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by Kevin Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Having grown apart after a traumatic and defining moment in their youth, two brothers reconnect to fulfill a life-long ambition to go skydiving. Skydive explores the world of dreams and imagination: the universal human desire to push beyond our physical limitations and to fly.
Time Bandit
Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
“Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware,” goes the chorus of an old sailors’ sing-along that celebrates the allure and danger of the seafaring life. But make no mistake–there truly is much to beware for those who are drawn to risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon...
Identical Strangers
A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
As seen in the hit documentary Three Identical Strangers • “[A] poignant memoir of twin sisters who were split up as infants, became part of a secret scientific study, then found each other as adults.”—Reader’s Digest (Editors’ Choice)
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by Samuel OBie
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
She told me that even though I was conceived before marriage, that she loved me nonetheless. I was told many great truths that have anchored me throughout my life as well as many more wonderful things that have manifested. Mama, the only name I'd ever call her, was a creative cook and a woman of great...
by Charles Reid
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
This is a story of sibling rivalry, poverty and war--of unrequited love and a Canadian dream but much more than that, it is a story that takes today’s reader through the most momentous period of our history--a time when millions, having barely survived the misery and deprivation of the greatest financial...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More
101 Stories Celebrating Double Trouble and Multiple Blessings
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
This is Chicken Soup for the Soul's first book about the growing world of twins and multiples. Twins, parents of multiples, relatives of twins, or anyone interested in twins, triplets, and more will enjoy these inspirational, humorous, and touching stories**.**
Twins and multiples are all over...
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming
A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the way the...
Mothering Twins
From Hearing the News to Beyond the Terrible Twos
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Invaluable real-life advice and emotional support for mothers of multiples.
Meeting the double challenge and reaping the double rewards of having twins can be both exhilarating and exhausting. In this comprehensive guide to twin pregnancy, birth, and early childhood, five mothers, with six...
by Dwayne R. James
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Gingers and Wry is frequently hilarious, occasionally poignant, and consistently honest—sometimes, brutally so.
This book is a collection of quips and comments, originally posted online, threaded together by a narrative that describes four years in the author’s life as he moves from being laid...
by Kirby Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Ben and Jeff Gill are doing menial labor at their father's construction site on east end Molokai when Ben reports to the father that the heavy equipment operators are goofing off. One of the operators retaliates by cornering the brothers on an isolated beachfront off Puko'o Harbor.
by Kirby Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
I slept on the makai side of the lanai. The kaka lines were tethered to the beach house and the moon made them glow as they moved up and down with the tide. These were our umbilical cords, linking us to all the mystery in the ocean. I took my foot out of the covers, slipped it under the mosquito net, and rested it on my line. I felt the ocean's pulse through the cord.
Crystal Puzzle
Growing Up with a Sister with Asperger's
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
A delightful and true story of growing up with a sister with Asperger's, The Crystal Puzzle chronicles powerful family experiences from the realization that there was something different about her sister through the hopes and joys and challenges of school to the eventual independence that comes with...
The Brothers Blackblade
A Rising Knight: Volume 3, Issue 3
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Always two there are. One brother born to wage the war the other to defend the home. Jackal and Hyena are the prey dogs of the house of the Black Blade and there is more than blood between them. Once they were as close as right hand and left. But that’s no longer true. Now they have to find a way...
Silent Voices
A True Story of One Family's Tragedy and Journey Toward Acceptance, Grace and Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
“It was Thursday, September 29th, and I woke up completely exhausted. The sun was shining but it felt gloomy to me. I hadn’t had much sleep the last week. My family was experiencing a tsunami of turmoil and confusion, and we were so drained from facing the threat of violence. I felt sick to my...