Author: Lori Lansens
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 030737128X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Lori Lansens became one of Canada’s most sought after writers more than a year before her internationally heralded first book, Rush Home Road, would see publication in April 2002. So immediately and passionately was her novel embraced that it was already front-page arts news back in April 2001. Knopf Canada was the first publisher to buy this extraordinary debut novel, but just before the 2001 London Book Fair, Little, Brown US bought the rest of the world rights for a major six-figure sum (for Rush Home Road and the author's yet-to-be-written second novel), and rights have now been sold in numerous countries. The Globe and Mail reported the record-breaking news with full, front-page coverage, and Little, Brown International Rights Director Linda Biagi found herself talking of nothing else in London; she sold Rush Home Road to a further 9 territories with the manuscript still unedited. Biagi likened the book to some of the most important literary achievements of our time, saying, “It’s as if John Irving had written The Color Purple.” Louise Dennys, the Executive Publisher of Knopf Canada, describes it as “a novel of startling beauty and great heart that will immediately find a place within that small, special tribe of books beloved by readers the world over.” The untold story of the descendants of the Underground Railroad Heartbreaking and wise, Rush Home Road tells the life story of Adelaide Shadd, who finds redemption in old age, and Sharla, a five-year-old mixed race girl abandoned to Addy’s care by her white mother. Born in the first decade of the 20th century in Rusholme (inspired by the real town of Buxton), in southwestern Ontario, an all-black community settled by fugitive slaves, Addy Shadd is raped as a teenager and forced to flee the family home. She makes her way on foot to Detroit, where she becomes the housekeeper for an elderly man and his grown son, both of whom develop a crush on her. When misfortune strikes again, she sets off to make a new life for herself in Canada. Thrown off the train at Keating, not far from her birthplace, she meets and eventually marries the train porter, the wonderful Mose, with whom she has a daughter. But when tragedy strikes, Addy is left alone. Now an old woman, she lives a quiet existence in a trailer park near Chatham. Her whole world changes when a young mother asks her to babysit her daughter, as it soon becomes clear that the mother is never coming back. Addy is glad of the company, but not sure if she’s up to the job of mothering this sweet, awkward five-year-old. Nor is she sure how much longer she’ll be around to do so. How she manages is part of the story of this brilliantly captivating novel. Written with verve, grace and unflinching emotional acuity, Rush Home Road is an epic story that explodes our notions of identity, justice, and heroism, penetrating one of our darkest periods with profound insight and humanity. Addy Shadd is a protagonist like no other -- full of quiet, steely bravery and tenderness of heart. This spellbinding novel will leave no reader untouched.
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
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Languages : en
Pages : 1906
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Languages : en
Pages : 1906
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Super Facts of the Super Bowl
Author: John Massaro
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1425980368
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This is "a guide to both Super Bowl history and Super Bowl trivia. It provides both historical and trivial facts about the games themselves, the teams, the head coaches, and points and scoring in a format that is both easy and fun to read."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1425980368
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This is "a guide to both Super Bowl history and Super Bowl trivia. It provides both historical and trivial facts about the games themselves, the teams, the head coaches, and points and scoring in a format that is both easy and fun to read."--Page 4 of cover.
The Speaker
Author: Paul Martin Pearson
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Category : Recitations
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Category : Recitations
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Modificaton of Railroad Financial Structures
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
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Modification of Transportation Act, 1920
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Com. on Interstate commerce
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Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Railroad Car Shortage
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Category : Freight cars
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Category : Freight cars
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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The Hidden Game of Baseball
Author: John Thorn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022624248X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball ushered in the sabermetric revolution by demonstrating that we were thinking about baseball stats--and thus the game itself--all wrong. This brand-new edition retains the body of the original, with its rich, accessible analysis rooted in a deep love of baseball, while adding a new introduction by the authors tracing the book's influence over the years.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022624248X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball ushered in the sabermetric revolution by demonstrating that we were thinking about baseball stats--and thus the game itself--all wrong. This brand-new edition retains the body of the original, with its rich, accessible analysis rooted in a deep love of baseball, while adding a new introduction by the authors tracing the book's influence over the years.
IA-100 Construction, IA-149 to IA-94, Linn County
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Pages : 510
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Ellicott Creek Flood Control, Erie County
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Pages : 196
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The Official Railway Equipment Register
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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