Land of the Lost Candy
Land of the Lost Candy

Author: James Michael Perkins

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-11-23

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1524651605

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In this magical land, deep within a grass forrest, your lost, unwanted candy comes to life. We explore two characters from different cultures faced with a decision of either doing the right thing, or defying their community. This story teaches us acceptance, and how one person can motivate others to do what is right. This message is too important to ignore. As parents, it is extremely important to teach our children about acceptance. That great people come from all different nationalities, gender, religion, class, etc. This book inspires bravery and standing up for what is right. All too often, we see something wrong and do nothing out of fear. Hopefully this book can inspire at least one person to do the right thing. Who knows, maybe even save a life. The author has left this book without color so the kids can decide how they want their characters to look. Enjoy!

Land of the Lost Souls
Land of the Lost Souls

Author: Cadillac Man,

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 160819194X

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For the past 16 years, Cadillac Man (so named because he was once hit by an El Dorado and thereafter bore an imprint of its hood ornament) has lived on the streets of New York City. Over those years, he has recorded the facts of his daily life - the harsh realities of surviving on the street, the often tragic encounters with the non-homeless world, the deep bonds with his fellow homeless, and the surprisingly varied realities of life on the outside - writing hundreds of thousands of words in a series of spiral bound notebooks. "My Life in the Streets" distills those journals into a memoir of homeless life that is peopled with indelible characters and packed with gripping stories. In a gritty, poignant, and funny voice, Cadillac narrates his descent into homelessness, the travails and unexpected freedoms of his life, and the story of his love affair with a young runaway, whom he eventually (and tragically) reunites with her family. The United States has 700,000 homeless people; ultimately, Cadillac's story is their story.

The Lost Daughter
The Lost Daughter

Author: Lucy Ferriss

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 2012-02-07

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 042524556X

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Brooke O’Connor—elegant, self-possessed, and kind—has a happy marriage and a deeply loved young daughter. So her adamant refusal to have a second child confounds her husband, Sean. When Brooke’s high school boyfriend Alex—now divorced and mourning the death of his young son—unexpectedly resurfaces, Sean begins to suspect an affair. For fifteen years Brooke has kept a shameful secret from everyone she loves. Only Alex knows the truth that drove them apart. His reappearance now threatens the life she has so carefully constructed and fortified by denial. With her marriage—and her emotional equilibrium—at stake, Brooke must confront what she has been unwilling to face for so long. But the truth is not what Brooke believes it to be. Lucy Ferriss’s haunting novel reveals the profound ways in which remorse over the past can not only derail lives but also—sometimes—redeem them.

Toto in Candy Land of Oz
Toto in Candy Land of Oz

Author: Roger S. Baum

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781570722240

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Indeed there is a Candy Land in Oz. Although it is not very well known, it truly does exist. Candy Land produces most of the confectionery for the Emerald City shops. The ruler of Candy Land is His Highness, The Giant Royal Marshmallow, and he has a problem. We’ll see what happens when Dorothy and Toto arrive in this delicious land.

How the Indians Lost Their Land
How the Indians Lost Their Land

Author: Stuart BANNER

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0674020537

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Between the early 17th century and the early 20th, nearly all U.S. land was transferred from American Indians to whites. Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers--time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.

Who's in the Game?
Who's in the Game?

Author: Terri Toles Patkin

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-11-30

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1476676917

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Some board games--like Candy Land, Chutes & Ladders, Clue, Guess Who, The Game of Life, Monopoly, Operation and Payday--have popularity spanning generations. But over time, updates to games have created significantly different messages about personal identity and evolving social values. Games offer representations of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, ability and social class that reflect the status quo and respond to social change. Using popular mass-market games, this rhetorical assessment explores board design, game implements (tokens, markers, 3-D elements) and playing instructions. This book argues the existence of board games as markers of an ever-changing sociocultural framework, exploring the nature of play and how games embody and extend societal themes and values.

Uncle John's Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader
Uncle John's Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader

Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1607106701

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Long ago, Bathroom Reader fans everywhere cried out in terror when Uncle John’s legendary 5th, 6th, and 7th editions were taken out of print. But then they rejoiced at the release of this ginormous book: Uncle John’s Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader! Weighing in at a whopping 673 pages, the entire texts of those long-lost editions have been reanimated into one of the BRI’s all-time best sellers. You’ll be rewarded with thousands of amazing facts, hundreds of incredible quotations, and dozens of short, medium, and long articles (and a few extra-long ones, too), covering history, sports, politics, origins, language, blunders, and more. Find out what half a million readers already know: Legendary Lost is quintessential Uncle John. A few examples: * Pizza history * The Godzilla quiz * How Wall Street got rich * The strange fate of the Dodo bird * The best of the worst country song titles * People who were famous for 15 minutes * Miss Piggy’s timeless wisdom * Accidental discoveries * The king of farts And much, much, much, much more!

At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream

Author: Wade Rouse

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0307451909

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Finally fed up with the frenzy of city life, Rouse decides to make either the bravest decision or the worst mistake since a botched Ogilvy home perm: uproot his life and try to live a rustic existence. Writing in the vein of David Sedaris . . . [Rouse is] laugh-out-loud funny."--"St. Louis Magazine."

Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

Author: J. W. Ocker

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2014-10-06

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 1581576765

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Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical! Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe’s legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe’s homes, examining artifacts from his life—locks of his hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, his boyhood bed—and visiting the many memorials dedicated to him. Along the way, Ocker meets people from a range of backgrounds and professions—actors, museum managers, collectors, historians—who have dedicated some part of their lives to Poe and his legacy. Poe-Land is a unique travelogue of the afterlife of the poet who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with a mastery over the macabre that is arguably still unrivaled today.