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  1. D.B.: A Novel by Elwood Reid, 2005-07-12
  2. Midnight Sun: A Novel by Elwood Reid, 2002-03-12
  3. Ce que savent les saumons by Elwood Reid, 2001-04-04
  4. Die Nacht des Bären. by Elwood Reid, 2003-03-01
  5. Midnight Sun by Elwood Reid, Freddy Michalsky, 2002-04-04
  6. What Salmon Know by Elwood Reid, 2000-09-05
  7. If I Don't Six: A Novel by Elwood Reid, 1999-08-17
  8. Biography - Reid, Elwood: An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team, 2004-01-01
  9. MIDNIGHT SUN by Elwood Reid, 2000
  10. D.B. by Elwood Reid, 2004-01-01
  11. SECONDE VIE DE D.B. COOPER -LA by Freddy Michalski Elwood Reid, 2005-04-07
  12. WAHT SALMON KNOW by Elwood Reid, 1999
  13. If I Don't Six by Elwood Reid, 1998
  14. Large-Scale Performance-Driven Training Needs Assessment : A Case Study.: An article from: Public Personnel Management by Elwood F. Holton III, Reid A. Bates, et all 2000-06-22

1. Elwood Reid
Elwood Reid contemplates the long, strange road that took him from the gridiron to the book stores.
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2. Elwood Reid - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Elwood Reid is an American novelist and shortstory writer. He is a 1996 graduate of the University of Michigan Creative Writing MFA Program.
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3. RandomHouse.ca | Author Spotlight: Elwood Reid
Elwood Reid is the author of the novel If I Don t Six and the short story collection What Salmon Know. He spent two years working in Alaska as a carpenter.
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5. Bold Type: What Salmon Know By Elwood Reid
Elwood Reid What Salmon Know. Elwood Reid What Salmon Know T hree nights a week I teach a women s selfdefense course at the YWCA. It is my job.
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hree nights a week I teach a women's self-defense course at the YWCA. It is my job. My students are mostly middleaged women, ten to fifteen pounds overweightnormal everyday women with varicose veins, sagging breasts and dimpled thighs. They are tired and want something more from their lives besides cooking chili mac and looking after screaming children.
My class is not that something.
So what if I am no more qualified than the next guy to teach self-defense to a bunch of scared and lonely housewives? I lied and I got the job and there are moments, when I am looking out over my class as they struggle with leg raises, thigh muscles jiggling with pain as they wait for me to give them the ten count, that this deep sense of happiness comes over me and I think to myself that I am blessed among men.
I don't believe in all that karate and kung-fu bullshit. What I give my students is good old commonsense advice. I tell them to avoid dark parking lots and being alone. And they want to hear this. Because nobody wants to be alone, especially women. Because to be alone is to be afraid and to be afraid is a terrible thingsomething we must defend ourselves against.
I have them do jumping jacks and push-ups from their knees as I walk around the gym's wooden floor, counting out the reps, listening to them grunt and sweat. After warm-up I go into the equipment closet and pull on my attack suit. It is a heavy canvas thing with padding everywhere and sweat stains in the armpits and a bellshaped helmet with reflectors over the eyeholes. But the real gem of the suit is this small battery-operated reflector unit in the crotch that the previous instructor installed shortly before his departure. The unit is rigged so that any direct hit causes it to light up and flash like a fire engine.

6. Arborweb Reviews - Review: Elwood Reid
Elwood Reid has, among his many other virtues as a writer, the sense to recognize a great story when he finds one. Reid, who came to the UM in the 1980s on
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Elwood Reid After the jump On the day before Thanksgiving in 1971, a man later known as D. B. Cooper hijacked a plane in Seattle, collected a ransom of $200,000 in used twenties, and parachuted into the forest of Washington or Oregon. He was never heard from again. Only about $6,000 was ever recovered, found by a kid digging in a sandbank along the Columbia River. It is the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history, and in that wonderful, only-in-America way that the rest of the world never really understands, D. B. Cooper has become a folk hero. Reid avoids any easy sentimentality. When his characters stop to take in the scenic view beside a highway in Utah, they see "red rocks and steep gullies filled with road trash — torn fast-food bags, Gatorade bottles brimming with fermented piss, animal bones, rusted oil drum tops, one sheet of drywall, and a crumpled cardboard sign that read WHY LIE? I NEED A BEER." But Reid can also be very funny, and his sense of American life is a refreshing antidote to the image our politicians like to project. Best of all, he obviously loves the characters he creates out of the worn and often seamy fabric of American life. Elwood Reid reads from D. B. at Shaman Drum Bookshop on Saturday, July 31.

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11. Reid Elwood: Art And Artist Resources For R Links In The Literature Database
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reid elwood Bankhead died on July 13, 2003 in Provo, Utah. He was born in Logan,Utah, on Nov. 8, 1919, the eleventh of twelve children of John Haslam and
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Reid Elwood Bankhead died on July 13, 2003 in Provo, Utah. He was born in Logan,Utah, on Nov. 8, 1919, the eleventh of twelve children of John Haslam and Annie Mickelson Bankhead. He attended public schools in Logan and graduated from Logan High School. He attended Utah State University and graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Utah. He served as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the North Central States Mission from 1941-43. Reid married Mary Langton Smith on Oct. 16, 1943 in the Logan LDS Temple. From 1943-45, he was an Ensign in United States Navy. He joined the BYU faculty of religious instruction in 1948, where he taught Book of Mormon and other religion classes for over forty years. In addition, he worked as construction engineer and superintendent on many buildings at BYU. He had a life-long interest in agriculture and ranching, which culminated in an active management role in a cattle ranch near Nephi, Utah. After raising their family in Provo, Reid and Mary lived in Levan, Utah, for over twenty years, and most recently resided in Mapleton. In the LDS Church, Reid served as a teacher, high councilman, bishop, stake missionary and presided over the Cumorah Mission of the LDS Church. He was a co-author of the texts "The Word and the Witness," and "Building Faith in Christ with the Book of Mormon."

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A multi-tiered series of geographic competitions involving 5th-8th grade students in the nation began early this school year. At JMS, nearly 700 students were narrowed down to eighty-five contestants. The eighty-five competed in grade level competitions to produce the top ten geographically adept students: Jared Toney, Emily Cheng, Alex Pickett, Liam Schramm, Andy Skipper, Cora Lay, Elliott Normand, Katherine Wheeler, Thomas Cox and Zach Pickett At the school geographic bee competition rounds of eliminations produced a final group of four contestants: Emily Cheng, Thomas Cox, Andy Skipper, and Katherine Wheeler. Katherine won the Championship Round by providing the correct answer to the question… “A replica of the Half Moon, the ship that Henry Hudson used on his explorations can be found on a river named after him in which state? The correct answer is: New York. Emily Cheng is the runner up. We hope to see Katherine go on to qualify for the state geographic bee held on Friday, April 4, 2008 at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville by scoring in the top 100 of nearly 1200 individual school geographic bee winners from the state of Tennessee.

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reid elwood (913), 14. Ryan Byrd (926), 15. Harry Simmons (1011), 16. Candice Zhou (1247), 17. Will Purucker (1300). Third/fourth grades 1.
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From staff reports Results from the recent TeleFriend Fun Run, held in Oak Ridge at the A.K. Bissell Park. Kindergarten  1. Kaleb Eleam (4:47), 2. Kevin Steen (5:02), 3. Hunter Sumner (5:10), 4. Mohala Myers (5:22), 5. Parker DeGraw (5:27), 6. Lloyd Lombardi (5:36), 7. Hannah Craig (5:37), 8. Gaibo Zhang (5:39), 9. Rebecca Elwood (5:40), 10. Tiffany Potok (5:41), 11. Isaiah Webb (6:17), 12. Barry Fowler (6:20), 13. Quinn Williams (6:21), 14. Blake Fowlkes (6:26), 15. Daniel Beckett (6:49), 16. Elizabeth Tolley (6:51), 17. Maria Valdez (6:54), 18. Daniel Tolley (7:08), 19. Kourney Aaigle (7:13). First/second grades  1. Alex Ingham (7:24), 2. Thomas Kerr (7:39), 3. Samuel Lariviere (7:46), 4. Thomas Potok (8:08), 5. Aaron Chasan (8:23), 6. Mariealana Bouchard (8:27), 7. Carson Spraker (8:28), 8. Hannah Storey (8:31), 9. Collyn Fike (8:33), 10. Chris Gillenwaters (8:40), 11. Austin Morgan (8:44), 12. Morgan Beckett (8:57), 13. Reid Elwood (9:13), 14. Ryan Byrd (9:26), 15. Harry Simmons (10:11), 16. Candice Zhou (12:47), 17. Will Purucker (13:00). Third/fourth grades  1. John Sharpe (7:13), 2. Leslie Jenkins (8:31), 3. David Drown (8:36), 4. Patrick Tae (8:53), 5. Jennifer Lee (8:55), 6. Tyler Vanover (8:55), 7. Allison Miles (8:56), 8. Rachel Hoelzer (8:57), 9. Cameron Tate (8:59), 10. Maddie Bishop (9:23), 11. Jessica Palmer (10:00), 12. Adrian Etheridge (10:08), 13. Kathyn Lariviere (10:09), 14. Madelyn Ball (10:38), 15. DeDee Vanover (11:02), 16. Cody Fike (11:09), 17. Matthew Purucker (11:34), 18. Hayley Hunt (11:37), 19. Samantha Corcoran (11:38), 20. Jenna Forbes (11:38), 21. Kiesha Aslinger (13:42), 22. Kally McGregor (14:56), 23. Kelly Green (15:08).

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    Other Works: Author of the novels, D.B., If I Don't Six, Midnight Sun and the short story collection What Salmon Know

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