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A Boy Called Combustion

Author : Bill Keeton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991176304
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book A Boy Called Combustion written by Bill Keeton and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartwarming and hilarious, A Boy Called Combustion celebrates the adventures of childhood, the bonds of family and the joys of life in the 1940s South. Bill Keeton - nicknamed "Combustion" for reasons readers will immediately understand - grew up as part of the Fondren family, a clan large enough to give its name to a section of Jackson, Mississippi. Accidentally knocking down his grandparent's garage, "helping" neighbors paint their house and his uncle's car and denting his mother's brand new stove with his BB gun, young Billy constantly surprised all who knew him. The boo's linked stories savor the vivid imagination behind a child's comic exploits, the wisdom gained in the aftermath, and the colorful family and friends who shared both the lessons and the fun. A Boy Called Combustion is a memoir deeply rooted in a particular time and place: the Mississippi of the 1940s, where folks never cook from prepared mixes and kids have a weekly date with the movie serials. Yet it is timeless American story of life, love, laughter, maturation, and the gifts of family strength.

Nothing to See Here

Author : Kevin Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062913484
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Nothing to See Here written by Kevin Wilson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller • A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, People, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, TIME, The A.V. Club, Buzzfeed, and PopSugar “I can’t believe how good this book is.... It’s wholly original. It’s also perfect.... Wilson writes with such a light touch.... The brilliance of the novel [is] that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and mesmerizing and funny sentences and then hits you in a way you didn’t see coming. You’re laughing so hard you don’t even realize that you’ve suddenly caught fire.” —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of Fleishman is in Trouble, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Fang, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability. Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal and they’ve barely spoken since. Until now, when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison’s twin stepkids are moving in with her family and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there’s a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated, flames igniting from their skin in a startling but beautiful way. Lillian is convinced Madison is pulling her leg, but it’s the truth. Thinking of her dead-end life at home, the life that has consistently disappointed her, Lillian figures she has nothing to lose. Over the course of one humid, demanding summer, Lillian and the twins learn to trust each other—and stay cool—while also staying out of the way of Madison’s buttoned-up politician husband. Surprised by her own ingenuity yet unused to the intense feelings of protectiveness she feels for them, Lillian ultimately begins to accept that she needs these strange children as much as they need her—urgently and fiercely. Couldn’t this be the start of the amazing life she’d always hoped for? With white-hot wit and a big, tender heart, Kevin Wilson has written his best book yet—a most unusual story of parental love.

A Boy's Book of Nervous Breakdowns

Author : Tom Paine
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807161268
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Boy's Book of Nervous Breakdowns written by Tom Paine and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insightful and provocative stories in Tom Paine's collection spring from a series of seismic events that rocked the post-millennium world. News headlines from the last decade -- the fall of Baghdad, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the BP oil spill -- not only inspire the settings but also raise ethical questions that percolate throughout this ominous and timely work. A stark reminder of the challenges and resultant anxiety facing a global society, "A Boy's Book of Nervous Breakdowns" depicts the simultaneously dreamlike and brutally real experience of witnessing contemporary political and environmental catastrophes. Paine approaches the second U.S. invasion of Iraq through the eyes of a CBS radio journalist and her desperate Iraqi translator as they report the opening months of the attack and dodge dan- ger with a newborn in tow. In other stories, a father blames global warming for the drowning death of his daughter and journeys by horseback across the last of the Montana glaciers; a Japanese reggae band struggles under the radioactive umbrella of the Fukushima nuclear disaster; and a genius at Goldman Sachs invents a money-making algorithm, then ends his days with a tribe of headhunters in the Amazon. Paine masterfully orchestrates these episodic depictions of a failing civilization, however unnerving, through a wide array of perspectives, each tied to the other by Cassandra-like prophecies. Immediately compelling, "A Boy's Book of Nervous Breakdowns" confronts the harsh realities of our time with imaginative and moving vignettes that reinforce the fragility, greed, and heartache of the human condition.

Boys' Life

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boys' Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Burning Boy

Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250235847
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Burning Boy written by Paul Auster and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane. With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville’s most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death. In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane’s astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane’s creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences—the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.

"Curiosities of Literature

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Curiosities of Literature written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Problem of the Nervous Child

Author : Elida Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of the Nervous Child written by Elida Evans and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spontaneous

Author : Diana Wagman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0312271719
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Spontaneous written by Diana Wagman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Auntie Ned spontaneously combusts, she leaves behind a pair of smoking orthopedic shoes and a house that she wills to her best friend's daughters. Amy and Gwendolyn are sisters--closer than close--who move into Ned's bungalow and inherit her legacies: a closet full of housedresses, a freezer full of meat, and the passionate flames of unrequited desire. Amy's appetites--for meat, for sex, for getting her way--are ferocious, while Gwendolyn longs for a more normal existence but can't refuse her big sister anything at all. Not the intrusion of Dr. Minor, Professor of Pyrophenomena, who has come to investigate Auntie Ned's death. And not the presence in their bed of Roosevelt, a troubled carpenter whose steamy entanglement with the sisters will either save them all or create a situation that's bound to combust. ...a good Hollywood thriller... as well done as an exercise in flash defrosting. Spontaneous microwaves rather than thaws... - Kirkus Reviews

The School World

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The School World written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Constitution of Man

Author : George Combe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Constitution of Man written by George Combe and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Combustion

Author : Jyvur Entropy
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1678033332
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Combustion written by Jyvur Entropy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel lives in constant fear that she will burst into flames. She can feel the heat building in her gut. She keeps buckets of water under the bed. She keeps them to fend off the flames that her body may create. Autocombustophobia. That's what they say she has. No one will believe Rachel when she explains that she spontaneously combusted once before. That's why her body is covered in burns. Rachel's mother is the only one who knows what really happened to her. All she said was that it was an accident, before she disappeared leaving Rachel to live with her grandparents. When Rachel becomes reunited with her estranged mother, she struggles to uncover the truth behind her injuries.Long buried family secrets are revealed and Rachel's fear of Spontaneous Human Combustion becomes unmanageable. There are some terrifying truths to uncover and a man on fire. He stands burning at the foot of her bed.

Fahrenheit 451

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671872298
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fireman in charge of burning books meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Depicts a future world in which all printed reading material is burned.

Boys' Life

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Boys' Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa

Author : Iowa. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa written by Iowa. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Anatomy of Drunkenness

Author : Robert Macnish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Drunkenness written by Robert Macnish and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Northwestern Reporter

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Northwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Anatomy of Drunkeness

Author : Robert Macnish
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382304082
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Drunkeness written by Robert Macnish and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.