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THE SMALL MIRACLE.
Author: Paul GallicoPaul Gallico's The Small Miracle
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805067453
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
When his beloved donkey becomes ill, a young Italian boy is determined to take her to the crypt of St. Francis in Assisi in hopes of making her well.
Snow Goose
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307789071
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk In the marshes of Essex, one of the last wild places left in England, a disfigured artist lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse. Shunned by society, he spends his days painting scenes of the coast and the birds that migrate to the meadowlands every winter. His days are solitary until one November afternoon, a young girl from a nearby village comes to his door carrying a wounded snow goose in her arms. The unlikely pair develop a friendship that deepens over the ensuing years, waiting together for the arrival of the birds every autumn. In 1940, with England at war, the birds depart early from the shores. The man, too, is called away by his duty as an Englishman to help evacuate the soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. A moving tale of love, war, bravery, and sacrifice.
The Small Miracle
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher:
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Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Pepino is a ten-year-old orphan whose love and livelihood is a donkey called Violetta. Violetta falls ill and Pepino, in desperation, seeks an audience with the Pope.
Jennie (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000746052X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
“If in doubt, wash!” What is it like to be a cat? Find out in this classic animal story from the renowned writer Paul Gallico.
The Silent Miaow
Author: Suzanne SzaszPublisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780517556832
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A delightful manual which instructs stray kittens and homeless cats in how to obtain, captivate, and dominate the families of their choice. 200 black-and-white photographs.
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher: International Polygonics Limited
ISBN: 9781558820210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Charmed by her employers' beautiful wardrobe, Mrs. 'Arris, a London charwoman, visits the Dior salon in Paris
Love of Seven Dolls
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher:
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Languages : en
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A lonely Parisian waif becomes emotionally involved with a street puppet show and the evil puppeteer. Her belief in the life of these dolls finally brings fame and happiness.
Mount Misery
Author: Samuel ShemPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307815617
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
From the Laws of Mount Misery: There are no laws in psychiatry. Now, from the author of the riotous, moving, bestselling classic, The House of God, comes a lacerating and brilliant novel of doctors and patients in a psychiatric hospital. Mount Misery is a prestigious facility set in the rolling green hills of New England, its country club atmosphere maintained by generous corporate contributions. Dr. Roy Basch (hero of The House of God) is lucky enough to train there *only to discover doctors caught up in the circus of competing psychiatric theories, and patients who are often there for one main reason: they've got good insurance. From the Laws of Mount Misery: Your colleagues will hurt you more than your patients. On rounds at Mount Misery, it's not always easy for Basch to tell the patients from the doctors: Errol Cabot, the drug cowboy whose practice provides him with guinea pigs for his imaginative prescription cocktails . . . Blair Heiler, the world expert on borderlines (a diagnosis that applies to just about everybody) . . . A. K. Lowell, née Aliyah K. Lowenschteiner, whose Freudian analytic technique is so razor sharp it prohibits her from actually speaking to patients . . . And Schlomo Dove, the loony, outlandish shrink accused of having sex with a beautiful, well-to-do female patient. From the Laws of Mount Misery: Psychiatrists specialize in their defects. For Basch the practice of psychiatry soon becomes a nightmare in which psychiatrists compete with one another to find the best ways to reduce human beings to blubbering drug-addled pods, or incite them to an extreme where excessive rage is the only rational response, or tie them up in Freudian knots. And all the while, the doctors seem less interested in their patients' mental health than in a host of other things *managed care insurance money, drug company research grants and kickbacks, and their own professional advancement. From the Laws of Mount Misery: In psychiatry, first comes treatment, then comes diagnosis. What The House of God did for doctoring the body, Mount Misery does for doctoring the mind. A practicing psychiatrist, Samuel Shem brings vivid authenticity and extraordinary storytelling gifts to this long-awaited sequel, to create a novel that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, terrifying, and provocative. Filled with biting irony and a wonderful sense of the absurd, Mount Misery tells you everything you'll never learn in therapy. And it's a hell of a lot funnier.
Thomasina
Author: Paul GallicoPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372339
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
By the author of the classic The Snow Goose, a heartbreaking story about a young girl and her most unusual cat, who has magical powers that save her owner's life. Seven-year-old Mary adores her ginger cat, Thomasina, and is crushed when Thomasina falls sick, and Mary’s father, a grim, inflexible man who is the town vet, decrees that the only thing to be done is to put Thomasina down. Mary refuses to speak to her father, and then she herself contracts a life-threatening disease. In the meantime, however, Thomasina has been rescued—by the mysterious Lori, the Red Witch of the glen. Thomasina is now Tabitha, the descendant of an Egyptian goddess, and she is coming back to seek revenge! Thomasina, like Jenny of The Abandoned, Gallico’s other great feline heroine (Jenny is Thomasina’s great-aunt), tells her own story in her own way, witty, charming, divine, and sometimes as sharp as an unsheathed claw. Thomasina is a cat for the ages. Thomasina is a sheer delight.