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This book is book is the third in a series that examines the novel, Fathers of Nations, by Paul B Vitta. The first booklet analyzes the plot and examines the characters and their roles. The second examines the important themes and the elements of style. This book looks at how to deal with questions set on this novel. It begins with how to interpret question words, recognizing that this is often the first hurdle standing in the way of a student's performance....
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This book deals with the writer's struggle to be able to leave his small unnamed hometown and seek Adventure wherever he could find it. He discovered he enjoyed traveling somewhere and then writing about the experience. An example would be when he traveled from Auburn, California to Los Angeles and then across the United States to New York City and boarded a troop ship bound for Europe.
Gradually he left the wheat country of the Palouse, attended...
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Stephan Rovernut is the Mayor of the Squirrel Community. One day on his way to work, a large hawk makes him his victim. Somehow, Stephan survives the attack but loses his tail. The event then becomes, known in the community as the Incredible Injustice.
Sly Slick, the least liked member of the community, now claims the Mayor should be, removed from office since he is no longer whole without a tail. He looks upon the event of the Incredible Injustice...
44) Dirty Pictures
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A COMPLETE NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF UNDERGROUND COMIX
In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set out to subvert the medium, and with it, American culture.
Their "comix," spelled that way to distinguish the work from their dime-store contemporaries, presented tales...
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Jimmy and Jody are delighted, when their Beagle dog has five puppies. After giving the puppies fun names, the children soon discover the one they named Sausage has an unusual characteristic. He has no tail. So unusual, it makes Jody have a dream of Sausage going on a mission to find the Magical Great White German Shepherd dog who is the only one who can cure him. However, it is during Jody's extraordinary dream when Sausage also encounters various...
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This novel is a follow up to Mr. Crane's first novel, So Much to Give: A Story of America's Greatest Generation. It recounts what happened to three of the children born to the main characters in that book. It is a sequel in a sense, but also a stand-alone novel.
It tells the story of six children of the Greatest Generation growing up du ring the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties. The story follows them through all their growing up, their...
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Retired Army Master Seargent, Samuel Redding is working as a freelance photographer. While taking pre-hurricane photos on the beach, Samuel Redding trips over of a teenaged girl, her body hidden under a cluster of Sea Oats. While on all fours over the bod Sam is hit on the head. Sam sees stars and then blacks out. On recovering he is immediately arrested and taken to the hospital. In the hospital, when Sam is conscious he is charged with murder. The...
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The study of the modern African novel has been quite a challenge both at the high school and at the university level. This is especially so for novels that address traditional tenets of the African society. These novels, however, form a good corpus as a basis for comparative literature, especially looking at the African novel as compared to its European or the American counterpart. Still, the odinary critic is used to earlier African writers including...
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Following the first book on John Steinbeck's The Pearl which examined the PLOT of the novella and the CHARACTERS, this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE. This allows the critic of the novella to have a comprehensive view of what the novella is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what kind of style the novelist adopts. This should prepare any student of john Steinbeck in general or of this novel in particular, to answer any...
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Michela Vandemere Whimple is a woman whose mother insisted she be perfect in whatever undertaken she took on. When her newborn child, Wendy, is born with some deformity, she gives her up. A loving relative takes Wendy in and soon discovers she is no ordinary child. Growing up she starts to manifest a unique healing power with animals. When the Pullo brothers move in the neighborhood, they are in direct conflict with Wendy's love of nature and her...
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Finally, my 2nd book is here, Blood, Sweat and Years... Honestly, I thought it would be more "Years" before I published but between the time of the first book getting published and this book, I was inspired through the ups and downs in my life so much that many of the poems and stories tend to write themselves and before I knew it I had enough material for a this book. I enjoy writing poetry because it allows me that gateway to escape from everything...
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Rhyme For All Seasons, Many Holidays and Special Occasions is a treasury for poetry lovers or secular speakers, but especially for religious speakers on or near a holiday. About 200 of Dr. Skelton's poems about seasons, holidays, and/or special occasions are chronologically, arranged in four sections, with a fifth section for non-seasonal special occasions. The reader may be surprised at some that are included.
Doc writes to be understood, and is...
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Historically, the term "yellow rose" referred to an attractive mulatto woman. Also historically, the original "Yellow Rose of Texas" was for sure one Emily West, and her story is, intertwined in song and legend with the Texas Revolution of 1836. That series of battles, led by Sam Houston, made Texas a Republic, its own country until it joined the union in 1845. The Yellow Rose is set during the revolution and supposes that Emily and Sam not only collaborated...
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When Conrad Arlington Hill suddenly is dumped by his girlfriend, Abigail McCloud, he suffers irreparable hurt. So much so he conspires with his friend Ed to seek revenge on Abigail. His plan fails however, when Ed and Abigail manifest a love for each other. Conrad, who's body is now ravaged and consumed with hatred, goes on a mission of relentless revenge. He employs an underworld figure to force Ed to abandon Abigail and never see her again. Abigail...
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The study of the Afican novel is often challenging to both the teacher and the student in high schools and colleges. This is because, apart from many modern African novels being multi-faceted, many teachers and students still use the traditional methods of analysis. Often, such methods leave the reader with a lot of knowledge about the particular text, but with few literary skills that can be used on other literary texts or even other genres. This...
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A Student's Guide to Literature takes up these questions: In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary scholar R. V. Young addresses these timely issues in this guide to Western literature and poetry. He demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and...
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Con la publicación Meter la mano en las entrañas, Aida Toledo ofrece al lector un análisis y reflexiones sobre el testimonio latinoamericano. Este libro, basado en años de investigación y docencia, es apto tanto para el lector especializado, para quien presenta amplio material con el cual puede considerar los múltiples acercamientos que se han dado sobre este tema polémico, como también para el lector que recién se abre al estudio de este...
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The study of the modern African novel has been quite a challenge both at the high school and at the university level. This is especially so for novels that address traditional tenets of the African society. These novels, however, form a good corpus as a basis for comparative literature, especially looking at the African novel as compared to its European or the American counterpart. Still, the odinary critic is used to earlier African writers including...
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Modern Literature has diversified into comparative literature and African Literature has become quite important in this field. This is because it not only tries to rewrite a lot about Africa which was biased according to Eurocentric writers but also because it incorporates a lot of issues uniquely African. These may have to do with the traditional African Societies as well as the evolution of new so-called modern African societies, more oriented to...
60) Old Money
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Three young boys obtain jobs working for an old farmer in Eastern Kansas. Their first assignment together is to haul a trailer full of cattle across an old, worn out bridge. They tag each other with the nicknames of Runt, Mule and Kid. Those nicknames become their identities forever.
Soon, they band together to take on the town bully. A rivalry develops that lasts for years. Their childhood experiences bond them together. They become closer than...
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