An Invisible Thread

• Author : Laura Schroff,Alex Tresniowski
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2012-08-07
• ISBN : 9781451648973

Presents the true story of a friendship that has spanned three decades, recounting how the author, a harried sales executive, befriended an eleven-year-old panhandler, changing both of their lives forever.

• Author : Laura Schroff,Alex Tresniowski
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2011-11-01
• ISBN : 9781451642926

This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy that began with one small gesture of kindness, this is a “ray of hope for a better future, as well as an assurance that love is a stronger force than injustice and inequality” (Sybrina Fulton, mother of Travyon Martin and coauthor of Rest in Power: The

• Author : Laura Schroff,Alex Tresniowski
• Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Release Date : 2019-05-07
• ISBN : 9781534437272

From New York Times bestselling authors Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski comes the young readers edition of an unbelievable memoir about an unlikely friendship that forever changed the lives of a busy sales executive and a hungry eleven-year-old boy. On one rainy afternoon, on a crowded New York City street corner, eleven-year-old Maurice met Laura. Maurice asked Laura for spare change because he was hungry, and something made Laura stop and ask Maurice if she could take him to lunch.

• Author : Laura Schroff,Alex Tresniowski
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2016-10-25
• ISBN : 9781501158773

One day in 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy ad sales executive, passed an eleven-year-old boy panhandling on the street. She stopped and offered to take him to McDonald's for lunch. Twenty years later, at Laura's fiftieth birthday party, Maurice Mazyck gave a toast, thanking Laura for her act of kindness, which ended up changing the course of his life. In that toast, Maurice said that when Laura stopped on that busy street corner all those years ago, God had sent him

• Author : Yoshiko Uchida
• Publisher : Harper Trophy
• Release Date : 1991
• ISBN : 0688137032

Children's author, Yoshiko Uchida, describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.

• Author : Catherine Ryan Hyde
• Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
• Release Date : 2011
• ISBN : 9780375866265

Sixteen-year-old Elle falls in love with Frank, the neighbor who helps her adjust to being on her own in a big city, but learning that he is transgendered turns her world upside-down.

• Author : Patrice Karst
• Publisher : DeVorss & Company
• Release Date : 2017-01-04
• ISBN : 0987654321XXX

A steady best-seller and The Invisible String is reaching all over the World! OVER 400,000 copies sold! "That's impossible", said twins Jeremy & Liza after their Mom told them they're all connected by this thing called an Invisible String. "What kind of string"? They asked with a puzzled look to which Mom replied, "An Invisible String made of love." That's where the story begins. A story that teaches of the tie that really binds. The Invisible String reaches from heart to heart.

• Author : Diana Bletter,Lori Grinker
• Publisher : Jewish Publication Society of America
• Release Date : 1989
• ISBN : UOM:39015016944616

A unique and vibrant portrait of 60 women, which explores how they blend their faith and/or sense of Jewishness with their lives, their families, their expectations, and their commitments. Includes 120 black and white photographs.

• Author : Ann Hood
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 2011-05-02
• ISBN : 9780393339765

After the loss of her daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens an adoption agency to place baby girls from China with American families and discovers the painful and courageous journeys of both adoptive parents and birth mothers. Reprint. BOMC2.

• Author : Alex Tresniowski
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2021-02-09
• ISBN : 9781982114046

From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a “compelling” (The Guardian) and “riveting” (The New York Times Book Review) true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection, and the launch of the NAACP. In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help.

• Author : Yasuko Fujiyama
• Publisher : Loft
• Release Date : 2016-07-25
• ISBN : 8499369820

In the East there is a belief that the gods, using an invisible red thread, connect every person with their destined other. In Japanese legend, this thread is thought to be tied around the little finger of everyone on earth. According to this myth, the thread can travel everywhere, regardless of time, place and circumstances, until finding its other end. It is also said that this magical thread may be twisted or tangled but never broken. On each page, the

• Author : Michael J. Clark
• Publisher : ECW Press
• Release Date : 2021-11-02
• ISBN : 9781773057446

People die. Secrets don’t. Sam Hutchings was looking for a writing muse. She hoped that the family cabin at Bird Lake would spark her keyboard, a fire that had been smothered by self-loathing, cheap wine, and her daughter Meg’s summer vacation. An innocent stroll down memory lane begins to unravel the story Sam had heard about her father: What did he do for a living? How did he actually die? Those who know the truth are nearer than

• Author : David Foster Wallace
• Publisher : Back Bay Books
• Release Date : 2009-04-13
• ISBN : 9780316073851

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal

• Author : Tracy Chevalier
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2019-09-17
• ISBN : 9780525558255

"A buoyant tale about the path to acceptance and joy--beginning, like all journeys, with one brave step."--People "The best-selling novelist has done a masterful job of depicting the circumstances of a generation of women we seldom think about: the mothers, sisters, wives and fiances of men lost in World War I, whose job it was to remember those lost but not forgotten."--Associated Press A BEST BOOK OF 2019 with The New York Public Library | USA TODAY | Real Simple | Good

• Author : Natalie Whipple
• Publisher : Hot Key Books
• Release Date : 2013-05-16
• ISBN : 9781471400773

Fiona is invisible, and her dad - an infamous crime lord - will stop at nothing to control her power. High school is hard when you're invisible. Fiona McClean hates her family, has had to move to a new school and seems to be completely invisible to the boy she likes. So far so normal, right? But Fiona really is invisible. She doesn't even know what colour her own hair is. Born into a world where Cold War anti-radiation pills