Holmes on the Range: A Novel of Bad Choices, Harsh Realities and Life in the Federal Prison System
One is now a photographer, the other a doctor — both fresh from failed relationships. How much has their friendship changed We all have them. They take various forms and affect us in different ways. Some are obvious like drugs and alcohol. Loneliness and depression and self-doubt are not so apparent if that is all youve known until college.
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In Holmes on the Range, Dan Holmes, Esquire wakes up one morning and realizes he is living his childhood dream. Wife, children, houses, cars, jewelry and cash flow from his Engaged now, they face the challenge of planning a deeply uncertain future together. After partying too hard last year, they make a pact to rein themselves in.
While their housemates are out drinking every weekend, Jez and Mac stay in to save cash and focus on their studies. One thing leads to another, and soon You are currently in the: Not in United States? Choose your country so we can show books available in your region. Ebooks kunnen worden gelezen op uw computer en op daarvoor geschikte e-readers.
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Ebooks lezen is heel makkelijk: Samenvatting When Greg Bottoms runs into an old friend from high school, neither man is sure if it's worth starting their first conversation in over a decade. As teens, they had run with a rough crowd-standard hooligans, in Bottoms' mind, until his friend became cruel in his violence, exhibiting pure, gleeful meanness. The friend has been in and out of prison for drugs and drunken brawls, has a son with a black eye waiting in his truck. Such is the juxtaposition between Bottoms and many of his childhood acquaintances.
In a southern town with starkly drawn class lines, crime was not uncommon. What Bottoms finds, though, is not so much a matter of social standing or economic opportunity, but the tragedy of untreated mental illness and its often deadly impact on anyone near the afflicted.
Pitiful Criminals takes a close look at the author's hometown to examine twelve cases of violence committed by those who were too young, too intoxicated, or too mentally unstable to truly know any better. Over 16 essays, he reflects on varied experiences—working as a Tarot card reader, studying with Annie Dillard, meeting William F. Buckley at a catering job—that together illuminate the development of his craft.
Two women write dueling scripts about the Philippine-American War while on a road trip to the town of Balangiga, the site of a violent conflict between occupying American forces and Filipinos in In this gothic masterpiece, translator Helen Franklin lives in Prague, attempting to atone for a wrong she committed decades earlier.
Scroll down to read Jennifer Campbell's story of starting a personal history business. It remains a surface recounting of events, which leaves my readers scratching their heads and saying, 'So, what? Family History Emily Glazer, Wall Street Journal, Professional biographical films and genealogy services are used as a way to interact with different generations in a family. But the links for now are not working and a search did not turn them up in another venue. Autobiography and biographies are not works of memory. But, having written about her own pain, anxiety, and depression in Vertigo: She would never have learned it herself, she says; you don't think about investigating your grandmother.
She discovers a file reporting the appearances throughout history of Melmoth, a specter who denied the sight of the risen Christ and was cursed to wander the Earth, haunting culpable individuals. Soon, Helen finds herself being followed. Its novelistic approach is backed up with deep scholarship and original research, and its prose is by turns colorful and gripping. Their stops along the way—during which the father counts individuals for the census—reveal the beautiful yet brutal range of human experience.
Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton Univ. From the award-winning team behind Last Stop on Market Street comes a story about a birthday girl on a walk with her big brother, the puffy dandelion she finds along the way, and the series of wishes she considers, all told against the backdrop of the family's Spanish-speaking community. Sensitively conceived and exuberantly executed. Larger themes about the importance of empathy add meaningful layers to each playfully juxtaposed scene. With exquisitely rendered mixed-media collages and timely, heart-pulling text, Caldecott Honor artist Morales traces the journey that she and her young son took when they immigrated from Mexico to the United States, and the succor that books and libraries offered as the two made their way in a new place.
An affectionate and informative celebration of two magnificent species. Detailed illustrations invite close inspection, and the limited color palette and multipaneled spreads evoke a graphic novel style. The first in a comics-style early chapter series stars an animal odd couple in three short stories. Like Frog and Toad and George and Martha , one is even-tempered, and one is often a pain in the neck. The resulting hilarity will engage nascent readers. This graceful account celebrates a lost era and vocation—the sometimes lonely, sometimes dangerous job of keeping a lighthouse.
Spreads as delicate as painted porcelain depict the lighthouse and its circular rooms, each moment like the hand on the face of a clock. A jewel of a creation.
Celebrating the th anniversary of Frankenstein , this biographical account of young Mary Shelley, illustrated with breathtaking period detail, showcases how the author's life catalyzed her art and creativity—and, perhaps, the birth of science fiction. The bike the kids have built from discarded items.
Each concise vignette in this wise, gentle story brims with emotional honesty. With a cohesive visual thread and an eye toward interacting regularly with poetry and the outdoors, this hefty offering presents a nature poem for every day of the year, from a wide variety of writers including Christina Rossetti and Margaret Wise Brown.
Stumpkin is a beautiful pumpkin—all he lacks is a stem. Amid the subway signs and storefronts of a cozy Brooklyn block, a high-stakes ordeal closes with an inventive visual sequence in this warm, seasonal tale of hope and transformation. This story of inclusivity, gratitude, and delicious fellowship also offers a feast for the eyes. Badger climbs Sugarloaf Peak every Sunday, helping overturned turtles and speaking with acquaintances along the way. Then Lulu the cat joins her, learns the route, and, when Mrs. Badger is too frail to make the trips, takes on her tradition of kindness.
A guidebook to amity and exploration. A tall brick wall runs along the gutter in this delightful story: When a Pakistani girl who yearns for an education expresses frustration with the village's cruel overlord, he demands that she work off her family's debt. Saeed's eloquent, suspenseful tale provides a window into contemporary gender inequalities and indentured servitude.
In a picaresque work set in medieval France, Secundus, a scoundrel posing as a pilgrim, drafts oft-ridiculed "Boy," who can communicate with animals, for a transcontinental quest: By turns darkly grim and wonderfully funny, this action-packed tale with a luminous central character carries a strong message about how appearances can deceive.
In this fast-paced, memorable series opener, Older weaves historical facts with dinosaur-inspired fancy to fashion a Civil War—era New York City, rooted in real events and attitudes, in which dinosaurs still roam and a diverse band of orphans resists corrupt authorities during the Draft Riots of Mia works at the front desk of the California motel her parents manage and writes letters to aid others, including an African-American victimized by racial profiling and a Chinese immigrant abused by his boss.
Artist Hockney and art critic Gayford take a conceptual approach to art history, moving between topics rather than presenting a linear overview. This is an uncompromising portrait of a superheroine who learns to wield divine power while coming to understand what it means to be mortal.
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After seventh grader Theo's self-portraits are vandalized with homophobic slurs, a teacher calls all of the incident's bystanders to a five-day restorative justice circle. Peppered with laugh-out-loud and somber moments, the novel traces the group's emotional transformation from loneliness, anger, and suspicion to friendship, vulnerability, and trust.
After year-old Candice begrudgingly moves to a small Southern town for the summer, she stumbles on a puzzle with links to her family's history.
Johnson's gripping mystery, replete with Westing Game references, shifts smoothly between past and present as it explores both the powerful legacy of discrimination and the rewards of friendship. Sanity and Tallulah may be the literal ruin of their space station when Sanity uses unstable technology to engineer a three-headed cat and Tallulah abets. When year-old Ollie comes into possession of a book of local history, she reads about a family's pact with a demonic figure known as the smiling man.
On a class trip to a dairy farm, Ollie and two classmates stumble into an alternate world populated with scarecrow minions, and they learn that the smiling man is very real, indeed. A spooky atmospheric thriller with a strong heart and a stronger heroine. Following a brutal fire, chimney sweep Nan Sparrow discovers that the bit of charcoal she carries has become a golem—and that he has saved her life. Mason Buttle may be slow to understand some things, but he knows how to be a good friend. Ever since his best friend Benny died in an accident, Mason has been suspected of having done something to cause his death.
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- Exciting Philippines.
- Victorian Woodturnings and Woodwork (Dover Architecture).
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Aiming to calm, sustain, and inspire children, the collaborators offer this empowering anthology for children of varying ethnicities, faiths, identities, and abilities, presenting 30 illustrated pieces from more than 50 diverse children's book creators. In this haunting modern-day epic loosely inspired by Beowulf , four resourceful young women who have devoted their lives to ritual mercy killing decide to give it up in favor of more satisfying pursuits, and swear a blood oath to slay the fabled Blue Vee Beast.
In this well-researched history, Partridge evokes the political controversy and intense emotions triggered by the Vietnam War. She skillfully interweaves original interviews and black-and-white photos with narrative to follow the daily lives of soldiers, a medic, a field nurse, and a Vietnamese refugee, examining their loyalties and moral sensitivity to the unending war. In this wickedly entertaining ride, an Argentinian sanitarium conducts a disquieting experiment: Suffering from bullying and depression in the U. Neal Shusterman and son Jarrod create a thrilling climate change dystopia in which California's denizens muddle through life during a drought—until the last of the water runs out.