Author: Harriet Doerr
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140251487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In her first collection of stories and pieces, Harriet Doerr explores the magical power of memory and brings us a wealth of unforgettable characters: eccentric eighty-two-year-old Great-Aunt Alice, who, empowered by a lucid memory, lived out her final, physically debilitated years with grace; Edie, who arrives in California from England to bring sanity and peace to a house with five half-orphaned children and a despairing widower; Paco, eight years old, and Gloria, eleven, children caught between the longing and pleasures of childhood and the harsh mature realities of their meager circumstances in a Mexican village. These and other characters are captured in the web of life with a startling sensitivity that will touch the reader at every turn. “Strikingly pure and radiant.”—The New York Times Book Review
The Tiger in the Grass
Author: Harriet Doerr
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140251487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In her first collection of stories and pieces, Harriet Doerr explores the magical power of memory and brings us a wealth of unforgettable characters: eccentric eighty-two-year-old Great-Aunt Alice, who, empowered by a lucid memory, lived out her final, physically debilitated years with grace; Edie, who arrives in California from England to bring sanity and peace to a house with five half-orphaned children and a despairing widower; Paco, eight years old, and Gloria, eleven, children caught between the longing and pleasures of childhood and the harsh mature realities of their meager circumstances in a Mexican village. These and other characters are captured in the web of life with a startling sensitivity that will touch the reader at every turn. “Strikingly pure and radiant.”—The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140251487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In her first collection of stories and pieces, Harriet Doerr explores the magical power of memory and brings us a wealth of unforgettable characters: eccentric eighty-two-year-old Great-Aunt Alice, who, empowered by a lucid memory, lived out her final, physically debilitated years with grace; Edie, who arrives in California from England to bring sanity and peace to a house with five half-orphaned children and a despairing widower; Paco, eight years old, and Gloria, eleven, children caught between the longing and pleasures of childhood and the harsh mature realities of their meager circumstances in a Mexican village. These and other characters are captured in the web of life with a startling sensitivity that will touch the reader at every turn. “Strikingly pure and radiant.”—The New York Times Book Review
Charlie
Author: Diane Fox Downs
Publisher: Goldencraft
ISBN: 9780307602060
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
After finding less and less food in the alley where he lives, Charlie, a cat, decides to move to the country, where he can drink milk, climb trees, and play Tiger in the Grass.
Publisher: Goldencraft
ISBN: 9780307602060
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
After finding less and less food in the alley where he lives, Charlie, a cat, decides to move to the country, where he can drink milk, climb trees, and play Tiger in the Grass.
Follow that Tiger
Author: Melanie Joyce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786701930
Category : Jungle animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Who is that slinking through the jungle? It's TIGER Follow him as he scampers through the grass, splashes through the river, climbs the tallest trees, and swishes his striped tiger tail. Come and see if you can spot Tiger in this beautifully illustrated picture book, perfect for story time. Quick Catch him before he's gone in a flash.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786701930
Category : Jungle animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Who is that slinking through the jungle? It's TIGER Follow him as he scampers through the grass, splashes through the river, climbs the tallest trees, and swishes his striped tiger tail. Come and see if you can spot Tiger in this beautifully illustrated picture book, perfect for story time. Quick Catch him before he's gone in a flash.
The Tribe of Tiger
Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743426894
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The author who revealed the secret lives of dogs in the best-selling The Hidden Life of Dogs offers a journey into the hidden life of cats and reports that cats, surprisingly, are not solitary beings. Reissue.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743426894
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The author who revealed the secret lives of dogs in the best-selling The Hidden Life of Dogs offers a journey into the hidden life of cats and reports that cats, surprisingly, are not solitary beings. Reissue.
Big Hair and Plastic Grass
Author: Dan Epstein
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250007240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Epstein takes readers on a funky ride through baseball and America in the swinging '70s in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade. Includes 8-page photo insert.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250007240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Epstein takes readers on a funky ride through baseball and America in the swinging '70s in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade. Includes 8-page photo insert.
The Tiger Book
Author: Jan Pfloog
Publisher: Western Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780307689832
Category : Tiger
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Here's everything a young reader could want to know about tigers, with full-color illustrations by master artist Jan Pfloog. Part of a series of classics being reissued this spring, this beautiful book delivers the majesty of nature right into a child's hands. Ages 2-5.
Publisher: Western Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780307689832
Category : Tiger
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Here's everything a young reader could want to know about tigers, with full-color illustrations by master artist Jan Pfloog. Part of a series of classics being reissued this spring, this beautiful book delivers the majesty of nature right into a child's hands. Ages 2-5.
Tiger and Badger
Author: Emily Jenkins
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763666041
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Best friends Tiger and Badger work through their disagreements over a toy, a chair, and sharing.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763666041
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Best friends Tiger and Badger work through their disagreements over a toy, a chair, and sharing.
Tiger Eats Grass, Goat Eats Meat
Author: Rajan Jayabalan
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1645876004
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Tiger Eats Grass, Goat Eats Meat is a series of five short stories with social situations that you would have encountered but not taken seriously. It is a fast paced drama-thriller. They are based on real life events that you can find in almost every newspaper. Some men are heroes and some women too. Some men fall and some women too. The journey of life goes on no matter what happens. Praise or slander, loyalty or betrayal, clothed or naked, horrible or pleasant, loved or hated… Nothing can stop them. They are crushed on every side but will still rise to live.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1645876004
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Tiger Eats Grass, Goat Eats Meat is a series of five short stories with social situations that you would have encountered but not taken seriously. It is a fast paced drama-thriller. They are based on real life events that you can find in almost every newspaper. Some men are heroes and some women too. Some men fall and some women too. The journey of life goes on no matter what happens. Praise or slander, loyalty or betrayal, clothed or naked, horrible or pleasant, loved or hated… Nothing can stop them. They are crushed on every side but will still rise to live.
Tiger's Story
Author: Harriet Blackford
Publisher: Koala Books
ISBN: 9781742760650
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Tiger is a small, strong stripey cub. He lives in the forest in India. He walks quietly on his big soft paws and twitches his long stripey tail.
Publisher: Koala Books
ISBN: 9781742760650
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Tiger is a small, strong stripey cub. He lives in the forest in India. He walks quietly on his big soft paws and twitches his long stripey tail.
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description