Author: Michael Perry
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780061894466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
“Somewhere between Garrison Keillor’s idyllic-sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street lies the reality of small-town life. This is where Michael Perry lives.” —St. Paul Pioneer Press “Perry can take comfort in the power of his writing, his ability to pull readers from all corners onto his Wisconsin spread, and make them feel right at home.” —Seattle Times Tuesdays with Morrie meets Bill Bryson in Visiting Tom, another witty, poignant, and stylish paean to living in New Auburn, Wisconsin, from Michael Perry. The author of Population: 485, Coop, and Truck: A Love Story, Perry takes us along on his uplifting visits with his octogenarian neighbor one valley over—and celebrates the wisdom, heart, and sass of a vanishing generation that embodies the indomitable spirit of small-town America.
Visiting Tom
Author: Michael Perry
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780061894466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
“Somewhere between Garrison Keillor’s idyllic-sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street lies the reality of small-town life. This is where Michael Perry lives.” —St. Paul Pioneer Press “Perry can take comfort in the power of his writing, his ability to pull readers from all corners onto his Wisconsin spread, and make them feel right at home.” —Seattle Times Tuesdays with Morrie meets Bill Bryson in Visiting Tom, another witty, poignant, and stylish paean to living in New Auburn, Wisconsin, from Michael Perry. The author of Population: 485, Coop, and Truck: A Love Story, Perry takes us along on his uplifting visits with his octogenarian neighbor one valley over—and celebrates the wisdom, heart, and sass of a vanishing generation that embodies the indomitable spirit of small-town America.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780061894466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
“Somewhere between Garrison Keillor’s idyllic-sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street lies the reality of small-town life. This is where Michael Perry lives.” —St. Paul Pioneer Press “Perry can take comfort in the power of his writing, his ability to pull readers from all corners onto his Wisconsin spread, and make them feel right at home.” —Seattle Times Tuesdays with Morrie meets Bill Bryson in Visiting Tom, another witty, poignant, and stylish paean to living in New Auburn, Wisconsin, from Michael Perry. The author of Population: 485, Coop, and Truck: A Love Story, Perry takes us along on his uplifting visits with his octogenarian neighbor one valley over—and celebrates the wisdom, heart, and sass of a vanishing generation that embodies the indomitable spirit of small-town America.
The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of Tom Jones, a foundling
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Image Carriers
Author: Anthony Engel
Publisher: Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1922155047
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Publisher: Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1922155047
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
One
Author: Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.
Publisher: Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.
ISBN: 0805985549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
One is the sequel to True, a star-crossed romance, set in California, in Britain, and on the Continent -- mainly France -- in 1985-86, whose theme is self-discovery.
Publisher: Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.
ISBN: 0805985549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
One is the sequel to True, a star-crossed romance, set in California, in Britain, and on the Continent -- mainly France -- in 1985-86, whose theme is self-discovery.
Tom's Midnight Garden
Author: Philippa Pearce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192717771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192717771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.
The Rotarian: March 2013
Author:
Publisher: Rotary International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher: Rotary International
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Log Home Living
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Log Home Living is the oldest, largest and most widely distributed and read publication reaching log home enthusiasts. For 21 years Log Home Living has presented the log home lifestyle through striking editorial, photographic features and informative resources. For more than two decades Log Home Living has offered so much more than a magazine through additional resources–shows, seminars, mail-order bookstore, Web site, and membership organization. That's why the most serious log home buyers choose Log Home Living.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Log Home Living is the oldest, largest and most widely distributed and read publication reaching log home enthusiasts. For 21 years Log Home Living has presented the log home lifestyle through striking editorial, photographic features and informative resources. For more than two decades Log Home Living has offered so much more than a magazine through additional resources–shows, seminars, mail-order bookstore, Web site, and membership organization. That's why the most serious log home buyers choose Log Home Living.
Family for Two
Author: Aaron H. Foster
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1633388123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
While still a child himself, Tom Dotson loses his mother at the age of twelve. He goes to live with the Choctaw Indians in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. After graduating high school, he goes on and gets a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and moves to Kansas City. While in Kansas City, he buys an old house to fix up, as well as works on old cars. One day while attending an afternoon get-together, he meets the love of his life, Lisa, and they get married. They are happy and soon has a baby. However, that is short-lived when his wife and child gets in a horrific car accident and both passes away. He then helps an older lady with her car and she offers for him to move in with her, and he does. What he doesn’t know is that she has a daughter. Read the book to see how the remainder unfolds.
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1633388123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
While still a child himself, Tom Dotson loses his mother at the age of twelve. He goes to live with the Choctaw Indians in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. After graduating high school, he goes on and gets a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and moves to Kansas City. While in Kansas City, he buys an old house to fix up, as well as works on old cars. One day while attending an afternoon get-together, he meets the love of his life, Lisa, and they get married. They are happy and soon has a baby. However, that is short-lived when his wife and child gets in a horrific car accident and both passes away. He then helps an older lady with her car and she offers for him to move in with her, and he does. What he doesn’t know is that she has a daughter. Read the book to see how the remainder unfolds.
J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia
Author: Michael D. C. Drout
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415969425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopedia includes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field. Coverage not only presents the most recent scholarship on J.R.R. Tolkien, but also introduces and explores the author and scholar's life and work within their historical and cultural contexts. Tolkien's fiction and his sources of influence are examined along with his artistic and academic achievements - including his translations of medieval texts - teaching posts, linguistic works, and the languages he created. The 550 alphabetically arranged entries fall within the following categories of topics: adaptations art and illustrations characters in Tolkien's work critical history and scholarship influence of Tolkien languages biography literary sources literature creatures and peoples of Middle-earth objects in Tolkien's work places in Tolkien's work reception of Tolkien medieval scholars scholarship by Tolkien medieval literature stylistic elements themes in Tolkien's works theological/ philosophical concepts and philosophers Tolkien's contemporary history and culture works of literature
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415969425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopedia includes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field. Coverage not only presents the most recent scholarship on J.R.R. Tolkien, but also introduces and explores the author and scholar's life and work within their historical and cultural contexts. Tolkien's fiction and his sources of influence are examined along with his artistic and academic achievements - including his translations of medieval texts - teaching posts, linguistic works, and the languages he created. The 550 alphabetically arranged entries fall within the following categories of topics: adaptations art and illustrations characters in Tolkien's work critical history and scholarship influence of Tolkien languages biography literary sources literature creatures and peoples of Middle-earth objects in Tolkien's work places in Tolkien's work reception of Tolkien medieval scholars scholarship by Tolkien medieval literature stylistic elements themes in Tolkien's works theological/ philosophical concepts and philosophers Tolkien's contemporary history and culture works of literature
Reality and Dreams
Author: Muriel Spark
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 145324509X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
DIVDIV“Sleek and suggestive . . . [Reality and Dreams] is so smart and seductive that you fail to notice how completely you’ve accepted a world gone utterly awry.” —Kirkus Reviews /divDIV/divDIVBritish film director Tom Richard won acclaim for his moments of pure creative inspiration. But when Richard is hospitalized after toppling from a crane during a shoot, he awakes not knowing what is real and what is not—and with no idea who to trust. Soon his wife, children, and friends are all undergoing crises of their own, from the breakup of a marriage to the loss of a job. As Richard fights to regain his health and stay centered amid the swirling chaos of his personal life, he must also wrest control of his film—his most prized pursuit—from those who seek to take it away./divDIV /divDIVWitty andengrossing, Reality and Dreams is a whiplash ride through the highs and lows of the creative process./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland./divDIV /divDIV/div/div
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 145324509X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
DIVDIV“Sleek and suggestive . . . [Reality and Dreams] is so smart and seductive that you fail to notice how completely you’ve accepted a world gone utterly awry.” —Kirkus Reviews /divDIV/divDIVBritish film director Tom Richard won acclaim for his moments of pure creative inspiration. But when Richard is hospitalized after toppling from a crane during a shoot, he awakes not knowing what is real and what is not—and with no idea who to trust. Soon his wife, children, and friends are all undergoing crises of their own, from the breakup of a marriage to the loss of a job. As Richard fights to regain his health and stay centered amid the swirling chaos of his personal life, he must also wrest control of his film—his most prized pursuit—from those who seek to take it away./divDIV /divDIVWitty andengrossing, Reality and Dreams is a whiplash ride through the highs and lows of the creative process./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland./divDIV /divDIV/div/div