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Who’s story is this? Nobody. - Who’s nobody? The average working man. This story is very old but very relevant. The common man’s opinions are disregarded. His needs are manipulated. But of course the story makes clear that he is key to society. The story shows that. Then the narrator comes in and rather dramatically reinforces that point in the final three paragraphs just in case you missed it the first time. Yes, there’s a pretty high soapbox. Yes, it’s pretty holier than thou.

“The Girl Nobody Wants” is a gripping and poignant book that delves into the harrowing reality of child abuse. Lily O’Brien, courageously shares her own tragic experiences' shedding light on the dark corners of her past. The Girl Nobody Wants is a Shocking True Story of Child Abuse in Ireland. On my 40th birthday, I stand before the mirror a mere shell of a person, waiting for life to slip away. To everyone I appear clean, tidy, and perhaps even happy, a skill I've perfected over the years. But behind my smile lies a lifetime of hidden pain. This is the raw, emotional account of an ...

Three siblings arrive at Maggie's door after being taken into care. Teachers of eight-year-old Bobby spotted bruises while he was getting changed for PE and his dad, Lee, and stepmother, Brianna, have been uncooperative and hostile to Social Services. While they investigate, Bobby, as well as Brianna's daughters, Melodie and Poppy, are all placed in Maggie's care. But as the children settle in, a thought won't let Maggie go. While Melodie and Poppy are clean, well-fed and immaculately dressed, Bobby is pale, severely underweight and crawling with lice.

Charlie knows he’s not the main character in his own story. He’s just another schmuck in the Ivy League looking to be somebody. He plays in a terrible jazz band, falls in love too easily, and struggles with the human being business. Written in a wry, comedic style, A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories traces one fall semester in the lives of four typical but unforgettable university students who, as compensation for their existential anxieties, just want to feel understood.

"Nobodies is driven by the energy and intelligence of its central couple, who are always firing on all cylinders." — BookLife for Publishers Weekly From Warren Adler, bestselling author of The War of the Roses—now a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman—and Shannon McKenna, master of romantic suspense, comes a gritty noir crime thriller of deception, revenge, and redemption. They’re ghosts. They’re thieves. And they’re running out of time. Framed and forgotten, Henry Cody lives in hiding under a stolen name, plotting revenge against the people who ...

No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing, with an emphasis on family and friends.

“Elon Green’s grimly vivid telling of this story and its aftermath in The Man Nobody Killed is part elegy for Stewart himself, part portrait of the city that failed him… The events recounted in Green’s swift, unsparing book are as timely as ever; one can only hope they still have the...

The time is Christmas Eve. The Christmas tree sellers have turned off their lights and gone home. The lots are empty, except for a few forlorn trees that nobody wanted. An eleven-year-old boy is sent out to pick through those trees and bring one back to the apartment where his Nanny raised him since infancy. What follows is part fable, part remembrance, part miracle.

What if everything you thought defined you—your past, your failures, your struggles—wasn't the end of your story, but just the beginning? Nobody's Legend by Jason Ferguson is a raw, unfiltered journey through adversity, transformation, and the fight to reclaim identity. This is more than a memoir—it's a battle cry for anyone who's ever felt lost, underestimated, or stuck in their own narrative.

Mia still hasn't got over her cat's death - she had Tibby for as long as she can remember and can't ever imagine having another pet. But one day, just before Christmas, she finds out that her friend's cat has had kittens. Over the holidays she goes round to play with them. Mia's parents think she has coped with Tibby's loss, and surprise her by saying she can have the last kitten, Whiskers.Mia's not sure she's ready yet - although she loves Whiskers, she feels guilty about Tibby.

Author Andrea Dunlop is looking for answers. When her older sister was first investigated for Munchausen by Proxy abuse more than a decade ago, it tore her family apart. This catastrophic series of events sent Dunlop on a journey to understand this most taboo form of abuse. In this groundbreaking podcast, she talks to some of the top experts in the world to explore the criminology and psychopathology behind Munchausen by Proxy and to reveal the wide swath of destruction these perpetrators leave in their wake. In each season, Dunlop investigates a case: speaking to friends, family members, ...

Originally published in the 1853 Christmas edition of Dickens' journal Household Words, "Nobody's Story" uses the differences between the Big Wig family and the Nobody family to call attention to class-based inequity. This version of "Nobody's Story" was recorded as part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens.

This first book of the Holding Their Own series, A Story of Survival, is set in the year 2015, when the world is burdened by the second Great Depression. The United States, already weakened by internal strife, becomes the target of an international terror plot. A series of attacks results in thousands of casualties and disables the country's core infrastructure. The combination of economic hardship and the staggering blow of the terror attacks results in a collapse of the government.

Truth's burning desire for money and power made him dimly aware of what's to come. He strives to uphold the streets code of ethics, while continuing to build his drug empire. While cementing his position in the streets Truth believes the sky is the limit. He invests a portion of his drug money into a record label with his brother Future, in hopes of having a exit plan down the road. From the outside looking in, everything seemed to be going in Truth’s favor, until the unexpected happens. After an attempt to extort Jazzie, which backfires, Boss finds himself in a complex situation. Jazzie ...

A Charles Dickens Christmas story about remembering the poor, forgotten, and overlooked once a year by the Christmas fire. This grand story sets up the bickering Big Wig family as a guide to the laboring Nobody family, led by a man named Legion, and nothing good comes of it. Legion's master discusses his losses in term of the poor and their habits and diseases. Legion points out it is one world: "What happens to us happens to you."

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of Buffalo Fluffalo comes a heartwarming memoir that creatively reconstructs the author's late grandmother's voice to tell the story of four generations of strong women in their family. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: VOGUE...

Is it just Cera's imagination when the famous mystery writer Kyle Preston walks into her bookstore? If it is, either way, her life is about to get a more interesting. For bookstore manager Cera Raines, life in an ordinary small town, while dull, has never been what would be considered normal. She's a nobody. Haunted by ghosts from her past, her only friends are of the invisible type. While she dreams of having a family of her own one day, up til now, her red hair is the only notable thing about her life...that is until famous mystery writer Kyle Preston darkens her doorstep. Kyle Preston is...

After a failed petition to change his career, Bill, the local pottery maker and town drunk, is coerced by his neighbors and king to join an expedition to hunt down and slay a mighty dragon that plagues their village.

None of us wants to die, but all of us will. What do you do when it is your time, or the time for someone you love? There are people in this world whose mission in life is to help answer those questions. Every day they work with people who are going through the most frightening times of their lives. Their mission is to listen, to help, to stay. Join this journey as the curtain is pulled back to reveal the emotions, challenges and victories experienced by hospice patients and those who care for them. When life falls apart, when the diagnosis is tragic, when there is no solution to be found -...

Who's story is this? Nobody. - Who's nobody? The average working man.

This story is very old but very relevant. The common man's opinions are disregarded. His needs are manipulated. But of course the story makes clear that he is key to society. The story shows that. Then the narrator comes in and rather dramatically reinforces that point in the final three paragraphs just in case you missed it the first time. Yes, there's a pretty high soapbox. Yes, it's pretty holier than thou.