Author: Anna Smith
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1848663145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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It's the long, hot summer of 1968. For ten-year-old Kathleen Slaven and her pals, the school holidays beckon. Into their run-down village in the west of Scotland arrives Tony, a real American kid, like the ones from the movies, ready to lead them into all kinds of adventure: gaining sweet revenge on their sadistic teacher Miss Grant on a trip to Ayr, discovering the unsettling secrets of 'Shaggy Island', and coming up with ways to outwit the people who screw up their lives - like the local parish priest Father Flynn. But the world they live in is a precarious one. And while they escape by playing at TV heroes and film stars, their mothers grow old before their time on broken promises, and fathers make a living in the coal mines or 'digging ditches, in the pissing rain', often boozing or gambling the wages away while their families go hungry. In an impoverished community, suffering and violence are never far from home. And even the optimism and escapism of their years cannot protect the children from the tragedies of life.
Author: Benjamin H. Levin
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Author: Victor Thiessen
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Category : Free congregations
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Author: Thomas Steinbuch
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819196088
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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In this commentary on chapter one, "Why I am So Wise," of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, the author dispels the long-standing impression that Ecce Homo is an irrational book in which the madness that claimed Nietzsche only months after he began writing it had already begun its work. Ecce Homo, it is alleged, is not egotistical, or narcissistic, or megalomaniacal. It is not a work of madness. In his linear exposition of this first chapter, the author presents Nietzsche's revelation of the tragic fact that his very aliveness was in a state of being overwhelmed, consumed, by powerful unconscious emotion, the condition he called decadence. Nietzsche's madness may have caused him to lose perspective on the meaning of having dwelt in "a world of exalted and delicate things," as he writes of himself in Ecce, but the original experience of elevation that comes of an abundance of life, of a surplus of life, certainly was not pathological.
Author: Martin Alfred Hansen
Publisher: Frederick Ungar
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Author: Helen Hull Jacobs
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Life in Tidewater, Virginia, at the outbreak of the Revolution.
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Author: Théodora Armstrong
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770892400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Set against the divergent landscape of British Columbia — from the splendours of nature to its immense dangers, from urban grease and grit to dry, desert towns — Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility examines human beings and their many frailties with breathtaking insight and accuracy. Théodora Armstrong peoples her stories with characters as richly various — and as compelling — as her settings. A soon-to-be father and haute cuisine chef mercilessly berates his staff while facing his lack of preparedness for parenthood. A young girl revels in the dark drama of the murder of a girl from her neighbourhood. A novice air-traffic specialist must come to terms with his first loss — the death of a pilot — on his watch. And the dangers of deep canyons and powerful currents spur on the reckless behaviour of teenagers as they test the limits of bravery, friendship, and sex. With startling intimacy and language stripped bare, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility announces the arrival of Théodora Armstrong as a striking new literary voice.
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Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
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Author: Deborah Tadema
Publisher: Deborah Tadema
ISBN: 1718098413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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Lieutenant-Colonel Grant Sievers oversees the mouth of Kettle Creek during the war of 1812. Hundreds of miles from civilization he fights not only the Americans. But disease, starvation, and hostile Indians. It isn’t until after the war when he is injured. The doctor tells him that he will never walk again. Lucas Sievers is a spy. Known to the Americans as Angus Truitt, he infiltrates enemy camps. He learns their secrets and reports to General Brooks. His only goal is to find his son. Sam had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. After the war, Lucas and his good friend Night Wind head south through hostile territory to find Sam and bring him home.
