Book Description
Describes a female shrimper's attempt to stop a large chemical company from polluting a bay in East Texas.
Author : Molly Bang
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805053968
Describes a female shrimper's attempt to stop a large chemical company from polluting a bay in East Texas.
Author : Cherry Simmonds
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1407068733
NOBODY IN PARTICULAR is the hand-on-heart, honest, charming and occasionally tear-inducingly tragic, often laugh out loud funny story of what it was like to grow up in Liverpool in the 1950s and '60s as the youngest child in a large and somewhat eccentric Anglo-Irish family: Cherry's father would while away the hours playing his guitar in the outside loo until the pubs opened while her mother seemed to be either menopausal or depressed or both, and devoted most of her energies into saving for a divorce or her own business - whichever came cheapest! Capturing the despondency and deprivations of post-war England as embodied in the back streets of Liverpool and the subsequent vibrancy and liberation of the swinging sixties - the decade of the Beatles, national strikes and Liverpool FC winning the FA cup for the first time - this is an ebullient tale told by a natural storyteller. NOBODY IN PARTICULAR is not only a funny, affecting and nicely self-deprecating personal story (peopled by some splendidly observed larger-than-life characters - her family) but also a rather wonderful slice of social history, evoking a bygone yet still familiar and fondly remembered era.
Author : Molly Bang
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781931498944
Describes a female shrimper's attempt to stop a large chemical company from polluting a bay in East Texas.
Author : Helen Doss
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555538495
Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the "unwanted" feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the children united into one happy family. Her account reads like a novel, with scenes of hard times and triumphs described in vivid prose. The Family Nobody Wanted, which inspired two films, opened doors for other adoptive families and was a popular favorite among parents, young adults, and children for more than thirty years. Now this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world.
Author : Catherine Lacey
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374711283
In the spirit of Haruki Murakami and Amelia Gray, Catherine Lacey's Nobody Is Ever Missing is full of mordant humor and uncanny insights, as Elyria waffles between obsession and numbness in the face of love, loss, danger, and self-knowledge. Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks. Her risky and often surreal encounters with the people and wildlife of New Zealand propel Elyria deeper into her deteriorating mind. Haunted by her sister's death and consumed by an inner violence, her growing rage remains so expertly concealed that those who meet her sense nothing unwell. This discord between her inner and outer reality leads her to another obsession: If her truest self is invisible and unknowable to others, is she even alive? The risks Elyria takes on her journey are paralleled by the risks Catherine Lacey takes on the page. In urgent, spiraling prose she whittles away at the rage within Elyria and exposes the very real, very knowable anxiety of the human condition. And yet somehow Lacey manages to poke fun at her unrelenting self-consciousness, her high-stakes search for the dark heart of the self.
Author : Cherry Simmonds
Publisher : CCV Digital
Page : pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 2010-04-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781407068756
Author : Jules Romains
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Death
ISBN :
The subject of this modern classic is not a man. "It is an event," says Jules Romains, who is considered "the French Dos Passos." The event starts with the death of Jacques Godard, a man of no importance. It unfolds through his brief survival in the minds of others - the porter of his tenement in Paris, his fellow lodgers, a few acquaintances, his old father, who comes up from the country for the funeral, a young stranger who feels that the dead pass into "a great soul that cannot die." The event expresses Romains's belief in "collective beings," the famous theory of "Unanimism." In dramatizing his theory, Romains developed an advanced motion-picture technique when films were in their infancy, a technique of group portraits and sudden shifts from scene to scene that keeps this work far ahead of conventional novels. Here, Romains explores the ideas and the devices used in his twenty-seven-volume masterpiece, Men of Good Will, which André Maurois calls "the boldest attempt to describe completely his own time that any French novelist has made since Balzac."
Author : Gabor S. Boritt
Publisher : Gettysburg Civil War Institute
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195129069
Leading authorities shed new light on the greatest battle in American history, focusing in particular on the unknown, the controversial, and what might have been.
Author : Ann Grifalconi
Publisher : Jump At The Sun
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780786818570
Two Caldecott Honor recipients join to bring you the incredible journey of one man, as he recounts the story of his passage on the Underground Railroad to his granddaughter. His message is one of cheer, for although he and his family found troubles during their escape, he found that folks, black and white, "helped lift us up when we was down." How, then, could he ever turn his back on another human being?
Author : Elliot Aronson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2001-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780805070996
Aronson, a social psychologist, offers concise, practical, and easy-to-apply strategies for creating a more supportive, stimulating, and compassionate environment in our schools.