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Accordion Crimes

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416588884
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Accordion Crimes written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx brings the immigrant experience to life in this stunning novel that traces the ownership of a simple green accordion. E. Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish-Scots, Franco-Canadians and many others, all linked by their successive ownership of a simple green accordion. The music they make is their last link with the past—voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance. Proulx’s prodigious knowledge, unforgettable characters and radiant language make Accordion Crimes a stunning novel, exhilarating in its scope and originality.

The Shipping News

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743519809
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Shipping News written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it’s easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph—in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover’s knot.

The Weird Accordion to Al

Author : Nathan Rabin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book The Weird Accordion to Al written by Nathan Rabin and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slime Crimes

Author : Ellen Lawrence
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
ISBN 13 : 164280424X
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Slime Crimes written by Ellen Lawrence and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a hagfish use clouds of milky slime to stay safe from fierce predators? And is it true that this eel-like fish can produce up to five gallons of slime when under attack? In this brand-new title, learn the answers to these questions and more—and prepare to get slimed! This new Science Slam! title will introduce readers to the slimy and disgusting world of hagfish. The book is expertly crafted to meet early elementary and science curriculum standards, as well as introduce children to bizarre and interesting facts. Innovative, grade-appropriate activities and experiments, critical-thinking questions, and fascinating fact boxes will hold readers’ interests with a viselike grip. And, best of all, the activities are gooey and fun!

The Weight of a Piano

Author : Chris Cander
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525654682
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Weight of a Piano written by Chris Cander and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY BESTSELLER In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, on which she discovers an enrichening passion for music. Yet after she marries, her husband insists the family emigrate to America—and loses her piano in the process. In 2012, in Bakersfield, California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy is burdened by the last gift her father gave her before he and her mother died in a terrible house fire: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. Now a talented and independent auto mechanic, Clara’s career is put on hold when she breaks her hand trying to move the piano, and in sudden frustration she decides to sell it. Only in discovering the identity of the buyer—and the secret history of her piano—will Clara be set free to live the life of her choosing.

Understanding Annie Proulx

Author : Karen Lane Rood
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034022
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Annie Proulx written by Karen Lane Rood and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, independent scholar Rood introduces students and the interested reader to the writings of contemporary American writer Annie Proulx. Coverage includes a discussion of the major themes in Proulx's well-known novels such as Postcards, Accordion Crimes, and The Shipping News as well as three others. Rood also provides background information on Proulx's life and her development as a writer. c. Book News Inc.

That Old Ace in the Hole

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416588922
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book That Old Ace in the Hole written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man tryingto make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind -- his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panahandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms. Dollar finds himself in a Texas town called Woolybucket, whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all manner of seismic shifts in panhandle country. These are tough men and women who witnessed first hand tornadoes, dust storms, and the demise of the great cattle ranches. Now it's feed lots, hog farms, and ever-expanding drylands. Dollar settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, targets Ace and Tater Crouch's ranch for Global Pork, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old owners will hold on to their land, even though their children want no part of it. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original and intimate, The Old Ace in the Hole tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and the character over the past century. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction.

Dalen and Gole

Author :
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1554698006
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Dalen and Gole written by and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dalen and Gole, refugees from the distant world of Budap, try and solve the mystery of missing fish on Earth.

Farm Crimes: Cracking the Case of the Missing Egg

Author : Sandra Dumais
Publisher : Owlkids
ISBN 13 : 9781771476447
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Farm Crimes: Cracking the Case of the Missing Egg written by Sandra Dumais and published by Owlkids. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious barnyard mystery featuring a bumbling goat detective A peaceful day on the farm turns to panic when Hen discovers her egg has been stolen! The only one who can crack the case? Billiam Van Hoof, the world's number one goat detective (at least, that's what he calls himself). As Van Hoof questions the animals and collects clues--a piece of eggshell, a yellow feather, and some tiny footprints--the answer to the mystery becomes obvious to everyone except the bumbling inspector. Readers will enjoy piecing together the clues long before the hapless goat detective and will laugh along with his ridiculous conclusions. The bright, comic illustrations in this graphic novel are filled with visual jokes and quirky details that kids will delight in finding. With a cast of lovable characters, this goofy mystery story--the first in the Farm Crimes series--is a great introduction to graphic novels, now in paperback.

Brokeback Mountain

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743275306
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Brokeback Mountain written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working a sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer." "Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it."--BOOK JACKET.

Postcards

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416588914
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Postcards written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. Annie Proulx's first novel, Postcards, winner of the 1993 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, tells the mesmerizing tale of Loyal Blood, who misspends a lifetime running from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. Blood's odyssey begins in 1944 and takes him across the country from his hardscrabble Vermont hill farm to New York, across Ohio, Minnesota, and Montana to British Columbia, on to North Dakota, Wyoming, and New Mexico and ends, today, in California, with Blood homeless and near mad. Along the way, he must live a hundred lives to survive, mining gold, growing beans, hunting fossils and trapping, prospecting for uranium, and ranching. In his absence, disaster befalls his family; greatest among their terrible losses are the hard-won values of endurance and pride that were the legacy of farm people rooted in generations of intimacy with soil, weather, plants, and seasons. Postcards chronicles the lives of the rural and the dispossessed and charts their territory with the historical verisimilitude and writerly prowess of Cather, Dreiser, and Faulkner. It is a new American classic.

Weird Al

Author : Nathan Rabin
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613123833
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Weird Al written by Nathan Rabin and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fun and colorful” biography of the accordion-toting comedy legend—with rare photos, lyrics, lists, tweets, and more from Al himself (Publishers Weekly). The undisputed king of pop-culture parody, “Weird Al” Yankovic has sold more comedy recordings than any other artist in history, receiving three Grammy Awards (and fourteen nominations) in the process. This is a comprehensive illustrated tribute to this icon of the American humor landscape, the man behind such classics as “Eat It,” “Amish Paradise,” and “White & Nerdy.” Covering more than three decades of hilarious songs, videos, and concert performances, and his life story in words and pictures—and featuring an introduction, lists, tweets, and photo captions from Yankovic himself—Weird Al: The Book is the ultimate companion piece to an extraordinary career. “Part biography and part pop culture museum . . . a treat.” —Huffington Post

Lumberjanes #30

Author : Shannon Watters
Publisher : Boom
ISBN 13 : 1681599139
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Lumberjanes #30 written by Shannon Watters and published by Boom. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mal and Ripley are MISSING?!

Dr. Psycho's Circus of Crime

Author : Paul Kupperberg
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1434219402
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Dr. Psycho's Circus of Crime written by Paul Kupperberg and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crime circus is in town! WONDER WOMAN goes undercover and learns that the evil DR. PSYCHO is brainwashing his audience into committing crimes.

Kraken Me Up

Author : Jeffrey Ebbeler
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823452697
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Kraken Me Up written by Jeffrey Ebbeler and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Izzie and her unusual pet make a big splash at the county fair in this punny easy reader comic from a beloved children's book illustrator and comics artist. Izzie can't wait to debut her pet at the county fair. While the other children have brought pigs or chickens, Izzie brought a...Kraken! Even though everyone thinks Kraken is big and frightening, he is not. He's like Izzie, sweet and shy. Kraken and Izzie use creativity and humor to win over the crowd in this hilariously adorable comic. The variety of panel styles, speech bubbles, and fonts are all perfect for engaging developing readers. I Like to Read Comics are created for kids just learning to read. Sequential art and simple text--and a powerful relationship between the two--are the perfect conditions for developing readers. An ALA Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table Best Graphic Novels for Children Selection Named to the Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx

Author : Alex Hunt
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739123955
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx written by Alex Hunt and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all of her novels and short story collections, scholars from the United States, Canada, and abroad engage in critical analyses of Proulx's new regionalism, use of geographical settings, and themes of displacement and immigration. Taken together, these essays demonstrate Annie Proulx's contribution to new regionalist understandings of place on local, national, and global scales. Readers will come away with a better understanding of Proulx's particular landscapes_particularly those of Wyoming, New England, Texas, and Newfoundland_and the issues surrounding the significance of these regions in contemporary American culture and literature.

Crime Lab 101

Author : Robert Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486311260
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Crime Lab 101 written by Robert Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids fascinated by crime and police work will appreciate this inside look at detection and forensic science. The 25 experiments can be performed at home and offer fascinating explanations of police lab techniques.