Author: Roy Chaney
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: novel, nowhere, ragged
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-11-10
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0312582536
ISBN-13: 9780312582531

Bodo Hagen thought his family had left Las Vegas for good. He had joined the CIA and moved to Berlin, while his younger brother had followed in their father’s footsteps and joined the French Foreign Legion. For a while they were free from the criminal underworld upon which the Vegas Strip was built. But when his Legion contract ended, Bodo’s brother returned to Las Vegas. Five days later his body was found on the edge of the desert. Word is that he’d returned from Europe with a valuable—and possibly stolen—ancient relic to sell. Now Bodo must come back and track down that missing

Author: Richard Wagamese
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Keywords: company, ragged
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0385256949
ISBN-13: 9780385256940

Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world, and once the weather clears, continue their trips to the cinema. On one of these outings they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist who has turned his back on writing “the same story over and over again” in favour of the escapist qualities of film, and an unlikely friendship is struck. A found

Author: Peter Brune
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Academic
Keywords: heros, bloody, ragged
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1992-12-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1863732640
ISBN-13: 9781863732642

The definitive account of the Australians on the Kokoda Trail - a story told through the eyes of the Australians who fought there, many of whom have now passed away.

Author: Robert Tressall
Publisher: Hildreth Press
Keywords: philanthropists, trousered, ragged
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-11-16
List price: $31.45
ISBN-10: 140863385X
ISBN-13: 9781408633854

PREFACE -- A few moreths ago a friend ashed me to look at the tmttuscript of a nonel,’ The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,’ the wor? of a socialistich ortse-paintewr,h o wrote his booh and died. f consentedw ithout enthustbsme, rpectingt o be neither intetrestecnlo r amused-and found I had chaucetl Ntpona remarhableh umand ocurnent. With griru hamortr and pitiless realism the working man has reaealedth e liaes and hearts of his mates,t heir opinion of their betters, their politrcal aieuts, their attitude towards Socialisnt. Through the busy dht. o/ the hamtner and tlu scraping hn

Author: Horatio Alger
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Keywords: match, mark, dick, ragged
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 1962-11-01
List price: $6.00
ISBN-10: 0020413904
ISBN-13: 9780020413905

Two famous novels by Horatio Alger that focus on rags-to-riches tales.

Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: new, york, life, street, dick, ragged
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1420930435
ISBN-13: 9781420930436

"Ragged Dick is a well-told story of street-life in New York, that will, we should judge, be well received by the boy-readers, for whom it is intended. The Hero is a boot-black, who, by sharpness, industry, and honesty, makes his way in the world, and is, perhaps, somewhat more immaculate in character and manners than could naturally have been expected from his origin and training. We find in this, as in many books for boys, a certain monotony in the inculcation of the principle that honesty is the best policy, a proposition that, as far as mere temporal success is concerned, we believe to be

Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, classics, upward, struggling, dick, ragged
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1985-01-08
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0140390332
ISBN-13: 9780140390339

The hero of "Ragged Dick" is a veritable "diamond in the rough" - as innately virtuous as he is streetwise and cocky. Immediately popular with young readers, the novel also appeals to parents, who responded to its colorful espousal of the Protestant ethic. "Struggling Upward, " published nearly thirty years later, followed the same time-tested formulas, and despite critical indifferece it, too, had mass appeal.