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  • A Better Place
    Bruce Blizard
    Some families choose a different path-and sometimes that choice comes at a great cost.Twelve-year-old June has never attended a traditional classroom, but her education has been anything but ordinary. Raised in the rugged Blue Mountains of Washington State, she has learned to read with curiosity, think with wisdom beyond her years, and live confidently from the land. Under the ...
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  • Always a Runner
    Bruce Blizard
    Nobody runs farther and faster than Mike Beck. After all, he’s had a lot of practice running from his own past of absentee parents and loneliness. In order to survive, Mike had to develop a fierce independence that left him with little more than disdain for adults who are supposed to guide and protect him. But though Mike’s life is a hurricane of chaos, his best friend Jill is ...
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  • God’s Instant
    Bruce Blizard
    Rodeo either makes you rugged and hard as the Washington mountains-or it leaves you broken and beaten.Grady is fueled by rage. Haunted by pain and driven by revenge, he throws himself into the brutal world of rodeo, believing endurance and punishment are the only ways to prove his worth.Jill is consumed by guilt. Carrying the weight of her past, she hopes the rodeo circuit will...
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  • Man of the Oval
    Bruce Blizard
    John Prescott Chaplin proposed the title Man of the Oval early in the writing process-and it quickly proved to be the perfect fit. When asked why, he pointed to the oval track itself: the 440-yard, now 400-meter lap that defines one of the most demanding races in athletics. That single lap, he explained, mirrors the essence of his life in the sport.For Chaplin, the oval is more...
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  • Always a Runner
    Bruce Blizard
    Nobody runs farther and faster than Mike Beck. After all, he’s had a lot of practice running from his own past of absentee parents and loneliness. In order to survive, Mike had to develop a fierce independence that’s left him with little more than disdain for adults who are supposed to guide and protect him. But though Mike’s life is a hurricane of chaos, his best friend Jill i...
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    15,97 €

  • A Better Place
    Bruce Blizard
    Though only twelve years old and without a day A NOVELspent in a classroom, June is just as comfortablereading and thinking deeply as she is huntinggame and chopping wood. Thanks to her rusticbut joyful life in the Blue Mountains of WashingtonState, June is growing into a young woman whocombines the best traits of her scholarly motherand her practical father.But when welfare wo...
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    16,31 €

  • Man of the Oval
    Bruce Blizard
    'John Prescott Chaplin suggested the title for this book-Man of the Oval-very early in the writing process. When I asked why that title in particular, he explained that the oval shape of the track, combined with the 440-yard or 400-meter distance of a single lap, plus the demands of racing that one lap, seemed to characterize his career as an athlete, a coach, the chair of the ...
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    20,18 €