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1) Time Pieces
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In this quietly beautiful coming-of-age story, eleven-year-old Valena lives with her family in rural Ohio where she and her cousin share experiences such as surviving a tornado and going to an amazing circus. Yet Valena lives in both the present and the past as she struggles with racism in her daily life and listens to and learns from her mother's tales of her family's proud history. Moving backward and forward in time, these pieces of Valena's life...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Presents a memoir of the author's life near Dublin, a city that inspired his imagination and literary life and served as a backdrop for the dissatisfactions of adult years shaped by Dublin's cultural, political, architectural, and social history.
"Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, author John Banville ... saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child. It was first a birthday treat, the world his beloved, eccentric...
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In, Urban Pen Poetry Series, you will find the poetic writings of Linda J. Wolff. She offers an extensive selection of urban acrostic, cinquain, free verse, haiku, tanka, and much more inspiring pieces to enlighten the mind, body, and soul. Each piece she brings enlightenment through words, such as the one below: "I find I need to seek out solace. Especially, when the day is crazy! Crazy in the sense that there's no stopping, no breaks. As a single...
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A collection of Short Stories, some of which are humorous and entertaining. All written by Linda Nelson, the author of Aaron & Keja: Time Dragon.
This flash fiction collection features titles: Bed Bug Ridden, The Bee Dance, Berry Picking For Mom, and many more for the young and old. Some of which are funny and some spooky, consisting of a total of fifteen stories in all.
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PRISON PUZZLE PIECES 3 (the third of a three volume series) is a non-fiction account of a corrections officer working in Stillwater Prison in Minnesota after he stopped traveling the country performing standup comedy and improv. Through examples, explanations and experiences, he explains how the entire system works, piece by piece, by presenting hundreds of events that occurred in that dysfunctional little city contained within those walls and razor...
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In order to win a game of chess you very often have to sacrifice material. Gathering the courage to do so while accurately assessing the potential benefits is, a real challenge. The big question is always, what's my compensation?
Generations of chess players grew up with the idea that a sacrifice was correct if the material was swiftly, returned, with interest. Almost by reflex, they spent lots of time counting, quantifying the static value of their...
14) Time Piece
Publisher
The Jim Henson Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A man runs from time in this Oscar-nominated experimental live-action short film written by, directed by, produced by - and starring - Jim Henson.
16) The timepiece
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English
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"As the only daughter, Sylvia Miller of The Tinderbox has always held a special place in her Old Order family, one Adeline Pelham jeopardizes when she shows up at the Millers' Hickory Hollow farm. It isn't that Adeline means to be a threat, but her very existence is a reminder of the painful secret that has so recently upended the Miller household. And with Sylvia and her mother still struggling to come to terms with that news, this is a challenging...
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