Download or read book Pebble People Save the Day written by Glenys O'Connell and published by Pebble People Productions. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pebble People Mystery is a fast-moving story which gently introduces youngsters to the message that we should tread lightly on the Earth. A charming story with an environmental message, The Pebble People Save the Day tells the story of Nicky Adams, a young boy forced to move to Ireland with his parents. The first friend he makes is a talking pebble called Rocky who warns him of an impending environmental crisis caused by illegal dumping. Nicky soon makes friends with other local children and they work tegether to expose the crooks, helped, of course, by Rocky and his friends. This book is a great way of getting youngsters to think about the world about them and the impact of both their actions and those of grownups which could echo through the years.

Download or read book The Chava Diamond Chronicles The Pebble written by Eva Fischer-Dixon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Chava, I expect you to keep your promise,” said my mother. I promised her that I would return a pebble that I illegally took from the historic Israeli fortress called Masada. I did not suspect that my second trip there held surprises of biblical proportion for me. After being invited into the home of the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rebbe Fleischmann told me the story of his marriage, and of his first-born son, Emanuel, who was running for Governor of Pennsylvania. At the Rebbe’s request, my friend Angela and I contacted Emanuel in Bethlehem, PA, who then took me into his confidence. Emanuel performed a miracle on live TV, and it woke the Vatican’s curiosity. The Pope took Emanuel and I with him to Jerusalem, where the Pope asked him to perform a test. After passing the test, Emanuel began to receive multiple threats from drug cartels, opposing his war against them. After a vicious attack, it was confirmed that Emanuel’s life was in imminent danger, but somehow a person from my past managed to intercept the first attackers. Was Emanuel truly the person he claimed to be or was he an impostor? What about the miracles he performed? Never in a million years did I think what followed, something so extraordinary, that humankind needed to take an inventory on their faith in a Higher Power, and a deep look inside their soul to find forgiveness for doubting Emanuel.

Download or read book Let There Be Pebble written by Zachary M. Jack and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was "scary," Jack Nicklaus said of Pebble Beach, and gave him nightmares so acute he famously woke his wife on the eve of his 1972 U.S. Open victory totally spooked. "It's not a golf course," sportswriter Jim Murray wrote, "it's a hellship." Golf writer Dan Jenkins once joked that the famed venue of the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am should be dubbed "Double Bogey-by-the-Sea." A one-time failed Division One golf walk-on, Zachary Michael Jack opts to stare down an early midlife crisis by chronicling a U.S. Open year spent at Pebble Beach, object of his ailing father's fantasies and site of the nation's number one public course and its fairy-tale host town, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. There, along the blue Pacific, he traces the colorful, capricious, and comical world of golf on the Monterey Peninsula as never before via interviews with legends of the game Johnny Miller, Gary Player, and Tom Watson; with today's brightest stars-Padraig Harrington, Phil Mickelson, and Bubba Watson; and with some of its most famous celebrity linksters-actor Bill Murray, Olympic soccer star Brandi Chastain, and billionaire entrepreneur Charles Schwab. Conducting more than one hundred interviews, Jack ranges far and wide to get the scoop, talking golfing haunts with bestselling golf novelist Michael Murphy; teeing up with members of a Carmel-based worldwide golfing society devoted to mystical play; learning to play Pebble at the knee of one of the Top 50 Golf Teachers in America and with a Carmel-based journeyman pro described as "a golf savant"; and raising a cup with a lifelong Pebble Beach resident and caddy who, unbeknownst to the hackers he shepherds, is a Hall of Fame golfer. By turns hilarious, haunting, and historic, Let There Be Pebble reveals the utter uniqueness-the people, the rich history, the unforgettable setting and sporting culture-of this one-of-a-kind golfing cathedral.

Download or read book Elwood Farm Friends in Danger written by David Paul and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pair of stories features the adventures of two brave girlsEmily and Sarahand their brushes with intense, life-threatening danger. In The Girls and the Gang Emily Wood cant decide if she is happier here at the farm or if she was happier at her home in Melbourne before the move. Its a good thing her best friend Sarah is able to visit so often. Emily is glad to have her friend aroundand glad not to be alone when she and Sarah accidentally stumble upon an outlaw group of smugglers called the Gang, who land their boat nearby. Together, Emily and Sarah decide to spy on the band of ruffiansa decision they come to regret when theyre caught eavesdropping. The only clues to their whereabouts are their horses, both of which escaped during the capture of their riders. Now captives of the angry criminals, Emily and Sarah must escape in order to survive. The Return of the Gang continues the adventures of Emily and Sarah as members of the Gang plot their revenge on the two girls. The criminalsnow free on a technicalityplan to kidnap the girls and hold them hostage. What will happen to Emily and Sarah if the Gang carries out their plot?

Download or read book What Will Other People Think written by Tom Clement and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionBorn an only child to a family with a traditional but outdated view to discipline, Tom spent his early years on the outskirts of London, before his family moved to a cottage in the countryside. After his father became interested in horseracing, it was decided that the family were going to move to Newmarket to follow his fathers dream of becoming a successful race horse trainer.The idyllic life that his family hoped to pursue when they moved to Newmarket never happened, as they were betrayed by a colleague and lost their financial security. Becoming targets for people who had been wronged by the same person that deceived them.As his world grew more uncertain, his mental health began to wain, and by the time his grandparents committed suicide, Tom was engulfed in a fully blown psychotic illness that led to him being sectioned when he was sixteen.After finding a flaw in his psychotic delusions. Tom worked hard to regain some control of his life and integrate with the lifestyle of Newmarket's famous horseracing industry. Tom then embarked on a years long quest to fit in and be 'normal'. But ultimately the desire to fit in with everyone else and the pressures of trying to live up to other people expectations caused him to have a major relapse that threw his world in turmoil. This biography charts the progress if one young mans recovery from severe mental illness and touches on the damage that can be done from trying to live up to other peoples expectations.About the AuthorTom currently resides in Newmarket, where he enjoys nature, illustration, listening to music, and singing songs he's written when nobody is listening. Hopefully one day he'll let you listen. You never know, stranger things have happened.He's recently become involved with the local service user group, Suffolk User Forum (SUF) and believes that service user involvement is essential for maintaining and improving services for other people who experience mental distress.

Download or read book The New Yorker written by Harold Wallace Ross and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book I Came As a Shadow written by John Thompson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief. John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As A Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography. After five decades at the center of race and sports in America, Thompson—the iconic NCAA champion, Black activist, and educator—was ready to make the private public at last, and he completed this autobiography shortly before his death in the historically tumultuous summer of 2020. Chockful of stories and moving beyond mere stats (three Final Fours, four-time national coach of the year, seven Big East championships, 97 percent graduation rate), Thompson’s book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning. We experience riding shotgun with Celtics icon Red Auerbach and coaching NBA Hall of Famers like Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson. What were the origins of the the phrase “Hoya Paranoia”? You’ll see. And parting his veil of secrecy, Thompson brings us into his negotiation with a D.C. drug kingpin in his players’ orbit in the 1980s, as well as behind the scenes of his years on the Nike board. Thompson’s mother was a teacher who had to clean houses because of racism in the nation's capital. His father could not read or write. Their son grew up to be a man with his own larger-than-life statue in a building that bears his family’s name on a campus once kept afloat by the selling of 272 enslaved Black people. This is a great American story, and John Thompson’s experience sheds light on many of the issues roiling our nation. In these pages, he proves himself to be the elder statesman whose final words college basketball and the country need to hear. I Came As A Shadow is not a swan song, but a bullhorn blast from one of America’s most prominent sons.

Download or read book Oogy written by Laurence M. Levin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, Levin and his twin sons, Dan and Noah, took their terminally ill cat to the Ardmore Animal Hospital outside Philadelphia to have the beloved pet put to sleep. What would begin as a terrible day suddenly got brighter as the ugliest dog they had ever seen--one who was missing an ear and had half his face covered in scar tissue--ran up to them and captured their hearts.

Download or read book Mister Dog written by Margaret Wise Brown and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crispin's Crispian, the dog who belongs to himself, shares his home with a little boy.

Download or read book Murder at Pebble Beach written by R. C. Coile Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shane O'Neill left the Los Angeles Police Department five years ago to pursue his dream of a career on the PGAr Tour. When a murder happens at the start of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am Tournament, the local police draft Shane to help secretly bodyguard the Number One Japanese golfer as they play together in the tournament. Paired in the golf tournament with Julie McCoy, the tall leggy brunette heiress to the McCoy Golf fortune, Shane and Julie, with his caddie, Topflight, play their way around the three courses of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, protecting Tommy Toshiro while trying to solve the murder mystery. Yakusa Japanese gangsters, industrial espionage between golf equipment manufacturers; the tension of playing in a PGA Tournament, and the business aspects of golf tournaments and their sponsors add dramatic levels of intrigue to the story. Golf, business, wine, women and fast cars, all set in the natural beauty of Pebble Beach, perched on cliffs overlooking the Pacific. What a great setting for a murder. A murder on the fairways. A five-star, butt-kicking, bull's-eye of a golf-murder mystery Fast-paced, craftily plotted and crammed with likeable characters...Russ Coile has done it this time, putting you right on the course, in the middle of the PGAr Tour action! Buckle up for a great ride! -Drew Elioc Russ was one of the great thinkers of our time His only flaw was his bad slice when he golfed. I will always remember the Saguaro cactus with his golf ball embedded in it. -William P. Peters any conversation Russ and I had was strictly limited to serious stuff-golf. I will never golf another round without thinking of him. -Anthony Cirillo

Download or read book Not the Bed for My Rump written by Jo Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I don't like this bed!" Nelly said with a grunt. "This isn't what I wanted for my big rump!" A funny rhyming picture book about a mischievous English Bull Terrier named Nelly who wants nothing more than a soft bed to tuck her head and rest her rump. See the funny, awkward, and unusual places where she tries to sleep on her quest to find the perfect bed. This is the perfect book to read to little ones, just in time to go to bed and also perfect for anyone who loves Bull Terriers.

Download or read book The Call of the Wild White Fang and Other Stories written by Jack London and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His story of the dog Buck, who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. 'No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild, ' said H.L. Mencken. 'Here, indeed, are all the elements of sound fiction.' White Fang (1906), which London conceived as a 'complete antithesis and companion piece to The Call of the Wild, ' is the tale of an abused wolf-dog tamed by exposure to civilization. Also included in this volume is 'To Build a Fire, ' a marvelously desolate short story set in the Klondike, but containing all the elements of a classic Greek tragedy.

Download or read book It s Always Windy on Trash Night written by Hugh W. Rardin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a lot of little things in life that get overlooked. Rardin makes his point in an irreverent look at lifes idiosyncrasies and craziness as only he can scrutinize. Jumping from one topic to another in a harebrained tour of our mundane lives and the things that most people think about but never talk about, Rardin delivers a tome that is sure to tickle. Spanning the gamut from the brutality of boredom to the excitement of discovery in a book that flows from the obvious to heart wrenching recollections of a childhood wrapped around a father who did more than his share of bonding, you will laugh, love, yawn and cry. Everyone knows that it is always windy on trash night. The bane of every dad who has ever had to take out the trash. Thats how its set up in the grand scheme of things. Its Always Windy On Trash Night so trash morning is always special.

Download or read book The Pebble Creek Amish Series written by Vannetta Chapman and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Pebble Creek: Where the Past Haunts, Love Thrives, and New Challenges Wait Around Every Corner. Collected for the first time in a complete, ebook-only bundle, find yourself transported to popular author Vannetta Chapman’s Pebble Creek Amish community in ThePebble Creek Amish Series 5-in-1 ebook! In this delightful series, the caring people of Pebble Creek encounter challenges from the English world and unify to reach out to their non-Amish neighbors, while carefully preserving their Plain ways. Enjoy these three full-length novels, as well as two extra ebook-only stories that neatly bookend the trials and joys of life in Pebble Creek: Home to Pebble Creek A Promise for Miriam AHome for Lydia A Wedding for Julia Christmas at Pebble Creek These unforgettable stories follow the lives of various Pebble Creek inhabitants such as schoolteacher Miriam King, Lydia Fisher the outspoken cabin housekeeper, and aspiring café owner Julia Beechy. Each woman experiences a life-altering journey of drama, romance, and the unexpected. This remarkable Plain community and their charmingly-told tales will lead to refreshed faith as you enter the endearingly unique world of ThePebble Creek Amish.

Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul My Hilarious Heroic Human Dog written by Amy Newmark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magic of dogs! They keep company, provide unconditional love, share in the ups and downs of our lives and make every day an adventure. How do dogs do it? They brighten our days, act as our therapists, and become our best friends—without saying one word. They just plain get us, too, in a surprisingly human way. And during the COVID-19 pandemic they rose to the occasion and transformed our stay-at-home experiences. You’ll find yourself laughing a lot, tearing up at times, and nodding your head in recognition as you read these tales about the magical experience of sharing life with a dog. From hilarious to heroic, mischievous to miraculous, and everything in between, you’ll enjoy a wide variety of entertaining stories in these ten chapters: • Clever Canines • Learning to Love the Dog • Our Protectors • Life Lessons from the Dog • My Very Good, Very Bad Dog • Changed by the Dog • Four-Legged Friends • And Dog Makes Family • Grieving & Recovery • On the Road And your purchase of this book will help support the important work of American Humane, creating a better life for dogs everywhere. Chicken Soup for the Soul books are 100% made in the USA and each book includes stories from as diverse a group of writers as possible. Chicken Soup for the Soul solicits and publishes stories from the LGBTQ community and from people of all ethnicities, nationalities, and religions.

Download or read book The Other End of the Leash written by Patricia McConnell, Ph.D. and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to communicate with your dog—using their language “Good reading for dog lovers and an immensely useful manual for dog owners.”—The Washington Post An Applied Animal Behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years’ experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell reveals a revolutionary new perspective on our relationship with dogs—sharing insights on how “man’s best friend” might interpret our behavior, as well as essential advice on how to interact with our four-legged friends in ways that bring out the best in them. After all, humans and dogs are two entirely different species, each shaped by its individual evolutionary heritage. Quite simply, humans are primates and dogs are canids (as are wolves, coyotes, and foxes). Since we each speak a different native tongue, a lot gets lost in the translation. This marvelous guide demonstrates how even the slightest changes in our voices and in the ways we stand can help dogs understand what we want. Inside you will discover: • How you can get your dog to come when called by acting less like a primate and more like a dog • Why the advice to “get dominance” over your dog can cause problems • Why “rough and tumble primate play” can lead to trouble—and how to play with your dog in ways that are fun and keep him out of mischief • How dogs and humans share personality types—and why most dogs want to live with benevolent leaders rather than “alpha wanna-bes!” Fascinating, insightful, and compelling, The Other End of the Leash is a book that strives to help you connect with your dog in a completely new way—so as to enrich that most rewarding of relationships.

Download or read book Zulu Dog written by Anton Ferreira and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description