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A Horse Named Sorrow

2012-10-23 Fiction
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Release : 2012-10-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 737/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Horse Named Sorrow by : Trebor Healey

Download or read book A Horse Named Sorrow written by Trebor Healey. This book was released on 2012-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When troubled twenty-one-year-old Seamus Blake meets the enigmatic Jimmy (just arrived in San Francisco by bicycle from his hometown in Buffalo, New York), he feels his life may finally be taking off. But the ensuing romance proves short-lived as Jimmy dies of an AIDS-related illness. The grieving Seamus is obliged to keep a promise: "Take me back the way I came," Jimmy had asked. And so Seamus sets out by bicycle on a picaresque journey with the ashes, hoping to bring them back to Buffalo. He meets truck drivers, waitresses, Native Americans, college kids, farmers, ranchers, and Marines--each one giving him a new perspective on his own life and on Jimmy's death. When he falls in man whose mother has also recently died, Seamus's grief and his story become universal and redemptive. Award-winning novelist Trebor Healey depicts San Francisco in the 1980s and '90s in poetic prose that is both ribald and poignant, and a crossing into the American West that is dreamy, mythic, mystifying."--Publisher's description.

Faun

2012 Fiction
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Release : 2012
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 858/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Faun by : Trebor Healey

Download or read book Faun written by Trebor Healey. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One morning Gilberto Rubio wakes up with a five o'clock shadow. Puberty. But why are his legs getting so furry? And what are these little horn nubs pushing out of his scalp? What's that nub of a tail that's making it so hard to sit on anything but couches? His peers begin to treat him like a freak, while his anxious mother Lupita crosses herself and worries about his eternal soul and what might be happening to it. When his mere presence begins to stir the hormones of anyone nearby and the pregnancy rate suddenly skyrockets at Buenaventura High, Gilberto panics, and hopping aboard his skateboard vanishes into Hollywood before hitchhiking out of Los Angeles to find a mysterious stranger he met online who just might have some answers. Award-winning author Trebor Healey has written a new fairy tale for Los Angeles.

A Mercy

2009-08-11 Fiction
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Release : 2009-08-11
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 07X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Mercy by : Toni Morrison

Download or read book A Mercy written by Toni Morrison. This book was released on 2009-08-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

The Girls Who Chased Away Sorrow

2003-11-01 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2003-11-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 395/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Girls Who Chased Away Sorrow by : Ann Warren Turner

Download or read book The Girls Who Chased Away Sorrow written by Ann Warren Turner. This book was released on 2003-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of Sarah Nita, a thirteen-year old Navajo girl, which describes the Navajos' forced 400-mile walk from their ancestral homeland to Fort Sumner in 1864.

The Fire Horse Girl

2013-01-01 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2013-01-01
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 248/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Fire Horse Girl by : Kay Honeyman

Download or read book The Fire Horse Girl written by Kay Honeyman. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiery and romantic adventure, perfect for fans of Grace Lin, Kristen Cashore, or Lisa See! Jade Moon is a Fire Horse -- the worst sign in the Chinese zodiac for girls, said to make them stubborn, willful, and far too imaginative. But while her family despairs of marrying her off, she has a passionate heart and powerful dreams, and wants only to find a way to make them come true.Then a young man named Sterling Promise offers Jade Moon and her father a chance to go to America. While Sterling Promise's smooth manners couldn't be more different from her impulsive nature, Jade Moon falls in love with him on the long voyage. But America in 1923 doesn't want many Chinese immigrants, and when they are detained at Angel Island, the "Ellis Island of the West," she discovers a betrayal that destroys all her dreams. To get into America, much less survive there, Jade Moon will have to use all her stubbornness and will to break a new path... one so brave and dangerous, only a Fire Horse girl could imagine it.

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