To The Tin Man

Author : Sarah Winman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735235168

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Tin Man by Sarah Winman Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Novel Award From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all its forms and the little moments that make up the life of an autoworker in a small working-class town. This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast-forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question, what happened in the years between? With beautiful prose and characters that are so real they jump off the page, Tin Man is a love letter to human kindness and friendship, and to loss and living.

Author : Jack Haley
Publisher : Tinman Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : UCSC:32106015223875

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Heart of the Tin Man by Jack Haley Pdf

Known by millions as the beloved Tin Man without a heart, Jack Haley went well beyond his legendary role in The Wizard of Oz during his career in entertainment. He put his heart into his life and work. He was a pioneer of the vaudeville era, was an accomplis hed stage actor and dancer, and he appeared in more than forty films. This collection of his writings is a wonderful legacy of words that honors his life and memories.

Author : Frank L. Baum,L. Frank Baum
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781616402839

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum,L. Frank Baum Pdf

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been enchanting audiences since it was first published in 1900. While many fans may know the work only by its movie counterpart, the world L. Frank Baum built within the books is much more elaborate. Since the more recent publication of Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and the Broadway play of the same name, fans have had a rekindled interest in Baum's original works from which the retellings draw heavily. Anyone interested in fantasy, magic, and silliness is sure to love this American classic.L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) is one of the most recognized and beloved children's authors, though he is often recognized for only one of his many stories. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is easily his most popular work, though Baum actually wrote 13 sequels in Oz. His writings consist of practically every genre: Baum wrote 55 novels in total, 82 short stories, more than 200 poems, as well as scripts, and other miscellaneous writings. Interestingly, many of his non-Oz works were published under pseudonyms. Baum made many attempts to bring his work to stage and screen, but the most successful productions were not made until after his death.

Author : L. Frank Baum
Publisher : anboco
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736408128

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The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum Pdf

The Tin Woodman of Oz: A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter is the twelfth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. The Tin Woodman is unexpectedly reunited with his Munchkin sweetheart Nimmie Amee from the days when he was flesh and blood. This was a back-story from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Author : Christopher Golden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345548856

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Tin Men by Christopher Golden Pdf

"Published in the United Kingdom by Headline Publishing Group, London"--Title page verso.

Author : Justin Madson
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781647001353

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Tin Man by Justin Madson Pdf

A YA graphic novel about unlikely friends—a tin man seeking a heart and a high schooler trying to come to terms with the death of her grandmother In Justin Madson’s debut graphic novel, Tin Man, a girl and her brother befriend the titular Tin Man with unexpected results. Solar is in her last year of high school and is reeling from the recent death of her grandmother. She has abandoned her plans for the future and fallen in with a bad crowd. Her little brother, Fenn, doesn't understand why she's changed—she doesn't even want to help him build their rocket in the garage anymore. Campbell is a tin woodsman—a clunky metal man whose sole purpose in life is to chop down trees. He longs for more, however, and decides to seek out a heart, believing that, with one, he will be able to feel things he has never felt before and, therefore, change his life. Equal parts The Iron Giant, The Wizard of Oz, Edward Scissorhands, and Freaks and Geeks, Tin Man is a story about finding friendship in the unlikeliest of places.

Author : Michael Frayn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1336238452

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The Tin Men by Michael Frayn Pdf

Author : Charlie Lucas
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822037388402

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Tin Man by Charlie Lucas Pdf

Showcases the extraordinary life and work of an internationally significant Alabama folk artist. Charlie Lucas is a self-taught artist. Although he has made art since childhood, only since a debilitating accident in 1984 did Lucas turn to art seriously as a form of personal expression. He has since become recognized nationally and internationally as a great innovator in the field of American folk art. From his workshop in Pink Lily, Alabama--a rural wonderland of objects, sculptures, paintings, buildings, and installations--Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded (as he himself believes he was once discarded): old tin, bicycle wheels, shovels, car mufflers, tractor seats, metal banding, wire, and gears. His work is visionary, in every sense of the word, each creation the result of an intense communion with his heritage, ancestors, race, family, and his own choices in life. Every work is imbued with a story. With more than 200 vivid color photographs--of the artist at work, his studio environments, and his finished creations--Tin Man presents Lucas through his own words and stories--his troubled and impoverished childhood, his self-awakening to the depths of his own artistic vision, his perseverance through years of derision and misapprehension, and the salvation that has come through international acclaim and recognition, love of family, and his role as a teacher of children.

Author : Damian Harvey
Publisher : Hachette Children's
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444916799

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Robo-Runners: 1: The Tin Man by Damian Harvey Pdf

Meet Crank and Al ... robots on the run. Al is taking Crank to the great recycling plant where, Al says, 'Old useless robots go in and bright new robots come out.' But Crank doesn't want to be recycled. Soon, he and Al are running for their lives. Can they escape the terrible Tin Man and reach the city of Robotika, where robots can be free ...? A refreshed cover look for this well-loved series, illustrated by the incomparable Mark Oliver. Read on with Tunnel Racers, Razorbites, Powerball, The Ghost Sea and Aquanauts.

Author : Dale Brown
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553580006

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The Tin Man by Dale Brown Pdf

The master of military adventure creates the ultimate one-man army.... New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown pits men and technology against impossible odds, in vividly realized stories. Now, in his eleventh novel, he brings aerial combat hero Patrick McLanahan out of retirement and plunges him into the most personal war he's ever fought. His old enemy Gregory Townsend has come to America to ignite a reign of terror that will sweep across the nation. The police and the government seem powerless to stop him. And one of the first casualties in this war is a rookie cop--McLanahan's brother. McLanahan has plenty of experience in war. And so does arms expert Jon Masters. Using Masters's deadliest weapon yet, McLanahan becomes a one-man army, known on the streets as the Tin Man. But this time, technology is a double-edged sword--and his war of revenge may destroy McLanahan himself... and everything he stands for.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Men
ISBN : 047317569X

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The Adventures of Tin Man by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Winman
Publisher : Tinder Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472235258

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A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman Pdf

Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid. A Year of Marvellous Ways is a glorious, life-affirming story about the magic in everyday life and the pull of the sea, the healing powers of storytelling and sloe gin, love and death and how we carry on when grief comes snapping at our heels.

Author : Sarah Winman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608195367

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When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman Pdf

This is a book about a brother and a sister. It's a book about secrets and starting over, friendship and family, triumph and tragedy, and everything in between. More than anything, it's a book about love in all its forms. In a remarkably honest and confident voice, Sarah Winman has written the story of a memorable young heroine, Elly, and her loss of innocence-a magical portrait of growing up and the pull and power of family ties. From Essex and Cornwall to the streets of New York, from 1968 to the events of 9/11, When God Was a Rabbit follows the evolving bond of love and secrets between Elly and her brother Joe, and her increasing concern for an unusual best friend, Jenny Penny, who has secrets of her own. With its wit and humor, engaging characters whose eccentricities are adroitly and sometimes darkly drawn, and its themes of memory and identity, When God Was a Rabbit is a love letter to true friendship and fraternal love. Funny, utterly compelling, fully of sparkle, and poignant, too, When God Was a Rabbit heralds the start of a remarkable new literary career.

Author : Barry Levinson
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0871134357

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Avalon ; Tin Men ; Diner by Barry Levinson Pdf

Breaking onto the scene in 1982 with Diner, which was hailed by one critic as a masterpiece of observation, Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson has since become recognized as one of the preeminent writer/directors of our time. Diner was set in Levinson's native Baltimore, during the late 1950s of his youth, and is, as Pauline Kael wrote in the New Yorker, "that rare autobiographical movie made by someone who knows how to get the texture right."...With Tin Men Levinson returned to richly detailed middle class milieu of Baltimore and introduced another group of characters -- the "tin men" who make their living hard-selling aluminum siding to unsuspecting homeowners...In Avalon Levinson continues his cycle of Baltimore stories.

Author : Jernigan E.J.
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Sailors
ISBN : 1591144248

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Tin Can Man by Jernigan E.J. Pdf

E.J. Jernigan's memoir offers readers a fascinating glimpse of life as an enlisted man aboard the USS Saufley, one of the most highly decorated destroyers of World War II. It is a rarely told story of the sailors who fought the war from boiler rooms, after-steering spaces, radio shacks, and other gritty places that keep a warship going. For the author, it was a world of strong emotions and quick reactions, where men had to adapt and grow if they were to survive. With its colorful view of what went on below decks, the book has made a lasting contribution to World War II literature since first published in 1993. It appeals to veterans, historians, and naval enthusiasts alike looking for an honest account of what happened.