Books with author John Owens

A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty It’s a place of wordless wonder: the wilderness of the Boundary Waters on the Minnesota–Canada border. Travel its vast distances, canoe its streams and glacial lakes, take shelter from rain under a rocky outcropping (or in your tent), camp in its vaulting forests as stars embroider the darkening sky. Is this your first visit? Or is it already your favorite destination? Come along—join a family of three as their journey unfolds, picture by picture, marking the changing light as the day passes, the stillness before the gathering storm, the shining waters everywhere, rushing here, quietly pooling there, beckoning us ever onward into nature’s infinite wildness one summer up north.

Growing up isn't easy. But in this collection of stories by John Owens, childhood is a hilarious, insightful flashback packed with joyfully offbeat characters and you-can't-make-this-up experiences. At the same time, the book explores the disturbing frailty of the American Dream and how it can devastate families. Author of the critically-acclaimed bestseller "Confessions of a Bad Teacher," John takes readers to his own youth in suburban Long Island. With his quirky family and his own odd-ball fat-kid-ADHD personality, it is a world of eating raw Duncan Hines cake mixes and begrudgingly collecting pennies for UNICEF, as well as watered-down soup, hand-me-down square-dancing boots, pocket-sized false teeth, and, yes, chickens. Lots and lots of chickens. John's youthful turn at poultry farming, along with other peculiar exploits both in and out of the backyard, taught the author many valuable life lessons, with which readers will readily identify. Wrapped in all of these laugh-out-loud adventures is family tragedy and pain. In all, "Chickens Are Not Pets" is a brutally honest and soul-baring celebration of childhood. Not just John's, but the reader's, too.

Growing up isn't easy. But in this collection of stories by John Owens, childhood is a hilarious, insightful flashback packed with joyfully offbeat characters and you-can't-make-this-up experiences. At the same time, the book explores the disturbing frailty of the American Dream and how it can devastate families. Author of the critically-acclaimed bestseller "Confessions of a Bad Teacher," John takes readers to his own youth in suburban Long Island. With John's quirky family and his own odd-ball fat-kid-ADHD personality, this is a world of eating raw Duncan Hines cake mixes and begrudgingly collecting pennies for UNICEF, as well as watered-down soup, hand-me-down square-dancing boots, pocket-sized false teeth, and, yes, chickens. Lots and lots of chickens. John's youthful turn at poultry farming, along with other peculiar exploits both in and out of the backyard, taught the author many valuable life lessons, with which readers will readily identify. Wrapped in all of these laugh-out-loud adventures are family tragedy and pain. In all, "Chickens Are Not Pets" is a brutally honest and soul-baring celebration of childhood. Not just John's, but the reader's, too.

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Oswa, a handsome giant with a loving heart, lived long ago when the earth was still young. Legend says that he healed wounded animals and made friends with all of nature's creatures--small and great. On one of his journeys across the universe, he listened rapturously to magnificent lyrics and luminous tunes and was seized with a powerful urge to live forever with music. Unfortunately, all music belongs to Mother Cloateee, Queen of Land and Sea. When Oswa requests permission to own all music, Mother Cloatee sends him on several dangerous missions to prove his worthiness.

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Excerpt from The Blind for SacrificeInland was wind-swept pasture marked, a hun dred yards from the cliff - face, by a wire fence. In the hollow, still further from the sea, was a small, red-brick, double-fronted house with out buildings, including a dairy. A hundred yards from the house but within its grounds was a small red cottage.The village, red but half hid to - day in summer trees, looked far, far away.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.