Author: Lloyd Beeston
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426956878
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
On a cold mid-November night in southern Florida, two horses are born at the same time, but they have different destinies. One horse is jet black, strong, and virile; named Black Prince, he grows to be the pride of Farm Jadeville. The other horse born that night is weak, scraggly, and odd-looking. The breeder orders that the foal be thrown into the creek behind the barn, where the alligators can have a feast. Mannie, the son of a worker on the farm, and Jade Aliva, the granddaughter of the farm's owner, rescue the odd, puny horse. They and their friends care for it, train it, and name it Babe Loop. The horse thrives under the children's care, and one day it surprises everyone by breaking into a run when the United States national anthem is played. Keeping this unusual talent a secret, the children and trainer John C. Goodeeds prepare Babe Loop to enter the prestigious National Classic of the Roses, a race which carries a purse of $75,000. Does Babe Loop, the misfit horse, have the tenacity and talent to overcome the popular Black Prince?
Babe Loop
Author: Lloyd Beeston
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426956878
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
On a cold mid-November night in southern Florida, two horses are born at the same time, but they have different destinies. One horse is jet black, strong, and virile; named Black Prince, he grows to be the pride of Farm Jadeville. The other horse born that night is weak, scraggly, and odd-looking. The breeder orders that the foal be thrown into the creek behind the barn, where the alligators can have a feast. Mannie, the son of a worker on the farm, and Jade Aliva, the granddaughter of the farm's owner, rescue the odd, puny horse. They and their friends care for it, train it, and name it Babe Loop. The horse thrives under the children's care, and one day it surprises everyone by breaking into a run when the United States national anthem is played. Keeping this unusual talent a secret, the children and trainer John C. Goodeeds prepare Babe Loop to enter the prestigious National Classic of the Roses, a race which carries a purse of $75,000. Does Babe Loop, the misfit horse, have the tenacity and talent to overcome the popular Black Prince?
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426956878
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
On a cold mid-November night in southern Florida, two horses are born at the same time, but they have different destinies. One horse is jet black, strong, and virile; named Black Prince, he grows to be the pride of Farm Jadeville. The other horse born that night is weak, scraggly, and odd-looking. The breeder orders that the foal be thrown into the creek behind the barn, where the alligators can have a feast. Mannie, the son of a worker on the farm, and Jade Aliva, the granddaughter of the farm's owner, rescue the odd, puny horse. They and their friends care for it, train it, and name it Babe Loop. The horse thrives under the children's care, and one day it surprises everyone by breaking into a run when the United States national anthem is played. Keeping this unusual talent a secret, the children and trainer John C. Goodeeds prepare Babe Loop to enter the prestigious National Classic of the Roses, a race which carries a purse of $75,000. Does Babe Loop, the misfit horse, have the tenacity and talent to overcome the popular Black Prince?
Posthumorism
Author: Frances McDonald
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350264628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Examining the multiple non-humorous meanings of laughter, this book explores a unique strain of laughter in modernism that is without humor, without humans, and without humanism. Providing a bold new theory of modernism's affects, Posthumorism chronicles the scattered emergence of a particular strain of humorless laughter in twentieth-century literature, film, and philosophy. From William James's trippy experiments with laughing gas to the wide-open suicide shriek of Major Kong in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, modernity is strewn with examples of such laughter – defined by its ability to “crack up” and destroy, whilst opening new horizons of perception. Examining the creative operation of posthumorist laughter, this book explores how various stylists of the form-from Nathanael West and Kurt Vonnegut to Georges Bataille and Hélène Cixous-use it as a tool to unsettle, reconfigure the individual human, and shape different forms of humanist discourse.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350264628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Examining the multiple non-humorous meanings of laughter, this book explores a unique strain of laughter in modernism that is without humor, without humans, and without humanism. Providing a bold new theory of modernism's affects, Posthumorism chronicles the scattered emergence of a particular strain of humorless laughter in twentieth-century literature, film, and philosophy. From William James's trippy experiments with laughing gas to the wide-open suicide shriek of Major Kong in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, modernity is strewn with examples of such laughter – defined by its ability to “crack up” and destroy, whilst opening new horizons of perception. Examining the creative operation of posthumorist laughter, this book explores how various stylists of the form-from Nathanael West and Kurt Vonnegut to Georges Bataille and Hélène Cixous-use it as a tool to unsettle, reconfigure the individual human, and shape different forms of humanist discourse.
The Diamond Hitch
Author: Frank O'Rourke
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 194043629X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Based on the life of bronc rider Doughbelly Price, The Diamond Hitch tells the story of Dewey Jones, western cowman and rodeo hooligan, as he travels the circuit throughout the Southwest in search of that one big purse that will punch his ticket out of rodeo bumming and into a more normal life. O'Rourke effectively evokes the sights, sounds and smells of the cowboy way presenting an unvarnished glimpse into this vanished way of life.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 194043629X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Based on the life of bronc rider Doughbelly Price, The Diamond Hitch tells the story of Dewey Jones, western cowman and rodeo hooligan, as he travels the circuit throughout the Southwest in search of that one big purse that will punch his ticket out of rodeo bumming and into a more normal life. O'Rourke effectively evokes the sights, sounds and smells of the cowboy way presenting an unvarnished glimpse into this vanished way of life.
Hiking Arizona
Author: Don R. Kiefer
Publisher: American Traveler Press
ISBN: 9780914846543
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Experience the natural beauty of Arizona. This guide gives directions, suggests what to wear and what to pack; gives elevations and hiking time, rates difficulty and much more information valuable to the hiker. Fifty great hikes for inexperienced and advanced hikers alike, over desert and mountain terrains throughout the state. Descriptions include trail highlights, time requirements, location, difficulty level, elevations and are accompanied by maps and photos.
Publisher: American Traveler Press
ISBN: 9780914846543
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Experience the natural beauty of Arizona. This guide gives directions, suggests what to wear and what to pack; gives elevations and hiking time, rates difficulty and much more information valuable to the hiker. Fifty great hikes for inexperienced and advanced hikers alike, over desert and mountain terrains throughout the state. Descriptions include trail highlights, time requirements, location, difficulty level, elevations and are accompanied by maps and photos.
Applied Parallel Computing
Author: Bo Kagström
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540757554
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA 2006. It covers partial differential equations, parallel scientific computing algorithms, linear algebra, simulation environments, algorithms and applications for blue gene/L, scientific computing tools and applications, parallel search algorithms, peer-to-peer computing, mobility and security, algorithms for single-chip multiprocessors.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540757554
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA 2006. It covers partial differential equations, parallel scientific computing algorithms, linear algebra, simulation environments, algorithms and applications for blue gene/L, scientific computing tools and applications, parallel search algorithms, peer-to-peer computing, mobility and security, algorithms for single-chip multiprocessors.
The World's Best Music: The musicians's guide
Author: Victor Herbert
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Greater Iowa
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Jaguar
Author: Paul Stoller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226775272
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A novel on a West African street peddler in New York and the effect his emigration has on his wife back home. With the money he sends, she opens a store and becomes an independent woman. Nevertheless, she suffers from loneliness because he keeps delaying his return, having found girlfriends.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226775272
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A novel on a West African street peddler in New York and the effect his emigration has on his wife back home. With the money he sends, she opens a store and becomes an independent woman. Nevertheless, she suffers from loneliness because he keeps delaying his return, having found girlfriends.
The Mists from Beyond
Author: Robert E. Weinberg
Publisher: Roc
ISBN: 9780451454980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This collection of 20 eerie tales are from some of the most respected authors in literature. Providing a literary thrill along with a ghostly chill, the authors include Peter Straub, David Morrell, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Robert Bloch, and Joyce Carol Oates, just to name a few. A Locus recommended title.
Publisher: Roc
ISBN: 9780451454980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This collection of 20 eerie tales are from some of the most respected authors in literature. Providing a literary thrill along with a ghostly chill, the authors include Peter Straub, David Morrell, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Robert Bloch, and Joyce Carol Oates, just to name a few. A Locus recommended title.
Cyclopadia of American Literature
Author: Evert Augustus Duyckinck
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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