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A cow who oinks and a pig who moos are shunned by the other barnyard animals. When the meet, they teach each other their appropriate sounds and they have the last laugh because all the other animals can only make one sound. Colorful cartoon-style drawing illustrate the text.
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In this book, noted literary theorist Scarry breaks down the ways that writers employ their imaginations to create fictional worlds, and analyzes how writers' methods of imagining connect to the methods readers use to bring books to life in their own minds. The book includes passages of guided reading that exemplify the methods Scarry discusses.
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Kevin McIlvoy's 12 stories share many of the same characters and themes. Smoke is about a cross-eyed boy whose affliction may actually be a gift, and in Permission, the boy's cousin is a bartender in the same town. The Rhino in the Barn is about finding an unlikely bit of hope in the midst of despair. The title novella consists of three takes on the history of New Mexico intertwined with tales from the life of the fictional narrator, an 11-year-old named Charlemagne (Chum for short). Some of the stories are illustrated with maps and photographs.
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THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV states and exemplifies Dostoevsky's most urgent concerns as a writer: the struggle between faith and the lack of it, the nature of love and hate, the question of God's existence, and generational conflict. The latter is represented in his novel by the father, Fyodor Karamazov, and his four very different sons: the saintly Alyosha, passionately sensual Dmitri, Ivan the intellectual, and the repulsive bastard son, Smerdyakov, who eventually becomes the murderer of his cruel father. All four sons, however, hate him, and the question of guilt is ambiguous. It has been theorized that Dostoyevski's hatred for his own father was the springboard for this examination of patricide and guilt.
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