Andrew Smith
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When someone is convicted of internet or contact sexual offences against children, there is usually a significant negative effect on the life of their partner and family. Many loved ones of sex offenders need therapeutic help to come to terms with what has happened, to make informed choices going forward and to better protect any children in their care. Drawing on many years of working therapeutically in the field of sexual offending and following...
2) Passenger
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Best friends Jack and Conner can't stay away from Marbury. It's partly because of their obsession with this alternate world and the unresolved war that still wages there. But, it's also because forces in Marbury, including the darkest of the dark, who were not revealed in The Marbury Lens-are beckoning the boys back in order to save their friends...and themselves.
The boys try to destroy the lens that transports them to Marbury. But, that dark world...
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No one expects a catastrophic medical event. What do you do when a seemingly normal day turns into one of the worst days in your life?
Andrew Smith describes what happened after his beloved wife, Janise, called him and with slurred words told him she wasn't feeling well. Within an hour she was in the intensive care unit of the hospital, with tubes everywhere, and machines beeping out her vital medical statistics. The doctors told him she had...
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Two brothers leave home looking for their father, and find themselves hitching a ride with a violent killer – here is a road trip from hell.
Jonah and his younger brother, Simon, are on their own. They set out to find what's left of their family, carrying between them ten dollars, a backpack full of dirty clothes, a notebook, and a stack of letters from their brother, who is serving a tour in Vietnam. And soon into their journey, they have a ride....
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Fourteen-year-old Stark McClellan (nicknamed Stick because he's tall and thin) is bullied for being "deformed", he was born with only one ear. His older brother Bosten is always there to defend Stick. But, the boys can't defend one another from their abusive parents.
When Stick realizes Bosten is gay, he knows that to survive his father's anger, Bosten must leave home. Stick has to find his brother, or he will never feel whole again. In his search,...
6) Adam
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It begins with a choice. To save someone or watch them die knowing that if I save them they will be changed, not just for a lifetime but forever. For thousands of years I have been alone, and for thousands of years I have tried to stay out of the limelight as I was held captive for over 700 years by those who took advantage of my ability to extend or repair life. With this choice may come chaos but perhaps it is time to share my life with someone....
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Several years ago, I put some of my writings into a little book called Manna for the Journey. Since then, I have committed more thoughts toward writing, and other early writings were not included in the first book. Some writings in this publication are fifty years old, and some were written in 2018.
Several pastors have inspired and challenged me, including Jack, Prince, Brooks Ramsey, James Hatley, Joel Snyder, Roger Lovette, Hal Poe, Mike Smith,...
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Marbury is another world, a dark world that best friends Jack Whitmore and Conner Kirk have fallen into before. A stranger had given Jack a pair of glasses — it's through the lenses that the boys get to Marbury. Told through Conner's point of view, THE KING OF MARBURY asks whether Marbury is only in Jack and Conner's minds, or if it might actually be real. You decide.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management...
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"THE PE THERAPIST by Andrew Smith is a heartwarming, thought-provoking novel. It explores deep questions, such as does the Universe find ways to guide us through difficulties and open doors for us, if we just pause and listen? I was very moved by this wonderful novel. Five Stars" Larry Parr
THE PET THERAPIST by Andrew Smith. Famous author, Robert Snapplehoff, is troubled by his recurring dreams about his lost cat, Duncan . By chance, Robert...
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Finn Easton sees the world through miles instead of minutes. It's how he makes sense of the world, and how he tries to convince himself that he's a real boy and not just a character in his father's bestselling cult-classic book. Finn has two things going for him: his best friend, the possibly-insane-but-definitely-excellent Cade Hernandez, and Julia Bishop, the first girl he's ever loved. Then Julia moves away, and Finn is heartbroken. Feeling restless...
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Josh Harris had been New York's first net millionaire. He founded the city's first dotcom, Pseudo.com, and paved the way for a cadre of net-savvy twentysomethings to follow, riding a wave of tech euphoria to unimagined wealth and fame for five years, before losing it all in the great dotcom crash of 2000. Long before then, however, Harris's view of where the web would take us had darkened, and he began a series of lurid social experiments aimed at...
14) Battleground
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The crew of the Liberator have a new mission. Their target is on Straxis, a planet also known as Battleground 9, a training ground for thousands of Federation troops. Has Blake finally picked a battle he cannot possibly win?
16) Stand-off
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Now a senior at Pine Mountain Academy, fifteen-year-old Ryan Dean West becomes captain of the rugby team, shares his dormitory room with a twelve-year-old prodigy, Sam Abernathy, and through the course of the year learns to appreciate things he has triedto resist, including change.
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A Dictionary of Gnosticism is a scholarly yet accessible guide that covers the people, mythology, movements, scripture, and technical terms related to this pre-Christian Western religion. It contains nearly 1700 entries, from Aachiaram, an angel in the 'Secret Book of John to Zostrianos', a third-century Gnostic text, and is a reliable reference for the Nag Hammadi library and other Gnostic texts. An introduction explains who the Gnostics were and...
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A companion to Andrew F. Smith's critically acclaimed and popular Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, this volume recounts the individuals, ingredients, corporations, controversies, and myriad events responsible for America's diverse and complex beverage scene. Smith revisits the country's major historical moments--colonization, the American Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, the temperance movement, Prohibition,...
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Alistair Dingley is a man with an easy charm and a large ego. He is filled with a ruthless determination to succeed in whatever he does and is used to getting his way. At the moment he is in the process of buying a beautiful wooded property from which he is determined to make, in his words, "an absolute killing". As he barks orders into his cellphone to the men he has hired to bulldoze the ground of its trees and shrubs so that he can build on it,...
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The third book of select horror and thriller stories from Author Andrew Allen Smith, Yet Another Slice of Fear takes a deeper dive into the thrill of facing unknowns, including death. The stories in Yet Another Slice of Fear matured as they were written. Many of them seem to come to life and surround you with tension and emotion that can lead to fear. The stories themselves ask the question: What scares you?
As with life, some stories are positive,...