The Adventures of Happy Jack
The Adventures of Happy Jack

Author: Thornton W. Burgess

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2004-06-28

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780486433219

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In his adventures in the Green Forest, Happy Jack Squirrel learns to share his hickory nuts with Chatterer the Red Squirrel and Striped Chipmunk and hide with Farmer Brown's boy to escape from Shadow the Weasel.

Somewhere Close to Happy
Somewhere Close to Happy

Author: Lia Louis

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06-13

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781409184157

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"Lizzie James is happy. She has a steady office job (with a steady stream of tray bakes), has had the same best friend since high-school, and she sees her family every Thursday night for take-out and trash TV. Granted, some members of her family she'd rather not see, and they definitely don't want to see her after what happened back then. But on the whole she's happy. Or somewhere close to it, anyway. Until a letter arrives one day from her best friend, Roman. A letter dated 12 years' before, the day he went missing. It brings all her painful memories flooding back: the new school she had to go to when she was ill, losing her beloved granddad, Hubble, and then losing her first love. As Lizzie uncovers the secrets of the letter, she starts to discover what really happened the year her life fell apart - and all avenues lead back to Roman. Who sent her the letter, and what happened to Roman?"--Publisher.

Austin Colors
Austin Colors

Author: Mohan Narayanan

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1631352059

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Nathan, a professor at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, is a happily married father of two. He has a wide range of interests, including Western classical music, foreign languages, water sports and he is a connoisseur of wines. In all, he is a person living his life to the fullest. Shortly after he loses his wife and children in an accident, Nathan unexpectedly connects to his past, with two women who had conceived through his sperm donation while he was still a financially struggling student. Nathan undertakes to bring up the two teenagers, making up for the tragic loss of his own. Meanwhile, Brenda, his former favorite student at UT, steps into Nathan’s life as his lover. The sudden entry of multi-racial, multi-religious characters into the environment of this aspiring Nobel Laureate is of course not devoid of far-reaching consequences. Karma turns Nathan's life upside down and Austin Colors, quite contrary to the pleasant feelings the title evokes, becomes somewhat of a Greek tragedy.

On Shaky Ground
On Shaky Ground

Author: Sandy Keranen Grindey

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-10-11

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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The Copper Country was on strike; that is, the miners were as their union battled against the powerful mine owners' unreasonable demands. It was a time of turmoil, destruction and even death. But six-hundred miles south, the bustling city of Detroit was celebrating the Roaring Twenties with glitzy flappers, jazz, money, and mobsters. After disguising herself as the infamous 'Sable,' reporter Jessica Peterson exposes crime boss, Sid Brewster, and successfully has him incarcerated. Believing she was leaving her trouble behind bars, she accepts a position at a small newspaper in Houghton, Michigan unaware of the turbulence that awaited her and that her worst nightmare is hot on her trail.

Fire of Life
Fire of Life

Author: Henry W. Nevinson

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2013-02-21

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0571300413

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Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856-1941) was a scholar and socialist who found his métier on the cusp of the twentieth century, as a war correspondent who would go on to chronicle the major wars and civil conflicts of his time, from South Africa and Russia to India and the Balkans. Reporting from the Western Front in 1918 he was wounded at the Dardanelles. Nevinson's work was marked by a strong sense of conscience and underscored by activism: directing relief work in Macedonia and Albania, campaigning against the dreadful mistreatment of bonded labourers in Portuguese Angola, and supporting female suffrage in Britain. (He would marry the suffragette Evelyn Sharp.) Nevinson wrote three volumes of autobiography: Changes and Chances (1923), More Changes, More Chances (1925), and Last Changes, Last Chances (1928). Fire of Life, first published in 1935, is an expert abridgement of this trilogy.