Beyond the Bedroom Wall

Beyond the Bedroom Wall
Author: Larry Woiwode
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1975
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 9781555972585

Chronicles the several interacting lives of the older and younger Neumillers of North Dakota and Illinois through a sequence of interrelated, stop-action views of their personalities, actions, demands, concerns, and desires.

Behind the Bedroom Wall

Behind the Bedroom Wall
Author: Laura E. Williams
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1571318267

It is 1942. Korinna, a thirteen-year-old girl in Germany, is an active member of the local Jungmadel, a Nazi youth group, along with many of her friends. She believes that Hitler is helping Germany by dealing with what he calls the “Jewish problem,” a campaign that she witnesses as her Jewish neighbors are attacked and taken from their homes. When Korinna discovers that her parents—who are secretly members of an underground resistance group—are sheltering a family of Jewish refugees behind her bedroom wall, she is shocked. As she comes to know the family her sympathies begin to turn, and when someone tips off the Gestapo, Korinna’s loyalties are put to the test. She must decide what she really believes and whom she really trusts. An exciting novel for middle-grade readers, Behind the Bedroom Wall teaches tolerance and understanding while exploring why Nazism held so many in its deadly thrall.

Keeper of the Night

Keeper of the Night
Author: Kimberly Willis Holt
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2003-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780805063615

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The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall
Author: Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1571318216

WINNER OF THE MILKWEED PRIZE FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Eleven-year-old Sebby has found the perfect escape from his crummy house and bickering family—a secret cave he calls “The Hole in the Wall.” It’s all the more beautiful for being in the midst of a devastated mining area behind his home. But soon after Sebby finds the hideaway, his world starts falling apart: his family’s chickens disappear, he falls ill with the mother of all stomachaches, and he finds a special pair of eyeglasses that show him a world where colors come alive and fly through the air. When Sebby sets out to solve these mysteries, he and his twin sister, Barbie, get caught in a wild chase through the tunnels around The Hole in the Wall—all leading them to the mining activities of astrophysicist Stanley Odum, who has been buying up all the land behind Sebby’s home. Exactly what is Mr. Odum mining in his secret facility, and does it have anything to do with these mysterious developments? The answers to these questions take the twins to places they never could have imagined.

Beyond the Fortuneteller's Tent

Beyond the Fortuneteller's Tent
Author: Kristy Tate
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2015-03-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781508929475

When Petra Baron goes into the fortuneteller's tent at a Renaissance fair, she expects to leave with a date to prom. Instead, she walks out into Elizabethan England, where she meets gypsies, a demon dog and a kindred spirit in Emory Ravenswood. Emory must thwart the plans of religious zealots. His mission is dangerous, his enemies are fanatical, and Petra Baron is a complication that Heaven only knows he does not need. Or does he? Although Emory is on Heaven's errand, he learned long ago that Heaven does not always play fair. As Petra slowly falls for Emory, she wonders if he really is who he seems, or if he is just as lost as she is. How can they have a future while trapped in the past? Or is anything possible Beyond the Fortuneteller's Tent?

Beyond the Hollow

Beyond the Hollow
Author: Mrs Kristy Tate
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-03-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781508955511

Petra Baron and her immortal boyfriend, Emory Ravenswood, are living their happily ever after in modern day Orange County, California until Dane, a heart-stoppingly handsome man from Petra's past shows up. Petra can't remember Dane, or anything else about her time in Tarrytown, New York two hundred years ago, but Emory does, and he knows she's lucky to have forgotten all about Dane and the nightmarish episode in the fall of 1810. When Emory disappears so suddenly after Dane's appearance, Petra doesn't know whether Dane can lead her to Emory or to the nightmare she can't remember. But what she does know is that once upon a time really means two hundred years ago, and that if she wants to find Emory the first place to look is Sleepy Hollow, 1810. With a collection of Washington Irving's writings in her hand and a prayer that the same nine-pin playing ghosts that carried Rip Van Winkle back in time will share a drink of their ale, Petra heads into another time defying adventure. Beyond the Hollow is the second book in the Beyond series, where Petra is reminded that love is always timeless.

Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame

Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame
Author: Michael S. Class
Publisher: Magic Picture Frame Studio
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Time travel
ISBN: 9780974926902

This is an American History Book for young adults. Nearly 100 authentic historical photographs are included. Anthony, a twelve-year-old boy, travels into the past by stepping through the Picture Frame on his bedroom wall. Anthony walks on the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, plays baseball with Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, and crosses the Atlantic Ocean with Charles Lindbergh. He sees brave soldiers storm the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, and watches battle-weary Marines raise the American flag on Iwo Jima. He speaks with survivors of the Holocaust. He works in Thomas Edisons laboratory and witnesses the invention of the phonograph, the light bulb, and the motion picture. He meets FDR and Doctor Jonas Salk, and watches them conquer polio and save future generations of children. He meets his great-grandfather at the turn of the 20th century, and journeys with him to America: Together, they walk through the doors to America on Ellis Island, experience the trenches of World War I, the roaring twenties, and the breadlines of the Great Depression. Anthony is with his great-grandfather the day he becomes an American. The book is historically accurate and contains hundreds of interesting background notes on the boy's story. The book also contains activity lists for readers and teachers: recommended books, movies, music, and places to visit - to enhance the learning experience of each chapter.

Beyond the Wall

Beyond the Wall
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2013-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781493670734

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24, 1842, assumed to have died sometime after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon The Devil's Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto "Nothing matters," and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work, all earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce." Despite his reputation as a searing critic, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction writer W. C. Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially in his stories. His style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, impossible events and the theme of war. In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. While traveling with rebel troops, he disappeared without a trace. Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style. He wrote in a variety of literary genres. His short stories are held among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on his roots. He wrote realistically of the terrible things he had seen in the war in such stories as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "The Boarded Window," "Killed at Resaca," and "Chickamauga." In addition to his ghost and war stories, he also published several volumes of poetry. His Fantastic Fables anticipated the ironic style of grotesquerie that became a more common genre in the 20th century. One of Bierce's most famous works is his much-quoted book, The Devil's Dictionary, originally an occasional newspaper item which was first published in book form in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book. It consists of satirical definitions of English words which lampoon cant and political double-talk. Under the entry "leonine," meaning a single line of poetry with an internal rhyming scheme, he included an apocryphal couplet written by the fictitious "Bella Peeler Silcox" (i.e. Ella Wheeler Wilcox) in which an internal rhyme is achieved in both lines only by mispronouncing the rhyming words: The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores! Bierce's twelve-volume Collected Works were published in 1909, the seventh volume of which consists solely of The Devil's Dictionary, the title Bierce himself preferred to The Cynic's Word Book.

Words for Readers and Writers

Words for Readers and Writers
Author: Larry Woiwode
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433535254

From poetry to social networks, writing affects us all. Having taught the art of writing for years while producing literary works of national renown, Larry Woiwode thus explores the mysterious power of language, offering readers a diverse collection of thought-provoking essays on the meaning and significance of writing. In teaching the art of putting words on a page, Woiwode highlights the crucial role that writing plays in communicating with others and fashioning meaning for our lives. The book's 21 essays will help Christians grasp the foundational importance of writing and to be more intentional about how they use words to express their emotions, desires, and beliefs.

On Writers & Writing

On Writers & Writing
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2010-09-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1453203540

The classic work on the art of fiction by the “refreshingly unpredictable” novelist and literary critic (Publishers Weekly) In this posthumously published collection of his essays and reviews, acclaimed novelist John Gardner discusses the craft of fiction writing, taking to task some of his best-known contemporaries in the process. Gardner criticizes some for writing disingenuous fiction, and commends others who produce literature that acts as a life-affirming force. He offers insights into and exacting critiques on such writers as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Saul Bellow, and John Cheever, while addressing his personal influences and delivering broad-ranging observations on literary culture. Provocative and poignant, On Writers & Writing is a must-read for both aspiring writers and careful readers of American literature. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.