The Timekeeper S Son

Author : Sara T. Baker
Publisher : Golden Ginko Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944193560

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The Timekeeper's Son by Sara T. Baker Pdf

Literary Fiction, Thriller Pacing A small Southern town. A restless boy. An embittered father. And late one night, a careless mistake. Aspiring teenage filmmaker Josh Lovejoy,uncharacteristically high one night, hits a jogger. It is not any jogger, but David Masters, a popular local activist in the small town of Milledge, Georgia.The accident puts Masters in the hospital in a coma, and shatters the fragile equilibrium of the Lovejoy family. Josh's father, Hal, a clockmaker who keeps timepieces running with a passion he fails to bring to his marriage, retreats to his clock shop. Helen Lovejoy, a dedicated mother and amateur painter, falls into a depression. A shocked Josh reluctantly takes up his court-ordered community service work with disabled children. Meanwhile, comatose David is visited by the ghost of singer Peggy Lee, while his childless wife, Meg, an elementary school teacher, tries to imagine her life without him. In her grief,Meg becomes obsessed with the Lovejoy family. As the adults around him try to find their footing, Josh indulges in dreams of his future as a famous filmmaker. In love with an unstable girl and estranged from his parents, Josh follows her to New York City, where, overwhelmed, he makes a fateful decision that puts him beyond the help of those who love him. Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights era and the New South, The Timekeeper's Son weaves the lives of these five characters together exposing hidden learning disabilities, broken dreams, complicated relationships, and communication difficulties. It explores themes of grief and forgiveness, isolation and connection, masks and disguises, all while depicting its characters' lives with tender intimacy. Written with a poet's sensibility to language and imagery, with impeccable pacing, and with elements of both the thriller and magical realism, this is a singular novel not to be missed.

Author : Sara T. Baker
Publisher : Golden Ginko Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944193560

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The Timekeeper's Son by Sara T. Baker Pdf

Literary Fiction, Thriller Pacing A small Southern town. A restless boy. An embittered father. And late one night, a careless mistake. Aspiring teenage filmmaker Josh Lovejoy,uncharacteristically high one night, hits a jogger. It is not any jogger, but David Masters, a popular local activist in the small town of Milledge, Georgia.The accident puts Masters in the hospital in a coma, and shatters the fragile equilibrium of the Lovejoy family. Josh's father, Hal, a clockmaker who keeps timepieces running with a passion he fails to bring to his marriage, retreats to his clock shop. Helen Lovejoy, a dedicated mother and amateur painter, falls into a depression. A shocked Josh reluctantly takes up his court-ordered community service work with disabled children. Meanwhile, comatose David is visited by the ghost of singer Peggy Lee, while his childless wife, Meg, an elementary school teacher, tries to imagine her life without him. In her grief,Meg becomes obsessed with the Lovejoy family. As the adults around him try to find their footing, Josh indulges in dreams of his future as a famous filmmaker. In love with an unstable girl and estranged from his parents, Josh follows her to New York City, where, overwhelmed, he makes a fateful decision that puts him beyond the help of those who love him. Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights era and the New South, The Timekeeper's Son weaves the lives of these five characters together exposing hidden learning disabilities, broken dreams, complicated relationships, and communication difficulties. It explores themes of grief and forgiveness, isolation and connection, masks and disguises, all while depicting its characters' lives with tender intimacy. Written with a poet's sensibility to language and imagery, with impeccable pacing, and with elements of both the thriller and magical realism, this is a singular novel not to be missed.

Author : Baker Sara (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0463321928

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Timekeeper's Son by Baker Sara (author) Pdf

Author : Dale Peskin
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645846666

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The Timekeeper's Daughter by Dale Peskin Pdf

Such a small murder so long ago should be forgiven in a place such as Youngstown—unless you understand the importance of keeping time. LouAnn Epperson is a pioneering computer scientist who is poised to deliver the promise of the dawning Information Age. But the entrenched sexists who control science, academia, technology, government, and business dismiss her because of her gender, her background, and her abilities that are lost on them. Instead, LouAnn is guided by the wisdom of her father, the "timekeeper" at a steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio. LouAnn confronts the impact of time and technology as she leaves her Caltech lab to deal with her father's mysterious death. Returning to her industrial hometown, she reunites with her college boyfriend, an obituary reporter at the local newspaper. Together, they uncover a deadly secret: The Timekeeper is a whistleblower killed for information that would scuttle a consequential merger sanctioned by the US government. Their story sweeps across events that decimate communities such as Youngstown and reset global economies at a turbulent transition in time. In a masterful debut novel, journalist Dale Peskin weaves original events from a flashpoint at the end of the industrial era and the beginning of the Computer Age into a human story that considers what has been lost—and what replaces it—in the sweeping social, economic, political, and technological upheavals that now play out in today's headlines.

Author : Julia K. Rohan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532006418

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The Timekeeper’S Solution by Julia K. Rohan Pdf

In this final book in the Weaverworld Trilogy, 14-year-old Jack Fisher is summoned back to Weaverworld on an urgent mission: he must help Rainbow Mudrake free her fatherthe famous Bowmakerfrom the dungeon at Stranglespit Labyrinth. Once there, however, he finds himself enmeshed in a life-or-death struggle of epic proportions. Hungry for power beyond imagining, the evil Grimsnipe is planning to breach the barrier between Weaverworld and the Realworld, a feat he means to achieve with the help of Jacks best friend, Simon Goldberg. He creates a fantastical amusement park to lure gullible Realies into paying huge sums of money for the adventure of a lifetimetheir last. Jack is not alone on this voyage. His younger sister Jillian, and their dog, Hairy Spotter, are along for the ride, and friendsold, new, and unexpectedbecome essential to their survival. Among them is an eccentric Timekeeper who helps Jack confront the hardest decision of his lifeand the greatest sacrificein order to save Weaverworld, and the girl he loves.

Author : Harvey Rachlin
Publisher : Garrett County Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781939430090

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Jumbo's Hide, Elvis's Ride, and the Tooth of Buddha by Harvey Rachlin Pdf

Once again historian Harvey Rachlin uncovers odd and stirring stories behind some of the most fascinating objects in the world. "Jumbo's Hide," Publisher's Weekly writes, "is entertaining and enlightening … a pageant of human aspiration, achievement, obsession, and belief." Artifacts explored include: The truce flag that ended World War I, The Maltese Falcon, John Adam's pigtail and Jesse James' Stickpin and Galileo's middle finger.

Author : Kevin E. Cropp
Publisher : Copper Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780976050605

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The Time Keeper by Kevin E. Cropp Pdf

Sixteen miles downstream from the birthplace of George Washington where the Shenandoah River comes out of the Blue Ridge carrying sycamore leaves and acorns came a gem that shone brighter than most. That gem was Linda Wails, but as providence would have it her life took as many steep drops and winding turns as did that river. The death of her father, a move to a godforsaken place with so few trees and so much sand, a bout with cancer, and an unrelenting relationship with her son Corey, left Linda no choice but to throw her hands up to the world and submit. The Time Keeper is the story of Linda's return and one last somersault down the river is required. With the North Carolina state baseball playoffs in full swing, seventeen year old Corey Wails has more important matters to attend than his mother's recent wish to make amends. To Corey, life is as simple as the game -- a fastball, a curve ball, and waste a pitch before the strike out. It is the game that Corey loves, and like a ball player who hears no chatter he tightens his blinders and races towards the finish line. But what he finds when he gets there bares no resemblance to what he had dreamed for so long. His mother's change of heart is puzzling to Corey; he wonders how such a thing occurred, how something larger than life itself crept inside the body of Linda Wails and whispered, 'It will be okay Linda, this is the natural way of things.' Linda wonders if that voice will ever reach her son. Perhaps the voice that is larger than life itself is none but our own, buried deep inside of us. One thing is certain, the Time Keeper will not be kept waiting.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015074639314

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Library Magazine of American and Foreign Thought by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063113570

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Awards ... Third Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board by United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B2870871

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119089642

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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Industrial arts
ISBN : MINN:31951000884477A

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English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Arts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronald D. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136798078

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Children of the Mill by Ronald D. Cohen Pdf

Gary, Indiana was founded in 1906, and was part of the US Steel Corporation's plan to build the world's largest steel mill. The city's school system became world-famous as a progressive educational experiment until the 1930s when a changing political and economic climate led to an erosion of the system, which faced a serious overcrowding crisis in the 1950s. Blending social and intellectual history, Ronald Cohen examines the economic, political, and cultural context of the unique educational experience developed in this urban industrial center. Cohen demonstrates that while various interest groups - local as well as national - helped mold educational policies and practices, the Gary schools operated within the framework of corporate capitalism. Despite their early experimental nature, the Gary schools exemplified the rise of mass education in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, class structure and urban setting.

Author : John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CHI:74715396

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The Eclectic Magazine by John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell Pdf

Author : Mitch Albom
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781401304706

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The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom Pdf

From the author who's inspired millions worldwide with books like Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most imaginative novel yet, The Time Keeper--a compelling fable about the first man on Earth to count the hours. The man who became Father Time. In Mitch Albom's exceptional work of fiction, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. He returns to our world--now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began--and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so. Told in Albom's signature spare, evocative prose, this remarkably original tale will inspire readers everywhere to reconsider their own notions of time, how they spend it, and how precious it truly is.