Bliler, Susan A.]

Chapter 19 Aries stared at the closed door. The rut! She’d grown up in Montana, in prime hunting country and she loved the sport dearly, which meant she was familiar ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Robert Schwartz [Schwartz, Robert]

Like so many of us, Sharon and Tony designed lives of learning through opposites: they scripted temporary, physical roles that contrasted markedly with their eternal, nonphysical identities. Tony is not ...

epub | | 2011-03-21 | Author:John Elder Robison [Robison, John Elder]

I wish there were a better answer to this age-old problem, but there isn’t. (A few years later, inspired by my actions, the Firesign Theatre released a record called Don’t ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Karen Siff Exkorn [Exkorn, Karen Siff]

How do I handle and respond to some of the well-meaning but frustrating things people are saying to me as a result of my child’s diagnosis? “Everything happens for a ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Buzz Bissinger [Bissinger, Buzz]

II We sit across from each other at a blue Formica table. He eats French fries and I eat a foot-long hot dog with a crumbling bun that leaves bits ...

epub | | 2010-01-22 | Author:Ian Brown [Brown, Ian]

There was always another story to top the last one. However difficult someone’s life had been—and I often had to coax people into complaining, so strong was the impulse to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:Jodi Picoult

I had braces, too, but not the kind that kept my legs from bowing. Mine were the ordinary kind, the ones that had changed the whole shape of my head ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-11 | Author:Picoult, Jodi [Picoult, Jodi]

I had braces, too, but not the kind that kept my legs from bowing. Mine were the ordinary kind, the ones that had changed the whole shape of my head ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Danielle Steel

Chapter 15 Annabelle’s first days at L’Abbaye de Royaumont were grueling. Casualties from the Second Battle of Champagne were coming in at a rapid rate. She assisted in surgeries, emptying ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-01 | Author:Ron Suskind

WHEN DAVID OMAND, AMONG THE most astute professionals in counterterrorism, talks of creating a “convincing narrative” about “the better alternative our society offers,” he’s alluding to a large and diffuse ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Solomon, Andrew [Solomon, Andrew]

XI Transgender Western culture likes binaries: life feels less frightening when we can separate good and evil into tidy heaps, when we split off the mind from the body, when ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1996-10-24 | Author:Harold Koplewicz

THE BRAIN CHEMISTRY Certain children are born with a genetic predisposition for social phobia. In plain English: excessive shyness runs in families. Supporting this theory is the fact that if ...