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Author: Jean Thesman Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780395595077 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 184
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Sent to spend the summer in the country, three foster children and an older woman recovering from a serious accident are abandoned by their slovenly caretaker and must try to survive on their own.
Author: Jean Thesman Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780395595077 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 184
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Sent to spend the summer in the country, three foster children and an older woman recovering from a serious accident are abandoned by their slovenly caretaker and must try to survive on their own.
Author: Mary Lawson Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448182719 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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Discover this powerful novel about a family falling apart, from the Booker Longlisted author of A TOWN CALLED SOLACE 'Tender and surprising... A vivid and evocative tale' New York Times Twenty-one-year-old Megan Cartwright has never been outside the small town she was born in but one winter's day in 1966 she leaves everything behind and sets out for London. Ahead of her is a glittering new life, just waiting for her to claim it. But left behind, her family begins to unravel. Disturbing letters from home begin to arrive and torn between her independence and family ties, Megan must make an impossible choice. 'Every bit as good as I expected. A heart-aching and beautifully written story of a family falling apart' Woman and Home
Author: Binka Le Breton Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429923172 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 302
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The colorful story of one couple's journey across the world to build their dream home in the heart of the Amazon In 1989, as their mid-life crises approached, concert pianist Binka Le Breton and her husband Robin, an agricultural economist, decided to uproot themselves from their home in Washington, D.C. and start a new life in Brazil. Where the Road Ends is their story of building a house, a rainforest research center, and a new dream. Since then, they've learned how to work with the trees, the animals, the weather, the local community, and each other. Their technology now ranges from the oxcart to the Internet, and in 2000 they opened a rainforest conservation and research center that is visited by foreign researchers and Brazilian school children. From meeting their resident cowboy, Albertinho, to beheading snakes, to chauffeuring a local wedding—the adventures described here are unparalleled. This delightful memoir takes the armchair traveler deep into another world where matters of providing food and shelter can never be taken for granted. Binka and Robin have embarked on an adventure that many readers only dream about—transplanting themselves in a different country and learning (often the hard way) what it takes to survive and flourish. "A good read for armchair travelers." - Kirkus Reviews
Author: Pensioners Press Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781797829845 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 120
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Where The Road Ends The Fun Begins - An Eye-catching Retirement Party Guest Book Show your light-hearted side and whimsically welcome your guests. This witty guest book is a convenient 6x9in (23x15cm) size to fit the occasion and your bookshelf once the party is over. The 120-page paperback book is a soft matte book and bound with book industry binding (the same standard as your local library books). The quality crisp white paper minimizes ink bleed-through and is perfect for pen or pencil users. The sign in book features: 109 guest pages with ample space for 300+ guests to write cheeky words of wisdom for your retirement 10 "Memories" pages at the back ready to be filled with thoughts and photos from the day If you like this guest book, click the brand name to see other humorous and sassy designs! Most of all, congratulations on your big day...the first day of the rest of your retired life. Don't forget to click the buy button to get your copy!
Author: Cormac McCarthy Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307267458 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 257
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Author: Jacob Ashton Publisher: ISBN: 9781695236158 Category : Languages : en Pages : 392
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Follow the adventures of Jacob Ashton as he sets off to travel the world by bicycle even though he'd never really cycle toured or even traveled much beforehand. As if just cycling around the world wasn't enough, he kicks off his journey by riding the Pan-American Highway southbound from his parents' house in Idaho, USA, in the dead of winter! Not only tackling severe weather, Jacob has to battle through language barriers, the loss of a finger, and his own general ignorance along the way. How far will he make it? Will he quit in the first few days? Well, he wrote a book so he must have done okay.Book One of a world tour by bicycle covering about 19,837 miles (31,925 km) in 21 countries.
Author: Hicks, Meghan Publisher: Human Kinetics ISBN: 1492513288 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 240
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Start your run where the pavement ends. Where the Road Ends: A Guide to Trail Running is the authoritative and accessible guide for this rapidly growing sport. Whether you are an experienced runner on roads or an outdoor enthusiast who wants to explore a new way of appreciating nature, this four-color resource covers training, competition, injury prevention, strategy, and more.
Author: Alan W. Maki Publisher: ISBN: 9781685154509 Category : Languages : en Pages : 348
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It's a big world out there; go and make the best of it. Have you ever noticed that across North America and even the rest of the world, when you fly into a city a great adventure always begins with travel on an interstate highway with six or more lanes, then exits to a state road with two or four lanes, then progresses to a two lane road, then onto a dirt road, and finally to a logging, mining, or ranch road? And where the road ends, the adventure begins... Alan W. Maki is convinced that as a parent and grandparent, one of the most important legacies he can leave behind is a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors and the animals that inhabit wild places. He knows that someday one of those kids or grandkids will brush their hand on the bark of a tree deep in the hardwood forest, or wet their hand as they release a freshly caught trout, and then they will understand his hopes for a legacy left behind. Jack London once said, "I would rather be ashes than dust, a spark burnt out in a brilliant blaze, than be stifled in dry rot... For man's chief purpose is to live, not to exist; I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them; I shall use my time."
Author: Thomas Ford Conlan Publisher: ISBN: 9781943995288 Category : Boys Languages : en Pages : 181
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"Back to the simple earth" - Tom Conlan comes by his love of the land naturally, generations after a beloved grandfather worked and saved to escape Detroit and move north. Conlan inherited that longing; he reveled in his boyhood of treeforts, baseball, and Sloppy Joes, even as it was unfolding. He revels in it still, with graceful language and long thoughts, with good dogs, good horses, and even better homemade wine. - Mardi Link, author of The Drummond Girls and Bootstrapper MORE PRAISE FOR My Journey Begins Where the Road Ends: "Deeply moving...told with all the tropes a good poet would use ... Vivid Description ... a delightful sense of humor ... a novelist's skill with scene and feel for dialogue ..." - Cathy Smith Bowers, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina ..". close to being a prose poem ... intense, lyrical nature writing." - Emily Fox Gordon, author of Mockingbird Years "Lovely Vignettes." - Peter Stitt, editor, The Gettysburg Review
Author: Jean Thesman
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