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1) Little Missy
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English
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Little Missy had been in bed for weeks with Guillain-Barre syndrome, fatigue, and depression. Her father, frightened for her, asked, "What will make you happy?"
Little Missy said, "No one has time to spend with me, hours of time."
"If a companion will make you happy, I'll move heaven and earth to find you one."
Days later, Sammy knocked, entered, then jumped up on Little Missy's bed. She informed her that she was going to help her walk again....
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English
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He was told that the color of his skin would keep him out of the big leagues, but Joe Black worked his way up through the Negro Leagues and the Cuban Winter League. He burst into the Majors in 1952 when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. In the face of segregation, verbal harassment, and even death threats, Joe Black rose to the top of his game; he earned National League Rookie of the Year and became the first African American pitcher to win a World...
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University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
This controversial and groundbreaking book - certain to provoke Joyce scholars - documents the heretofore under observed influence of George Bernard Shaw on James Joyce. In painstaking detail, Martha Fodaski Black addresses Joyce's "stolentelling" from Shaw, maintaining that Joyce employed literary ruses to obscure the relationship between himself and his Irish predecessor - stratagems that argue for Joyce's own originality. Shaw and Joyce were both...
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Royal BC Museum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An insightful collection exploring the plight, past and promise of the orca, powerful symbol of BC's wild coast and apex predator of all oceans. Spirits of the Coast brings together the work of marine biologists, Indigenous knowledge keepers, poets, artists and storytellers, united by their enchantment with the orca. Long feared in Western cultures as 'killer whales,' and respected and honoured by Indigenous cultures as friends, family or benefactors,...