Download or read book Runt and Mumble written by Anton Apperley and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Runt and Mumble: A Tale of Love and War, rats and mice take on human characteristics. They end up having the same dilemmas, but with a political undertone. Runt's gentle demeanor and small stature make him an easy target for abuse by other rats in the horde. Mumble, on the other hand, is an overgrown mouse whose slowness and large girth make her the laughingstock of her colony. A chance meeting between the two outcasts creates an unlikely friendship, as well as the chance for a new life of their own. Although rejected by their own societies, Runt and Mumble's relationship sparks a war between rats and mice as they fight for ultimate control over food and territory. With their lives in danger and their freedom slipping away, Runt and Mumble find themselves in a worse situation than when they first met, and it seems that nothing short of a miracle could help them now.
Download or read book Runt and Mumble written by Anton Apperley and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Runt and Mumble: A Tale of Love and War, rats and mice take on human characteristics. They end up having the same dilemmas, but with a political undertone. Runt's gentle demeanor and small stature make him an easy target for abuse by other rats in the horde. Mumble, on the other hand, is an overgrown mouse whose slowness and large girth make her the laughingstock of her colony. A chance meeting between the two outcasts creates an unlikely friendship, as well as the chance for a new life of their own. Although rejected by their own societies, Runt and Mumble's relationship sparks a war between.
Download or read book What Happens Next written by Colleen Clayton and published by Poppy. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: !--StartFragment--How can you talk about something that you can't remember? Before the ski trip, Cassidy "Sid" Murphy was a cheerleader (on the bottom of the pyramid, but still...) and a straight-A student, with two of the best friends a girl could ask for. When Sid finds herself on a ski lift with hunky local college guy, Dax Windsor, she's thrilled. "Come to a party with me," he tells her, but Dax isn't what he seems. He takes everything from Sid-including a lock of her perfect red curls-and she can't remember any of it. After the ski trip, Sid is an insomniac and an obsessive late-night runner, unable to relate to her old friends. Caught in a downward spiral, Sid drops her college prep classes and takes up residence in the A/V room with only Corey "The Living Stoner" Livingston for company. But as she gets to know Corey--slacker, baker, total dreamboat--Sid finds someone who truly makes her happy. Now, if only she could shake the nightmares, everything would be perfect... Witty and poignant, Colleen Clayton's debut is a stunning story of moving on after the unthinkable happens. !--EndFragment--
Download or read book A Paul Green Reader written by Laurence G. Avery and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina's Paul Green (1894-1981) was part of that remarkable generation of writers who first brought southern writing to the attention of the world. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1927, Green was a restless experimenter who pioneered a new form of theater with his "symphonic drama," The Lost Colony. A concern for human rights characterized both his life and his writing, and his steady advocacy for educational and social reform and racial justice contributed in fundamental ways to the emerging New South in the first half of this century. A Paul Green Reader makes available once again the work of this powerful and engaging writer. It features Green's drama and fiction, with texts of three plays--including the Pulitzer Prize-winning In Abraham's Bosom and the famous second act of The Lost Colony--and six short stories. It also reveals the life behind the work through several of Green's essays and letters and an excerpt from The Wordbook, his collection of regional folklore. Laurence Avery's introduction outlines Green's life and examines the central concerns and techniques of his work. A native of Harnett County, North Carolina, Paul Green was a devoted teacher of philosophy and drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Download or read book New Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hell in a Handbasket written by Timothy J Amerine and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of young mans dream of being a mountain man. Billy White was struggling with adventurous spirit while working hard on his parents farm. But wanderlust got the best of Billy, and he left his old life behind and headed west to fulfill his dreams. Billys travels take him through all means of adventures and romances. Billys eye for women gets him in trouble more often than not. He travels on a flatboat, a paddleboat, a steamship, and on horseback to get to the mountains, with a lust for women that never stops as he heads west. There is a new adventure at every turn of his journey.
Download or read book Peta Lyre s Rating Normal written by Anna Whateley and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I'm Peta Lyre,' I mumble. Look people in the eye if you can, at least when you greet them. I try, but it's hard when she is smiling so big, and leaning in. Peta Lyre is far from typical. The world she lives in isn't designed for the way her mind works, but when she follows her therapist's rules for 'normal' behaviour, she can almost fit in without attracting attention. When a new girl, Sam, starts at school, Peta's carefully structured routines start to crack. But on the school ski trip, with romance blooming and a newfound confidence, she starts to wonder if maybe she can have a normal life after all. When things fall apart, Peta must decide whether all the old rules still matter. Does she want a life less ordinary, or should she keep her rating normal? A moving and joyful own voices debut. 'Honest, perceptive and gutsy; I loved tuning into Peta's world.' - Emily Gale
Download or read book Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me written by Nan Marino and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender story about a tough-as-nails girl forced to take one small step towards understanding during the summer of 1969. "Muscle Man McGinty is a squirrelly runt, a lying snake, and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year old......the problem is that no one knows it but me. In the entire town of Massapequa Park, only I can see him for what he really is. A phony." Tamara Ann Simpson is determined to expose Muscle Man McGinty, a foster boy new to her neighborhood, for the liar that she knows he is. Muscle Man tells the other kids his uncle is Neil Armstrong and he even has the audacity to challenge the entire block to a kickball game. So, why is Tamara the only one who can see through this kid? It's the summer of 1969 and things are changing in Tamara's little town of Massapequa, Long Island, and in the world. Perhaps Tamara can take one small step towards a bit of compassion and understanding.
Download or read book Out of the South written by Paul Green and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hymn to the Rising Sun written by Paul Green and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1936 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''Hymn to the Rising Sun, '' a grim prison drama from the 1930's, takes place in the barracks of a rural Southern work camp in the early morning on the Fourth of July, and the idea of the cruelly incarcerated waking to Independence Day is the irony that thrums loudly throughout the play. --NY Times, Feb. 5, 2001.
Download or read book The South in Perspective written by Edward Francisco and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For courses in Southern Literature, Southern History, Southern Women Writers, American Literature, The South in Literature and Film, and Appalachian Literature. Unique in both content and approach, this anthology of Southern literature gives voice to numerous southern writers and places them in historical, cultural, and geographical contexts, and demonstrates the on-going richness, diversity, and distinctiveness of Southern literature. Focusing on six historically significant chronological periods ranging from 1585 to the present it makes a distinction between the literature of the Upper and Lower South, offers a special section on the literature of Appalachia, and features selections from a broad diversity of genres and writers, including many works anthologized here for the first time, especially literature from early periods. Comprehensive section introductions and headnotes place the selections in historical and cultural context.
Download or read book Speak with Distinction written by Edith Skinner and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 90-minute audio cassette and booklet that is a companion to 314102 - Speak with Distinction (Cloth Book).
Download or read book The God Factor written by Cathleen Falsani and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2006-03-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When religion reporter Cathleen Falsani climbed aboard Bono's tour bus, it was to interview the rock start about AIDS awareness. Instead, they plunged into a lively discussion about faith. "This is a defining moment for us," Bono said. "For the culture we live in." Spirituality clearly now plays a key role in the United States. But what is also clear is that faith is a more complex issue than snapshots of the country convey. Jesus. Buddha. Kabbalah. Angels. This may be a nation of believers but not of one belief—of many. To shape a candid picture of modern faith, Falsani sat down with an array of people who shape our culture, and in turn, our collective consciousness. She's talked about Jesus with Anne Rice; explored "Playboy theology" with Hugh Hefner; discussed evil with crusading attorney Barry Scheck, and heaven with Senator Barack Obama. Laura Esquivel, basketball star Hakeem Olajuwon, Studs Terkel, guru Iyanla Vanzant, rockers Melissa Etheridge and Annie Lennox, economist Jeffrey Sachs, Pulitzer-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley—all opened up to her. The resulting interviews, more than twenty-five in all, offer a fresh, occasionally controversial, and always illuminating look at the beliefs that shape our lives. THE GOD FACTOR is a book for the believers, the seekers, as well as the merely curious among us. Included are interviews with Sherman Alexie, Bono, Dusty Baker, Sandra Bernhard, Sandra Cisneros, Billy Corgan, Kurt Elling, Laura Esquivel, Melissa Etheridge, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mike Gerson, Seamus Heaney, Hugh Hefner, Dr. Henry Lee, Annie Lennox, David Lynch, John Mahoney, Mark Morris, Mancow Muller, Senator Barack Obama, Hakeem Olajuwon, Harold Ramis, Anne Rice, Tom Robbins, Russell Simmons, Jeffrey Sachs , Barry Scheck, John Patrick Shanley , The Reverend Al Sharpton, Studs Terkel, Iyanla Vanzant, and Elie Wiesel.
Download or read book The Old Bunch written by Meyer Levin and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed novel of growing up in Chicago’s Jewish ghetto in the shadow of WWI: “A landmark in the development of the realistic novel” (Harold Strauss, The New York Times). Chicago reporter and author of Compulsion, Meyer Levin won critical acclaim with this debut novel based on his own coming of age in the west side of Chicago. It follows the lives of nineteen teenagers—eleven boys and eight girls—who grow up together in the same working class Jewish Chicago neighborhood. The children of immigrants, these young people strive to forge their own paths in the aftermath of World War I and the struggles of the Great Depression. With compassion, intimacy, and photographic detail, Levin captures not only the lives of this unique “bunch,” but also the life of a generation from the Roaring Twenties through the New Deal and the Chicago World’s Fair. First published in 1937, The Old Bunch “brilliantly succeeds in taking the reader on a memorable tour of the world in which the old bunch lived” (The New York Times). “Written in good hard-driving colloquial prose, full of sharp characterizations . . . A very fine novel.” —New Republic
Download or read book The Bridge Troll Murders written by Sheldon Russell and published by The RoadRunner Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say a railroad is little more than a small town that stretches a thousand miles along a single winding thread. And like any small town, gossip is known to travel up and down the rail so fast it might as well be a telephone party line. So when a local runaway turns up dead sixty miles down track under a bridge marked as a safe hobo camp, it becomes Hook Runyon’s job to find out what happened before it hits the headlines of the local newspapers. The rail yard bull is dealing with the constraints of a new office job and the presence of a young aspiring criminologist from Back East, a mixture ripe for all hell breaking loose.
Download or read book Path of Totality written by Noker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SURVIVE? Within the walls of home there is no warmth. The cold air pries inside, and Devin Arnold fears another winter in Morgan, Utah might smother him. ESCAPE? It's kill or be killed. And there is no place to hide. The passing trains in the night can't take him away from this. KILL? Is Devin a killer, or are his violent fantasies nurtured by the privacy of home? Or is he even Devin Arnold at all?
Download or read book As Our Barrio Turns written by Alurista and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In as our barrio turns...who the yoke b on, alurista poet-filetero filosofo snaps shots of his singular history in wickedly funny, blashemous travelogues through his yourth and activist days. He twists our tongues in the vernacular that we as Chicano Mexicanos find snugly familiar and exhilarating.
