Author: Patrick Erin Monaghan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970055804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, famine hits Ireland, threatening an entire population & jeopardizing the future of two young lovers. The people fear they will be cleared from the land, losing their homes & all that they own. Word arrives that the landlord will load them onto ships, sending all to America. Lovers Mary & Michael are separated & Mary is packed into the steerage of the aging freighter Virginius. Michael promises he will send for her when the famine ends. But within months, news is sent that the Virginius has gone down & all aboard her lost. The people riot & threaten revenge, spurring brutal punitive punishment. The landlord is murdered & the story spread that the lover of a girl on the Virginius had killed him. Michael flees Ireland for America, where he falls prey to the sharps on the waterfront, left with little hope. He takes up with the unsavory wharf rats. Then one night, he stumbles upon the Virginius. Mary does survive the crossing to Grosse Ile, the quarantine station in the St. Lawrence. She, like thousands of others would eventually attempt the walk from Montreal to New York City. Michael, seeing the Virginius afloat, would turn towards Quebec. Neither would make their destinations yet fate would bring them together. The Blackthorn Scribe - Publishers, P.O. Box 31, Whitewater, WI 53190 (262) 473-1172, Email: [email protected]
Because They Never Do
Author: Patrick Erin Monaghan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970055804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, famine hits Ireland, threatening an entire population & jeopardizing the future of two young lovers. The people fear they will be cleared from the land, losing their homes & all that they own. Word arrives that the landlord will load them onto ships, sending all to America. Lovers Mary & Michael are separated & Mary is packed into the steerage of the aging freighter Virginius. Michael promises he will send for her when the famine ends. But within months, news is sent that the Virginius has gone down & all aboard her lost. The people riot & threaten revenge, spurring brutal punitive punishment. The landlord is murdered & the story spread that the lover of a girl on the Virginius had killed him. Michael flees Ireland for America, where he falls prey to the sharps on the waterfront, left with little hope. He takes up with the unsavory wharf rats. Then one night, he stumbles upon the Virginius. Mary does survive the crossing to Grosse Ile, the quarantine station in the St. Lawrence. She, like thousands of others would eventually attempt the walk from Montreal to New York City. Michael, seeing the Virginius afloat, would turn towards Quebec. Neither would make their destinations yet fate would bring them together. The Blackthorn Scribe - Publishers, P.O. Box 31, Whitewater, WI 53190 (262) 473-1172, Email: [email protected]
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970055804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, famine hits Ireland, threatening an entire population & jeopardizing the future of two young lovers. The people fear they will be cleared from the land, losing their homes & all that they own. Word arrives that the landlord will load them onto ships, sending all to America. Lovers Mary & Michael are separated & Mary is packed into the steerage of the aging freighter Virginius. Michael promises he will send for her when the famine ends. But within months, news is sent that the Virginius has gone down & all aboard her lost. The people riot & threaten revenge, spurring brutal punitive punishment. The landlord is murdered & the story spread that the lover of a girl on the Virginius had killed him. Michael flees Ireland for America, where he falls prey to the sharps on the waterfront, left with little hope. He takes up with the unsavory wharf rats. Then one night, he stumbles upon the Virginius. Mary does survive the crossing to Grosse Ile, the quarantine station in the St. Lawrence. She, like thousands of others would eventually attempt the walk from Montreal to New York City. Michael, seeing the Virginius afloat, would turn towards Quebec. Neither would make their destinations yet fate would bring them together. The Blackthorn Scribe - Publishers, P.O. Box 31, Whitewater, WI 53190 (262) 473-1172, Email: [email protected]
Because They Never Asked
Author: Lonnie Lane
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1594674663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1594674663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Because You'll Never Meet Me
Author: Leah Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408862638
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Ollie and Moritz are two teenagers who will never meet. Each of them lives with a life-affecting illness. Contact with electricity sends Ollie into debilitating seizures, while Moritz has a heart defect and is kept alive by an electronic pacemaker. If they did meet, Ollie would seize, but turning off the pacemaker would kill Moritz. Through an exchange of letters, the two boys develop a strong bond of friendship which becomes a lifeline during dark times – until Moritz reveals that he holds the key to their shared, sinister past, and has been keeping it from Ollie all along.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408862638
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Ollie and Moritz are two teenagers who will never meet. Each of them lives with a life-affecting illness. Contact with electricity sends Ollie into debilitating seizures, while Moritz has a heart defect and is kept alive by an electronic pacemaker. If they did meet, Ollie would seize, but turning off the pacemaker would kill Moritz. Through an exchange of letters, the two boys develop a strong bond of friendship which becomes a lifeline during dark times – until Moritz reveals that he holds the key to their shared, sinister past, and has been keeping it from Ollie all along.
How About Never—Is Never Good for You?
Author: Bob Mankoff
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0805095918
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. After meeting his mother, we follow his unlikely stints as a high-school basketball star, draft dodger, and sociology grad student. Though Mankoff abandoned the study of psychology in the seventies to become a cartoonist, he recently realized that the field he abandoned could help him better understand the field he was in, and here he takes up the psychology of cartooning, analyzing why some cartoons make us laugh and others don't. He allows us into the hallowed halls of The New Yorker to show us the soup-to-nuts process of cartoon creation, giving us a detailed look not only at his own work, but that of the other talented cartoonists who keep us laughing week after week. For desert, he reveals the secrets to winning the magazine's caption contest. Throughout How About Never--Is Never Good for You?, we see his commitment to the motto "Anything worth saying is worth saying funny."
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0805095918
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. After meeting his mother, we follow his unlikely stints as a high-school basketball star, draft dodger, and sociology grad student. Though Mankoff abandoned the study of psychology in the seventies to become a cartoonist, he recently realized that the field he abandoned could help him better understand the field he was in, and here he takes up the psychology of cartooning, analyzing why some cartoons make us laugh and others don't. He allows us into the hallowed halls of The New Yorker to show us the soup-to-nuts process of cartoon creation, giving us a detailed look not only at his own work, but that of the other talented cartoonists who keep us laughing week after week. For desert, he reveals the secrets to winning the magazine's caption contest. Throughout How About Never--Is Never Good for You?, we see his commitment to the motto "Anything worth saying is worth saying funny."
A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Between the Lines
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451635818
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451635818
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
I Never Knew I Belonged to God Because I Never Felt I Belonged to Anyone
Author: Demetria M. Kelly
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 168537090X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
I Never Knew I Belonged to God Because I Never Felt I Belonged to Anyone by: Demetria M. Kelly Demetria M. Kelly’s book, I Never Knew I Belonged to God Because I Never Felt I Belonged to Anyone, is about her struggles in life and how she applied God to her life but always felt alone until she realized God was with her and providing for her the whole time. Demetria may not have had the answers she always wanted, but she had everything she needed. Her aim is to get young mothers to understand how much they need God in their lives, especially when raising children as single parents. They are not alone because there are other single mothers going through the same thing, but God is with us. Demetria hopes that young mothers take away from this book to keep fighting, keep their heads up, and keep God in their lives.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 168537090X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
I Never Knew I Belonged to God Because I Never Felt I Belonged to Anyone by: Demetria M. Kelly Demetria M. Kelly’s book, I Never Knew I Belonged to God Because I Never Felt I Belonged to Anyone, is about her struggles in life and how she applied God to her life but always felt alone until she realized God was with her and providing for her the whole time. Demetria may not have had the answers she always wanted, but she had everything she needed. Her aim is to get young mothers to understand how much they need God in their lives, especially when raising children as single parents. They are not alone because there are other single mothers going through the same thing, but God is with us. Demetria hopes that young mothers take away from this book to keep fighting, keep their heads up, and keep God in their lives.
Hyperbole and a Half
Author: Allie Brosh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451666187
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451666187
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior ...
Author: United States. Board of Indian Commissioners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description