The Speckled Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Speckled Beauty write by Rick Bragg. This book was released on 2022-08-02. The Speckled Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog. Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house, a starved and half-dead creature, seventy-six pounds of wet hair and poor decisions. Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looming uncertainty. A cancer diagnosis, chemo, kidney failure, and recurring pneumonia had left Rick lethargic and melancholy. Speck helped, and he is helping, still, when he is not peeing on the rose of Sharon. Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.
Where I Come from
Where I Come from - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where I Come from write by Rick Bragg. This book was released on 2020. Where I Come from available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page.
Ava's Man
Ava's Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ava's Man write by Rick Bragg. This book was released on 2010-01-20. Ava's Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family’s table through the worst of the Great Depression; a moonshiner who drank exactly one pint for every gallon he sold; an unregenerate brawler, who could sit for hours with a baby in the crook of his arm. In telling Charlie’s story, Bragg conjures up the backwoods hamlets of Georgia and Alabama in the years when the roads were still dirt and real men never cussed in front of ladies. A masterly family chronicle and a human portrait so vivid you can smell the cornbread and whiskey, Ava’s Man is unforgettable.
The Speckled Feather
The Speckled Feather - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Speckled Feather write by Johanna Ries. This book was released on 2021-05-04. The Speckled Feather available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Feather ruffling fun! In the wide savanna there are three birds named Ade, Emem, and Nuru, that live on the back of an elephant. They are best friends. But one day the wind blows a bright speckled feather into their midst, and in no time their peacefulness is over. A thought-provoking story about friendship by debut author-illustrator Johanna Ries.
The Speckled People
The Speckled People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Speckled People write by Hugo Hamilton. This book was released on 2011-10-04. The Speckled People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a language war. Set in 1950s Ireland, this is a gripping, poignant, and at times very funny family drama of homesickness, control and identity. As a young boy, Hugo Hamilton struggles with what it means to be speckled, "half and half... Irish on top and German below." An idealistic Irish father enforces his cultural crusade by forbidding his son to speak English while his German mother tries to rescue him with her warm-hearted humour and uplifting industry. The boy must free himself from his father and from bullies on the street who persecute him with taunts of Nazism. Above all he must free himself from history and from the terrible secrets of his mother and father before he can find a place where he belongs. Surrounded by fear, guilt, and frequently comic cultural entanglements, Hugo tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and to turn the strange logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before the long-buried secrets at the back of the parents' wardrobe have been laid bare.
