[PDF] Under Running Laughter eBook

Author : Dean Jones
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780912376837

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Dean Jones was two men. He was the boyishly handsome star of the Walt Disney box-office hits - the hero of television shows and Saturday matinees, with a winsome smile every mother could trust. And he was the reckless, hard-living predator who prowled from one Hollywood romance to another - always stalked by deep regrets and a strange death wish that arose when on his motorcycle or behind the wheel of his sports car. Enter Lory Patrick. Loving, attractive, independent, different.

Author : Liz Anderson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1848760671

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This is an uplifting tale of one man's integrity, courage and persistence against all odds in his remarkable achievement of translating the whole Bible from ancient classical texts into modern Burmese.

Author : Quincy Howe
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN :

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Why should a tenured professor of classics turn away from the professional security of the university to teach unruly and hostile New York City adolescents? Howe's experiences constitute an unforgettable record of education at the edge, and his unconventional classroom illuminates a dark corner of contemporary life.

Author : Augusten Burroughs
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2002-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312707126

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"Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules; there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock-therapy machine under the stairs....

Author : Ross Gay
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1643755471

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From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

Author : Skila Brown
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763665169

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Caminar is the story of a boy who joins a small band of guerilla fighters who must decide what being a man during a time of war really means.

Author : Eugene Yelchin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1250120829

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In Spy Runner, a noir mystery middle grade novel from Newbery Honor author Eugene Yelchin, a boy stumbles upon a secret that jeopardizes American national security. It's 1953 and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States stands for, and America needs every patriot to do their part. So when a Russian boarder moves into the home of twelve-year-old Jake McCauley, he's on high alert. What does the mysterious Mr. Shubin do with all that photography equipment? And why did he choose to live so close to the Air Force base? Jake’s mother says that Mr. Shubin knew Jake’s dad, who went missing in action during World War II. But Jake is skeptical; the facts just don’t add up. And he’s determined to discover the truth—no matter what he risks. Godwin Books