Download or read book Uncle Shamus written by James Duffy and published by Atheneum. This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Akers and his friend Marleena are intrigued by the blind black ex-convict who moves in to their Oklahoma shanty town and enlists their help in a secret plan.

Download or read book I Don t Believe a Word of It written by Ralph Hill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Hill's book of 70 short stories will appeal to all tastes. Themes include Detection, Adventure, Romance and Humour - so whether you like intrigue or a good laugh you'll find something to suit you. This is a book that will be enjoyed by older children and adults alike, with many of the stories having a twist or an underlying moral message that discerning readers will appreciate. Some of the stories are autobiographical - giving a glimpse of life as a signalman on a destroyer during the second world war - and others incorporate reflections on life and literature arising from Ralph's career as a teacher.

Download or read book The Cull of the Badgers written by L J Hargreaves and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-04-24 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A government policy. Men seeking power and recognition. The plight of an iconic, beloved woodland animal Defra, under misguided information have commenced the cruel killing of badgers to eliminate bovine Tuberculosis which they mistakenly believe is transmitted by the badgers. New, recruits Sarah, Shams and Geoffrey working for Defra have met and formed an alliance with the badger’s leader of the colony; the honourable High Lord Luminous Snowspirit to help protect them from the cruel slaughter. All the forest animals including the Hedgehogs, the historical nemesis of the badgers have made a treaty to help defend them, but is this enough? Sacrifices are made, loved ones lost, but do the badgers survive?

Download or read book The Glory of Honor written by JS Delaney and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honor of Glory is a continuation of The Spy in Me. Russell is blinded by Daniels DNA grandfather. His first love comes to save him and is caught up in a double adventure. Spirit Fawn was Russells first love, but alas, time and mistakes took them in different directions. Russell is sent home by Bear, his father, to work on the reservation. Russell has always been the soldier that just got the job done. Spirit Fawn is found to be part of the drug dealers plan. Russell shoots Paulo, the son of the most influential drug dealer in the region, and is now a hunted man along with Spirit Fawn. Margie and Bear know this is the beginning of the end one way or the other, and Margie, an attorney, decides she has no choice but to save the day. The Colonel and the family all have their hand in the answers, mistakes, and drugs, and the adventure takes twists you can only understand one page a time. Russell finds love and hope in Spirit Fawn, and Bears realizes he must learn to trust and have faith in his family.

Download or read book For the Love of Her King written by Zariya Honaker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is set in the late 1800s. This is a transcontinental adventure story of a young woman who is betrayed by the ones she loves. She is taken from her home, finding herself trapped in a land she knows nothing about. Struggling to make sense of her fate, she finds a new life and love in an unexpected place.

Download or read book The Bit O Writin and Other Tales written by John Banim and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bit O Writin written by John Banim and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Childhood Address written by Agnès Buston and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of my many greatest achievements is that I succeeded to overcome my heartbreaking childhood while preserving my sanity. and I was blessed with the privilege of becoming a Mother to three girls and three boys who all have given me the best years of my life. Over the years that followed the skinny little blue-eyed girl that I left behind with all her painful memories and grief, was about to embark on an amazing journey filled with Love, Devotion and breathtaking turmoil. My childhood experiences and profound memories instilled in me great tools that would provide me the strength, courage and support to endure the pro-found mind-blowing twists and turns that have occurred in my Life.

Download or read book This Land Is Our Land written by Agnes Regan Perkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-09-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you select the best recent works of fiction, oral tradition, and poetry about African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American Indian experiences and traditions from the profusion of titles being published today? This annotated bibliography of titles for children and young adults published from 1985 through the end of 1993--with 60% published since 1990--provides a one-stop selection tool. Appraisals of 559 titles, as well as information about an additional 188 recent books and 90 earlier ones of importance, are provided. Each entry features a plot summary incorporating themes, critical comments with a judgment of the book's value as an example of its genre, suggestions of other books by that writer, and related books of importance. The authors, who are recognized authorities in children's literature, and an advistory board of librarians and teachers, each of whom specializes in the literature of a particular ethnic group, have provided insightful critical appraisals and expertise and guidance in the selection of titles. Helpful subject, grade-level, author, title, and illustrator indexes are organized for ease of use. Titles in the grade-level and subject indexes are also identified by ethnic group.

Download or read book The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories written by Patrick McManus and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short and not-so-short stories from humorist Patrick F...

Download or read book Shadow Voices written by John Connolly and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All hardbacks in the first print run will be signed by the author. The story of genre fiction - horror, romantic fiction, science fiction, crime writing, and more - is also the story of Irish fiction. Irish writers have given the world Lemuel Gulliver, Dracula, and the world of Narnia. They have produced pioneering tales of detection, terrifying ghost stories and ground-breaking women's popular fiction. Now, for the first time, John Connolly's one volume presents the history of Irish genre writing and uses it to explore how we think about fiction itself. Deeply researched, and passionately argued, SHADOW VOICES takes the lives of more than sixty writers - by turns tragic, amusing, and adventurous, but always extraordinary - and sets them alongside the stories they have written, to create a new way of looking at genre and literature, both Irish and beyond. Here are vampires and monsters, murderers and cannibals. Here are female criminal masterminds and dogged detectives, star-crossed lovers and vengeful spouses. Here are the SHADOW VOICES.

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Download or read book Feel the Magic written by William Soisson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two kinds of people who wont want to miss reading Feel the Magic!, a rollicking tale by Bill Soisson, a wise-cracking sixty-year-old man who sets out to conquer the Emerald Isle on a bicycle. As Bill takes to the road for a month-long assault, there is no doubt in his mind that he can indeed conquer the place. But many things can happen in a month, and after dozens of encounters with the irresistible Gaels who call themselves Irish, Soisson comes to realize that instead of conquering, he has been clearly bested. All along his vagabond way, the Irish have out-wisecracked, outsmarted, outlaughed, and outloved him. He has been enslaved by the affections of a host of delightful characters who regularly take smart-aleck strangers and bring them to heel with large doses of blarney, twice-told tales, and patented put-downs. Morever, he has been deeply moved by the history of that poetic people. Most remarkable, though, is that the author, put to a test by wit or kindness at every turn for a solid month, has loved every moment of it equally, the humbling as well as the exalting. And, by the time his story has been told, you sense that he will never again be quite the same brash man who landed in Dublin. He has been touched by many people, in ways ranging from riotously funny to deeply emotional. Each experience has been different, but each has been very human and very . . . well, Irish. In the end, when he leaves that enchanted land, he is overcome with the mysterious feeling that the butcher in Dublin was right on the mark when he said, Who do you think sent you here, and do you think it was just for a piece of meat? Filled with colorful historical background, peopled by warm characters and impish fairies, Feel the Magic! is a story that anyone who hasnt yet been to Ireland wont want to miss. But who are the others? Didnt I say there are two kinds of people who wont want to miss reading this book? Yes, I did. The others, of course, are those who have been to Ireland!

Download or read book When I Am King Volume II written by Jerald Ford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of works from the blog "Too Far, Jerry" - volume 2 of 2.

Download or read book Daughter of Australia written by Harmony Verna and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2016 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a stunning debut novel that evokes the epic scope of Colleen McCullough's classic The Thorn Birds, Harmony Verna creates a poignant, beautifully told story of love and courage, set in Australia and America in the early decades of the twentieth century. The desert of Western Australia is vast and unforgiving. It's a miracle that the little girl dressed in rags and abandoned in the sand is still breathing when an old miner discovers her. Even more so that he is able to keep her alive long enough to bring her to the town from which she'll take her name: Leonora. Sent to an orphanage, mute with grief and fear, Leonora slowly bonds with another orphan, James, who fights to protect her until both are sent away--Leonora to a wealthy American family, James to relatives who have emigrated from Ireland to claim him. Years later, Leonora is given a chance to return to her beloved Australia. There, in Wanjarri Downs, she will again come face to face with James, who's grown from a reticent boy into a strong, resourceful man. Only James knows the truth about Leonora--that her roots and her heart are here, among the gum trees and red earth. And they will fight to find a way back to each other, even as war, turmoil, and jealousy test their courage again and again. Sweeping in scale yet filled with intricately drawn characters and vivid details that conjure the fascinating setting, Daughter of Australia is storytelling at its most Advance Praise for Harmony Verna's DAUGHTER OF AUSTRALIA "Verna's elegant and concise writing evokes a clear sense of the expanse and cruelty of the bush country and the toll it extracted from its people while examining themes of abandonment and human connection, the ebb and flow of life's fortunes, and ultimately, how our choices create our personal sense of identity. A beautiful, heart-wrenching story set at the turn of the twentieth century, Daughter of Australia is a compelling read!"--Ellen Marie Wiseman, author of What She Left Behind and Coal River "A captivating story of love and the search for identity. A mesmerizing debut novel."--Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of The Edge of Lost "A dazzling debut. Her story pulses with a cast of intriguing characters."--Duncan Alderson, author of Magnolia City "What distinguishes this powerful story of a love forged in a lonely and difficult childhood is the keen and vivid depiction of a harshly beautiful land and the people who choose or who are forced to inhabit it. This is a novel readers won't soon forget."--Holly Chamberlin, author of Summer With My Sisters

Download or read book Irish Hope written by Donna Fletcher and published by Donna Fletcher. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Lady Hope, a spirited soul with a lineage that traces back to the high kings of Ireland, where destiny's call beckons her toward the thrill of adventure, just as she stands on the precipice of an arranged marriage that threatens to stifle her free spirit. Unwilling to yield to a life of conformity, she embarks on a daring journey, taking on the guise of a young lad. Accompanied by her loyal yet cowardly dog, Lady Gwyneth, she sets forth, unaware that the path to adventure can be treacherous... especially when it leads straight to matters of the heart. Enter Colin of Shanekill, a master of charm who can effortlessly captivate any woman's attention and conquer the mightiest warriors in battle. Despite his prowess, true love has remained elusive, or perhaps he's been adept at evading its grasp. Tasked by the enigmatic Irish Devil to locate Lady Hope, the wayward aristocrat who has fled from her responsibilities, Colin stumbles upon a young lad named Harold, caught in dire circumstances. He takes the young lad under his wing, providing not just care, but also imparting the essential lessons of manhood and the art of winning a woman's heart. As fate twists and identities are unveiled, the lines between charmer and the impulsive Lady Hope blur. Will Colin, the charmer, succeed in tempting the daring and impetuous Lady Hope, or will she, in turn, teach him the most profound lesson of all—how to finally embrace and experience the transformative power of true love?

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