Download or read book Skintown written by Ciaran McManamin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘We’re in the back of a car belonging to the men our mothers told us to never get in the back of a car of. I close my eyes and wonder how many girls will come to my funeral.’ Vincent Patrick Duffy has already checked out. Trapped between Skintown’s narrow horizons, he chops ribs and chickens in a takeaway, dreaming of escape, joint after freshly rolled joint. A mindless act of kindness leads to the unlikeliest of business opportunities. Where the government has failed, might the second summer of love and a little pill with a dove on it be the broom to sweep away the hatred and replace it with love, so much love? Skintown is Vinny’s drink- and drug-fuelled odyssey through fighting, fishing, rioting, romance, reconciliation and acid house. Bristling with a restless energy and drunk on black humour, this superb debut is a wild ride.
Download or read book Gaston Griffin a Country Banker written by Gaston William Ames and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sunken Road written by Ciaran McMenamin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ciarán McMenamin confirms his exceptional talent with this admirably powerful and authentic novel about the First World War and the struggle for Irish independence. Tremendous' William Boyd Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Annie, Francie and Archie were inseparable growing up, but in 1914 the boys are seduced by the drama of the Great War. Before leaving their small Irish village for the trenches, Francie promises his true love Annie that he will bring her little brother home safe. Six years later Francie is on the run, a wanted man in the Irish war of Independence. He needs Annie's help to escape safely across the border, but that means confronting the truth about why Archie never came back.... For readers of Sebastian Faulks, Ian McEwan and Sebastian Barry
Download or read book Planet of the Apes Vol 3 Children of Fire written by Daryl Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bako, hoping to turn the course of the war and save the humans from the ape government, acts in desperation while sisters fight each other below the city.
Download or read book The Whole Stupid Way We Are written by N. Griffin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when everything you’ve got to give isn’t enough to save someone you love? This transformative portrayal of “injustice, frustration, and rage is wrenching and difficult to forget” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). It’s Maine. It’s winter. And it’s FREEZING STINKIN’ COLD! Dinah is wildly worried about her best friend, Skint. He won’t wear a coat. Refuses to wear a coat. It’s twelve degrees out, and he won’t wear a coat. So Dinah’s going to figure out how to help. That’s what Dinah does—she helps. But she’s too busy trying to help to notice that sometimes, she’s doing more harm than good. Seeing the trees instead of the forest? That’s Dinah. And Skint isn’t going to be the one to tell her. He’s a helper guy too. He’s worried about a little boy whose dad won’t let him visit his mom. He’s worried about an elderly couple in a too-cold house down the road. But the wedge between what drives Dinah and what concerns Skint is wide enough for a big old slab of ice. Because Skint’s own father is in trouble. Because Skint’s mother refuses to ask for help even though she’s at her breaking point. And because Dinah might just decide to…help. She thinks she’s cracking through a sheet of ice, but what’s actually there is an entire iceberg.
Download or read book Planet of the Apes written by Daryl Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after the assassination of the Lawgiver, rumbles of revolution gather below the surface of the otherwise peaceful ape society and this time, humans are not the source.
Download or read book Autobiography of Samuel S Hildebrand written by Kirby Ross and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Civil War historians now agree that the guerrilla conflict shaped the entire war in significant ways. Some of these “bushwhackers”—Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Clarke Quantrill, John Singleton Mosby—have become quite infamous. Illiterate Sam Hildebrand, one of Missouri’s most notorious guerrillas—often compared to “Rob Roy,” and the subject of dime novels—was one of the few to survive the war and have his story taken down and published. Shortly after this he was killed in a barroom brawl. “I make no apology to mankind for my acts of retaliation; I make no whining appeal to the world for sympathy. I sought revenge and I found it; the key of hell was not suffered to rust in the lock while I was on the war path.” —Sam Hildebrand Hildebrand’s reign of terror gave the Union army fits and kept much of the Trans-Mississippi, especially Missouri, roiling in the 1860s. Over seven years of fighting he and his men killed dozens of soldiers and civilians, whites and blacks; he claimed to have killed nearly one hundred himself. He was accused of many heinous acts. The historical significance of Hildebrand’s story is substantial, but his bloody tale is eminently readable and stands quite well on its own as a cold-blooded portrait of a violent time in American history. Like the nightmarish and depraved world of the Kid in Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian, Hildebrand’s world is truly ruthless and his story is brutally descriptive in its coolly detached rendering of one man’s personal war. Published in 1870, Hildebrand’s autobiography has long been out of print and has been a rare and highly prized acquisition among Civil War
Download or read book Planet of the Apes Vol 2 The Devil s Pawn written by Daryl Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The feared and respected General Aleron finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could transform ape/human relations! Aleron's journey puts him face to face with ... Dr. Zaius!
Download or read book Burning Fields written by Michael Moreci and published by Boom. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana Atkinson, a dishonorably discharged army investigator, is pulled back to the Middle East when a group of American oil technicians disappears under bizarre circumstances. With the help of an Iraqi investigator, Dana discovers a series of unusual incidents at the drill site, which lead her and an unlikely ally to discover a mythic evil that has been released, one that threatens both the lives of the entire region and the fragile peace that exists.
Download or read book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.
Download or read book Montpelier Parade written by Karl Geary and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] accomplished debut. . . . The novel is narrated entirely in the second person, a stylistic choice that produces moments of intense intimacy.—The New Yorker "Geary enters the literary arena with a bang: this debut about an unconventional love affair between a teenage boy and an older woman is unassuming but gorgeously rendered."—Publishers Weekly,starred and boxed review Montpelier Parade is just across town, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera, the sort of person who seems destined to remain forever out of his reach. Hoping to cast off his loneliness and a restless sense of not belonging—at high school, in his part–time job at the butcher shop, and in the increasingly suffocating company of his own family—Sonny drifts into dreams of a different kind of life. A series of intoxicating encounters with Vera lead him to feel he has fallen in love for the first time, but why does her past seem as unknowable as her future? Unfolding over a bright, rain–soaked Dublin spring, Montpelier Parade is a rich, devastating debut novel about desire, grief, ambition, art, and the choices we must make alone.
Download or read book Skintown written by Ciaran McMenamin and published by Black Swan. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We're in the back of a car belonging to the men our mothers told us to never get in the back of a car of. I close my eyes and wonder how many girls will come to my funeral.' Vincent Patrick Duffy has already checked out. Trapped between Skintown's narrow horizons, he chops ribs and chickens in a takeaway, dreaming of escape, joint after freshly rolled joint. A mindless act of kindness leads to the unlikeliest of business opportunities. Where the government has failed, might the second summer of love and a little pill with a dove on it be the broom to sweep away the hatred and replace it with love, so much love? Skintown is Vinny's drink- and drug-fuelled odyssey through fighting, fishing, rioting, romance, reconciliation and acid house. Bristling with a restless energy and drunk on black humour, this superb debut is a wild ride.
Download or read book Skintown written by Ciaran McManamin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘We’re in the back of a car belonging to the men our mothers told us to never get in the back of a car of. I close my eyes and wonder how many girls will come to my funeral.’ Vincent Patrick Duffy has already checked out. Trapped between Skintown’s narrow horizons, he chops ribs and chickens in a takeaway, dreaming of escape, joint after freshly rolled joint. A mindless act of kindness leads to the unlikeliest of business opportunities. Where the government has failed, might the second summer of love and a little pill with a dove on it be the broom to sweep away the hatred and replace it with love, so much love? Skintown is Vinny’s drink- and drug-fuelled odyssey through fighting, fishing, rioting, romance, reconciliation and acid house. Bristling with a restless energy and drunk on black humour, this superb debut is a wild ride.
Download or read book Planet of the Apes When Worlds Collide written by Pierre Boulle and published by BOOM! Studios. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Planet of the Apes stories spanning both the original and new series canon, in celebration of the iconic franchise’s 50th Anniversary. In celebration of the original film’s 50th anniversary, stories from both eras of the Planet of the Apes franchise are featured together in one collection for the first time ever. These all-new stories include the reveal of the ape who calls the remains of the Statue of Liberty home, and the first look at the world left behind following the events of War for the Planet of the Apes. Featuring bestselling authors Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT), Jeff Jensen (Green River Killer), and Dan Abnett (Guardians of the Galaxy), Planet of the Apes: When Worlds Collide is an unprecedented examination of the iconic franchise that fans of the original and new series will not want to miss.
Download or read book written by Robert B. Chambers and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in the Series of Hobee's Quest Books: In the Deep (Theme: Bullies), that is Non-Violent Adventure Sagas with Hobee and Bobit. We last left them stranded when their ship sailed off with out them. They had to seek out the Head Tool Teeker D.J. once again to ask him for help on getting off the Island. The Head Tool Teeker had a Cycle-sub built that was powered by two bicycles that would take Hobee and Bobit to the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean and beyond in their search of others like Hobee. They end up finding the Skoodaddles and helping them in getting rid of their bullies. In return the Skoodaddles give Hobee a map of the Northern Pacific Ocean floor and the secrets to the hidden Gates of Ambiguous that lead to unknown Oceans. In their explorations they find a small island called the Island of Pretend. The King there is a bully and makes others do thing they don't want to do. In their search of the small island they find out how to navigate by using the stars and find more clues left by the Marching Rodent Explorers.
Download or read book The River s Daughter written by Vella Munn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-07-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oregon--a land flowing with milk and honey, a land of towering timber, snow-capped peaks, lush, fertile valleys. A land of gold. To the pioneering settlers, it was a garden of Eden. And to the Rogue Indians, it was home. Two different peoples, each laying claim to the same territory. Dark Water is the keeper of her tribe's history, the Yiwiyawa. She has no cause to love the pale skins. Barr Conner is a loner, an outcast among his own people. He has no cause to love the Rogues. Yet these two must work together, fighting for survival, fighting treachery and bigotry, fighting hardship and loss, fighting to reconcile two ways of life. And fighting their growing love for each other.
Download or read book Hobee s Quest written by Robert B. Chambers and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hobee and Bobit have gone on many adventures together. But after a particularly grueling quest, they are stranded when their ship sails off without them! So when Hobee decides to undertake the mission of exploring the great wide ocean in search of other half-duck-half-mice, he enlists the help of the Head Tool Teeker, D.J., to build him some special equipment. Setting off in their brand new cycle-sub, Hobee and Bobit plunge into the sea, and into a whirlwind adventure. They encounter the Skoodaddles and helping them in getting rid of their bullies. In return the Skoodaddles give Hobee a map of the Northern Pacific Ocean floor and the secrets to the hidden Gates of Ambiguous that lead to unknown Oceans. In their explorations they find a small island called the Island of Pretend. The King there is a bully and makes others do things they don't want to do. In their search of the small island they find out how to navigate by using the stars and find more clues left by the Marching Rodent Explorers. This is only the beginning for Hobee, Bobit, and their cycle-sub. Join them for more heroic adventures in Hobee's Quest in the Deep, and help bring peace and prosperity to creatures all over the world! Robert B. Chambers's characters continue to impart important life lessons for children wrapped in creative and captivating travel adventures. This book continues this tradition with relevant, accurate, and fascinating historical and geographical information that separates it from the earlier books. His third book in the Hobee's Quest series reveals Mr. Chambers growth as a writer and leader in the nonviolent adventure series genre as he continues to help children develop the confidence, courage, and practical problem solving skills they need to navigate the social challenges of growing up. Mark Szymanski, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Education Pacific University
