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Read by Richard Peck.
Author : Richard Peck
Publisher : Listening Library
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 1985
Category :
ISBN : 9780807213803
Read by Richard Peck.
Author : David Keenan
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0571340539
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE PRIZE 2020 Sammy and his three friends are country boys from Armagh, the disputed borderlands of a country cannbalising itself. They love sharp clothes, a drink, and a night on the town singing Perry Como's classics. Their dream is a Free State, and their methods for achieving this are uncompromising. Heading for Belfast - ground zero of the Troubles - they find themselves in the incongruous position of running a comic book shop by day. Their clandestine activities belong in the x-rated pages of graphic fiction: burglary, blackmail, extortion, torture, and murder. No criminal act is too taboo for these boys. But when punk rock arrives and the hard edge of the decade starts to reveal its true paranoid colours, Sammy finds himself increasingly isolated. Camaraderie and loyalty is the fuel of a terrorist cell. When those virtues prove faulty, the game is up - and Sammy's world starts to radically shrink. For the Good Times shouts and sings with visionary intensity and gallows humour. It is not just a book about the IRA, but an exploration of what it means to 'go rogue', and the heartbreak and devastation that commitment to 'the cause' can engender. It unpacks any dewy-eyed romance associated with the Troubles, and establishes David Keenan as one of our generation's most fearless and entertaining literary stylists.
Author : Jimmy Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743273524
Following his New York Times bestselling classics comes this sparkling account of the joys of sharing the simple pleasures of life from Jimmy Carter. In this wonderfully evocative volume, Jimmy Carter writes about the things that matter most, the simple relaxed days and nights that he has enjoyed with family and friends through the years and across the generations. Here are lively, witty accounts of exploring the outdoors with his father and with black playmates; making furniture; painting; pursuing new adventures and going places with children, grandchildren, and friends; and sharing life with his wife, Rosalynn. Sharing Good Times is an inspirational guide for anyone desiring to stretch mind and heart and to combine work and pleasure.
Author : Patricia J. Bauer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317716876
The purpose of Remembering the Times of Our Lives: Memory in Infancy and Beyond is to trace the development from infancy through adulthood in the capacity to form, retain, and later retrieve autobiographical or personal memories. It is appropriate for scholars and researchers in the fields of cognitive psychology, memory, infancy, and human development.
Author : Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Mountain life
ISBN : 9780531059777
Mountain man Washburn insists on looking on the bright side of things, even as disaster after disaster befalls him.
Author : James Kirkwood
Publisher : Fawcett Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 1983-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780449204696
Kirkwood's consistently bestselling backlist classic has now been repackaged for a whole new generation of readers--and a whole new run of profits. "A joyful taste of Heaven and a shattering glimpse of Hell".--New York Times Book Review.
Author : Richard Peck
Publisher :
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Friendship in adolescence
ISBN : 9780847984350
Trav, Kate, and Buck make up a trio during their freshman year in high school, but their special friendship may not be enough to save Trav as he pressures himself relentlessly to succeed, in his own eyes as well as in the eyes of his parents and the world.
Author : James A. Murphy
Publisher : James A Murphy
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 146641541X
The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations are a collection of quotes by James A. Murphy, strategic coach and speaker."It's my sincere wish that The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations, will inspire you, assist you in your personal growth, and help you to navigate the oceans of your life..."
Author : Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2000-01-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0064462226
Lee Bennet Hopkins, noted anthologist and educator, has collected a group of witty and whimsical poems that celebrate the joy of reading. Karla Kuskin, Jack Prelutsky, and Arnold Lobel are just a few of the acclaimed children's book authors whose poems are joined into this delightful ode to the world of words. Wonderfully wacky illustrations by Harvey Stevenson help make this a rollicking good book--and a rollicking good time.
Author : Jimmie Walker
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0306821109
Jimmie Walker was raised in a violent and abusive home in the Bronx. Starting in small clubs and eventually opening for Black Panther rallies, he ultimately became an icon playing J. J. Evans on Good Times. Walker was the first successful young black sitcom star, and his catchphrase--“Dyn-o-mite!”--remains an indicator of the era. He saw sudden and enormous fame in everything from comic books and a talking doll to pajamas, trading cards, a bestselling album, and TV Guide covers. In Dyn-o-mite!, Walker candidly talks about his rise and the considerable tensions on the set of Good Times that contradicted the show's image of a close-knit, blue-collar family struggling to survive in the projects. Walker made “Dyn-o-mite!” a catchword for the Baby Boomer generation. Today, Dyn-o-mite! will inspire that same generation to rediscover what once made America great--the freedom of thought, the freedom of speech, and the belief in the individual.