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Wally S Stories
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Author : Vivian Gussin PALEY
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Wally S Stories written by Vivian Gussin PALEY and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Education categories.
'This remarkable book is delightful to read and rewarding to ponder. It is the kind of book a teacher quotes to friends, shares with colleagues, and uses as a source of working ideas and inspiration.' --The Elementary School Journal.
Wally S Stories
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Author : Vivian Gussin Paley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Wally S Stories written by Vivian Gussin Paley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
I Know This Much Is True
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Author : Wally Lamb
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-06-03
I Know This Much Is True written by Wally Lamb and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-03 with Fiction categories.
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
Wally S Stories
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Author : Vivian Gussin Paley
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1987-03-15
Wally S Stories written by Vivian Gussin Paley and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-03-15 with Education categories.
Teachers are often taught that young children are incapable of logical thought. Prone to fantasy and unruffled by inconsistency, preschool children are frequently baffled by the first lessons of early schooling. Trained to gently resist the child’s illogic, teachers sometimes create just the incomprehension and anxiety they mean to avoid. In Wally’s Stories, Vivian Paley shows that none of this need be so. Wally’s Stories is itself a story: the story of the evolution of a kindergarten classroom in which Paley learned to stop fighting childish fantasy and instead make use of it to stimulate the very best brand of thinking her five-year-olds can muster. Stories also lie at the heart of her classroom: stories that are first told by one of the children, then transcribed by the teacher, and then acted out by the class in dramatic productions of their own design. Paley shows that in the course of creating their own dramatic world, five-year-olds are capable of thought and language far in advance of what they accomplish in traditional classroom exercises. The children’s stories also become a vehicle that they can use to explain themselves to their teacher and to one another. Together, teacher and children develop an unusual environment, one that is logical and literate, based on rules of fairness, friendship, and fantasy. Vivian Paley’s book is as refreshing as her teaching method—a new kind of book about a new kind of classroom.
Wally Gets A Tummy Ache
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Author : Jacqui Shepherd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05
Wally Gets A Tummy Ache written by Jacqui Shepherd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05 with categories.
A beautifully illustrated story book for young children with 28 full-color pages. Wally gets a tummy ache! is about the dangers of being greedy and not sharing. The story features warthogs and is set on an African game farm.
The Un Adult A Rated Wally
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Author : Wally Moran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09
The Un Adult A Rated Wally written by Wally Moran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
"The un-ADULT A-RATED Wally by Cruising World Magazine contributor, Wally Moran is a collection of 16 of Wally's best stories, un-cut, un-edited and un-usually fun reading! Wally's often philosophical humor and tongue-in-cheek outlook on life, and all things sailing and cruising related will take you on a journey through the realities, and often the tribulations, of the sailing and cruising lifestyle. But good or bad, Wally always tries to make the best of things as he opens a porthole for sailors, cruisers, and wanna-be cruisers into the world of the liveaboard cruising sailor. Whether you are new to sailing and boating, or a seasoned veteran cruiser, you will either be amazed, or you will knowingly smile at the honest assessments Wally makes in his sometimes satirical, sometimes downright funny tales of life aboard boats" --
The Un Adult A Rated Wally
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Author : Wally Moran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Un Adult A Rated Wally written by Wally Moran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Boats and boating categories.
"The un-ADULT A-RATED Wally by Cruising World Magazine contributor, Wally Moran is a collection of 16 of Wally's best stories, un-cut, un-edited and un-usually fun reading! Wally's often philosophical humor and tongue-in-cheek outlook on life, and all things sailing and cruising related will take you on a journey through the realities, and often the tribulations, of the sailing and cruising lifestyle. But good or bad, Wally always tries to make the best of things as he opens a porthole for sailors, cruisers, and wanna-be cruisers into the world of the liveaboard cruising sailor. Whether you are new to sailing and boating, or a seasoned veteran cruiser, you will either be amazed, or you will knowingly smile at the honest assessments Wally makes in his sometimes satirical, sometimes downright funny tales of life aboard boats" --
Wally
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Author : David W. Menefee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-01
Wally written by David W. Menefee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Wallace Reid still rouses excitement today as Jeff, the blacksmith in D. W. Griffith's famous film, The Birth of a Nation. Audiences thrill to the rip-roaring brawl between Jeff and a band of villainous renegades. The fight was largely real, and many people saw Wally for the first time in that immortal film. They said he became "a star overnight," but he had appeared in more than a hundred films before. In Wally, his story is fully told for the first time. He was "born in a trunk" to an actress mother and a famous playwright father. Wally barely survived the infamous St. Louis cyclone when the storm tore that city apart, but he emerged from the carnage to grow into a popular student, athlete, and early film hero. His handsome looks inspired directors to place him in front of cameras, but his ambitions were to be a writer and director. When director Cecil B. DeMille picked him to appear opposite opera diva Geraldine Farrar in her first films, his aspirations became lost in the dizzying idolatry of worldwide audiences. Wally's popularity soared to a height rivaled only by Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, but his pedestal of fame stood on shaky ground. Genuine tragedy fell upon Wally and his film crew when their train derailed in an isolated Sierra Mountain location. His injuries were treated with morphine, and his family and friends watched helpless as he became caught unaware in the deathly grip of the drug. Dorothy Davenport, his wife and a beautiful star in her own right, remained faithfully by his side, while he wrestled with the demons that threatened to take his life. Wally draws from many original sources and major archives to show how he was received in his time and the importance of his role in the development of motion pictures. The entertaining and informative book contains an extensive biographical treatment, a detailed filmography, and more than 200 rare photographs, posters, advertisements, and lobby cards that capture the glamour of Hollywood's Golden Years.
Where S Wally The Totally Essential Travel Collection
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Author : Martin Handford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06
Where S Wally The Totally Essential Travel Collection written by Martin Handford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06 with Picture puzzles categories.
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Wally Whale S Mighty Tail
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Author : Kim Linette Sorensen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03-30
Wally Whale S Mighty Tail written by Kim Linette Sorensen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-30 with categories.
Koa adventures with Wally Whale in the South Pacific where they learn a mighty secret: HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE. Part of the inspiring EQ Explorers: Little Adventures for a Big, Happy Life series.