Larry's Letters from the Zoo
Larry's Letters from the Zoo

Author: Grace McCourt

Publisher: Bookbaby

Published: 2018-09-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781543940107

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Larry's Letters from the Zoo is a fun and engaging book for children. The zoo is having a birthday! To celebrate, the zookeeper, Larry, creates a new enclosure for one lucky animal. All the animals in the zoo write Larry letters to try to convince him that they deserve the new space. Each animal has a different personality and relationship with Larry. They come up with creative reasons why Larry should pick them. This would be a perfect book for teachers to teach persuasive letter writing. It is also a fun book for children to read outside of school.

On the Wings of Cranes
On the Wings of Cranes

Author: Lowell M. Schake

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0595484972

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To love whooping cranes, sandhill cranes, and Kirtland's warblers was easy for Larry Walkinshaw. Saving them from extinction engulfed his life. Journey into Walkinshaw's incredible life drama to discover how his adventures led him onto the pinnacle of ornithological attainment-into that world of birding he so loved and mastered. Join him in the global wilderness of marshlands, deserts, and tundra seeking nature's truths as birds literally hatched, fluttered, and died in his hands. On the Wings of Cranes reveals how cranes and Walkinshaw became synonymous. Recognized as "The Father of International Studies of Gruiformes," he led in the salvation of endangered whooping cranes, greater sandhill cranes, and Kirtland's warblers. At times, heartbreak entered his life, but his perseverance held as he took calculated risks, sacrificed, and struggled to save endangered birds. Beneath the mask of his deliberate and reserved personality resided a uniquely complicated genius who desired to serve both nature and humankind. On the Wings of Cranes extends an invitation to respond to the powers of inspiration, motivation, and self-discipline. The theme of Walkinshaw's life is birding-inspiration its message. Soar with Walkinshaw, from take-off to landing, on the wings of cranes.

All My Sons
All My Sons

Author: Arthur Miller

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780822200161

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THE STORY: During the war Joe Keller and Steve Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The

Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1438116365

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Presents a brief biography of Arthur Miller along with extracts of major critical essays, plot summaries, and an index of themes and ideas.

Cannibal Writes
Cannibal Writes

Author: Njeri Githire

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0252096746

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Postcolonial and diaspora studies scholars and critics have paid increasing attention to the use of metaphors of food, eating, digestion, and various affiliated actions such as loss of appetite, indigestion, and regurgitation. As such stylistic devices proliferated in the works of non-Western women writers, scholars connected metaphors of eating and consumption to colonial and imperial domination. In Cannibal Writes, Njeri Githire concentrates on the gendered and sexualized dimensions of these visceral metaphors of consumption in works by women writers from Haiti, Jamaica, Mauritius, and elsewhere. Employing theoretical analysis and insightful readings of English- and French-language texts, she explores the prominence of alimentary-related tropes and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, global geopolitics and economic dynamics, and migration. As she shows, the use of cannibalism in particular as a central motif opens up privileged modes for mediating historical and sociopolitical issues. Ambitiously comparative, Cannibal Writes ranges across the works of well-known and lesser known writers to tie together two geographic and cultural spaces that have much in common but are seldom studied in parallel.

Larry the Penguin Searches for the Meaning of Life
Larry the Penguin Searches for the Meaning of Life

Author: Charles Belser

Publisher:

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780982084656

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Larry is a young penguin on a secret quest for the meaning of life that teams up with a lost polar bear named Marsha who has walked halfway around the world searching for her destiny. Captured by a scientist, the unusual pair is transported to a zoo in Alaska where the scientist's dying six-year-old son frees them from captivity and joins their search. Readers are taken on an often humorous, yet deeply philosophical, satirical, iconoclastic, emotional, and sure to be controversial adventure leading to the discovery of the Round Song and the secret of life. This unusual novel isn't for children.

Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell

Author: Ian S. MacNiven

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2020-08-11

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 1504063104

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The prize-winning biography of the celebrated author of the Alexandria Quartet and the Avignon Quintet: an “elegant and meticulous . . . treat” (Kirkus Reviews). A New York Times Notable Book Born in colonial India in 1912, Lawrence Durrell established his literary reputation as a citizen of the Mediterranean. After attending school in England, Durrell escaped the country he dubbed “Pudding Island” for the Greek island of Corfu, only to make another escape—this time from Nazi invasion—to Egypt. His experiences in wartime Alexandria led to a quartet of novels, beginning with Justine, that are collectively considered some of the great masterpieces of postwar fiction. Durrell’s peripatetic life, which eventually took him to the South of France, fed his work with the richness and drama of his various adoptive homes. A man of protean talents, Durrell is celebrated for his fiction and poetry, as well has his highly regarded translations, essays, and travel literature. In researching this authorized biography, Ian S. MacNiven traveled over a period of twenty years from India to California, interviewing hundreds of individuals and visiting all but one of the many places Durrell lived. The result is an intimate portrait of a literary titan that was awarded a prize by the French city of Antibes for the year’s best study on Durrell.

After Yesterday
After Yesterday

Author: A. Art deJong

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2016-01-14

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 1460274830

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The story of a family, already faced with disappointment, hardship, poverty and loss, who find that they have the devastation of child abuse added to their challenges. Interconnected with other families in their rural setting, they find that in a sea of turmoil there is an island of hope, if only they can accept the lifeline that reaches them from those who truly love and care for them. A story of hope, redemption and family renewal.