Two Roads

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735228887

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Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac Pdf

A boy discovers his Native American heritage in this Depression-era tale of identity and friendship by the author of Code Talker It's 1932, and twelve-year-old Cal Black and his Pop have been riding the rails for years after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Cal likes being a "knight of the road" with Pop, even if they're broke. But then Pop has to go to Washington, DC--some of his fellow veterans are marching for their government checks, and Pop wants to make sure he gets his due--and Cal can't go with him. So Pop tells Cal something he never knew before: Pop is actually a Creek Indian, which means Cal is too. And Pop has decided to send Cal to a government boarding school for Native Americans in Oklahoma called the Challagi School. At school, the other Creek boys quickly take Cal under their wings. Even in the harsh, miserable conditions of the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, he begins to learn about his people's history and heritage. He learns their language and customs. And most of all, he learns how to find strength in a group of friends who have nothing beyond each other.

Author : Teddy Steinkellner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781481430630

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Two Roads from Here by Teddy Steinkellner Pdf

Five high school seniors. Two different roads. One life-changing decision. For fans of Tommy Wallach and Patrick Ness comes a “must-have coming-of-age story” (School Library Journal) that explores what happens to five teens when they choose the road…and the road not taken. Should Brian play in Friday’s football game, even though his head really hurts? Should Allegra commit to college now that her mother’s illness has returned? Should Cole cheat on the SATs for a chance to get into his dream school? Should Nikki go all the way with her boyfriend? Should Wiley tell his best friend that he loves her and risk losing her completely? These five seniors are about to have an opportunity people only dream about: to experience two potential outcomes of a life-altering decision. When it’s all over, will they still recognize their futures?

Author : Robert Frost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : American poetry
ISBN : OCLC:221397159

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A Pocket Book of Robert Frost's Poems by Robert Frost Pdf

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307267450

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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.

Author : Mark Sanford
Publisher : Vertel Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781641120289

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Two Roads Diverged by Mark Sanford Pdf

No stranger to second chances, former governor and congressman Mark Sanford admits to twice having a “dead man walking,” politically. First in 2009, when an extramarital affair went public and lost him his marriage and the South Carolina governorship, and then again in 2018 when his criticism of Donald Trump resulted in the loss of his seat in Congress. In this revealing and brutally honest memoir and political analysis, Sanford first tells the story of his two very different falls and how the hard lessons he learned from the first led him to inevitably choosing the second by maintaining his integrity and opposing Trump. In TWO ROADS DIVERGED Sanford analyzes the immense harm he believes Trump's presidency of lies, cronyism, shady dealings, and bullying caused to our country, and especially to the Republican party. Within four years, the GOP was synonymous with fake news, extreme divisiveness, and brazen lies. Rather than becoming great again, the party had degenerated into a personality cult centered around Donald Trump.But Sanford strongly believes that the Republican party has a choice at its current crossroads. TWO ROADS DIVERGED is also a serious examination of what what fellow conservatives can do to help calm today's political waters and build a better future for both the party and the country. As he was, the GOP has been given a second chance...if those in the party are wise enough to recognize it, and brave enough to take it.

Author : Andrée A. Michaud
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487005818

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Back Roads by Andrée A. Michaud Pdf

In Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author Andrée A. Michaud’s genre-defying, ethereal mystery, a writer encounters her double and must grapple with an undetermined crime — and her own identity. In the dubious sanctuary of a wintry forest, a writer encounters a woman who she suspects may be her double. So begins a journey of inquiry in which nothing, not even the author’s own identity, is certain. Who is Heather Thorne? Is she a stranger dangerously out of place in the woods, the victim of an accident or of a crime? Who is the author? Is her own name not in fact Heather Thorne? Brimming with the snowy menace and mystery of the boreal woods, where nothing is ever entirely known, the celebrated and prize-winning Quebec noir novelist Andrée A. Michaud once again defies categorization in an ethereal story that is also a meditation on the very process of literary creation.

Author : Ben Crenshaw,Carl Jackson,Melanie Hauser
Publisher : American Golfer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Caddies
ISBN : 1888531193

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Two Roads to Augusta by Ben Crenshaw,Carl Jackson,Melanie Hauser Pdf

"The story of two good friends and the divergent roads they took to glory together at the Masters."--From publisher.

Author : David Orr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780698140899

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The Road Not Taken by David Orr Pdf

A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion, almost everyone gets the poem hopelessly wrong. David Orr’s The Road Not Taken dives directly into the controversy, illuminating the poem’s enduring greatness while revealing its mystifying contradictions. Widely admired as the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Orr is the perfect guide for lay readers and experts alike. Orr offers a lively look at the poem’s cultural influence, its artistic complexity, and its historical journey from the margins of the First World War all the way to its canonical place today as a true masterpiece of American literature. “The Road Not Taken” seems straightforward: a nameless traveler is faced with a choice: two paths forward, with only one to walk. And everyone remembers the traveler taking “the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” But for a century readers and critics have fought bitterly over what the poem really says. Is it a paean to triumphant self-assertion, where an individual boldly chooses to live outside conformity? Or a biting commentary on human self-deception, where a person chooses between identical roads and yet later romanticizes the decision as life altering? What Orr artfully reveals is that the poem speaks to both of these impulses, and all the possibilities that lie between them. The poem gives us a portrait of choice without making a decision itself. And in this, “The Road Not Taken” is distinctively American, for the United States is the country of choice in all its ambiguous splendor. Published for the poem’s centennial—along with a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Frost’s poems, edited and introduced by Orr himself—The Road Not Taken is a treasure for all readers, a triumph of artistic exploration and cultural investigation that sings with its own unforgettably poetic voice.

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Youth Large Print
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1432897063

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Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac Pdf

Viewed through the eyes of a 16-year-old Navajo youth, "Code Talker" is a fascinating slice of World War II history by a much-respected and acclaimed author.

Author : Christopher Vecsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0268019576

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Where the Two Roads Meet by Christopher Vecsey Pdf

Vecsey, a professor of religion and Native American studies at Colgate University, concludes his trilogy on Native American Catholicism with a study of how Indian Catholics have tried to follow the route of two separate traditions, each with its own expectations and identities. He examines the lives of American Indian Catholics who have been leaders in their communities and in the Church and considers how these men and women have brought together their Indian and Catholic identities to accomplish a cultural and religious syncretism within themselves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1921441275

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The Essential Jesus by Anonim Pdf

.. the story of the most extraordinary and influential man ever to have walked on this planet - Jesus of Nazareth. The biography or 'Gospel' of Jesus' life was written nearly 2000 years ago by a doctor named Luke. It's been speaking to people of every background, race and situation ever since.

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Dial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : 0803722761

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The Heart of a Chief by Joseph Bruchac Pdf

Chris Nicola lives on the Penacook Indian Reservation and goes to school in town. School is great, but at home the Penacook are divided over building a casino on a beautiful island Chris thinks of as his own. What can one sixth-grade boy do?

Author : James G. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 195448190X

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The Morning Side by James G. Brown Pdf

"DESCRIPTIONS OF NATURE AND THE SHENANDOAH MADE ME WANT TO STRAP ON MY HIKING BOOTS." -Charles Covington In 1965, life on the morning side of the Blue Ridge Mountains feels far away from world events. Jerry Fletcher and David Williams are seniors at Rappahannock High School, ready to graduate and get on with their lives. They are more concerned with the baggage they have inherited from their parents than Civil Rights or the Gulf of Tonkin.Jerry is the only son of a family evicted from the mountains to make way for Shenandoah National Park. His path seemed set by family history and the comfort he finds in the mountains, but fate and war will take him away from home.David is the eldest son of a local fundamentalist preacher. His future seemed set in the ministry, but experiences guide him down a path that differs from his father's expectations and he must reconcile his changing world view with the values he holds dear.Debut novelist James G. Brown has published articles on life in rural Virginia and books in the fields of agroindustry and rural development and lives in the shadow of the Blue Ridge."SO MUCH TO ENJOY IN THIS POWERFUL GENERATIONAL STORY" -Charles Burnell

Author : William B. Catton,Bruce Catton
Publisher : Castle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : United States
ISBN : 078581597X

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Two Roads to Sumter by William B. Catton,Bruce Catton Pdf

"Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis did not bring the war about. They were, as the word went then, moderates, sharing a common vision of the ultimate value of an undivided country, hoping that the country could compose its differences without loss of blood. But the war came, party in spite of these men and partly because of them, and when it came they fought one another, and led others to fight, so tenaciously that the nation had its most fearful trial by combat. Lincoln and Davis were both the leaders of their peoples and the victims of their times?"(Excerpt from the Introduction) -- back cover.

Author : Ross Alexander Enochs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1556128134

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The Jesuit Mission to the Lakota Sioux by Ross Alexander Enochs Pdf

This study examines the development of ministry at the St. Francis and Holy Rosary missions in South Dakota. Using primary sources, this study seeks to understand the points of views of the Lakota Sioux Catholics during the 1920s and 1930s, and the Jesuit missionaries who reached them. It takes into particular account the patterns which develop in missiology.