Download or read book Fairground Lights written by Fran Nuño and published by Cuento de Luz. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner at the 2013 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. Visit this fair full of magic, where a simple movement of the hand can set in motion all the rides. Once upon a time, my dad took me to a very special fair a long, long way from home. As soon as we arrived, he asked me to wave my hands in the air like a magician so that the lights would turn on or off as I pleased. “It’s amazing!” I shouted with joy. Today my dad has taken me to the fair, and you can't imagine how excited I am. It is a magical place, full of lights, colors, music and, above all, fun! However, this fair has something special that makes it different from the others... A witch has hung up her broom to become the driver of a flying train, a snow-capped Helter Skelter, and Bumper Cars that can zoom off to wherever the driver wants and ride through the venue... This fair seems to have come to life!
Download or read book The Show Must Go On written by Bernard Ross and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "running away from home" aged 15 Bernard Ross joined a travelling funfair, this book follows his adventures as one of the last live funfair wrestlers in the UK
Download or read book A Cinematic Artist written by Kim Knowles and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American artist Man Ray was one of the most influential figures of the historical avant-garde, contributing significantly to the development of both Dadaism and Surrealism. Whilst his pioneering work in photography assured him international acclaim, his activity in other areas, notably film, is to this day both unknown and undervalued. During the 1920s Man Ray made four short experimental films and collaborated on a host of other projects with people such as Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, René Clair and Hans Richter. These works, along with a series of cinematic essays and home movies made during the 1920s and 1930s, represent the most important contribution to the development of an alternative mode of filmmaking in the early twentieth century. This book explores Man Ray's cinematic interactions from the perspective of his interdisciplinary artistic sensibility, creating links between film, photography, painting, poetry, music, architecture, dance and sculpture. By exposing his preoccupation with form, and his ambiguous relationship with the politics and aesthetics of the Dada and Surrealist movements, the author paints an intimate and complex portrait of Man Ray the filmmaker.
Download or read book Liza s England written by Pat Barker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-04-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a woman who survives a divorce, bringing up children by herself, and a war, only to see the community disintegrate in the name of "progress." She now fights her last battle.
Download or read book Shadowsmith written by Ross MacKenzie and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you brave? When the mysterious Amelia Pigeon turns up at Kirby's bedroom window in the dead of night, this is the question she asks him – immediately before they tumble into a world of ancient malevolent spirits who have torn their way into Kirby's boring seaside village. Kirby isn't feeling brave at all. His mother is in a coma following a freak (or was it?) accident, and he's hardly talking to his dad. He's convinced a spider is watching him, and now a weird girl in a yellow raincoat – who claims to be a powerful, evil-banishing Shadowsmith – is dragging him into unknown danger. How brave is he really? Ross MacKenzie, author of the Blue Peter award-winning The Nowhere Emporium, weaves a world of magic and adventure which twists and turns magnificently and will keep thrilled young readers guessing right to the end.
Download or read book Materializing Memories written by Susan Aasman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multitude of devices and technological tools now exist to make, share, and store memories and moments with family, friends, and even strangers. Memory practices such as home movies, which originated as the privilege of a few, well-to-do families, have now emerged as ubiquitous and immediate cultures of sharing. Departing from the history of home movies, this volume offers a sophisticated understanding of technologically mediated, mostly ritualized memory practices, from early beginnings in the fin-de-siècle to today. Departing from a longue durée perspective on home movie practices, Materializing Memories moves beyond a strict historical study to grapple with highly theorized fields, such as media studies, memory studies, and science and technology studies (STS). The contributors to this volume reflect on these different intellectual backgrounds and perspectives, but all chapters share a common framework by addressing practices of use, user configurations, and relevant media landscapes. Grasping the cultural dynamics of such multi-faceted practices requires a multidimensional conceptual approach, here achieved by centering around three concepts as central analytical lenses: dispositifs, generations, and amateurs.
Download or read book Fairground Attractions written by Deborah Philips and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The study investigates the cultural production of the visual iconography of popular pleasure grounds from the eighteenth century pleasure garden to the contemporary theme park. Deborah Philips identifies the literary genres, including fairy tale, gothic horror, Egyptiana and the Western which are common to carnival sites, tracing their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture.Though the bricolage of narratives and imagery found in the contemporary leisure zone has been read by many as emblematic of postmodern culture, the author argues that the clash of genres and stories is less a consequence of postmodern pastiche than it is the result of a history and popular tradition of conventionalised iconography.
Download or read book Thunderbolt written by Martin Caidin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thunderbolt! is the incredible true life story of Robert S. Johnson, one of America's leading fighter pilot aces in World War II. His memoir is an action-packed account of how a young man from Lawton, Oklahoma went on to amass 28 enemy kills, the first U. S. Army Air Force pilot in the European theater to surpass Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I tally of 26 enemy planes destroyed. Johnson's detailed, vivid descriptions of close-scrapes with Goering's elite fighters and his numerous other skirmishes makes Thunderbolt! essential reading for World War 2 buffs.
Download or read book Sunny Side Up written by David Baird and published by Maroma Press. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the white walls of the pueblos of southern Spain you will find more drama and passion than you could ever imagine. All human life is here, in all its varieties — as British journalist David Baird and his Dutch wife found out when they settled in an Andalusian village, seeking "the simple life". Sunny Side Up may read like fiction, but it’s all fact. It’s the Spain that Hemingway never saw and never wrote about.
Download or read book A Culture Of Light written by Frances Guerin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking exploration of German expressionist cinema and technology.
Download or read book ICT Connect written by Higgins and published by Rigby. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ICT Connect" provides a manageable and flexible solution for teaching ICT skills across the primary age range. It is fully matched to the QCA Scheme of Work for ICT and offers opportunities for cross-curricular links.
Download or read book The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas written by David Almond and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his mentally unstable uncle's obsessions take an unexpectedly cruel turn, young Stanley Potts is forced to leave and joins a carnival of eccentric characters before meeting the legendary Pancho Pirelli, who swims in piranha tanks and invites Stanley to become his apprentice.
Download or read book It s Hard to Be Good written by Charlie Seiga and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Times were hard in the 1940s and early '50s: kids went hungry and food was rationed; some families had to beg, steal or borrow to survive. But Charlie found his own way out. On a routine basis, together with his childhood gang, they became kid grafters (bang into crime). They did what they had to do, providing food to put on their family's table amongst other things. In 1953, aged 13, Charlie and his gang were always bunking off school. He went on to make further progress with his life. With his baby face and dressed as an office boy in a blazer, shirt, and tie, he was darting in and out of buildings in the city centre of Liverpool, buildings which provided rich pickings as he raided their cash drawers and safes. Charlie meets his mentor: an older woman, who was a professional in the business. She teaches him how to rob high-class jewellers of their expensive diamond rings: a well planned-out scene which is typical of the classic, highly rewarding cases of jewellery robberies of the time. Here's what Charlie has to say about his younger self: 'In 1954 and at the age of fourteen, I was earning more money than a professional adult. I was the richest poor teenager in Liverpool.'
Download or read book Night Shivers written by Terry Trafton and published by Fox Lane Press. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories for rainy days. Great late night reading. Night Shivers––ghosts, time travel, parallel universes, mystery and romance drive the plotlines in this collection of short stories. Frightening journeys into the shivery realm of the supernatural, these unnerving tales probe those dark and mysterious places that inhabit the wildest imagination. A stormy Halloween night, six guests at a séance have no idea what eerie events The Farley Town Witch has planned for them. Phantom carousel spins riders into a parallel universe. Nothing unusual about the chair in the corner . . . not until the man who sits in it vanishes. No escaping the ghostly visitations of the Blue Lady in a story of heartbreak and retribution. Spencer Ingalls declares that spirits are nothing more than superstition––until one late night when he hears a woman from the other side calling him. In the stories September Rain and Night Magic, time moves backward with each sweep of the second hand. In love with a young woman who lived 150 years before he was born, Evan Kenner is shocked by a photograph of himself in the 19th century. On a late-night bus to Dothan, Alabama, a sensitive young woman hides a painful secret. Hopkinsville, Kentucky––the man with happy eyes boards the bus and immediately paints sunshine on a snowy wintery night. Willow Creek Road––eighteen miles of asphalt with a frightening reputation! More unnerving than the raging thunderstorm is the strange young woman sitting next to him in the story A Light for Lily. Taken from a drugged-out mother, thirty-year-old Billy Ryan spent eighteen years in foster care. Now a night watchman at Clayton’s, Billy has plenty of time to build a town for his mannequin friends––an enchanting town on the third floor of Clayton’s General Store; but strange are the ways of fate in the story Night Strike. Molly in the Sun––reality or recurring illusion? Danger waits in the deep shadows of a full moon, and for one man, distinguishing between illusion and reality is no longer possible. Hush Money is a story of deception in which old friends become familiar strangers. Who are the Dropa people and what messages are revealed on the mysterious Dropa Stones? Did an interstellar spacecraft crash-land in Eastern China? Written in Stone revisits the theory that these smallish people have an extraterrestrial history. Panic in Archer Anderson’s backyard! The thing buried there is coming to life and no one realizes the terror ahead––until it’s too late.
Download or read book Sunlight written by Kristian Joseph and published by Northern Luck Publishing. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the city of Sovereign falls, the revolution will begin … Nathan Sahl (the nation’s Chief of Defence) must take up arms in order to save his family, but will he be the defender of peace or lead the revolution? Meanwhile, Sam Royle (a seasoned war veteran) has lost his mind and strength. When he awakes in a mysterious underground facility can he regain what was taken from him? … an estranged scientist and child-like artificial intelligence hologram may hold the answer. Sunlight is the first instalment in the epic action-adventure series Titans, Cranes & Monsters Games. If you like multiple character plots, high-tech firepower, and none-stop action, then you will love the TCMG series.
Download or read book Armouron The Armoured Ghost written by Oisin McGann and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ARMOURON Elite warriors who banded together centuries ago to fight for justice and for freedom. PLANET EARTH Under the control of a huge corporation, led by the power-mad Chairman. THE CADETS Trainee gladiators at the Nu-Topian Academy - where something is very, very wrong. SALT The grizzled old master of the armour workshop, with a secret in his past. THE STORY The book opens with an old knight on a distant planet, fighting to keep five medallions from the Armouronaut, a robot built from the armour of ancient knights and powered by the mysterious thirteenth medallion. It was created by the chairman to defeat the Amouron and destroy all it came into contact with. Ten years later, the four orphan apprentices are taken under Salt's wing at the Academy. As this happens, they realise they have all been harbouring suspicions that the Gladiator Games are fixed. As they set about investigating the games, Salt enlists them into the Amouron. When they start operating as knights for the first time the Chairman is so alarmed at what seems to be the re-emergence of his old enemies that he awakens the Amouronaut and sends it against them.
Download or read book Chasing Life Book 1 written by Lynda O'Rourke and published by Ravenwoodgreys. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jena Leigh is in a near fatal car crash, she wakes to find her younger brother close to death. Jena soon realises that the crash was no accident but a deliberate attempt to kill her and her brother. But why would a complete stranger want Jena dead? Seeking answers from a mysterious young man named Cary, Jena finds herself on a terrifying journey in search of the truth while trying to avoid those who chase life. Search Terms: vampire, romance, werewolf, fantasy, horror, mystery, new adult & college romance, occult, urban, young adult fantasy, paranormal, paranormal romance, fantasy witches, shapeshifter wolf romance, dystopian, superhero fantasy ebooks, demon, werewolf romance, angels, vampire romance, young adult paranormal, paranormal new adult romance, shade of, werewolf romance, vampires, diaries, demons and devils, shapeshifter wolf romance, academy, twilight, horror, angels, saga, new adult fantasy romance, journals, coming of age, new adult, young adult, gothic, shifter, lycan, vampire books, vampire romance books, vampire and werewolf books, werewolf books, fantasy books, coming of age fantasy, genetic engineering, science fiction, mash ups, bad girlfriend, vampire girl, vampire vengeance, anti-heroes, vengeance, science fiction, free science fiction booksvampire, supernatural, strong female lead fantasy, strong female characters, strong female vampire vampire romance, young adult paranormal, paranormal new
