Download or read book Angels of the Swamp written by Dorothy Raymond Whittaker and published by Walker & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taffy, a fifteen-year-old orphan, joins two boys who have been forced to leave their homes and the three of them try to survive the summer of 1932 on an island off the west coast of Florida.
Download or read book Swamp Angel written by Anne Isaacs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working in an American primitive style animated by the humor and storytelling genius for which he is renowned, Caldecott Winner artist Paul O. Zelinsky puts oils to cherry and maple for this tall-tale competition between a Tennessee woods-woman extraordinaire and a hungry, fearsome bear.Thundering Tarnation has a bottomless appetite for settler's grub. When word goes out about a competition to hunt this four-legged forest of stubble, a young woman, second to none in buckskin bravery, signs up. "How about baking a pie, Angel?" the other hunters taunt. "I aim to," says Swamp Angel. "A bear pie."What follows is as witty a round of roughhousing as ever jostled the ranks of Americana. Anne Isaacs' original text unfolds in a crackling combination of irony, exaggeration, and bold image-making. Zelinsky's paintings respond with deft yet hilarious expressions, rhythmic shapes, and a sense of monumental motion, as benefits a heroine who can wield a tornado like a lasso, drink a lake dry, and snore down a forest. In the course of these grand shenanigans, the Great Smoky Mountains are stirred up, Montana's short-grass prairie laid down, and Thundering Tarnation's fate proves to have no less a reach than the starry heavens.Swamp Angel marks the debut of a promising new storyteller and adds to the tall-tale traditions a pictorial counterpart that will entertain and endure for a long time to come.
Download or read book The Days of the Swamp Angel written by Mary Hall Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swamp Sting written by Blake A. Hoena and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When giant bees attack the playground, Carly wants her three best reporters to investigate.
Download or read book The Swamp Angel written by William Watts Hart Davis and published by . This book was released on 1881* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swamp Angel written by Dorothy Langley and published by Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1982 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Swamp Angel written by James Bruce Eure and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swamp Angel written by Colleen Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rylan Forester discovers that the monster that has been haunting his dreams is real, he develops a friendship with the uncanny green girl that starts to become something more as he works to keep her safe.
Download or read book A Cry of Angels written by Jeff Fields and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An authentic cry of American innocence . . . The author seizes the reader with a Southern gift for storytelling and never lets go.”—Time Magazine It is the mid-1950s in Quarrytown, Georgia. In the slum known as the Ape Yard, hope’s last refuge is a boardinghouse where a handful of residents dream of a better life. Earl Whitaker, who is white, and Tio Grant, who is black, are both teenagers, both orphans, and best friends. In the same house live two of the most important adults in the boys’ lives: Em Jojohn, the gigantic Lumbee Indian handyman, is notorious for his binges, his rat-catching prowess, and his mysterious departures from town. Jayell Crooms, a gifted but rebellious architect, is stuck in a loveless marriage to a conventional woman intent on climbing the social ladder. Crooms’s vision of a new Ape Yard, rebuilt by its own residents, unites the four—and puts them on a collision course with a small-town Machiavelli who rules the community like a feudal lord. Jeff Fields’s exuberantly defined characters and his firmly rooted sense of place have earned A Cry of Angels an intensely loyal following. Its republication, more than three decades since it first appeared, is cause for celebration. “A humdinger . . . even better than To Kill a Mockingbird . . . funny, touching, and gripping.”—Chicago Daily News “Heartwarming . . . We find ourselves wondering why delightful novels like this aren’t written anymore, and grateful that this one has come along to fill the void.”—The New York Times “A flooded-with-life novel with a story to tell and characters to be cherished.”—Boston Sunday Globe
Download or read book Swamp Angels written by Robert Ewell Greene and published by R.E. Greene Publisher. This book was released on 1990 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swamp Angel written by Ethel Wilson and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking out on a demoralizing second marriage, Maggie Lloyd leaves Vancouver to work at a fishing lodge in the interior of British Columbia. But the serenity of Maggie’s new surroundings is soon disturbed by the irrational jealousy of the lodge-keeper’s wife. Restoring her own broken spirit, Maggie must also become a healer to others. In this, she is supported by her eccentric friend, Nell Severance, whose pearl-handled revolver – the Swamp Angel – becomes Maggie’s ambiguous talisman and the novel’s symbolic core. Ethel Wilson’s best-loved novel, Swamp Angel first appeared in 1954. It remains an astute and powerful study of one woman’s integrity and of the redemptive power of compassion.
Download or read book Swamp angel written by Ethel Wilson and published by . This book was released on with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Angel of the Swamp written by George William Lose and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Swamp Angel Classic Reprint written by Prentice Mulford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Swamp Angel So in the snow and the rain, as well as the mud, into which I managed to tramp a good deal of the semi-swampy soil about my house by hundreds of possibly unnecessary footsteps, did I build and blun der, during the months of January and February. I slept in a neighbor's house at night, footed a mile to the railway station in the morning, reached the city by half past seven, did my two hours' work in a newspaper office, made a summary of the same eternal round of events, such as murders, burglaries, suicides by pistol, razor, rope, or poi son, embezzlements (high-toned), thefts (low-toned), smash-ups, fires, bursted boilers, falling elevators, gas explosions, kerosene burnings, failures, and everything else, which are always happening in all civilized communities just the same one year after another, the only difference being that the victim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Angel Thieves written by Kathi Appelt and published by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ocelot. A slave. An angel thief. Multiple perspectives spanning across time are united through themes of freedom, hope, and faith in a most unusual and epic novel from Newbery Honor–winning author and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt. Sixteen-year-old Cade Curtis is an angel thief. After his mother’s family rejected him for being born out of wedlock, he and his dad moved to the apartment above a local antique shop. The only payment the owner Mrs. Walker requests: marble angels, stolen from graveyards, for her to sell for thousands of dollars to collectors. But there’s one angel that would be the last they’d ever need to steal; an angel, carved by a slave, with one hand open and one hand closed. If only Cade could find it… Zorra, a young ocelot, watches the bayou rush past her yearningly. The poacher who captured and caged her has long since lost her, and Zorra is getting hungrier and thirstier by the day. Trapped, she only has the sounds of the bayou for comfort—but it tells her help will come soon. Before Zorra, Achsah, a slave, watched the very same bayou with her two young daughters. After the death of her master, Achsah is free, but she’ll be damned if her daughters aren’t freed with her. All they need to do is find the church with an angel with one hand open and one hand closed… In a masterful feat, National Book Award Honoree Kathi Appelt weaves together stories across time, connected by the bayou, an angel, and the universal desire to be free.
Download or read book Swamp Angel written by Wilson Bthel Davis and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Angel Stations written by Gary Gibson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For an age, humanity has borrowed from caches of alien technology found in space. Among these artefacts are portals known as Stations, which our spacecraft now use to traverse the galaxy. The ‘Angels’ who created this technology vanished aeons ago, but they left behind powerful enemies with long memories. These are about to target the Stations with a wave of destruction – and nearby worlds will suffer the same fate. One Station orbits the distant planet Kaspar, now occupied by scientists and armed militia who monitor life on the surface. Here, ignorant of our existence, the only known sentient species other than humankind is slowly evolving. But things are about to change. As devastation sweeps the galaxy, Kaspar’s mysterious ‘Citadel’ may be key to repelling this threat. But at what cost to its native inhabitants – and its human guardians?
