Download or read book A Stone Called Fred written by S. M. Locke and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique take on a children’s fantasy book– the ‘hero’ is a pebble called Fred. Although largely set in the present, the book transports reader’s to the early twentieth century.Ideal for children 12 years and over. Jack Watt is a teenager, rather given to over-quick conclusions. Finding what looks like an explosive device on his kitchen table one morning, Jack Watt alerts the rest of the house. The device turns out to be a mysterious object which leads him into all sorts of adventures and trouble. Joe, his downstairs neighbour, is more sceptical. Even more so, when “the bomb” is found to be nothing more than a harmless stone one might find on a beach or garden path. Jack knows otherwise, for later that day, he has some weird experiences with the strange visitor he names Fred. When Jack’s journalist girlfriend, Fiona McDuff returns from an assignment, she is eventually impressed by the powers of the stone and convinces the others to spy on the Royal Family at a theatrical event, but the evening doesn’t go according to plan... Through a turn of mysterious events, Jack and Fred travel in time to the early twentieth century. A Stone Called Fred is an ideal read for children 12 years and over, and fans of fantasy and adventure fiction.
Download or read book Fred Stone written by Armond Fields and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Stone was one of America's most versatile and talented of Broadway's colorful entertainers. Audiences quickly discovered he could do anything and everything, from tightrope walking and acrobatics to song-and-dance, musical comedies, and straight drama. This work chronicles his extraordinary life and career. He was born in a log cabin August 19, 1873, in Valmont, Colorado, to a family that was part of the covered-wagon migration into the virtually unknown West. He joined a traveling circus at age 11 and two years later, joined a different one as a self-taught tightrope walker. During his teens, Stone performed on the variety stage, and at age 22, met Dave Montgomery, with whom he performed for over twenty years, including Broadway musicals, notably as the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. After Montgomery's tragic death in 1917, Stone continued to perform and shared his continued success with his closest friend Will Rogers, and Annie Oakley, Broadway producer Charles Dillingham, Western artists Charles Russell and Ed Borein, and author Rex Beach. Stone appeared in some 18 movies, from 1918 to 1940, including such western classics as The Westerner and Trail of the Lonesome Pine. In 1950, he retired from show business and during the last years of his life suffered from increasing blindness and heart trouble. He died at his Los Angeles home in 1959.
Download or read book Fire on the Altar written by Perry Fred Stone and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Fred Stone shares personal ministry stories that read like the book of Acts. These stories, along with his explanation of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit, will inspire you and ignite a fire in your heart to grow stronger in the Lord"--Back cover.
Download or read book A Girl Called Fred written by Roger Willgoose and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Girl Called Fred is the beautifully written tale of Fred, a female Yorkshire terrier, and her first years with a new family. Set in the halcyon days of the seventies, this narrative brings back memories of when the village pub was where good beer and conversation flowed and smoking was allowed inside. Milk was delivered to the doorstep and coal, kept in bunkers, was burnt on open fires where bread and chestnuts could be toasted... In 1975, at the age of six, Fred joins the Willgoose family and brings love, companionship and joy, mixed with humour and occasional sadness to Jean, Roger and Stephen. To their surprise, Fred betrays her ratting ancestry with most unladylike assaults on various cats, dogs and people who stamp their feet – especially eighteen-stone gentlemen! But her strength of character shows through when she becomes the victim of a road accident which causes great distress to her loving family. Stephen often shows a maturity beyond his years while Roger, with good humour, patience and occasional over-indulgence in the local pub, endures and describes some quite hilarious experiences. Anyone who has ever loved a dog will enjoy A Girl Called Fred. Animal lovers especially will find the account of Fred's life entertaining, while the narrative will appeal to fans of humorous fiction. Author Roger was an avid reader and was inspired by the late Henry Rider Haggard and Damon Runyon.
Download or read book Jade written by Fred Ward and published by Gem Book Pub. This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of jade culture and industry and includes jade buying tips.
Download or read book The Heartless Stone written by Tom Zoellner and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said, "yes" and then, suddenly, walked out of his life making Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore, he hit the road travelling to diamond mines in Africa, Canada, India, Brazil and Russia to discover the true worth of this shining gem. He travelled to Japan to understand how diamonds were linked with engagements and delved into the history of our own American romance with the diamond ring. He gained entry to DeBeers, the London diamond merchants. He visited shopping mall jewellers with starry-eyed couples. Through all of his travels, he searched for an answer to the question "How has one stone created empires, ruined lives, inspired lust and emptied wallets throughout history?" A diamond version of Susan Orleans's The Orchid Thief, Tom Zoellner's The Heartless Stone is a journey to the cold heart of the world's most unyielding gem.
Download or read book Fred S the Star written by P W Brisley and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred is a young field mouse, and hes the only one in his family to survive the winter. It was the coldest winter the North Yorkshire Dales had ever known. As he sits nibbling away at a slightly browned apple core at the base of the dry stone wall he calls his home, Fred catches the sight of movement from the corner of his eye. He freezes at first, and then slowly turns to find a very large creature with a menacing snout and very long, menacing claws. Fred is relieved to learn that the creature is Bertram Kettlewell Smiley of Upper WharfedaleBertie, for shortand that hes not just a badger, but a badger of great repute. Fred is glad hes met Bertie and its a good thing he has, for it isnt long before trouble threatens as they search for new homes. Its a move that becomes the first in a series of adventures that help them learn more about each other. And who knows, they may find other new friends, and even something more, in their adventures.
Download or read book New York Star written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weird U S written by Mark Moran and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel guide of sorts to an array of local legends, folklore, and secrets in the United States. Includes characters, roads, abandoned sites, and roadside attractions.
Download or read book American Stone Trade written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Last Stone written by Mark Bowden and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a cold case, a compulsive liar, and five determined detectives, from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author and “master journalist” (The Wall Street Journal). On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages ten and twelve, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, DC As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and the mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives had missed. It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation in Delaware. The acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down and Hue 1968 had been a cub reporter for a Baltimore newspaper at the time of the original disappearance, and covered the frantic first weeks of the story. In The Last Stone, he returns to write its ending. Over months of intense questioning and extensive investigation of Welch’s sprawling, sinister Appalachian clan, five skilled detectives learned to sift truth from determined lies. How do you get a compulsive liar with every reason in the world to lie to tell the truth? The Last Stone recounts a masterpiece of criminal interrogation, and delivers a chilling and unprecedented look inside a disturbing criminal mind. “One of our best writers of muscular nonfiction.” —The Denver Post “Deeply unsettling . . . Bowden displays his tenacity as a reporter in his meticulous documentation of the case. But in the story of an unimaginably horrific crime, it’s the detectives’ unwavering determination to bring Welch to justice that offers a glimmer of hope on a long, dark journey.” —Time
Download or read book Rocks Pebbles And Stones written by Fred Feldmesser and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these stories Fred Feldmesser, an internationally known private jeweler, takes you inside the colorful and secretive world of the jewelry trade. You are at his side as he attends a private showing of the 62.02-carat Rockefeller sapphire, one of the most beautiful and valuable gems in the world. You are with him when he encounters colleagues in the Diamond District in New York and when he embarks on a search for what he calls a client's "correct stone." Most of all, these inspiring and moving stories are about people as they show how jewels and gemstones illuminate and enrich the most essential elements of their lives. You come to understand the complex relationship that joins people and jewels in a never-ending quest for beauty and for symbols that express the deepest experiences of the human condition. You will be touched by how Feldmesser uses gemstones to reach the hearts of profoundly ill children when he takes his sparkling, colorful world into hospitals. Along the journey, you will elarn about gemstones, their origins, and the famous mines that produce them. And in the process you may become a more informed buyer of you own gemstones and jewelry, regardless of their value.
Download or read book Network written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broadway Sound written by Robert Russell Bennett and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett [1894-1981] encompassed a wide variety of both "legitimate" and popular music-making in Hollywood, on Broadway, and for television. Bennett is principally responsible for what is known worldwide as the "Broadway sound" and for greatly elevating the status of the theater orchestrator. He worked alongside Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, and Frederick Loewe on much of the Broadway canon, eventually providing orchestrations for all or part of more than 300 musicals between 1920 and 1975. This work is the first publication of Bennett's autobiography, which was written in the late 1970s. It also includes eight of his most important essays on the art of orchestration. George J. Ferencz is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater.
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Download or read book The probable future written by Alice Hoffman and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella's case, she is able to see a person's probable future. When she foresees a gruesome murder, she tells her father about it - but the murder has already been committed and suspicion falls on him. Stella has to hide out with her grandmother Elinor, who lives alone by a lake where Rebecca Sparrow, a washergirl with a deadly gift, was drowned three hundred years before. In Unity, Massachusetts, the same prejudices and mistakes are recyled over generations. Stella herself brings light to this closed world, but the dark thread of the past meets the sinister trail of contemporary murder.
