Tag: coming of age
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December 05, 2009 06:58 PM EST --
Non-fiction/Memoir
Circular Passage: A Young Man’s 480-Day Global Odyssey
Robert V. Hardy
2008
Booksurge.com
ISBN: 1-4392-1398-4
Pages: 370
Circular Passage: A Young Man’s . . .
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December 04, 2009 08:22 AM EST --
Continued from Part Seven
That night, Jirel stopped outside Emergency Ops’ door. It emanated the stench of fornication, like rotten eggs.
“About time you got here.”
Jirel turned . . .
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June 12, 2007 06:23 PM EDT --
I waited weeks for them, the goslings;
I waited by the willow as it wept for winter's last hurrah;
I waited by the pond's edge as ripples spread near the edge;
I waited under the footbridge, searching . . .
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August 04, 2006 08:59 AM EDT --
I ran the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon. I ran it with my newly adult son, 18. I ran it because prom night was the night before and he didn't attend, didn't take a girl, didn't take a boy. . . .
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August 20, 2008 04:29 PM EDT --
It's hard for me to believe that No Sensible People is a first novel. The story is so true and believable from the very first page that it seems it should be the work of a seasoned veteran.
Not . . .
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December 23, 2008 03:14 AM EST --
Part 1 No Father for Christmas Eve, a coming of age story, with humor. Colorado Rockies, December 1944. Fiction.
Brad squeezed my shoulder and I came out of my daydream about the blizzard . . .
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June 09, 2008 08:10 PM EDT --
I was just over visiting Margie and Edna's Basement (ran into a few cobwebs too; you gals need to dust !) and they were reminiscing about drive-ins. It got me thinking about when I was growing . . .
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September 25, 2007 08:28 AM EDT --
I remember the first year I noticed the difference in the world around me as fall approached. I was in the sixth grade and . . .
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August 08, 2009 02:08 PM EDT --
The book is written by an assistant professor at a state medical university. With that in mind, the language leans towards that of a professor rather than a storyteller.
The story reminds me of . . .
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May 23, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
Run to the mountain, the pond, to Walden: run on two-year old legs that crouch in the sand as we laugh and scoop sand-buckets for sand castles. Run fast before time steals, shifts in my mind's eye. . . .
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October 14, 2007 04:20 PM EDT --
Damian McNicholl is a long-time Gather member (February 14, 2006) (http://damianmcnicholl.gather.com) who grew up in Northern Ireland and went to law school in Wales; in the 1990s, Damian came to the US . . .
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December 22, 2008 05:51 AM EST --
No Father for Christmas Eve. part 1.
No Father for Christmas Eve, a coming of age story. Part 2.
A small town in the Colorado Rockies
December 1944.
A . . .
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March 28, 2009 06:28 PM EDT --
HOW MANY OF THESE ITEMS ARE YOU GUILTY OF USING, BUYING, GIVING AND RECEIVING?
Loves Baby Soft Body Mist
Body on Tap Shampoo (made with real beer!)
Noxema Skin Cream . . .
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August 31, 2009 03:33 PM EDT --
Labor Day: A Novel
Joyce Maynard
William Morrow ISBN: 978-0-06-184340-2
For most people, Labor Day marks the end of summer and the onset of fall, with a last celebration of swimming, barbeques, . . .
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August 09, 2006 09:24 PM EDT --
Twenty-three years ago my nemesis was a rail-thin woman named Mrs. Kyler. She lived in a New England sort of country ranch house, all whitewashed slats and decaying rose bushes surrounded by a sturdy picket . . .
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April 09, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
It was prom night and I wasn’t exactly dressed for it. Instead of catching a limo with my friends, I was going to work at Sonic--my usual after school closing shift. How many high school dreams . . .
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August 27, 2007 12:10 PM EDT --
They say every woman/girl wants a bad boy and who am I to argue with that logic? I decided to prove them right and boy did experience give me a huge shiner. I won’t . . .
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November 20, 2007 12:25 PM EST --
I have just finished a delightful and heartwarming book entitled Journey to Another Place by Inez S. C. Laurie-Douglas. This is a "coming-of-age novel," a type of book I had never read before, . . .
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January 21, 2008 09:37 AM EST --
"Ophelia, why are you slipping down the stairs with Mistress Elizabeth's book...do you not know that the Mistress loves that book and keeps it by her bedside?" queried Sophia, the wise, . . .
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June 23, 2008 07:06 PM EDT --
Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) have been friends throughout their early school years, and now they are graduating high school. Evan has made it into Dartmouth, but Seth has not. It's . . .
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