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People don’t want to just walk through life but seek to walk into it. Life is far from perfect. Often, it’s full of hard choices. Waking up from a coma to discover his eighteen-year-old body contained seven stage-four cancerous tumors, Christopher Stewart’s battle for his life began. For Chris, the easy choice was to fight for his life. The hard one was choosing to be himself in the process. Through this journey, Chris saw firsthand that life is filled with challenge, fear, pain, and chaos but that there is also love and beauty to be found and good memories to be made. Breakthrough offers insight into how beautifully haunting our lives can be, as Chris tells how to: - let go of the expectations to be a pretender - every day choose to be yourself—the person you were destined to be - accept yourself for who you are - chase your dreams, because anything is obtainable! Chris was able to make a breakthrough. And through this book he believes that you can breakthrough too. By facing fear, chaos, and pain, you too can find a more meaningful life.
Emma - I know it sounds crazy. You (and Mum!) will be wondering where I've been disappearing to, and when I'll be back. That's why I'm leaving you all this evidence - in case something happens and I DON'T come back. Look at everything in my book. Call the phone numbers. Check out the websites. But, you can't tell ANYBODY about it, unless you want to end up in over your head, like me. But don't worry, I'll be OK (I think). Hey, maybe this is the beginning of a new life for me. For sure it's the end of the old one. Call me. Love, Cathy This book reaches beyond the written word to interact with teenage girls in ways they are quite familiar with in other areas of their lives. From instant-messaging to text-messaging, from surfing the web to having their own sites, the age-old story of 'boy dumps girl and girl wins boy back' is lifted from the page to our three-dimensional, 21st-century world.
Magical tale of the unhappy things that happen to a hero who tries but fails in living happily ever after.
The publishing phenomenon Cathy's Book redefined the way teens approach novels and set a new standard for interactivity, using the most popular kids' technology to enhance the experience of reading a really good story. As a new chapter is about to unfold with the publication of the sequel, Cathy's Key later this spring, the original novel is available in trade paperback. All of the supplementary items from the “evidence pack” are reproduced on pages in the back of the book, making this edition more accessible and portable. All of the original websites, phone numbers, and secret codes are still operational. Part romance, part thriller, part mystery, Cathy's Book stands on its own beyond t...
Resurrection Man is the story of an angel raised among mortals, reluctant to use his powers but ultimately compelled to fulfill his fate. It is an ambitious story that confirms Sean Stewart's growing reputation as "a new voice as distinctive as any in SF" (Robert Charles Wilson).
A dark, funny, fast-moving novel of Texas, family, and perfect pop songs.
A conflict between two worlds, one ruled by science, the other by magic. It is seen through the eyes of young Emily Thompson of Edmonton, Alberta, who discovers children are being offered as human sacrifice to appease magic.
When 17-year-old Cathy wakes up one morning to discover a needlepoint near her elbow, her mother is typically suspicious and worried. But Cathy has other ideas and quickly puts them into action. In pursuit of her missing boyfriend (who she feels must be linked to the strange mark on her arm) she starts piecing some startling facts together which lead her into the dangerous underworld of San Francisco's China Town. Throughout her findings, Cathy keeps a secret journal and gathers many items of evidence as well as telephone numbers and websites - leaving it all for her friend Emma to find should Cathy go too far and not come back. All this evidence can be found, integrated into the book and also available to download online. Readers who fully explore this compelling and unique novel, will enter an alternate reality as they reach deeper into the thrilling mystery of Cathy's world.
An empathic bounty hunter investigates the murder of a TV evangelist in this fast-paced cyberpunk novel, set in a fundamentalist America of the near future. "Dark and nastily believable." — William Gibson.
"This spellbinding fantasy weaves the tantalizing tale of a young woman's struggle against her supernatural twin. But when the mystical island of Clouds End comes under attack by the invading forces of a mad emperor, the pair must forge an uneasy alliance to defend their home. "Stewart's beautifully lucid, poetic prose makes for a narrative of commanding power and enchantment that echoes the best of Le Guin and Tolkein." -- Booklist"--