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A Man in Full is the second novel by Tom Wolfe, published on November 12, 1998, by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. It is set primarily in Atlanta , with a significant portion of the story also taking place in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area .
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick is a 1984 picture book written by the American author Chris Van Allsburg. It consists of a series of images, ostensibly created by Harris Burdick, a man who has mysteriously disappeared. Each image is accompanied by a title and a single line of text, which encourage readers to create their own stories.
Skellig is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998.It was the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. [3]
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids is the debut book by British author Jamie Rix and was the first book in the children's cautionary horror book series Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. It was published on 17 May 1990 by André Deutsch Limited and contains 15 short cautionary tales. These stories featured a monster maths teacher, animal nannies, a ...
The baseball story "The Pitcher and the Plutocrat" (the US version of "The Goal-Keeper and the Plutocrat") was included in several anthologies, including Collier's Greatest Sports Stories published by A. S. Barnes in 1955 and edited by Tom Meany, [40] The Fireside Book of Baseball published by Simon and Schuster in 1956 and edited by Charles ...
A weathered old man is sitting near the wreck, and the narrator asks him how the boat came to be there, so far from the water. The old man begins to tell the story of a young boy who, years ago, was the most talented sailor in the harbor, never missing an opportunity to prove it, performing feats that none of the grown men would dare try.
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The Man is a graphic novella for children, written and illustrated by Raymond Briggs and published by Julia MacRae Books in 1992. It tells the humorous story of a boy, John, who is visited by the titular Man, a minuscule human who arrives in the boy's bedroom unclothed and hungry. After getting over his initial shock, the boy starts to take ...