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Tales of Al

Author : Lynne Cox
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593319370
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Al written by Lynne Cox and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving, inspiring story of Al, the ungainly, unruly, irresistible Newfoundland puppy who grows up to become a daring rescue dog and super athlete—part of Italy's elite, highly specialized corps of water rescue dogs who swoop out of helicopters and save lives. Lynne Cox—acclaimed best-selling author of Swimming to Antarctica—is internationally famous for swimming the world’s most difficult waterways without a wet suit, and able to endure water temperatures so cold that they would kill anyone else, recognizes and celebrates all forms of athleticism in others, human or otherwise. And when she saw a video of a Newfoundland dog leaping from an airborne helicopter into Italian waters to save someone from drowning, Cox was transfixed by the rescue, and captivated by the magnificence, physicality, and daring of the dog. Tales of Al is the moving, inspiring story of Cox’s adventures on Italy’s picturesque Lake Idroscalo, as witness to the rigorous training of one of these spectacular dogs at SICS, the famed school that has taught hundreds of dog owners how to train their dogs—Newfoundlands, German shepherds, and golden retrievers—for this rescue operation. Cox writes about coming to know the dog at the book’s center, Al herself, from puppyhood, an adorable but untrainable chocolate Newfoundland—about the dreams, expectations, disappointments, and vision of her trainer and about realizing the dog’s full potential; striving with all of her canine might to become an expertly trained, highly specialized water rescue dog.

Tall Tales

Author : Al Jaffee
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613122632
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Tall Tales written by Al Jaffee and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the innovative vertical comic strip by the legendary MAD Magazine contributor—with an introduction by Stephen Colbert. Tall Tales was a one-of-a-kind newspaper strip that could only have come from the mind of Al Jaffee. While other newspaper strips are square, single-panel or multiple-panel horizontal gag cartoons, Jaffee, known for the Fold-In in MAD Magazine, once again altered the format of his work to create a vertical strip—the first, and last, in newspaper history. The original comic strip was syndicated internationally by the New York Herald Tribune from 1957–1963. This anthology contains the best 120 wordless strips out of over 2,200, scanned from the original files. The book features a new preface by Jaffee and an introduction by Stephen Colbert.

Forgotten Tales of Alabama

Author : Kelly Kazek
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614236356
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Alabama written by Kelly Kazek and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabama tales that have existed only in rumor, legend and lore are uncovered in this volume of strange, funny, far-fetched, unique and gripping stories from Muscle Shoals to Mobile. From Muscle Shoals to Montgomery to Mobile, there's just no place quite like Alabama. Take a journey off the beaten path through the Cotton State with author Kelly Kazek as she uncovers the stories that make Alabama one of a kind. Kazek, a longtime Alabama resident, unearths tales that have existed only in rumor, anecdote, legend and lore. This collection is packed with little-known stories of strange sites, like the world's largest Nehi bottle; curious critters, like the first monkey in space; and colorful characters, such as the outlaw Tom Clark. Whether funny, far-fetched, gripping or grisly, Forgotten Tales of Alabama is filled with stories you won't soon forget.

Tales of the Al-Azif

Author : Matthew Davenport
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Al-Azif written by Matthew Davenport and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Necronomicon was not the first book by H.P. Lovecraft to terrify readers with tales of dark and twisted horrors from beyond. No, the Al-Azif, or Book of the Insect, is the first work that told mankind of Cthulhu, Azathoth, and other terrors. Indeed, it was the book that inspired "The Mad Arab" Abdul Al-Hazred to write its more famous successor. Join us for a collection of novellas written by some of the best Neo-Lovecraftian authors today: Matthew Davenport (Andrew Doran, The Trials of Obed Marsh), David Hambling (Harry Stubbs, The Dulwich Horror), David J. West (Porter Rockwell, Redneck Eldritch), David Niall Wilson (The Call of Distant Shores), and C.T. Phipps (Cthulhu Armageddon) in telling stories of this mysterious book. Find out where the nightmares began!

Grayson

Author : Lynne Cox
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156034678
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Grayson written by Lynne Cox and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes how, while training for a long-distance swim off the coast of California, she encountered a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother and had been following her instead, and relates her efforts to find the baby's mother.

Swimming to Antarctica

Author : Lynne Cox
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307547876
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Swimming to Antarctica written by Lynne Cox and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this extraordinary book, the world’s most extraordinary distance swimmer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself. Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympic coach, swimming five to twelve miles each day in the Pacific. At age eleven, she swam even when hail made the water “like cold tapioca pudding” and was told she would one day swim the English Channel. Four years later—not yet out of high school—she broke the men’s and women’s world records for the Channel swim. In 1987, she swam the Bering Strait from America to the Soviet Union—a feat that, according to Gorbachev, helped diminish tensions between Russia and the United States. Lynne Cox’s relationship with the water is almost mystical: she describes swimming as flying, and remembers swimming at night through flocks of flying fish the size of mockingbirds, remembers being escorted by a pod of dolphins that came to her off New Zealand. She has a photographic memory of her swims. She tells us how she conceived of, planned, and trained for each, and re-creates for us the experience of swimming (almost) unswimmable bodies of water, including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica in thirty-two-degree water without a wet suit. She tells us how, through training and by taking advantage of her naturally plump physique, she is able to create more heat in the water than she loses. Lynne Cox has swum the Mediterranean, the three-mile Strait of Messina, under the ancient bridges of Kunning Lake, below the old summer palace of the emperor of China in Beijing. Breaking records no longer interests her. She writes about the ways in which these swims instead became vehicles for personal goals, how she sees herself as the lone swimmer among the waves, pitting her courage against the odds, drawn to dangerous places and treacherous waters that, since ancient times, have challenged sailors in ships.

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Author : Gennifer Choldenko
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440629633
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Al Capone Does My Shirts written by Gennifer Choldenko and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminals in our history. Al Capone Does My Shirts has become an instant classic for all kids to read! Today I moved to Alcatraz, a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only kid who lives here. There are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cooks or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does. And then there are a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars, kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two, though I doubt it. The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don't want. I never knew prisons could be picky, but I guess they can. You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to. A Newbery Honor Book A New York Times Bestseller A People magazine "Best kid's Book" An ALA Book for Young Adults An ALA Notable Book A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Krikus Reviews Editor's Choice A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Parents' Choice Silver Honor Book A New York Public Library "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing" Selection A New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age *"Choldenko's pacing is exquisite. . . . [A] great read."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review *"Exceptionally atmospheric, fast-paced and memorable!"—Publishers Weekly, starred review *"The story, told with humor and skill, will fascinate readers."—School Library Journal, starred review "Al is the perfect novel for a young guy or moll who digs books by Gordon Korman, or Louis Sachar."—Time Out New York for Kids "Funny situations and plot twists abound!"—People magazine "Heartstopping in some places, heartrending in others, and most of all, it is heartwarming."—San Francisco Chronicle

Tall Tales of America

Author : Irwin Shapiro
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789124832
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Tall Tales of America written by Irwin Shapiro and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful book is a collection of nine tall tales from America by renowned children’s author Irwin Shapiro: Pecos Bill, Anthony and the Mossbunker, Old Stormalong, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, the Yaller Blossom o’ the Forest, Sam Patch’s Last Leap, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Joe Magarac the Steel Man. Illustrated throughout by Al Schmidt.

Dog Tales

Author : Susy Flory
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736941436
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Dog Tales written by Susy Flory and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal owners consider their pets God-given gifts and love to read about their exploits and adventures. With passion and heart, ardent dog lover Susy Flory offers true, inspirational stories about amazing acts of courage, boldness, and dedication by canines, including... Guide dog Roselle, who led her partner down 78 flights of stairs after the World Trade Center attack. Kaiser, who gave his owner, a struggling veteran, a reason to live. Blue, who fought an alligator to protect her elderly master. Through these engaging and heartwarming tales, readers will be touched by how these much-loved animals answered prayer and revealed God’s loving heart.

Telephone Tales

Author : Gianni Rodari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592702848
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Telephone Tales written by Gianni Rodari and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales is many stories within a story. Every night, a traveling father must finish a bedtime story in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's a carousel that adults cannot comprehend, but whose operator must be some sort of magician, the next, it's a land filled with butter men who melt in the sunshine Awarded the Hans Christian Anderson Award in 1970, Gianni Rodari is widely considered to be Italy's most important children's author of the 20th century. Newly re-illustrated by Italian artist Valerio Vidali (The Forest), Telephone Tales entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds.

Eerie Alabama: Chilling Tales from the Heart of Dixie

Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467141674
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Eerie Alabama: Chilling Tales from the Heart of Dixie written by Alan Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for antebellum mansions and sunny beaches, Alabama also claims an abundance of fascinating mysteries and legends. The White Thang is a Sasquatch-like creature that has terrorized Alabamians for generations. For a brief period in the 1980s, Needham gained national attention because of its "crying pecan tree." In 1854, a farmer named Orion Williamson simply vanished in a field in Selma. From the aquatic beast known as the Coosa River Monster to the story of the Leprechaun of Mobile, these stories have evolved over generations. Author Alan Brown presents some of the strangest stories from this collective tradition.

Tales of the Prophets

Author : Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Kisāʼī
Publisher : Kazi Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Prophets written by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Kisāʼī and published by Kazi Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ellesmere M. S. of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Ellesmere M. S. of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lansdowne ms (no. 851) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Lansdowne ms (no. 851) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes: Drawings of the 23 tellers of the 24 Canterbury tales, copied from the Ellesmere ms. and cut on wood by Mr. W. H. Hooper.

The Corpus MS. ... of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, ed. by F.J. Furnivall

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Corpus MS. ... of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, ed. by F.J. Furnivall written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands)

Author : Dan Ben Amos
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827608713
Total Pages : 873 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands) written by Dan Ben Amos and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Tales from Arab Lands presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the latest volume of the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. This is the third book in the multi-volume series in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg?s timeless classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA), named in Honor of Dov Noy, at The University of Haifa, a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.