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Off the road
In 2040, eleven-year-old Tom follows his grandfather through the Wall and into the forbidden Wild, where they seek to find his grandfather's boyhood home.
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Too Much Lip
A gritty and darkly hilarious story of family, trauma, and resilience in Bundjalung country.Wise-cracking Kerry Salter, a lifetime avoider of her hometown and prison, returns to Bundjalung country on a stolen Harley after learning of her Pop's impending death.
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Too much lip
'Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her voice in anger.' Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things - her hometown and prison. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she takes a Harley and heads south to Durrongo. Kerry's plan is to spend twenty-four hours, tops, over the border. She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of grabbing on to people. Old family wounds open as the Salters battle to stop the development of their beloved river. And the unexpected arrival on the scene of a good-looking dugai fella intent on loving her up only adds more trouble - but then trouble is Kerry's middle name. Gritty and darkly hilarious, Too Much Lip offers redemption and forgiveness where none seems possible.
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Poppy's pants
Penelope's Poppy always wears khaki pants. When he finds a hole in one pair, he asks Penelope to patch it. Penelope likes to sew, but she soon realizes that mending the hole is more complicated than she first thought. Penelope struggles with the challenges and frustrations, but, with a little help from her mama, she finally-and creatively-repairs Poppy's pants. Poppy's Pants is about perseverance and problem-solving. Through Penelope's example youngsters discover the satisfaction of finding solutions on their own, even if the solution is not the way other people might solve it. Sometimes the best solutions come from being creative-using your head and your hands. A postscript written by the author's father, Pat Conroy, best-selling author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides, gives a personal, behind-the-scenes description of the book's characters and the author.
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Sleeper
DJ McLean wants to know the truth about his grandfather, so he travels to London and Cambridge to follow clues and symbols somehow connected with British spies, and a vintage E-type Jag.
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In Search of Equilibrium
Theresa Lola 's debut poetry collection In Search of Equilibrium is an extraordinary and exacting study of death and grieving.Where the algorithms of the body and the memory fail, Lola finds the words that will piece together the binary code of family and restart the recovery program.
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Song and dance man
Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.
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The Shadow of the Hummingbird
A lovely rumination on lifes beauty and ephemerality, The Shadow of the Hummingbird sensitively portrays an 80-year-old man spending an afternoon with his young grandson. Playwright Athol Fugard will make his first appearance on stage in over a decade in the spring 2014 world premiere of this, his most recent work, at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT.
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Walt Disney's Grandpa Bunny
Grandpa Bunny continues to entertain and amaze the younger rabbits even after he leaves them.
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Mrs. DeVry, Why Do You Cry?
When he came a few months ago to re-hang the screen door, he brought a bunch of boxes in from his truck and put them in the nearly empty back room that had been my ex-husband's home office. Why did my grandfather sit up there alone and watch the train run round and round, winding through the hills and over the lake, past the farm and through the town, right by the yellow house where a pie is baking and a baby is napping and Mrs. Sylvia Anne DeVry, hanging out the wash, hears the train and mistakes it for the sound of a change coming?
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