Author: Joseph E. Barrera
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460292235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This is a story of love, hate, lust, humor and longing in the time of war. When Jack Defurio, an educated 26 year old Mexican-American, newly married to Donna, is drafted and sent to Vietnam as an infantryman he must cope with the excruciating separation from her, the rigors of jungle warfare and his increasing revulsion for the Army.
Confessions Of A Golden Dragon
Author: Joseph E. Barrera
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460292235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This is a story of love, hate, lust, humor and longing in the time of war. When Jack Defurio, an educated 26 year old Mexican-American, newly married to Donna, is drafted and sent to Vietnam as an infantryman he must cope with the excruciating separation from her, the rigors of jungle warfare and his increasing revulsion for the Army.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460292235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This is a story of love, hate, lust, humor and longing in the time of war. When Jack Defurio, an educated 26 year old Mexican-American, newly married to Donna, is drafted and sent to Vietnam as an infantryman he must cope with the excruciating separation from her, the rigors of jungle warfare and his increasing revulsion for the Army.
The Dragon of Lonely Island
Author: Rebecca Rupp
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780763616618
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Three children spend the summer with their mother on a secluded island where they discover a three-headed dragon living in a cave and learn what it means to be a Dragon Friend.
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780763616618
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Three children spend the summer with their mother on a secluded island where they discover a three-headed dragon living in a cave and learn what it means to be a Dragon Friend.
Dragon: New Dad's Daily Life
Author: Chu WenJiangHu
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649355521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
He was just a top student in the veterinary medicine department from the Agricultural University. Before he could even realize his dream, on a stormy night, he was' summoned 'to another world by a certain Dragon King. From then on, the cute little dragon and the sick magical beasts all flocked to him ...
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649355521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
He was just a top student in the veterinary medicine department from the Agricultural University. Before he could even realize his dream, on a stormy night, he was' summoned 'to another world by a certain Dragon King. From then on, the cute little dragon and the sick magical beasts all flocked to him ...
The Headless Wolf
Author: Joseph E. Barrera
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525520326
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This is a story of courage and kindness between two lost children and two desperate wolves. In 2016 a pair of wolves were discovered in a northern county of California. They probably wandered down from Canada. But who actually knows from where, when or how?
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525520326
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This is a story of courage and kindness between two lost children and two desperate wolves. In 2016 a pair of wolves were discovered in a northern county of California. They probably wandered down from Canada. But who actually knows from where, when or how?
The Polish Cavalier
Author: Joseph E. Barrera
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525509810
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
With the help of special armor, a singing sword, and a magnificent horse, a 15 year old boy saves Poland from an invasion by 10,000 Mongol horsemen. In present day Poland a trumpeter appears every hour in a tower of St. Mary's Cathedral in Krakow and sounds an alarm which is abruptly halted, signifying when a Tartar arrow strikes him in the throat in 1341. This is the approximate time of when this story takes place.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525509810
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
With the help of special armor, a singing sword, and a magnificent horse, a 15 year old boy saves Poland from an invasion by 10,000 Mongol horsemen. In present day Poland a trumpeter appears every hour in a tower of St. Mary's Cathedral in Krakow and sounds an alarm which is abruptly halted, signifying when a Tartar arrow strikes him in the throat in 1341. This is the approximate time of when this story takes place.
Brownylocks and the Two Coyotes (A Christmas Story)
Author: Joseph E. Barrera
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039164889
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
A pair of bumbling coyotes attempt to capture a clever young girl named Brownylocks, to have for their Christmas meal. Brownylocks is lost in a dark forest, looking to find a way to her nana's house. The coyotes devise a plan to deceive her so they can have her for a fine Christmas meal.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039164889
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
A pair of bumbling coyotes attempt to capture a clever young girl named Brownylocks, to have for their Christmas meal. Brownylocks is lost in a dark forest, looking to find a way to her nana's house. The coyotes devise a plan to deceive her so they can have her for a fine Christmas meal.
The Awakening
Author: Jenna Elizabeth Johnson
Publisher: Jenna Elizabeth Johnson
ISBN: 1463794673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Imagine a world as rich as Tolkien’s Middle-earth, a plot as multifaceted as Harry Potter, an adventure that rivals Eragon, and characters as memorable as the Wings of Fire dragons. The Legend of Oescienne is an epic fantasy series beloved by children and adults alike! A headstrong girl, determined to stand on her own, an arrogant dragon, questioning her every motive, and the answer to an ancient prophecy centuries in the making. High fantasy at its best! For seventeen years, Jahrra has remained hidden from the sinister Crimson King, but that is all about to change. An inconceivable tragedy and the revelation of a secret kept from her since birth has turned her world on its end. Now, Jahrra must flee Oescienne, the only home she’s ever known, and accept the help of the dragon Jaax, the one being she has grown to mistrust more than anyone else. With her enemies at her heels and the terrifying truth looming before her, Jahrra and Jaax seek refuge in the faraway city of Lidien, a place protected by ancient magic. But when their sanctuary proves to be as vulnerable to darkness as Oescienne, Jahrra and her dragon guardian realize their safety is compromised once again. This time, the danger lies within the walls meant to keep them safe, festering in the hearts of those they’ve grown to trust above all others. ***Literary Classics Winner for Best Young Adult Series***
Publisher: Jenna Elizabeth Johnson
ISBN: 1463794673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Imagine a world as rich as Tolkien’s Middle-earth, a plot as multifaceted as Harry Potter, an adventure that rivals Eragon, and characters as memorable as the Wings of Fire dragons. The Legend of Oescienne is an epic fantasy series beloved by children and adults alike! A headstrong girl, determined to stand on her own, an arrogant dragon, questioning her every motive, and the answer to an ancient prophecy centuries in the making. High fantasy at its best! For seventeen years, Jahrra has remained hidden from the sinister Crimson King, but that is all about to change. An inconceivable tragedy and the revelation of a secret kept from her since birth has turned her world on its end. Now, Jahrra must flee Oescienne, the only home she’s ever known, and accept the help of the dragon Jaax, the one being she has grown to mistrust more than anyone else. With her enemies at her heels and the terrifying truth looming before her, Jahrra and Jaax seek refuge in the faraway city of Lidien, a place protected by ancient magic. But when their sanctuary proves to be as vulnerable to darkness as Oescienne, Jahrra and her dragon guardian realize their safety is compromised once again. This time, the danger lies within the walls meant to keep them safe, festering in the hearts of those they’ve grown to trust above all others. ***Literary Classics Winner for Best Young Adult Series***
A Book of Golden Deeds
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon
Author: Alvin A. Lee
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442613122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The aim of Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon is to re-create as fully as possible for modern readers the original force of the poetic language of Beowulf. Lee makes use of a wide, archetypal literary context for Beowulf to provide illuminating parallels and contrasts with poems and fictions from other times and places. He demonstrates how the poem's symbolic system reveals itself through the metaphorical workings of the Old English words, patterns of imagery, and more general narrative structures, and how the poem might have been experienced and interpreted by the Anglo-Saxons in the light of other Old English poems. The critical tools that Lee uses - combining certain techniques of New Criticism and close reading with postmodern theories of the self-referentiality of language and with Northrop Frye's conceptions of structure and polysemy in literature - make possible a fresh new account of Beowulf as a work that is very much alive in its poetic language, a finely wrought symbolic work of imagining, still resonant with meanings old and new.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442613122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The aim of Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon is to re-create as fully as possible for modern readers the original force of the poetic language of Beowulf. Lee makes use of a wide, archetypal literary context for Beowulf to provide illuminating parallels and contrasts with poems and fictions from other times and places. He demonstrates how the poem's symbolic system reveals itself through the metaphorical workings of the Old English words, patterns of imagery, and more general narrative structures, and how the poem might have been experienced and interpreted by the Anglo-Saxons in the light of other Old English poems. The critical tools that Lee uses - combining certain techniques of New Criticism and close reading with postmodern theories of the self-referentiality of language and with Northrop Frye's conceptions of structure and polysemy in literature - make possible a fresh new account of Beowulf as a work that is very much alive in its poetic language, a finely wrought symbolic work of imagining, still resonant with meanings old and new.
The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Author: Andrew Sean Greer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
From the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less comes Andrew Sean Greer's extraordinarily haunting love story The Confessions of Max Tivoli, told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards. A Today Show Book Club Pick We are each the love of someone's life. So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Max's father declares him a "nisse," a creature of Danish myth, as his baby son has the external physical appearance of an old, dying creature. Max grows older like any child, but his physical age appears to go backward--on the outside a very old man, but inside still a fearful child. The story is told in three acts. First, young Max falls in love with a neighborhood girl, Alice, who ages as normally as any of us. Max, of course, does not; as a young man, he has an older man's body. But his curse is also his blessing: as he gets older, his body grows younger, so each successive time he finds his Alice, she does not recognize him. She takes him for a stranger, and Max is given another chance at love. Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, Max's life and confessions question the very nature of time, of appearance and reality, and of love itself. A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, Andrew Sean Greer's The Confessions of Max Tivoli reveals the world through the eyes of a "monster," a being who confounds the very certainties by which we live and in doing so embodies in extremis what it means to be human.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
From the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less comes Andrew Sean Greer's extraordinarily haunting love story The Confessions of Max Tivoli, told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards. A Today Show Book Club Pick We are each the love of someone's life. So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Max's father declares him a "nisse," a creature of Danish myth, as his baby son has the external physical appearance of an old, dying creature. Max grows older like any child, but his physical age appears to go backward--on the outside a very old man, but inside still a fearful child. The story is told in three acts. First, young Max falls in love with a neighborhood girl, Alice, who ages as normally as any of us. Max, of course, does not; as a young man, he has an older man's body. But his curse is also his blessing: as he gets older, his body grows younger, so each successive time he finds his Alice, she does not recognize him. She takes him for a stranger, and Max is given another chance at love. Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, Max's life and confessions question the very nature of time, of appearance and reality, and of love itself. A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, Andrew Sean Greer's The Confessions of Max Tivoli reveals the world through the eyes of a "monster," a being who confounds the very certainties by which we live and in doing so embodies in extremis what it means to be human.