Author: Julia Cook
Publisher: Boys Town Press
ISBN: 1545757038
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Decibella is a loud talker. A really loud talker. She’s so loud, she’s hurting ears, startling wait staff, disrupting classmates, and annoying moviegoers. She doesn’t realize different environments and situations sometimes demand a softer, quieter voice. That is until a caring teacher introduces her to the silly-sounding word “Slurpadoodle” and the five volumes of voice (Whisper, 6-inch, Table Talk, Strong Speaker, and Outside).
Author: Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1487012497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Of course, each thing has its own sides to every story. In a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow, a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness, a self-described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other people, to pick up the box and chase after the stranger who dropped it? The Box follows an impenetrable rectangular cuboid as it changes hands in a collapsing metropolis, causing confluences, conflicts, rifts, and disasters. Different narrators, each with a distinctive voice, give secondhand accounts of decisive moments in the box's life. From the anthrophobe to a newly hired curator of a renowned art collection, from a couple who own an antiquarian bookshop to a hotel bartender hiding from a terrible past, the storytellers repeat rumours and rely on faulty memories, grasping at something that continually escapes them. Haunting their recollections in one mysterious woman who, convinced of the box's good or evil powers, pursues it with deadly desperation. In this mesmerizing, intricately constructed puzzle of a novel, Mandy-Suzanne Wong challenges our understanding of subject and objects, of cause and effect. Is it only humans who have agency? What is or isn't animate? What do we value and what do we discard?
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Investigation of Presidential and Senatorial Campaign Expenditures
Publisher:
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Category : Campaign funds
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
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Author: Michelle Robin La
Publisher: ViewPort Publishing
ISBN: 0990917789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Catching Shrimp with Bare Hands is the true story of Luong La, a boy growing up in the Mekong Delta in the midst of the Vietnam War. When the 1968 Tet Offensive forces Luong's family to flee the countryside, they continue to travel back and forth to their island farm despite threats from the Viet Cong and nearby firefights. Out on their farm in the middle of the Mekong River, Luong wants to catch fish and slingshot birds, but Viet Cong, called mysterious misters by the villagers, stop by his family's hut and stay. "The frog dies because of its big mouth," his mother warns. The mysterious misters behead a neighbor, and Luong's aunt goes missing. Luong plans to join the Army as soon as he's old enough to fight, but the war ends before he has a chance. Communism descends, pulling him back in time to a land without electricity or fuel where his family has to hide the books that haven't already been burned. Propaganda that "kneads their skulls," neighbors spying on each other, and the threat of starvation drive Luong to escalating acts of defiance. About to get caught by the authorities, he drops out of school to help his family build a boat to escape.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Supersonic transport planes
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Aviation Subcommittee
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Category : Airlines
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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