Hard Child

Esme tells us about the night she and her mother became "egg vigilantes" against an illegally parked car; her freewheeling first school, where kids sat on sofas instead of at desks and could choose disco dancing instead of math; her dangerous neighborhood, which her father made seem friendly and wondrous; the Passover dinner when she stole a matzoh right out from under a rabbi; the awe-inspiring, life-threatening Chicago snowstorms; and lessons about love from tea-reading gypsies and Popeye cartoons.

You’ve tried to eat healthy many times. You’ve probably found by now it is not the easiest thing to do. It can be challenging to get all the right nutrients to achieve good health. There is so much junk food around you all the time and the world doesn’t make it very easy on you. People your around always seem to influence your eating habits. The problem with this is most people don’t eat healthy foods. You're busy, it's expensive and time-consuming. Sound familiar? If it does, then the information inside this book will give you the answers you are looking for.

Jackson Bolger is a new kindergartner at Summit Park Elementary School. Having high-functioning autism is not easy for him. He is a germ freak, and he is sensitive to many other things. This short-chapter audiobook will get you through the life of a K-5 grade kid who has autism. This audiobook is based on the author, Zachary Weber. Some events in this audiobook are fictional.

Jack's got a great life. Successful at work and in love. He appears to have it all. A thoughtful gift soon leads to events that make those closest to him question what they have always thought true. Circumstances compromise his happiness, integrity, and in fact, his whole life.

The troubled childhood of the first posthuman as it is shaped by destiny. As the triad ascends into the holy sanctuary of Amenti as the all-powerful Ogdoad, the child created from Feng’s failure grows up, caught between plans thousands of years old and the desires of its own heart.

Adding "Yet" to the end of an "I can't" statement encourages resilience and makes difficult things seem possible. Clutz is a very CLUMSY cat! He doesn't like to try new things because he's afraid he'll get hurt. Maybe his motto will help: I don't know how to do this YET, and though it may be tough, I'll try my best to do it right. My best is good enough. Will Clutz learn that it's okay to make mistakes, that there are such things as second chances, and that doing our best is what matters most?

Eggworth is a hardboiled egg. In this book, Eggworth goes on a field trip with his class and starts to think about what he will be good at when he grows up. His imagination carries him to faraway lands and comical scenarios. With his birthday and Easter around the corner, Eggworth finds out... he might be great at being an Easter egg.

After moving from Korea to New York, Doki and his twin brother Kebi have been settling into their new home. Doki has so many new books to read! But Kebi hasn't been adjusting as easily. He has no friends! And his pranks on New York City haven't been working. Subway delays. Traffic jams. Scary smoke. New Yorkers have seen it all! It's up to Doki to cheer his brother up and come up with pranks big enough to shock their New York City neighbors in this humorous and heartwarming story inspired by the Korean mythology of dokkaebi.

Hard work makes the world go round. Hard work produces life's great rewards. Hard work makes us happy. So now let us use our freedom of speech to honor hard work.

What happens when a family constellation changes? In this story, the elder fairies Bridget and Fiona decide it is best they live in different trees. Small fairies Dubheasa and Fiadh feel like their whole world is changing for the worse. Through love, honesty and careful respect of everyone's feelings, they earn how life can be like a river. It goes through rocky phases but always moves forward to better places.

Sia har äntligen lyckats bli andreskötare åt sin favorithäst Pontus. Men en dag kommer en ny tjej till ridskolan som vill ta Sias plats. Hon vet bäst och lägger sig alltid i saker hon inte har med att göra. En dag när Sia och hennes kompis kommer till stallet ser de att det brinner. Sia försöker rädda Pontus men han är rädd och vägrar gå ut! Och varför dröjer brandkåren med att rycka ut ...? Berit Härd (född 1936) är journalist och författare som bland annat har arbetat på Göteborgs-Tidningen, Göteborgs-Posten, Hertha och Dagens Nyheter.

Sia ska snart fylla 11 år och är en av de minsta och nyaste i stallet. Hon är inte ens andreskötare åt någon häst än och får ofta höra att hon är för liten för att vara på ridskolan. Men en dag får hon rida sin favorithäst, den underbara vita skimmeln Pontus. Han är nyckfull och opålitlig enligt ridskolan och därför tänker de sälja honom. Det får bara inte ske! Sia måste göra allt för att förhindra det ... Berit Härd (född 1936) är journalist och författare som bland annat har arbetat på Göteborgs-Tidningen, Göteborgs-Posten, Hertha och Dagens Nyheter.

11-åriga Sia är andreskötare åt den underbara skimmeln Pontus i ridskolans stall. En dag dyker det upp en kille i stallet som gör alla tjejerna oroliga. Sias bästa kompis Kattis vill plötsligt byta ridgrupp och beter sig konstigt. Sia fattar ingenting, kan en kille verkligen vara viktigare än en häst? En dag tar Joel med sig två hundar till ridskolan. När de får syn på hästarna i hagen springer de dit och skrämmer livet ur dem. De vettskrämda hästarna hoppar över stängslet och in i skogen. Precis bredvid ligger motorvägen ...

Learning from humans, when the supercomputers became self-aware, they warred with one another heralding in an apocalypse for humanity.

A man sensing something ominous is on its way prepares a bunker and chronicles a foreseeable tale of genetic engineering and corporate greed gone horribly wrong when a plant HIV - a PIV, plant immunodeficiency virus (HIV is human) - attacks our plant crops.

Earth's first interstellar mission arrives at the exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb, believing it to be uninhabitable, to discover the joys and horrors of near light-speed travel.

Using advances in genetic engineering and manipulation, two fast food companies war with one another through their customers.

A solar cataclysm heralds in an apocalypse, in which life on Earth, struggling to rise above a new dark age and a lunar research facility struggling to survive reunite 500 years later in an expected, yet unexpected way.

"Ninety days has September, April, June, and November..." is an antiquated rhyme because for an unknown reason, the Earth is spinning faster and faster, and a day is far, far fewer than 24 hours and getting shorter. It's cataclysmic, but most importantly...humanity is persevering.

A civilization experiencing global cooling that will herald in a new ice, age follows in the path of denial that plagued a long extinct civilization.