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The Late Child

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439129789
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Late Child written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, The Late Child is Larry McMurtry's tender, funny, and poignant sequel to The Desert Rose—McMurtry delivers another rich cast of characters and a heartfelt, bittersweet story that unfolds on the open road, in one woman's search for strength, understanding, and hope. Harmony is the optimistic, resilient Las Vegas ex-showgirl who returns home one day to the news that her beloved daughter, Pepper, has died of AIDS. In an effort to come to grips with her loss, she decides she must travel to New York City, where her daughter had been living, to understand Pepper's life leading up to her death. She manages to stay afloat, buoyed by her precocious five-year-old son, Eddie, and her two outspoken sisters as they set forth on a journey across the country, seeking answers about her daughter's death. From Nevada to New York to Oklahoma, the eccentrics Harmony and her entourage meet nudge them closer to an inner peace with life, and a way to find hope in the future. Alive with inventive storytelling and honest emotion, The Late Child is a warm, enriching experience that celebrates the unique relationship between mother and child.

Late-Talking Children

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786723653
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Late-Talking Children written by Thomas Sowell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The painful and baffling mystery as to why some obviously bright children do not begin talking until long after the "normal" time is explored in this book through personal experiences and the findings of scientific research. The author's own experiences as the father of such a child led to the formation of a goup of more than fifty sets of parents of similar children. The anguish and frustration of these parents as they try to cope with children who do not talk and institutions that do not understand them is a remarkable and moving human story. Fortunately, some of these children turn out to have not only normal intelligence but even outstanding abilities, especially in highly analytical fields such as mathematics and computers. These fascinating stories of late-talking children and the remarkable families from which they come are followed by explorations of scientific research that throw light on unusual development patterns.

The Late Child

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863406185
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Late Child written by Larry McMurtry and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late child offers its readers a rich cast of characters, a sense of people adrift in a landscape too large for comfort, a determination for life, love and happiness, and a keen awareness of the unique relationship between mother and child. Three-time Miss Las Vegas Showgirl, Harmony, is ill-prepared for the ageing process or the tragic death of her daughter. Her five-year-old son Eddie sees his mother's grief as an opportunity to get what he wants. Their voyage across America takes them from grief to hope in a warm and enriching story of loss and recovery.

The Desert Rose

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128839
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Desert Rose written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women—their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness—makes The Desert Rose the bittersweet, funny, and touching book that it is. Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl with the best legs in town. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She throws her love away on second-rate men, but wakes up in the morning full of hope. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet, she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of supermarkets, drive-in wedding chapels, and all-night casinos. While Harmony's star is fading, her beautiful, cynical daughter Pepper's is on the rise. But Harmony remains wistful and optimistic through it all. She is the unexpected blossom in the wasteland, the tough and tender desert rose. Hers is a loving portrait that only Larry McMurtry could render.

The Late Child

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781417718207
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Late Child written by Larry McMurtry and published by . This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to The Desert Rose, this book continues the heartfelt story of one of McMurtry's most unforgettable characters, former showgirl Harmony, in what may be the best pure love story he has written(Ronald Reed, Fort Worth Star-Telegram).

The Last Child

Author : John Hart
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429961937
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Last Child written by John Hart and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel Heralded by the Washington Post as a "a magnificent creation, Huck Finn channeled through Lord of the Flies", John Hart's The Last Child is his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and courage in the face of evil. Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he'd been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is---confident in a way that he can never fully explain. Determined to find his sister, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown. It is a desperate, terrifying search, but Johnny is not as alone as he might think. Detective Clyde Hunt has never stopped looking for Alyssa either, and he has a soft spot for Johnny. He watches over the boy and tries to keep him safe, but when Johnny uncovers a dangerous lead and vows to follow it, Hunt has no choice but to intervene. Then a second child goes missing . . . Undeterred by Hunt's threats or his mother's pleas, Johnny enlists the help of his last friend, and together they plunge into the wild, to a forgotten place with a history of violence that goes back more than a hundred years. There, they meet a giant of a man, an escaped convict on his own tragic quest. What they learn from him will shatter every notion Johnny had about the fate of his sister; it will lead them to another far place, to a truth that will test both boys to the limit. Traveling the wilderness between innocence and hard wisdom, between hopelessness and faith, The Last Child leaves all categories behind and establishes John Hart as a writer of unique power. Now with an excerpt from John Hart's next book The Hush, available in February 2018.

Chekhov's Children

Author : Nadya L. Peterson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007658
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Chekhov's Children written by Nadya L. Peterson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Chekhov's representations of children have generally remained on the periphery of scholarly attention. Yet his stories about children, which focus on communication and the emergence of personhood, also illuminate the process by which the author forged his own language of expression and occupy a uniquely important place within his work. Chekhov's Children explores these stories – dating from Chekhov's early writings in the 1880s – as a distinct body of work unified by the theme of maturation and by the creation of a literary model of childhood. Nadya Peterson describes the evolution of Chekhov's model and its connection with the prevalent views on children in the literature, education, medicine, and psychology of his time. As with his later writing, Chekhov's portrayals of young protagonists exhibit complexity, diversity, and a broad reach across the writer's cultural and literary landscape, dealing with such themes as the distinctiveness of a child's perspective, the relationship between the worlds of children and adults, the nature of child development, socialization, gender differences, and sexuality. While reconstructing a particular literary model of childhood, this book brings to light a body of discourse on children, childhood development, and education prominent in Russia in the late nineteenth century. Chekhov's Children accords this topic the significance it deserves by placing Chekhov's model of childhood within the broad context of his time and reassessing established notions about the child's place in the author's oeuvre.

Hey Grandude!

Author : Paul McCartney
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0525648674
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Hey Grandude! written by Paul McCartney and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This #1 New York Times bestselling picture book adventure from Paul McCartney is perfect for Father’s Day or any day when you’re looking to celebrate the fun that grandparents and grandkids can get up to! See the compass needle spin, let the magic fun begin! Meet Grandude--a super-cool grandfather who is an intrepid explorer with some amazing tricks up his sleeve. Grandude is a one-of-a-kind traveler! With his magic compass, he whisks his four grandkids off on whirlwind adventures, taking them all around the globe. Join them as they ride flying fish, dodge stampedes, and escape avalanches! Brought to life with gloriously colorful illustrations from talented artist Kathryn Durst, Hey Grandude is the perfect bedtime story for little explorers and an ideal gift for Father’s Day.

Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455

Author : Meaghan McEvoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199664811
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 written by Meaghan McEvoy and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McEvoy addresses the phenomenon of the Roman child-emperor during the late fourth century. Tracing the course of their reigns, the book looks at the sophistication of the Roman system of government which made their accessions possible, and the adaptation of existing imperial ideology to portray boys as young as six as viable rulers.

The Late Talker

Author : Dr. Marilyn C. Agin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312309244
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Late Talker written by Dr. Marilyn C. Agin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the features of verbal apraxia, also referred to as dyspraxia, and evaluates the needed therapies and interventions and the role of parents and other care givers in helping these children speak.

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers: A Novel

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631493582
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers: A Novel written by Larry McMurtry and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young writer hits the dusty Texas highway for the California coast in this “brilliant . . . funny and dangerously tender” (Time) tale of art and sacrifice. Hailed as one of “the best novels ever set in America’s fourth largest city” (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is a powerful demonstration of Larry McMurtry’s “comic genius, his ability to render a sense of landscape, and interior intellection tension” (Jim Harrison, New York Times Book Review). Desperate to break from the “mundane happiness” of Houston, budding writer Danny Deck hops in his car, “El Chevy,” bound for the West Coast on a road trip filled with broken hearts and bleak realities of the artistic life. A cast of unforgettable characters joins the naive troubadour’s pilgrimage to California and back to Texas, including a cruel, long-legged beauty; an appealing screenwriter; a randy college professor; and a genuine if painfully “normal” friend. Since the novel’s publication in 1972, Danny Deck has “been far more successful at getting loved by readers than he ever was at getting loved by the women in his life” (McMurtry), a testament to the author’s incomparable talent for capturing the essential tragicomedy of the human experience.

Late-Talking Children

Author : Stephen M. Camarata
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262027798
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Late-Talking Children written by Stephen M. Camarata and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What parents need to know about the causes and treatment of children's late talking: how to avoid misdiagnoses, navigate the educational system, and more. When children are late in hitting developmental milestones, parents worry. And no delay causes more parental anxiety than late talking, which is associated in many parents' minds with such serious conditions as autism and severe intellectual disability. In fact, as children's speech expert Stephen Camarata points out in this enlightening book, children are late in beginning to talk for a wide variety of reasons. For some children, late talking may be a symptom of other, more serious, problems; for many others, however, it may simply be a stage with no long-term complications. Camarata describes in accessible language what science knows about the characteristics and causes of late talking. He explains that late talking is only one of a constellation of autism symptoms. Although all autistic children are late talkers, not all late-talking children are autistic. Camarata draws on more than twenty-five years of professional experience diagnosing and treating late talkers—and on his personal experience of being a late talker himself and having a late-talking son. He provides information that will help parents navigate the maze of doctors, speech therapists, early childhood services, and special education; and he describes the effect that late talking may have on children's post-talking learning styles.

Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455

Author : Meaghan A. McEvoy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019164210X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 written by Meaghan A. McEvoy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, McEvoy explodes the myth that the remarkable phenomenon of the late Roman child-emperor reflected mere dynastic sentiment or historical accident. Tracing the course of the frequently tumultuous, but nevertheless lengthy, reigns of young western emperors in the years AD 367-455, she looks at the way in which the sophistication of the Roman system made their accessions and survival possible. The book highlights how these reigns allowed for individual generals to dominate the Roman state and in what manner the crucial role of Christianity, together with the vested interests of various factions within the imperial elite, contributed to a transformation of the imperial image - enabling and facilitating the adaptation of existing imperial ideology to portray boys as young as six as viable rulers. It also analyses the struggles which ensued upon a child-emperor reaching adulthood and seeking to take up functions which had long been delegated during his childhood. Through the phenomenon of child-emperor rule, McEvoy demonstrates the major changes taking place in the nature of the imperial office in late antiquity, which had significant long-term impacts upon the way the Roman state came to be ruled and, in turn, the nature of rulership in the early medieval and Byzantine worlds to follow.

The Making of the Modern Child

Author : Andrew O'Malley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135947325
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Modern Child written by Andrew O'Malley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late-18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children's literature, as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O'Malley ties the evolution of the idea of "the child" to the growth of the middle class, which used the figure of the child as a symbol in its various calls for social reform.

Fatal Years

Author : Samuel H. Preston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400861896
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Fatal Years written by Samuel H. Preston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatal Years is the first systematic study of child mortality in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Exploiting newly discovered data from the 1900 Census of Population, Samuel Preston and Michael Haines present their findings in a volume that is not only a pioneering work of demography but also an accessible and moving historical narrative. Despite having a rich, well-fed, and highly literate population, the United States had exceptionally high child-mortality levels during this period: nearly one out of every five children died before the age of five. Preston and Haines challenge accepted opinion to show that losses in privileged social groups were as appalling as those among lower classes. Improvements came only with better knowledge about infectious diseases and greater public efforts to limit their spread. The authors look at a wide range of topics, including differences in mortality in urban versus rural areas and the differences in child mortality among various immigration groups. "Fatal Years is an extremely important contribution to our understanding of child mortality in the United States at the turn of the century. The new data and its analysis force everyone to reconsider previous work and statements about U.S. mortality in that period. The book will quickly become a standard in the field."--Maris A. Vinovskis, University of Michigan Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

It's Never Too Late

Author : Dallas Clayton
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780399163081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book It's Never Too Late written by Dallas Clayton and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book that reminds adults what children already know--focus on the important things that make life great"--

Leo the Late Bloomer

Author : Robert Kraus
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006443348X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Leo the Late Bloomer written by Robert Kraus and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-01-20 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo isn't reading, or writing, or drawing, or even speaking, and his father is concerned. But Leo's mother isn't. She knows her son will do all those things, and more, when he's ready. 'Reassuring for other late bloomers, this book is illustrated with beguiling pictures.' -- Saturday Review.