Pig Boy S Wicked Bird

Author : Doug Crandell
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781556529887

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Pig Boy's Wicked Bird by Doug Crandell Pdf

This gritty tragicomic memoir is set in one memorable year--1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell lost two fingers in a farming accident. More than anything, Doug wants to shed his nickname, Pig Boy, and grow up to be a hog man like his father. His older brother Derrick reads pulp novels to him each night as he soaks his remaining fingers in Epsom salts. His brothers urge him to "flip the Wicked Bird" any time another child makes fun of his "lobster-red hand." Doug shares his summer of healing in Wabash, Indiana, with humans and animals who've suffered life-changing traumas: a brutal grandfather gentled by stroke, a deaf dog with a deadly taste for pig's ears, a tough-love mother coping with depression, a bevy of runt piglets saved from extermination. This is a story of love, loss, healing, and a family's relation with the land they love and know that they will lose.

Author : Susan Burmeister-Brown,Linda B. Swanson-Davies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416526919

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Where Love is Found by Susan Burmeister-Brown,Linda B. Swanson-Davies Pdf

For more than a decade, the literary quarterly Glimmer Train has sought out and championed the most compelling short fiction written today, by both established luminaries and fresh new voices. This stunning new anthology probes the whole range of human relationships -- lovers, friends, family members, spouses, even one's beliefs and dreams. In "Beneath the Earth of Her," acclaimed writer Karen E. Outen delicately probes the life of a loving, passionate married couple at odds over the prospect of having children. In "Gary Garrison's Wedding Vows," novelist Ron Carlson offers a poignant and delightful tale about a young woman who escapes the rigors of academia and finds love and purpose at a bird sanctuary in Utah. And in "The Marvelous Yellow Cage," O. Henry Award-winner Charlotte Forbes examines an elderly woman's relationships with her estranged children, her deceased husband, her loyal housekeeper, and a lifetime's accumulation of possessions. Stories by Quinn Dalton, Louise Erdrich, and a host of other writers dig deeply into the joys and sorrows of human connection -- enlarging our perspective and refining the language of the heart. Where Love Is Found is a valentine for literary lovers and a delicious treat for those who crave short fiction by some of today's finest writers.

Author : John McNally
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781416539377

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When I Was a Loser by John McNally Pdf

For Anyone Who's Ever Been a Teenager Who's teenage years weren't terrible? Remember the scary older kids? The sadistic gym teacher? The smelly kid who sat next to you in science class? Your first fumbling kiss? That time you threw up in the cafeteria? Your first attempt at putting on a condom? The period that arrived unexpectedly? That awful fight with your parents? The first time you got drunk? That note you wrote that you shouldn't have written? The day you forgot to zip your fly? That monster zit? When, you wondered, would it all end? In When I Was a Loser, John McNally, author of the novel America's Report Card, assembles twenty-five original essays--often hilarious, sometimes tenderhearted, always evocative--about defining moments of high school loserdom. Brad Land, Julianna Baggott, Owen King, Johanna Edwards, and many more fresh, talented writers explore their own angst, humiliation, heartache, and other staples of teen life. These essays perfectly capture what it was like to be in high school: to experience so many things for the first time, to assert independence while desperately trying to fit in, to feel misunderstood and unable to articulate the wild swings between heartbreak, anger, and euphoria. One writer recalls how his grandmother helped him with his home perm in preparation for the Senior Class picture; another recounts her discovery, sometime after hitting puberty, of the power she held over boys and men, while at the same time she felt herself at their mercy; a third remembers the casual cruelties visited on him by the cooler kids, and the cruelties he, in turn, inflicted on kids below him on the social ladder. Utterly candid and compulsively readable, these essays conjure up and untangle those raw and formative years. The writers cringe and laugh at the teenagers they were, but at the same time, they honor their adolescence and the way it shaped their lives. Because, in truth, beneath the layers of adult respectability, we all still carry a little bit of our teenage selves around with us.

Author : Dirk Jamison
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781556526893

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Perishable by Dirk Jamison Pdf

Hilarious and horrifying, this heartbreaking account tells the strange story of a family that was never homeless, never desperately poor, but lived on garbage.

Author : Susan Burmeister-Brown,Linda B. Swanson-Davies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416503354

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Mother Knows by Susan Burmeister-Brown,Linda B. Swanson-Davies Pdf

Ann Beattie, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Bausch, and twenty-one other celebrated American writers contribute to this moving anthology of fiction, compiled by the editors of the Glimmer Train literary quarterly. In the ten-plus years since Susan Burmeister-Brown and Linda B. Swanson-Davies founded Glimmer Train, they have introduced an astonishing array of talented and innovative authors to a growing readership hungry for inspiring fiction. The stunning stories in this anthology -- many of which have never appeared anywhere except in Glimmer Train Stories -- explore one of the most complex emotional and psychological ties of all: motherhood, and its many facets. The writers in Mother Knows include established authors as well as up-and-coming talents like Junot DÍaz and award-winning writers like Robin Bradford, Nancy Reisman, Lee Martin, and Doug Crandell. Their stories demonstrate that motherhood is more than toilet training and tantrum control, as they portray the full, fierce, joyous, and frightening range of experience that marks this state of being. Mother Knows is a thoughtful and powerful exploration of the most mysterious bond in life.

Author : Doug Crandell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780753524589

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The Flawless Skin Of Ugly People by Doug Crandell Pdf

Thanks to Ugly Betty, we're finally ready to read a love story about a couple that isn't sleek, slick, tucked, pulled or plastic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175029470047

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Partners Book Distributing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015071443082

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Great Lakes and Midwest Catalog by Partners Book Distributing Pdf

Author : Soman Chainani
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 3456 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780063023406

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The School for Good and Evil: The Complete 6-Book Collection by Soman Chainani Pdf

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL will soon be a major motion picture from Netflix—starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Sofia Wylie, Sophie Anne Caruso, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Kit Young, and more! All six books in Soman Chainani’s New York Times bestselling fantasy series, The School for Good and Evil, are joined together in this digital collection! Journey into the dazzling world of the School for Good and Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy-tale heroes and villains. Sophie and Agatha each think they know where they belong. Sophie, with her glass slippers and pink dresses, thinks she'll earn top marks at the School for Good. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks and wicked black cat, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil. But when the two friends are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes are reversed…. The aftermath leads to unexpected paths, new alliances, and forces that divide them in an exhilarating quest to find their true Ever After. This complete digital collection will delight both fans that are new to the series and die-hard fans alike. The collection includes: The School for Good and Evil The School for Good and Evil #2: A World without Princes The School for Good and Evil #3: The Last Ever After The School for Good and Evil #4: Quests for Glory The School for Good and Evil #5: A Crystal of Time The School for Good and Evil #6: One True King Soman Chainani has created a spectacular world that Rick Riordan, author of the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, says "reimagines the world of fairy tales and will make you question who is good and who is evil" and Newbery Honor–winning author Ann M. Martin calls "a fairy tale like no other, complete with romance, magic, humor, and a riddle that will keep you turning pages until the end."

Author : Soman Chainani
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062457455

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The School for Good and Evil: The School Years Collection by Soman Chainani Pdf

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL will soon be a major motion picture from Netflix—starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Sofia Wylie, Sophie Anne Caruso, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Kit Young, and more! Enjoy the first three books in Soman Chainani's New York Times bestselling series, the School for Good and Evil, in this digital collection, containing The School for Good and Evil, A World without Princes, and The Last Ever After. Journey into a dazzling new world when best friends Sophie and Agatha enter the School for Good and Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy-tale heroes and villains. Sophie, with her glass slippers and pink dresses, thinks she'll earn top marks at the School for Good. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks and wicked black cat, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil. But when the two girls are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes are reversed. . . . The aftermath leads to unexpected paths, new alliances, and boys that divide them in an exhilarating quest to find their true Ever After. Soman Chainani has created a spectacular world that Rick Riordan, author of the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, says "reimagines the world of fairy tales and will make you question who is good and who is evil" and Newbery Honor–winning author Ann M. Martin calls "a fairy tale like no other, complete with romance, magic, humor, and a riddle that will keep you turning pages until the end." Don't miss the last three books in the series: Quests for Glory, A Crystal of Time, and One True King!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132647525

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Poets & Writers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Doug Crandell
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0753513781

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Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed by Doug Crandell Pdf

Doug Crandell's The Flawless Skin of Ugly People was one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts of 2007."You'll be hooked," said People. And Marie Claire called it: "The book to pick up if you root for Ugly Betty to find love. Why you'll like it: If a Jenny Craig and a Proactiv infomercial had an affair, it would look like this." Now, in Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed -- the second volume of his "Beauty Knows No Pain" trilogy -- Doug goes even wilder, deeper, and funnier to deliver more answers to the questions we all have about love, beauty and envy: *Do we have to be beautiful to be loved? *Are some sins too terrible for forgiveness *And: Is it obvious that I'm wearing a toupee? "The story is painfully believable," said Publishers Weekly. "From the characterization of two brothers who can't quite connect to the description of what happens to a man's skin when a toupee is left on too long -- and has the perverse charms readers of Augusten Burroughs and David Seadris will recognize."

Author : Lou Harry,Todd Tobias
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0871951991

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Indy Men's Magazine Presents the X-mas Men by Lou Harry,Todd Tobias Pdf

Beyond the parties and the TV specials and shopping and the gift exchangeseven beyond the sermons and the prayersChristmas has a way of shedding a twinkling light on our lives like no other day (or time) of the year. Despite their disparate religious and familial and economic backgrounds, for seventeen authors at Indy Men's Magazine, Christmas is a day charged with laughter and beauty, hope and regret. This book is a very personal celebration, reconsideration, and, at times, an indictment of, to quote a lyric from a famous TV special, "the most wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful day of the year."

Author : Doug Crandell
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCBK:C116459297

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They're Calling You Home by Doug Crandell Pdf

"A profound but comedic meditation on failure in this life, how one comes to terms with not achieving one's dreams, the nature and origin of such dreams, and the meaning of the American dream itself"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943206

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The Writers Directory by Anonim Pdf