Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Three Legged Horse
Author: Ann Hood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780708925898
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
From critically acclaimed author Ann Hood, comes a riveting third novel about a young woman's attempt to break obsessive ties and gain independence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780708925898
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
From critically acclaimed author Ann Hood, comes a riveting third novel about a young woman's attempt to break obsessive ties and gain independence.
Three
Author: Stephen Michael King
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823449238
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A heartwarming story of a three-legged dog who follows his nose all over the city, out to the country, and into the arms of a new friend. One, two, three... One, two, three... Every day was a skip And a hop For Three. As a three-legged dog on his own in the big city, Three does pretty well for himself. His waggly tail keeps him fed, and he meets so many different legged creatures along the way. He's happy just the way he is, but sometimes he wonders what it'd be like to have a real home. That all changes when he wanders into the country and meets a quirky young girl and her welcoming family.
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823449238
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A heartwarming story of a three-legged dog who follows his nose all over the city, out to the country, and into the arms of a new friend. One, two, three... One, two, three... Every day was a skip And a hop For Three. As a three-legged dog on his own in the big city, Three does pretty well for himself. His waggly tail keeps him fed, and he meets so many different legged creatures along the way. He's happy just the way he is, but sometimes he wonders what it'd be like to have a real home. That all changes when he wanders into the country and meets a quirky young girl and her welcoming family.
Three-Legged Horse
Author: Cheng Ch'ing-wen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231500074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a forty-year span and encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Taken individually, each story presents a moving portrait of paralysis, frustration, or self-realization. Together, they weave a complex tapestry of life in a rapidly changing country. Cheng Ch'ing-wen's stories tell of men grappling with their fears and frustrations, from "The River Suite," in which a ferryman-championed throughout his small town for twice saving a drowning person-lacks the courage to confess his love to a young woman before she dies, to "Spring Rain," in which a man struggles to come to terms with his seemingly rootless life as both an orphaned child and an infertile husband. Here too are illustrations of the changing place of women in Taiwan, as they take on more powerful roles and awaken to a sense of their own sexuality: a woman forcibly separated from her husband by her jealous mother-in-law walks for hours through the night to see him on his birthday, only to turn back and go straight home before her absence is noticed; a disappointed young female scholar with a deformed hand comes to realize--after many painful rejections--that loneliness is not reason enough to become intimate with a man. And generations clash in "Thunder God's Gonna Getcha," as a mother's cruelty is repaid years later by a son's coldness. Death reverberates throughout these stories as characters recall deceased spouses, lovers, relatives, and friends in vivid detail. The focus, however, is not on the dead but on the living. In the title story, an old man carves exquisite lame horses as both a penance for having terrorized a town as a police officer during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II and a memorial to his deceased wife, who was nobler and more courageous than he. This book is a kind of gallery of three-legged horses: portraits of people maimed and transformed-for better or worse-by the suffering that life brings.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231500074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a forty-year span and encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Taken individually, each story presents a moving portrait of paralysis, frustration, or self-realization. Together, they weave a complex tapestry of life in a rapidly changing country. Cheng Ch'ing-wen's stories tell of men grappling with their fears and frustrations, from "The River Suite," in which a ferryman-championed throughout his small town for twice saving a drowning person-lacks the courage to confess his love to a young woman before she dies, to "Spring Rain," in which a man struggles to come to terms with his seemingly rootless life as both an orphaned child and an infertile husband. Here too are illustrations of the changing place of women in Taiwan, as they take on more powerful roles and awaken to a sense of their own sexuality: a woman forcibly separated from her husband by her jealous mother-in-law walks for hours through the night to see him on his birthday, only to turn back and go straight home before her absence is noticed; a disappointed young female scholar with a deformed hand comes to realize--after many painful rejections--that loneliness is not reason enough to become intimate with a man. And generations clash in "Thunder God's Gonna Getcha," as a mother's cruelty is repaid years later by a son's coldness. Death reverberates throughout these stories as characters recall deceased spouses, lovers, relatives, and friends in vivid detail. The focus, however, is not on the dead but on the living. In the title story, an old man carves exquisite lame horses as both a penance for having terrorized a town as a police officer during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II and a memorial to his deceased wife, who was nobler and more courageous than he. This book is a kind of gallery of three-legged horses: portraits of people maimed and transformed-for better or worse-by the suffering that life brings.
Jake's Bones
Author: Jake McGowan-Lowe
Publisher: Ticktock Books, Limited
ISBN: 9781848988521
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jake McGowan-Lowe is a boy with a very unusual hobby. Since the age of 7, he has been photographing and blogging about his incredible finds and now has a worldwide following, including 100,000 visitors from the US and Canada. Follow Jake as he explores the animal world through this new 64-page book. He takes you on a world wide journey of his own collection, and introduces you to other amazing animals from the four corners of the globe. Find out what a cow's tooth, a rabbit's rib and a duck's quack look like and much, much more besides.
Publisher: Ticktock Books, Limited
ISBN: 9781848988521
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jake McGowan-Lowe is a boy with a very unusual hobby. Since the age of 7, he has been photographing and blogging about his incredible finds and now has a worldwide following, including 100,000 visitors from the US and Canada. Follow Jake as he explores the animal world through this new 64-page book. He takes you on a world wide journey of his own collection, and introduces you to other amazing animals from the four corners of the globe. Find out what a cow's tooth, a rabbit's rib and a duck's quack look like and much, much more besides.
Nothing Wrong with a Three-Legged Dog
Author: Graham McNamee
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613368520
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A young boy and girl share a love of dogs and an interracial friendship that unites them when they are confronted with bullying and prejudice.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613368520
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A young boy and girl share a love of dogs and an interracial friendship that unites them when they are confronted with bullying and prejudice.
Trouper
Author: Meg Kearney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780605825475
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Trooper, a three-legged dog, remembers his life as a stray, before he was adopted.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780605825475
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Trooper, a three-legged dog, remembers his life as a stray, before he was adopted.
Trio
Author: Andrea Wisnewski
Publisher: Davd R. Godine
ISBN: 9781567926088
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A kitten born with only three legs loves doing the same things as the chickens who share a garage with him, including sitting on a nest.
Publisher: Davd R. Godine
ISBN: 9781567926088
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A kitten born with only three legs loves doing the same things as the chickens who share a garage with him, including sitting on a nest.
Don Gateau the Three-Legged Cat of Seborga
Author: Diane Kane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732397347
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Don Gateau, the three-legged cat of Seborga, Italy, is a story of love and bravery. Don Gateau is born a feral cat, free to roam. When he is injured, he reluctantly accepts help. After he is better, Don Gateau has to be even braver and accept love.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732397347
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Don Gateau, the three-legged cat of Seborga, Italy, is a story of love and bravery. Don Gateau is born a feral cat, free to roam. When he is injured, he reluctantly accepts help. After he is better, Don Gateau has to be even braver and accept love.
Fiji
Author: Sir Lala Sukuna
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This edition of select writings by Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna is the companion to the biography Ratu Sukuna: Soldier, Statesman, Man of Two Worlds, published in 1980, which Dr Scarr was invited to write by the Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Biography Committee under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Fiji, Ratu Sukuna's nephew, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
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ISBN:
Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This edition of select writings by Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna is the companion to the biography Ratu Sukuna: Soldier, Statesman, Man of Two Worlds, published in 1980, which Dr Scarr was invited to write by the Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Biography Committee under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Fiji, Ratu Sukuna's nephew, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
Working Wood 1&2
Author: Paul Sellers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956967305
Category : Woodwork
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956967305
Category : Woodwork
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description