Old Yeller

Author: Fred Gipson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061962864
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
A timeless American classic and one of the most beloved children’s books ever written, Old Yeller is a Newbery Honor Book that explores the poignant and unforgettable bond between a boy and the stray dog who becomes his loyal friend. When his father sets out on a cattle drive toward Kansas for the summer, fourteen-year-old Travis Coates is left to take care of his family and their farm. Living in Texas Hill Country during the 1860s, Travis comes to face new, unanticipated, and often perilous responsibilities in the frontier wilderness. A particular nuisance is a stray yellow dog that shows up one day and steals food from the family. But the big canine who Travis calls “Old Yeller” proves his worth by defending the family from danger. And Travis ultimately finds help and comfort in the courage and unwavering love of the dog who comes to be his very best friend. Fred Gipson’s novel is an eloquently simple story that is both exciting and deeply moving. It stands alongside works like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Where The Red Fern Grows, and Shiloh as a beloved and enduring classic of literature. Originally published in 1956 to instant acclaim, Old Yeller later inspired a hit film from Walt Disney. Just as Old Yeller inevitably makes his way into the Coates family’s hearts, this book will find its own special place in readers’ hearts.

Who Needs Donuts?

Author: Mark Alan Stamaty
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375983775
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

Book Description
Sam’s love of donuts takes him to the Big City where he makes friends with Mr. Bikferd, a world class collector of donuts. But when Mr. Bikferd falls in love with Pretzel Annie, the prophecy of an old homeless woman comes true: “Who needs donuts when you’ve got love?” Mr. Bikferd bequeaths his donut collection to Sam, who uses it to save the old homeless woman from drowning in a basement flooded with coffee. This is a reissue of Mark Alan Stamaty’s masterpiece of the absurd, first published 30 years ago and out of print nearly as long. With an illustration style that mixes a benign Hieronymus Bosch with an urban Where’s Waldo?, Stamaty’s off-the-wall humor is on target for little kids and big kids today.

The Rise of the Research University

Author: Louis Menand
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022641485X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and, in many cases, have yet to be translated into English. With this book, Paul Reitter, Chad Wellmon, and Louis Menand bring a wealth of these important texts together, assembling a fascinating collection of primary sources—many translated into English for the first time—that outline what would become the university as we know it. The editors focus on the development of American universities such as Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the Universities of Chicago, California, and Michigan. Looking to Germany, they translate a number of seminal sources that formulate the shape and purpose of the university and place them next to hard-to-find English-language texts that took the German university as their inspiration, one that they creatively adapted, often against stiff resistance. Enriching these texts with short but insightful essays that contextualize their importance, the editors offer an accessible portrait of the early research university, one that provides invaluable insights not only into the historical development of higher learning but also its role in modern society.

War of the Heroes Ii

Author: Ryan Campbell
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524557307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
This tale is not for the faint of heart. I know youve probably heard that before, but in this case, its true. This is a tale of loss and love, fear and regret, hate and revenge. This story is not to teach a lesson, but to educate the people on forces beyond our control. Whether you take my story to heart or see it as a mere fictional tale, you will know the name Ammera and will come to fear it. To be truthful, its just a story. Its not like if you dont read it, youre going to die. However, should you decide to look in this book, you will find what I promised.

Running the Light

Author: Sam Tallent
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0593978889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A bona fide “instant classic” (Doug Stanhope) novel that tells the story of a road comic crashing and burning by acclaimed comedian Sam Tallent Billy Ray Schafer stepped off the plane in Amarillo, Texas, with twenty-six hundred dollars tucked down the leg of his black ostrich-skin cowboy boot. He walked to baggage claim slowly, jelly-legged and nearing lucidity, coming out from under the Xanax he snorted before the flight. Debauched, divorced, and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep living in this bleak and violent glimpse into the psyche of a thoroughly ruined man. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father—comedian is the only title Schafer has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career, Billy Ray knows the answer to the question: What happens when opportunity doesn't come—or worse—it comes and goes? “In vivid, electric sentences that read like cinematic tracking shots,” (Denver Post) Tallent hurls you into an absolute mess of a man’s life as we search for the mercy he does not want.

When We Were Slaves

Author: Work Projects Administration
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 6001

Book Description
Good Press present to you the complete collection of hundreds of life stories, recorded interviews and incredible vivid testimonies of former slaves from the American southern states, including photos of the people being interviewed and their extraordinary narratives. After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 U.S. states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia

Mary Go-Round: Epic Series Script

Author: Ken Ludden
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105521877
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
First time in print, this historic production is derived from a magazine story with 54 weekly issues telling a hilarious and gripping adventure shows behind the scenes in Washington, DC when a conservative matriarch with unimaginable influence over one Congressman discovers her son is gay. The only problem is that he is working for the Congressman. This story was considered the favorite gay soap in America for many years. It was made into this screen play and the pilot was shot. But when, in 2001, the twin towers fell, so did all scripts with references to terrorist plots. Oh, yes, there is a terrorist plot in this story, originally written in 1993. Now, the screen play for this 19-episode epic television series is available.

Second Shot

Author: Catherine Coulter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 042527134X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562

Book Description
The FBI thrillers ELEVENTH HOUR and BLINDSIDE, together for the first time in one volume A one-two punch of riveting suspense as two bestselling FBI thrillers showcase agents Savich and Sherlock at their very best. Outdoing herself with each FBI thriller that she writes, Catherine Coulter has been hailed as “a one-of-a-kind author who knows how to hook her readers and keep them coming back for more” (The Best Reviews). Eleventh Hour—In this “fast-paced” (Booklist) novel, agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in an investigation when a fellow agent’s twin brother—a priest—is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church. Blindside—“Twisted villains…[and] intriguing escapism” (Lansing [MI] State Journal) lure readers into a case that pits Sherlock and Savich against a charismatic evangelist and his wife, who are involved in the kidnapping of a six-year-old boy.

Getting Georges̕ Goat

Author: Allan A. Hoffman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description

Uncle's Story

Author: Witi Ihimaera
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742288138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405

Book Description
Michael Mahana's personal disclosure to his parents leads to the uncovering of another family secret – about his uncle, Sam, who had fought in the Vietnam War. Now, armed with his uncle's diary, Michael goes searching for the truth about his uncle, about the secret the Mahana family has kept hidden for over thirty years, and what happened to Sam. Set in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam and in present-day New Zealand and North America, Witi Ihimaera's dramatic novel combines the superb story-telling of Bulibasha, King of the Gypsies with the unflinching realism of Nights in the Gardens of Spain. A powerful love story, it courageously confronts Maori attitudes to sexuality and masculinity and contains some of Ihimaera's most passionate writing to date. Also available as an eBook