Mom decides it’s time to move to Dad’s hometown of Welch, West Virginia. Unfortunately, Dad loses his job, and his alcoholism reaches crushing lows. For about a year, the kids enjoy regular meals, their own bicycles, and public schooling. They move into the massive house, and Dad gets a job as an electrician. On the way to Phoenix, Jeannette learns that Grandma Smith has passed, leaving Mom a large sum of money and a house. She misses him on purpose, but the police get involved. Jeannette returns fire with Dad’s pistol. Their time in Nevada comes to an end when Billy Deel, a delinquent neighbor boy whose advances Jeannette rejected, comes to the Walls residence and opens fire with his BB gun. Dad confiscates most of her paycheck, and the family continues to go hungry. After an explosive argument, Mom gets a teaching job. The family enjoys six months of relative stability until Dad loses his job. Dad moves the family to Battle Mountain, Nevada, where he works as an electrician. When Jeannette is in first grade, Mom gives birth to another baby, Maureen.
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Traded to the worst team in the league would be bad enough, but coming on the heels of a messy breakup and a recent scandal… Troy just wants to play hockey and be left alone. "Rachel Reid crafted a story of true heart, beauty, heat, and glorious, hard-won redemption! I loved both heroes and their journey to love was a gorgeous one to watch!" -Lauren Blakely, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Scoring With Him The highly anticipated fifth novel in USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid's Game Changers series sees a grumpy professional hockey player meet his match in an out-and-proud social media manager… The hits just keep coming for Troy Barrett. "The Boy Comes Home" is a powerful and moving work of fiction that showcases Milne's talent for capturing the complexities of human emotion with sensitivity and nuance. It is a poignant exploration of the emotional toll of war and the ways in which it can forever alter a person's sense of self. The story touches on themes of identity, nostalgia, and the difficulty of returning to civilian life after serving in the military. Throughout the story, Robert struggles to reconcile his experiences of war with his old life and the people he left behind. When he arrives, Robert finds that his family is overjoyed to see him, but they are also a bit overwhelmed by the new person he has become. As he makes his way back to his village, he is nervous about how his family and friends will receive him, as he left as a boy and is returning as a man, forever changed by the horrors of war. The story is about a young man named Robert who is returning home to his family after fighting in World War I. Milne, the English author best known for creating the beloved children's character, Winnie-the-Pooh. "The Boy Comes Home" is a short story written by A. He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated 'Library of Babel', whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, 'Funes the Memorious' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', in which a French poet makes it his life's work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote. Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. There is no Hermes who, surprisingly, abandons the blank verse of his surroundings and addresses Odysseus in elaborately rhymed iambic tetrameter octets, as happens in Robert Fitzgerald’s Odyssey 12. And he doesn’t play games with Ovid’s text. (I discovered years ago when using Humphreys that I couldn’t make most of the points I wanted to make about Ovid as a story teller because Humphreys had left out almost everything I wanted to talk about.) Simpson omits nothing, reshapes nothing. A teacher teaching the poem in English will be able to discuss Ovid from pretty much any angle. First time readers, whether undergraduates studying the poem in a class, or general readers with little or no Latin, will get a good sense of Ovid’s poem from the translation. Simpson states his aim in the introduction, to make “a prose translation in the rapid and direct American idiom while avoiding colloquialism on the one hand and academic translationese on the other” (6). The translation is accurate, concise and readable. Simpson’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses includes a table of contents listing the stories in each book (vii-ix), a brief introduction to Ovid and the poem (1-6), a prose translation (9-272), endnotes in the form of a running commentary (273-469), a bibliography (471-478), and an index of names (479-97). |