Download or read book The Pompey Hollow Book Club written by Jerome Mark Antil and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pompey Hollow Book Club written by Jerome Mark Antil and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids living through WWII grew up fast. Seventy million were killed worldwide as they sat by their radios hoping Superman could end the war. They created a club of valor - and it was Barber who stood on the cemetery stone and announced "Ain't a mom would stop us from going to meetings if were called the Pompey Hollow Book Club." They spat it so

Download or read book Mary Crane written by Jerome Mark Antil and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 STAR REVIEW - Foreword Reviews Mary Crane and a Pompey Hollow Book Club Seance with Sherlock! This wholesomely earnest novel is peppered with a dash of old-school mischief and fun. Jerome Mark Antil's Mary Crane and a Pompey Hollow Book Club Seance with Sherlock, the latest installment in the adventures of the Pompey Hollow kids, continues the group's spirited adventures. The club members-all boys except for the steadying influence of President Mary Crane-make their early-teen way through 1950s upstate New York with the help of guardian angel and former neighbor Charlie Pitts, best known as "Ole Charlie." The tone of the novel is wholesomely earnest, peppered with a dash of old-school mischief and fun. Antil's love for his subject matter and familiarity with the postwar backdrop of this specific region give Pompey Hollow a color and warmth that only true nostalgia can provide. Surely these were simpler times than our own, though not necessarily better or easier. The shadow of the Great Depression lingered, with not-so-distant memories of-as one character notes-having to live on very little and somehow manage to make a chocolate layer cake "with everything but chocolate." And while the United States had recently triumphed in World War II, no great victory is ever won without casualties or sacrifice. In the autumn of 1953, the Book Club and friends find themselves caught up in a caper involving a former war pilot and a crafty British pickpocket, while Ole Charlie meets fellow angel and revered author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There are barn chores and barn dances, the state fair, a traveling theater group, and a grade school teacher with some pretty impressive skills as a con artist. To add to the narrative, Antil includes historical photos along with "Paracoustics" sound effects. These sound snippets in the form of QR codes allow smartphone users to scan and hear relevant moments of action. Despite the nod to modern technology, Mary Crane and a Pompey Hollow Book Club Seance with Sherlock will likely appeal to those who actually lived the times, or to young adults with a fascination for days gone by. A lack of cynicism and openness to the concept that teens were perhaps more mature yet less sophisticated sixty years ago might also help their twenty-first-century counterparts truly appreciate the story. In certain aspects, the novel seems reminiscent of author Elizabeth Enright's Melendy Family series of the 1940s, offering a similar sense of camaraderie and fairly innocent adventure. Antil's shifting perspective may sometimes become a bit confusing, but the general effect is a story with heart and plenty of good old-fashioned imagination."

Download or read book Naked Statues Fat Gladiators and War Elephants written by Garrett Ryan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery? In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life. Learn the answers to: How tall were the ancient Greeks and Romans? How long did they live? What kind of pets did they have? How dangerous were their cities? Did they believe their myths? Did they believe in ghosts, monsters, and/or aliens? Did they jog or lift weights? How did they capture animals for the Colosseum? Were there secret police, spies, or assassins? What happened to the city of Rome after the Empire collapsed? Can any families trace their ancestry back to the Greeks or Romans?

Download or read book The Fifth Floor written by Julie Oleszek and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Growing up the next-to-youngest child of ten in suburban Chicago during the 1970s, seven-year-old Anna loves the constant commotion of her big family. Most of all, she adores her ten-year-old sister, Liz. They build forts, climb trees and slways stick together. One moment the two girls are dangling from the backyard swing set, the next, everything changes and Anna will never be the same again. After a decade-long tailspin of heartache and grief, seventeen-year-old Anna's life is becomming increasingly difficult. She would like nothing more than to forget her past, but memories of her childhood keep it very much alive. Can she keep hidden the unpeakable truth from years ago?"--Page 2 of cover.

Download or read book After the First Death written by Robert Cormier and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who will be the next to die? They've taken the children. And the son of a general. But that isn't enough. More horrors must come...

Download or read book Mamma s Moon written by Jerome Mark Antil and published by Hoodoo of Peckerwood Finch. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jerome Mark Antil's Mamma's Moon does for Acadiana what Truman Capote did for Tiffany's or Tennessee Williams did for streetcars. This is a novel about a lot of things, including sex, crime, life, and death. But most of all, it's a novel about hope and about love." This novel, Mamma's Moon, is a sequel to the novel, One More Last Dance. It stands alone as an entirely self-contained story, but for those of you who may not have read the earlier novel, I include here a brief description of the main characters and of the events that preceded this story. A bond that can only happen on a dance floor happened in a cafe off Frenchman Street among four unlikely characters. Aging Captain Gabriel Jordan, retired, was given two months to live, three months before he met "Peck"--Boudreau Clemont Finch--a groundskeeper of his hospice on Bayou Carencro, Louisiana. It was at the hospice that Gabe told Peck his dream of seeing the Newport Jazz Festival before he died. They became friends, and Peck offered to help grant his wish by taking him there. Less than a year before the events in Mamma's Moon, Gabe and Peck wandered into Charlie's Blue Note, where the music was live and mellow and the dancing warm and sensual. Here they encountered two extraordinary women, Sasha, a real estate agent in New Orleans's posh Garden District, and her best friend, Lily Cup, a criminal attorney: and amid the music, the dancing, the food, the flirting, and the cigar smoke, the four formed an unusual and lasting friendship that would see them each through a series of crises, disappointments, life-threatening situations, and moments of great joy and satisfaction. In this sequel novel to One More Last Dance - young Cajun French Peck goes from illiterate to earning his GED in nine months in New Orleans. His love, Millie, wants to meet a mother she doesn't know and Peck isn't sure he even has. His best friend, Gabe, who is fighting a skirmish with the law, takes the time to encourage his friend to go find the truth. Peck decides to learn the truth about his past and to find his real mamma. His traveling into dangerous unknown roads back into the swamps and bayous to find the truth are a touching, heartwarming adventure.

Download or read book Pompey a Political Biography written by Robin Seager and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Summers of Shadows Bodies and Bridges written by Jerome Mark Antil and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall Jerry and his friends begin the 1953 summer looking for adventure. Rumors of the long since forgotten Nazis POW's who had escaped upstate New York's Pine Camp's military brig back during the war.

Download or read book Propertius in Love written by Sextus Propertius and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-06-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.

Download or read book One of Ours written by Willa Cather and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1922 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive

Download or read book Hunting and Fishing in the New South written by Scott E. Giltner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the post–Civil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wealthy white men from Southern cities and the industrial North traveled to the hunting and fishing lodges of the old Confederacy—escaping from the office to socialize among like-minded peers. These sportsmen depended on local black guides who knew the land and fishing holes and could ensure a successful outing. For whites, the ability to hunt and fish freely and employ black laborers became a conspicuous display of their wealth and social standing. But hunting and fishing had been a way of life for all Southerners—blacks included—since colonial times. After the war, African Americans used their mastery of these sports to enter into market activities normally denied people of color, thereby becoming more economically independent from their white employers. Whites came to view black participation in hunting and fishing as a serious threat to the South’s labor system. Scott E. Giltner shows how African-American freedom developed in this racially tense environment—how blacks' sense of competence and authority flourished in a Jim Crow setting. Giltner’s thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmen’s recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspective on the African-American struggle for independence from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.

Download or read book Caxton s Book written by William Henry Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Faerie Queene written by Edmund Spenser and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1920 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Four Perfect Pebbles written by Lila Perl and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. “The writing is direct, devastating, with no rhetoric or exploitation. The truth is in what’s said and in what is left out.”—ALA Booklist (starred review) Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s unforgettable and acclaimed memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped her childhood. Following Hitler’s rise to power, the Blumenthal family—father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert—were trapped in Nazi Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Westerbork in Holland and Bergen-Belsen in Germany, before finally making it to the United States. Their story is one of horror and hardship, but it is also a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive. Four Perfect Pebbles features forty archival photographs, including several new to this edition, an epilogue, a bibliography, a map, a reading group guide, an index, and a new afterword by the author. First published in 1996, the book was an ALA Notable Book, an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, and IRA Young Adults’ Choice, and a Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, and the recipient of many other honors. “A harrowing and often moving account.”—School Library Journal