Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: men, old, gathering
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 1992-06-30
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0679738908
ISBN-13: 9780679738909
Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, this is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man.
Author: William Kienzle
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Keywords: gathering
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0740722298
ISBN-13: 9780740722295
In this new entry, we revisit Koesler’s adolescent and teen years, to a time when young Catholic men and women were encouraged, even expected, to become priests and nuns, whether or not their vocation was real. We meet his group of six young aspiring religious (four men and two women) who underwent the rigors of the seminary and the convent together. We learn of their individual struggles with their faith, their mentors, and their commitments to difficult choices. And we painfully discover how one member of this group is inflicted with undserved guilt by a selfishly cruel pastor and h
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Childre
Keywords: blue, gathering
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0618055819
ISBN-13: 9780618055814
Lois Lowry’s magnificent novel of the distant future, The Giver, is set in a highly technical and emotionally repressed society. This eagerly awaited companion volume, by contrast, takes place in a village with only the most rudimentary technology, where anger, greed, envy, and casual cruelty make ordinary people’s lives short and brutish. This society, like the one portrayed in The Giver, is controlled by merciless authorities with their own complex agendas and secrets. And at the center of both stories there is a young person who is given the responsibility of preserving the memo
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Keywords: blue, gathering
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-01-24
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0385732562
ISBN-13: 9780385732567
Kira, an orphan with a twisted leg, lives in a world where the weak are cast aside. When she is given a task that no other community member can carry out, Kira soon realizes that she is surrounded by many mysteries and secrets. No one must know of her plans to uncover the truth about her worldand to find out what exists beyond it.
Author: Brian Tinsman
Publisher: Carlton Publishing
Keywords: vol, gathering, magic
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1842223895
ISBN-13: 9781842223895
Author: A. P. Szila
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Company
Keywords: gathering, transportation, gas, oil, transport, production
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 044499565X
ISBN-13: 9780444995650
Hardbound.
Author: Anne Enright
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Keywords: prize, booker, man, gathering
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2007-09-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802170390
ISBN-13: 9780802170392
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Irelands most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with himsomething that happened in their grandmoth
