Download or read book King Kong s Cousin written by Mark Teague and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Junior may not be as big or strong as his famous cousin Kong, but when his beloved cat gets stuck in a tree, Junior conquers his fear of heights and saves the day.

Download or read book The Cousins written by Amethyst E. Manual and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THIS TALE, THE COUSINS HAVE TO LOOK FOR A PLACE OF HIDING AFTER GIVING ANOTHER CONCERT IN WASHINGTON FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY. MIRACULOUS THINGS OCCUR IN THIS WASHINGTON CONCERT ALSO AND THE THOMPSON BROTHERS, FOR EVERYONE'S SAFETY, TAKE EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE GUARDS AND THEIR FAMILIES, ON A SURPRISE 10 DAY VACATION TO GET AWAY FROM THE MEDIA AND THE CHURCH AUTHORITIES WHO WANT ANSWERS REGARDING THE MIRACLE THAT OCCURRED. IT IS A SUPERNATURAL TALE YOU WILL ENJOY FROM BEGINNING TO END.

Download or read book The Dragon and the Crown written by Stanley S.K. Kwan and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his autobiography Stanley S.K. Kwan discusses his roots, Hong Kong after the War, Hang Seng Bank, the new China and home and country.

Download or read book Deacon King Kong Oprah s Book Club written by James McBride and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book Prize One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year" Oprah's Book Club Pick Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine A Washington Post Notable Novel From the author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride’s funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood’s Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters—caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York—overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.

Download or read book The Scarlet Boy written by Arthur Calder-Marshall and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A variation on the theme of The Turn of the Screw in the manner of Graham Greene with an olive from The Cocktail Party and a dash of Dashiell Hammett.' Cyril Connolly First published in 1961, The Scarlet Boy saw the versatile Arthur Calder-Marshall venturing into gothic terrain with a study in the paranormal. Historian George Grantley agrees to find a property for his school-friend Kit Everness, now a successful QC, in Grantley's home town of Wilchester. Grantley's eye falls on a place dear to him in childhood: Anglesey House, where his boyhood companion Charles Scarlet lived with his glamorous mother, Helen. But Charles committed suicide there, and some say the house is haunted. Grantley and Everness are undeterred; however, they will come to find their rational views tested, and the lives of their loved ones endangered.

Download or read book Our Young Man written by Edmund White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Young Man follows the life of a gorgeous Frenchman, Guy, as he goes from the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand to the top of the modeling profession in New York City's fashion world, becoming the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Like Wilde's Dorian Grey, Guy never seems to age; at thirty-five he is still modeling, still enjoying lavish gifts from older men who believe he's twenty-three--though their attentions always come at a price. Ambivalently, Guy lets them believe, driven especially by the memory of growing up poor, until he finds he needs the lie to secure not only wealth, but love itself. Surveying the full spectrum of gay amorous life through the disco era and into the age of AIDS, Edmund White (who worked at Vogue for ten years) explores the power of physical beauty--to fascinate, to enslave, and to deceive--with sparkling wit and pathos.

Download or read book King Kong Comes to Connecticut written by Dr.MC and published by Maximus Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children nowadays have a very short attention span, now you see them watching television, a couple of seconds they are already fighting with each other. And most of the time, parents have a hard time getting their children go to bed, or refuse to join mutual activities. Reading your children with bedtime stories will cultivate imagination, creates a bond between you and your children, encourages love for reading, and establishes a habit. The story of The Father's Treasure is about a promise of his son, as well as the adventures. With lovely illustrations and descriptive words, this story paints a picture your child is sure to love. The story will give your children the opportunity to imagine and be creative. This story is sure to be one that is requested night after night and will surely become part of your children's bedtime ritual. This children's book that is highly entertaining, great for early readers, and is jam-packed with bedtime stories, jokes, games, and more. This children's storybook has it all WHAT A GREAT DEAL => FUN SHORT STORY, GAMES, ACTIVITIES, A COLORING BOOK INSIDE LINK AND FREE GIFT Your child will be entertained for hours Kids and children can practice their reading skills or have a parent read it aloud. This special story includes lessons and morals about about love and determination. What’s included inside : Special Bonus Free Gift Free Coloring The Father's Treasure Just For fun Activities Word Search Word Search Solutions Games and Maze Puzzles Games and Maze Puzzles Solutions Jokes Funny About the Author This book is especially great for traveling, waiting rooms, and read aloud at home with friends and family. Also can use as a bedtime story. Excellent for beginning and early readers Short story with pictures that are great for a quick bedtime story Includes "Just For Fun" activities Perfect for a bedtime story for kids Fun games and puzzles included Big and cute illustrations for early and younger readers FREE coloring book downloads included ***FREE GIFT INCLUDED WITH YOUR PURCHASE*** Free children's book download included (see inside for details)

Download or read book A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong written by Benjamin Penny and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost 40 years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries. In the first four volumes of these diaries, collected here by Benjamin Penny, the teenage Alabaster recorded his thoughts and observations, told himself anecdotes, and exploded in outbursts of anger and frustration. He was young and enthusiastic, and the everyday sights, sounds and smells of Hong Kong were novel to him. He describes how the Chinese people around him ironed clothes, dried flour and threshed rice; how they gambled, prepared their food and made bean curd; and what opera, new year festivities and the birthday of the Heavenly Empress were like. Like many a young Victorian, he was also a keen observer of natural history, fascinated by fireflies and ants, corals and sea slugs, and the volcanic origins of the landscape. Alabaster’s diaries are a unique, vibrant and riveting record of life in the young British colony on the cusp of the Second Opium War. With A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong, Penny sheds new light on the history of the region.

Download or read book James Legge and the Chinese Classics written by Marilyn Laura Bowman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Legge (1815-1897), was a great Scots scholar and missionary famed as a translator of the Chinese Classics when struggles between Britain and China included two wars. It was an era of sailing ships, pirates, opium wars, the swashbuckling East India Company, cannibals eating missionaries, and the opening of Qing China to trade and ideas. Legge was vilified by fundamentalist missionaries who disagreed with his favourable views about Chinese culture and beliefs. He risked beheading twice while helping Chinese individuals being terrorized during the Taiping Rebellion. He became so ill from Hong Kong fevers when only 29 that he was forced to return to the UK to save his life. Recovering, he and his three talented Chinese students attracted such interest that they were invited to a private meeting with Queen Victoria. Legge thrived despite serious illnesses, lost five of his 11 children and both wives to premature deaths, survived cholera epidemics, typhoons, and massive fires. He was poisoned twice in a famous scandal, helped save a sailing ship from fire on the high seas, took in a bohemian Qing scholar on the run, foiled a bank-bombing plot, and earned enmity in the colony for providing court testimony about translation that favoured accused Chinese men rather than the colonial authorities. Legge’s resilient responses and incredible productivity reflected the passion he had developed at the age of 23 for understanding the culture of China. He retired to become a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and the first Professor of Chinese.

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Download or read book The Last Ship written by William Brinkley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as “an extraordinary novel of men at war” (The Washington Post) this is the book that inspired the TNT television series starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin and Michael Bay as Executive Producer. The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remain—one-hundred-and-fifty-two men and twenty-six women—to pull together in search of land. Once they reach safety, however, the men and women on board realize that they are earth’s last remaining survivors—and they’ve all been exposed to radiation. When none of the women seems able to conceive, fear sets in. Will this be the end of humankind?

Download or read book Eerie Archives written by Jim Starlin and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bizarre science fiction, luminous fantasy, dark psychological drama, and wild western adventure - in the pages of Eerie, these genres were brought together, twisted, and given thrilling touches of the macabre! This volume in the acclaimed Eerie Archives hardcover series collects all stories and bonus features from issues #81 to #85 including Jim Starlin's Darklon The Mystic, gorgeous colour covers by Frank Frazetta and the introduction of time-travelling, gun-slinging Rook. Eerie Archives has something for every horror devotee!

Download or read book Flashman and the Dragon written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Flashman strikes again… Wonderful… hilarious.”—USA Today Lusting after a clergyman’s wife, smuggling opium to Hong Kong, coupling with an Amazonian woman river pirate, groveling before a ruthless warlord, and becoming the sexual plaything of the most beautiful and evil woman in the world, Harry Flashman, the supreme antihero of the Victorian era, is ready to rise to the occasion to matter what depths of dishonor he must plumb. In this uninhibited and uproarious adventure, Flashman is once again at his irascible best.

Download or read book The Romantic Soldier King written by You Liaodeyu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was originally a king of soldiers. After retiring, he was going to rely on his brother, but met a great beauty on the train. The beauty was attracted by his handsome appearance, and fell in love with him at first sight. The two met again afterwards. The beauty discovered that the soldier was the one who saved her three years ago, and she loved him a little more.In addition, he also successively attracted other different girls, and the luck with the opposite sex continued.☆About the Author☆You Liao De Yu, a well-known online novelist, author of many works, most of which are related to the army and soldiers. Her representative works are: Personal soldiers of the female president, Most powerful soldiers and kings, The Romantic Soldier King and so on. Her novels are welcomed by most of the readers.

Download or read book My Backyard Jungle written by James Barilla and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFor James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina, backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries. When they signed up with the National Wildlife Federation to certify their yard as a wildlife habitat, it felt like pushing back, in however small a way, against the tide of bad news about vanishing species, changing climate, dying coral reefs. Then the animals started to arrive, and Barilla soon discovered the complexities (and possible mayhem) of merging human with animal habitats. What are the limits of coexistence, he wondered?/divDIV /divDIVTo find out, Barilla set out across continents to explore cities where populations of bears, monkeys, marmosets, and honeybees live alongside human residents. My Backyard Jungle brings these unique stories together, making Barilla’s yard the centerpiece of a meditation on possibilities for coexistence with animals in an increasingly urban world. Not since Gerald Durrell penned My Family and Other Animals have readers encountered a naturalist with such a gift for storytelling and such an open heart toward all things wild./div

Download or read book All the King s Women written by Mimi Chan and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the King's Women is a work of historical fiction and gives an insider view of life within that household. The author married into a similarly complex family and drew her inspiration from real-life characters and situations. While the focus is on eight particular women in the King's life * four concubines, one daughter, a stepmother, a sister and a servant, it gives a historical perspective of what life was like for a wide spectrum of Chinese women especially during the first decades of the twentieth century, from the pampered 'misses with a thousand pieces of gold' to impoverished and desperate waifs sold into slavery at a tender age. These eight narratives are tied together by the overall narrative of the King and his immediate forebears, but each story stands alone and can be read as an independent entity.