Author: Sheila Farrell Murray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781593304508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Hi! My Name is Tom, is the story of an innocent, small town girl who finds herself in a most difficult situation. In the late 1940's - a time when out-of-wedlock birth was absolutely socially unacceptable - Lorna is pregnant. With the help of her friends, family and later her husband, Lorna finds the perfect life, only to have it taken from her. How she copes with life's difficulties, how she relates to her family, her friends and how she finds courage in an uplifting story.
Author: Michelle Magorian
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141964529
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. Tom tucked a blanket round him, drew up a chair by the fire and watched Willie fall asleep. The tales he had heard about evacuees didn't seem to fit Willie. 'Ungrateful' and 'wild' were the adjectives he had heard used, or just plain 'homesick'. He was quite unprepared for this timid, sickly little specimen. Britain, 1940. With World War Two raging all around, young children are being sent from their homes in the city to the countryside for safety. When eight-year-old Willie Beech first arrives on Tom Oakley's doorstep, neither are quite sure what to make of each another. Brought up in terrible poverty, Willie is terribly shy, and totally unprepared for village life - but the gruff-but-gentle 'Mister Tom' quickly takes him under his wing. Neither he nor Willie could ever have predicted the journey they will go on together - nor the unbreakable bond that will be formed. Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, and rightly hailed as a true classic of children's literature, Goodnight Mister Tom is a beautifully told, deeply moving story about the power of friendship, kindness, hope - and love. 'Everyone's idea of a smash-hit novel: full-blown characters to love and hate, moments of grief and joy, and a marvellous story that knows just how to grab the emotions' - Guardian
Author: Chidi Akomah
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532097530
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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Wandsworth is a modest town but turns into a place of hullabaloo owing to migration and influx of foreign nationals into it. This used to be a quiet atmosphere but changes with time. There is one shinning star that casts hope on the town and gives it a breadth of fresh air. This star is the boy called Tom. He is unarguably incredible though of mixed race with white mother, black father and has younger brother Peter. Tom excels in all walks of endeavour but music is his soft spot. There are some other interesting characters to make it a good fun story. The spider that tells Tom’s future, the swan that leaves water and the ghostly natures are all part of the story.
Author: Tom Hicks
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1785319248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Bowler's Name is a tale of a life in cricket's margins. Tom Hicks is no household name, but he often rubbed shoulders with cricketing royalty, going from the village green to walking out as captain at Lord's. As an ambitious youngster, Hicks dreamed of reaching the top. But trying to make it big and balance the demands of university, family, a full-time job and a penchant for post-match fun was no easy feat. Settling for an unglamorous life as a minor county player, cricket took him to all corners of the country, and then across the globe, getting an insight into the nether regions of a cricketing world that was rapidly vanishing. Through the eyes of a cricket nut, Bowler's Name takes us on a journey of success, failure, hilarity and often sheer madness. If you've ever wondered what it's like to face 90mph bowling, to have lunch with Mike Gatting or to infiltrate an England post-match party, Hicks is your man. Bowler's Name is for fans of cricket idiosyncrasies, lovers of the underdog and anyone who has tried and failed.
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ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Author: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195158164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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A feat of gripping storytelling--the first American work of fiction to become an international bestseller--no other book so effectively expressed the moral case against the "peculiar institution" of slavery. This edition features a new introduction by Charles Johnson, winner of the National Book Award for his 1990 novel "Middle Passage."
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies were sold in Great Britain. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." Stowe's characters are powerfully and humanly realized in Uncle Tom, a majestic and heroic slave whose faith and dignity are never corrupted; Eliza and her husband, George, who elude slave catchers and eventually flee a country that condones slavery; Simon Legree, a brutal plantation owner; Little Eva, who suffers emotionally and physically from the suffering of slaves; and fun-loving Topsy, Eva's slave playmate.
Author: Stowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Author: Stowe H.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521055053
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
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Самая знаменитая книга, описывающая рабство, была настолько злободневной на момент своего выхода, что спровоцировала социальные волнения, через десять лет вылившиеся в Гражданскую войну. "Хижина дяди Тома" наделала шуму на Севере Америки, была запрещена к изданию на Юге, а в итоге стала абсолютным бестселлером XIX века. И сегодня эта мелодраматичная история покоряет сердца читателей во всём мире.
