Download or read book Land of the Dragon King and Other Korean Stories written by and published by Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sea hasn't always been salty, and rabbits haven't always had fluffy tails. How the sea grew salty, pigs got their short snouts and rabbits their fluffy tails is revealed in this sparkling collection of Korean folk stories. Gillian McClure's delightful retellings of well known Korean fables and magic tales will transport younger readers to an eastern world of tigers, rice cakes and persimmons alongside more familiar things - all beautifully illustrated in Gillian's own distinctive style.
Download or read book The Bassett Women written by Grace McClure and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, Brown’s Park, a secluded valley astride the Utah-Colorado border, was a troubled land of deadly conflict among cattle barons, outlaws, rustlers, and small ranchers. Homesteader Elizabeth Bassett gained a tough reputation of her own, and her daughters followed suit, going on to become members of Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch’s inner circle. Ann—who counted Cassidy among her lovers—became known as “queen of the cattle rustlers.” Both sisters proved themselves shrewd businesswomen as they fended off hostile takeovers of the family ranch. Through the following decades, the sisters became the stuff of legend, women who embodied the West’s fearsome reputation, yet whose lived experiences were far more nuanced. Ann became a writer. Josie, whose cabin still stands at present-day Dinosaur National Monument, applied her pioneer ethics to a mechanized world and became renowned for her resourcefulness, steadfastness, and audacity. For The Bassett Women, Grace McClure tracked down and untangled the legends of Brown’s Park, one of the way stations of the fabled “Outlaw Trail,” while creating an evenhanded and indelible portrait of the Bassetts. Based on interviews, written records, newspapers, and archives, The Bassett Women is one of the few credible accounts of early settlers on Colorado’s western slope, one of the last strongholds of the Old West.
Download or read book McClure s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Critic and Literary World written by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Critic written by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Born for Thorton s Sake written by Marcia Lynn McClure and published by Distractions Ink. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He was the only man she had ever dreamed of belonging to. The only man she had ever wanted. Maria Castillo Holt ... the only daughter of a valiant Lord and his Spanish beauty. Following the tragic deaths of her parents, Maria would find herself spirited away by conniving kindred in an endurance of neglect and misery. However, rescued at the age of thirteen by Brockton Thorton, the son of her father's devoted friend, Lord Richard Thorton, Maria would at last find blessed reprieve. Further, the heir to Lord Thorton's title, Brockton Thorton became from that day forth, ever the absolute center of Maria's very existence"--Cover.
Download or read book McClure s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ghost and Mrs McClure written by Alice Kimberly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST HAUNTED BOOKSHOP MYSTERY FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR CLEO COYLE—WRITING AS ALICE KIMBERLY “Part cozy and part hard-boiled detective novel with traces of the supernatural, The Ghost and Mrs. McClure is just a lot of fun.”—The Mystery Reader Young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure and her old Aunt Sadie are making ends meet by managing a mystery book shop—a quaint Rhode Island landmark rumored to be haunted. Pen may not believe in ghosts, but she does believe in good publicity—like nabbing Timothy Brennan for a book signing. But soon after the bestselling thriller writer reveals a secret about the store’s link to a 1940s murder, he keels over dead—and right in the middle of the store’s new Community Events space. Who gives Mrs. McClure the first clue that it was murder? The bookstore’s full-time ghost—a PI murdered on the very spot more than fifty years ago. Is he a figment of Pen’s overactive imagination? Or is the oddly likable fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime? You can bet your everlasting life on it...
Download or read book Jack s Well written by Alan McClure and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Wilde’s world is crumbling around him. But which world is it? The fantastic, magical Kingdom of his father’s stories, in which he is a six-year-old hero battling evil enchantresses? The glittering life of good fortune and fame described in his unauthorised biography? The worlds invented in a dozen fake social media profiles? Or the world of an unhappy adolescent in an unforgiving boarding school, mocked and excluded by the school’s elite and abandoned by a father he barely knows anymore? As Jack unravels his identity’s tangled threads, can he find the way from the child he was to the person he wishes to become? * * * * * “Clever and captivating. Jack’s Well is an original and beautifully written story of one boy’s search for clarity and kindness in a world—or worlds—beyond his control.” —Joan Haig, author of Tiger Skin Rug “I love books that twist my thoughts, distort my reality and leave me asking, ‘Whit?’ Jack’s Well is one of the weirdest, most original things I have ever read!” —Kirsty Crommie, Unicorns and Kelpies “Unique, original and deeply touching, Jack’s Well confirms McClure as one of the most exciting children’s writers working in Scotland today.” —Ross Sayers, author of Mary’s the Name, Sonny and Me and Daisy on the Outer Line
Download or read book The Idiot and the Odyssey written by Joel Stratte-McClure and published by The Idiot and the Odyssey. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When inquisitive American journalist Joel Stratte-McClure decides to walk around the Mediterranean Sea, we're in for an exhilarating adventure. As a 30 year expatriate in France, he explores the coast, countryside and regional cultures - as well as his own mind - with compulsive vigour. Armed with a copy of Homer's Odyssey, he re-opens this great book for us as he ponders life, divorce, Buddhism, alcoholism, the art of trekking and a vast collection of weird, wicked, wonderful people along the way. This is a trip to get into!
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Download or read book Poole s Index to Periodical Literature Fifth supplement January 1 1902 January 1 1907 written by William Frederick Poole and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Tangierman s Lament written by Earl Swift and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go where the story is--that’s one tenet of journalism Earl Swift has had little trouble living up to. In two decades of covering the commonwealth, Swift has hiked, canoed--even spelunked--a singular path through Virginia. He has also stopped and listened. This collection brings together some twenty Virginia tales wherein hardship is revealed as tragedy, and humor appears as uncanny, illuminating strangeness. The Pulitzer-nominated title story takes us to the Chesapeake island of Tangier, home to a Methodist enclave over two hundred years old, with an economy almost wholly dependent on the blue crab. The gradual exodus of the island’s young people and the dwindling crab hauls point to an inevitable extinction that finds a dramatic metaphor in the erosion of the island itself, which is literally disappearing beneath its inhabitants’ feet. An epic piece of reporting, "When the Rain Came" revisits the August night in 1969 when Hurricane Camille descended on Nelson and Rockbridge counties, bringing with it a deluge of nearly Biblical proportions that killed 151 people. It was later characterized by the Department of the Interior as "one of the all-time meteorological anomalies in the United States." Swift looks beyond the extraordinary numbers to find the individual stories, told to him by the people who still remember the trembling floorboards and rain too heavy to see, or even breathe, through. Other stories include a nerve-wracking inside look at the Pentagon on the morning of 9/11, the travails of a failed novelist turned folk-art demigod, an account of a 1929 Scott County tornado (deemed the deadliest in Virginia history), and a profile of Nelson County swami Master Charles, who boasts a corps of meditative followers, a mountain retreat in Nellysford, and an incomplete resume. Each piece reconfirms Virginia as a land uncommonly rich in stories--and Earl Swift as one of its most perceptive and tireless chroniclers.
Download or read book Poole s Index to Periodical Literature written by William Frederick Poole and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
