Book Description
Over the course of eighty years a spruce tree grows, along with the little boy who first selected it at a tree farm. Now at the end of its life, the glorious tree is chosen to be the centerpiece of a city's holiday celebration.
Author : Barbara Joosse
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534110588
Over the course of eighty years a spruce tree grows, along with the little boy who first selected it at a tree farm. Now at the end of its life, the glorious tree is chosen to be the centerpiece of a city's holiday celebration.
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Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 1926
Category : American periodicals
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Page : 758 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Richard Russo
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101946962
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody’s Fool. Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife—not to mention his suspicion that he was a failure of a husband. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Sully has come into a small fortune, but is suddenly faced with a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he only has a year or two left to live. As Sully frantically works to keep the bad news from the important people in his life, we are reunited with his son and grandson . . . with Ruth, the married woman with whom he carried on for years . . . and with the hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends. Filled with humor, heart, and hard-luck characters you can’t help but love, Everybody’s Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.
Author : Jason Gruhl
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2021-09-05
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ISBN : 9781632333001
This is a book about wonder and about questioning what we think we know. By the time we become adults, we think we know quite a lot. Facts and theories all prop up our idea of the world and how it should work, but do we really know, or are we just trying to make ourselves feel secure? In Everybody Knows What a Tree Is, children talk their way through what they think they know - the uses for trees, the fun to be had, and the amazing scientific facts about them. But in contrast, the animals have a different language and experience for talking about trees. Over time, the children begin to question their knowledge and they look to their senses. But when this, too, breaks down, they are ultimately led to wonder what the experience of a tree is for itself, a truly magical question. Knowledge is important for many reasons: for understanding and solving problems, for building new concepts and creations, and for describing how our world works. But wonder allows us to interact with the world as it actually is - before the labels, definitions, and rules get laid on top. Ultimately, the book asks us to be comfortable with NOT knowing. It invites us to remember that life is ultimately a mystery and that not having an answer is an answer itself.
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Page : 948 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Poultry
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Author : Josh Billings
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Page : 678 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1874
Category : American wit and humor
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Author : Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Animals
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Author : Charles Leonard-Stuart
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Page : 648 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Dorothy Middlebrook Shipman
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 9780871296719