Author: Joanne Bell
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554694892
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Rachel's idyllic existence with her family in the remote mountain passes of northern Yukon was shattered by her father's depression, the family's relocation to "town" and her father's subsequent disappearance. Obsessed with understanding why her father never returned, Rachel hikes with her dog across mountain passes and along valleys to her childhood home. As she walks, she distracts herself from her anxiety by reinventing fairy tales remembered from her childhood. As the days pass, the imaginary quest begins to echo her own journey as she confronts danger, faces loneliness and unearths the truth about her father.
Juggling Fire
Author: Joanne Bell
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554694892
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Rachel's idyllic existence with her family in the remote mountain passes of northern Yukon was shattered by her father's depression, the family's relocation to "town" and her father's subsequent disappearance. Obsessed with understanding why her father never returned, Rachel hikes with her dog across mountain passes and along valleys to her childhood home. As she walks, she distracts herself from her anxiety by reinventing fairy tales remembered from her childhood. As the days pass, the imaginary quest begins to echo her own journey as she confronts danger, faces loneliness and unearths the truth about her father.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554694892
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Rachel's idyllic existence with her family in the remote mountain passes of northern Yukon was shattered by her father's depression, the family's relocation to "town" and her father's subsequent disappearance. Obsessed with understanding why her father never returned, Rachel hikes with her dog across mountain passes and along valleys to her childhood home. As she walks, she distracts herself from her anxiety by reinventing fairy tales remembered from her childhood. As the days pass, the imaginary quest begins to echo her own journey as she confronts danger, faces loneliness and unearths the truth about her father.
Lighting the Literacy Fire
Author: Sean David Burke
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244507562
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book covers three interdependent areas; 1) Readiness for learning, 2) Teaching language skills, and 3) Learning together. These provide a foundation for teaching that can bring our children into a more creative relationship with their own language.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244507562
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book covers three interdependent areas; 1) Readiness for learning, 2) Teaching language skills, and 3) Learning together. These provide a foundation for teaching that can bring our children into a more creative relationship with their own language.
Rhetorical Occasions
Author: Michael Bérubé
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807877387
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Berube has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog. Selected to showcase the range of public writing available to scholars, the essays are grouped into five topical sections: the Sokal hoax and its effects on the humanities; cosmopolitanism, American studies, and cultural studies; daily academic life inside and outside the classroom; the events of September 11, 2001, and their political aftermath; and the potential discursive and tonal range of academic blog writing. In lively and entertaining prose, Berube offers a wide array of interventions into matters academic and nonacademic. By example and illustration, he reminds readers that the humanities remain central to our understanding of what it means to be human.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807877387
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Berube has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog. Selected to showcase the range of public writing available to scholars, the essays are grouped into five topical sections: the Sokal hoax and its effects on the humanities; cosmopolitanism, American studies, and cultural studies; daily academic life inside and outside the classroom; the events of September 11, 2001, and their political aftermath; and the potential discursive and tonal range of academic blog writing. In lively and entertaining prose, Berube offers a wide array of interventions into matters academic and nonacademic. By example and illustration, he reminds readers that the humanities remain central to our understanding of what it means to be human.
Falling For Fire
Author: Talia Jager
Publisher: Talia Jager
ISBN: 1944389008
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The fae had an old law—Love is forbidden between faeries of different Seasons. After a chance encounter at a secret party, the Winter princess, Aurora, and the Summer prince, Sorin, soon find their love will not be denied.
Publisher: Talia Jager
ISBN: 1944389008
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The fae had an old law—Love is forbidden between faeries of different Seasons. After a chance encounter at a secret party, the Winter princess, Aurora, and the Summer prince, Sorin, soon find their love will not be denied.
The Zen of Juggling
Author: Dave Finnigan
Publisher: Human Kinetics Europe Limited
ISBN: 9780961552152
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Publisher: Human Kinetics Europe Limited
ISBN: 9780961552152
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater
Author: Barnum Vance Barnum
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 142184012X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Ladies and gentlemen, if you will kindly give me your attention for a few moments I will be happy to introduce to your favorable notice an entertainer of world-wide fame who will, I am sure, not only mystify you but, at the same time, interest you. You ha
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 142184012X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Ladies and gentlemen, if you will kindly give me your attention for a few moments I will be happy to introduce to your favorable notice an entertainer of world-wide fame who will, I am sure, not only mystify you but, at the same time, interest you. You ha
The Explosexuawesome Career Guide
Author: Mose Hayward
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740757407
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
"Professions your guidance counselor never mentioned: drop explosives on erupting volcanoes, create game shows, babysit punk rockers, crash cars, choreograph fireworks, count down to blastoff at NASA, referee dodgeball, design waterslides, stand around NYC looking cool, and many more!"--Cover.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740757407
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
"Professions your guidance counselor never mentioned: drop explosives on erupting volcanoes, create game shows, babysit punk rockers, crash cars, choreograph fireworks, count down to blastoff at NASA, referee dodgeball, design waterslides, stand around NYC looking cool, and many more!"--Cover.
Charlie Dancey's Compendium of Club Juggling
Author: Charlie Dancey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Albino Album
Author: Chavisa Woods
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609804767
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Emerging author Chavisa Woods has been noted for capturing a "strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S." (Go Magazine). Here she presents a technicolored vision of rural adolescence, the story of a girl with an unpronounceable name—a fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu and combat boots who travels along all the bizarre yet familiar byways of human desire from the cornfields of Louisiana and the big brass sound of Mardi Gras to the heights of the Empire State Building. Turning the tradition of the southern gothic novel on its head, Woods presents a new land of contemporary misfits including fire-dancers, pseudo-Nazis who breed albino animals, Catholic workers, horse thieves, and the archangel Gabrielle.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609804767
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Emerging author Chavisa Woods has been noted for capturing a "strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S." (Go Magazine). Here she presents a technicolored vision of rural adolescence, the story of a girl with an unpronounceable name—a fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu and combat boots who travels along all the bizarre yet familiar byways of human desire from the cornfields of Louisiana and the big brass sound of Mardi Gras to the heights of the Empire State Building. Turning the tradition of the southern gothic novel on its head, Woods presents a new land of contemporary misfits including fire-dancers, pseudo-Nazis who breed albino animals, Catholic workers, horse thieves, and the archangel Gabrielle.
The Unicyclist, the Vicar and the Paediatrician
Author: Peter Sidebotham
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1780885156
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Hi, I’m Joe. In the summer of 2011 I turned 16, and decided to mark this by cycling from Land’s End to John O’ Groats – on a unicycle. This book is the story of that journey and all that led up to it. The Unicyclist, the Vicar and the Paediatrician is the unique, heartwarming and true story of Joe, a teenage unicyclist, who sets out on his ultimate challenge: to travel the length of Britain on one wheel. He is accompanied on this incredible journey by his paediatrician father, Peter, desperate for a bit of father-son bonding; and by David, the sexagenarian vicar, complete with a broom strapped to his recumbent tricycle, transforming the endeavour into a pilgrimage on wheels. But almost from the beginning, the three are beset by problems: mechanical failures, broken handlebars, an unexpected ambulance ride. Can Joe and his companions overcome the crises that come their way, and make it to the finish line? This moving account, written jointly by Peter and Joe, follows this remarkable team as they battle against adversity and press on to reach their goal. From Joe’s earliest ventures into long-distance unicycling and months of training amidst the realities of family life and father-son communication, through to their enthusiastic start from Land’s End and the fateful day that followed, their journeys will delight, amuse, challenge and inspire you. Donations from sales will be made to the Lullaby Trust (Formerly the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths). This was one of the charities supported by the sponsored unicycle ride
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1780885156
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Hi, I’m Joe. In the summer of 2011 I turned 16, and decided to mark this by cycling from Land’s End to John O’ Groats – on a unicycle. This book is the story of that journey and all that led up to it. The Unicyclist, the Vicar and the Paediatrician is the unique, heartwarming and true story of Joe, a teenage unicyclist, who sets out on his ultimate challenge: to travel the length of Britain on one wheel. He is accompanied on this incredible journey by his paediatrician father, Peter, desperate for a bit of father-son bonding; and by David, the sexagenarian vicar, complete with a broom strapped to his recumbent tricycle, transforming the endeavour into a pilgrimage on wheels. But almost from the beginning, the three are beset by problems: mechanical failures, broken handlebars, an unexpected ambulance ride. Can Joe and his companions overcome the crises that come their way, and make it to the finish line? This moving account, written jointly by Peter and Joe, follows this remarkable team as they battle against adversity and press on to reach their goal. From Joe’s earliest ventures into long-distance unicycling and months of training amidst the realities of family life and father-son communication, through to their enthusiastic start from Land’s End and the fateful day that followed, their journeys will delight, amuse, challenge and inspire you. Donations from sales will be made to the Lullaby Trust (Formerly the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths). This was one of the charities supported by the sponsored unicycle ride