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Author: Wendell G Sweet Publisher: Wendell Sweet ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 317
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For Billy Jingo, living in Glennville is a dead in life. His trailer home next to the county dump. His dead-end job. The boring life he lived. And then on Friday morning his whole world turned upside down. He suddenly found himself emerged in crime that was so far above his normal reasoning range that, at first, he couldn't even comprehend the implications on it. In a heartbeat he found himself in a fight for his life. On the run with someone's drugs and money and a girl he had not even know just a few hours before. Buckle up, enjoy the ride. Fast paced pulp style fiction...
Author: Wendell G Sweet Publisher: Wendell Sweet ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 317
Book Description
For Billy Jingo, living in Glennville is a dead in life. His trailer home next to the county dump. His dead-end job. The boring life he lived. And then on Friday morning his whole world turned upside down. He suddenly found himself emerged in crime that was so far above his normal reasoning range that, at first, he couldn't even comprehend the implications on it. In a heartbeat he found himself in a fight for his life. On the run with someone's drugs and money and a girl he had not even know just a few hours before. Buckle up, enjoy the ride. Fast paced pulp style fiction...
Author: Michael Ondaatje Publisher: Vintage Canada ISBN: 0307370801 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 130
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Not a story about me through their eyes then. Find the beginning, the slight silver key to unlock it, to dig it out. Here then is a maze to begin, be in. (p. 20) Funny yet horrifying, improvisational yet highly distilled, unflinchingly violent yet tender and elegiac, Michael Ondaatje’s ground-breaking book The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a highly polished and self-aware lens focused on the era of one of the most mythologized anti-heroes of the American West. This revolutionary collage of poetry and prose, layered with photos, illustrations and “clippings,” astounded Canada and the world when it was first published in 1969. It earned then-little-known Ondaatje his first of several Governor General’s Awards and brazenly challenged the world’s notions of history and literature. Ondaatje’s Billy the Kid (aka William H. Bonney / Henry McCarty / Henry Antrim) is not the clichéd dimestore comicbook gunslinger later parodied within the pages of this book. Instead, he is a beautiful and dangerous chimera with a voice: driven and kinetic, he also yearns for blankness and rest. A poet and lover, possessing intelligence and sensory discernment far beyond his life’s 21 year allotment, he is also a resolute killer. His friend and nemesis is Sheriff Pat Garrett, who will go on to his own fame (or infamy) for Billy’s execution. Himself a web of contradictions, Ondaatje’s Garrett is “a sane assassin sane assassin sane assassin sane assassin sane assassin sane” (p. 29) who has taught himself a language he’ll never use and has trained himself to be immune to intoxication. As the hero and anti-hero engage in the counterpoint that will lead to Billy’s predetermined death, they are joined by figures both real and imagined, including the homesteaders John and Sallie Chisum, Billy’s lover Angela D, and a passel of outlaws and lawmakers. The voices and images meld, joined by Ondaatje’s own, in a magnificent polyphonic dream of what it means to feel and think and freely act, knowing this breath is your last and you are about to be trapped by history. I am here with the range for everything corpuscle muscle hair hands that need the rub of metal those senses that that want to crash things with an axe that listen to deep buried veins in our palms those who move in dreams over your women night near you, every paw, the invisible hooves the mind’s invisible blackout the intricate never the body’s waiting rut. (p. 72)
Author: Nadia Shireen Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448193877 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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One of The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2018! 'It's a great story for everyone, especially those not used to seeing themselves centre-stage'- The Guardian From the author of Bumblebear, comes a new heroine for our times. Introducing: Billy! Whilst on a lovely walk in the woods, Billy and her trusty sidekick Fatcat hear a terrible rumble... a terrible rumble coming from a Terrible Beast... He’s making a Terrible Soup out of all of Billy and Fatcat’s friends! Luckily, our brave heroine Billy has a trick or two up her sleeve (or in her hair)... Join Billy on her mission to defeat the Terrible Beast (and save those adorable little bunny rabbits too). 'A refreshing picture book star' - The Observer
Author: Billy Coffey Publisher: FaithWords ISBN: 0446574775 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 133
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In this debut novel, Peter is a simple man who lives by a simple truth--a person gains strength by leaning on his constants. To him, those constants are the factory where he works, the family he loves, and the God who sustains him. But when news of job cuts comes against the backdrop of an unexpected snowstorm, his life becomes filled with far more doubts than certainties. With humor and a gift for storytelling, Billy Coffey brings you along as he spends his snow day encountering family, friends, and strangers of his small Virginia town. All have had their own battles with life's storms. Some have found redemption. Others are still seeking it. But each one offers a piece to the puzzle of why we must sometimes suffer loss, and each one will help Peter find a greater truth--our lives are made beautiful not by our big moments, but our little ones.
Author: Louise Allen Publisher: Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction ISBN: 1802794751 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 251
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Foster care expert Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. It is only as Louise begins to uncover the secrets of Billy's dark past that she begins to understand what made his family 'untouchable'.
Author: Noel Morrison Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 1452531439 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 115
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Eleven-year-old Billy Anderson is autistic, bound by rituals, and greatly agitated when things happen out of the ordinary. One night the power in his home suddenly fails, causing his mother, Meg, to unleash a fury of emotions and send a panicked Billy fleeing into the cold, wet darkness. Billywho has created his own world to keep himself safeis now out of his element. Plunged into the unknown beyond his front door, his flight to escape his fears sends his parents into a panic. As he heads toward a church where he hopes to find candles, Billys mother summons the police while his father races home, only to have a traffic accident delay his arrival. Meanwhile, none of them have any idea that an unlikely hero is about to save Billy from a frightening encounter, release him from his silent prison, and send his parents on a journey of acceptance, healing, and hope. Billy is an uplifting and emotionally moving novel about a runaway autistic boy who struggles to overcome the dangers of the night, unwittingly teaching a valuable lesson to everyone who loves him. Noel Morrisons pen provides expression for an autistic boys thoughts and fears, and spreads understanding and glimpses of hope. Josephine Croser
Author: William Baker Publisher: eBookIt.com ISBN: 1456605364 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 262
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Billy Don't, a novel, takes place in Oakland, and other parts of California during the 1930's. It is a story of the conflicts and behaviors which take place in a young boy who is placed with his older sister and younger brother in a boarding home run by the Blair's. The conflict comes form the evangeslistic preaching of Mrs. Blair who constantly tells Billy, "Your sole will turn black" or "God will send you to the Devil," and the other understandings he has gained from his grandmother who has taught, "God sees the good in you." Billy's often wild and vicious behaviors are driven by his hatred for Mrs. Blair. It is a story of young boy's desperate search for love and understanding.
Author: Martin George Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524596590 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 83
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Billy is the true story of a compulsive gambler who went to the depths of depravity to feed his gambling addiction—stealing from those who loved him and from people who trusted him. His story depicts a seven-year period where the only thing he cared about was getting enough money to gamble. Gambling was first, last, and everything. Yet with help and a stubborn determination, he slowly turned his life around to become a well-respected business man, able to hold his head up high after years of skulking in the shadows.
Author: James Minter Publisher: James Minter ISBN: 1910727288 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 73
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For 7 to 9-year-old boys and girls. Keeping secrets safe can be a burden for a child. Children need to be able to confide in a responsible adult. Help your child understand the impact that keeping secrets can have on all those involved. Billy Field and Ant Turner are asked to keep a secret from Max Turner, Ant’s sister, about her upcoming birthday present. What starts off as innocent fun, ends up being nasty when Ant uses the secret to ‘get his own back’. When Billy accidentally damages his dad’s new car he makes a pact with Ant about keeping it a secret. This puts a burden on them both, and nearly gets Eddy Jost into a lot of trouble. Does Max find out what her surprise birthday present is? Did Eddy get into more trouble? Will Billy own up? How does Ant cope with keeping secrets? Billy Knows A Secret is the eighth title in the Billy Growing Up series. Each book addresses a unique topic—bullying, arrogant pride, jealousy, lying, stealing, lack of self-belief, understanding money, and secrets. Written to help parents, guardians and teachers deal with the issues that challenge pre-teen children; each topic is presented in a gentle way through storytelling. Setting the issues in a meaningful context helps children to understand the challenges, and to see things from a different perspective. The books act as icebreakers allowing for discussions of difficult subjects. Additionally, each title is supported by a free activity book to reinforce the learning, while having fun. Buying this book today will guide your child in dealing with this destructive behaviour.
Author: Wendell G Sweet
Author: Wendell G Sweet
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Author: Nadia Shireen
Author: Billy Coffey
Author: Louise Allen
Author: Noel Morrison
Author: William Baker
Author: Pat Floyd Garrett
Author: Martin George
Author: James Minter