LLC Findaway World

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland....

At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.

Frog and Toad spend their days together, but find sometimes it's nice to be alone.

The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother.

As a young boy the author was physically, emotionally, and psychologically abused by his mother. The book picks up his story as young Pelzer struggles with his ability to fit in and adapt to the new environment around him as he is put into foster care. He also recounts the kindness of his foster parents and other people around him, as well as his inability to brush his mother aside.

Pig isn't just the world's greediest pug, he's the dirtiest, too. It's time he had a bath!

[In this book, the author] explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage - and a life, in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed...

Penny comes home from school eager to share her very own song, but must wait until the time is right to teach it to her parents and the babies.

"After a chance encounter with the son of multi-billionaire Nikolei Drevin, Alex Rider finds himself in the middle of an international crime hunt. The connection - Ark Angel, a revolutionary space hotel with catastrophic potential."--Back cover.

The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Lucas Davenport--a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare--is brought in to take up the investigation, the maddog suddenly has an adversary...