Author: David Patrick Cook
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871292131
Category : American drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Todd Strasser
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781439107539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Her street name is Maybe She lives with a tribe of homeless teens -- runaways and throwaways, kids who have no place to go other than the cold city streets, and no family except for one another. Abused, abandoned, and forgotten, they struggle against the cold, hunger, and constant danger. With the frigid winds of January comes a new girl: Tears, a twelve-year-old whose mother doesn't believe her stepfather abuses her. As the other kids start to disappear -- victims of violence, addiction, and exposure -- Maybe tries to help Tears get off the streets...if it's not already too late. Todd Strasser, author of the powerful and disturbing Give a Boy a Gun, again focuses on an important social issue as he tells a thought-provoking, heart-wrenching story of young lives lost to the streets, and of a society that has forgotten how to care.

Author: Gayle Forman
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9781594860379
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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When a journalist sets out on a round-the-globe adventure, she hopes to meet those that live outside mainstream society, only to find that even on the fringes, the unstoppable forces of globalization encroach on daily life. 30,000 first printing.

Author: Jason
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560975989
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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A very funny, very deadpan, and very poignant comedy of romance, featuring the classic romantic trio of mad scientist, monster, and bride of monster, presented in the same elegant format as Jason's previous popular graphic novel The Iron Wagon, a two-color process (black and grayish blue) on tinted paper with an uncoated cover stock printed in three simple colors, complete with flaps. Also includes a running commentary by the loyal hunchbacked assistant.

Author: Ryan Porter
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487504241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Rather than reading small-town representations in Canadian literature as portraits of a parochial past or a lost golden age, this book claims that they are best understood as sophisticated statements on the effects of modernity in an ever-more cosmopolitan world. In Ontario, as urbanization increased over the past century, small towns became a popular literary trope, and Ryan Porter argues that literary small towns are reflections, and even sublimated explorations, of contemporary life. Referencing the theories of heritage scholars, who view popularly understood pasts as constructions shaped by changing sensibilities, You Can't Get There from Here argues that the literary small-town Ontario past is malleable, consisting of attempts to come to terms with the present in which the narrators find themselves. The book focuses on four key Ontario authors - Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and Jane Urquhart - as well as many secondary authors, and links the readings to much broader trends in actual Ontario towns and in popular culture.

Author: Quality & Productivity Management Association Conference
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quality assurance
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Author: Michelle Berry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Malls and Velcro, television and art galleries, restaurants and bars, drugs and alcohol are the backdrops and props of modern life in the city, but even the disenchanted and confused benefit from the ever-changing constellations and confrontations with other people and other dreams.

Author: Marilyn E. Strutchens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American students
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Focus of book is on equality issues in mathematics education for African American students and looks critically at successful and unsuccessful teaching practices.

Author: Katherine Govier
Publisher: MacFarlane Walter & Ross
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Award-winning novelist Katherine Govier experienced first-hand what many writers feel about travel: it is a need. To discover characters, settings and customs which they can’t find at home, authors set out for new terrain. Recollections of their voyages create a special category of travel writing. Poets and novelists travelling writers, but not professional travel writers are footloose wordsmiths who, as Govier describes, “promise a double treat: a person of imagination and insight pitched into a foreign environment fraught with danger, mystery and unforeseen delights.” And if the writer on the road is a woman? So much the better, says Govier. Freely, inquisitively, and determinedly, an unprecedented number of women are moving around the globe today. To enjoy a week of anonymity, take a break from domesticity, to make a discovery, their reasons for travel are as numerous as their destinations. Without a Guide is a remarkable collection of seventeen nonfiction works that explores the variety and nature of contemporary women’s travel. Such internationally celebrated names as Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Clare Boylan, Robyn Davidson, Susan Musgrave, E. Annie Proulx, Bapsi Sidhwa, Carol Shields and Alice Walker share the details of their most memorable voyages. Their tales will take you to the urban chaos of Cairo; on an exhilarating 1,700 mile camel trek across the rugged Australian Outback; through the natural splendour of Darwin’s Galapagos; to the startling heights of Pakistan’s Indus River gorge and into the day-long darkness of a Northern Finland winter. Seductive, harrowing, but above all enlightening, Without A Guide is a must for lovers of literature and travel. Without a Guide has been published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Holland and Canada.

Author: Herman Holtz
Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Explains why user instruction manuals are necessary, offers advice on writing assembly, installation, operating, and maintenance instructions, and introduces basic principles of instructional writing