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Summary of Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat is a non-fiction account of the remarkable life story of Joe Rantz. Rantz was a determined young man who overcame personal tragedy and hardship to win a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics as a member of the US rowing team.
When Joe was four, his mother, Nellie, died of throat cancer. His father, Harry, went to Canada. He sent Joe to Pennsylvania to live with his Aunt Alma while his older brother, Fred,...
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English
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A Novel Inspired by True EventsShattered BodiesBroken DreamsThe Race to Win Back HopeIn a novel that fuses the riveting action of The Boys in the Boat with the emotional heft of The Fault in Our Stars, twenty men and women with cancer-ridden bodies compete in a grueling race only to discover that real victory is achieved within.After he is diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer, Tripp Avery feels like all is lost. He finds himself coaching a team of...
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Ya Boy Kongming! volume 11
Language
日本語
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The climactic final battle is upon us! With Summer Sonia on the line, Kongming must devise the ultimate stratagem to bring about total victory and secure 100,000 likes.
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Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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"Ten sorry tales is a book of bones and stones, of vengeful hermits and wayward hearses, of junior Rip Van Winkles and resurrectionists. From the faintly weird to the fiercly eccentric, and from the everyday to the surreal, the stories read like cautionary tales and modern-day fables and the characters make for peculiar but exquisite company"--