Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007525729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young boy’s coming of age.

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Creative Education
ISBN: 9780886823467
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Vacationing at the seashore, a young boy's endurance is tested to the limit when he tries to swim through an underwater tunnel.

Author: Doris May Lessing
Publisher: Tale Blazers
ISBN: 9780895989642
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Roderick Gordon
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545381258
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419

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The New York Times Bestseller! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS.14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner....

Author: W. D. Gann
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787200531
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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In this inspirational masterpiece about the role of the human being in the universe, finance trader and author W. D. Gann uses the Bible to explore the secret to successful living. Through direct teachings from the Bible, the reader may learn how to understand, obey and apply the universal laws revealed in the Bible in order to bring about his own latent talents and powers, and in turn be firmly set on the road towards health, happiness and prosperity.

Author: Abraham B. Yehoshua
Publisher: HarperVia
ISBN: 1328622630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a suspenseful and poignant story of a family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father--an engineer who they discover is involved in an ominous secret military project Until recently, Zvi Luria was a healthy man in his seventies, an engineer living in Tel Aviv with his wife, Dina, visiting with their two children whenever possible. Now he is showing signs of early dementia, and his work on the tunnels of the Trans-Israel Highway is no longer possible. To keep his mind sharp, Zvi decides to take a job as the unpaid assistant to Asael Maimoni, a young engineer involved in a secret military project: a road to be built inside the massive Ramon Crater in the northern Negev Desert. The challenge of the road, however, is compounded by strange circumstances. Living secretly on the proposed route, amid ancient Nabatean ruins, is a Palestinian family under the protection of an enigmatic archaeological preservationist. Zvi rises to the occasion, proposing a tunnel that would not dislodge the family. But when his wife falls sick, circumstances begin to spiral . . . The Tunnel--wry, wistful, and a tour de force of vital social commentary--is Yehoshua at his finest.

Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406313291
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Scornful of his younger sister's fears, a young boy decides to explore a tunnel forcing her to go after him when he doesn't return. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Author: John Verney
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
ISBN: 9781589881372
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Meet twelve-year-old February and her older brother Friday in this witty and sophisticated middle grade mystery.

Author: Ned Zeman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101543418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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A journalist faces his toughest assignment yet: profiling himself. Zeman recounts his struggle with clinical depression in this high- octane, brutally funny memoir about mood disorders, memory, shock treatment therapy and the quest to get back to normal. Thirty-five million Americans suffer from clinical depression. But Ned Zeman never thought he'd be one of them. He came from a happy Midwestern family. He had great friends and a busy social life. His career was thriving at Vanity Fair where he profiled adventurers and eccentrics who pushed the limits and died young. Then, at age thirty-two, anxiety and depression gripped Zeman with increasing violence and consequences. He experimented with therapist after therapist, medication after medication, hospital after hospital- including McLean Hospital, the facility famed for its treatment of writers, from Sylvia Plath to Susanna Kaysen to David Foster Wallace. Zeman eventually went further, by trying electroconvulsive therapy, aka shock treatment, aka "the treatment of last resort." By the time it was over, Zeman had lost nearly two years' worth of memory. He was a reporter with amnesia. He had no choice but to start from scratch, to reassemble the pieces of a life he didn't remember and, increasingly, didn't want to. His girlfriend was gone; friends weren't speaking to him. His life lay in ruins. And the biggest question remained, "What the hell did I do?" By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, profane and hopeful, The Rules of the Tunnel is a blistering account of Zeman's twisted ride to hell and back-a return made possible by friends real and less so, among them the dead "eccentrics" he once profiled. It's a guttural shout of a book, one that defies conventional notions about those with mood disorders, unlocks mysteries within mysteries, and proves that sometimes everything you're looking for is right in front of you.

Author: Angie C. Orlando
Publisher: Handtype Press
ISBN: 9781941960110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Using a mixture of prose and poetry, Angie C. Orlando shares indelible stories about growing up in a small Ohioan town, complete with posing for family pictures, watching high school football games, and playing saxophone in a marching band. Yet she is equally funny and unflinchingly honest about how classmates, medical professionals, and others have viewed her multiple disabilities, all of which had gradually became apparent over time. Through it all, she leaves her abusive husband and endures her brother's suicide to become her own person. "Angie C. Orlando's prose is poetic and plainspoken at the same time. It slips into your heart and settles there to tell an unforgettable tale. Through the Tunnel bears testimony to our capacity for coping with change and transcending trauma." --John Lee Clark, author of Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience