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So many messages become imbedded during our youth. "You are loved." "You are trusted." " You are good." These assurances often remain through a lifetime and build us up. What does one do to shed the negative, destructive messages sent? Is it even possible? In Ollie, Ollie, Oxen Free, Matt Turner dedicates his life to the service of others, as a priest and teacher and director, only to discover that the messages of his past haunt him. Carol Triton has learned to survive by her wits and good instincts. She has only made one major error. At a most unusual moment, they meet. Ollie, Ollie, Oxen Free is a story about struggling to find the life we hope for, despite the obstacles that arise to challenge us and threaten our journey home.
“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—Time Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all. “A great artist.”—Cincinnati Enquirer “A shaking up in the kaleidoscope of laughter . . . Reading Vonnegut is addictive!”—Commonweal
Recently widowed, Janice McKendry and her three children—teens Lucas and Danica, and ten-year-old Jordyn—have just moved into an old Victorian manor in the small Ontario town of Brookeford. Enchanted by all things historical, especially those with an intriguing story, Janice’s husband, Todd, had found the house and persuaded Janice to move there. A teacher and a writer, Todd had thoroughly researched the mysterious house and begun to write a trilogy about it. Unfortunately, Todd’s untimely passing meant he failed to share his findings: that a malevolent something—or someone—has been haunting it for years. Unaware of the local rumors, Janice and the kids move in, and Jordyn even makes a new friend: a girl her own age who seems to know a lot about the house and surrounding property. Soon after, strange things start to happen—curtains shutting, lights flickering, a picture moves around—but they are unconvinced that it’s not just their minds playing tricks on them. And as the family meets the locals, they learn many believe a ghost lives there. But it’s not until one night when the dinner table starts to rise that the McKendrys start believing the place is haunted. When Janice begins to read the trilogy Todd was writing before he died, she is shocked to find not only are the books about the history of the manor, but what is happening now; and the last book is unfinished. From the books, the McKendrys learn all about the dark history of the house and the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a young girl—a little girl much like the one Jordyn has been playing with ...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this “marvelously creepy thrill ride of a book that keeps twisting until the very end” (Karen M. McManus, author of One of Us Is Lying) “The suspenseful plot combines elements of Thomas Tryon’s classic Harvest Home, Netflix’s Squid Game, and the social commentary of Jordan Peele’s film oeuvre and mixes these with a revelatory pacing reminiscent of Spielberg’s Jaws.”—Booklist The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught. The prize: enough money to change everything. Even though everyone is desperate to win—to seize a dream future or escape a haunting past—Mack is sure she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she’s an expert at that. It’s the reason she’s alive and her family isn’t. But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes that this competition is even more sinister than she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive. Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to hide but nowhere to run. Come out, come out, wherever you are.
Author : David Cram,Jeffrey L. Forgeng Publisher : Taylor & Francis Page : 360 pages File Size : 47,6 Mb Release : 2017-07-05 Category : History ISBN : 9781351935876
Francis Willughby's Book of Games by David Cram,Jeffrey L. Forgeng Pdf
Francis Willughby's Book of Games, published here for the first time, is a remarkable work and an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in early modern social history. Dating from the 1660s, it was left unfinished when the writer died in 1672 at the age of 36. Nevertheless, Willughby's manuscript, even in its unpolished form is a goldmine of detail providing a snapshot of mid seventeenth century life, language and culture. The manuscript itself lists a wide variety of sports, games and pastimes, including football, hurling, card games, tennis and children's games. As well as providing rules and a description of the various games (often with accompanying sketches to explain particular points) there are numerous fascinating snippets of related information (such as the care of fighting cocks), that bring the subject to life, whilst the section on children's games is particularly poignant. Besides the intrinsic interest of the subject matter, the fact that Willughby embarked on the project from a scientific perspective adds to the value of the book. Willughby had been admitted to the Royal Society in 1661 and for a number of years prior to that had been collaborating with the naturalist John Ray. It is clear that Willughby's Book of Games was highly influenced by his scientific pursuits and was an extension of his natural history work, utilising the same skills of systematic observation, description and classification. Providing not only a word-for word transcription of the Book of Games, this volume also contains a host of interpretative material to complement the original data. As well as a biography of Willughby and a detailed description of his manuscript, a substantial glossary of games and obsolete terms is provided, together with a bibliography of Willughby's literary remains and more general reference works. Taken together, this publication provides an unparalleled resource for scholars of early modern England.
"Lively and inspiring!" --Hartford Courant "A great feel-good story." --Philadelphia Examiner Just one step at a time. After losing her boyfriend and her job in one fell swoop, Noreen finds it hard to know what the next step is--never mind take it. For the first time in a great many years, Noreen has time to herself. So she puts on a new pair of sneakers and a seriously outdated pair of exercise pants, and walks. It isn't long before she's joined by neighbors Tess and Rosie, two women as lost as she is. As the Wildwater women walk and talk, and talk and walk, they tally their steps, share their secrets, and begin putting their lives back together. And along the way, they learn what women everywhere are finding out -- time flies, and getting fit is actually fun when you're walking with friends.
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free is the term used to recall game players to the starting point to begin anew. In my collection I have called out and regrouped ten old friends,The Chew-Chew Train, Jacob, The Acquisition, Confronting Closet Creatures, The A.O.D., The Education of Todd Bowden, The Soothsayer, Gathering for Death, Grenouille Pond and Hiders of Big Blue, waiting for you to play scare the reader. Lets play!
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona Opie,Peter Opie Pdf
First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called "the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out."
