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Shack Rat

Author : Stan Nelms
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1893652815
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Shack Rat written by Stan Nelms and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military policeman Doug Hanson’s quest for redemption for an act of cowardice in Berlin takes him from the cold political struggle of a divided Germany to the heat of conflict in Vietnam. From the Berlin Wall to the Tet Offensive his courage is tested again and again as he is torn between the passion of Kim, a beautiful Vietnamese bargirl, and his sense of honor and duty. Day by day his struggle for salvation ebbs as the intensity of his passion for Kim increases. But he is not Kim’s only admirer. Ba, an undercover VC operative also smitten by her charms, plots revenge against the hated Americans whom have defiled the flowering youth of their nation. In every war there is a story of love and passion as cultures collide and the destiny of lovers is controlled not by strength of their desires, but by the fortunes of war. So it is with Shack Rat, a unique story of Vietnam.

The Rat

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156758307
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book The Rat written by Günter Grass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A female rat engages the narrator in a series of dialogues--convincingly demonstrating to him that the rats will inherit a devastated earth. Dreams alternate with reality in this story within a story within a story. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The Last River Rat

Author : Kenny Salwey
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1938486919
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Last River Rat written by Kenny Salwey and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenny Salwey is a modern-day American hermit who has lived most of his life in the Mississippi river bottoms, coming to know the river ecosystem with an intimacy unavailable to most. Now, Kenny shares his love of, and knowledge about, the mighty river. The Last River Rat is a seasonal look at Kenny's unique life.

The Ring of Rats

Author : Eleanor Russell Brown
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449003931
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Ring of Rats written by Eleanor Russell Brown and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second book of the Mary Warin time warp adventures, Ruthy and Fiona attempt to find the ring that has mysteriously disappeared. What follows is a frightening encounter with the rats in another dimension.

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317372522
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

Sons of America

Author : Lancelot Larsen
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532010079
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Sons of America written by Lancelot Larsen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After unknowingly befriending a serial killer, a man embarks upon a gruesome adventure that leads him to meeting an otherworldly businessman who offers him the opportunity to expand his dark horizons in an act of terrorism.

Environmental and Nature Writing

Author : Sean Prentiss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472592549
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Environmental and Nature Writing written by Sean Prentiss and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing about the environment in a wide range of genres. With discussion questions and writing prompts throughout, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writers' Guide and Anthology covers such topics as: · The history of writing about the environment · Image, description and metaphor · Environmental journalism, poetry, and fiction · Researching, revising and publishing · Styles of nature writing, from discovery to memoir to polemic The book also includes an anthology, offering inspiring examples of nature writing in all of the genres covered by the book, including work by: John Daniel, Camille T. Dungy, David Gessner, Jennifer Lunden, Erik Reece, David Treuer, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Alyson Hagy, Bonnie Nadzam, Lydia Peelle, Benjamin Percy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Nikky Finney, Juan Felipe Herrera, Major Jackson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, G.E. Patterson, Natasha Trethewey, and many more.

Edisto and Edisto Revisited

Author : Padgett Powell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480465917
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Edisto and Edisto Revisited written by Padgett Powell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA special two-in-one edition of National Book Award finalist Padgett Powell’s acclaimed southern novels: Edisto and Edisto Revisited/divDIV In Edisto, Simons Everson Manigault is not a typical twelve-year-old boy in tiny Edisto, South Carolina, in the late 1960s. At the insistence of his challenging mother, who believes her son to possess a capacity for genius, Simons immerses himself in great literature and becomes as literate and literary as any English professor. When Taurus, a soft-spoken African American stranger, moves into the cabin recently vacated by the Manigaults’ longtime maid, a friendship forms. The lonely, excitable Simons and the quiet, thoughtful Taurus, who has appointed himself Simons’s guide in the ways of the grown-up world, bond over the course of a hot southern summer./divDIV In Edisto Revisited, Simons Manigault is newly graduated from Clemson University, bored, unfocused, and idling his summer away at his mother’s home in Edisto, South Carolina. Not yet ready to fully embrace adulthood, Simons finds himself surrendering to cynicism. To avoid sinking further into his rut, Simons embarks on a road trip through the South. After a disastrous stint as a Corpus Christi fisherman, he exits the Lone Star State, doubling back to the Louisiana bayou to spend some quality time with his former friend and mentor—and his mother’s ex-lover—Taurus. But as even Taurus’s once sought-after wisdom wears thin, Simons begins to suspect that the grass is not greener on the other side—it may be burnt, brown, and dead wherever he goes./divDIV/div/div

War Slang

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486797163
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book War Slang written by Paul Dickson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the homegrown "boodle" of the 19th century to current "misunderstandistan" in the Middle East, America's foremost expert on slang reveals military lingo at its most colorful, innovative, brutal, and ironic. Author Paul Dickson introduces some of the "new words and phrases born of conflict, boredom, good humor, bad food, new technology, and the pure horror of war." This newly updated reference extends to the post-9/11 world and the American military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recommended by William Safire in his "On Language" column of The New York Times, it features dictionary-style entries, arranged chronologically by conflict, with helpful introductions to each section and an index for convenient reference. "Paul Dickson is a national treasure who deserves a wide audience," declared Library Journal. The author of more than 50 books, Dickson has written extensively on language. This expanded edition of War Slang features new material by journalist Ben Lando, Iraq Bureau Chief for Iraq Oil Report and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and Time. It serves language lovers and military historians alike by adding an eloquent new dimension to our understanding of war.

Edisto Revisited

Author : Padgett Powell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480441619
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Edisto Revisited written by Padgett Powell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVIn the sequel to Powell’s acclaimed debut, Edisto, Simons Manigault is older—if not particularly wiser—and searching for the cure to his restlessness in memory, travel, and forbidden love/divDIV/divDIV Fourteen years after we first met Simons Manigault, our protagonist is newly graduated from Clemson University, bored, unfocused, and idling his summer away at his mother’s home in Edisto, South Carolina. Not yet ready to fully embrace adulthood, Simons finds himself surrendering to cynicism, as well as to the temptations of his “turned-out-well” first cousin, Patricia./divDIV To avoid sinking further into his rut, Simons embarks on a road trip through the South. After a disastrous stint as a Corpus Christi fisherman, he exits the Lone Star State, doubling back to the Louisiana bayou to spend some quality time with his former friend and mentor—and his mother’s ex-lover—Taurus. But as even Taurus’s once sought-after wisdom wears thin, Simons begins to suspect that the grass is not greener on the other side—it may be burnt, brown, and dead wherever he goes./div Padgett Powell’s literary return to Edisto is as outrageous, witty, and bitingly sharp as its predecessor. Readers who adored their first meeting with Simons Manigault will relish a second helping of his ennui and bad behavior. Newcomers will likewise be heartily glad they made the trip.

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134194781
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. This informative, entertaining and sometimes shocking dictionary is an unbeatable resource for all language aficionados out there.

Improve Your Reading with The Dan and Sam Reader

Author : Paul A. Delvaux
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1681812614
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Improve Your Reading with The Dan and Sam Reader written by Paul A. Delvaux and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dan and Sam Reader is a carefully constructed series of 60 illustrated short stories that make reading easy and fun for children, especially those who are still learning to read. The stories begin using a few basic words in repetitive sentences and slowly build to more naturally worded text. The stories introduce the world to Dan and Sam, two best friends growing up in search of everyday adventure, food, and fun. They play football. They eat. They go fishing. They eat. Sometimes they just sit around … and eat. Their biggest problems include the wrath of Kim, the mean neighborhood girl, and of course, running out of food. In the end, they make peace with Kim and solve a mystery so their good times can roll on.

Shack Rat

Author : Stanley A. Nelms
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469731096
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Shack Rat written by Stanley A. Nelms and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military policeman Doug Hansons quest for redemption for an act of cowardice in Berlin takes him from the cold political struggle of a divided Germany to the heat of conflict in Vietnam. From the Berlin Wall to the Tet Offensive his courage is tested again and again as he is torn between the passion of Kim, a beautiful Vietnamese bargirl, and his sense of honor and duty. Day by day his struggle for salvation ebbs as the intensity of his passion for Kim increases. But he is not Kims only admirer. Ba, an undercover VC operative also smitten by her charms, plots revenge against the hated Americans whom have defiled the flowering youth of their nation. In every war there is a story of love and passion as cultures collide and the destiny of lovers is controlled not by strength of their desires, but by the fortunes of war. So it is with Shack Rat, a unique story of Vietnam.

The Adventures of the Plott Family: A Decodable Stories Collection

Author : Heather Vidal
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164604634X
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of the Plott Family: A Decodable Stories Collection written by Heather Vidal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve confidence in reading for struggling readers and children with dyslexia with this decodable chapter book collection filled with fun and exciting adventures; featuring six separate stories all in one big book! Follow the Plott family on a series of fun and exciting adventures in this series of chaptered stories perfect for independent reading practice or shared reading. For Ash and Mel, two 10-year-old twin girls, there is always fun to be had in their small town of Longbranch. Whether they are on a camping trip with their parents or scaring their mischievous little brother, Calvin, the twins are always up to something. Follow them as they travel, learn new things, and take on challenges together. This engaging collection contains six decodable stories for building reading fluency, stamina and comprehension. This phonics-first text is written for students who have mastered sounding out words with short vowels, closed syllables, and blends. It is written with principles based in the science of reading by two educators who have made teaching students with dyslexia their passion. The six stories are written in a format specifically designed to foster a love of reading, even in reluctant readers, and include adventures such as: A Trip to the Spring The Big Catfish The Camping Trip And more!

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang

Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780304366361
Total Pages : 1600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Cassell's Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal

Author : Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497646588
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal written by Elizabeth McDavid Jones and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an island off the coast of Virginia, the daughter of a US Lifesaver investigates a series of suspicious shipwrecks It’s 1895. Rhoda Midyette lives on Glenn Island, where her father is keeper of the US Lifesaving Station. He leads rescue operations whenever a ship hits the dangerous shoals around the island—which has happened far too often lately. One stormy night, when Rhoda and her father’s team help the survivors off their destroyed boat, she spies a mysterious light on the cape above Graveyard Shoal. The next day, she finds footprints in the sand. Is someone deliberately causing the collisions? Swaying their lanterns so the sailors will navigate toward the perilous shallows instead of away from them? Or is it a ghost light—and are the footprints those of the mythical mangled mariner? As she digs deeper, Rhoda uncovers clues that threaten everything she knows. With so much at stake—including her best-friendship with the gravely ill Pearl—Rhoda has to trust in herself and find a way to save lives. This ebook includes a historical afterword.

The Allied Resupply Effort in the China-Burma-India Theater During World War II

Author : Leo J. Daugherty III
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786431377
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Allied Resupply Effort in the China-Burma-India Theater During World War II written by Leo J. Daugherty III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 secured for Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist forces what no amount of pleading had been able to produce: an influx of U.S. supplies. This volume explores the strategies of the Allies in China, Burma and India in World War II and the politically charged campaign waged in that theater. After an overview of the Allied situation in early 1942, the work presents the personal accounts of six individuals who served as part of the resupply effort in the CBI theater: Captain Edward Goodman, Captain David C. Hall, Staff Sergeant Robert Boehm, Corporal Anthony R. Silva, Corporal Alexander McVean and Tech Sergeant Kenneth R. Quigley. The service of African Americans in the CBI theatre is also discussed in detail. Appendices contain information on the organization of a motor transport truck regiment in Persia during World War II and an extract from a December 1944 log of an Air Jungle Rescue Unit in Burma.