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Download or read book Boy on a Wire written by Jon Doust and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicting the full spectrum of adolescent alienation, this engaging, coming-of-age narrative is a humorous blend of novel and memoir. A sensitive, quick-witted boy from a small town, Jack Muir adores his mother, yearns for affection from his father, and lives in the shadow of his accomplished brother. Sent to a boarding school at a young age, Jack must quickly decide what sort of person he will be—the type that succumbs to the pressure of bullies and the school system or the type that fights back, using clever banter and intellect to get by. With a unique and authentic voice, this darkly humorous tale portrays the road to depression as seen through the naiveté of youth.
Download or read book Boy on a Wire written by Jon Doust and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sent to boarding school at a young age, Jack Muir decides he's a survivor. He gets by with a quick wit and a fast mouth. Others aren't so lucky. This story from stand-up comedian and writer, Jon Doust, is humorous and deeply poignant - a close-to-the-bone tale of how underdogs survive the system....
Download or read book Boy on the Wire written by Alastair Bruce and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He is a man who lied, who told a story, a wild, fanciful story, about the death of a child, a hard and unyielding story. It is that, he finds, that he hates most. The story that was told.' In 1983 Paul Hyde, aged ten, dies falling from a ledge in the mountains of the Karoo. His older brother Peter, who falls at the same time, survives but loses all memory of the event. The youngest brother, John, is the only witness. Many years later, John is living in London. He and his wife Rachel, who knows nothing of the tragedy of his past and nothing of his family, make plans to have children of their own. Their life together is disrupted when Peter arrives in London and claims his memory is returning. Pulled back in spite of himself, John returns to South Africa and the home he grew up in. His return makes him question his recollection of the tragedy. Can we ever be certain of events that happened that far in the past, certain we have not completely changed their meaning and our part in them?
Book Synopsis Mirette on the High Wire by : Emily Arnold McCully
Download or read book Mirette on the High Wire written by Emily Arnold McCully and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-04-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau—a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow’s daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it. But Mirette doesn’t know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini—master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again. Emily Arnold McCully’s sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.
Book Synopsis Grizzly/Wolf Duet: A Dixie Reapers Bad Boys Romance by : Harley Wylde
Download or read book Grizzly/Wolf Duet: A Dixie Reapers Bad Boys Romance written by Harley Wylde and published by Changeling Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grizzly -- The Beginning (Devil's Fury MC 8) May -- Everyone else sees a rough biker from the wrong side of town, but there's no one I'd rather be with. When I'm attacked by the town's golden boy, I see the Grizzly his club has named him for. I don't care that people whisper when we walk past. I love him, and I know I'll keep loving him until the day I die. Grizzly -- May deserves the best life can offer -- and a respectable guy. There's blood on my hands. I keep her at arm's length, but there's only one thing I want more than my club, more than my next breath -- and that's May. Wolf (Devil's Fury MC 9) Glory -- When I heard Devil's Fury was running an underground clinic for women like me I knew I had to be a part of it. What I didn't count on was falling for an alpha biker with a heart of gold, or turning to mush every time he holds my daughter. I won't let a killer stand in the way of my happily-ever-after. Wolf -- When my ex left I should have been broken-hearted, but one look at the angel who walks into Church and I know Glory's meant to be mine, and so is her adorable little girl. Glory can do better. I came back from the war broken. But I always get what I want, and I want Glory. I'll do whatever it takes to keep them safe, even if it means letting Glory see the darkness inside me. WARNING: Grizzly and Wolf's stories are both part of the Devil's Fury MC series and contains some violence, bad language, sensitive issues, and adult situations. Guaranteed happily-ever-after, a baby who will steal your heart, no cheating, and no cliffhanger.
Download or read book Crossing the Wire written by Will Hobbs and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting, action-packed novel from award-winning author Will Hobbs, a teenage boy hoping to help his loved ones must fight for his life as he makes the dangerous journey across the Mexican border into the United States. When falling crop prices threaten his family with starvation, fifteen-year-old Victor Flores heads north in an attempt to "cross the wire" from Mexico into America so he can find work and help ease the finances at home. But with no coyote money to pay the smugglers who sneak illegal workers across the border, Victor struggles to survive as he jumps trains, stows away on trucks, and hikes grueling miles through the Arizona desert. Victor's passage is fraught with freezing cold, scorching heat, hunger, and dead ends. It's a gauntlet run by many attempting to cross the border, but few make it. Through Victor's desperate perseverance, Will Hobbs brings to life a story that is true for many, polarizing for some, but life-changing for all who read it. Acclaim for Crossing the Wire includes the following: New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, Junior Library Guild Selection, Americas Awards Commended Title, Heartland Award, Southwest Book Award, and Notable Books for Global Society.
Download or read book Boy on the Wire written by Alastair Bruce and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Childhood Behind Barbed Wire by : Bogdan Bartnikowski
Download or read book Childhood Behind Barbed Wire written by Bogdan Bartnikowski and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Before and Afterlives by : Christopher Barzak
Download or read book Before and Afterlives written by Christopher Barzak and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the haunting stories of Crawford Award-winning author Christopher Barzak in his new collection Before and Afterlives. These are tales of relationships with unearthly domesticity and eeriness: a woman falls in love with a haunted house; a beached mermaid is substituted for a lost missing daughter; the imaginary friend of a murdered young mother stalks the streets of her small town; a teenage boy is afflicted with a disease that causes him to vanish; a father exploits his daughter's talent for calling ghosts to her; and a wife leaves her husband and children to fulfill her obligations to a world from which she escaped.
Book Synopsis Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by : Michael Lewis
Download or read book Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.
Book Synopsis Schools Behind Barbed Wire by : Karen Lea Riley
Download or read book Schools Behind Barbed Wire written by Karen Lea Riley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often overlooked in the infamous history of U.S. internment during World War II is the plight of internee children. Drawn from personal interviews and multiple primary source materials, Schools behind Barbed Wire is the story of the boys and girls who grew up in the Crystal City, TX internment camp and spent the war years attending one of its three internment camp schools. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Book Synopsis All the Pieces Matter by : Jonathan P. D. Abrams
Download or read book All the Pieces Matter written by Jonathan P. D. Abrams and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An oral history of HBO"s The Wire"--
Book Synopsis The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by : Mordicai Gerstein
Download or read book The Man Who Walked Between the Towers written by Mordicai Gerstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
Download or read book Cable Cowboy written by Mark Robichaux and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at a cable titan and his industry John Malone, hailed as one of the great unsung heroes of our age by some and reviled by others as a ruthless robber baron, is revealed as a bit of both in Cable Cowboy. For more than twenty-five years, Malone has dominated the cable television industry, shaping the world of entertainment and communications, first with his cable company TCI and later with Liberty Media. Written with Malone's unprecedented cooperation, the engaging narrative brings this controversial capitalist and businessman to life. Cable Cowboy is at once a penetrating portrait of Malone's complex persona, and a captivating history of the cable TV industry. Told in a lively style with exclusive details, the book shows how an unassuming copper strand started as a backwoods antenna service and became the digital nervous system of the U.S., an evolution that gave U.S. consumers the fastest route to the Internet. Cable Cowboy reveals the forces that propelled this pioneer to such great heights, and captures the immovable conviction and quicksilver mind that have defined John Malone throughout his career.
Book Synopsis Wood, Wire, Wings by : Kirsten W. Larson
Download or read book Wood, Wire, Wings written by Kirsten W. Larson and published by Thinkingdom. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting nonfiction picture book biography explores both the failures and successes of self-taught engineer Emma Lilian Todd as she tackles one of the greatest challenges of the early 1900s: designing an airplane. Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines. However, they all seemed too impractical. Lilian knew she could design one that worked. She took inspiration from both nature and her many failures, driving herself to perfect the design that would eventually successfully fly. Illustrator Tracy Subisak's art brings to life author Kirsten W. Larson's story of this little-known but important engineer.
Book Synopsis Barbed Wire Baseball by : Marissa Moss
Download or read book Barbed Wire Baseball written by Marissa Moss and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy, Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps where more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry are imprisoned without trials. Zeni brings the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense of hope. This true story, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, introduces children to a little-discussed part of American history through Marissa Moss’s rich text and Yuko Shimizu’s beautiful illustrations. The book includes author and illustrator notes, archival photographs, and a bibliography.
Download or read book The Wire written by Rafael Alvarez and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '. . . All in the game.' West Baltimore Traditional THE WIRE has been widely hailed as the greatest television series of all time. It portrays the war of attrition between Baltimore's hardened police force and its drug dealers, and the blurring of good and evil, justice and injustice, right and wrong that happens every day as men and women struggle against the institutions they are bound up in. Over its five series it has built up a detailed, rich and layered portrait of Baltimore: from its corner boys touting dope and its dock workers facing extinction, through the strained education system and tainted halls of power, to the crumbling media establishment. Rafael Alvarez - a reporter, essayist and staff writer for the show - brings the reader inside this world, detailing many of the real-life incidents and personalities that have inspired the show's storylines and characters. Packed with photographs and featuring an introduction by series creator and executive producer David Simon, as well as essays by acclaimed authors George Pelecanos, Ed Burns, Richard Price, Laura Lippman and Denis Lehane, it covers all fives series in glorious detail.
