[PDF] Chester And Gil eBook

Author : Carol Faulkner
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781862915688

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Chester and Gil live in the same goldfish bowl. While Gil just floats around the same old place, Chester knows he can save the world. His motto, 'Life is what you make it', takes on epic dimensions in this funny story of a fishy odd couple and the power of thinking big.

Author : Phil Perkins
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2022-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1665574615

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Retired Atlanta police detective Mac Burns was trying to enjoy retirement in the lowcountry town of Bluffton, South Carolina. He had planned to live a quiet, solitary life after a challenging career and messy divorce. Mac's dislike of the gated communities cropping up on Hilton Head Island and even in Bluffton was obvious to his friends, Richard Percival (Percy) and his college buddy and realtor Dan Wheeler. They'd often heard their friend talk about the restrictions of homeowner's associations and the boards that run them. He hated the incursion of planned developments that eat into the serenity of Old Town Bluffton. When his younger lady friend, Shelby Crewe, pressed him to look into a situation with a widowed neighbor who was being taken advantage of by a developer, he reluctantly agreed to investigate. He had no idea of the layers of deceit and corruption that investigation would uncover. So much for retirement.

Author : Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199996385

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The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics. These changes have even transformed linguists' perceptions of the very processes of language change, particularly in English, the most studied language in historical linguistics due to the size of available data and its status as a global language. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English takes stock of recent advances in the study of the history of English, broadening and deepening the understanding of the field. It seeks to suggest ways to rethink the relationship of English's past with its present, and make transparent the variety of conditions and processes that have been instrumental in shaping that history. Setting a new standard of cross-theoretical collaboration, it covers the field in an innovative way, providing diachronic accounts of major influences such as language contact, and typological processes that have shaped English and its varieties, as well as highlighting recent and ongoing developments of Englishes--celebrating the vitality of language change over the centuries and the many contexts and processes through which language change occurs.

Author : Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0190627883

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This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.

Author : Rebecca Hollingsworth
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1626349169

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Past meets present in South Carolina At first, Gillian Culkin feels only mildly inconvenienced by crowds of demonstrators debating the presence of the Confederate flag flying brazenly atop the South Carolina State House. Gil passes these people every day as she makes her way to work in the Caroliniana Library on the University of South Carolina campus. Like so many other White Southerners, she had never before given much thought to racial issues. But over the course of a few weeks, she comes to realize that the flag represents important and entrenched issues of race and inequality. Gil finds her views on race developing and evolving as she examines the past and sees its influence on the present. Meanwhile, at the Caroliniana, she studies the 1857 diary of a South Carolina dirt farmer named William Medlin. Hollingsworth makes him the center of a second story. Thinking to turn a quick profit, Medlin buys a slave at auction. In the course of the tragic journey he then undertakes with his newly acquired slave, Medlin’s views of enslavement change. ​The two narratives—one told in the present, the other in the past, in alternating chapters—provide a probing and insightful look at what it means to be human within an often inhumane system

Author : Lauran Paine
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781587248382

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Outlaws are ingenious men, but generally they confine themselves to traditional methods of committing crime. But when Marshal Gil Stevens' territory is invaded by a band of very clever renegades, he has the devil's own time of it trying to figure out how they work, why they remain out in the countryside, how they escape, and, ultimately, who they are. When he begins to suspect he will never find them, an old cowman named Rufus Irons is found savagely beaten. From that point on, Gil Stevens scours up every bit and piece of information he can find until he has enough to hunt down the raiders.

Author : Katherine X. Rylien
Publisher : Katherine Rylien
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1005584141

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It's 2055. Hunting vampires is the dangerous new sport of jaded trillionaires. Renee Cadieux-Smith just wants to taste the blood of Padrille, rich with a mix of male and female hormones. An old frenemy falls victim to the hunters, and Renee is dragged into battle. When her special abilities fail to help an ancient vampire find his long-lost love, his obsession puts Renee's family at grave risk. Renee must use her imperfect mastery of time and space (along with a few of Padrille's dangerous, illegal gadgets) to rescue her pregnant niece Joelle from a deranged abductor. Visitors from the previous century are an unwelcome complication, but when the resources Renee would normally count on for backup are curiously reluctant to come to her aid, she needs all the help she can get. Even her cousin Gil, who became a vampire hunter in another timeline—and Grandpa Larson, founder of the Cadieux-Smith family, the man Renee killed when she was nineteen years old.