Author: Joseph Lewis Clark Sr
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 0805972447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
In The Adventures of the Pee Dee Pods, author Joseph Lewis Clark, Sr., introduces young readers to the Pods, soft little balls of fur who once lived in total tranquility on their home planet of Pod-Que-Qu. When their peaceful existence is threatened by the evil quake star Qrote, the Pods flee in search of a new home and, they hope, safety. The first family to settle on Earth is composed of a mother and father and two baby Pods, Fat-Fat and Snook. They are accompanied by a protector whose primary job is to watch over the two rather rambunctious young Pods. As the family begins to prepare the way for others to join them, they become acquainted with their new environment and Fat-Fat and Snook find plenty of new and wondrous things to explore. Readers of all ages will enjoy meeting these lovable creatures and the new friends they make throughout The Adventures of the Pee Dee Pods.
The Adventures of the Pee Dee Pods
Author: Joseph Lewis Clark Sr
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 0805972447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
In The Adventures of the Pee Dee Pods, author Joseph Lewis Clark, Sr., introduces young readers to the Pods, soft little balls of fur who once lived in total tranquility on their home planet of Pod-Que-Qu. When their peaceful existence is threatened by the evil quake star Qrote, the Pods flee in search of a new home and, they hope, safety. The first family to settle on Earth is composed of a mother and father and two baby Pods, Fat-Fat and Snook. They are accompanied by a protector whose primary job is to watch over the two rather rambunctious young Pods. As the family begins to prepare the way for others to join them, they become acquainted with their new environment and Fat-Fat and Snook find plenty of new and wondrous things to explore. Readers of all ages will enjoy meeting these lovable creatures and the new friends they make throughout The Adventures of the Pee Dee Pods.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 0805972447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
In The Adventures of the Pee Dee Pods, author Joseph Lewis Clark, Sr., introduces young readers to the Pods, soft little balls of fur who once lived in total tranquility on their home planet of Pod-Que-Qu. When their peaceful existence is threatened by the evil quake star Qrote, the Pods flee in search of a new home and, they hope, safety. The first family to settle on Earth is composed of a mother and father and two baby Pods, Fat-Fat and Snook. They are accompanied by a protector whose primary job is to watch over the two rather rambunctious young Pods. As the family begins to prepare the way for others to join them, they become acquainted with their new environment and Fat-Fat and Snook find plenty of new and wondrous things to explore. Readers of all ages will enjoy meeting these lovable creatures and the new friends they make throughout The Adventures of the Pee Dee Pods.
The Poisonwood Bible
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061804819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061804819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
The Big Tiny
Author: Dee Williams
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014218179X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life. More than ten years ago, a near-death experience abruptly reminded sustainability advocate and pioneer Dee Williams that life is short. So, she sold her sprawling home and built an eighty-four-square-foot house—on her own, from the ground up. Today, Williams can list everything she owns on one sheet of paper, her monthly housekeeping bills amount to about eight dollars, and it takes her about ten minutes to clean the entire house. Adapting a new lifestyle left her with the ultimate luxury—more time to spend with friends and family—and gave her the freedom to head out for adventure at a moment’s notice, or watch the clouds and sunset while drinking a beer on her (yes, tiny) front porch.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014218179X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life. More than ten years ago, a near-death experience abruptly reminded sustainability advocate and pioneer Dee Williams that life is short. So, she sold her sprawling home and built an eighty-four-square-foot house—on her own, from the ground up. Today, Williams can list everything she owns on one sheet of paper, her monthly housekeeping bills amount to about eight dollars, and it takes her about ten minutes to clean the entire house. Adapting a new lifestyle left her with the ultimate luxury—more time to spend with friends and family—and gave her the freedom to head out for adventure at a moment’s notice, or watch the clouds and sunset while drinking a beer on her (yes, tiny) front porch.
Schools of Thought
Author: Rexford Brown
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
As a result of his visits to classrooms across the nation, Brown has compiled an engaging, thought-provoking collection of classroom vignettes which show the ways in which national, state, and local school politics translate into changed classroom practices. "Captures the breadth, depth, and urgency of education reform".--Bill Clinton.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
As a result of his visits to classrooms across the nation, Brown has compiled an engaging, thought-provoking collection of classroom vignettes which show the ways in which national, state, and local school politics translate into changed classroom practices. "Captures the breadth, depth, and urgency of education reform".--Bill Clinton.
A Woman Rice Planter
Author: Elizabeth Allston Pringle
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643362801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A Woman Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a woman's struggle for survival and dignity in a distinctly male-dominated society, it contributes significantly to women's history. It presents a rich portrait of a distinctive place—the South Carolina Low Country—in a troubled and generally undocumented time, a portrait made all the more vivid by the fine pen-and-ink sketches of Charleston artist Alice R. Huger Smith. Elizabeth Alston Pringle was the daughter of Robert Francis Withers Allston, a state legislator and governor, who was at one time owner of seven plantations but bankrupt at the time of his death. Left to struggle for income to regain the property and position the family held prior to the war, Pringle turned to writing and eventually published a column on Southern culture in the New York Sun under the pseudeonym Patience Pennington. In 1913 she collected and reshaped these newspaper columns and compiled them into one volume, A Woman Rice Planter, a best-selling book that reduced her financial worries. Her descriptions of the vagaries of rice planting, of her relationships with former slaves and the first generation of free-born African Americans, and of her life in the early Reconstruciton period are important to our understanding of the prevailing attitudes and persistence of the Old South in the New. The volume was illustrated by Alice R. Huger Smith (1876–1958), an American painter and printmaker. This edition features an introduction by Charles Joyner (1935–2016), distinguished professor emeritus of southern history and culture at Coastal Carolina University and author of several books, including Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643362801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A Woman Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a woman's struggle for survival and dignity in a distinctly male-dominated society, it contributes significantly to women's history. It presents a rich portrait of a distinctive place—the South Carolina Low Country—in a troubled and generally undocumented time, a portrait made all the more vivid by the fine pen-and-ink sketches of Charleston artist Alice R. Huger Smith. Elizabeth Alston Pringle was the daughter of Robert Francis Withers Allston, a state legislator and governor, who was at one time owner of seven plantations but bankrupt at the time of his death. Left to struggle for income to regain the property and position the family held prior to the war, Pringle turned to writing and eventually published a column on Southern culture in the New York Sun under the pseudeonym Patience Pennington. In 1913 she collected and reshaped these newspaper columns and compiled them into one volume, A Woman Rice Planter, a best-selling book that reduced her financial worries. Her descriptions of the vagaries of rice planting, of her relationships with former slaves and the first generation of free-born African Americans, and of her life in the early Reconstruciton period are important to our understanding of the prevailing attitudes and persistence of the Old South in the New. The volume was illustrated by Alice R. Huger Smith (1876–1958), an American painter and printmaker. This edition features an introduction by Charles Joyner (1935–2016), distinguished professor emeritus of southern history and culture at Coastal Carolina University and author of several books, including Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community.
The Farmers' Register
Author: Edmund Ruffin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Good Ol’ Chuck
Author: Ms. Shyanne
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664158383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Children all over will enjoy reading about Chuck and his big day. They will be able to identify with Chuck as he learns how his actions can affect others people
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664158383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Children all over will enjoy reading about Chuck and his big day. They will be able to identify with Chuck as he learns how his actions can affect others people
Dog of God
Author: Cher Slater-Barlevi Ma
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452553483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
When two dolphin lovers, Zeeep and Eeeoo-vowing to be together forever -lose their lives in a poacher's snare, they learn their next lives will be on land: Eeeoo becomes Sabrina, a comatose little girl in Montreal, Canada and Zeeep becomes Xico, a flea-ridden dog in a tiny village in Brazil. It seems the two will never be together but the magic of fate relies on a higher knowing. This crossover novel leads the reader on adventures with Xico the dog through mystical travels visiting Otherworldly dimensions, learning the world of healing. The two lovers eventually reunite in Brazil where a famous shaman and psychic surgeon lives. When they meet again, Xico has learned to be a medium and is helping the shaman. He lovingly helps to initiate the healing of Sabrina. When Sabrina's desperate mother steals Xico and takes him to Canada to be with her daughter, the Brazilian villagers rally together to get their "healing dog" back so he can do his God-given job.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452553483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
When two dolphin lovers, Zeeep and Eeeoo-vowing to be together forever -lose their lives in a poacher's snare, they learn their next lives will be on land: Eeeoo becomes Sabrina, a comatose little girl in Montreal, Canada and Zeeep becomes Xico, a flea-ridden dog in a tiny village in Brazil. It seems the two will never be together but the magic of fate relies on a higher knowing. This crossover novel leads the reader on adventures with Xico the dog through mystical travels visiting Otherworldly dimensions, learning the world of healing. The two lovers eventually reunite in Brazil where a famous shaman and psychic surgeon lives. When they meet again, Xico has learned to be a medium and is helping the shaman. He lovingly helps to initiate the healing of Sabrina. When Sabrina's desperate mother steals Xico and takes him to Canada to be with her daughter, the Brazilian villagers rally together to get their "healing dog" back so he can do his God-given job.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide
Author: Trace Beaulieu
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553377835
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
SYNOPSES OF THE MORE THAN 120 EPISODES OF THE PEABODY AWARD-WINNING TV SHOW.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553377835
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
SYNOPSES OF THE MORE THAN 120 EPISODES OF THE PEABODY AWARD-WINNING TV SHOW.
The Refugees
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description