Download or read book Little Town on the Prairie written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s treasured Little House series, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor—now available as an ebook! This digital version features Garth Williams’s classic illustrations, which appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. The settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of 1880-81 is now a growing town. With spring comes a new job for Laura, town parties, and more time to spend with Almanzo Wilder. Laura also tries to help Pa and Ma save money so that Mary is able to go to a college for the blind. The nine Little House books are inspired by Laura’s own childhood and have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America’s frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories.
Download or read book The Little Town of Marrowville written by John Robertson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A hilarious, dark adventure for kids and adults!* 'A book aimed at kids that captures youthful humour perfectly. By which we mean it's energetic, weird, and delightfully disgusting - 10/10' Starbust Magazine 'The bloodthirsty, heartfelt romp your brutal inner child craves' BlizzardComedy In a town surrounded by deadly mist, and filled with oddities, two young siblings become orphans. And that's the best thing that's happened to them all day. Howard Howard was a Wrecker (a brute and bully by profession) who was brutal and bullish to his children - Aubrey and Aubrey's Sister. Howard Howard deserved to be turned into mince, and thanks to a mysterious duo called The Grinders, that's exactly what happened to Howard Howard. Hunted by the police and their father's gang of Wreckers, the siblings find some new friends to help keep them safe: a talented burglar named Charlie (who has no bones, but a great moustache) and a sword-wielding assassin named Calo (who has a sword, duh.) In a town already revelling in its own chaos and with new dangers around every corner, Aubrey's Sister and Aubrey stumble into a world of secrets, myths and monsters.
Download or read book The Little Town Where Time Stood Still written by Bohumil Hrabal and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?' A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous Uncle Pepin came to stay with the family years ago, and never left. But the outside world is encroaching on their close-knit town - first in the shape of German occupiers, and then with the new Communist order. Elegiac and moving, Bohumil Hrabal's gem-like portrayal of the passing of an age is filled with wit, life and tenderness. 'What is unique about Hrabal is his capacity for joy' Milan Kundera 'Even in a town where nothing happens, Hrabal's meticulous and exuberant fascination with the human voice insists that, as long as there's still breath in a body, life is endlessly eventful' Independent
Download or read book The Little Town Mouse written by Lorraine F Ellis and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard times in the city and the threat of the poor house looms heavy for many living in the overcrowded tenement blocks. Taking the strong advice from his Father John Allinson, Isaac Allinson along with Nancy his six year old daughter take to the road to seek a better life. Having taken the ferryboat across the water they make for the hamlet of Danesrest in search of a long lost aunt. When they become lost on the open moorland a tribe of Romany's gives them help and hospitality. But things begin to take an unexpected turn of events including a lost and forbidden love affair, family secrets coming to light and an eventual wrongful imprisonment where Nancy is forced to endure the harsh and appalling conditions of the early nineteenth century prison.
Download or read book The Little Town That Could written by Joseph Roush and published by LifeRichPublishing. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small town is suddenly deprived of its elementary school. Citizens rallied to find out how they could get their school back. This story documents their successful efforts, and it details how other communities in a similar condition might prevail by overcoming severe roadblocks. It is an uplifting tale of human courage. The author once attended school in the tiny village of Saint Helen. Years later he retired to his old hometown. He learned to love the inhabitants, and he has come to love the spirit of his neighbors. It was this spirituality that caused us to prevail.
Download or read book The Little Town Where Time Stood Still written by Bohumil Hrabal and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Town Where Time Stood Still contains two linked narratives by the incomparable Bohumil Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera has described as “Czechoslovakia’s greatest writer.” “Cutting It Short” is set before World War II in a small country town, and it relates the scandalizing escapades of Maryška, the flamboyant wife of Francin, who manages the local brewery. Maryška drinks. She rides a bicycle, letting her long hair fly. She butchers pigs, frolics in blood, and leads on the local butcher. She’s a Madame Bovary without apologies driven to keep up with the new fast-paced mechanized modern world that is obliterating whatever sleepy pieties are left over from the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. “The Little Town Where Time Stood Still” is told by Maryška and Francin’s son and concerns the exploits of his Uncle Pepin, who holds his own against the occupying Nazis but succumbs to silence as the new post–World War II Communist order cements its colorless control over daily life. Together, Hrabal’s rousing and outrageous yarns stand as a hilarious and heartbreaking tribute to the always imperiled sweetness of lust, love, and life.
Download or read book The Little Town That Could written by K. L. Every and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and inspiring short story takes place in a small town in upstate New York call Saugerties. As its fun rhymes and colorful illustrations tell a story about the town's transformation from one suffering the effects of recession to the bustling town it is today, it also teaches valuable lessons to its readers about how to cope with the normal ups and downs of life through the power of cooperation and perseverance. This book is perfect for all ages and applies to anyone living in a small town or the big city. In the back of the book the reader will also find an informative brief history about Saugerties and surrounding areas as well as useful resources to find additional information.
Download or read book The Little Town of Lemon Bay written by Rosanne Archer Hodges and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, in a little town called Lemon Bay, there lived a girl named Citrus Sally. Everything and everyone in the little town of Lemon Bay was the same. The houses were all yellow, with white picket fences; they even had the same flower beds! Every day, all the fruits of the little town of Lemon Bay went to school and work. On long summer nights, they ate dinner and sat on their front porches and talked about those who chose not to do as everyone did in the little town of Lemon Bay.
Download or read book Mr Gruffy and the Little Town of Happyville written by Barbara Zimman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the little town of Happyville, lived only families of little people of all shapes and sizes. They were all happy except for Mr. Gruffy. A series of events taught Mr. Gruffy a very valuable lesson.
Download or read book My Little Town written by David Tipmore and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern urbanite D. B. Tipmore describes the culture shock he experienced after moving to a small Alabama town in My Little Town: A Pilgrim's Portrait of a Uniquely Southern Place. From chicken salad to national politics, Tipmore shares the unique character of the South through the microcosm of his small town. My Little Town turns the Yankee-comes-to-Dixie literary genre outside in, examining Lovelady, Alabama, through the eyes of someone who should never have been living there and yet found himself there for more than a decade. With a keen appreciation of its peculiarly Southern tableau, the book lovingly scrutinizes an Alabama village short chapter by short chapter, accompanied by photographer Frank Williams's images. Funeral visitations, poisoned soup luncheons, Pilgrimage hosting, supper clubs, family feuds, Obama Day parades, politics, Jews, and chicken salad recipes are all treated with a voice of singular precision and affection. Simultaneously author D. B. Tipmore couples this fresh view of Southern small-town life with his own narrative of a worldly urban nomad who hopes to find a home in one of the most isolated areas of the United States, peculiarly defined by its racial history and regional mores. By conflating the two stories, My Little Town challenges the reader as much as the author, raising serious questions about our ability as Americans to transcend our regional identities and cultural complexities.
Download or read book In a Little Town Called Paxton written by Patricia DeMuth and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is burning down the garage really the best way to enliven a boring Saturday afternoon? Is it possible to cut your contributions to the church by 75% without incurring divine retribution? How do you reinstate rationality when military thinking goes out of control? Can you effectively dispose of a bucket of dirty scrub water by throwing it out the window? Can you ban puberty? Most importantly, how do you do all of this when you are under the age of twelve? Find the answers and much more in a little town called Paxton. A closely-knit family living in a small rural community during the nineteen-fifties and 'sixties provides the setting for this delightful collection of stories. With gentle humor, the authors take you along as they revisit their childhood and share some of the trials and joys of growing up. By the time you turn the last page, you will be eagerly looking forward to another visit.
Download or read book O Little Town written by Harlo L. Jones and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1995-01-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlo Jones describes his childhood and adolescence from the late 1920s to the early 1940s in Dinsmore, Saskatchewan, sixty-five miles from Saskatoon.
Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town written by Stephen Leacock and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature.
Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town written by Stephen Leacock and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2019-06-18T21:51:22Z with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s humourous and affectionate account of small-town life in the fictional town of Mariposa. Written in 1912, it is drawn from his experiences living in Orillia, Ontario. The book is a series of funny and satirical anecdotes that illustrate the inner workings of life in Mariposa—from business to politics to steamboat disasters. The town is populated by many archetypal characters including the shrewd businessman Mr. Smith, the lovelorn bank teller Mr. Pupkin, and the mathematically challenged Rev. Mr. Drone. During his lifetime, Stephen Leacock was very popular in much of the English-speaking world as a writer and humourist. Sunshine Sketches is considered one of his most notable and enduring works. In Canada, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour is named in his honour. The medal is an annual award for the best Canadian book of literary humour published in the previous year. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book O Little Town written by Mark Browse and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the best-known and best-loved hymns have tunes that are named after places. In this fascinating and entertaining book Mark Browse takes us on a tour of some of these places, discovering the stories behind the hymns and finding out how the tunes got their names. From Aberdeenshire to West Sussex, from Essex to Austria, from as far away as Jupiter to your own back-yard, it is a journey of surprising twists and turns. Along the way we meet not only priests and poets, but also murderers, seafarers, emperors and ploughmen.
Download or read book Little Town Lies written by Anne Strieber and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burned out from her social work career, Sally Hopkins takes on an investigative job for her sheriff uncle in east Texas, a case involving a series of arsons and animal killings that suggest the work of a budding serial murderer.
Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock written by Stephen Leacock and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ♥♥ Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock ♥♥ Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti. Although drawn from his experiences in Orillia, Ontario, Leacock notes: "Mariposa is not a real town. On the contrary, it is about seventy or eighty of them. You may find them all the way from Lake Superior to the sea, with the same square streets and the same maple trees and the same churches and hotels." ♥♥ Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock ♥♥ This work has remained popular for its universal appeal. Many of the characters, though modelled on townspeople of Orillia, are small town archetypes. Their shortcomings and weaknesses are presented in a humorous but affectionate way. Often, the narrator exaggerates the importance of the events in Mariposa compared to the rest of the world. For example, when there is a country-wide election, "the town of Mariposa, was, of course, the storm centre and focus point of the whole turmoil." ♥♥ Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock ♥♥ The story of the steamboat Mariposa Belle sinking in Lake Wissanotti is one of the best-loved in the set. The apparent magnitude of this accident is lessened somewhat when it is revealed that the depth of the water is less than six feet. Men from the town come to the rescue in an un-seaworthy lifeboat which sinks beneath them just as they are pulled onto the steamer, and the narrator earnestly remarks that this was "one of the smartest pieces of rescue work ever seen on the lake."
