Author: Meredith Garrett
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1615667393
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Time is running out for the polka-dot shoes. The sale at the shoe store is almost over, and the shoes have not been sold! But there is one little girl who wants them more than anything. Join Penny as she discovers the most perfect polka dot shoes she's ever seen. In Penny and the Polka Dot Shoes, children will learn the value of a dollar in a fun, colorful way. Will Penny earn enough money to buy the shoes before it's too late? 'This is an eLIVE book, meaning each printed copy contains a special code redeemable for the free download of the audio version of the book.'
Author: Marlin Fitzwater
Publisher: CCB Publishing
ISBN: 192691869X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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In the small fishing village of Parkers, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay, there is no more independent soul than the lone oysterman or crabber who sets out every morning in pre-dawn hours to search for oyster beds or empty his crab pots. It¿s a harsh life.When Jimmy Shannon, a Chesapeake waterman, dies during a holiday fishing trip for Blue Fin Tuna, it¿s almost unbelievable. Stranger still, is his last will and testament that requires his brother Ned Shannon to give up his law practice in Washington, D.C. and return to his family¿s traditional life on the Bay. Neddie accepts the challenge, takes over his brother¿s crab boat, practices a little law on the side, and encounters the strangest string of characters in the community.The cultural changes are dramatic, especially after it¿s discovered that Jimmy¿s death was no accident. He was murdered during his encounter with the giant tuna. Neddie is forced to balance the life of a crab fisherman with a small town law practice, while aiding in the investigation of his brother¿s death.The murder goes from sublime to bizarre when Jimmy¿s body washes ashore on a Cape Hatteras beach. At the same time, Neddie discovers the passions and values his family has known for generations, and the small town relationships that give meaning to the joys of friendship.When the watermen of the community marshal their workboats to rescue Neddie, the murder mystery unravels and the heartwarming nature of the community is revealed.
Author: Bruce Edwards
Publisher: The Age of Amy
ISBN: 0983760411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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A diehard city girl, Amy is uprooted to the Midwest against her will. Miserable in her new home and unpopular at school, the 16-year-old blasts her parents for destroying her happiness. But when Amy's verbal attacks turn physical, she is sent away to a reformatory to learn some manners. Bonehead Bootcamp plays host to Amy and three other unruly -- and very competitive -- teenagers. The motley group is forced to navigate an obstacle course like those used for military training. The similarity ends, however, when climbing over a wall lands them in a frightening fantasy world of confusion, decept.
Author: Leon Delmanehy
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450082548
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 435
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He was born right at the beginning of the "swinging" 1960s in London, England. His family strive to make ends meet, but for a variety of reasons, a few short years later, they move back to Catholic Ireland with his two Irish parents and one sister. There wasn't much happening in Ireland those days. But tumultuous changes were in the offing as backwoods Ireland was to be transformed into a model of economic and social ideals. In many ways, the author's story reflects these events as both he and his country are carried along by the tidal wave of progression. This tale follows him from Cosmopolitan London to the most rural of Ireland's green pastures, into small towns, and then its capital, Dublin. In this, his first book, he attempts to tell his life's story with not only his country but also the whole wide world as a backdrop to show more clearly the astonishing advancements and the terrible incongruity of mankind as it contrives to kill, maim, and starve each other alongside the destruction of our beautiful planet. And in this, he readily identifies the complex nature of his own character that mirrors in many ways the awful truth about the human condition. It is this duality of his nature that has brought him to this point in his life, to where he stands now today. All of what's contained between these sheets is factual, but the author fervently wishes they weren't. But as with the tidal ebb, life goes on and with it hope. And love.
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Category : Hat trade
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Author: Lisa Dugan
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475965001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
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Fifty years ago, Doris Winsby made a decision that would forever change her life, leaving her to wonder what might have been had she followed her heart. Young and impulsive, the feisty red-head was influenced by a domineering mother and a strict catholic upbringing. Set against the backdrop of her nursing home, Doris Winsby, age seventy-five, recalls her life in a series of vivid flashbacks. Querulous and spirited, undefeated by a life of hardship and disappointment, Doris Winsby will not inspire our pity. Rather, we will cheer her as she embarks on a daunting journey of self-discovery, reminding us that it is never too late to start again.
Author: Michelle Schusterman
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0399550720
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Doll Bones meets Splendors and Glooms as a boy who trades bodies with a wooden marionette. . . . The Museum of Peculiar Arts holds many oddities--a mechanical heart, a diary bound in its owner's skin . . . and Penny, a child-size marionette who almost looks alive. Fog clouds Penny's memories from before the museum, but she catches glimpses here and there: a stage, deep red curtains, long-fingered hands gripping her strings. One day, a boy named Chance touches Penny's strings and hears her voice in his head. Penny can listen, and watch, and think? Now someone else is watching Penny and Chance--a man with a sharp face, a puppeteer who has the tools to change things. A string through a needle. A twist of a spindle. And suddenly Chance is trapped in Penny's marionette body, while Penny is free to run and dance. She knows that finding a way to switch back is the right thing to do. But this body feels so wonderful, so full of life! How can Penny ever return to her puppet shell?
Author: Erin Zak
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1636791646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Enjoy your vacation at the Hummingbird Sanctuary, Colorado’s hottest resort destination. Come for the mountains, stay for the charm, and enjoy the drama as Olive, Eleanor, and Harriet figure out their lives, their loves, and the meaning of true friendship. Owning and operating the Hummingbird Sanctuary was supposed to be the best time of Olive Zyntarski’s life. She was going to tackle the future with eyes wide open and forget about her guilty conscience. All that changes when a chance meeting with a mysterious new guest has Olive’s long-buried secrets bubbling to the surface. As marketing director, Eleanor Fitzwallace knows how to present everything in its best light, everything except her nonexistent love life. When her high school heartbreak unexpectedly saunters into the Sanctuary’s restaurant, Eleanor’s determined to ignore her. She wants real love, and people don’t change, do they? After hitting rock bottom, Harriet Marshall made a promise to herself: no more one-night stands that make her feel bad about herself. She’s determined to turn her life around, and that means focusing on keeping the Sanctuary’s restaurant and bar hip, trendy, and booked solid. So, of course, she meets the most gorgeous woman ever, and everything changes.
Author: Stephanie Lewthwaite
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806152885
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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When New Mexico became an alternative cultural frontier for avant-garde Anglo-American writers and artists in the early twentieth century, the region was still largely populated by Spanish-speaking Hispanos. Anglos who came in search of new personal and aesthetic freedoms found inspiration for their modernist ventures in Hispano art forms. Yet, when these arrivistes elevated a particular model of Spanish colonial art through their preservationist endeavors and the marketplace, practicing Hispano artists found themselves working under a new set of patronage relationships and under new aesthetic expectations that tied their art to a static vision of the Spanish colonial past. In A Contested Art, historian Stephanie Lewthwaite examines the complex Hispano response to these aesthetic dictates and suggests that cultural encounters and appropriation produced not only conflict and loss but also new transformations in Hispano art as the artists experimented with colonial art forms and modernist trends in painting, photography, and sculpture. Drawing on native and non-native sources of inspiration, they generated alternative lines of modernist innovation and mestizo creativity. These lines expressed Hispanos’ cultural and ethnic affiliations with local Native peoples and with Mexico, and presented a vision of New Mexico as a place shaped by the fissures of modernity and the dynamics of cultural conflict and exchange. A richly illustrated work of cultural history, this first book-length treatment explores the important yet neglected role Hispano artists played in shaping the world of modernism in twentieth-century New Mexico. A Contested Art places Hispano artists at the center of narratives about modernism while bringing Hispano art into dialogue with the cultural experiences of Mexicans, Chicanas/os, and Native Americans. In doing so, it rewrites a chapter in the history of both modernism and Hispano art. Published in cooperation with The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Author: Terry Lee Clum
Publisher:
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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