Author: Pamela Porter
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554980550
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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It is 1965, and twelve-year-old Emaline lives on a wheat farm in southern Saskatchewan. Her family has fallen apart. When her beloved dog, Prince, chased a hare into the path of the tractor, she chased after him, and her dad accidentally ran over her leg with the discer, leaving her with a long convalescence and a permanent disability. But perhaps the worst thing from Emaline's point of view is that in his grief and guilt, her father shot Prince and then left Emaline and her mother on their own. Despite the neighbors' disapproval, Emaline's mother hires Angus, a patient from the local mental hospital, to work their fields. Angus is a red-haired giant whom the local kids tease and call the gorilla. Though the small town's prejudice creates a cloud of suspicion around Angus that nearly results in tragedy, in the end he becomes a force for healing as Emaline comes to terms with her injury and the loss of her father. In the tradition of novels such as Kevin Major's Ann and Seamus and Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust, novelist and poet Pamela Porter uses free verse to tell this moving, gritty story that is accessible to a wide range of ages and reading abilities.
Author: Lori Stanley Roeleveld
Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing ()
ISBN: 9781941103784
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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"This isn't a book for the happily comfortable. This is a book for the restless Jesus lover, the longsuffering disciple, the openhearted believer. Be forewarned. The challenges inside are designed to unsettle you as well as provide practical suggestions for thriving on the narrow road even if trouble is your travel companion."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Bill Haley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781617137112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Bill Haley was the man who brought rock 'n' roll into the mainstream, starting with "Crazy Man, Crazy" that became the first rock 'n' roll song to break the Billboard Top 20 in 1953. His success made him an idol not only in the US but throughout the world, from Canada to the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and beyond. Culled from interviews with insiders (from ex-wives to the Comets), recorded conversations, official documents, diaries, and more, this book not only charts the happenings of Haley's career but gives insight into the Haley behind the curtain and some of the other trials he faced, from the dark side of the music business to ties with the Mafia.
Author: Marie Day
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781550377200
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Edward is a homeless person who can transform cast-off materials into amazing costumes. 7 yrs+
Author: Chester Himes
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307803236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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From “one of the most important American writers of the 20th century” (Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealousy erupt into violence. One early morning, Reverend Short is watching from his bedroom window as the A&P across the street is robbed. As he tries to see the thief get away, the opium-addicted preacher leans too far and falls out--but he is unscathed, thanks to an enormous bread basket outside the bakery downstairs. As the crowd gathers to see what happened, a shocking discovery is made: There is another body in the bread basket, and Valentine Haines is dead, really dead. It's up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out who murdered Val.
Author: Albert Szent-Györgyi
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497675901
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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A Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Szent-Györgyi concerns himself with the underlying forces and conditions that have prevented the realization of the higher possibilities of the American Dream, and, by extension, of all mankind. He addresses himself especially to the youth of the world in his attempt to show how man, the more he progresses technologically, seems the more to regress psychologically and socially, until he resembles his primate ancestors in a state of high schizophrenia. The fundamental question asked by this book is: why is it that most of the scientific research that is done to elevate human life serves in the end to destroy it? That this phenomenon exists is unarguable. How to alter it is the problem the author tackles. He finds the possibility, indeed the instrument of our survival, in our youth. Dr. Szent-Györgyi calls upon the youth the world over to organize and exercise their power to create a new world. He implores them not to waste their energies in petulance and frustration—the world is ripe for the radical changes needed for man’s survival, and for youth to fritter away their opportunity would be to compound the tragedy and seal the fate of mankind.
Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Two stories from the early pulp days of Western legend Louis L'Amour that he turned in to novels, but are published here in their original pulp versions.
Author: Carl Lehmann-Haupt
Publisher: Distribution Partners
ISBN: 9781930337794
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A love story entwined with a philosophic quest.
Author: Pamela Paige Porter
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 0888996950
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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After a freak farm accident, twelve-year-old Emaline, dealing with her disability and the abandonment of her father, finds salvation in Angus--a patient from the local mental hospital who has been hired to work in their fields. Reprint.
Author: T. E. Scott
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598586408
Category : Finance, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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