Download or read book The Incredible Billy Wild written by Joanna Nadin and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of JOE ALL ALONE - a BAFTA winning and Emmy nominated CBBC series. A story about courage, sacrifice and family - and how everyone has something incredible inside of them, just waiting to be discovered. For fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce and Eva Ibbotson. This cover comes in four different colours, supplied at random. Which one will you receive? When Billy Wild's teacher asks the class to write a letter to their god, Billy's request is simple: Please send me a dog. So when he discovers a greyhound hiding in the shed, he decides someone must really be listening. With the help of his brothers, Billy sets out to hide her from Dad, who's far too stressed to add a dog to the mix. But keeping a greyhound a secret is a difficult task, and when Billy's classmate Paris enters them all in a local talent show, it becomes even harder! Billy must make a big, brave, wild decision - but it's one that might save Dog and hundreds like her. And it might just make him incredible...
Download or read book Billy s Booger written by William Joyce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy's wild imagination gets him into trouble at school, but a creative writing contest could be the perfect opportunity for him to shine.
Download or read book Today s Thomas Sawyer written by Butch Arnold and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story begins where it ends, followed by a whimsical search for lucidity. The reader is taken for a particle infused gambol, a continuum circling spacetime. Isolation propels our hero, Thomas Sawyer. Exploring truth in blackholed fiction, our protagonist forages inward, where reflections of self-determined inevitability combine in a frenzy of mockery and contradiction. At lightspeed, redemption illuminates a champion’s folly, a fatuitous glow of expiated observance plucking strings of pity. Quarantined with the loathing of an allegorical cat, Luca, Thomas purrs a sardonic tune toward infinity, and beyond. Besieged by mirrored worlds and consumed with extinction, haunting figures swirl from Thomas’ backscattering, a fanciful fancy of infantile fantasy, nonsensical nonsense, neither fanciful, nor fancy, but fantastic. Every word punctuates an elliptical narrative woven concave toward cosmic salvation. Finally, in the end, childhood friends find reciprocity in a nearby cemetery, where Thomas peddles his last commodity, cashes his final check, and sells his essence for salvation. Simply, the story is the story.
Download or read book Momma Says written by Flo McLain, RN and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garden Gate Village has lots of quaint houses, all neatly laid out in orderly rows up and down intersecting streets and cul-de-sacs. A world unto itself when you're a kid. Lots and lots of kids playing and learning life's lessons. Momma Says explores how moms use nuggets of spiritual wisdom (based originally on the Bible) that help wee ones to deal with conflict in their young lives. These seeds of wisdom that family members plant in young minds do take root. Jesus has given us His word, His Father's word, on how best to conduct ourselves. Momma Says is twelve short stories of some of the children in our village. This is a book that is meant for parental sharing with their child, ages two through seven. Parental reading aloud to children has been proven to produce wonderful results. The American Academy of Pediatrics "has released guidelines that advise parents to start reading to your child from infancy." According to the source Raising Smart Kids, "A study published in Perspective on Psychological Science in January 2013 concluded that 'reading to a child in an interactive style raises his or her IQ by over 6 points.'" Wow! This semiretired neurological nurse is impressed by that brain power expansion! Not only is reading to our kids fun, it builds literacy skills, confidence, and feeds the soul. Reading is one of the greatest gifts, the author feels, that we can give our wee ones! "That nightly story time, when possible, was always special for my girls and I. I believe it heals, calms, and improves intimacy between child and parent. So try it. Meanwhile, I'll start working on Daddy Says . . . God bless" (Flo McLain, RN).
Download or read book Seeing Is Believing written by Peter Biskind and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing is Believing is a provocative, shrewd, witty look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love-or love to hate-and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. Peter Biskind, former executive editor of Premiere, is one of our most astute cultural critics. Here he concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at--classics like Giant, On the Waterfront, Rebel Without a Cause, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers--and shows us how movies that appear to be politically innocent in fact carry an ideological burden. As we see organization men and rugged individualists, housewives and career women, cops and doctors, teen angels and teenage werewolves fight it out across the screen from suburbia to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, we understand that we have been watching one long dispute about how to be a man, a woman, an American--the conflicts of the period in action. A work of brilliant analysis and meticulous conception, Seeing Is Believing offers fascinating insights into how to read films of any era.
Download or read book Tannadee written by Maurice Gray and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tannadee, a picturesque village in the Scottish Highlands, finds itself suddenly forced to fight for its life when Gordon Weever, a billionaire bully, reveals plans to build an exclusive golf resort nearby. Though most of the locals oppose him, Weever pushes on, employing dirty tricks and splashing cash. Somebody needs to stop him. But who?
Download or read book Power and Greed written by Ted Unarce and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted
Download or read book Addie and the King of Hearts written by Gail Rock and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1949 a special Valentine’s Day dance in small-town Nebraska teaches thirteen-year-old Addie about real love Kids in Addie’s seventh-grade class are starting to exchange rings and go steady, but Addie hates all that mush. When she grows up, she plans to be a real artist in New York City and never get married. Addie’s best friend is Carla Mae Carter, whose family lives next door. Addie’s worst friend, for as long as she can remember, has been annoying Tanya Smithers, who plans on becoming a ballet dancer. She’s always twirling around or striking a dramatic pose to remind everyone how talented she is. Addie definitely does not have a crush on Billy Wild, even if he is tall and cute and has dark, curly hair and blue eyes. She’s way too busy with her art for such silliness. Anyway, Tanya likes Billy—and they can have each other as far as Addie is concerned. But after Christmas break, the seventh-grade class gets a new teacher, Mr. Davenport, who has movie-star looks and studied art in college and even takes a special interest in Addie’s paintings. Addie starts to notice a strange feeling in her stomach when she’s around the handsome young teacher. Is this what love feels like? Is this what all the other girls have been giggling about? Addie suddenly starts to care about wearing dresses instead of jeans and getting her hairstyle just right. Will Addie get her moment with Mr. Davenport at the Valentine’s Day dance? Or will her true king of hearts be someone in her class—someone she never expected?
Download or read book New York Star written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mud House Mystery written by Tony Savageau and published by Blue Mustang Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After setting out to find a mysterious fort deep in the Mansfield woods, the Wild Bunch lose their way, only to wind up in a place with many secrets of its own. The Mud House is a historic Mansfield home built on a hill by the legendary Stearns family. But all is not right in this ancient home. The Wild Bunch are challenged by unseen forces at every turn.
Download or read book Tyneside Irish written by John Sheen and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Pals" battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby's scheme, and in response to Kitchener's famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front. Their experience was all too frequently tragic, as men who had known each other all their lives, had worked, volunteered, and trained together, and had shipped to France together, encountered the first full fury of modern battle on the Somme in July 1916. Many of the Pals battalions would not long survive that first brutal baptism, but their spirit and fighting qualities have gone down into history - these were, truly, the cream of Britain's young men, and every single one of them was a volunteer. This is a comprehensive history of the Tyneside Irish Brigade raised in the North East. It covers their raising, training and active service as well as the aftermath of the war and how it effected the local community. Included is an invaluable nominal roll which will appeal to local, family and military enthusiasts alike.
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Download or read book Phew Eh Readers written by Tom Hibbert and published by Nine Eight Books. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Superb celebration of his life and work ... a must-read tribute' CLASSIC POP, 5/5 'The funniest and most revealing of all music journalists' - NEIL TENNANT 'A laugh riot' - CLASSIC ROCK 4/5 - Mojo 4/5 - Record Collector 8/10 - Uncut Idiosyncratic. Iconoclastic. Acerbic. Hilarious. The influence of Tom Hibbert's music writing across print, radio, TV and podcasts is incomparable. From his genre-defining work at Smash Hits to his 'Who the Hell ... ?' profiles for Q magazine and beyond, this book brings together many of Hibbert's funniest writings. Compiled by Barney Hoskyns and Jasper Murison-Bowie at Rock's Backpages, the archive of music journalism, Phew, Eh Readers? showcases some of Hibbert's greatest pieces. Presented thematically and chronologically, they highlight his marvellously eccentric perspective on life and popular culture. Many leading writers and journalists attest to Hibbert's genius. This compendium supplements his writing with new reflections on Tom from some of his peers, colleagues and admirers, including Mark Ellen, Bob Stanley, Tom Doyle, Chris Heath, Sylvia Patterson, along with his widow Allyce. Phew, Eh Readers? is a must-read homage to one of the most influential writers of our time, a man who left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape.
Download or read book Extra Innings Trilogy written by B.W. Gibson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With young adulthood comes inevitable change. From puberty to hometown struggles to the tragic blow of deadly racism, identical twins Jimmy and Billy McGee have experienced some pivotal points in their lives. Now, eighteen years old, these brothers aint seen nothing yet. Its 1952 in the Deep South and bad news is about to annihilate the McGee familys entire world. Jimmy is beginning college at Ole Miss while Billy is soon on his way into the depths of the Korean War. The brothers decisions to set their own courses apart from the other, for the first time in their lives, turned out to be the easy part. But their plans would set in motion a course of events even more trying than either could have anticipated. Theres an old adage that says: you can never go home again and this couldnt have rung truer for the twins. Sadly, only one learned the lesson.
Download or read book The 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians written by James Roots and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The silent film era featured some of the most revered names of on-screen comic performance, from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, and Laurel & Hardy. Besides these giants of cinema, however, there are other silent era performers—both leading actors and supporting players—who left an enduring legacy of laughter. In The 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians, James Roots ranks the greatest performers based on a scorecard that measures each comic’s humor, timelessness, originality, and teamwork. Far more than just a listing, this is an idiosyncratic and entertaining review of the men and women who created the golden age of comedy. As a critic and deaf viewer, Roots brings a truly unique perspective to the evaluation of these performers and their work. He has viewed thousands of silent comedies and offers some assessments that run contrary to the standard list of performers. While many obvious names are placed in the top echelon, the author also champions performers who have been neglected, in part because their work has not been as visible. Each entry includes a filmography a scorecard an evaluation of the artist’s overall work an assessment of representative films DVD availability With the increased availability of films on DVD, as well as Internet access, more and more silent performers are being discovered by film fans. Supplemented by an appendix of comedians who missed the cut, as well as an annotated bibliography, The 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians will be an invaluable resource to anyone wanting to know more about the brilliant entertainers of the silent era.
Download or read book Dramatic Mirror of Motion Pictures and the Stage written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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