[PDF] Honed Virtue A Coming Of Age Story eBook

Author : David Radmore
Publisher : Top Reads Publishing, LLC
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1970107219

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In this coming of age memoir, we follow young Danny Davis living in rural Oregon during the Great Depression and see through his hopeful eyes what he believes is the path to simply living a good life. Early tragedy orphans him, but the love and support of a multinational extended family leads him to a remarkable invention at thirteen years old, that sets the entire family up for life financially. The characters woven through Danny’s story will make you laugh, cry, and at times shock you, but one thing's for sure—once you start reading this book, you will want to keep reading and see how life’s twists and turns shape Danny and prepare him for future adventures. Written adeptly by the author, you are the fly on the wall and can’t help feeling you are part of the scene, wondering if this story can really be true. “... this story grabbed me from the first page. The amazing adventures and accomplishments of this young protagonist were a thrill to read.” —A. Glass, Five-Star Review Honed Virtue is Volume 1 of The Saga of Danny Davis.

Author : David Radmore
Publisher : MCP Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781545625644

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This is a coming of age story that follows a five-year-old boy living in rural Oregon during the Great Depression and beyond, through puberty. Early tragedy orphans him, but the love and support of a multinational "family" leads him to a remarkable discovery at 13 years old, that sets the entire family up for life financially. The characters and woven story will make you laugh, cry, and at times "shock" you, particularly if you are a female, but one thing's for sure, once you start reading this book, you won't be able to put it down. You are the fly on the wall watching and listening as this story unfolds.

Author : Tawni Waters
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481407090

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As if her parents' heavy drinking and her father's abuse--which nearly killed her half-brother, Iggy--were not enough, fifteen-year-old Mara is caught kissing her girlfriend, Xylia, by the preacher's son and becomes terrified that her own life is at risk.

Author : Martin Suter
Publisher : Bedford Square Publishers
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857301012

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A well-to-do bachelor, who sees no more promise in love. A beautiful young woman with a mysterious past. A picture and its price. An auction, which causes an uproar in the art community - and a few who come up short in their desire for the big money. Adrian Weynfeldt, mid-fifties, bachelor, upper middle class, art expert at an international auction house, lives in an expansive apartment in the city centre. He is done with love. Until one day a younger woman persuades him - against his customary practice - to take her home with him. The next morning, she is holding on to the balcony... and threatening to jump. Adrian is able to dissuade her, but from now on she makes him responsible for her life. Weynfeldt's settled life becomes untracked - until he finally realizes that nothing is the way it appears.

Author : Donald B. Holmes
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2008-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1409201007

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2008 is the Centennial of Wilbur Wright's key flights in France - flights that gave birth to modern aviation. It is a story little known in the English-speaking world; this 180pp, budget, B&W version of the lavishly-illustrated, full-colour first edition tells the remarkable story behind the Le Mans celebrations of 2008, and the 2009 Pau centennial of the first pilot school in the world. Includes over 150 antique French postcards; also newspaper reports and posters of these and other events of the Belle Epoque period of flightin France.

Author : Justin Torres
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547577001

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The critically acclaimed debut from the National Book Award–winning author of Blackouts. In this award-winning, groundbreaking novel, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become. “A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver’s or Jeffrey Eugenides’s voice did when we first heard it.” —The Washington Post Three brothers tear their way through childhood—smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he’s Puerto Rican, she’s white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful. “We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It’s heartbreaking. It’s beautiful. It resembles no other book I’ve read.” —Michael Cunningham “A fiery ode to boyhood. . . A welterweight champ of a book.” —NPR, Weekend Edition NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Author : William J. Bennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1917 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1439126259

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Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Vanguard Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780306822780

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Kurt Vonnegut's first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.

Author : Robin Hanson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198754620

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Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think that the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or "ems." Robin Hanson draws on decades of expertise in economics, physics, and computer science to paint a detailed picture of this next great era in human (and machine) evolution - the age of em.

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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 1972-07-17
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.