Download or read book Grandpa Pearson written by Letitia Parr and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SUMMARY: Grandpa Pearson and Lisa and David set off for a walk which turns into a treasure hunt.

Download or read book Grandpa Frank s Great Big Bucket List written by Jenny Pearson and published by Usborne. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling queen of heart and humour, JENNY PEARSON, comes a great big soaring adventure about family and finding happiness.When Frank John Davenport inherits piles of money from a grandma he didn't know he had, things take an unexpected turn... Because the money comes with STRICT instructions...and a NEW grandpa.Frank quickly compiles a list of all the ways he can spend the money and look after his grumpy grandpa. Money may buy hot-air balloon rides, monster-truck lessons and epic parkour experiences, but can Frank discover that happiness is, in fact, priceless?Praise for Jenny Pearson SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD, WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE, LAUGH OUT LOUD BOOK AWARD and the BRANFORD BOASE AWARD"Breaks records for funny and touching storytelling." David Baddiel"As funny and tender as it could ever be." Frank Cottrell-Boyce"Heart-warming and genuinely funny." The Times

Download or read book A Dime s Worth of Paper Plates One Young Man s Journey from the Great Depression through World War II written by L.D. (Duke) Hobbs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Dime's Worth of Paper Plates, the author calls himself "a typical guy who became a teenager during the Depression years and became a man during World War II." Duke begins with his ancestors' history in Norway and their emigration to Iowa in 1892. His grandfather acquired a number of farms in the Norwegian community in central Iowa, and the author lived on one of these farms as a child. His childhood is idyllic, though the Depression and the Dust Bowl years take their toll on the adults in the community. His stepfather takes a job in Pecos, Texas in 1936 and the family adjusts to a new life in this little "cow town." Following a year of college, Duke joins the army in 1944 and after training at Ft. Hood is sent overseas for two years. He serves in Company "F," 314th Infantry, 79th Division in the European Theater. After the war, he returns to Texas A&M to complete his degree. Commissioned as a second lieutenant in the air Force, he serves four years as an intelligence officer during the Korean War.

Download or read book The Conscript written by Alastair B. Davie and published by Alastair B. Davie. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Pearson grows up in an impoverished, north-eastern English city. A socialist by virtue of his upbringing and an unabashed supporter of the Russian communist party. While at University, studying physics, he is seduced by a female lecturer and recruited as a Russian sleeper agent. He spies for the NKGB providing classified British research into radar and other advanced technologies during the Second World War, before he is turned by MI5. With his help, the agency discovers and prosecute a Russian network of scientists in Britain who had infiltrated its wartime research departments. The reaction of the Russians to his betrayal is ferocious and the NKGB set out to eliminate him... After one failed attempt and suspicion of a possible Russian mole in MI5, Tom disappears into post-war Britain in a game of cat and mouse that Tom simply cannot afford to lose... Alastair B. Davie is a retired corporate publicist living in Chicago, Illinois. He was born in England in 1945 and lived in Windsor before he was commissioned in the Royal Marines Commando Reserve and served for seven years. He later worked for the Financial Times and Reuters in marketing before moving to the United States in 1976. He retired in 2002 as director of corporate communications for Foster Wheeler Corporation, a Fortune 500 company. His other books include A Sixth Sense and Desperate Conspiracy.

Download or read book Drew Pearson written by Oliver Pilat and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the journalist who created the syndicated column, "Washington Merry-Go-Round."

Download or read book Gang of Four written by Liz Byrski and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of A Month of Sundays, with new novel At the End of the Day out now. Gang of Four is a story of four very different journeys and a celebration of women in the prime of life. "Every woman needs her gang of four" Mary Moody "A delightful story of the joy of stepping outside your comfort zone" Australian Women's Weekly She had a husband, children and grandchildren who loved her, a beautiful home, enough money. What sort of person was she to feel so overwhelmed with gloom and resentment on Christmas morning? They have been close friends for almost two decades, supporting each other through personal and professional crises-parents dying, children leaving home, house moves, job changes, political activism, diets and really bad haircuts. Now the 'gang of four', Isabel, Sally, Robin and Grace, are all fifty-something, successful ...and restless. It is Isabel who makes the first move, taking a year away from her family to follow in her mother's footsteps across Europe. Soon Sally is on her way to San Francisco, to come face to face with a guilty secret. Robin, in the wake of a clandestine relationship, heads for isolation in the country. And Grace? Well, Grace would never go away for an entire year, but, lonely in the others' absence, she thinks she might take a short holiday in England. Once there, she bumps into someone she hardly knows - herself. PRAISE FOR LIZ BYRSKI "Her plots and characters get stronger with each book" The Sydney Morning Herald "Liz Byrski has a guaranteed cheer squad for her novels which champion...women taking charge of their life and growing old creatively" Daily Telegraph Fans of Monica McInerney, Liane Moriarty and Joanna Trollope will love Liz Byrski.

Download or read book Our Scandinavian Heritage written by Barbara A. Hillman Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OUR SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE is a collection of true stories by members of The Norden Clubs, Jamestown, NY, stories of themselves and/or their ancestors their adventures, customs, and the sacrifices they made to come to America, a land where streets were paved in gold, as one young girl was told. Included is a history of the emigration from Scandinavia to America and to Jamestown, NY, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Norden Clubs are pleased to permanently record these memories as part of history, particularly the Scandinavian influence in America

Download or read book Chasing Forgiveness written by Neal Shusterman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1991 as What daddy did by Little, Brown, and Company.

Download or read book Of the Heartland written by Jim Ylitalo and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is set in the Midwest, somewhere northwest of the Twin Cities, in fictional Heartland. A young farm boy, George Johnson, proves he is no ordinary boy. In his first adventure, he teams up with a girl to save a drowning boy. He is taken by her, but they are worlds apart. Will she become part of his life? George enlists in the military. As a Marine, he becomes one of the best; he is smart, strong, daring, and oblivious to pain. He trains as a medic in addition to becoming a highly skilled sniper. It is this skill—and a sense of honor—that causes George to unknowingly assist the CIA in Vietnam on a difficult task, which earns him the gratitude (and some financial reward) of a top CIA operative. Highly decorated, George is subsequently awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. George is seriously wounded and experiences death—an ethereal experience. Upon discharge, he returns to his father’s farm in Heartland to heal and get back to living his life. George is the all-American boy. Christmas takes center stage as George demonstrates the true meaning of Christmas, spreading the Christmas spirit to his family, guests, and community. George does meet his teenage love interest, Emily, and a happy and sad relationship begins. It looks like George and Emily are okay, but Emily lands a prestigious job traveling abroad. She has realized her lifelong dream, and George cannot be part of it. Working this out entails a bit of drama. Are there wedding bells in their future?

Download or read book The Emancipation of Grandpa Sandy Wills written by Cheryl Wills and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lanterns in the Dawn written by Arelo Sederberg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lanterns in the Dawn Lanterns in the Dawn-humorous, sad, realistic, and bittersweet-is the coming-of-age story of a boy living on a small Midwestern dirt farm. It is written in sparse, clear prose with an undertone of haunting images true to the imagination and insights of childhood. Through sharply drawn characters, it depicts a way of life from a recent yet bygone era that likely will never return. Above all, it is the story of strong pioneer-spirited people who loved the land so dearly they somehow managed to survive in it and through it, as if they were a permanent part of it throughout the ages.

Download or read book The Christian Work and the Evangelist written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Blink of an Eye written by Judy Cooley and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My parents were great influences in my life. From my mom, I learned optimism. I never saw my mom in a bad mood. She was always happy and looked at the good side of everyone and everything. When she wanted a fireplace, she substituted as a mail carrier and after a year, was able to buy it. Once when thinking she and Dad might get a new car, a fire prevented it. Dad was a logger, and the logs on the cold deck of the lumber mill had burned up, which prevented him from paying his workers with the money he would have received. Neither parent mentioned it to us kids, and nothing changed in their behavior. They never talked to us kids about money, having it or not having it. Mom cooked, sewed our clothes, painted the walls inside our home, and always found a way to make something out of nothing. Our parents took in an AFS student: Olga, Job Corps girls, Japanese students, and others, which had a big influence on me. I remember her sending packages to her pen pals in Europe after WWII. Family was the most important to her. Mom took us to visit her parents and their siblings and her siblings. We learned stories about all of them. We lived minutes from my father's family and got to know and love them, too. So many stories to tell. In fact, when my little granddaughter, Natasha, spent the night with me, she always asked for the stories. What fun! She always asked for the stories about the people (the relatives).

Download or read book Lenard D Moore and African American Haiku written by Ce Rosenow and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions identifies Moore as a primary figure in the American Haiku Movement as well as a significant contributor to the field of African American haiku. Ce Rosenow analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with a variety of other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. An examination of Moore’s haibun, a Japanese form combining prose and haiku, reveals the further development of the African American aesthetic created in his individual poems. Ultimately, the author argues that Moore’s decades-long engagement with haiku and his prolific publication history solidify haiku as an established form in African American poetry.

Download or read book Satellite written by Nick Lake and published by Ember. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage boy born in space makes his first trip to Earth in this engrossing sci-fi adventure for fans of The Martian from award-winning author Nick Lake. He’s going to a place he’s never been before: home. Moon 2 is a space station that orbits approximately 250 miles above Earth. It travels 17,500 miles an hour, making one full orbit every ninety minutes. It’s also the only home that fifteen-year-old Leo and two other teens have ever known. Born and raised on Moon 2, Leo and the twins, Orion and Libra, are finally old enough and strong enough to endure the dangerous trip to Earth. They’ve been “parented” by teams of astronauts since birth and have run countless drills to ready themselves for every conceivable difficulty they might face on the flight. But has anything really prepared them for life on terra firma? Because while the planet may be home to billions of people, living there is more treacherous than Leo and his friends could ever have imagined, and their very survival will mean defying impossible odds.

Download or read book Pearson s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 49, no. 9 (Sept. 1922) accompanied by a separately paged section entitled ERA: electronic reactions of Abrams.

Download or read book Grandpa Putter and Granny Hoe written by Kimberly Olson Fakih and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1996 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twins Jazz and Roo find themselves in the middle of a non-stop war of one-upmanship as their bickering grandparents vie for their attention.