Bøger af Michele Adams

TERRIBLE TANTRUMING TIM He just can't help himself from exploding!! A comical book of mishaps centred around the main character Timothy Huckett who, in order to ease his boredom comes up with devious plans and tricks to entertain himself. Being every parent's nightmare he is easily pushed over the edge launching himself into uncontrollable temper tantrums in a bid to get his own way. With a variety of accomplices and allies he hatches and carries out his plans and tricks. So enter the erupting world of Timothy Huckett who knows exactly how to get his own way! Timothy isn't just bored he is B.O.R.E.D!! He plans tricks and schemes guaranteed to cause mayhem and explosions in all sorts of strange places. He hates vegetables, hates brushing his teeth, absolutely hates his Aunt Sally's hairy moustache but most of all he LOVES getting his boring goody two shoes sister, 'Charlotte' into trouble. From whoopee cushions to wriggly worms you can be sure if Timothy is feeling bored trouble will follow. But sometimes the best laid plans go wrong and to draw attention to himself and get his own way Timothy uses his best weapon of all.... He is after all...... Terrible Tantruming Tim

Miss Insecure: The Ugly Truth dives into the insecure mind of Maya, a young, black adolescent as she comes of age in the city of brotherly love! The story is written through the eyes of a teenager using accounts of her life taken from the author's childhood diaries. She learns things the hard way as she mistakes sex for love and uses her body as a way to escape her internal sadness. Follow her one-track mind as she glosses her loose lips and marches in stilettos through life and ultimately becomes the source of her own pain.Alcohol and drugs become her means to escape the ugly truth. That is, her life is not what she imagined it would be and she fears it never will. Without guidance she is forced to make decisions on her own, feeling more lost each day she struggles to find herself. Her decisions land her into the abusive arms of Tyree, who becomes "her everything". As she reflects back to when she first lost her innocence she asks herself, "Will the pattern of abuse ever end?"

In this sparkling collection of stories drawn from the surreal edge of life, playful irony vies with more poignant evocations of solitude, mortality, and the dawn of sexual awareness all bodied forth in a language that is precise, elegant, and immediate. Storytellers are liars, but as Picasso said, art is the lie that tells the truth, and deceit is a motif here: lies of omission or commission, in words or in deeds, to gain love or repel it, and beyond, to what our lies tell of the rift between body and soul, dream and fulfillment: the essential, often comical ambiguity of human existence. What do we really want? What do we need? And what happens if or when we gain the objects of our desires? From the strange erotics of household appliances and grocery shopping, anguish of an unexpected haircut, curious negotiations with sex including the mystically transformative power of a bikini to the shock of a childs first encounter with death, perverse seductions of imagination, tranced midnight zones of travel, and the dark revenge of a life unlived, this collection explores the borderland between inner and outer realities, creating a sharply etched portrait of fraught consciousness struggling for balance between the pains and sudden pleasures of being alive.