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Car Trouble

Author : Jeanne DuPrau
Publisher : Untreed Reads
ISBN 13 : 1611878446
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Car Trouble written by Jeanne DuPrau and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duff Pringle has bought his first car. (Used.) He's got six days to drive 3,000 miles cross-country to California and start a new hi-tech job that will make him wealthy. (Sort of.) Nothing can stop him. (Or can it?) Uh-oh . . . CAR TROUBLE. Duff's Ford Escort barely makes it a hundred miles from home before breaking down. What's he supposed to do? He's promised his new boss he'll be there by Monday. But he's also promised himself that he'll make this journey by car, so he can really see the country. Using his laptop and some quick thinking, he pieces together a way to continue his trip. What he doesn't plan on are the people he meets along the road. There's Stu, a hitchhiker with a secret; Bonnie, an aspiring singer with a con artist for a mother; two thugs looking for a trunkful of cash; and Moony, the terrier prone to carsickness.

Trouble for Thomas and Other Stories

Author :
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0679801014
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Trouble for Thomas and Other Stories written by and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Hop on board for an action-packed ride with Thomas and Friends as they create their own steam-powered train adventures!

Car Trouble and Other Stories

Author : Adam R. Charpentier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Car Trouble and Other Stories written by Adam R. Charpentier and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Car Trouble

Author : Robert Rorke
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006284850X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Car Trouble written by Robert Rorke and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a bright new talent, a witty, moving, and inspirational coming-of-age debut novel set in 1970s Brooklyn about a teenager and his abusive father whose obsession with broken down vintage cars careens wildly out of control. “Such a pleasure to read.... This is a coming of age story, but it is also so much more than that.”—Dominic Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Nicky Flynn is coming-of-age in 1970s Brooklyn, riding into his sophomore year at St. Michaels, the last hurrah of the Diocesan school system. A budding young actor, Nicky is at once sensitive, resilient, exasperated, and keenly observant—especially when it comes to his father, Patrick. Undeniably enigmatic, and coasting on vanity, charm, and desperation, “Himself” as Nicky calls his father, is given to picking up old car junkers, for cheap at NYPD auctions—each sputtering, tail-finned treasure subsidized by poker games. To Patrick, these chrome glamour tanks are his obsessions, repairable reminders of the past when he was young, and everything seemed new and gleaming and possible—before he had a family. For Nicky, each one is a milestone. Whether it’s a harrowing joy ride or a driving lesson, they’re unforgettable markers on his path toward an unpredictable future. But as Patrick’s compulsions slide into alcoholism and abuse, Nicky, his mother, and sisters brace themselves for an inevitable sharp turn in their addled lives. Narrated with humor and a rueful awareness, Car Trouble is an exhilarating novel about acceptance, regret, compassion, and finding your authentic adult self amid the rubble and rumble of growing up.

Family Car Trouble

Author : Gus Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942953494
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Family Car Trouble written by Gus Powell and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Softcover Edition

Spirit Car

Author : Diane Wilson
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873516990
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Spirit Car written by Diane Wilson and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child of a typical 1950s suburb unearths her mother's hidden heritage, launching a rich and magical exploration of her own identity and her family's powerful Native American past.

Cranky

Author : W. Awdry
Publisher : Egmont Books (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781405234535
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Cranky written by W. Awdry and published by Egmont Books (UK). This book was released on 2008 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PICTURE STORYBOOKS. Egmont's character story books. Read about Thomas' friends in the Thomas Story Library. Ages 3+.

Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories

Author : Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259089
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories written by Bess Streeter Aldrich and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains twelve short Christmas stories about reunited families, fellowship, and restored faith including 'I Remember,' a story about the author's childhood in Iowa.

Two Figures in a Car and Other Stories

Author : Wan Phing Lim
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9789814954143
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Two Figures in a Car and Other Stories written by Wan Phing Lim and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two figures sit in a car, waiting to commit a crime. A young girl steals her grandmother's jade bracelet. A Malay man collects the blonde hair of a British teenager he is transfixed with, and a young woman feeds human blood to a frangipani tree. There's right and wrong in this world. Or is there? This collection of fourteen stories explores the grey and amoral lives of ordinary - and not so ordinary - Malaysians and Singaporeans looking to carve their place in the world. Shifting between the dark hills of Penang island to the lonely coasts of Singapore and the cramped corners of Kuala Lumpur and Manchester, Two Figures in a Car is coloured with petty crimes, small ambitions and fantastical delusions.

Car Trouble

Author : Christine Liotta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Car Trouble written by Christine Liotta and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bad Dreams and Other Stories

Author : Tessa Hadley
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062476688
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Bad Dreams and Other Stories written by Tessa Hadley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year An NPR Best Book of the Year The award-winning author of The Past once again "crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural" (Washington Post), in a collection of stories that elevate the mundane into the exceptional. The author of six critically acclaimed novels, Tessa Hadley has proven herself to be the champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric or a forgotten jacket. Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, made strange by the darkness; a housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. The first steps into a turning point and a new life are made so easily and carelessly: each of these stories illuminate crucial moments of transition, often imperceptible to the protagonists. A girl accepts a lift in a car with some older boys; a young woman reads the diaries she discovers while housesitting. Small acts have large consequences, some that can reverberate across decades; private fantasies can affect other people, for better and worse. The real things that happen to people, the accidents that befall them, are every bit as mysterious as their longings and their dreams. Bad Dreams and Other Stories demonstrates yet again that Tessa Hadley "puts on paper a consciousness so visceral, so fully realized, it heightens and expands your own. She is a true master" (Lily King, author of Euphoria).

If I Built a Car

Author : Chris Van Dusen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101653892
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book If I Built a Car written by Chris Van Dusen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If I built a car, it'd be totally new! Here are a few of the things that I'd do. . . . Young Jack is giving an eye-opening tour of the car he'd like to build. There's a snack bar, a pool, and even a robot named Robert to act as chauffeur. With Jack's soaring imagination in the driver's seat, we're deep-sea diving one minute and flying high above traffic the next in this whimsical, tantalizing take on the car of the future. Illustrations packed with witty detail, bright colors, and chrome recall the fabulous fifties and an era of classic American automobiles. Infectious rhythm and clever invention make this wonderful read-aloud a launch pad for imaginative fun.

Car Trouble

Author : Shawn Lake
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530497515
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Car Trouble written by Shawn Lake and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in the 1990s Ken Field gave up a thriving auto repair shop, which catered to wealthy owners of British sports cars in Portland, Oregon, and moved to Montana to start a new life. That included driving a tow truck, which meant more stories for his already rich collection - stories of driving a client's car down Portland's Front Avenue on three wheels; of the cheerful woman who poured water in her oil-filler spout to cool her engine; and of the three Native American guys, all named Eddie, who needed a late-night tow to Helena - to name just a few. Car Trouble is really about people, who Ken handles with as much skill and generosity as he does their cars. He knows how to let his clients believe their own versions of how bad brakes, bad weather or bad luck caused their car trouble, while at the same time saving the real stories for later. There is no tow truck driver-client privilege, after all.

The Circus and Other Stories

Author : Samuil Marshak
Publisher : Tate
ISBN 13 : 9781849761024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Circus and Other Stories written by Samuil Marshak and published by Tate. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects four stories, including "The Circus," in which rhyming text describes different circus performances.

What Remains and Other Stories

Author : Christa Wolf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226904954
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book What Remains and Other Stories written by Christa Wolf and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Remains collects Christa Wolf's short fiction, from early work in the sixties to the widely debated title story, first published in Germany in 1990. Addressing a wide range of topics, from sexual politics to the nature of memory, these powerful and often very personal stories offer a fascinating introduction to Wolf's work. What Remains and Other Stories . . . is clear and farsighted. The eight heartfelt stories in the book show why she has been respected as a serious author since her 1968 novel, The Quest for Christa T. . . . Wolf uses her own experiences and observations to create universal themes about the controls upon human freedom.—Herbert Mitgang, New York Times Christa Wolf has set herself nothing less than the task of exploring what it is to be a conscious human being alive in a moment of history.—Mary Gordon, New York Times Book Review The simultaneous publication of these two volumes offers readers here a generous sampling of the short fiction, speeches and essays that Wolf has produced over the last three decades.—Mark Harman, Boston Globe

The Wagon and Other Stories from the City

Author : Martin Preib
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226679810
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Wagon and Other Stories from the City written by Martin Preib and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department—a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib’s daily life on the job, The Wagon and Other Stories from the City chronicles the outer and inner lives of both a Chicago cop and the city itself. The book follows Preib as he transports body bags, forges an unlikely connection with his female partner, trains a younger officer, and finds himself among people long forgotten—or rendered invisible—by the rest of society. Preib recounts how he navigates the tenuous labyrinths of race and class in the urban metropolis, such as a domestic disturbance call involving a gang member and his abused girlfriend or a run-in with a group of drunk yuppies. As he encounters the real and imagined geographies of Chicago, the city reveals itself to be not just a backdrop, but a central force in his narrative of life and death. Preib’s accounts, all told in his breathtaking prose, come alive in ways that readers will long remember.

Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge

Author : Peter Orner
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316224634
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge written by Peter Orner and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Orner zeroes in on the strange ways our memories define us: A woman's husband dies before their divorce is finalized; a man runs for governor of Illinois and loses much more than an election; two brothers play beneath the infamous bridge at Chappaquiddick. Employing the masterful compression for which he has been widely praised, Orner presents a kaleidoscope of individual lives viewed in startling, intimate close-up. Whether writing of Geraldo Rivera's attempt to reveal the contents of Al Capone's vault or of a father and daughter trying to outrun a hurricane, Orner illuminates universal themes. In stories that span considerable geographic ground -- from Chicago to Wyoming, from Massachusetts to the Czech Republic -- he writes of the past we can't seem to shake, the losses we can't make up for, and the power of our stories to help us reclaim what we thought was gone forever. "A ravishing collection, full of wisdom, grief, beauty, and especially surprise." -- Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell Collectors