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Lucky Boy

Author : Shanthi Sekaran
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110198225X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Boy written by Shanthi Sekaran and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. “Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too real.”—People “A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love.”—Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans Eighteen years old and fizzing with optimism, Solimar Castro-Valdez embarks on a perilous journey across the Mexican border. Weeks later, she arrives in Berkeley, California, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. Undocumented and unmoored, Soli discovers that her son, Ignacio, can become her touchstone, and motherhood her identity in a world where she’s otherwise invisible. Kavya Reddy has created a beautiful life in Berkeley, but then she can’t get pregnant and that beautiful life seems suddenly empty. When Soli is placed in immigrant detention and Ignacio comes under Kavya’s care, Kavya finally gets to be the singing, story-telling kind of mother she dreamed of being. But she builds her love on a fault line, her heart wrapped around someone else’s child. “Nacho” to Soli, and “Iggy” to Kavya, the boy is steeped in love, but his destiny and that of his two mothers teeters between two worlds as Soli fights to get back to him. Lucky Boy is a moving and revelatory ode to the ever-changing borders of love.

Lucky Wander Boy

Author : D. B. Weiss
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 : 9780452283947
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Wander Boy written by D. B. Weiss and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like "High Fidelity" for video game junkies, "Lucky Wander Boy" follows a child of the 80s on his quest to find the perfect game.

Lucky Boy

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618131754
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Boy written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A neglected dog finds a real home with a grieving widower who needs a friend.

A Lucky Child

Author : Thomas Buergenthal
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847651844
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book A Lucky Child written by Thomas Buergenthal and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In his honest and heartfelt memoirs, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day genocide. Aged ten Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving the Ghetto of Kielce and two labour camps, and was soon separated from his parents. Using his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck, he managed to survive until he was liberated from Sachsenhausen in 1945. After experiencing the turmoil of Europe's post-war years - from the Battle of Berlin, to a Jewish orphanage in Poland - Buergenthal went to America in the 1950s at the age of seventeen. He eventually became one of the world's leading experts on international law and human rights. His story of survival and his determination to use law and justice to prevent further genocide is an epic and inspirational journey through twentieth century history. His book is both a special historical document and a great literary achievement, comparable only to Primo Levi's masterpieces.

A Lucky Man

Author : Jamel Brinkley
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979955
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book A Lucky Man written by Jamel Brinkley and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J’Ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. Jamel Brinkley’s stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.

Lucky Child

Author : Loung Ung
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013513
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Child written by Loung Ung and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers. Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds.

Lucky Billy

Author : John Vernon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547074238
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Billy written by John Vernon and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A myth-busting novel about America’s most infamous and beloved outlaw, Billy the Kid, from a critically acclaimed historical novelist According to legend, Billy the Kid killed twenty-one men, one for every year of his short life; stole from wealthy cattle barons to give to the po∨ and wooed just about every senorita in the American Southwest. In Lucky Billy, John Vernon digs deeply into the historical record to find a truth more remarkable than the legend, and draws a fresh, nuanced portrait of this outlaw’s dramatic and violent life. Billy the Kid met his celebrated end at the hands of Pat Garrett, his one-time carousing partner turned sheriff, who tracked Billy down after the jail break that made him famous. In Vernon’s telling, the crucial event of Billy’s life was the Lincoln County War, a conflict between a ring of Irishmen in control of Lincoln, New Mexico, and a newcomer from England, John Tunstall, who wanted to break their grip on the town. Billy signed on with Tunstall. The conflict spun out of control with Tunstall’s murder, and in a series of revenge killings, an obscure hired gunman called Kid Antrim became Billy the Kid. Besides a full complement of gunfights, jail breaks, and bawdy behavior, Lucky Billy is a provocative picture of the West at a critical juncture between old and new. It is also a portrait of an American icon made human, caught in the middle, more lost than brave, more nadve than principled, more of an accidental survivor than simply the cold-blooded killer of American myth.

Lucky Boy

Author : Cameron Morfit
Publisher : Elevate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0996465510
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Boy written by Cameron Morfit and published by Elevate Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Heartfelt and utterly original; a book about an unlikely alliance that should touch readers of all ages." - Kirkus Reviews Lucky Boy is a middle-grade novel about 13-year-old misfit Max, whose glasses don't fit right; his pretty and popular 15-year-old sister, Sadie, who is on the verge of making some bad decisions; and their developmentally delayed little brother Gabe, whose inability or unwillingness to talk confounds even the experts. The story begins with a small fire and the unannounced arrival of the Buras family’s self-professed “black sheep,” Dewey Tomlinson, who is some kind of cousin to their mother. Max invites “Uncle Dewey” to school for show and tell — the man has a very cool tow truck, after all — and they later become friends while making regular visits to the video poker sites in town, raking in the winnings. Dewey, a beaten-down loner with a shady past, is what polite society might call a lost cause, but he begins to find himself in Boise. He insists Max, his second cousin twice removed, is a lucky boy, and his “good mojo” is making the machines pay out. Against his better judgment, Max — also a lost cause, popularity wise — begins to believe it, too. He starts to think maybe he's fated to be something more than misfit Max with the misshapen head. Sadie, meanwhile, rethinks her rush to grow up. And when Max, Gabe and Dewey link hands on Halloween night, and Gabe suddenly begins to find his voice for the first time, Max starts to suspect larger forces at work. Lucky Boy is a meditation on luck, alchemy, and life’s unlimited capacity for surprise.

Such a Lucky Boy

Author : Laszlo Kadar
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612045820
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Such a Lucky Boy written by Laszlo Kadar and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1945, a one-year-old boy was abandoned in a freight car at a railroad station in a small Hungarian town. The events of this book are based on the life of the author, who was that abandoned baby, and the life of the loving family who adopted him. He was Such a Lucky Boy. The child grew up during the turbulent years of post World War II Hungary. The Communist ideology changed everyone's life, especially religious Jews. Laszlo Kadar's life was complicated by the philosophy of his religious father, which was in direct opposition to the philosophy of his Communist teachers. They promised the good life and a great future without religion. Following World War II, the Soviet Union was the liberator of Hungary and forced communism on the Hungarian people, whose lives were made miserable. This is the true story of the plight and hardship of one orthodox Jewish family living in a provincial city in Hungary.

Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country

Author : Warner Max Corden
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319651668
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country written by Warner Max Corden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corden has written a charming and insightful account of his professional and personal life, from his childhood in Breslau, Germany, until his retirement in Melbourne. The book is divided into two parts. Part I considers Corden's early life, from a young boy growing up in Nazi Germany, to his immigration from England to Australia and what that means for the author's self-identity. Part II addresses Corden's work on the Australian Protection Policy for which he is perhaps best known, before reflecting upon the author's time at Oxford University and the Australian National University, and, finally, moving on to review contributions made at the IMF, Johns Hopkins University, and The World Bank. This book will be of interest to all aspiring economists, as well as established economists familiar with Corden's work. It is an inspiring and profound record of the intellectual journey made by one of Australia's best known economists.

Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country

Author : Warner Max Corden
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783319879642
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country written by Warner Max Corden and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corden has written a charming and insightful account of his professional and personal life, from his childhood in Breslau, Germany, until his retirement in Melbourne. The book is divided into two parts. Part I considers Corden's early life, from a young boy growing up in Nazi Germany, to his immigration from England to Australia and what that means for the author's self-identity. Part II addresses Corden's work on the Australian Protection Policy for which he is perhaps best known, before reflecting upon the author's time at Oxford University and the Australian National University, and, finally, moving on to review contributions made at the IMF, Johns Hopkins University, and The World Bank. This book will be of interest to all aspiring economists, as well as established economists familiar with Corden's work. It is an inspiring and profound record of the intellectual journey made by one of Australia's best known economists.

Chasing Lucky

Author : Jenn Bennett
Publisher : Simon Pulse
ISBN 13 : 1534425187
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Chasing Lucky written by Jenn Bennett and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this coming-of-age romance perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen, scandal and romance collide when an ambitious teen returns to her hometown only to have her plans interrupted after falling for the town’s “bad boy”—a.k.a. her childhood best friend. Sometimes to find the good, you have to embrace the bad. Budding photographer Josie Saint-Martin has spent half her life with her single mother, moving from city to city. When they return to her historical New England hometown years later to run the family bookstore, Josie knows it’s not forever. Her dreams are on the opposite coast, and she has a plan to get there. What she doesn’t plan for is a run-in with the town bad boy, Lucky Karras. Outsider, rebel…and her former childhood best friend. Lucky makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the newly returned Josie. But everything changes after a disastrous pool party, and a poorly executed act of revenge lands Josie in some big-time trouble—with Lucky unexpectedly taking the blame. Determined to understand why Lucky was so quick to cover for her, Josie discovers that both of them have changed, and that the good boy she once knew now has a dark sense of humor and a smile that makes her heart race. And maybe, just maybe, he’s not quite the brooding bad boy everyone thinks he is…

The Lucky Few

Author : Heather Avis
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310345499
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Lucky Few written by Heather Avis and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When life looks radically different than the plan we have for ourselves, it's the lucky few that recognize God's plan is best. That's what adoptive mom Heather Avis learned, and that's the invitation of this book. As the mother of three adopted children - two with Down syndrome - Heather Avis has learned that it's truly the lucky few who get to live a life like hers, who actually recognize that God's plans are best, even when they seem so radically different from the plans we have for ourselves. When Heather started her journey into parenthood she never thought it would look like this, never planned to have three adopted children, and certainly never imagined that two of them would have Down syndrome. But like most things God does, once she stepped into the craziness and confusion that comes with the unknown and the unplanned, she realized that they were indeed among the lucky few. Discover in this book what 70,000+ followers of Heather's hit Instagram account @macymakesmyday already know: the power of faith and family can help us stay strong in the toughest times. This book will also be especially touching to those with adopted family members or children with Down syndrome in their lives.

Lucky Beans

Author : Becky Birtha
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807594601
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Beans written by Becky Birtha and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2010 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing (New York Public Library) 2012-2013 Show Me Readers Nominee List (Missouri) 2013 Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award 2010 Smithsonian Magazine Notable Books for Children Like so many people during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Marshall Loman's dad has lost his job. There's little money, but there are plenty of beans-in fact, Ma cooks them for supper every single night! Beans start looking better when Marshall sees the contest posted in the furniture store window. HOW MANY BEANS ARE IN THE JAR? WIN THIS BRAND NEW SEWING MACHINE! Ma needs that sewing machine-but how can Lomans possibly guess right? Then Marshall remembers something he learned in arithmetic class. Becky Birtha's engaging story, based on her grandmother's memories of Depression years in the African American community, is illustrated by Nicole Tadgell's expressive paintings.

Lucky Lazlo

Author : Steve Light
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763688258
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Lazlo written by Steve Light and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A naughty cat steals the rose Lazlo intends to give to the actress he loves, setting off a wild chase through the theater during a production of Alice in Wonderland. Includes author's note about theatrical superstitions.

The Prayer Room

Author : Shanthi Sekaran
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9789350290484
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Prayer Room written by Shanthi Sekaran and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sekaran is a master of cadence, and as she displays her intimate knowledge of India, England and America, there's jazz on nearly every page - The New York Times In 1974, the young and callow Englishman George Armitage goes to Madras in the hopes of returning with at least the beginning of his Ph.D. dissertation. Instead, he comes home with a bride named Viji, an Indian woman he barely knows. This seemingly unlikely pair eventually wind up in Sacramento, where they buy a ranch house and give birth to triplets. In this new American world of shag carpets and pudding pops, Viji seeks consolation in her prayer room, which she visits frequently to gossip, sass, and seek advice from the framed portraits of her dead relatives. It is here where Viji feels most herself and where these deceased family members feel 'as real to her as she'd been to them.' The relative calm of Viji's California existence is interrupted when George's father shows up on their doorstep, unexpected and unannounced. So when Viji's sister sends an out-of-the-blue invitation to visit India, she prepares for her first trip home in nearly eleven years, not knowing for sure if she'll ever return to the States. The Prayer Room re-examines the meaning of family - the people who live down the hall and the people who live only in our memories.

Lucky Boy

Author : Shanthi Sekaran
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101982241
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Boy written by Shanthi Sekaran and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two mothers are bound together by their love for one boy.