“Two years he walks the earth, no phone, no pool, and no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is The Road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, ‘cause “The West Is The Best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climatic battle to...
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Brian Jacques was born in England. At the age of ten, on his very first day school, he was given an assignment to write a story about animals. His teacher could not, and would not believe that a ten year old could write so well. When he refused to falsely say that he had...
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski is set in Wisconsin. Trudy and Gar Sawtelle live on a dog farm where they raise and train their special dogs and then sell them. The married couple have always wanted a child of their own. After many miscarriages, they are finally blessed with a son,...
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“Now it’s my turn to watch over you,” young Michael Stolowitzky, aged beyond his years, vows to his adoptive mother, Gertruda Bablinska, the only family he has left. It is a time of desolation, desperation, and death in Europe, 1939. It is the beginning of World War II; it is the time of the...
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Things don’t always go as we plan. Sometimes we assume that we will only gain one thing from a person or object, but we end up gaining something totally different. This was the case for Susan Richards, a lonely divorced pessimistic woman, in the autobiography, Chosen by a Horse. Susan lives by a strict...
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