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    Barren Streets
    Barren Streets
    Barren Streets
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    Barren Streets

    By Joseph Tanson

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    Fourteen-year-old Joseph Nicoli Tanson
    enjoys singing with a community choir,
    excels in his leadership class at high
    school, and currently serves as freshman
    class president.
    Joey does very well as a public speaker
    and serves as a docent at an art center.
    He has volunteered at a plant nursery
    and spends time with the elderly. Joey
    enjoys the outdoors and especially enjoys
    the time he spends with his friends.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJun 12, 2013
    ISBN9781483642673
    Barren Streets
    Author

    Joseph Tanson

    Fourteen-year-old Joseph Nicoli Tanson enjoys singing with the Glenn Chorale, excels in his leadership class at Orland High School, and currently serves as freshman class president. Joey does very well as a public speaker and serves as a docent at the Orland Art Center. He has volunteered at a plant nursery and spends time with the elderly. Joey enjoys the outdoors and especially enjoys the time he spends with his friends.

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      Barren Streets - Joseph Tanson

      Copyright © 2013 by Joseph Tanson.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 05/22/2013

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

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      1-888-795-4274

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      Contents

      Brothel Lady

      People Alone

      The Future Tells the Past

      People Play in the Snow

      Whistling in the Wind

      No Time

      The Thoughts I Feel

      Blue Skies, My Friend

      Everyone

      A Party Fit for Peasants

      Hidden

      People Without Skin

      Blood in the Nile

      When a Taste Is Sweet

      Bats, Birds, and Horses

      Silver Bricks

      Carry On

      Crow

      December Snow

      Barren Streets

      Little Old Gypsy Lady

      Pennies and Gold

      Through the Garden of Eden

      The Hemlock Tree

      The End of A Friend

      The Cobblestone Trail

      No More, No More

      Hold My Hand

      A Story That Will Be Confusing Unless You Are Familiar with Theatre

      The Number After Ten

      Lifeline

      They Fly Free

      Behind These Blind Eyes

      Look to the Skies

      Miller and Juan

      Domicile

      Success is the realization of the estimate which you place upon yourself.

      - Lisa

      Brothel Lady

      As I stand in the sweat of the cold

      I look beyond a window

      And next to a rolling fireplace I see

      A woman in black with now golden-red hair

      Her skin glowing as the fire raged onward and onward

      Cursing the pitch-black

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