The Pencil Man

The Pencil Man
Author: Don McAllister
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146342986X

"I LOVED the book! I laughed, I cried and couldn't wait to finish it and at the same time saved the last 10 pages for 2 days because I didn't want it to end! THANK YOU DON. It was great! I will recommend to all my friends! These characters are so real. Are you sure this is fiction? These are some of the reader reactions to Don McAllisters first novel Angel and the Ivory Tower. The same vivid imagery and cant wait to read whats next style of writing can be found in this work The Pencil Man, Dons second novel. The Pencil Man was a real person who lived in Anderson, Indiana during the 1950s. He was a beggar who had no legs, moved about on a board with wheels, and sold pencils on the street. Many remember him, but no one seems to know who he was or what became of him. While no one knows the real story of the Pencil Man, this novel tries to give some idea of what it would be like to be The Pencil Man. The story includes the mystical realm of the spirits, experiences, and decisions that guide everyones fate. It also places one in the position of The Pencil Man himself, and shows us the world from a very different perspective. As with Angel and the Ivory Tower, you will be entertained, laugh, and cry, but more importantly your eyes will be opened to people around you who may now seem invisible.

PencilMan

PencilMan
Author: Sean Ceaser
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-08-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1039100295

Have you ever wondered what happened to that calendar appointment you set up on your phone? That app that disappeared? That contact that seems to have gone missing? What happened? Where did it go? Well, dad has lost some of his cell phone information & he's wondering if his little son might have accidentally erased it. Little does he know the truth about what has happened. The wondrous story of PencilMan shows us the magical world where this information is transformed. Brimming with magnificent art, the book’s rhyming rhythm gives the adult readers the ability to decipher hidden clues in the text. Come along with Limmerie, Barker, Poe-Poe & Slip on their fast-paced journey from house to PencilMan factory to discover what everyone has yet to know: what happens to all this missing information?

The Promise of a Pencil

The Promise of a Pencil
Author: Adam Braun
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476730636

This the story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life. The author began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling he met a young boy begging on the streets of India, who after being asked what he wanted most in the world, simply answered, "A pencil." This small request led to a staggering series of events that took the author backpacking through dozens of countries before eventually leaving one of the world's most prestigious jobs at Bain & Company to found Pencils of Promise, the organization he started with just $25 that has since built more than 200 schools around the world. This book chronicles the author's journey to find his calling, as each chapter explains one clear step that every person can take to turn your biggest ambitions into reality, even if you start with as little as $25. His story takes readers behind the scenes with business moguls and village chiefs, world-famous celebrities and hometown heroes. It is filled with compelling stories and shareable insights. All proceeds from this book support Pencils of Promise.

Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels

Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels
Author: Peter F. Murphy
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2001-02-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780299171308

Peter F. Murphy's purpose in this book is not to shock but rather to educate, provoke discussion, and engender change. Looking at the sexual metaphors that are so pervasive in American culture—jock, tool, shooting blanks, gang bang, and others even more explicit—he argues that men are trapped and damaged by language that constantly intertwines sexuality and friendship with images of war, machinery, sports, and work. These metaphors men live by, Murphy contends, reinforce the view that relationships are tactical encounters that must be won, because the alternative is the loss of manhood. The macho language with which men cover their fear of weakness is a way of bonding with other men. The implicit or explicit attacks on women and gay men that underlie this language translate, in their most extreme forms, into actual violence. Murphy also believes, however, that awareness of these metaphorical power plays is the basis for behavioral change: "How we talk about ourselves as men can alter the way we live as men."

The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man

The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man
Author: Ian McMillan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2014-06-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780957574717

The story, in six-line rhyming stanzas, of a young lad from England who finds himself caught up in the slaughter of WWI, and records the things he sees around him with pencil and paper.

A Bad Man

A Bad Man
Author: Stanley Elkin
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2010-10-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453204067

A black market dealer must reconcile his lifetime of sins as he faces hard time in prison A born salesman, Leo Feldman can peddle anything from clothing and appliances to prostitutes, guns, and drugs. Although guilty of myriad crimes, Feldman is sentenced to prison as the result of a clerical error that charged him with a crime he did not commit. Now, completely vulnerable to the inmates who surround him—and to the stern Warden Fisher—Feldman must come to terms with what it means to be jailed not for his crimes, but for his character. Wry and insightful, A Bad Man is an engrossing story of an antihero’s journey through the twisted world of an unforgiving penal system. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

Puck

Puck
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1888
Genre: American wit and humor
ISBN:

The Divine Romance

The Divine Romance
Author: Fulton J. Sheen
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1312381590

Biretta Books is proud to present this masterwork of the great Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen! In The Divine Romance, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen delves into love and life with all its pain, sorrow, loneliness and human failures from the perspective of our human quest for God, the inner life of the Trinity, the outpouring of the Spirit and most of all the Lord of Calvary and Easter. The Divine Romance touches on perennial themes and is a classic that has a power to heal, help and inspire the reader. In his crisp pastoral style, Sheen describes the believer's spiritual journey back to the Father with all of its ecclesial dimensions. Christ guides our mystical journey and forms us into his very Body on Earth.