An Ocean In Iowa
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An Ocean In Iowa
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Author : Peter Hedges
language : en
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Release Date : 2014-11-11
An Ocean In Iowa written by Peter Hedges and has been published by RosettaBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with Fiction categories.
A “funny and supremely moving”novel about a seven-year-old navigating a world of turmoil by the author of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Harper’s Bazaar). Seven-year-old Scotty Ocean decides that seven is going to be “his year.” But soon after his birthday, his artist-turned-alcoholic mother abandons the family—leaving Scotty and his two older sisters alone with their father. As his perfect year falls apart, Scotty begins to act out during school and takes a series of increasingly wild actions to try to win his mother back—and, when that doesn’t work, to replace her. Funny and deeply affecting, An Ocean in Iowa traces Scotty’s desperate attempt to hold on to his childhood while the foundation of his family disintegrates. As Scotty’s year as a seven-year-old flies by—and the dreaded eight approaches—Peter Hedges explores how Scotty sheds his childhood in a one-eighty of the year he hoped would be so perfect. Beautifully written, and with careful attention to period detail, this compelling coming-of-age novel sets the private turmoil of a disintegrating family against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the turbulent 1960s. “A delightful romp through the age of seven with an endearing character who revels in life’s smallest details.” —The Christian Science Monitor
An Ocean In Iowa
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Author : Peter Hedges
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1999-04-28
An Ocean In Iowa written by Peter Hedges and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-28 with Fiction categories.
In a novel with small, note-perfect references of the 1960s, Hedges captures the disruptions in communities and families across the country caused by the Vietnam war.
Ocean W Iowa
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Author : Peter Hedges
language : pl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Ocean W Iowa written by Peter Hedges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Boys categories.
Outside Is The Ocean
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Author : Matthew Lansburgh
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2017-10-15
Outside Is The Ocean written by Matthew Lansburgh and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-15 with Fiction categories.
Three days after her twentieth birthday, a young woman who grew up in Germany during World War II crosses the Atlantic to start a new life. Outside Is the Ocean traces Heike’s struggle to find love and happiness in America. After two marriages and a troubled relationship with her son, Heike adopts a disabled child from Russia, a strong-willed girl named Galina, who Heike hopes will give her the affection and companionship she craves. As Galina grows up, Heike’s grasp on reality frays, and she writes a series of letters to the son she thinks has abandoned her forever. It isn’t until Heike’s death that her son finds these letters and realizes how skewed his mother’s perceptions actually were.
What S Eating Gilbert Grape
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Author : Peter Hedges
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1999-11
What S Eating Gilbert Grape written by Peter Hedges and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11 with Fiction categories.
The coming-of-age of a 24-year-old grocery clerk who has spent his entire life in an Iowa town with a population of 1091.
By The Iowa Sea
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Author : Joe Blair
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-03-05
By The Iowa Sea written by Joe Blair and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Recounts the author's transformation from an idealistic, freedom-loving youth to a jaded and financially struggling father of four and how a catastrophic flood helped him to reconnect with the faith and courage of his childhood.
An Ocean Without A Shore
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Author : Scott Spencer
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2020-06-16
An Ocean Without A Shore written by Scott Spencer and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-16 with Fiction categories.
A wildly entertaining and occasionally heartbreaking story of frustrated longing, and the lengths we will go for those we love—even if they don’t love us in return An Ocean Without a Shore, from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Endless Love and Man in the Woods, is a beautifully rendered exploration of that most timeless of human dilemmas: the one in which your love is left unreturned. Since their college days, Kip Woods has been infatuated with Thaddeus Kaufman, who, years later, is a married father of two children and desperately trying to revive a failing career. Kip’s devotion to Thaddeus has been life-defining and destiny-altering, but it has been one that Thaddeus has either failed to notice or refused to acknowledge. But over the course of this heated and mesmerizing novel, set against a background of privilege and affluence in Manhattan and the Hudson Valley, Kip will be forced to reckon with the prison of his own making and decide how much he is willing to sacrifice for a love that may never be shared. Picking up where his most recent novel, River Under the Road, left off, but writing squarely in the vein of Endless Love, his classic novel of passion and obsession, Scott Spencer gives us an intimate, immersive, and unsettling portrait of the devastation we will wreak in the name of love, and the bitterness of a friendship ravaged by fathomless yearning.
Oddball Iowa
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Author : Jerome Pohlen
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2005
Oddball Iowa written by Jerome Pohlen and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This zany travel guide presents a more peculiar state than the Iowa Tourism Office might like out-of-towners to imagine. Leaving out the traditional scenic trips to the Mississippi River bluffs and the Amana Colonies, this guide will take the adventurous traveler to the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk, the home of the "Lonely Goat Herder" marionettes from The Sound of Music, and the world's largest Cheeto. To enhance the experience of this unusual side of Iowa, the guide includes facts about numerous events in Iowa's history, such as Ozzy Osbourne's infamous bat-biting incident and Jesse James's first moving-train robbery. Iowa is depicted as the birthplace of the Roto-Rooter, the Delicious apple, the electronic computer, the reinforced concrete bridge, and the Eskimo pie. The accompanying photographs and maps will direct travelers to other fun vacation spots and attractions, including the butter sculptures at the Iowa State Fair, the annual National Skillet Throw, the Hobo Convention and Museum, the Ice Cream Capital of the World, and the National Balloon Museum.
Iowa Wheel Of Fortune
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Author : Carole Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Gallopade International
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Iowa Wheel Of Fortune written by Carole Marsh and has been published by Gallopade International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The Survivor GameBook is reproducible and allows kids to learn about their state through timed activities, prize suggestions and an official survivor certificate. The book includes timed, multiple-choice questions, fill in the blank questions, choose the appropriate dates and matching that are challenging and fun to answer. This book covers fascinating state facts and meets state standards.
Nothing Like An Ocean
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Author : Jim Tomlinson
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2009-03-06
Nothing Like An Ocean written by Jim Tomlinson and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-06 with Fiction categories.
Jim Tomlinson's previous book of short stories, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, won the prestigious Iowa Short Fiction Award and received enthusiastic reviews. The New York Times compared the strong sense of place in Tomlinson's writing to that found in the works of Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro. The stories in his new collection, Nothing Like An Ocean, also reflect Tomlinson's awareness of place, revisiting the fictional town of Spivey, a community in rural Appalachia where the characters confront difficult circumstances and, with quiet dignity, try to do what is right. In the title story, Tomlinson explores themes of forgiveness and acceptance in the lives of two characters, Alton Wood, a high school math teacher isolated by grief, and his sister Fran, who is emotionally paralyzed by her part in a tragic death. The two take halting steps back into the world after Alton receives an anonymous invitation to a church singles dance. These themes also underlie "Angel, His Rabbit, and Kyle McKell," which tells of Dempsie's evening with two men -- her volatile boyfriend and the recently returned Iraq War amputee whose secret she has been keeping. Loss and the inevitability of change recur in Tomlinson's stories. In "Overburden," Ben, a man simultaneously contemplating AARP membership and impending fatherhood, travels with his wife, Sarah, back to eastern Kentucky to visit the oak tree that was essential to their courtship, only to find the site as barren and featureless as the moon, a casualty of mountaintop removal mining. "So Exotic" draws us into the worn environs of Rita's Huddle In Café, where the owner becomes the confidant of Quilla, a mousy bank teller who blossoms as the muse of an eccentric artist from Belarus. The eleven stories in Nothing Like An Ocean evoke a strong sense of small-town Kentucky life, finding humor in the residents' foibles while never diminishing their inner lives. Tomlinson's masterful fiction captures light and dark moments, moments that are foreign yet deeply familiar, as his characters seek redemption and sometimes find unexpected grace..