On the Bright Side by S R Johannes (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Johannes kicks off.with this fresh novel about an angel's peripatetic path to earning her wings.A humorous addition to the angel story genre." -Publishers WeeklyAs if the devil's food cake at her wake and the white fat pants she's stuck wearing for eternity weren't bad enough, tween angel Gabby is quick to discover that being a Bright can be fun. The city of Cirrus, Skyphones, and InnerNets are all the rage. And working through the training levels to get her wings doesn't seem too hard.At the ceremony, Gabby is horrified to find out that she has to protect her school nemesis and ex-beffie, Angela, who is now dating Gabby's mega-crush. But instead of protecting Angela, Gabby plays a few pranks (since when is sticking toilet paper to her shoe or putting spinach in her teeth a sin?). They seem harmless until the school dance sabotage gets out of control, forcing her SKYAgent, Clarence (with anger management issues of his own) to put her on probation, threatening her eternal future.Determined to right her wrongs and fix the mess she caused, Gabby steals an ancient artifact that allows her to return to Earth for just one day. This violation unknowingly kicks off a series of events and unleashes a dark side. Gabby soon learns what can happen when you hate someone to death."ON THE BRIGHT SIDE is hilarious and heart-warming - a tale that'll have you hoping that spunky and determined angels like Gabby exist and have our backs." - Kristin O'Donnell Tubb, author of several middle-grade novels, including The Decomposition of Jack, Luna Howls at the Moon, and The Story Seekers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Stated First Edition, First Thus. Gilt-embossed bi-Color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Essays from award winning poet Albert Goldbarth (1948 -) who gave us some 20 collections of poetry. This 193 paged collection of 4 works of prose freely blends memoir, history, short stories & myth. 1, Delft: Painter Jan Vermeer & microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek meet and their thoughts go to fleas that hopped from the biblical plague to circus history; 2, The History of the Universe Is Important to This Story: Collision of notions when astronomers Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler are brought together with Rabbi Yehudah Loew of Prague, presumed occultist of Golem legends, who created a clay man to protect Jews from persecution, in which, the sky-scanners' personal lives fold into Goldbarth's own memories of his mother death from cancer, and, his teenage affair with his best friend's half-sister; 3, Worlds: Tells of the struggles of Goldbarth's grandparents, Polish Jewish immigrants, on Manhattan's Lower East Side along with commonalities shared w/antics in George Herriman's Krazy Kat comics & astronomer Percival Lowell's misidentification of "canals" on Mars, plus, Hopi cosmology; and 4, Future: Goldbarth demonstrates "the future has been here a long, long, time." Wondrous, richly textured prose poems filled with this-and-that, written with humor, intelligence and grace.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Johannes kicks off.with this fresh novel about an angel's peripatetic path to earning her wings.A humorous addition to the angel story genre." -Publishers WeeklyAs if the devil's food cake at her wake and the white fat pants she's stuck wearing for eternity weren't bad enough, tween angel Gabby is quick to discover that being a Bright can be fun. The city of Cirrus, Skyphones, and InnerNets are all the rage. And working through the training levels to get her wings doesn't seem too hard.At the ceremony, Gabby is horrified to find out that she has to protect her school nemesis and ex-beffie, Angela, who is now dating Gabby's mega-crush. But instead of protecting Angela, Gabby plays a few pranks (since when is sticking toilet paper to her shoe or putting spinach in her teeth a sin?). They seem harmless until the school dance sabotage gets out of control, forcing her SKYAgent, Clarence (with anger management issues of his own) to put her on probation, threatening her eternal future.Determined to right her wrongs and fix the mess she caused, Gabby steals an ancient artifact that allows her to return to Earth for just one day. This violation unknowingly kicks off a series of events and unleashes a dark side. Gabby soon learns what can happen when you hate someone to death."ON THE BRIGHT SIDE is hilarious and heart-warming - a tale that'll have you hoping that spunky and determined angels like Gabby exist and have our backs." - Kristin O'Donnell Tubb, author of several middle-grade novels, including The Decomposition of Jack, Luna Howls at the Moon, and The Story Seekers. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.