The Watermelon Boys

The Watermelon Boys

Author: Ruqaya Izzidien

Publisher: American University in Cairo Press

Published: 2018-09-28

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1617979007

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It is the winter of 1915 and Iraq has been engulfed by the First World War. Hungry for independence from Ottoman rule, Ahmad leaves his peaceful family life on the banks of the Tigris to join the British-led revolt. Thousands of miles away, Welsh teenager Carwyn reluctantly enlists and is sent, via Gallipoli and Egypt, to the Mesopotamia campaign. Carwyn’s and Ahmad’s paths cross, and their fates are bound together. Both are forever changed, not only by their experience of war, but also by the parallel discrimination and betrayal they face. Ruqaya Izzidien’s evocative debut novel is rich with the heartbreak and passion that arise when personal loss and political zeal collide, and offers a powerful retelling of the history of British intervention in Iraq.


War and Watermelon

War and Watermelon

Author: Rich Wallace

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-06-09

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1101524405

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It's the summer of 1969. We've just landed on the moon, the Vietnam War is heating up, the Mets are beginning their famous World Series run, and Woodstock is rocking upstate New York. Down in New Jersey, twelve-year-old Brody is mostly concerned with the top ten hits on the radio and how much playing time he'll get on the football team. But when he goes along for the ride to Woodstock with his older brother and sees the mass of humanity there, he starts to wake up to the world around him-a world that could take away the brother he loves.


The Melon Boys

The Melon Boys

Author: Michael George

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2007-05-17

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1462808190

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Compelling and Controversial....The Melon Boys is a story of the South in the summer of 1968, soon after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Its fictitious account brings to light real events that took place outside the view of TV cameras and the 6 Oclock evening news. This was the South of the migrant worker and sharecropper, where white social backlash exacted a terrible price on ordinary blacks. In turbulent times, everyday life can require great courage, and friendships can lead to ultimate tests of loyalty. For college student Matt Mayer, the job of migrant worker turns into the education of a lifetime in this context. After he befriends two black co-workers, he finds himself in the path of danger more than once. He is quickly driven to decide if he should follow the unwritten rules that dictate day-to-day race relations, or honor the bonds of friendships he has formed. How can a white college student from the Midwest, with little exposure to any race but his own, make sense of the complex social rules of a still segregated South? And, more importantly, how will his experience shape the man he will become?


The Watermelon King

The Watermelon King

Author: Daniel Wallace

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780618400812

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An endearing, often outrageous blend of fable, tall tale, and page-turner, "The Watermelon King" returns to Ashland, Alabama--the fictional town immortalized in Daniel Wallace's enormously popular "Big Fish"-- the entire identity of which is based on the long-ago abundance of watermelons.


The Watermelon Mystery

The Watermelon Mystery

Author: Paul Hutchens

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 1998-08-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1575677628

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First, a grocery store robbery occurs. Then, somebody steals Bill Collins's prize watermelon. There's thievery going on near Sugar Creek! And Bill is sure that the Till boys have something to do with it! Poetry and Bill start collecting clues. They find a map of Sugar Creek territory hidden in a floating watermelon and encounter strange happenings in the middle of the night. Join the Sugar Creek Gang as they learn not to jump to conclusions, for some things are not as they appear.


Watermelon

Watermelon

Author: Marian Keyes

Publisher: Clement Wright

Published: 2006-05-09

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a postpartum body that she can hardly bear to look at. She decides to go home to Dublin. And there, sheltered by the love of a quirky family, she gets better. So much so, in fact, that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise.


Watermelons

Watermelons

Author: James Delingpole

Publisher: Biteback Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781849542173

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"The shocking story of how an unholy mix of junk science, green hype, corporate greed and political opportunism led to the biggest - and most expensive - outbreak of mass hysteria in history. Watermelons explains the Climategate scandal, the cast of characters involved, their motives and methods. He delves into the background of the organisations and individuals who have sought to push global warming to the top of the political agenda, showing that beneath their cloak of green lurks a heart of red. Watermelons shows how the scientific method has been sacrificed on the altar of climate alarmism. Delingpole mocks the green movement's record of apocalyptic predictions, reveals the fundamental misanthropy of green ideology, and gives a refreshing voice to widespread public skepticism over global warming, emphasising that the crisis has been engineered by people seeking to control our lives by imposing new taxes and regulations. Your taxes will be raised, your liberties curtailed and your money squandered to deal with this crisis, he writes. Delingpole argues that climate change is an ideological battle, not a scientific one. Green on the outside, red on the inside, the libertyloathing, humanity-hating watermelons of the modern environmental movement do not want to save the world. They want to rule it" -- Publisher description.


The Janitor's Boy

The Janitor's Boy

Author: Andrew Clements

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-05-08

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0689850514

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Ordinarily, no one would have imagined that Jack Rankin would vandalize a desk. But this was not an ordinary school year for Jack.... When Jack Rankin learns that he is going to spend the fifth grade in the old high school -- the building where his father works as a janitor -- he dreads the start of school. Jack manages to get through the first month without the kids catching on. Then comes the disastrous day when one of his classmates loses his lunch all over the floor. John the janitor is called in to clean up, and he does the unthinkable -- he turns to Jack with a big smile and says, "Hi, son." Jack performs an act of revenge and gets himself into a sticky situation. His punishment is to assist the janitor after school for three weeks. The work is tedious, not to mention humiliating. But there is one perk, janitors have access to keys, keys to secret places....


Young America

Young America

Author: Claire Perry

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780300106206

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A delightful look at how nineteenth-century American artists portrayed children and childhood