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1) The paperboy
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A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds.
2) Paperboy
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It's Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve and he's got a new job. He's going to be a paperboy. And come rain or shine - or bombs and mortar - he will deliver...
Paperboy lives in Upper Shankill, Belfast, in the heart of the conflict between Loyalists and Republicans. Bombings are on the evening news, rubble lies where buildings once stood,...
3) The Paperboy
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The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, a hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence and aims to free—and meet—her convicted “fiancé.” With...
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I did not have time to read this, but once I started, I could not stop. I read until 11 p.m. and then woke up at 2:30 a.m. and finished at dawn, January 6, 2010.
This account of life in a southern hamlet, just before the horrific experience of Vietnam ended Americas last era of innocence, would be of interest to any student of sociology. But, in the case of this reader, its magnetism springs from the fact that I knew nearly everyone in the Perk Paperboy...
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EQUAL PARTS INSPIRATIONAL RAGS TO RICHES STORY ANDENLIGHTENING NARRATIVE ON CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
Raised by a single mother in affluent Fairfield County, Connecticut, Dylan Tomassi grew up poor. As a boy he is befriended by a reclusive widow he meets on his paper route. She mentors him with sage advice on matters facing a young man growing up without a father. She never pays for her newspapers, and he never asks for the money because of all the...
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Ted was going to have to find the money. He got it as a paperboy, shouting 'Herooda paper!' on street corners. Jumping on and off the No. 20 tram rattling out of the city of Melbourne into Coburg. Ducking back to the news agency to get a Women's Weekly for a woman in the Ladies' lounge of Brown's Hotel. In The Paperboy's War the well-known outback folklorist, singer, songwriter, historian, and television presenter recalls his early days, his priestly...
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It was 1970, and indeed there was "bad news on the doorstep". I was freezing to death! Whoever said there was money in being a paperboy had certainly misled me!
My misadventures delivering newspapers on Long Island in the early 70's to a thankless, cruel world. Look for it only in the history books, for news delivery is now a thing of the past.
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A young man learns that there is more to being successful than the bottom line.A Paperboy's Fable is a concise, entertaining fable that makes revolutionary points using age old principles. Whether someone is opening a lemonade stand or leading a startup software company, the 11 Principles of Success make A Paperboy's Fable a timeless tale that is as fresh as it is universal.A Paperboy's Fable also features interviews with many professors, entrepreneurs,...
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Shankill Road, Belfast, 1977. The King is dead and even Big Duff, the hardest loyalist hard man on the whole estate has been seen to shed a tear. Tony Macaulay has just been appointed breadboy in the last Ormo Mini Shop in the world, a promotion from his previous role as a paperboy. The Bee Gees fill the airwaves, there's Smash and fishfingers on the table for tea, and Tony's love of peace and pets is soon rivaled by his interest in parallel universes...
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2011
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1 videodisc (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Six beloved stories about adventure and science.. Stories include I'm Dirty, find out just how dirty a backhoe can get while doing its' job. Other stories include Burt Dow: Deep-Water Man, The Paper Boy, Stars! Stars! Stars!, Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, and Johnny Appleseed. Also included are author interviews from Kate & Jim McMullan and celebrity narration from Steve Buscemi and Forest Whitaker.
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