Category: Friendship

By Justine Larbalestier

ISBN-10: 1616955457

ISBN-13: 9781616955458

The notoriously bloody historical past of a mob-run Sydney, Australia local is fertile floor for this ancient mystery with a magical twist: girls' skill to work out the numerous ghosts haunting Razorhurst.

Sydney's lethal Razorhurst local, 1932. Gloriana Nelson and Mr. Davidson, ruthless mob bosses, have reached a delicate peace--one maintained via "razor men." Kelpie, orphaned and homeless, is blessed (and cursed) having the ability to see Razorhurst's many ghosts. They inform her secrets and techniques the residing can't learn about the cracks already forming within the mobs' truce.

Then Kelpie meets Dymphna Campbell, a mythical attractiveness and prized moll of Gloriana Nelson. She's earned the nickname "Angel of Death" simply because none of her beaus has ever survived understanding her. Unbeknownst to Kelpie, Dymphna can see ghosts, too, and she or he is aware that Gloriana's carry is crumbling one henchman at a time. As loyalties shift and betrayal threatens the 2 women at each flip, Dymphna is decided not just to outlive, yet to upward push to the head with Kelpie at her aspect.

By Gerhard Wagner, Gilbert Weiss (Eds.)

ISBN-10: 082621911X

ISBN-13: 9780826219114

By Banana Yoshimoto

ISBN-10: 0802139914

ISBN-13: 9780802139917

Banana Yoshimoto's novels of younger lifestyles in Japan have made her a world sensation. see you later Tsugumi is an offbeat tale of a deep and complex friendship among lady cousins that ranks between her most sensible paintings. Maria is the single daughter of an single girl. She has grown up on the seashore along her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled, and infrequently merciless. Now Maria's father is eventually in a position to convey Maria and her mom to Tokyo, ushering Maria right into a international of collage, drawing close maturity, and a "normal" kin. whilst Tsugumi invitations Maria to spend a final summer season via the ocean, a restful idyll turns into a time of dramatic development as Tsugumi unearths love and Maria learns the genuine which means of domestic and family members. She additionally has to confront either Tsugumi's internal energy and the true probability of wasting her. so long Tsugumi is a beguiling, resonant novel from one of many world's most interesting younger writers.

By David Burns

ISBN-10: 0451148452

ISBN-13: 9780451148452

Hassle making and preserving acquaintances and fanatics? David Burns, writer of the progressive 'Feeling Good' may also help you recover from your neuroses and make allowance your self the affection you deserve.

By Alicia J. Batten

ISBN-10: 1905679106

ISBN-13: 9781905679102

Now on hand from SBL Press

Employing social description, social clinical types, and rhetorical research, Alicia J. Batten argues that the letter of James is conversant with the subject of friendship inside Greek and Roman literature, in addition to inside of a number of texts of early Christianity. She illustrates how James drew upon the various language and ideas on the topic of friendship with an exciting density to recommend resistance to wealth, avoidance of wealthy buyers, and reliance upon God.

Features:

• Use of friendship, benefaction, and patronage as lenses by which James and comparable texts might be viewed
• A powerful case for the way the letter appels to the language and ideas of friendship in regards to God's relationships with humans
• Exploration of the connection among the booklet of James and the lessons of Jesus

By Kevin Henkes

Award-winning, nationally bestselling writer Kevin Henkes introduces second-grader Billy Miller during this fast paced and shaggy dog story approximately friendship, sibling contention, and common university. The yr of Billy Miller comprises black-and-white paintings by way of Kevin Henkes and is ideal for lovers of the Ramona books, Frindle, by way of Andrew Clements, and the Clementine series.

When Billy Miller has a mishap on the statue of the Jolly eco-friendly immense on the finish of summer season holiday, he finally ends up with a massive lump on his head. What the way to commence moment grade, with a lump in your head! because the yr is going by way of, although, Billy figures out how one can navigate straight forward college, the right way to relish his little sister, and the way to be a extra grown up and dependable family member and a aid to his busy operating mother and stay-at-home dad. Newbery Honor writer and Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes supplies a quick, fulfilling, laugh-out-loud-funny institution and family members tale that includes a diorama homework task, a college poetry slam, cancelled sleepovers, and epic sibling mood tantrums. Illustrated all through with black-and-white paintings by way of the writer, it is a ideal brief novel for the early user-friendly grades.

By David Konstan

ISBN-10: 0521454026

ISBN-13: 9780521454025

This ebook is a heritage of friendship in Greece and Rome, from the warrior society of the Homeric epics to the time of the Christian Roman Empire. It demonstrates how old friendship resembles smooth conceptions, and the way it evolves in numerous social contexts. The ebook sheds new mild on such questions as friendship and democracy, the significance of buddies in executive and in philosophical groups, women's friendships, and the transformation of friendship below the impact of Christian principles of brotherhood.

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By John Prendergast, Michael Mattocks

“You don’t seem like brothers . . .”

Peace activist and cofounder of the adequate venture, John Prendergast is really a champion of human rights in Africa.

But the not-so-public face of J.P. is the lifestyles he’s led as a massive Brother to Michael Mattocks. As a curious, pushed, and emotionally wounded twenty-year-old, J.P. made the life-changing determination to shape a “Big Brother/Little Brother” dating with then seven-year-old Michael, who was once dwelling out of plastic baggage and drifting from one homeless preserve to the subsequent along with his mom and siblings. missing a reference to his personal brother and distancing himself from a disastrous courting together with his father, J.P. shaped a special bond with Michael the instant they met. Michael and J.P. turned like family members, with Michael and a few of his siblings even residing with J.P. one summer time. within the years that undefined, J.P. took Michael and his brothers on outings, even if it was once fishing, enjoying basketball, patronizing reasonable eating places, or happening street journeys. This friendship could proceed for over twenty-five years because the coped with various levels of violence, instability, and trauma of their personal lives.

Told in duet, not likely Brothers follows Michael as he grows up at the tricky streets of Washington, D.C., the place as a tender teen he watched his ally get shot, dropped out of college, and commenced dealing crack cocaine presently thereafter. via 16, Michael had turn into the kingpin of his local, weapons and medicine consistently shut to hand. in the meantime, J.P. was once touring to and from African struggle zones. J.P. provided Michael a safe haven from the streets, by no means quite confronting the gravity of what Michael was once facing in his early life. In flip, Michael afforded J.P. an get away from his personal turbulent own life.

As the years cross by way of, the 2 swoop out and in of every other’s lives, slowly disconnecting as they disappear into their respective worlds, yet making their as far back as one another at a serious second for either one of them. The impact the 2 have on one another is intensely major to either one of their paths to redemption.

Inspirational and deeply relocating, not likely Brothers fantastically showcases how life’s so much random moments can usually be the main profound.

By Mahzad Hojjat, Anne Moyer

ISBN-10: 0190222026

ISBN-13: 9780190222024

ISBN-10: 0190645385

ISBN-13: 9780190645380

Within the past due twentieth and twenty first centuries, the meteoric upward push of numerous social media systems and cellular purposes have illuminated the profound desire friendship and connection have in all of our lives; and but, only a few scholarly volumes have interested by this special and critical bond in this new period of with regards to one another.

Exploring such subject matters as friendship and social media, friendship with present and prior romantic companions, co-workers, mentors, or even pets, editors Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer lead a professional crew of worldwide individuals as they each one discover how friendship components inside of our lives today.

What does it suggest to be a pal? What roles do friendships play in our personal improvement? How will we befriend these around the race, ethnicity, gender, and orientation spectrums? What occurs whilst a friendship turns bitter? what's the influence of friendship - solid and undesirable - on our psychological health and wellbeing? offering a far wanted replace to the sphere of interpersonal family, The Psychology of Friendship serves as a box advisor for readers as they shed conventional definitions of friendship in want of up to date contexts and connections.

By Anna Jarzab

ISBN-10: 0375855289

ISBN-13: 9780375855283

Carly: She used to be candy. shrewdpermanent. Self-destructive. She knew the secrets and techniques of Brighton Day School’s such a lot privileged scholars. secrets and techniques that bought her killed.

Neily: Dumped by means of Carly for a infamous undesirable boy, Neily didn’t solution the telephone name she made earlier than she died. If he had, perhaps he can have helped her. Now he can’t get a twin of her useless physique out of his mind.

Audrey: She’s the explanation Carly obtained twisted up with Brighton’s quick crowd within the first position, and now she regrets it—especially due to the fact she’s confident the police have positioned the incorrect individual in detention center. Audrey thinks the assassin is anyone at Brighton, and she or he desires Neily to aid her discover who it is.

As reluctant allies Neily and Audrey dig into their shared earlier with Carly, her involvement with Brighton’s darkish goings-on involves mild. yet understanding how Carly and her killer healthy into the twisted drama will strength Audrey and Neily to stand difficult truths approximately themselves and the lady they couldn’t keep.