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Randolph Trent stepped from the Stockton boat on the San Francisco wharf, penniless, friendless, and unknown. Hunger might have been added to his trials, for, having paid his last coin in passage money, he had been a day and a half without food. A chance encounter with a stranger seems to signal a change in his fortune, but Randolph',s trials are not over.

The author lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches urban affairs and planning at Hunter College/City University of New York. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Peru during the 1960s and has opposed US-led wars in Vietnam, Central America and the Middle East. He has published three books and many articles but this is his first work of fiction.

a neighbourhood where the houses are tiny, almost touching each other, misshapen and crooked from the day they were built. This one sits by the Ottawa River, this oneas called Mechanicsville.A place where you hear French and English coming out of kitchen windows on hot summer nights. Where you',d see labourers with dangling cigarettes laughing over a dirty joke down by the railway yards, the lumber mills, the foundries. Before bed, the kids get hugged by bloody knuckled papas, and tucked in by mamas thankful that the cheque didn',t get cashed at the tavern. In Mechanicsville, if houses could talk, a few would slur through rotten teeth.The Mechanicsville Monologues are based on the lives and stories of people from the Mechanicsville and Hintonburg districts in Ottawa, Canada.A

The Rue Morgue and Others -- a sampling of the works of Poe, a brilliant, driven, passionate, difficult, often desperate man -- three-fifths of him genius, which is more than most of the rest of us c

Of all classes of men, those who follow the sea are probably the most prone to superstition. Afloat upon the black waste of waters, at the mercy of wind and sea, with vast depths and strange creatures below them, a belief in the supernatural is easier than ashore, under the cheerful gas-lamps. Strange stories of the sea are plentiful, and an incident which happened within my own experience has made me somewhat chary of dubbing a man fool or coward because he has encountered something he cannot explain. There are stories of the supernatural with prosaic sequels, there are others to which the sequel has never been published. . . .

ISBN: 9781616335151 Géneros: YFS Sinópsis: In this fun educational musical about recycling a nutty professor transports four modern day kids back to the 1950s Together they compare the lifestyles of todays disposable generation to kids living in a time before plastic bags aluminum cans and water bottles became a part of our every day life Suggested age range for performersaudience 512

Título: The Street Other Stories ISBN: 9781568332161 Géneros: FYB Sinópsis:

Un libro que cautiva nios! Esta ingeniosa historia recuenta la experiencia del varn esforzado y valiente de la Biblia Geden. Contada desde una perspectiva del lejano oeste Geden y el Vaquero Blanco dejarn una leccin inolvidable en el corazn de cada nio y nia.

Lonnie the Loon Learns to Call is a picture book appropriate for children ages 2-6 and beginning readers. Lonnie is a juvenile Loon who lives on a lake with his Mom and Dad. He hears the calls of ducks and geese and wants to learn to call, too. The reader can listen to the beautiful Loon calls and learn along with Lonnie as his father gives him lessons. The book contains interesting facts about Loons. See also

While flying south for the winter, Lonnie the Loon is blown off course by strong winds. Instead of landing on coastal waters, he ends up on a lake in the middle of the desert. Lonnie becomes friends with an unlikely character, a Gambel Quail named Quincy. Quincy teaches Lonnie about the desert animals. Using a free QR Code Reader App, the reader is able to listen to a variety of animal calls and songs. Also see

Quincy the Quail is a little clumsy, and his topknot falls in front of his eyes, but that doesn&rsquo,t stop him from leading his family on adventures around their home in the desert. When a sudden rainstorm interrupts their hunt for food, Quincy finds himself in trouble. Discover who rescues Quincy so he can continue being a good leader for his family. Audio QR codes allow the reader to hear quail calls and owl hoots using a QR Code Reader App on a smart phone or other device. This picture book is appropriate for ages 3 &ndash, 7 and is educational as well as entertaining.  ,_,

Tom, a twin-engined aeroplane, has been given the job of taking three passengers to another airfield. Being the newest and largest aeroplane at Dinglewood, he likes to boast that he is better than the other aeroplanes. But things dont always go according to plan. Tom has problems during his flight and needs help. Can the other aeroplanes help him out of this tricky situation?_,