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1) Lawn boy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Best buddies Dustin, Albert, and Mark are twelve-year-old boys looking forward to a summer of fun in 1970. When Dustin mows the lawn of 75-year-old Jonathan Sperry, a man he has seen at church, a unique friendship develops, setting the stage for a summer the three boys will never forget!
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A middle-aged woman, irritated with her wealthy young neighbor's yard improvements, offers a corner of her lawn to a Croatian immigrant who wants a vegetable garden. A daughter accompanies her father to Israel, where, seeing a new side of him away from her mother, she makes an unusual bargain. In twelve stories about the difficult, sometimes impermeable boundaries between friends, neighbors, and family relations, Jessica Francis Kane explores just...
Publisher
MTV Networks
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Law-abiding citizens: Beavis and Butt-Head are not criminals. They're just innocent teenagers guilty of trying to have a good time. Whether they're meeting President Clinton, attempting to 'do it' with an undercover prostitute, or Beavis transforming into his unpredictable alter-ego, the Great Cornholio, they prove time and again that it's not easy enforcing the law ontwo boys who clearly don't know what the law is. There goes the neighborhood: How...
Author
Publisher
37 Ink/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An eye-opening, inspiring, and timely account of the complex relationship between leading suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in the fight for women's equality. Woodrow Wilson arrives in Washington, DC, in March 1913, a day before he is to take the presidential oath of office. He is surprised by the modest turnout. The crowds and reporters are blocks away from Union Station, watching a parade of eight thousand suffragists on Pennsylvania...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
An anthology from a New Orleans poet. In Graves during a Civil War, he writes: "There are many deaths, / And little ground. / Thus the graves must be narrow. / About as wide as cots. / But as deep as ever. / Though the ground be frozen / And the digging an agony / The graves / Should not also / Be shallow. / Their narrowness is indignity enough."
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was--and remains--a counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature, a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he struck a chord with generations of readers, writing raw, tough poetry about booze, work, and women, that spoke to his fans as "real" and, like the work of the Beats, even dangerous.
THE PLEASURES OF THE DAMNED is a selection of the best works of Bukowski's later years, edited by John...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Join host Ira Glass and his company, as they bring a different theme to life each week, in the format of the popular Chicago radio show by the same name. In Escape, teenage boys in Philadelphia impress girls using a mode of transportation obsolete in their neighborhood since the 19th century, and a young man's fight for independence from his mother is complicated by some very specialized circumstances. In Two wars, we learn about two foreigners in...
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