When old Mr. Haktak digs up a curious brass pot in his garden, he has no idea what use it can be. On his way home, Mr. Haktak decides to carry his coin purse in the mysterious pot. But when Mrs. Haktak's hairpin accidentally slips into the pot and she reaches in to retrieve it, the magic of the pot is revealed. Not only are there two hairpins inside, but there are also two purses!
Danny also believes that the outcome of Sluggers' games depends on him and hot dogs. Because eating two hot dogs with everything before each game is the best kind of luck a fan can give his team.
Vicksburg Daily Citizen: See Campion, “Wallpaper Newspapers,” 129–40. Mary Boykin Chesnut. Since 1905, Mary Chesnut's diary has been issued in four separate editions, including a “restored" version prepared by C. Vann Woodward and ...
This is an oral history and ethnography of miners and their families in Kentucky focusing on political ideology and working class consciousness.
" This, explains Pies, "is the keystone in the arch of Stoic philosophy." In a sense, then, the rest of the book is an extended meditation on how we might avoid letting things touch our souls too much.
In this book we do exactly that: we go back to the beginning of the stories - Creation - and work our way forward to humanity, Israel, the founders (Jesus and Muhammad), why they founded their communities (the Church and the Umma), what ...
Sixth-grader Amy and her family move to Taiwan to do missionary work, but even at her school for English-speaking students Amy finds the adjustment difficult.
"TWO's best friend is ONE ... until THREE jumps in between them. A powerful story of friendship, loss, letting go, and self-discovery"--Publisher.
Written by a pediatrician and a mom, this all-inclusive guide shows you the ins and outs of your child’s second year of life in an easy, accessible way.
Everything Here Is Beautiful is, at its heart, an immigrant story, and a young woman’s quest to find fulfillment and a life unconstrained by her illness.
Colum McCann's Everything in This Country Must, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, ...