Download or read book The Dog Robbers written by B. K. Bryans and published by Patriot Media Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, US forces built Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma atop the rubble of several small towns. Surviving villagers returning home found that an air base now lay across their land. They could only settle nearby, where they remain to this day, waiting. This real-world conflict serves as background for The Dog Robbers. Lieutenant Deuce Riley, a US Navy pilot, is content to be a flight instructor at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, FL. Then he's suddenly ordered to Japan to be an aide to Rear Admiral Brewster Brody, who has become enmeshed in the diplomatic argument over MCAS Futenma. Neither officer is real happy about their assignment, but the result is humor, action, and romance.
Download or read book Dog Robber written by Robert McCurdy and published by Elderberry Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II has just ended, and Private Jim Colling finds that the occupation affords opportunities for significant financial gain to a resourceful American who speaks the local language. When a beautiful American dies under mysterious circumstances, Colling realizes that he must embark on a dangerous rescue mission.
Download or read book The Robbery at the Diamond Dog Diner written by Eileen Christelow and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1988-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenda Feathers warns her friends in the diner to hide their diamonds. There are diamond thieves in town!
Download or read book Dog Robbers written by Richard Jacobs and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Oakman uses the cover of darkness to carry out his mission. It is 1934, and the night is dark. The June 1934 Ku Klux Klan meeting takes place in a room above Kahn's Saloon. Young Samuel is the lone Negro to attend secretly. As he learns the posse's plan for the nights cross burning, he forges his counter-plan. In order to accomplish his mission he must enlist a close friend.Sammy forces his white childhood friend, Gabriel Summers, out of a fitful sleep, and with subtle coercion persuades Gabe to follow him into the East Texas bayous. Gabe follows the death march with terrible consequences if Samuel's plan fails. With the aid of his Gramps eight-gauge shotgun, Sammy stops the raid with greater than wished for results. The duel blasts from the shotgun severely injures Samuel, forcing Gabe to assist him to escape. There is no exit strategy–a critical failure of the plan. Samuel's tactics returns them to town and possible discovery, but Gabe intervenes and leads them to safety. Samuel forgot a critical part of the plan–now they must escape the Posse.
Download or read book The Robber s Dog written by D. Laurence and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Laurence was born the son of a British diplomat and as such he enjoyed the high life on various overseas postings during his early years. Having spent the first 13 years of his life living in various British Embassies around the world, protected by diplomatic immunity, the world was supposed to be his oyster Having successfully passed his common entrance exam into one of the most respected schools in the country at 13 years of age, by 24 he found himself within the confines of the violent and often drug infested world of the British penal system, rubbing shoulders with some of the most notorious figures in the London underworld. Fifteen years later he was to face the ultimate legal nightmare. This time caught between the defense and prosecution where he had to fight not only for his own future but also that of his children, in a case that was to set a legal precedent. What follows is a harrowing insight into one man's personal voyage of discovery, in order to gain custody and control over his 2 beloved children. We follow the journey from it's origins in East Africa through the jungles of South America and onto the deserts of Saudi Arabia, before fi nally arriving at the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand/London - where personal triumph would mean eternal happiness..... but failure would mean the ultimate sacrifice.
Download or read book Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam written by Tracey Corderoy and published by Nosy Crow. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are the world's most useless burglars, and their new master plan for a robbery is going hopelessly wrong! Will their neighbours catch them red-handed? Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two hapless robber dogs who can never seem to fill their swag bags. They've tried the bank, the bookshop, the bike shop . . . and even a plot to rob their neighbours is foiled! But when they decide on a career change and open up a café they realize that, although crime doesn't pay, cupcakes certainly do! Join the fun in this hilarious rhyming picture book adventure. Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam is a hugely successful, action-packed series about two baker-dogs who used to be robbers, but now solve mysteries and sniff out crimes! Tracey Corderoy is a multi-award-winning author and has written over 70 books for children including collaborations with Rosalind Beardshaw and Sarah Massini. Steven Lenton has created many books with Tracey Corderoy and also illustrates books by David Baddiel, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Peter Bently. His books have won awards such as the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and have been selected for the WHSmith Children's Book of the Year and Tom Fletcher Book Club. Every Nosy Crow paperback picture book comes with a free "Stories Aloud" audio recording. Just scan the QR code and listen along! Read all the Shifty and Sam picture book adventures: Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Cat Burglar Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Diamond Chase Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Missing Masterpiece Have you read Shifty and Sam's two-colour early readers? Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Jingle Bells! Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Up, Up and Away! Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Spooky School Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Aliens Are Coming!
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Download or read book Dog Gone written by Mary Amato and published by Darby Creek ™. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their parents steal a Hollywood star (a white poodle) to hold it for ransom, our young heroes leap into action. Too bad the spoiled star will not raise a paw to help. Barks and howls will be the result of anyone reading Book Two of Good Crooks. Author Mary Amato is a star of state master and children's choice lists and returns to the age category of her popular Riot Brothers chapter book series with this funny, silly new series.
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Download or read book Avast Ye Dog Thief written by Nadia Higgins and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armpit Arnie's pink parrotpoodle named Polly is his prize possession, even if the rest of the pirate crew thinks she is unpirate-like! When Polly is kidnapped and entered into the dog show, she shows Barnacle Barb and her pirate crew that she is a filthy pirate dog and steals the treasure to boot.
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Download or read book The Hot Dog Thief written by Carla Schissel and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by homelessness and hunger Pancho finds a safe place to live behind a bodega and across the street from a hot dog cart. The smell of the hot dogs is so overwhelming he decides to steal them. Over several days he steals 15 hot dogs. A new prize was making friends with Brandito, a boy who watched his adventure.
Download or read book Dog robber The Story of a Soldier s Farewell written by Louis Adamič and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Soldiers written by Peter S. Kindsvatter and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning and despair. This book synthesizes the wartime experiences of American soldiers, from the doughboys of World War I to the grunts of Vietnam. Focusing on both soldiers and marines, it draws on histories and memoirs, oral histories, psychological and sociological studies and even fiction to show that their experiences remain fundamentally the same regardless of the enemy, terrain, training or weaponry.
Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. This informative, entertaining and sometimes shocking dictionary is an unbeatable resource for all language aficionados out there.
Download or read book The Four Canadian Highwaymen Or The Robbers of Markham Swamp written by J. E. Collins and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Canadian Highwaymen by J.E. Collins is about four robbers of Markham Swamp and how this changes young Miss Aster's life. Excerpt: "The following story is founded on fact, everybody about this part of Canada who is not deaf has heard of the gang at Markham Swamp. I have no doubt that some of my friends who are in the habit of considering themselves "literary," will speak with despair and disparagement of me when they read the title of this book. They will call it "blood and thunder," and will see that I am on my way to the dogs. Well, these people are my friends after all, and I shall not open a quarrel with them."
