The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters Brothers

Author: Patrick deWitt

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2011-05-14

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1770890270

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Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Prix des libraires du Quebec and the Stephen Leacock Medal. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize. Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die: Eli and Charlie Sisters can be counted on for that. Though Eli has never shared his brother’s penchant for whiskey and killing, he’s never known anything else. On the road to Warm’s gold-mining claim outside San Francisco — and from the back of his long-suffering one-eyed horse — Eli struggles to make sense of his life without abandoning the job he's sworn to do. Patrick deWitt, acclaimed author of Ablutions, doffs his hat to the classic Western, and then transforms it into a comic tour-de-force with an unforgettable narrative voice that captures all the absurdity, melancholy, and grit of the West — and of these two brothers, bound to each other by blood and scars and love.

Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird

Author: Vivian Vande Velde

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 015205572X

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Presents thirteen twisted versions of such familiar fairy tales as Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Old Border Road
Old Border Road

Author: Susan Froderberg

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2010-12-09

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0316126853

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Katherine is 17, living alone in the beautiful, desolate landscape of southern Arizona. Her mother is feckless, her father busy with his new family. Meeting Son, the scion of a local rancher, seems like deliverance. They marry and live as a family in his parents' venerable adobe house, but it soon becomes clear that Son is a man who, as his father says, has a "young heart near withered beneath the breastbone." Katherine must find her own way during a dangerous months-long drought, when everything seems to be disintegrating around her. Susan Froderberg's incantatory language -- and her deep knowledge of both the complexities of a small, deeply-rooted place and the human heart -- make Old Border Road soar.

Undermajordomo Minor
Undermajordomo Minor

Author: Patrick deWitt

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0062281232

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From the bestselling, Man Booker–short-listed author of The Sisters Brothers comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited follow-up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which being the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux. He also encounters the colorful people of the local village—thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty for whose love he must compete with the exceptionally handsome soldier Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of humanity is laid bare for our hero to observe. Undermajordomo Minor is an adventure, a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behavior, but above all it is a love story—and Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.

Sisters & Brothers
Sisters & Brothers

Author: Robin Page

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780547349534

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Peregrine falcons learn to hunt by practicing with their sisters and brothers Elephant sisters babysit their younger siblings Hyena brothers often fight to the death but wild turkey brothers stay together for life The giant anteater is an only child while termites may have millions of siblings! Find out more about these animal brothers and sisters and many others inside this book

Siblings
Siblings

Author: C. Dallett Hemphill

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0190215895

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Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of sibling relations in America. Illuminating the evolution of the modern family system, Siblings shows how brothers and sisters have helped each other in the face of the dramatic political, economic, and cultural changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As Hemphill demonstrates, siblings function across all races as humanity's shock-absorbers as well as valued kin and keepers of memory.

90 Brothers and Sisters
90 Brothers and Sisters

Author: Lenore De Pree

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2018-12-28

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1457523175

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90 Brothers and Sisters could be one of the funniest and saddest books you have ever read. Two idealistic young people from Chicago move into a remote Appalachian area of Kentucky in the 1930s, and end up with a family of nearly 100 children, and not a cent to their names. Told from the astonished and sometimes indignant viewpoint of their only biological child, this rollicking tale has so much heartwarming goodness and chilling danger built into the plot that what began as a novel turned into a documentary because it was "too unbelievable". Originally published by Harper and Row in 1978, this book is now going on line for a new generation of readers.

Little Einsteins: Brothers & Sisters to the Rescue
Little Einsteins: Brothers & Sisters to the Rescue

Author: Sheila Sweeny Higginson

Publisher: Disney Electronic Content

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 1423170563

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In this daring new mission, a mean old witch has trapped Hansel and Gretel in a gingerbread house. It's up to the brave brother and sister duo, Annie and Leo, to follow the clues and rescue Hansel and Gretel from the witch's grasp. Preschoolers will enjoy learning to read in this exciting early reader.

Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers
Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers

Author: Mary Ann Hoberman

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2001-09-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780316362511

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What is a family? Who is a family? Either a lot or a few is a family; But whether there's ten or there's two in your family, All of your family plus you is a family! There is something for everyone in this celebration of families - poems about families of all sizes and configurations, about brothers and sisters, adoptees and stepsiblings, parents and grandparents, even a special ode to the only child. Both poems and Hafner's warm expressive illustrations convey the sense of what makes family life at once so wonderful and so unpredictable. Told from a child's point of view, the poems are perfect for reading alone or in the classroom and for family story times as well.