Download or read book The Gunny Sack Man written by Holly S. Remkes and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gunny Sack Man written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GUNNY SACK MAN: A book that gets kids excited about chores! Item features: *64 pages*Hardcover*Rhyming text*Bright and colorful illustrations*Motivational story for children Book Sample (Pages 14-20):"Who is The Gunny Sack Man?" asked little Karen and big Ruth Anne. Their eyes were bright, their ears in tune. "Tell us! Will he come soon?" "Hmm..." said mom. "He will come when he can. Now, let me tell you about The Gunny Sack Man: "He has wrinkles all brown and a hunched-over back. He carries a cane and an old gunny sack. He eats children's toys and munches on socks, gobbles up blankets, wrappers and blocks..." You can finish learning about The Gunny Sack Man in this delightful story. This book teaches children: *Cleaning can be fun.*Good and bad consequences follow their actions. *Using their imagination is good motivation. Imagine: *Kids who clean their bedrooms with enthusiasm. * Kids and you having fun at chore time. * Kids who come to visit and beg to clean your whole house! Imagine a character more fun than Santa Claus and the tooth fairy combined. Stop imagining. The Gunny Sack Man is here! Parents need him. Children love him. Once the family meets The Gunny Sack Man, he will be a constant and welcome visitor. The book is filled with lively illustrations and a fun to read text. If you use The Gunny Sack Man correctly, you will be amazed at the results. Most kids will want to start cleaning before you even finish reading. Join the families who have already met The Gunny Sack Man and invite him into your home today!

Download or read book The Gunny Sack written by Moyez Vassanji and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1990 Commonwealth First Novel Prize (Africa). The Gunny Sack follows the bizarre tale of an old and unremarkable bag and the life changing secrets within it. In exile from Tanzania, Salim Juma is given a gunny sack by his beloved, but strange, great-aunt. The bag takes him back to his childhood, when he was first mesmerised by the peculiar mementos inside. He soon begins to piece together the stories hidden within, only to discover the truth behind a fateful series of events that changed his family forever. The stories that follow stretch across four generations of Salim's family, tracing their footsteps and unravelling their loves, betrayals, and incredible misadventures. The Gunny Sack is an extraordinary chronicle into the experiences of Indian migrants in Africa as they struggled under changing power structures, from German invasions to British colonialism.

Download or read book The Gunny Sack written by M.G. Vassanji and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory, Ji Bai would say, is this old sack here, this poor dear that nobody has any use for any more. As the novel begins, Salim Juma, in exile from Tanzania, opens up a gunny sack bequeathed to him by a beloved great-aunt. Inside it he discovers the past — his own family’s history and the story of the Asian experience in East Africa. Its relics and artefacts bring with them the lives of Salim’s Indian great-grandfather, Dhanji Govindji, his extensive family, and all their loves and betrayals. Dhanji Govindji arrives in Matamu — from Zanzibar, Porbander, and ultimately Junapur — and has a son with an African slave named Bibi Taratibu. Later, growing in prosperity, he marries Fatima, the woman who will bear his other children. But when his half-African son Husein disappears, Dhanji Govindji pays out his fortune in trying to find him again. As the tentacles of the First World War reach into Africa, with the local German colonists fighting British invaders, he spends more and more time searching. One morning he is suddenly murdered: he had spent not just his own money but embezzled that of others to finance the quest for his lost son. “Well, listen, son of Juma, you listen to me and I shall give you your father Juma and his father Husein and his father…” Part II of the novel is named for Kulsum, who marries Juma, Husein’s son; she is the mother of the narrator, Salim. We learn of Juma’s childhood as a second-class member of his stepmother’s family after his mother, Moti, dies. After his wedding to Kulsum there is a long wait in the unloving bosom of his stepfamily for their first child, Begum. It is the 1950s, and whispers are beginning of the Mau Mau rebellion. Among the stories tumbling from the gunny sack comes the tailor Edward bin Hadith’s story of the naming of Dar es Salaam, the city Kulsum moves to with her children after her husband’s death. And gradually her son takes over the telling, recalling his own childhood. His life guides the narrative from here on. He remembers his mother’s store and neighbours’ intrigues, the beauty of his pristine English teacher at primary school, cricket matches, and attempts to commune with the ghost of his father. It is a vibrantly described, deeply felt childhood. The nation, meanwhile, is racked by political tensions on its road to independence, which comes about as Salim Juma reaches adolescence. With the surge in racial tension and nationalist rioting, several members of his close-knit community leave the country for England, America, and Canada. I see this comedy now as an attempt to foil the workings of fate: how else to explain, what else to call, the irrevocable relentless chain of events that unfolded… The title of Part III, Amina, is the name of Salim’s great unfulfilled love, and will also be the name of his daughter. He meets the first Amina while doing his National Service at Camp Uhuru, a place he feels he has been sent to in error. Amina is African, and their relationship inevitably causes his family anxiety, until the increasingly militant Amina leaves for New York. Salim becomes a teacher at his old school, and marries, but keeps a place for Amina in his heart. When she returns and is arrested by the more and more repressive government, Salim is hurriedly exiled abroad. He leaves his wife and daughter with the promise that he will send for them, knowing that he will not. The novel ends with Salim alone, the last memories coming out of the gunny sack, hoping that he will be his family’s last runaway.

Download or read book The Gunnysack Castle written by Julian Silva and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Calling written by Neil Cross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Read where it all began before watching Luther: The Fallen Sun, now on Netflix*** Meet DCI John Luther in the prequel to the epic series Luther, starring Golden Globe winner Idris Elba. He's a murder detective. A near-genius. He's brilliant; he's intense; he's instinctive. He's obsessional. He's dangerous. DCI John Luther has an extraordinary clearance rate. He commands outstanding loyalty from friends and colleagues. Nobody who ever stood at his side has a bad word to say about him. And yet there are rumours that DCI Luther is bad – not corrupt, not on the take, but tormented. Luther seethes with a hidden fury that at times he can barely control. Sometimes it sends him to the brink of madness, making him do things he shouldn't; things way beyond the limits of the law. The Calling takes us into Luther's past and into his mind. It is the story of the case that tore his personal and professional relationships apart and propelled him over the precipice. Beyond fury, beyond vengeance. All the way to murder . . . Praise for The Calling: ‘Gripping, taut fiction by a new master in the genre’ Guillermo del Toro ‘Quite literally bloody brilliant’ Metro 'Cross delivers a brooding piece of back-story for fans of the character inhabited by Idris Elba on screen. However, if you’re not already a DCI Luther convert, it also serves as a good jumping off point into his tortured world' Shortlist, top 20 crime novels of the year ‘Unsettling, lyrical . . . Cross has always dealt in darkness and been so adept at conjuring bogeymen from the catacombs of mythology that you start to see them everywhere’ Guardian ‘This story shares the editing technique and visual power of the screen version . . . Unapologetic, brutal and stunning – in the very real sense of that word... Cross is an amazing writer, capable of lyricism and pathos as well as some of the most traumatising scenes you're ever likely to experience in a mainstream crime novel’ Eurocrime ‘Luther, who is intelligent and almost freakishly intuitive, thus belongs not only to the Sherlock Holmes tradition but also to the newer crime-fiction model elaborated by Thomas Harris in his novels Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal’ New York Times ‘Gripping . . . eviscerating’ Observer

Download or read book A Free Man A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi written by Aman Sethi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deeply moving, funny, and brilliantly written account from one of India’s most original new voices." —Katherine Boo Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage. Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of old Delhi. How did he end up this way? In an astonishing debut, Aman Sethi brings him and his indelible group of friends to life through their adventures and misfortunes in the Old Delhi Railway Station, the harrowing wards of a tuberculosis hospital, an illegal bar made of cardboard and plywood, and into Beggars Court and back onto the streets. In a time of global economic strain, this is an unforgettable evocation of persistence in the face of poverty in one of the world’s largest cities. Sethi recounts Ashraf’s surprising life story with wit, candor, and verve, and A Free Man becomes a moving story of the many ways a man can be free.

Download or read book Heaven taming Saint Lord written by Jiang NanFeng and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You're very weak! ' Ever since Li Qingniu could remember, the Grandma Long had always told him this. Regarding this, Li Qingniu had always deeply understood it as well. Because he was not as fast as the Grandpa Quezi, not even as far as the Blind Crutch. Not as good as the Medicinal Residue, not even as far as the Great Black Cow at the entrance of the village, until one day, Li Qingniu walked out of the village ...

Download or read book Meet Mr Grizzly written by Montague Stevens and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Mr. Grizzly, first published in 1943, is the memoir of Montague Stevens – a Cambridge-educated Englishman who was a cattle-rancher in New Mexico, and who had a passion for hunting grizzly bears (with the help of his hunting dogs). The book chronicles some of his many adventures of hunting, dog- and horse-training, and on the natural history of the region. Included are 15 pages of illustrations.

Download or read book The Jeweler s Apprentice written by Walter Black and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yaozu Cheng, a fifteen-year-old Cantonese youth, ventures with his uncle down the Pearl River to Kowloon, where they embark on a treacherous Pacific voyage to GUM SAN, the Golden Mountain. Gold rush California has lured diverse characters from all corners of the earth, but Yaozu's new life as a miner proves grueling and unrewarding. Yaozu's luck takes a remarkable turn when he meets Lola Montez, a worldly stage performer who takes interest in his skill with Chinese calligraphy and a journal Yaozu has kept of his travels. Yaozu's journal is filled with visions of Canton, Chinese folklore, San Francisco of the 1850s, and his Sierra Nevada mining camp adventures. His chronicles are as educational as they are entertaining and picturesque. The trials and lessons of this bygone era shed a hauntingly pertinent light on the tragedies and challenges of our own contemporary lives.

Download or read book No More Green Chili written by Albert Quintana and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not to brag, but I truly believe that my Mother is the best cook in the world. Bar none, she has a great heart when it comes to making her best cuisine. Her specialty is green chili. In Spanish it's pronounced chile verde. This homemade chili verde could be the main dish eaten at any given meal, but add a homemade tortilla and a side of frijoles (beans) or a side of fried potatoes or maybe mashed; it was a meal to die for. One of my favorite dishes was smothered bean burritos. So anything you added to the green chili was always a feast The process of making the best dish in world comes quite simply by getting a pound of pork butt and cutting it into small one half inch squares. Then fry the squares until they are golden brown. Using the grease from the fried pork you then brown the flour to make the gravy, add your green chili, preferably jalapenos, diced tomatoes, Mexican oregano, cominos, garlic salt, and of course salt and pepper. I can't give it all away because then it would be giving away an old family recipe and that would be taboo. Making great meals is a learned thing. By this I mean that Mom learned to make green chili from a Mexican woman from Guanajuato, Mexico back in 1960. This is the year that Mom and Dad started a Mexican restaurant business in Denver. The restaurant was called Quintana Roo. Whoever ate her chili, always would craved for more. The neighboring kids would always hang around to see if Mom would roll them a quick burrito and then they would walk away with the biggest smiles. In 1927 Great Grandfather Francisco Duran visited Henry, Manuelita and the kids prior to Mom's birth. He shared with them a story about a humongous garden that was full of green chili. Within this garden the chili was thriving, growing in abundance. Then one day the chili started dying off. The garden was over taken with weeds and eventually became nonexistent. The metaphor here is that Grandpa Francisco equated the garden to our nation and the people who work, as the chili. When you take the chili out of the garden then your garden is dead. When you take the worker, laborer, bracero, miner, gardener, lumber jack out of our nation, you have nation that is dying. Who built the Great pyramids, The Panama Canal, the Empire State Building, Hoover Dam, and that Golden Gate Bridge? Yes you've guessed it, the Chili Verde of our society. Have fun reading this book. The stories are real and only reflect a part of your history. We all need a little chili verde in our lives, so enjoy its flavor. May it be hot, medium or mild

Download or read book Farmstead Stock and Home written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book THE MEN WHO SHOT LIBERTY 60 Rip Roaring Westerns in One Edition written by Zane Grey and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 12295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey) The Rainbow Trail The Spirit of the Border The Untamed (Max Brand) The Night Horseman The Seventh Man The Virginian (Owen Wister) The Last of the Mohicans (James F. Cooper) The Prairie Chip, of the Flying U (B. M. Bower) The Flying U Ranch The Flying U's Last Stand Cabin Fever Rimrock Trail (J. Allan Dunn) The 'Breckinridge Elkins' Series (Robert E. Howard) The Last of the Plainsmen (Zane Grey) The Outcasts of Poker Flat (Bret Harte) The Wolf Hunters (James Oliver Curwood) The Gold Hunters The Border Legion The Country Beyond (Curwood) The Lone Star Ranger (Grey) Riders of the Silences (Brand) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Heart of the West (O. Henry) White Fang (London) The Lure of the Dim Trails (Bower) The Luck of Roaring Camp (Harte) The Rustlers of Pecos County (Grey) O Pioneers! (Willa Cather) My Ántonia Roughing It (Mark Twain) The Log of a Cowboy (Andy Adams) The Two-Gun Man (Charles Alden Seltzer) The Law of the Land (Emerson Hough) The Short Cut (Jackson Gregory) Astoria (Washington Irving) The Valley of Silent Men (James Oliver Curwood) "Drag" Harlan (Charles Alden Seltzer) Whispering Smith (Frank H. Spearman) The Outlet (Andy Adams) Reed Anthony, Cowman A Texas Cow Boy (Charles Siringo) The Boss of the Lazy Y (Charles Alden Seltzer) The Golden Dream (R.M. Ballantyne) The Blue Hotel (Stephen Crane) The Long Shadow (B. M. Bower) The Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) The Hidden Children (Robert W. Chambers) The Way of an Indian (Frederic Remington) The Bridge of the Gods (Frederic Homer Balch) Where the Trail Divides (Will Lillibridge) The Desert Trail (Dane Coolidge) The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (Stephen Crane) That Girl Montana (Marah Ellis Ryan)...

Download or read book The Men Who Shot Liberty 60 Rip Roaring Westerns in One Edition written by Mark Twain and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 12307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Men Who Shot Liberty: 60 Rip-Roaring Westerns in One Edition encapsulates an emblematic journey through the rugged landscapes of early American literature, presenting an expansive collection that spans divergent styles and narratives. This anthology is a testament to the enduring allure and complexity of the Western genre, featuring narratives that oscillate between the romanticization of frontier life and the stark realism of the American Wests harsh environs. The collection boasts a range of literary styles, from the gritty realism of Stephen Crane to the romantic adventures of Zane Grey, offering readers an unparalleled exploration of the genre's evolution and thematic diversity. Within its pages, tales of valor, exploration, and survival stand as testaments to a bygone era, together weaving a rich tapestry of American culture and history. The distinguished roster of authors included in this anthology represents a who's who of American literature, each contributing unique insights shaped by their backgrounds, experiences, and the prevailing cultural and literary movements of their time. Writers such as Mark Twain and Willa Cather bring to the collection not only their narrative flair but also their deep engagement with the complexities of American identity and the mythology of the West. Their works, alongside those of their contemporaries, encompass a broad array of perspectives, underlining the Western genres capacity to articulate fundamental aspects of the human condition against the backdrop of Americas frontier landscapes. This anthology serves as an essential volume for those seeking to immerse themselves in the multifaceted narratives of the American West. The Men Who Shot Liberty: 60 Rip-Roaring Westerns in One Edition offers readers a unique opportunity to engage with a wide spectrum of literary voices and styles, each contributing to the rich mosaic of Western mythology. It is a compelling invitation to explore the rugged terrains of human endeavor, resilience, and adventure, making it an indispensable addition to the library of enthusiasts and scholars alike interested in the profound narratives that have shaped American literary tradition.

Download or read book Yearbook of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee written by Milwaukee Public Museum and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Year Book of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee written by Milwaukee Public Museum and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: