Author : Ben Sures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1927849497
The Boy Who Walked Backwards
Ben Sures
The Boy Who Walked Backwards
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Walking Backward
Catherine Austen
Author : Catherine Austen
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554695553
Walking Backward by Catherine Austen Pdf
When Josh's mother dies in a phobia-induced car crash, she leaves two questions for her grieving family: how did a snake get into her car and how do you mourn with no faith to guide you? Twelve-year-old Josh is left alone to find the answers. His father is building a time machine. His four-year-old brother's closest friend is a plastic Power Ranger. His psychiatrist offers nothing more than a blank journal and platitudes. Isolated by grief in a home where every day is pajama day, Josh makes death his research project. He tests the mourning practices of religions he doesn't believe in. He tries to mend his little brother's shattered heart. He observes, records and waits—for his life to feel normal, for his mother's death to make sense, for his father to come out of the basement. His observations, recorded in a series of journal entries, are funny, smart, insightful—and heartbreaking. His conclusions about the nature of love, loss, grief and the space-time continuum are nothing less than life-changing.
The Man Who Walked Backward
Ben Montgomery
Author : Ben Montgomery
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316438049
The Man Who Walked Backward by Ben Montgomery Pdf
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards. Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed his family on wages he earned digging ditches in the Texas sun, Plennie decided it was time to do something extraordinary -- something to resurrect the spirit of adventure and optimism he felt he'd lost. He decided to walk around the world -- backwards. In The Man Who Walked Backward, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery charts Plennie's backwards trek across the America that gave rise to Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, and the New Deal. With the Dust Bowl and Great Depression as a backdrop, Montgomery follows Plennie across the Atlantic through Germany, Turkey, and beyond, and details the daring physical feats, grueling hardships, comical misadventures, and hostile foreign police he encountered along the way. A remarkable and quirky slice of Americana, The Man Who Walked Backward paints a rich and vibrant portrait of a jaw-dropping period of history.
Girl Walking Backwards
Bett Williams
Author : Bett Williams
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466888852
Girl Walking Backwards by Bett Williams Pdf
In Girl Walking Backwards, Skye wants what all teenagers want--to survive high school. She lives in Southern California, though, which is making that difficult. Her mother has fallen victim to the pseudo-New Age culture and insists on dragging her to consciousness-raising workshops and hypnotists. As if this weren't difficult enough, Skye falls in love with Jessica, a troubled gothic punk girl who cuts herself regularly with sharp objects. When she finds her boyfriend having sex with Jessica in a bathroom stall at a rave, her romantic illusions collapse and she has to face the fact that she's been running away from her mother's insanity. Right when things look their worst though, Skye is helped by Mol, a pagan who becomes her true friend, and Lorri, a graceful volleyball player with whom she finds real love. From them she learns how to feel authentic emotions in a culture of poseurs and New Age charlatans. In this anti-coming-of-age novel by Bett Williams, where growing up is irrelevant, this is the best gift of all.
The Backwards Birthday Party
Tom Chapin,John Forster
Author : Tom Chapin,John Forster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442468009
The Backwards Birthday Party by Tom Chapin,John Forster Pdf
Have a happy birthday—the backwards way! Full of fun and based on the hit song from Tom Chapin and John Forster, this is a celebratory birthday bash like no other. Put your clothes on inside out, heat up the ice cream, and hang on to your party hats—because everything’s out of whack at the backwards birthday party! From beloved, three-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Tom Chapin, four-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter John Forster, and with stunning illustrations from Chuck Groenink comes the zaniest birthday party you’ll ever attend.
Bad Boy
Diana Wieler
Author : Diana Wieler
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780888990839
Bad Boy by Diana Wieler Pdf
A.J. Brandiosa becomes the bad boy of the Cyclone hockey team, and learns that his best friend is gay, as he tries to cope with his own sexuality during his senior year in high school.
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735222373
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Pdf
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates
Back to Front Benjy
Dick King-Smith,Judy Brown
Author : Dick King-Smith,Judy Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 0141310774
Back to Front Benjy by Dick King-Smith,Judy Brown Pdf
Back to Front Benjy does everything backwards and is thrown out of school for starting a backward trend amongst all the children. Then he's struck by lightning and does everything forwards. In The Hitmus-Potmus Benjamin Bean is a very rude boy until his uncle tells him the story of the terrible Hitmus-Potmus who eats rude boys. A young wizard in Brown's Bones turns his family and everyone he dislikes into animals, until he meets a young witch who gets the better of him. In Little Liar, Lionel tells lies but is cured after a disastrous tea party with his Auntie Marigold.
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Author : Jerry Spinelli
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316333504
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli Pdf
A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.
The Horse and his Boy
C. S. Lewis
Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547115748
The Horse and his Boy by C. S. Lewis Pdf
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Horse and his Boy" by C. S. Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
One Native Life
Richard Wagamese
Author : Richard Wagamese
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781553653127
One Native Life by Richard Wagamese Pdf
In 2005, award-winning writer Richard Wagamese moved with his partner to a cabin outside Kamloops, B.C. In the crisp mountain air Wagamese felt a peace he'd seldom known before. Abused and abandoned as a kid, he'd grown up feeling there was nowhere he belonged. For years, only alcohol and moves from town to town seemed to ease the pain. In One Native Life, Wagamese looks back down the road he has travelled in reclaiming his identity and talks about the things he has learned as a human being, a man and an Ojibway in his fifty-two years. Whether he's writing about playing baseball, running away with the circus, attending a sacred bundle ceremony or meeting Pierre Trudeau, he tells these stories in a healing spirit. Through them, Wagamese celebrates the learning journey his life has been. Free of rhetoric and anger despite the horrors he has faced, Wagamese's prose resonates with a peace that has come from acceptance. Acceptance is an Aboriginal principle, and he has come to see that we are all neighbours here. One Native Life is his tribute to the people, the places and the events that have allowed him to stand in the sunshine and celebrate being alive.
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307267450
The Road by Cormac McCarthy Pdf
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Backwards and in Heels
Alicia Malone
Author : Alicia Malone
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781633536180
Backwards and in Heels by Alicia Malone Pdf
Backwards and in Heels − women in film and their struggle against bias "After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels" - Ann Richards Women in film since the beginning: Women have been instrumental in the success of American cinema since its very beginning. One of the first people to ever pick up a motion picture camera was a woman; as was the first screenwriter to win two Academy Awards, the inventor of the boom microphone and the first person to be credited with the title Film Editor. Throughout the entire history of Hollywood women have been revolutionizing, innovating, and shaping how we make movies. Yet their stories are rarely shared. The first women directors: This is what film reporter Alicia Malone wants to change. Backwards and in Heels tells the history of women in film in a different way, with stories about incredible ladies who made their mark throughout each era of Hollywood. From the first women directors, to the iconic movie stars, and present day activists. Each of these stories are inspiring accomplishments of women, and they also highlight the specific obstacles women have had to face. Backwards and in Heels combines research and exclusive interviews with influential women and men working in Hollywood today, such as Geena Davis, J.J. Abrams, Ava DuVernay, Octavia Spencer, America Ferrera, Paul Feig and many more, as well as film professors, historians and experts. Time to level the playing field: Think of Backwards and in Heels as a guidebook, your entry into the complex world of women in film. Join Alicia Malone as she champions Hollywood women of the past and present, and looks to the future with the hopes of leveling out the playing field.
Walking the Trail
Jerry Ellis
Author : Jerry Ellis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803267436
Walking the Trail by Jerry Ellis Pdf
Donning a backpack for a long, lonely walk, the author of "Marching Through Georgia: My Walk with Sherman" retraces the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the 900 miles his ancestors had been forced to travel in 1838. Map.