How It Happened in Peach Hill

How It Happened in Peach Hill
Author: Marthe Jocelyn
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 177049068X

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The year is 1924, the heyday of the revived Spiritualist movement. Fourteen-year-old Annie and her mother are successful purveyors of psychic chicanery; they move from town to town, cashing in on the fad for clairvoyant guidance. When they arrive in Peach Hill, Annie is once again compelled into her part of the act: she has to pretend that she’s the village idiot in order to more easily listen in on gossip that her mother can put to use as a fake seer. But something happens in Peach Hill. Annie’s tired of missing school, drooling, and keeping her eyes crossed. This is not the way to attract the kind of male attention she wants. She decides to drop the guise, but no sooner than she does, her mother comes up with a new scam. Now she’s a faith healer and Annie’s troubles have just begun. This is Marthe Jocelyn at the height of her powers as a novelist. How it Happened in Peach Hill is by turns funny, suspenseful, and heartbreaking as it explores the world of those who peddle hope and comfort for profit.

Secrets: Stories Selected by Marthe Jocelyn

Secrets: Stories Selected by Marthe Jocelyn
Author:
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2009-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1770490345

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In all their permutations, these unforgettable stories explore one of the irresistible facets of human nature, the fact that everyone has a secret. Marthe Jocelyn has selected twelve stories by several of the best authors in North America to explore the nature and the power of secrets. Sometimes secrets can be downright funny – how would you like to be the front person for your fake, clairvoyant mother? Secrets can also be scary – if you are pretending that your father is dead so you don’t have to introduce him to your teacher. And sometimes secrets can break your heart, and heal it – when they have to do with the ties that bind generations together. Contributors include Susan Adach, Anne Carter, Gillian Chan, Nancy Hartry, Marthe Jocelyn, Julie Johnston, Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Loris Lesynski, Anne Gray Sarndal, Martha Slaughter, Teresa Toten, and Elizabeth Winthrop.

Viminy Crowe's Comic Book

Viminy Crowe's Comic Book
Author: Marthe Jocelyn
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2014-05-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1770494804

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From two of Canada's most renowned children's authors comes a hilarious, action-packed comic adventure novel! When chubby, geeky Wylder Wallace spills lunch on cool and aloof Addy Crowe at Toronto's Comicon, she dashes to the bathroom, leaving behind the latest issue of her uncle's steampunk comic hit: FLYNN GOSTER in GOLD RUSH TRAIN. Wylder, a fan of the Flynn comics, opens this new one eagerly, astounded to see the girl who was just yelling at him inside the comic. Fascinated, he follows Addy into the bathroom, and the adventure begins ... Is there a personality conflict? Oh, yes. Addy wants to go home; Wylder wants to stay and explore the world of Viminy Crowe's comic book. Do things go wrong? You bet they do, from the very start, when Addy loses her pet rat, Catnip, and almost gets shot by a Red Rider. All the while the actual comic book story is going on around them. The train carries a fortune from the Yukon goldfields, and both dashing Flynn Goster (hero of a thousand disguises and thief extraordinaire) and villainous Professor Aldous Lickpenny (criminal genius, aided by malevolent robots but somewhat hampered by doltish nephew Nevins) have plans to steal the gold. There's romance too -- Flynn's old flame, the brilliant aviatrix, Isadora Fortuna, is traveling across Canada with her balloon, and her strangely familiar protégée Nelly Day. Addy and Wylder navigate the story with the aid of the comic book itself. Every page turn sends them to a different setting, from the Banff Springs Hotel to an alligator-wrestling arena in Florida. But when they finally find a portal back to the real world, catastrophe follows ... A hilarious thrill-ride of a story that will have kids laughing and on the edge of their seats with every turn of the page.

Saturn Peach

Saturn Peach
Author: Lily Wang
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781774220115

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In Saturn Peach, Lily Wang establishes a distinctive voice that is part heartbreak and part wise witness chronicling the strangeness of a technologized world. When asked to describe her book, Wang answered in her quintessential way, "There are things I never want to know but always know. Every day I live with them. Every day I live. I am like a young fruit. Like a peach, common, not the popular kind but oblate, saturn. I live and inside me this pale fruit, yellow and white. I take bites out of myself and share them with you. Maybe you taste like me. Maybe you hold this fruit and become a tree." If ever there were a book that disarmingly - and seemingly effortlessly - encouraged its reader to become a metaphor, then Saturn Peach is it.

Twice Dead

Twice Dead
Author: William Jordan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2008-07-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1465328114

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Twice Dead is a 1948 caper surrounding two elderly bachelors, Sydney Wadsworth, founder of an exclusive New York golf club in 1921, and Toby Worthington, his inseparable friend. Discovering a member dead in the golf club locker room, they place him on the golf course to spare the club embarrassment. The police cannot find the body, and class warfare ensues between the club and the community. As amateur detectives, Sydney and Toby dodge the law, face charges of murder, theft, and indecent exposure as they journey to a bizarre rod and gun club in search of a solution.

Birding the Hudson Valley

Birding the Hudson Valley
Author: Kathryn J. Schneider
Publisher: University Press of New England
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1512602671

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Although an estimated four hundred thousand Hudson Valley residents feed, observe, or photograph birds, the vast majority of New Yorkers enjoy their birdwatching activities mostly around the home. Kathryn J. Schneider's engaging site guide provides encouragement for bird enthusiasts to expand their horizons. More than just a collection of bird-finding tips, this book explores Hudson Valley history, ecology, bird biology, and tourism. It describes sites in every county in the region, including farms, grasslands, old fields, wetlands, orchards, city parks, rocky summits, forests, rivers, lakes, and salt marshes. Designed for birders of all levels of skill and interest, this beautifully illustrated book contains explicit directions to more than eighty locations, as well as useful species accounts and hints for finding the valley's most sought-after birds.

American Duroc-Jersey Record

American Duroc-Jersey Record
Author: American Duroc-Jersey Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1044
Release: 1921
Genre: Duroc Jersey swine
ISBN:

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No Way - Yes Way

No Way - Yes Way
Author: Reba J. Craig
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2015-08-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1490762396

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Life as portrayed from a little girl's perspective through childhood until she becomes an adult. She goes through tremendous barriers and obstacles from her six older siblings and only has two of them that she can trust. Through all of the bitter upheavals, she met them head-on and never gave up.

Holstein-Friesian Herd-book

Holstein-Friesian Herd-book
Author: Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1778
Release: 1919
Genre: Cattle
ISBN:

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Hiking New York's Lower Hudson Valley

Hiking New York's Lower Hudson Valley
Author: Randi Minetor
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2018-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493029908

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From the High Line on Manhattan's West Side to the historic Copake Iron Works in Taconic State Park, Hiking New York's Lower Hudson Valley features the best hiking routes between New York City and Albany, including several in the Catskills and western Connecticut. Whether you're looking for an unforgettable outdoor experience in the sloping hills around one of America's most beautiful and beloved waterways, or just wanting to escape the city for a few hours, veteran hikers Randi and Nic Minetor provide all the information you'll need to make it happen. Now powered with National Geographic's TOPO! Maps, Hiking New York's Lower Hudson Valley is your complete guide to getting out of the city, into the outdoors, and onto your next great adventure!