Author: Francis A. Hebert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974524917
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a memoir of Francis A. Hebert who was born during the Great Depression era and who gives readers a look back at simpler, but harder times. He recounts his own adventures from boyhood, living in the swamps of SW Louisiana, making his way early, hopping freight trains across country, through soldiering with the U.S. Army Air Force, doing construction work, owning a trucking business, and inventing mechanical devices. All the while he maintains a strong connection to crows and a unique perspective on life.
Brother Crow and Me
Author: Francis A. Hebert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974524917
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a memoir of Francis A. Hebert who was born during the Great Depression era and who gives readers a look back at simpler, but harder times. He recounts his own adventures from boyhood, living in the swamps of SW Louisiana, making his way early, hopping freight trains across country, through soldiering with the U.S. Army Air Force, doing construction work, owning a trucking business, and inventing mechanical devices. All the while he maintains a strong connection to crows and a unique perspective on life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974524917
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a memoir of Francis A. Hebert who was born during the Great Depression era and who gives readers a look back at simpler, but harder times. He recounts his own adventures from boyhood, living in the swamps of SW Louisiana, making his way early, hopping freight trains across country, through soldiering with the U.S. Army Air Force, doing construction work, owning a trucking business, and inventing mechanical devices. All the while he maintains a strong connection to crows and a unique perspective on life.
My Brother Otto
Author: Meg Raby
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423652908
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
This engaging picture book shows everyday life with little crow siblings when one of them is on the autism spectrum. My Brother Otto is a child-friendly, endearing, and fun picture book for children about the love, acceptance, and understanding a sister, Piper, has for her little brother Otto, who is on the autism spectrum. The book provides explanations for Otto’s differences and quirkiness in an easy-to-understand language, and highlights Otto’s desires for adventure and love—just like his peers. To be more specific, My Brother Otto is a sweet story about a sister and a brother who engage in common, everyday experiences in their own unique way with the idea that kindness and understanding always win! Lexile: 570L Meg Raby holds a Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology with a certification in Autism Spectrum Disorders from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and has several years of experience working with children ages 2–17 on the autism spectrum. Meg recently started a booming handle on Instagram, called @bedtime.stories.forevermore, promoting literacy and highlighting only the best in children’s books. This is her first book. Elisa Pallmer studied design at Escuela de Diseño del INBA and English Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her focus is on illustrations for children, and she lives in Mexico City.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423652908
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
This engaging picture book shows everyday life with little crow siblings when one of them is on the autism spectrum. My Brother Otto is a child-friendly, endearing, and fun picture book for children about the love, acceptance, and understanding a sister, Piper, has for her little brother Otto, who is on the autism spectrum. The book provides explanations for Otto’s differences and quirkiness in an easy-to-understand language, and highlights Otto’s desires for adventure and love—just like his peers. To be more specific, My Brother Otto is a sweet story about a sister and a brother who engage in common, everyday experiences in their own unique way with the idea that kindness and understanding always win! Lexile: 570L Meg Raby holds a Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology with a certification in Autism Spectrum Disorders from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and has several years of experience working with children ages 2–17 on the autism spectrum. Meg recently started a booming handle on Instagram, called @bedtime.stories.forevermore, promoting literacy and highlighting only the best in children’s books. This is her first book. Elisa Pallmer studied design at Escuela de Diseño del INBA and English Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her focus is on illustrations for children, and she lives in Mexico City.
Rivers
Author: S. L. Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940071718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This Standalone Second Chance Rock Star Romance by New York Times Bestselling Author, S.L. Scott, will have you falling in love with Rivers Crow while introducing you to his Sexy as Sin brothers and band mates-Jet, Tulsa, and Ridge. Rivers Crow has everything he could ever need-a rock star life, more money than the devil himself, and worldwide fame. Except he's still missing the one thing he wants-the girl he left behind. Stella Fellowes has a life she doesn't want-an unfulfilling job, debt without a ceiling, and lonely nights she spends pretending not to miss the one thing she needs-the boy who broke her heart. Five years later, the guitarist she once loved is back with a hit record, millions of fans, and that look in his eye that still makes her weak in the knees. Only she's not the same girl he once knew. When these two star-crossed lovers come together, time starts to heal old wounds. Although she's compelled to look past his sins, will he be able to look past hers?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940071718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This Standalone Second Chance Rock Star Romance by New York Times Bestselling Author, S.L. Scott, will have you falling in love with Rivers Crow while introducing you to his Sexy as Sin brothers and band mates-Jet, Tulsa, and Ridge. Rivers Crow has everything he could ever need-a rock star life, more money than the devil himself, and worldwide fame. Except he's still missing the one thing he wants-the girl he left behind. Stella Fellowes has a life she doesn't want-an unfulfilling job, debt without a ceiling, and lonely nights she spends pretending not to miss the one thing she needs-the boy who broke her heart. Five years later, the guitarist she once loved is back with a hit record, millions of fans, and that look in his eye that still makes her weak in the knees. Only she's not the same girl he once knew. When these two star-crossed lovers come together, time starts to heal old wounds. Although she's compelled to look past his sins, will he be able to look past hers?
Truevine
Author: Beth Macy
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316337560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316337560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.
Baby and Me
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474892148
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474892148
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Crow Lake
Author: Mary Lawson
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0385337639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing—a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent. Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur—offstage. Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt’s protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks she’s outgrown her siblings—Luke, Matt, and Bo—who were once her entire world. In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning one’s expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today.
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0385337639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing—a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent. Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur—offstage. Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt’s protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks she’s outgrown her siblings—Luke, Matt, and Bo—who were once her entire world. In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning one’s expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today.
Ridge
Author: S. L. Scott
Publisher: S. L. Scott
ISBN: 9781940071756
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher: S. L. Scott
ISBN: 9781940071756
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Crow
Author: A. Zavarelli
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523978267
Category : Erotic stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An Irish mobster. A missing friend. Two loyalties, ripping me apart. I had a plan. Get in, get my information, and get out. Easy, right? Turns out, infiltrating the Irish mafia isn't exactly what I thought it would be. I just wanted a soldier. Someone I could flirt with to get me in the door. That's when Lachlan Crow noticed me. Problem was, he wasn't a soldier. No, he was next in line for the throne of the Irish underworld. And he was determined to hate me from the outset. My sob story about needing a job? Yeah, he wasn't buying that either. Too bad for him, I won't let anyone get in the way of my mission. Who cares if we have some kind of crazy chemistry? He's the worst kind of wrong- and I would never in a million years be with a guy like him. Because they took her from me, and I'm going to make them pay
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523978267
Category : Erotic stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An Irish mobster. A missing friend. Two loyalties, ripping me apart. I had a plan. Get in, get my information, and get out. Easy, right? Turns out, infiltrating the Irish mafia isn't exactly what I thought it would be. I just wanted a soldier. Someone I could flirt with to get me in the door. That's when Lachlan Crow noticed me. Problem was, he wasn't a soldier. No, he was next in line for the throne of the Irish underworld. And he was determined to hate me from the outset. My sob story about needing a job? Yeah, he wasn't buying that either. Too bad for him, I won't let anyone get in the way of my mission. Who cares if we have some kind of crazy chemistry? He's the worst kind of wrong- and I would never in a million years be with a guy like him. Because they took her from me, and I'm going to make them pay
Little Mr. Thimblefinger Stories
Author: Joel Chandler Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Jayber Crow
Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582431604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber. Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow’s acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal, in both its goodness and frailty. He began his search as a “pre–ministerial student” at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with “Old Grit,” his profound professor of New Testament Greek. “You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out—perhaps a little at a time.” “And how long is that going to take?” “I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.” “That could be a long time.” “I will tell you a further mystery,” he said. “It may take longer.” Wendell Berry’s clear–sighted depiction of humanity’s gifts—love and loss, joy and despair—is seen though his intimate knowledge of the Port William Membership.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582431604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber. Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow’s acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal, in both its goodness and frailty. He began his search as a “pre–ministerial student” at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with “Old Grit,” his profound professor of New Testament Greek. “You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out—perhaps a little at a time.” “And how long is that going to take?” “I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.” “That could be a long time.” “I will tell you a further mystery,” he said. “It may take longer.” Wendell Berry’s clear–sighted depiction of humanity’s gifts—love and loss, joy and despair—is seen though his intimate knowledge of the Port William Membership.