Download or read book Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid in Fruit of Fury written by Paul J. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction for young readers and first in a series featuring characters Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid. No sooner is Billy named the Umbrella Kid, than super villain Dr Daffodil threatens the Metropolis of Maxburg with flesh-eating fungi, deadly carrot spears, kamikaze fruit, and his Bellicose Banana Beast. Can Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid save the citizens of Maxburg? Includes illustrations and cut-out Captain Cat mask. Other titles in the series include 'Revenge of the Refrigerators' and 'Cards of Chaos'.
Download or read book Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid written by Paul Shaw and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GREED OF GOLDFEVER: Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid go for gold!! From a strawberry farm infested with North American Apache Attack snails; to hanging from a zeppelin high above Maxburg City; to a tropical isle guarded by Giant Robot Crabs, the Tremendous Two have no time to catch their breaths, let alone hold them. Someones made all the gold in the Lockstock Stockade Gold Depository smell Absolutely Stinky. But is this only the First Step in a pongy plot to plunder the gold vaults? Who can be behind it? Sultry saboteur Dinah Myte? Evil mad scientist Dr von Feendkraven? Surely it cant be Eddie Goldfever the world famous rock star? Join the Captain and the Kid as they tackle head-on the all-consuming Greed of Goldfever! THE SARDINES OF SUSPICION: Captain Cats penthouse HQ is flooded and pumped full of piranha!! A seemingly unprovoked attack by gross gangster Fish-Face. But this is only a pulse-pounding prelude. Greater perils awaitBeneath the dark, placid waters of the Squidd Sardine Farm something stirs. An enormous sardine-guzzling sea-serpent! But surely such things dont exist? Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid investigate *and discover Mystery upon Mystery. Who is the sinister man in black weaving a Tibetan ghost-trap around the lake? Who is the face-swapping traitor behind all the sabotage at the Sardine Farm? Diving-bells are attacked, Ye Olde Country Tea-Roomes are machine-gunned, and assorted heroes are sucked up by giant vacuum-cleaners before one thing is finally made clear: the Sardines of Suspicion cast their sinister shadow over everyone, and No One Can Be Trusted * not even Captain Cat!
Download or read book Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid in Revenge of the Refrigerators written by Paul J. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction for young readers in a series featuring characters Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid. In the height of summer, the Massive Metropolis of Maxburg has been plunged into a winter wasteland by an invasion force of refrigerators under the control of the villain Snowman. Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid must combat vampire penguins, robotic polar bears, and freezing phalanxes of fridges. Includes illustrations and cut-out Captain Cat mask. Other titles in the series include 'Fruit of Fury' and 'Cards of Chaos'.
Download or read book Captain Cat and The Umbrella Kid written by Paul Shaw and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 Excitement-packed Escapades!! FEAR CAN BE FATAL: Beware the moor at night when the moon is high, the shadows long and the pub’s closed – that’s when the Phantom Fiery Giraffe haunts the land! The sinister Snakecharmer strikes – leaving the Umbrella Kid stricken with a slight case of Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). He is packed off to the exclusive mountain-top Phobia Clinic of famous Doctor Balthazar Batkiss, where he discovers all manner of mystery: mountainside ghost-train rides, an exiled dictator laden with the stolen Crown Jewels of Qvania, not to mention a Giant Brain throbbing away in the basement! Meanwhile, Captain Cat is up to his wire whiskers in even more mystery: why have all the workers at a fly-spray factory been replaced with gangsters armed with tubas and trombones? Why is an African witchdoctor dancing out on the moors in the dead of night? And just why are all the locals so afraid of the eerie Phantom Fiery Giraffe? Before this Harrowing Adventure is over, Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid will learn that Fear Can Be Fatal! THE AUNT FROM THE BLOOD LAGOON: Acid peach-bombs pelt Captain Cat’s penthouse HQ, an unprovoked attack by perfidious gangster The Peach! A berserk robot postman batters at the front door! A giant gorilla kidnaps Aunt Titania! What does it all mean? The trail leads Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid to murky Blood Lagoon – and the Horrors stirring within the submerged, seemingly long-abandoned Tix Top Toaster factory... Sinister sextuplets, the Tix Brothers, are hatching an Insane Plot: to appropriate (ie steal) the amazing Captain Cat Crime Catalogue Computer! To achieve this goal, they unleash the Greatest Horror to Ever Walk the Earth – an army of android aunts, marching up out of Blood Lagoon and invading Maxburg City. Will Captain Cat be able to put a spanner in their works? Will the Umbrella Kid, cornered by bossy aunts, finally be forced to tidy his room – or will he have to take the only means of escape: leaping out of the window of the thirteenth tallest building in the world? The Aunt From the Blood Lagoon – Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid’s Most Awesome, Epic Adventure ever!!
Download or read book Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid in Peaches of Panic written by Paul J. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel for primary school age readers. The fourth title in a series about Captain Cat and his sidekick the Umbrella Kid. In this instalment, super villain Dr Daffodil joins forces with The Peach, who plans to steal a peach topaz with the aid of Dr Daffodil's hybrid plants.
Download or read book The Whipping Boy written by Sid Fleischman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Prince and a Pauper Jemmy, once a poor boy living on the streets, now lives in a castle. As the whipping boy, he bears the punishment when Prince Brat misbehaves, for it is forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. The two boys have nothing in common and even less reason to like one another. But when they find themselves taken hostage after running away, they are left with no choice but to trust each other.
Download or read book The Big Sleep written by Raymond Chandler and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Download or read book Refugee written by Alan Gratz and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Alan Gratz tells the timely--and timeless--story of three different kids seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning, this highly acclaimed novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers' lives with its meaningful takes on survival, courage, and the quest for home.
Download or read book The Things They Carried written by Tim O'Brien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Download or read book The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Download or read book Archie 2015 700 written by Nick Spencer and published by Archie Comic Publications. This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new era of ARCHIE begins in this landmark 700th issue of our flagship series! Join the new creative team of writer Nick Spencer (The Amazing Spider-Man) and artist Marguerite Sauvage (DC’s Bombshells) as they take a trip to Riverdale and bring Archie, Betty & Veronica, Jughead, and the rest of the town along for a wild ride complete with new mysteries, new relationships, and much more!
Download or read book The Crimson Fairy Book written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Roman Art written by Nancy Lorraine Thompson and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete introduction to the rich cultural legacy of Rome through the study of Roman art ... It includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art in the Roman collection organized in three thematic sections: Power and Authority in Roman Portraiture; Myth, Religion, and the Afterlife; and Daily Life in Ancient Rome. This resource also provides lesson plans and classroom activities."--Publisher website.
Download or read book The Song of the Lark written by Willa Cather and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novelist and short-story writer, Willa Cather is today widely regarded as one of the foremost American authors of the twentieth century. Particularly renowned for the memorable women she created for such works as My Antonia and O Pioneers!, she pens the portrait of another formidable character in The Song of the Lark. This, her third novel, traces the struggle of the woman as artist in an era when a woman's role was far more rigidly defined than it is today. The prototype for the main character as a child and adolescent was Cather herself, while a leading Wagnerian soprano at the Metropolitan Opera (Olive Fremstad) became the model for Thea Kronborg, the singer who defies the limitations placed on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star. A coming-of-age-novel, important for the issues of gender and class that it explores, The Song of the Lark is one of Cather's most popular and lyrical works. Book jacket.
Download or read book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.
