Author: Thomas H. Raddall
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Hangman's Beach
Author: Thomas H. Raddall
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Hangman's Garden
Author: Patricia Bow
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991781449
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Nora Brooke drowned last year. Her heart stopped: long enough to leave, deep inside, a shadow of death that opened her to other shadows. Coming to Holdfast Island for remedial school, Nora finds a garden in the woods: an old, overgrown prison yard. She enters by a gate that then vanishes, glimpses a restless figure who is suddenly gone, and finds thousands of blue flowers like watching eyes. She finds friends, especially irrepressible Jack McKie. And Adam: seen in the prison ruin and met underwater while swimming, when Nora nearly drowns again. A local boy, they think, until they learn of an old tragedy. Three teens died here: Ursula stabbed, Graham hanged, Adam drowned. Triple suicide? Or murder? Adam says he loved Ursula but lost her. Now he's bound here. Questions swarm. Why does Nora sleepwalk nearly to her death? Why is Jack suddenly accident-prone, like Graham? Who haunts the prison, where the warden, Adam's grandfather, was called the Hangman? What will happen if Nora sets Adam free?
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0991781449
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Nora Brooke drowned last year. Her heart stopped: long enough to leave, deep inside, a shadow of death that opened her to other shadows. Coming to Holdfast Island for remedial school, Nora finds a garden in the woods: an old, overgrown prison yard. She enters by a gate that then vanishes, glimpses a restless figure who is suddenly gone, and finds thousands of blue flowers like watching eyes. She finds friends, especially irrepressible Jack McKie. And Adam: seen in the prison ruin and met underwater while swimming, when Nora nearly drowns again. A local boy, they think, until they learn of an old tragedy. Three teens died here: Ursula stabbed, Graham hanged, Adam drowned. Triple suicide? Or murder? Adam says he loved Ursula but lost her. Now he's bound here. Questions swarm. Why does Nora sleepwalk nearly to her death? Why is Jack suddenly accident-prone, like Graham? Who haunts the prison, where the warden, Adam's grandfather, was called the Hangman? What will happen if Nora sets Adam free?
Hangman's Bridge
Author: Curtis Bent
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1637104162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Through a variety of activities ranging from pulling weeds in Delta asparagus and sugar beet fields to playing hang tag during a two-a-day summer football practices on Delta bridges, Curtis shares vivid experiences with the reader that the Delta and the San Joaquin Valley offer. All is not simply fun and games in Curtis' rite of passage as he becomes aware of the profound impact that water holds on his family and environment of the state of California. Through personal experiences, Curtis shares basic facts with the reader such as the following: it takes five gallons of water for a walnut to reach market; a levee is reinforced with junked cars for eight miles to save the agricultural fields; or there is only one river in the U.S that has not been dammed, the Yellowstone. Through the supportive, enlivened narrative of his family, friends, and acquaintances, Curtis weaves a compelling story that includes his establishing a school for challenged youth. As the main character, Lou, processes the gathered information, Lou takes a radical stand to confront the abuses that impact our socioeconomic culture. The novel culminates in a violent conclusion, to which the reader is asked, "What would you do?"
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1637104162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Through a variety of activities ranging from pulling weeds in Delta asparagus and sugar beet fields to playing hang tag during a two-a-day summer football practices on Delta bridges, Curtis shares vivid experiences with the reader that the Delta and the San Joaquin Valley offer. All is not simply fun and games in Curtis' rite of passage as he becomes aware of the profound impact that water holds on his family and environment of the state of California. Through personal experiences, Curtis shares basic facts with the reader such as the following: it takes five gallons of water for a walnut to reach market; a levee is reinforced with junked cars for eight miles to save the agricultural fields; or there is only one river in the U.S that has not been dammed, the Yellowstone. Through the supportive, enlivened narrative of his family, friends, and acquaintances, Curtis weaves a compelling story that includes his establishing a school for challenged youth. As the main character, Lou, processes the gathered information, Lou takes a radical stand to confront the abuses that impact our socioeconomic culture. The novel culminates in a violent conclusion, to which the reader is asked, "What would you do?"
Setting in the East
Author: David Craig Creelman
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773524781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Maritime region is thus torn between its memory of an earlier, more prosperous and traditional social order and its present experience as a less fortunate modern industrial society. These tensions are embedded in the Maritime character and have affected not only the lives of its people but the imaginations and texts of its writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773524781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Maritime region is thus torn between its memory of an earlier, more prosperous and traditional social order and its present experience as a less fortunate modern industrial society. These tensions are embedded in the Maritime character and have affected not only the lives of its people but the imaginations and texts of its writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Haunted Harbours
Author: Steve Vernon
Publisher: Nimbus+ORM
ISBN: 1551098083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Scary tales from Nova Scotia, by the author of The Tatterdemon Omnibus and Where the Ghosts Are: A Guide to Nova Scotia’s Spookiest Places. This is a collection of ghost stories from Nova Scotia—from the restless spirits of Devil’s Island to the Black Dog of Antigonish Harbour. Documented and well-known stories from the provincial archives are mixed with word-of-mouth legends of strange happenings and scary sightings from across the province. Author Steve Vernon relies on his storytelling experience to create moody and terrifying tales from the annals of history. Praise for Steve Vernon “Writing with a rare swagger and confidence, Steve Vernon can lead his readers through an entire gamut of emotions from outright fear and repulsion to pity and laughter.” —Cemetery Dance
Publisher: Nimbus+ORM
ISBN: 1551098083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Scary tales from Nova Scotia, by the author of The Tatterdemon Omnibus and Where the Ghosts Are: A Guide to Nova Scotia’s Spookiest Places. This is a collection of ghost stories from Nova Scotia—from the restless spirits of Devil’s Island to the Black Dog of Antigonish Harbour. Documented and well-known stories from the provincial archives are mixed with word-of-mouth legends of strange happenings and scary sightings from across the province. Author Steve Vernon relies on his storytelling experience to create moody and terrifying tales from the annals of history. Praise for Steve Vernon “Writing with a rare swagger and confidence, Steve Vernon can lead his readers through an entire gamut of emotions from outright fear and repulsion to pity and laughter.” —Cemetery Dance
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Author: ???????
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481780875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
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Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481780875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
?? ??????, ??? ? ?????? ?????? ??? ??????????? ??????? ? ????? ???????, ?????? ??? ?????? ??????. ??? ??? ???? ????? ????? ????? ?????? ? ???????? ?? ?????? ??????????????? ??????????????? ????????. ?????? ??? ???? ???? ?????? ?? ?????? ?????? ????? ?????, ?????? ? ????????????? ? ?????????. ? ??? ????? ???? ?? ? ??? ??? ??? ???, ? ? ???? ??? ??????? ? ??????, ??? ?????? ? ??? ? ????????????? ?? ?? ??, ??? ?? ?????? ????????? ???????????? ??????? ? ???????? ???????? ??????. ???? ?????? ??? ??????????????? ???????? ???????? ?????? ????? ??????? ? ?? ????? ??????? ???????-???????, ?????-?? ??????? ?? ???? ???????. ??? ??? ??????? ???? ?????? ???????? ?????, ???? ??????? ?????? ? ?????? ?? ??????, ??? ?? ?????? ??????? ???????. ?? ?????? ?????????? ??????????? ?????????? ????? - ?????????????? ?????, ??????? ?????? ???????????? ?? ??????-????????? ??????? ?? ????????? ? ??????????, ? ????? ???????? ?? ????????? ???????? ??????? 1969?, ??????? ? ?????. ??? ?????? ?????????????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ???????? ??????? ?????????? ?????? ???????? ? ?????????????? ?????????? ??????? ???????? ? ????? ?????? ????? ??????; ???????? ?????? ???????? ? ????? ?? ??????????? ??????... ???, ? ?????????? ????????? ?????? ????? ? ??????, ?????????????? ???????? ? ??????, ?????? ? ??????? ??????? ?????? ??????? ??, ??????????????. He was leaving this land, as many his teammates, to explore the ocean deep. They all were equal before the might of the ocean and they were different with their unusual individual fortunes. The beginning of his oceanic way was similar and comparable to thousands of such onsets of young explorers. And this book even not about him or myself, but this is about all those guys in the ocean and this is my thankful memory about them for that we were together in our pioneering quests and that we together withstand formidable storms and hurricanes. This is the realistic adventurous biography of thousands of young and not so young oceangoing fishermen, existing on this planet long tome ago. The author reveals the story of just an ordinary exploratory voyage, however there are no ordinary voyages in the ocean, as there are no ordinary oceans in this world. He remembers all large and small details of this unusual expedition - destructive storm, appeared from nowhere on the approaches to Greenland, and the most disastrous for the last centuries hurricanes of 1969 Camilla and Debbie. They saw real wonders: magnificent everlasting fiords of the icy island Greenland, filled with mystery and enigmatic past with the signs of old Vikings in Erik the Red fiord; huge black creatures in the trawl from the abyssal depths...Over there, nearby of the silent boundless ice fields and snow terrains, fantastic icebergs and mirages, the wonders and riddles of the ocean deep were waiting for them, pioneers-explorers.
In the Province of History
Author: Ian McKay
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773583319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Using archival sources, novels, government reports, and works on tourism and heritage, Ian McKay and Robin Bates look at how state planners, key politicians, and cultural figures such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, long-time premier Angus L. Macdonald, and novelist Thomas Raddall were all instrumental in forming "tourism/history." The authors argue that Longfellow's 1847 poem Evangeline - on the brutal British expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia - became a template a new kind of profit-making history that exalted whiteness and excluded ethnic minorities, women, and working class movements. A remarkable look at the intersection of politics, leisure, and the presentation of public history, In the Province of History is a revealing account of how a region has both used and distorted its own past.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773583319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Using archival sources, novels, government reports, and works on tourism and heritage, Ian McKay and Robin Bates look at how state planners, key politicians, and cultural figures such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, long-time premier Angus L. Macdonald, and novelist Thomas Raddall were all instrumental in forming "tourism/history." The authors argue that Longfellow's 1847 poem Evangeline - on the brutal British expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia - became a template a new kind of profit-making history that exalted whiteness and excluded ethnic minorities, women, and working class movements. A remarkable look at the intersection of politics, leisure, and the presentation of public history, In the Province of History is a revealing account of how a region has both used and distorted its own past.
Rapt in Plaid
Author: Elizabeth Waterston
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802086853
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Illustrate a long-lasting connection between Scottish and Canadian literary traditions and illuminates the way Scottish ideas and values still wield surprising power in Canadian politics, education, theology, economics and social mores.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802086853
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Illustrate a long-lasting connection between Scottish and Canadian literary traditions and illuminates the way Scottish ideas and values still wield surprising power in Canadian politics, education, theology, economics and social mores.
Profiles in Canadian Literature 7
Author: Jeffrey M. Heath
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554882699
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Profiles in Canadian Literature is a wide-ranging series of essays on Canadian authors. Each profile acquaints the reader with the writer's work, providing insight into themes, techniques, and special characteristics, as well as a chronology of the author's life. Finally, there is a bibliography of primary works and criticism that suggests avenues for further study. "I know of no better introduction to these writers, and the studies in question are full of basic information not readily obtainable elsewhere." -U of T Quarterly
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554882699
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Profiles in Canadian Literature is a wide-ranging series of essays on Canadian authors. Each profile acquaints the reader with the writer's work, providing insight into themes, techniques, and special characteristics, as well as a chronology of the author's life. Finally, there is a bibliography of primary works and criticism that suggests avenues for further study. "I know of no better introduction to these writers, and the studies in question are full of basic information not readily obtainable elsewhere." -U of T Quarterly
Around the World in 366 Tales - January Journeys
Author: Steve Wilson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244362696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Ten-year-old Sadie Meadows is reading in bed on New Year's Eve when she finds a book called The World from Your Bedroom - There and Back Again, but when she opens it up and begins to read, she is a little disappointed to see it is nothing more than a travel book packed with pages detailing hundreds of places across the world. She reads the first page, then puts the book down just as sleep claims her at the instant that the New Year arrives. She awakes to find that, instead of being in her bedroom at home in Skipton, somehow she has been transported to Wexford in the Republic of Ireland, the location that she had just read about in the book. There follow a series of adventures, each set in a different location, as Sadie finds herself travelling across the globe as she attempts to get back home again. Her journeys this month take her to south-western Europe, North Africa and the extreme north of the North American landmasses.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244362696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Ten-year-old Sadie Meadows is reading in bed on New Year's Eve when she finds a book called The World from Your Bedroom - There and Back Again, but when she opens it up and begins to read, she is a little disappointed to see it is nothing more than a travel book packed with pages detailing hundreds of places across the world. She reads the first page, then puts the book down just as sleep claims her at the instant that the New Year arrives. She awakes to find that, instead of being in her bedroom at home in Skipton, somehow she has been transported to Wexford in the Republic of Ireland, the location that she had just read about in the book. There follow a series of adventures, each set in a different location, as Sadie finds herself travelling across the globe as she attempts to get back home again. Her journeys this month take her to south-western Europe, North Africa and the extreme north of the North American landmasses.