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Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780152062651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.
Author: Betty Bard MacDonald
Publisher:
Published: 2000-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781888173307
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The bestselling author of the American humor classic The Egg and I continues the adventure with this collection of tales about life on the fringe of the Western wilderness. Writing in the 1950s, Betty MacDonald, sophisticated and urbane, captivated readers with her observations about raising a family on an island in Puget Sound. As usual, humorist MacDonald is her own favorite target. She manages to get herself into scrapes with washing machines set adrift in rowboats, used cars, and a $25 Turkey Squasher. And then there's the scariest aspect of island life -- teenaged children.
Author: Günter Grass
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780156035347
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces as he was recovering from shrapnel wounds, he spent the final weeks of the war in an American POW camp. After the war, Grass resolved to become an artist and moved with his first wife to Paris, where he began to write the novel that would make him famous. Full of the bravado of youth, the rubble of postwar Germany, the thrill of wild love affairs, and the exhilaration of Paris in the early fifties, Peeling the Onion--which caused great controversy when it was published in Germany--reveals Grass at his most intimate.
Author: Sara Fanelli
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1995-07-20
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 0060264551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In each spread of this bold and humorous picture book, available for the first time since 1995, children can examine their place in the world around them through detailed and engaging maps. Twelve beautifully illustrated maps such as Map of My Day and Map of My Tummy will fascinate children. When finished reading the book, children can unfold the jacket -- it turns into a poster-size map!
Author: Rebecca Bond
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0544332172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Burdock, a young barn cat, sneaks into the house to get warm he hears that the farmer, Dewey Baxter, has terrible plans that will endanger all the animals, and he leads them in an attempt to escape before it is too late.
Author: James McBride
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2013-08-20
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1594486344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, the region a battlefield between anti and pro slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an arguement between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town with Brown, who believes Henry is a girl. Over the next months, Henry conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. He finds himeself with Brown at the historic raid on Harper's Ferry, one of the catalysts for the civil war.
Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Publisher: Delta
Published: 2007-08-28
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0385341598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating account of a double tragedy: one physical, the other psychological.”—Truman Capote This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field. “A complex story of tragic proportions . . . more ambitious than In Cold Blood and equally compelling!”—The New York Times “Once the action begins it is difficult to put the book down. . . . Wambaugh’s compelling account of this true story is destined for the bestseller lists.”—Library Journal
Author: Karen Berger
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780898865233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Knowing a few seemingly small tricks will enable backpackers to take big strides in increasing their comfort, safety, preparation, and improvisational skills. Author Karen Berger covers everything from packing and planning to field repairs and emergency improvisations. A great gift for any hiker or backpacker. 80 photos. 15 illustrations..
Author: Monica Furlong
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Published: 2022-06-13
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Join in the Final Adventures of the Wise Child, Juniper and Colman! Set in very early Christian times, Colman is a spellbinding fantasy of a faraway age, when the mystical and the commonplace walked hand in hand. The healer, Juniper, and her apprentice, Wise Child, are accused of witchcraft and forced to flee their small town. Wise Child's devoted cousin, Colman, escapes with them. This is his story of their arrival to the land of Juniper's birth, where she is, in fact, a princess.
Author: Keith Richards
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2010-11-12
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 0316178721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever. With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.
