Author: Ariana Mangum
Publisher: Righter Bookstore
ISBN: 1934936162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
A beautifully told comprehensive history of the Houghton family of Virginia during World War Two.
Splat!
Author: Jon Burgerman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735229805
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
For fans of The Book with No Pictures and Press Here, this hilarious interactive picture book lets kids in on the joke. “A brilliantly playful book that experiments with the physical boundaries of the book as an object, encouraging interaction and imagination.” —Oliver Jeffers, bestselling illustrator of The Day the Crayons Quit See what happens when flipping the page of this gleeful picture book gets you—SPLAT!—a pie in the face, followed by—SQUISH!—an insect sandwich, and—SPLASH!—a deluge of water balloons. Bright colors and appealing visual gags add up to a perfect mess—no cleanup necessary.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735229805
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
For fans of The Book with No Pictures and Press Here, this hilarious interactive picture book lets kids in on the joke. “A brilliantly playful book that experiments with the physical boundaries of the book as an object, encouraging interaction and imagination.” —Oliver Jeffers, bestselling illustrator of The Day the Crayons Quit See what happens when flipping the page of this gleeful picture book gets you—SPLAT!—a pie in the face, followed by—SQUISH!—an insect sandwich, and—SPLASH!—a deluge of water balloons. Bright colors and appealing visual gags add up to a perfect mess—no cleanup necessary.
A Forgotten Landscape
Author: Ariana Mangum
Publisher: Righter Bookstore
ISBN: 1934936162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
A beautifully told comprehensive history of the Houghton family of Virginia during World War Two.
Publisher: Righter Bookstore
ISBN: 1934936162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
A beautifully told comprehensive history of the Houghton family of Virginia during World War Two.
When Cowboys Come Home
Author: Aaron George
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978821581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
When Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America is a cultural and intellectual history of the 1950s that argues that World War II led to a breakdown of traditional markers of manhood and opened space for veterans to reimagine what masculinity could mean. One particularly important strand of thought, which influenced later anxieties over “other-direction” and “conformity,” argued that masculinity was not defined by traits like bravery, stoicism, and competitiveness but instead by authenticity, shared camaraderie, and emotional honesty. To elucidate this challenge to traditional “frontiersman” masculinity, Aaron George presents three intellectual biographies of important veterans who became writers after the war: James Jones, the writer of the monumentally important war novel From Here to Eternity; Stewart Stern, one of the most important screenwriters of the fifties and sixties, including for Rebel without a Cause; and Edward Field, a bohemian poet who used poetry to explore his love for other men. Through their lives, George shows how wartime disabused men of the notion that war was inherently a brave or heroic enterprise and how the alienation they felt upon their return led them to value the authentic connections they made with other men during the war.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978821581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
When Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America is a cultural and intellectual history of the 1950s that argues that World War II led to a breakdown of traditional markers of manhood and opened space for veterans to reimagine what masculinity could mean. One particularly important strand of thought, which influenced later anxieties over “other-direction” and “conformity,” argued that masculinity was not defined by traits like bravery, stoicism, and competitiveness but instead by authenticity, shared camaraderie, and emotional honesty. To elucidate this challenge to traditional “frontiersman” masculinity, Aaron George presents three intellectual biographies of important veterans who became writers after the war: James Jones, the writer of the monumentally important war novel From Here to Eternity; Stewart Stern, one of the most important screenwriters of the fifties and sixties, including for Rebel without a Cause; and Edward Field, a bohemian poet who used poetry to explore his love for other men. Through their lives, George shows how wartime disabused men of the notion that war was inherently a brave or heroic enterprise and how the alienation they felt upon their return led them to value the authentic connections they made with other men during the war.
The Robber Girl
Author: Franny Billingsley
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536206938
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Part literary mystery, part magical tour de force—an incantatory novel of fierce beauty, lyricism, and originality from a National Book Award Finalist A brilliant puzzle of a book from the author of Chime and The Folk Keeper plunges us into the vulnerable psyche of one of the most memorable unreliable narrators to grace the page in decades. The Robber Girl has a good dagger. Its voice in her head is as sharp as its two edges that taper down to a point. Today, the Robber Girl and her dagger will ride with Gentleman Jack into the Indigo Heart to claim the gold that’s rightfully his. But instead of gold, the Robber Girl finds a dollhouse cottage with doorknobs the size of apple seeds. She finds two dolls who give her three tasks, even though she knows that three is too many tasks. The right number of tasks is two, like Grandmother gave to Gentleman Jack: Fetch unto me the mountain’s gold, to build our city fair. Fetch unto me the wingless bird, and I shall make you my heir. The Robber Girl finds what might be a home, but to fight is easier than to trust when you’re a mystery even to yourself and you’re torn between loyalty and love. The Robber Girl is at once achingly real—wise to the nuances of trauma—and loaded with magic, action, and intrigue. Every sentence shines, sharp as a blade, in a beautifully crafted novel about memory, identity, and the power of language to heal and reconstruct our lives.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536206938
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Part literary mystery, part magical tour de force—an incantatory novel of fierce beauty, lyricism, and originality from a National Book Award Finalist A brilliant puzzle of a book from the author of Chime and The Folk Keeper plunges us into the vulnerable psyche of one of the most memorable unreliable narrators to grace the page in decades. The Robber Girl has a good dagger. Its voice in her head is as sharp as its two edges that taper down to a point. Today, the Robber Girl and her dagger will ride with Gentleman Jack into the Indigo Heart to claim the gold that’s rightfully his. But instead of gold, the Robber Girl finds a dollhouse cottage with doorknobs the size of apple seeds. She finds two dolls who give her three tasks, even though she knows that three is too many tasks. The right number of tasks is two, like Grandmother gave to Gentleman Jack: Fetch unto me the mountain’s gold, to build our city fair. Fetch unto me the wingless bird, and I shall make you my heir. The Robber Girl finds what might be a home, but to fight is easier than to trust when you’re a mystery even to yourself and you’re torn between loyalty and love. The Robber Girl is at once achingly real—wise to the nuances of trauma—and loaded with magic, action, and intrigue. Every sentence shines, sharp as a blade, in a beautifully crafted novel about memory, identity, and the power of language to heal and reconstruct our lives.
Say That Again
Author: Michael J. Larson
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
About the Book This book is filled with fun filled rhymes, Reading them will bring many happy times! The rhymes will study double meaning words, Included will be bats, bugs, flowers and birds. So open the book and begin to read, Discover there are double meaning words indeed! About the Author Michael J. Larson’s first seven books have been written in the prose form. Over the years he has produced a lot of rhymes in the form of birthday greetings, graduation cards and Facebook posts, until his previous book Nature’s Rhyming Riddles. This book is composed completely of rhymes. He enjoyed that task so much that he has completed his second book of rhymes titled Say That Again. The author spent forty-two years educating students about God’s beautiful world as a biology teacher. He and his wife, Kathie, have three children and eight grandchildren. They live on a small acreage in western Minnesota where the author blogs, gardens, plays golf, reads and enjoys the peace and quiet of the outdoors. He can be contacted by email at [email protected].
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
About the Book This book is filled with fun filled rhymes, Reading them will bring many happy times! The rhymes will study double meaning words, Included will be bats, bugs, flowers and birds. So open the book and begin to read, Discover there are double meaning words indeed! About the Author Michael J. Larson’s first seven books have been written in the prose form. Over the years he has produced a lot of rhymes in the form of birthday greetings, graduation cards and Facebook posts, until his previous book Nature’s Rhyming Riddles. This book is composed completely of rhymes. He enjoyed that task so much that he has completed his second book of rhymes titled Say That Again. The author spent forty-two years educating students about God’s beautiful world as a biology teacher. He and his wife, Kathie, have three children and eight grandchildren. They live on a small acreage in western Minnesota where the author blogs, gardens, plays golf, reads and enjoys the peace and quiet of the outdoors. He can be contacted by email at [email protected].
Losing It
Author: Moira Burke
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925410641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
‘I read it in a gulp. I seem to know this girl.’ Helen Garner In the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie’s father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie’s mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat. And Josie is surviving, or not—self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friendships. But her internal monologue—intense, immediate and raw—reveals a heartbreaking portrait of an intelligent young woman desperately looking for a way to make sense of her life, grappling with her feelings of repulsion and love for her father and her longing to be loved. First published in 1998, Losing It is a vivid and visceral account of 1980s working-class Melbourne and a coming-of-age story that is both familiar and unique, shocking and intimate. The first time you slept with him properly his dad was in Turkey his mum gave you the double bed chocolate-brown velvet bedhead with night-lights in it and a radio, a big furry bedspread and a fake tapestry of lions and tigers on the wall, she even laid out a nightie for you, you didn’t wear it but you crumpled it up to make it look like you did and you woke to a soft touch on your forehead in the morning her gold tooth glinting smiling at you with a boiled egg and a cup of bitter coffee. Moira Burke is a Melbourne writer. Losing It is her first novel. ‘Losing It was never a classic but probably deserves to be...Moira Burke creates an arresting sense of place, startling in its familiarity and strangeness, and is a master of cadence. Her prose has a raw poetic rhythm, the power to constantly surprise and drag you into its flow. To lose Losing It would have been a cultural crime.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘Stark, poetic, truthful, compassionate; self-knowledge comes at a breathtaking pace.’ Carmel Bird ‘Addictive, powerful and raw, Losing It lays bare the unflinching realities for a teenager trapped in a spiral of self-destruction. Who does not see some of herself in Josie, a heroine for our uncertain times?’ Rebecca Starford ‘We should be glad that Moira Burke’s Losing It has received a new lease on life...Long before Eimear McBride had the creative spark to appropriate James Joyce and produce her interior monologue masterpiece The Lesser Bohemians, set in London’s dank bedsits and late night bars, it turns out Burke was doing something remarkably similar with Melbourne’s sleazy St Kilda clubs and rowdy Coburg Italian family homes. How could we have missed her?’ Australian
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925410641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
‘I read it in a gulp. I seem to know this girl.’ Helen Garner In the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie’s father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie’s mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat. And Josie is surviving, or not—self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friendships. But her internal monologue—intense, immediate and raw—reveals a heartbreaking portrait of an intelligent young woman desperately looking for a way to make sense of her life, grappling with her feelings of repulsion and love for her father and her longing to be loved. First published in 1998, Losing It is a vivid and visceral account of 1980s working-class Melbourne and a coming-of-age story that is both familiar and unique, shocking and intimate. The first time you slept with him properly his dad was in Turkey his mum gave you the double bed chocolate-brown velvet bedhead with night-lights in it and a radio, a big furry bedspread and a fake tapestry of lions and tigers on the wall, she even laid out a nightie for you, you didn’t wear it but you crumpled it up to make it look like you did and you woke to a soft touch on your forehead in the morning her gold tooth glinting smiling at you with a boiled egg and a cup of bitter coffee. Moira Burke is a Melbourne writer. Losing It is her first novel. ‘Losing It was never a classic but probably deserves to be...Moira Burke creates an arresting sense of place, startling in its familiarity and strangeness, and is a master of cadence. Her prose has a raw poetic rhythm, the power to constantly surprise and drag you into its flow. To lose Losing It would have been a cultural crime.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘Stark, poetic, truthful, compassionate; self-knowledge comes at a breathtaking pace.’ Carmel Bird ‘Addictive, powerful and raw, Losing It lays bare the unflinching realities for a teenager trapped in a spiral of self-destruction. Who does not see some of herself in Josie, a heroine for our uncertain times?’ Rebecca Starford ‘We should be glad that Moira Burke’s Losing It has received a new lease on life...Long before Eimear McBride had the creative spark to appropriate James Joyce and produce her interior monologue masterpiece The Lesser Bohemians, set in London’s dank bedsits and late night bars, it turns out Burke was doing something remarkably similar with Melbourne’s sleazy St Kilda clubs and rowdy Coburg Italian family homes. How could we have missed her?’ Australian
Battle Lines
Author: Lexy Timms
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Loyalties will be tested and lives will be lost. Jace is a brother, now turned president, of the Cerberus Legends Motorcycle club. It wasn't by choice. The presidency came at the cost of his best friend's, Fork's, life. Fork was shot by a rival motorcycle gang, the Chiron Knights. Jace is forced to finish the job. It tears holes inside of him bigger than any bullet could do. He finds comfort in the arms (and legs) of Classic, a bar dancer at the Iron Hog. Classic belongs to one of the Chiron Knight brothers and Jace must immediately choose bros before hoes. When Classic is critically injured while riding her motorbike, it's clear the Chiron Knights tried to take her out of the picture. Disgusted by their ruthless antics, Jace declares war against the Knights. Loyalties are tested and lives will be lost, all in the name of the brotherhood of the road. Battle lines is the COMPLETE Collection of the Bad Boy Alpha Series NOTE: Battle Lines is formerly titled Alpha Bad Boy Series. Sorry for any confusion ! Search Terms: cheating husbands, HEA, heart break, action adventure, MC Biker, mc romance, mc series, alpha, badboy romanc, romance, Motorcycle Club, best seller series, lexy timms, Cassie Alexander, love, romance love triangle, New Adult & College Romance, romance billionaire series, Biker Romance Series, free romance series, free ebooks, contemporary romance, sweet romance, hot romance, hei, arranged marrige, marriage, love triangle, motorcycle club romance, Alpha male romance, romantic suspense, motorcycle romance, reapers motorcycle club series, Romantic Action & Adventure, Alpha Bad Boy, bad boy, bad boy obsession, billionaire, hot and steamy
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Loyalties will be tested and lives will be lost. Jace is a brother, now turned president, of the Cerberus Legends Motorcycle club. It wasn't by choice. The presidency came at the cost of his best friend's, Fork's, life. Fork was shot by a rival motorcycle gang, the Chiron Knights. Jace is forced to finish the job. It tears holes inside of him bigger than any bullet could do. He finds comfort in the arms (and legs) of Classic, a bar dancer at the Iron Hog. Classic belongs to one of the Chiron Knight brothers and Jace must immediately choose bros before hoes. When Classic is critically injured while riding her motorbike, it's clear the Chiron Knights tried to take her out of the picture. Disgusted by their ruthless antics, Jace declares war against the Knights. Loyalties are tested and lives will be lost, all in the name of the brotherhood of the road. Battle lines is the COMPLETE Collection of the Bad Boy Alpha Series NOTE: Battle Lines is formerly titled Alpha Bad Boy Series. Sorry for any confusion ! Search Terms: cheating husbands, HEA, heart break, action adventure, MC Biker, mc romance, mc series, alpha, badboy romanc, romance, Motorcycle Club, best seller series, lexy timms, Cassie Alexander, love, romance love triangle, New Adult & College Romance, romance billionaire series, Biker Romance Series, free romance series, free ebooks, contemporary romance, sweet romance, hot romance, hei, arranged marrige, marriage, love triangle, motorcycle club romance, Alpha male romance, romantic suspense, motorcycle romance, reapers motorcycle club series, Romantic Action & Adventure, Alpha Bad Boy, bad boy, bad boy obsession, billionaire, hot and steamy
Rat Run
Author: Michael Robertson
Publisher: Michael Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
With extreme austerity driving everyone but the super wealthy into poverty, Matt joined the revolutionaries in their fight against the UK government. The previous monuments to political rule were toppled, and London was reduced to rubble ... ... but they didn't win. It's ten years later and Matt's desperate for one last roll of the dice. Tired of spending his life in hiding, he's made a promise to himself and his twelve-year-old daughter. They're going to take control. They're going to fight back again, and this time they're going to win. To fulfil his promise they must reconnect with the remaining revolutionaries. To find the remaining revolutionaries, they must take to the streets. With The Elite's drones on patrol, nowhere is more dangerous than the streets of London ... Rat Run is a dark post-apocalyptic novella. What the reviewers are saying: 5 Stars - A definite book not to be missed. Phew, I think I will breathe now! - Lana Turner - Amazon reviewer. 5 Stars - The story is crisp and fast paced while maintaining the humanity of the characters. - Amazon reviewer. 5 stars - Not your typical everyday post apocalyptic story...it has a surprising twist. - Anil - Amazon Reviewer.
Publisher: Michael Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
With extreme austerity driving everyone but the super wealthy into poverty, Matt joined the revolutionaries in their fight against the UK government. The previous monuments to political rule were toppled, and London was reduced to rubble ... ... but they didn't win. It's ten years later and Matt's desperate for one last roll of the dice. Tired of spending his life in hiding, he's made a promise to himself and his twelve-year-old daughter. They're going to take control. They're going to fight back again, and this time they're going to win. To fulfil his promise they must reconnect with the remaining revolutionaries. To find the remaining revolutionaries, they must take to the streets. With The Elite's drones on patrol, nowhere is more dangerous than the streets of London ... Rat Run is a dark post-apocalyptic novella. What the reviewers are saying: 5 Stars - A definite book not to be missed. Phew, I think I will breathe now! - Lana Turner - Amazon reviewer. 5 Stars - The story is crisp and fast paced while maintaining the humanity of the characters. - Amazon reviewer. 5 stars - Not your typical everyday post apocalyptic story...it has a surprising twist. - Anil - Amazon Reviewer.
Winter Break
Author: Merry Jones
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1780103468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Pregnant Harper sees danger everywhere in the chilling third Harper Jennings mystery, but can she keep herself and her baby safe when no one believes her? Surely Harper Jennings can survive a visit from her mother and her new boyfriend while Hank’s on his first business trip since his accident? But she has more on her mind when she glimpses a nude young man being dragged into the woods near her house. Everyone – police included – concludes it was either kids playing around . . . or Harper’s hormones talking. But Harper can’t let it go; suspecting that her mother’s boyfriend might be hiding something, soon even her own home no longer seems a place of safety . . .
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1780103468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Pregnant Harper sees danger everywhere in the chilling third Harper Jennings mystery, but can she keep herself and her baby safe when no one believes her? Surely Harper Jennings can survive a visit from her mother and her new boyfriend while Hank’s on his first business trip since his accident? But she has more on her mind when she glimpses a nude young man being dragged into the woods near her house. Everyone – police included – concludes it was either kids playing around . . . or Harper’s hormones talking. But Harper can’t let it go; suspecting that her mother’s boyfriend might be hiding something, soon even her own home no longer seems a place of safety . . .
BEIGE TAINT
Author: 'Rock Rampant'
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129195743X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129195743X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description