The Longest Year

Author : Daniel Grenier
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487001544

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” meets Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in Daniel Grenier’s epic novel, which tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years. There’s something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois. Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, Laura. But beyond the fact that he lives between two cultures and languages, there’s something else about Thomas that sets him apart: he was born on February 29. Before Albert goes on a strange quest to find out more about their mysterious relative, Aimé Bolduc, he explains to Thomas that he will only age one year out of every four and he will outlive all of his loved ones. Thomas’s loneliness grows and the years pass until a terrible accident involving a young girl sets in motion a series of events that link the young girl and Thomas to Aimé Bolduc — a Civil War–era soldier and perhaps their contemporary. Spanning three centuries and set against the backdrop of the Appalachians from Quebec to Tennessee, The Longest Year is a magical and poignant story about family history, fateful dates, fragile destinies, and lives brutally ended and mysteriously extended.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510711341

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A meticulous exploration of one of the most important years in American history. The D-Day invasion, launched on June 6, 1944, is widely referred to as the longest day of World War Two. Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was, in effect, “the longest year” for Americans of that era, both in terms of casualties and in deciding the outcome of war itself. Brooks also argues that only the particular war events of 1944 could have produced the “reshuffling” of the cards of life that, in essence, changed the rules for most of the 140 million Americans in some fashion. Rather than focusing on military battles and strategy alone, the author chronicles the year as a microcosm of disparate military, political, and civilian events that came together to define a specific moment in time. As war was raging in Europe, Americans on the home front continued to cope (with some prospering). As US forces launched an offensive against the Japanese in the Mariana Islands and Palau, folks at home enjoyed morale-boosting movies and songs such as "To Have and Have Not" and “G.I. Jive.” And as American troops invaded the island of Leyte—launching the largest naval battle during the war—President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey were in the home stretch leading up to the election of 1944. It has been said that the arc of history is long. Throughout American history, however, some years have been truly momentous. The Longest Year makes the case that 1944 was one such year. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Stan Crader
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Christian fiction
ISBN : 9781604948790

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"Like all of his friends, Tommy Thompson dreams of obtaining the ultimate ticket to freedom: a driver's license. Unlike all of his friends, Tommy has just turned fifteen. He'll have to watch everybody else pass their tests before he's old enough to take his. But life goes on for the band of boys despite Tommy's consuming obsession. His best friend, Booger, takes up the guitar. His buddy, Everett, dates a girl from a rival school and discovers that her classmates aren't altogether happy about it. Longtime romantic interest, Melody, tests her newly minted driving skills on the railroad tracks. And Tommy receives an unexpected gift -- one that just might make the longest year of his life go by a little quicker. The third in Stan Crader's Colby series, The Longest Year will bring a smile to your face as you remember the trials and tribulations of your own youth."--Amazon.com.

Author : Sherry Harris
Publisher : Kensington Cozies
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1949-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617730207

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The Longest Yard Sale by Sherry Harris Pdf

In this cozy mystery by the author of Tagged for Death, this little town’s garage sale is full of hot deals and cold-blooded murder. When Sarah Winston turns Ellington, Massachusetts, into New England’s largest garage sale for a day, it’s the small town’s biggest event since the start of the Revolutionary War—but without the bloodshed. That is, until a valuable painting goes missing . . . and the lifeless body of an Air Force officer is found in Carol Carson’s painting studio, his face perfectly framed with the murder weapon—a metal picture frame. Sarah is mad as heck that someone used her town-wide garage sale to commit a crime—and frame her good friend Carol. She is definitely on this case . . . but it’s not easy rummaging through increasingly strange clues that point to cheating spouses, downright dirty investment schemes—even the mob. And Sarah will have to be very careful if she wants to live to bargain another day . . . Praise for The Longest Yard Sale “Readers will have a blast following Sarah Winston on her next adventure as she hunts for bargains and bad guys. Sherry Harris’ latest is as delightful as the best garage sale find!” —Liz Mugavero, author of the Pawsitively Organic Mysteries “You’ll absolutely get your money’s worth with The Longest Yard Sale . . . Once again Sherry Harris entwines small-town life with that of the nearby Air Force base, yard sales with romance, art theft with murder. The story is a bargain, and a priceless one!” —Edith Maxwell, Agatha Award–winning author of the Lauren Rousseau Mysteries

Author : Denis Feeney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520251199

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Author : Emilio Scotto
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 076034650X

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The Longest Ride by Emilio Scotto Pdf

For his eighth birthday, Emilio Scotto received a World Atlas. Promptly he announced his plan to make a route that would pass through all the countries of the world, a route he named BLUE ROAD ONE. When, some years later, he found himself astride a black 1100 Honda Gold Wing motorcycle, Blue Road One beckoned, and Scotto set off on a journey that would last more than a decade, take him virtually everywhere in the world, and land him in the Guinness Book of World Records. This is his story, a thrill ride that begins in his native Argentina, crosses Panama in the tumultuous time of Noriega, Mexico in the midst of an earthquake, and finds him broke in L.A. where, in a chance meeting, Muhammad Ali gives him fifty dollars and a signed book. Breaching the Iron Curtain, crossing the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie, being blessed by the Pope, set upon by cannibals in Sierra Leone, fleeing Somalia on a freighter, Scotto's adventures would be unbelievable if they weren't true. His tale of touring the world from Tunisia to Turkey, Petra to Afghanistan, Yugoslavia to Singapore, traveling miles enough to take him to the moon and back, is unlike any ever told. Come along, for the ride of a lifetime.

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735254619

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The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster Pdf

E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book "I am most glad to have written." An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become a writer but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Wendy Pfeffer
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : Summer solstice
ISBN : 9780147515568

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The Longest Day by Wendy Pfeffer Pdf

Explores how cultures around the world celebrate and recognize the summer solstice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0862419727

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Romans by Anonim Pdf

Paul was the most influential figure in the early Christian church. In this epistle, written to the founders of the church in Rome, he sets out some of his ideas on the importance of faith in overcoming mankind's innate sinfulness and in obtaining redemption. With an introduction by Ruth Rendell.

Author : Delia Remington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947181122

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Soar by Delia Remington Pdf

A twelve month business planner for indie authors, including guided planning exercises and periodic assessments to help you stay on track and reach your goals. There are annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly planning pages, and some dotted bullet journal style pages spread throughout to allow you to customize your planner to suit your own individual needs.

Author : Charles E. Beale,M. R. Gately
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433005017243

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Gately's Universal Educator by Charles E. Beale,M. R. Gately Pdf

Author : Thomas J. Sugrue,Caitlin Zaloom
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231555586

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The Long Year by Thomas J. Sugrue,Caitlin Zaloom Pdf

Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnosis. In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls for the defunding of police and the refunding of communities; Keisha Blain demonstrates why the battle against racism must be global; and Adam Tooze reveals that COVID-19 hit hardest where inequality was already greatest and welfare states weakest. Yarimar Bonilla, Xiaowei Wang, Simon Balto, Marcia Chatelain, Gautam Bhan, Ananya Roy, and others offer insights from the factory farms of China to the elite resorts of France, the meatpacking plants of the Midwest to the overcrowded hospitals of India. The definitive guide to these ongoing catastrophes, The Long Year shows that only by exposing the roots and ramifications of 2020 can another such breakdown be prevented. It is made possible through institutional partnerships with Public Books and the Social Science Research Council.

Author : Malcolm John Albert Horsnell
Publisher : [Hamilton, Ont.] : McMaster University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111364472

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The Year-names of the First Dynasty of Babylon: The year-names reconstructed and critically annotated in the light of their exemplars by Malcolm John Albert Horsnell Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555101142

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Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : John Gregory Selby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Virginia
ISBN : 9780842050555

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Virginians at War by John Gregory Selby Pdf

"This book offers a unique mosaic of the Civil War through the eyes of individuals who lived and served in various parts of the Commonwealth. Between them, thses women and men experienced every facet of the war, from secession to combat, hardship to ultimate defeat. Throughout thir collective ordeal we see the human reaction to war and a sense of hope in the "cause' until it was lost."--Brian Steel Wills, Professor, The University of Virginia's College at Wise.