This Boy s Life Book
Score: 3.5
From 39 Ratings

This Boy s Life

  • Author : Tobias Wolff
  • Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Release Date : 2007-12-01
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 304
  • ISBN 10 : 9780802198600
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This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily close, almost telepathic relationship. As Toby fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff does a masterful job of re-creating the frustrations and cruelties of adolescence. His various schemes - running away to Alaska, forging checks, and stealing cars - lead eventually to an act of outrageous self-invention that releases him into a new world of possibility.

Boy s Life Book
Score: 4.5
From 78 Ratings

Boy s Life

  • Author : Robert McCammon
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release Date : 2011-10-18
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 582
  • ISBN 10 : 9781453231562
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An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song. It’s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It’s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelve-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson. He’s certain he’s sensed spirits whispering in the churchyard. He’s heard of the weird bootleggers who lurk in the dark outside of town. He’s seen a flood leave Main Street crawling with snakes. Cory thrills to all of it as only a young boy can. Then one morning, while accompanying his father on his milk route, he sees a car careen off the road and slowly sink into fathomless Saxon’s Lake. His father dives into the icy water to rescue the driver, and finds a beaten corpse, naked and handcuffed to the steering wheel—a copper wire tightened around the stranger’s neck. In time, the townsfolk seem to forget all about the unsolved murder. But Cory and his father can’t. Their search for the truth is a journey into a world where innocence and evil collide. What lies before them is the stuff of fear and awe, magic and madness, fantasy and reality. As Cory wades into the deep end of Zephyr and all its mysteries, he’ll discover that while the pleasures of childish things fade away, growing up can be a strange and beautiful ride. “Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury, and every bit their equal,” Boy’s Life, a winner of both the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards, represents a brilliant blend of mystery and rich atmosphere, the finest work of one of today’s most accomplished writers (Kirkus Reviews).

The Boys Life of Abraham Lincoln Book

The Boys Life of Abraham Lincoln

  • Author : Helen Nicolay
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release Date : 2022-09-16
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 149
  • ISBN 10 : EAN:8596547367741
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln" by Helen Nicolay. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Boys Life Book

Boys Life

  • Author : Howard Korder
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Release Date : 1988
  • Genre: Amateur theater
  • Pages : 68
  • ISBN 10 : 0822201402
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THE STORY: Told in a series of fast-paced, sharply etched scenes, the play traces the misadventures of three former college buddies now seeking to make their way in the big city--and with various women of their acquaintance. There is the cynical Jac

In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs Book
Score: 4
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In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs

  • Author : Tobias Wolff
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release Date : 2009-10-13
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 192
  • ISBN 10 : 9780061868221
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Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director. Fondly yet sharply drawn, Wolff's characters stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path."

The boys life of Edison Book

The boys life of Edison

  • Author : William Meadowcroft
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release Date : 2020-08-06
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 154
  • ISBN 10 : 9783752419825
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Reproduction of the original: The boys’ life of Edison by William Meadowcroft

Old School Book
Score: 3.5
From 41 Ratings

Old School

  • Author : Tobias Wolff
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release Date : 2004-08-31
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 210
  • ISBN 10 : 9780375701498
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The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. The agency of revelation is the school literary contest, whose winner will be awarded an audience with the most legendary writer of his time. As the fever of competition infects the boy and his classmates, fraying alliances, exposing weaknesses, Old School explores the ensuing deceptions and betrayals with an unblinking eye and a bottomless store of empathy. The result is further evidence that Wolff is an authentic American master.

Boys Life Book of Outdoor Skills Book

Boys Life Book of Outdoor Skills

  • Author : Boy Scouts of America
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release Date : 2012-03-06
  • Genre: Sports & Recreation
  • Pages : 192
  • ISBN 10 : 9781461748663
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A Followup to the Highly Successful Best of Boys' Life Boys’ Life, the magazine for Boy Scouts of America, was launched in 1911 and became one of the most popular youth magazines in America. Every month it features news, stories, jokes, and practical how-to instructions invaluable to all Scouts. Reproduced in facsimile form, The Boys’ Life Book of Outdoor Skills brings together a selection of the very best pieces, including work by Theodore Roosevelt and Buffalo Bill ("A Message to Boy Scouts"), and . Contents include facsimiles of the best pages from 1911 to the present.

Lord of the Flies Book
Score: 3.5
From 2,863 Ratings

Lord of the Flies

  • Author : William Golding
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release Date : 2012-09-20
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 291
  • ISBN 10 : 9780571290581
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A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.

Best of Boys Life Book

Best of Boys Life

  • Author : Boy Scouts of America
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release Date : 2010-08-17
  • Genre: Sports & Recreation
  • Pages : 192
  • ISBN 10 : 9781461749783
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In celebration of its 100th anniversary of Boy Scouts of America and its publication Boys' Life, this book is a collection of the best Boys' Life pages of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting information. All pages in this collection are facsimile reproductions of the magazine's original pages.

Boy Life on the Prairie Book

Boy Life on the Prairie

  • Author : Hamlin Garland
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release Date : 1961-01-01
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 480
  • ISBN 10 : 0803250703
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Boy Life on the Prairie was first published in 1899, some eighteen years before the appearance of Hamlin Garland?s A Son of the Middle Border. The broad scope of the latter book, as B. R. McElderry, Jr., tells us in the introduction to this new edition of Boy Life, has overshadowed the ?earlier and better book of reminiscence dealing specifically with Garland?s boyhood experiences on an Iowa farm from 1869 to about 1881. When he wrote Boy Life on the Prairie Garland was much closer to the subject than he was in 1917, and he had the advantage of a more restricted aim: to tell directly and specifically what it was like to grow up in northeast Iowa in the years just after the Civil War. It may safely be said that no one else has given so clear and informative an account. When one considers other accounts of boyhood in nineteenth-century America?those of Aldrich, Clemens, Warner, and Howells, for example?one is impressed with the thoroughness and precision of Garland?s book. Aside from Main-Travelled Roads, Boy Life, is probably the best single book that Garland ever wrote.? The Bison Book edition is the first in more than fifty years to reproduce in full the 1899 text. It also includes an introduction addressed ?To My Young Readers? and the ?Author?s Notes? which appeared in the 1926 edition published by Allyn & Bacon. The forty-seven line drawings and six full-page illustrations by E. W. Deming are reproduced from the 1899 edition. In his introduction, Dr. McElderry provides a thorough and interesting analysis of Boy Life and compares it with the sketches written in 1888 which were Garland?s first attempt at reminiscence, as well as with A Son of the Middle Border.

A Boy s Life Book

A Boy s Life

  • Author : Jack Davis
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 1991
  • Genre: Aboriginal Australians
  • Pages : 166
  • ISBN 10 : IND:30000039915537
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Aboriginal Australians - The early life of poet and playwright, Jack Davis.

The Duke of Deception Book
Score: 3.5
From 6 Ratings

The Duke of Deception

  • Author : Geoffrey Wolff
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release Date : 1990-02-19
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 305
  • ISBN 10 : 9780679727521
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Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son. In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.

Tudor School Boy Life Book

Tudor School Boy Life

  • Author : Juan Luis Vives
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release Date : 2012-11-12
  • Genre: Education
  • Pages : 304
  • ISBN 10 : 9781136266294
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First published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Boys of Life Book
Score: 5
From 1 Ratings

Boys of Life

  • Author : Paul Russell
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release Date : 2016-03-08
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 266
  • ISBN 10 : 9781627781732
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Country boy Tony is seduced by a smooth-talking pornographer, who brings the young man to New York to star in and recruit younger boys into a string of increasingly violent sex films. An escape, a marriage and a murder follow the story's cinematic arc of innocence, betrayal, redemption and revenge.