2014, ISBN: 0670012092

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[EAN: 9780670012091], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Viking Press, New York], HAYLEY KINCAIN, PTSD, POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS, ANDY TRUCKER, CARETAKER, GRIEF, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY, SUICIDAL TE… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780670012091], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Viking Press, New York], HAYLEY KINCAIN, PTSD, POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS, ANDY TRUCKER, CARETAKER, GRIEF, CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, PANIC ATTACKS, VETERANS, Jacket, Signed by the author sticker on the front of the DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has wear, edge tear, and soiling. This was a 2014 National Book Award Finalist. Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for her contribution to young adult literature. Anderson began her career as a freelance journalist and worked at The Philadelphia Inquirer in the early years of her career. During this time, Anderson also began to write children's and young adult novels. Anderson released her first children's novel, Ndito Runs, in 1996, based on Kenyan Olympic marathon runners who ran to and from school each day. Later that year, she had her story Turkey Pox published. This story was inspired by her daughter, Meredith, who broke out with chickenpox on Thanksgiving. In 1998, Anderson published No Time For Mother?s Day, featuring the same characters. During her early career, Anderson wrote several pieces of non-fiction. The first was a children's book featuring Saudi Arabia. She also co-authored a book about parenting shy children with Dr. Ward Swallow. She was first recognized for her novel Speak, published in 1999. Laurie Halse Anderson has been a runner-up for the Michael L. Printz+ Award and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories, even have a relationship with Finn, the hot guy who obviously likes her but is hiding secrets of his own. Will being back home help Andy's PTSD, or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell, and drugs push him over? The Impossible Knife of Memory is Laurie Halse Anderson at her finest: compelling, surprising, and impossible to put down. Derived from a Kirkus review: A family struggles to hold itself together in the wake of war. Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, a decorated veteran, have returned to their small upstate New York hometown after years of unschooling and long-haul trucking. Ostensibly, they?re back so Hayley can have a typical senior year of high school, but it?s clear that Andy?s untreated PTSD has made it impossible for him to make a living as a trucker. Both Kincains are bright, sarcastic loners plagued by agonizing memories that won?t quite stay repressed, despite their best efforts, and that punctuate the narrative in counterpoint: Andy?s experiences during his four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan appear fully formed, while Hayley?s childhood recollections are more fragmented and less reliable than they at first seem. As Andy?s mental and physical health deteriorate, Hayley is forced deeper into the role of caretaker. It?s a part she?s been playing so well for so long she doesn?t even realize how much she resents the unfairness of it all until her sweet, bantering boyfriend, Finn, points it out. Anderson sensitively addresses the many problems?physical recovery, grief and survivor?s guilt, chemical dependency, panic attacks and suicidal tendencies?that veterans can face when trying to reintegrate. This is less a bravura performance than a solid one, but Hayley?s strong, wryly vulnerable voice carries the narrative toward a resolutely imperfect, hopeful conclusion. A characteristically honest and deeply felt exploration of the lingering scars of war., Books<

2014, ISBN: 9780670012091

Gebundene Ausgabe

New York: Viking Press, 2014. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. Signed by the author sticker on the front of the DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has wear, ed… Mehr…

New York: Viking Press, 2014. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. Signed by the author sticker on the front of the DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has wear, edge tear, and soiling. This was a 2014 National Book Award Finalist. Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for her contribution to young adult literature. Anderson began her career as a freelance journalist and worked at The Philadelphia Inquirer in the early years of her career. During this time, Anderson also began to write children's and young adult novels. Anderson released her first children's novel, Ndito Runs, in 1996, based on Kenyan Olympic marathon runners who ran to and from school each day. Later that year, she had her story Turkey Pox published. This story was inspired by her daughter, Meredith, who broke out with chickenpox on Thanksgiving. In 1998, Anderson published No Time For Mother?s Day, featuring the same characters. During her early career, Anderson wrote several pieces of non-fiction. The first was a children's book featuring Saudi Arabia. She also co-authored a book about parenting shy children with Dr. Ward Swallow. She was first recognized for her novel Speak, published in 1999. Laurie Halse Anderson has been a runner-up for the Michael L. Printz+ Award and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories, even have a relationship with Finn, the hot guy who obviously likes her but is hiding secrets of his own. Will being back home help Andy's PTSD, or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell, and drugs push him over? The Impossible Knife of Memory is Laurie Halse Anderson at her finest: compelling, surprising, and impossible to put down. Derived from a Kirkus review: A family struggles to hold itself together in the wake of war. Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, a decorated veteran, have returned to their small upstate New York hometown after years of unschooling and long-haul trucking. Ostensibly, they?re back so Hayley can have a typical senior year of high school, but it?s clear that Andy?s untreated PTSD has made it impossible for him to make a living as a trucker. Both Kincains are bright, sarcastic loners plagued by agonizing memories that won?t quite stay repressed, despite their best efforts, and that punctuate the narrative in counterpoint: Andy?s experiences during his four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan appear fully formed, while Hayley?s childhood recollections are more fragmented and less reliable than they at first seem. As Andy?s mental and physical health deteriorate, Hayley is forced deeper into the role of caretaker. It?s a part she?s been playing so well for so long she doesn?t even realize how much she resents the unfairness of it all until her sweet, bantering boyfriend, Finn, points it out. Anderson sensitively addresses the many problems?physical recovery, grief and survivor?s guilt, chemical dependency, panic attacks and suicidal tendencies?that veterans can face when trying to reintegrate. This is less a bravura performance than a solid one, but Hayley?s strong, wryly vulnerable voice carries the narrative toward a resolutely imperfect, hopeful conclusion. A characteristically honest and deeply felt exploration of the lingering scars of war., Viking Press, 2014, 2.5<

2018, ISBN: 9780670012091

Gebundene Ausgabe

IDB Productions, 2018-01-01. MP3 CD. New. CHAPTER I</br></br></br></br>EARLY LIFE</br></br></br></br>In the town hall of the seaport of S… Mehr…

IDB Productions, 2018-01-01. MP3 CD. New. CHAPTER I</br></br></br></br>EARLY LIFE</br></br></br></br>In the town hall of the seaport of St Malo there hangs a portrait of Jacques Cartier, the great sea-captain of that place, whose name is associated for all time with the proud title of 'Discoverer of Canada.' The picture is that of a bearded man in the prime of life, standing on the deck of a ship, his bent elbow resting upon the gunwale, his chin supported by his hand, while his eyes gaze outward upon the western ocean as if seeking to penetrate its mysteries. The face is firm and strong, with tight-set jaw, prominent brow, and the full, inquiring eye of the man accustomed both to think and to act. The costume marks the sea-captain of four centuries ago. A thick cloak, gathered by a belt at the waist, enwraps the stalwart figure. On his head is the tufted Breton cap familiar in the pictures of the days of the great navigators. At the waist, on the left side, hangs a sword, and, on the right, close to the belt, the dirk or poniard of the period.</br></br>How like or unlike the features of Cartier this picture in the town hall may be, we have no means of telling. Painted probably in 1839, it has hung there for more than seventy years, and the record of the earlier prints or drawings from which its artist drew his inspiration no longer survives. We know, indeed, that an ancient map of the eastern coast of America, made some ten years after the first of Cartier's voyages, has pictured upon it a group of figures that represent the landing of the navigator and his followers among the Indians of Gaspe. It was the fashion of the time to attempt by such decorations to make maps vivid. Demons, deities, mythological figures and naked savages disported themselves along the borders of the maps and helped to decorate unexplored spaces of earth and ocean. Of this sort is the illustration on the map in question., IDB Productions, 2018-01-01, 6, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Books for Young Readers, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Despite my best intentions, I was beginning to understand how my dad saw the world. The shadows haunting every living thing. The secrets inside the lies wrapped in bullshit. Even Gracie's box of pills was beginning to make sense." For the past five years, Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, trying to outrun the memories that haunt them both. They moved back to Andy's hometown to try a "normal" life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives. Hayley watches, helpless, as her father turns to drugs and alcohol to silence his demons. And then her own past creeps up, and everything falls apart. How do you keep your father alive when death is stalking him? What are you supposed to do when your parent stops acting like an adult? And what happens if a sweet guy who can make you laugh barges his way into your world and for the first time, you find yourself thinking about the future? Timely, compelling, surprising - tTHE IMPOSSIBLE KNIFE OF MEMORY is Laurie Halse Anderson at her finest. As new, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust cover. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L160, Viking Books for Young Readers, 2014, 5<

ISBN: 9780670012091

Viking Books for Young Readers. Used - Good. . Former Library book.. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training pro… Mehr…

Viking Books for Young Readers. Used - Good. . Former Library book.. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business., Viking Books for Young Readers, 2.5<

2014, ISBN: 9780670012091

Viking Books for Young Readers, 2014. HARDCOVER. Very Good. Binding:HardcoverVendor: Viking Books for Young ReadersSubject:Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Depression, Viking Books… Mehr…

Viking Books for Young Readers, 2014. HARDCOVER. Very Good. Binding:HardcoverVendor: Viking Books for Young ReadersSubject:Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Depression, Viking Books for Young Readers, 2014, 3<