Zak, My Boy Wonder

Zak, My Boy Wonder
Author: Joanne Lythgoe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2019-11-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9789925763207

"Zak's amazing personality shines through to inspire others who encounter ostracism and unkindness because they look different."Kimberlee J Benart for Readers' Favorite - 5 stars After a whirlwind romance, imagine the excitement of discovering you're pregnant with a baby boy to complete your family. Then imagine your baby is critically ill, and the medical team you trusted to help, abandon you at the last moment. 'Zak, My Boy Wonder' is a short, harrowing but inspirational true story of a mother's fight for her son's survival and acceptance in society, and how the military authorities deserted her family when they needed them most.

Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice

Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice
Author: Sara Hayden
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2010-06-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0739138928

Contemplating Maternity explore how discourses of choice shape and are shaped by womenOs identities and experiences as (non)mothers and how those same discourses affect and reflect private practices and public policies related to reproduction and motherhood. This volume is unique because it investigates discourses of choice across the arc of maternity and as enacted through various (non)maternal subject positions.

Red Leaves

Red Leaves
Author: Sita Brahmachari
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1447262999

Aisha is a thirteen-year-old refugee living in London. Happy for the first time since leaving her war-torn home, she is devastated when her foster mother announces that a new family has been found for her and she will be moving on. Feeling rejected and abandoned, Aisha packs her bags and runs away, seeking shelter in the nearby woods. Meanwhile, a few doors down, twelve-year-old Zak is trying to cope with his parents' divorce. Living in a near-building site while the new house is being refurbished, he feels unsettled and alone. Discovering a piece of rubble with the original builder's signature set into it, he starts researching the history behind his home - and in doing so finds a connection with a young soldier from the past, which leads him to an old air-raid shelter in the same woods. Both children, previously unknown to each other, meet in the heart of the ancient city woodland as they come into the orbit of Elder, a strange homeless woman who lives amongst the trees - and, as helicopters hover overhead and newspapers fill with pictures of the two lost children, unexpected bonds are formed and lives changed forever . . .

Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon

Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon
Author: Tony Fletcher
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 1030
Release: 2010-03-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0857122223

Keith Moon was more than just rock's greatest drummer, he was also its greatest character and wildest party animal. Fuelled by vast quantities of drink, drugs, insecurities and confusion, Moon destroyed everything with gleeful abandon: drum kits, houses, cars, hotels, relationships and, finally, himself. In Dear Boy, Tony Fletcher has captured lightning in a bottle – the essence of a totally incorrigible yet uniquely generous boy who never grew up, and who changed the lives of all who knew him. From a life distorted by myths of debauchery and comic anarchy, Fletcher has created a searingly personal portrait of the rock legend. From over 100 first-hand interviews, he traces with deadly accuracy Moon's remarkable journey from his working-class Northwest London childhood, through the Who's glory years to the California high-life and a terrible, premature death. Here too are fascinating insights into the history of the Who and the emergent British pop culture revolution of post-war years. Keith Moon was one of the shock troops of that revolution: the world's greatest rock drummer, a phenomenal character and an extravagant hell-raiser who – in a final, uncharacteristic act of grace – actually did die before he got old.

Agent 21: Codebreaker

Agent 21: Codebreaker
Author: Chris Ryan
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409026655

Secret agent Zak Darke is back for his third mission - and the stakes have never been higher. An unknown bomber is conducting a terror campaign in London. After an explosion on the tube leaves someone dead, Zak and his team are brought in to try and work out how this terror cell operates - but clues are scarce and they have no idea where, or when, the bomber will strike next. A teenage boy, currently detained in a young offender's institute, claims he has the answer - but before Zak can question him, the boy is shot and falls into a coma. Will Zak be able to break the cipher before the bomber strikes again?

Zak Raven: Code Beta

Zak Raven: Code Beta
Author: Darren G. Davis
Publisher: Storm
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1620988399

the 2nd volume of the new novel series Zak Raven, Esq. Zak Raven is your typical 15-year old boy living in Bluffside. He wakes up, goes to school, comes home and does his homework. But somewhere between dinner and curfew, while most of his friends are playing video games - Zak can be found battling real life robots and his very own arch-enemy, Professor Bimitri Raine. Once a super-powered hero, Zak fought to save the world as Kid Ranger! Now his superhuman abilities have diminished and he's just ordinary Zak, a regular 15-year old who strives to remain the hero he once was. Without superpowers he must depend on his own agility and training to help him save the day and still find time for that algebra homework!

Zak's Dream Machine

Zak's Dream Machine
Author: Michael Murphy
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2008-03-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1435710711

Can a person die from dreaming? A modern secret shaman transforms into his boyhood self through the power of dreaming to rescue his nephew's soul from sorcerers colluding with their otherworldly allies. Michael, the hero, confronts the soul collectors in a Mexican town where the future and past are as immediate as the present and the laws of nature are maligned. Will the boy-hero remember his mission and the omens of his past or will he succumb to the magnetic allure of the mystic town?

Ternion

Ternion
Author: Michael Spires
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1796090158

Blake is just a fourteen-year-old boy who wants to spend his birthday having a small party with the few friends he knows. To get there though, he must avoid his bullies at school who torment him because of his sexuality, deal with Jenifer, his bossy twin sister who gets whatever she wants, and figure out why he’s been having this recurring dream about a talking wolf. When the wolf from his dreams shows up on his home street, Blake saves her from the group known as Castle using the power of Aura. Set on retrieving this wolf, Blake must now learn how to fight like and Aurae, gaining allies and enemies along the way. Will Blake and his friends be ready for the battle that’s about to be set in their hometown?

Circle of Jinn

Circle of Jinn
Author: Lori Goldstein
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2016-05-17
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250086841

Being Jinn is Azra's new reality. As she grants wishes under the watchful eye of the Afrit council, she remains torn between her two worlds—human and Jinn. Soon secrets spill, and rumors of an uprising become real as the Afrit's reach extends beyond the underground world of Janna. Straddling the line becomes impossible. Aware of her unique abilities, Azra must not just face but embrace her destiny. But when the role she must play and those she must protect expand to include a circle of Jinn greater than her own, Azra will be forced to risk everything. A risk that means there's everything to lose, and at the same time, everything to gain—for herself and her entire Jinn race. In this dramatic sequel to Lori Goldstein's Becoming Jinn, Azra's story comes to a heartfelt and thrilling conclusion.