Jared Reck's Books

A Short History of the Girl Next Door

By: Jared Reck

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Short History of the Girl Next Door

By: Jared Reck

Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this unrequited-love story will appeal to fans of Jennifer Niven, John Green, and Jesse Andrews. Seriously, how can you see a person nearly every day of your life and never think a thing of it, then all of a sudden, one day, it’s different? You see that goofy grin a thousand times and just laugh. But goofy grin #1,001 nearly stops your heart? Right. That sounds like a bad movie already. Matt Wainwright is constantly sabotaged by the overdramatic movie director in his head. He can’t tell his best friend, Tabby, how he really feels about her, he implodes on the JV basketball team, and the only place he feels normal is in Mr. Ellis’s English class, discussing the greatest fart scenes in literature and writing poems about pissed-off candy-cane lumberjacks. If this were a movie, everything would work out perfectly. Tabby would discover that Matt’s madly in love with her, be overcome with emotion, and fall into his arms. Maybe in the rain. But that’s not how it works. Matt watches Tabby get swept away by senior basketball star and all-around great guy Liam Branson. Losing Tabby to Branson is bad enough, but screwing up and losing her as a friend is even worse. After a tragic accident, Matt finds himself left on the sidelines, on the verge of spiraling out of control and losing everything that matters to him. From debut author Jared Reck comes a fiercely funny and heart-wrenching novel about love, longing, and what happens when life as you know it changes in an instant. “This story broke my heart and made me laugh and gave me hope—and really, what more can you ask of a book than that? I loved it, and I have a feeling you will too.” —Jennifer E. Smith, author of Windfall and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight “In the blink of an eye, A Short History of the Girl Next Door goes from hilarious to haunting to harrowing to heartbreaking to hopeful and back.” —Jeff Zentner, award-winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days “Sharp, smart, and unforgettable.” —Kate Hattemer, critically acclaimed author of The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy and The Land of 10,000 Madonnas “A powerful novel about first love, the intimacy of childhood friendships, and moving forward from loss.” —Publishers Weekly “Pair this with other novels that explore loss from a male perspective, such as Jeff Zentner’s Goodbye Days or Adam Silvera’s History Is All You Left Me.” —Booklist “Reck gives subtlety and depth to Matt, so he’s believable as a flawed guy negotiating his way through his feelings for Tabby as well as his social status in school, his ideas of masculinity, and his insecurities.” —The Bulletin “Recommend this to readers who enjoyed Steven Levenson’s Dear Evan Hansen.” —VOYA

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

Ember

Published Date

ISBN 10

1524716103

ISBN 13

9781524716103

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

By: Jared Reck

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

By: Jared Reck

A sweet romantic story about donuts, food trucks, family, and first loves. It's easy to look at high school senior Oscar Olsson and think: lost. He hates school, struggles to read, and wants nothing to do with college. But Oscar is anything but lost---he knows exactly what he wants and exactly how to get it. Oscar and Farfar, the Swedish grandfather who's raised him, run a food truck together selling rullekebab and munkar, and Oscar wants to finish school so he can focus on the food truck full-time. It's easy to look at Mary Louise (Lou for short) Messinger and think: driven. AP everything, valedictorian in her sights, and Ivy league college aspirations. When Lou hijacks Oscar's carefully crafted schedule of independent studies and blocks of time in the Culinary Lab, Oscar is roped into helping Lou complete her over-ambitious, resume-building service project-reducing food waste in Central Adams High School. While Lou stands to gain her Girl Scout Gold Award, Oscar will be faced with a mountain of uneaten school apples and countless hours with a girl he can't stand. With the finish line in sight, a relationship he never expected, and festival season about to begin (for good), the unthinkable happens, and Oscar's future is anything but certain.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1524716111

ISBN 13

9781524716110

A Short History of the Girl Next Door

By: Jared Reck

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Short History of the Girl Next Door

By: Jared Reck

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

Ember

Published Date

ISBN 10

1524716103

ISBN 13

9781524716103

The Golden Age of Homespun

By: Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Golden Age of Homespun

By: Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.

You have seen neglected oxbows, but what do you know of their making or of the training of a yoke of oxen?... What do you know of the rambling shoemakers who came to a farmhouse and stayed until each member of the family was newly shod with leather from the farm's cattle? Have you ever wondered about the processes by which our frontiersmen translated forest land into fields of wheat? What do you know about those two first crops of the pioneers, ashes and maple sugar? What do you know of log houses, of shingle making, bridges, and flax growing, of spinning and weaving cloth for a garment that was homegrown and homemade? Here is folk history, the accumulated memory of old men and women whom the author knew,... memories he has substantiated by a lifetime of research."—from the Foreword by Louis C. Jones The Golden Age of Homespun chronicles the occupations, handicrafts, and traditions that defined rural life in upstate New York—and throughout much of America—in the first half of the nineteenth century. First published in 1953, it is an engaging and affectionate account of how land was cleared, farms established, and homes built; of how each family fed, clothed, and warmed itself; and of the trades, crafts, and industries that augmented a primarily agrarian economy. Illustrated with 45 delightful line drawings that depict the activities and implements described by Jared van Wagenen, Jr., The Golden Age of Homespun is an invaluable record of how upstate New York farmers lived on and off the land in the decades before the Civil War—a vanished way of life that still holds strong appeal in the American imagination.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

301

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501717235

ISBN 13

9781501717239

Catastrophic School Violence

A New Approach to Prevention

By: Jared M. Scherz,Donna Scherz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Catastrophic School Violence

A New Approach to Prevention

By: Jared M. Scherz,Donna Scherz

This book delves deep into school culture and the school shooter. The authors generate a more comprehensive picture of school violence including the personal, interpersonal, and environmental factors that help to generate a school serial killer. The authors introduce new type of violence classification system, which includes“retributive violence” as well as a new tool for schools to use in preventing catastrophe. This book provides the foundation for building an Early Warning Violence Prevention and Detection System for schools. Through a new concept of reverse profiling, the authors widen the perspective on the multiple causes of school violence, moving away from a static trait cluster or profile perspective. Increased attention to the processes, patterns, cycles, and other decompensation trends is the key to identifying schools which are vulnerable to violence and potential perpetrators. Awareness can be the best tool in prevention.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

175

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

161048987X

ISBN 13

9781610489874

The Sabbath and the Sanctuary

By: Jared Calaway

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Sabbath and the Sanctuary

By: Jared Calaway

Who can enter the sacred and heavenly presence of God? And how? Jared C. Calaway argues that the Letter to the Hebrews joined an ongoing debate between ancient Jewish and emergent Christian groups by engaging and countering priestly frameworks of sacred access that aligned the Sabbath with the sanctuary."--The jacket.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

282

Publisher

Mohr Siebeck

Published Date

ISBN 10

3161523652

ISBN 13

9783161523656

The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

By: Jared Peatman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

By: Jared Peatman

When Abraham Lincoln addressed the crowd at the new national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863, he intended his speech to be his most eloquent statement on the inextricable link between equality and democracy. However, unwilling to commit to equality at that time, the nation stood ill-prepared to accept the full message of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In the ensuing century, groups wishing to advance a particular position hijacked Lincoln’s words for their own ends, highlighting the specific parts of the speech that echoed their stance while ignoring the rest. Only as the nation slowly moved toward equality did those invoking Lincoln’s speech come closer to recovering his true purpose. In this incisive work, Jared Peatman seeks to understand Lincoln’s intentions at Gettysburg and how his words were received, invoked, and interpreted over time, providing a timely and insightful analysis of one of America’s most legendary orations. After reviewing the events leading up to November 19, 1863, Peatman examines immediate responses to the ceremony in New York, Gettysburg itself, Confederate Richmond, and London, showing how parochial concerns and political affiliations shaped initial coverage of the day and led to the censoring of Lincoln’s words in some locales. He then traces how, over time, proponents of certain ideals invoked the particular parts of the address that suited their message, from reunification early in the twentieth century to American democracy and patriotism during the world wars and, finally, to Lincoln’s full intended message of equality during the Civil War centennial commemorations and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Peatman also explores foreign invocations of the Gettysburg Address and its influence on both the Chinese constitution of 1912 and the current French constitution. An epilogue highlights recent and even current applications of the Gettysburg Address and hints at ways the speech might be used in the future. By tracing the evolution of Lincoln’s brief words at a cemetery dedication into a revered document essential to American national identity, this revealing work provides fresh insight into the enduring legacy of Abraham Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address on American history and culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

267

Publisher

SIU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0809333112

ISBN 13

9780809333110

Accidental Presidents

Eight Men Who Changed America

By: Jared Cohen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Accidental Presidents

Eight Men Who Changed America

By: Jared Cohen

This New York Times bestselling “deep dive into the terms of eight former presidents is chock-full of political hijinks—and déjà vu” (Vanity Fair) and provides a fascinating look at the men who came to the office without being elected to it, showing how each affected the nation and world. The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Eight men have succeeded to the presidency when the incumbent died in office. In one way or another they vastly changed our history. Only Theodore Roosevelt would have been elected in his own right. Only TR, Truman, Coolidge, and LBJ were re-elected. John Tyler succeeded William Henry Harrison who died 30 days into his term. He was kicked out of his party and became the first president threatened with impeachment. Millard Fillmore succeeded esteemed General Zachary Taylor. He immediately sacked the entire cabinet and delayed an inevitable Civil War by standing with Henry Clay’s compromise of 1850. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded our greatest president, sided with remnants of the Confederacy in Reconstruction. Chester Arthur, the embodiment of the spoils system, was so reviled as James Garfield’s successor that he had to defend himself against plotting Garfield’s assassination; but he reformed the civil service. Theodore Roosevelt broke up the trusts. Calvin Coolidge silently cooled down the Harding scandals and preserved the White House for the Republican Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Harry Truman surprised everybody when he succeeded the great FDR and proved an able and accomplished president. Lyndon B. Johnson was named to deliver Texas electorally. He led the nation forward on Civil Rights but failed on Vietnam. Accidental Presidents shows that “history unfolds in death as well as in life” (The Wall Street Journal) and adds immeasurably to our understanding of the power and limits of the American presidency in critical times.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

528

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501109839

ISBN 13

9781501109836

Black Prometheus

Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery

By: Jared Hickman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Black Prometheus

Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery

By: Jared Hickman

How did an ancient mythological figure who stole fire from the gods become a face of the modern, lending his name to trailblazing spaceships and radical publishing outfits alike? How did Prometheus come to represent a notion of civilizational progress through revolution--scientific, political, and spiritual--and thereby to center nothing less than a myth of modernity itself ? The answer Black Prometheus gives is that certain features of the myth--its geographical associations, iconography of bodily suffering, and function as a limit case in a long tradition of absolutist political theology--made it ripe for revival and reinvention in a historical moment in which freedom itself was racialized, in what was the Age both of Atlantic revolution and Atlantic slavery. Contained in the various incarnations of the modern Prometheus--whether in Mary Shelley's esoteric novel, Frankenstein, Denmark Vesey's real-world recruitment of slave rebels, or popular travelogues representing Muslim jihadists against the Russian empire in the Caucasus-- is a profound debate about the means and ends of liberation in our globalized world. Tracing the titan's rehabilitation and unprecedented exaltation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries across a range of genres and geographies turns out to provide a way to rethink the relationship between race, religion, and modernity and to interrogate the Eurocentric and secularist assumptions of our deepest intellectual traditions of critique.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

545

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190272597

ISBN 13

9780190272593

The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published

Vol. V

By: Benjamin Franklin,Jared Sparks

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published

Vol. V

By: Benjamin Franklin,Jared Sparks

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

538

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

338544537X

ISBN 13

9783385445376

Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE)

A Sourcebook

By: Kristi Upson-Saia,Heidi Marx,Jared Secord

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE)

A Sourcebook

By: Kristi Upson-Saia,Heidi Marx,Jared Secord

This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. It includes a wide-ranging collection of textual sources - many hard to access, and some translated into English for the first time - as well as artistic, material, and scientific evidence. Introductory chapters and accompanying commentary provide substantial context, making the sourcebook accessible to readers at all levels. Readers will come away with a broad sense of the illnesses people in ancient Greece and Rome experienced, the range of healers from whom they sought help, and the various practices they employed to be healthy"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

445

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520299701

ISBN 13

9780520299702

Denial

How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems

By: Jared Del Rosso

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Denial

How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems

By: Jared Del Rosso

In this new book, Jared Del Rosso argues that to understand contemporary social problems we need to become aware of the strategies that people use to deny the existence of those very problems. Drawing on research in sociology, criminology, psychology, and communication studies, Del Rosso develops a new vocabulary for describing denial and its consequences. With examples from everyday observations, current events, and social scientific research, Del Rosso also reveals just how widespread and varied the uses of denial are. Some uses of denial can help people repair their interactions and relationships with others. But most uses of it allows problems to fester, unrecognized. We need, Del Rosso concludes, forms of acknowledgement to surface long-denied problems. But more than that, we need collective forms of action to remedy the harms that those problems and our denial of them have done"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

311

Publisher

NYU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1479847887

ISBN 13

9781479847884

Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire

From Justin Martyr to Origen

By: Jared Secord

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire

From Justin Martyr to Origen

By: Jared Secord

Early in the third century, a small group of Greek Christians began to gain prominence and legitimacy as intellectuals in the Roman Empire. Examining the relationship that these thinkers had with the broader Roman intelligentsia, Jared Secord contends that the success of Christian intellectualism during this period had very little to do with Christianity itself. With the recognition that Christian authors were deeply engaged with the norms and realities of Roman intellectual culture, Secord examines the thought of a succession of Christian literati that includes Justin Martyr, Tatian, Julius Africanus, and Origen, comparing each to a diverse selection of his non-Christian contemporaries. Reassessing Justin’s apologetic works, Secord reveals Christian views on martyrdom to be less distinctive than previously believed. He shows that Tatian’s views on Greek culture informed his reception by Christians as a heretic. Finally, he suggests that the successes experienced by Africanus and Origen in the third century emerged as consequences not of any change in attitude toward Christianity by imperial authorities but of a larger shift in intellectual culture and imperial policies under the Severan dynasty. Original and erudite, this volume demonstrates how distorting the myopic focus on Christianity as a religion has been in previous attempts to explain the growth and success of the Christian movement. It will stimulate new research in the study of early Christianity, classical studies, and Roman history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

215

Publisher

Penn State Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0271087668

ISBN 13

9780271087665

Life After Power

Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

By: Jared Cohen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Life After Power

Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

By: Jared Cohen

From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

512

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1982154543

ISBN 13

9781982154547

The Nature of the Beasts

Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo

By: Ian Jared Miller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Nature of the Beasts

Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo

By: Ian Jared Miller

It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped JapanÕs emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institutionÑat once museum, laboratory, and prisonÑof the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of JapanÕs first modern zoo, TokyoÕs Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of JapanÕs rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nationÕs capitalÑan institutional marker of national accomplishmentÑbut also as a site for the propagation of a new ÒnaturalÓ order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial JapanÕs unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of JapanÕs most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planetÕs resources.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

352

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520271866

ISBN 13

9780520271869

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

By: Jared Reck

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

By: Jared Reck

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1524716111

ISBN 13

9781524716110

Book's by Jared Reck

A Short History of the Girl Next Door

A Short History of the Girl Next Door

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

A Short History of the Girl Next Door

A Short History of the Girl Next Door

The Golden Age of Homespun

The Golden Age of Homespun

Catastrophic School Violence

Catastrophic School Violence

The Sabbath and the Sanctuary

The Sabbath and the Sanctuary

The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Accidental Presidents

Accidental Presidents

Black Prometheus

Black Prometheus

The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published

The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published

Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE)

Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE)

Denial

Denial

Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire

Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire

Life After Power

Life After Power

The Nature of the Beasts

The Nature of the Beasts

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email