The Loneliest Boy In The World

Author : Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848898665
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loneliest Boy in the World written by Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * 'The Loneliest Boy in the World – he has only seagulls as playmates.' 1949 newspaper article * Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin had a unique childhood – he was the last child brought up on the Blasket Islands of Ireland's southwest coast. The nearest in age was his uncle who was thirty years older. In this affectionate memoir, Gearóid recalls growing up on the island without a doctor, priest, school, church or electricity. Despite public perception of this small, vulnerable fishing community, he remembers a wonderful childhood, cherished by parents and neighbours. His memories are entwined with the beliefs and customs handed down through the generations and are an insight into life on the Blaskets. He speaks with authority of the difficulties and challenges facing the final generation on the island. The Blaskets, with their deserted, crumbling cottages, will live on, in part due to the invaluable memories of the last child of the Great Blasket Island. • Also available: From the Great Blasket to America by Michael Carney

Author : Lauren James
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062660276
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loneliest Girl in the Universe written by Lauren James and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising and gripping sci-fi thriller with a killer twist The daughter of two astronauts, Romy Silvers is no stranger to life in space. But she never knew how isolating the universe could be until her parents’ tragic deaths left her alone on the Infinity, a spaceship speeding away from Earth. Romy tries to make the best of her lonely situation, but with only brief messages from her therapist on Earth to keep her company, she can’t help but feel like something is missing. It seems like a dream come true when NASA alerts her that another ship, the Eternity, will be joining the Infinity. Romy begins exchanging messages with J, the captain of the Eternity, and their friendship breathes new life into her world. But as the Eternity gets closer, Romy learns there’s more to J’s mission than she could have imagined. And suddenly, there are worse things than being alone…. Now nominated as a YALSA Quick Pick!

Author : Jay Caspian Kang
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0525576231
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loneliest Americans written by Jay Caspian Kang and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “provocative and sweeping” (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores—and reimagines—Asian American identity in a Black and white world “[Kang’s] exploration of class and identity among Asian Americans will be talked about for years to come.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Mother Jones In 1965, a new immigration law lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigrants to the United States. Nobody, including the lawmakers who passed the bill, expected it to transform the country’s demographics. But over the next four decades, millions arrived, including Jay Caspian Kang’s parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. They came with almost no understanding of their new home, much less the history of “Asian America” that was supposed to define them. The Loneliest Americans is the unforgettable story of Kang and his family as they move from a housing project in Cambridge to an idyllic college town in the South and eventually to the West Coast. Their story unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Asian America, as millions more immigrants, many of them working-class or undocumented, stream into the country. At the same time, upwardly mobile urban professionals have struggled to reconcile their parents’ assimilationist goals with membership in a multicultural elite—all while trying to carve out a new kind of belonging for their own children, who are neither white nor truly “people of color.” Kang recognizes this existential loneliness in himself and in other Asian Americans who try to locate themselves in the country’s racial binary. There are the businessmen turning Flushing into a center of immigrant wealth; the casualties of the Los Angeles riots; the impoverished parents in New York City who believe that admission to the city’s exam schools is the only way out; the men’s right’s activists on Reddit ranting about intermarriage; and the handful of protesters who show up at Black Lives Matter rallies holding “Yellow Peril Supports Black Power” signs. Kang’s exquisitely crafted book brings these lonely parallel climbers together and calls for a new immigrant solidarity—one rooted not in bubble tea and elite college admissions but in the struggles of refugees and the working class.

Author : Jason Timlock
Publisher : Viking Childrens Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basil, the loneliest boy written by Jason Timlock and published by Viking Childrens Books. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basil is lonely living in his apartment in the big city, but when he discovers other lonely children in his building, they find a way to play together

Author : Andrew Tobias
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345381769
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Little Boy in the World written by Andrew Tobias and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1993-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic account of growing up gay in America. "The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the world was . . . the model IBM exec . . . The best little boy in the world was a closet case who 'never read anything about homosexuality.' . . . John Reid comes out slowly, hilariously, brilliantly. One reads this utterly honest account with the shock of recognition." The New York Times "The quality of this book is fantastic because it comes of equal parts honesty and logic and humor. It is far from being the story of a Gay crusader, nor is it the story of a closet queen. It is the story of a normal boy growing into maturity without managing to get raped into, or taunted because of, his homosexuality. . . . He is bright enough to be aware of his hangups and the reasons for them. And he writes well enough that he doesn't resort to sensationalism . . . ." San Francisco Bay Area Reporter

Author : Bearnard Ó Lubhaing
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856354814
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ventry Calling written by Bearnard Ó Lubhaing and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation from Ceann Tra hAon, a memoir originally published in 1998.

Author : Gerald Hayes
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848898878
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Blasket King written by Gerald Hayes and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last King of the Great Blasket Island was Pádraig Ó Catháin, known as Peats Mhicí, who served for quarter of a century until his death in 1929. The King helped the islanders navigate through life and through national as well as international events, such as the 1916 Rising and the Great War. This book tells how he came to be King of the Great Blasket Island and how his personality and integrity shaped the role. This is the first account of the King's extraordinary life, written in collaboration with his descendants in the USA and Ireland. It tells the story of this unique man, his many contributions to the island and his extended legacy. • Also available: From the Great Blasket to America by Michael Carney and The Loneliest Boy in the World by Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin

Author : Franz Wright
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030770131X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kindertotenwald written by Franz Wright and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose colloquial sound and rhythms announce a new path for this luminous and masterful poet. In these journeys, we hear the constant murmured “yes” of creation—“it will be packing its small suitcase soon; it will leave the keys dangling from the lock and set out at last,” Wright tells us. He introduces us to the powerful presences in his world (the haiku master Basho, Nietzsche, St. Teresa of Avila, and especially his father, James Wright) as he explores the continually unfolding loss of childhood and the mixed blessings that follow it. Taken together, the pieces deliver the diary of a poet—“a fairly good egg in hot water,” as he describes himself—who seeks to narrate his way through the dark wood of his title, following the crumbs of language. “Take everything,” Wright suggests, “you can have it all back, but leave for a little the words, of all you gave the most mysteriously lasting.” With a strong presence of the dramatic in every line, Kindertotenwald pulls us deep into this journey, where we too are lost and then found again with him.

Author : Andrew Glennon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530876587
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loneliest Robot written by Andrew Glennon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, a story for the fast-moving modern technology age that reminds us all to stay HUMAN! A lonely boy discovers an incredible Robot in his garden shed. A silent and highly gifted girl chooses to be alone in her attic bedroom. The richest man in the world mysteriously disappears. It all waits to be discovered in THE LONELIEST ROBOT, a brilliant new novel for the modern technological age which features original illustrations from acclaimed robot artist, Matt Dixon. Join a group of unlikely best friends, on a journey of self-discovery as they all transform through life. We can get so lost; we can forget what it's truly like to feel HUMAN. Many things distract us all - smartphones, buying more and more stuff, technology, TV, everyone working longer and harder.... It's so easy to get lost in modern life. An imaginative new book for teens, young adults and anyone with a human heart, which explores and challenges modern life. A thought-provoking dark comedy - this uplifting tale is told with warmth and humour, making it highly digestible for young and curious minds. Also very suitable for adult readers (especially frustrated parents of technology-addicted children!) Discover The Loneliest Robot. Discover yourself! For more, please visit - www.theloneliestrobot.com

Author : Jason Timlock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140509601
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basil, the Loneliest Boy in the Block written by Jason Timlock and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback edition of a colourful children's picture book first published in 1990. It relates the story of a lonely boy living in a block of high-rise flats who arranges to meet all the other lonely children by organising a party.