Download or read book Spit Against the Wind written by Anna Smith and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the long, hot summer of 1968. For ten-year-old Kathleen Slaven and her pals, the school holidays beckon. Into their run-down village in the west of Scotland arrives Tony, a real American kid, like the ones from the movies, ready to lead them into all kinds of adventure: gaining sweet revenge on their sadistic teacher Miss Grant on a trip to Ayr, discovering the unsettling secrets of 'Shaggy Island', and coming up with ways to outwit the people who screw up their lives - like the local parish priest Father Flynn. But the world they live in is a precarious one. And while they escape by playing at TV heroes and film stars, their mothers grow old before their time on broken promises, and fathers make a living in the coal mines or 'digging ditches, in the pissing rain', often boozing or gambling the wages away while their families go hungry. In an impoverished community, suffering and violence are never far from home. And even the optimism and escapism of their years cannot protect the children from the tragedies of life.
Download or read book To Spit Against the Wind written by Benjamin H. Levin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Spitting Against the Wind written by Victor Thiessen and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spit Against the Wind written by Anna Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the long, hot summer of 1968. For ten-year-old Kathleen Slaven and her pals, the school holidays beckon. Into their run-down village in the west of Scotland arrives Tony, a real American kid, like the ones from the movies, ready to lead them into all kinds of adventure: gaining sweet revenge on their sadistic teacher Miss Grant on a trip to Ayr, discovering the unsettling secrets of 'Shaggy Island', and coming up with ways to outwit the people who screw up their lives - like the local parish priest Father Flynn. But the world they live in is a precarious one. And while they escape by playing at TV heroes and film stars, their mothers grow old before their time on broken promises, and fathers make a living in the coal mines or 'digging ditches, in the pissing rain', often boozing or gambling the wages away while their families go hungry. In an impoverished community, suffering and violence are never far from home. And even the optimism and escapism of their years cannot protect the children from the tragedies of life.
Download or read book A Commentary on Nietzsche s Ecce Homo written by Thomas Steinbuch and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this commentary on chapter one, "Why I am So Wise," of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, the author dispels the long-standing impression that Ecce Homo is an irrational book in which the madness that claimed Nietzsche only months after he began writing it had already begun its work. Ecce Homo, it is alleged, is not egotistical, or narcissistic, or megalomaniacal. It is not a work of madness. In his linear exposition of this first chapter, the author presents Nietzsche's revelation of the tragic fact that his very aliveness was in a state of being overwhelmed, consumed, by powerful unconscious emotion, the condition he called decadence. Nietzsche's madness may have caused him to lose perspective on the meaning of having dwelt in "a world of exalted and delicate things," as he writes of himself in Ecce, but the original experience of elevation that comes of an abundance of life, of a surplus of life, certainly was not pathological.
Download or read book Against the Wind written by Martin Alfred Hansen and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1979 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Storm Against the Wind written by Helen Hull Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Tidewater, Virginia, at the outbreak of the Revolution.
Download or read book Field and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thunder in The Wind written by Deborah Tadema and published by Deborah Tadema. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant-Colonel Grant Sievers oversees the mouth of Kettle Creek during the war of 1812. Hundreds of miles from civilization he fights not only the Americans. But disease, starvation, and hostile Indians. It isn’t until after the war when he is injured. The doctor tells him that he will never walk again. Lucas Sievers is a spy. Known to the Americans as Angus Truitt, he infiltrates enemy camps. He learns their secrets and reports to General Brooks. His only goal is to find his son. Sam had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. After the war, Lucas and his good friend Night Wind head south through hostile territory to find Sam and bring him home.
Download or read book The Yellow Wind written by David Grossman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Grossman's The Yellow Wind is essential reading for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of Israel today. The Israeli novelist David Grossman's impassioned account of what he observed on the West Bank in early 1987—not only the misery of the Palestinian refugees and their deep-seated hatred of the Israelis but also the cost of occupation for both occupier and occupied—is an intimate and urgent moral report on one of the great tragedies of our time. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
Download or read book The Wind Queen written by Elizabeth Anne Thompson and published by Australian Self Publishing Group. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reflective story about a woman by the name of Elspeth Abney who lived in the Australian High Country located in the Snowy Mountains, New South Wales, and her life expressed in her very final moments of living. As the dying woman breaths in and out; transitioning through the sky gate to heaven, the story unfolds into a pictorial display of beautifying natural inferences. Elspeth’s life memories are subtly sketched through memory nuances of the open plains and bushy scapes, a powerful bird of prey, and other natural influences like the bush fragrances, wildflowers, and the Swallowtail butterfly; but, more importantly, it is a poetic narrative about her fight against a jealous witch cognate woman.
Download or read book Against Wind and Tide written by Holme LEE (pseud. [i.e. Miss Harriet Parr.]) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ridin the Wind written by Peter L. Adamski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ridin the Wind is 40 stories of bikers and their life style. You will ride a low rider across the country, ride with the Grim Reaper and you will race the devil. Youll freeze in Jersey, sweat in Georgia and see gray dogs in Arizona. Youll spend time in bars, diners, pizza joints and bike shops. And youll do plenty of riding. Short rides and all day rides. Along the way youll meet old friends, make new ones and get into a fight or two. Solid brothers, crazy women, sportsters, bike thieves, loving wives, super glides, runs and memories. Theyre all here. Hang up your leather jacket and take a seat. I think youll like the read youre about to start.
Download or read book North west Territory written by Henry Youle Hind and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Against wind and tide by Holme Lee written by Harriet Parr and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Something in the Wind written by MaryJoy Martin and published by Pruett Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado has some great ghost stories, and this book contains spirits, spooks, and sprites that are a colorful lot of characters. MaryJoy Martin brings them vividly into focus as she describes the San Juans marvelous mix of cultures, from ancient Puebolans, migratory gold seekers to the hungry immigrants straight off the boat. Woof and warp, these tales weave a unique tapestry that matches the mystery and majesty of the mountains. The majority of the tales originated before the 1920s, most going back to the gold rush days and earlier.
