Day breaks over the town. Get up, everybody! It's time to go to school. For the old man too, it's time to wake up. The night was icy and he's hungry. His name? He doesn't know . . . This is the story of a person with no job, no family, no home--a nobody, who can't even remember what he was once named. But his day changes when he is noticed by a child. Drawn in soft, watercolor pencil, this is an important story for our times. This gentle, compelling book will appeal to a child's sense of justice and to every reader's compassion.
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Corey has just moved from Toronto to the small village of Bryan's Ford, where things are definitely not the same.
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Later I talked to Arterburn about the progressive nature of sexual addictive behavior . He told me that if men realized their behavior could lead to very serious consequences , they might be motivated to change .
Who would bring the door, la puerta, to a picnic instead of the pig, el puerco? An old man who's great at gardening but lousy at listening to his wife!...
Oswald Stevenson, a famous novelist, must readjust his life and learn to deal with his grief when Joe, his young lover for the past ten years, is killed in a car accident