Download or read book The Unfortunate Son written by Constance Leeds and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapping, family secrets, and adventure on the high seas--perfect for middle grade fans of historical fiction! What does it mean to be lucky? Luc doesn't really know. He was born with just one ear, his father constantly berates him, and his younger brother is already bigger and stronger than he is. But when he is chosen to become an apprentice to a local fisherman, his life takes a turn for the better. Luc is a natural at sea, and before long he and a teenaged girl who lives with the fisherman form a strong bond. That bond is tested when Luc is taken captive by a band of merciless pirates, and sold into slavery. Moving from 1485 to 1500, from France to Africa, from humble beginnings to a noble future, this historical fiction adventure will leave readers pondering the true meaning of good fortune.
Download or read book Fortunate Son written by Walter Mosley and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of remarkable differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune. Tommy is a lame black boy, cursed with health problems, yet he remains optimistic and strong.After tragedy rips their makeshift family apart, the lives of these boys diverge astonishingly: Eric, the golden youth, is given everything but trusts nothing; Tommy, motherless and impoverished, has nothing, but feels lucky every day of his life. In a riveting story of modern-day resilience and redemption, the two confront separate challenges, and when circumstances reunite them years later, they draw on their extraordinary natures to confront a common enemy and, ultimately, save their lives.
Download or read book The Unfortunate Ones written by K. M. Beirne and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of the struggle of three friends to discover themselves and their history leads to a shocking discovery that sees them on a journey that may determine everyone's future. Follow the trio as they discover long-forgotten species and ancient skills that have have long disappeared from their world as they seek acceptance and kinship whilst a dark menace follows in their wake. Will the trio find the kinship that they so desire or will they fall prey to the darkness?
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Download or read book Fortunate Son written by John Fogerty and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir from John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival. Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of the most important and beloved bands in the history of rock, and John Fogerty wrote, sang, and produced their instantly recognizable classics: "Proud Mary," "Bad Moon Rising," "Born on the Bayou," and more. Now he reveals how he brought CCR to number one in the world, eclipsing even the Beatles in 1969. By the next year, though, Creedence was falling apart; their amazing, enduring success exploded and faded in just a few short years. Fortunate Son takes readers from Fogerty's Northern California roots, through Creedence's success and the retreat from music and public life, to his hard-won revival as a solo artist who finally found love.
Download or read book A Series of Unfortunate Events 01 The Bad Beginning written by Lemony Snicket and published by Egmont Books (UK). This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on . . . In The Bad Beginning the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune and cold porridge for breakfast. Then again, why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? With 5 million copies sold in the UK alone, one might consider Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events to make him one of the most successful children’s authors of the past decade. We, however, consider these miserable so-called adventure stories and the Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey that accompanied the books for children as nothing more than a dreadful mistake.
Download or read book Memoirs of an Unfortunate Son of Thespis written by Edward Cape Everard and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emma or The Unfortunate Attachment written by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published anonymously in 1773 and attributed to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, this epistolary novel explores the "unfortunate attachment" of Emma Eggerton to William Walpole. Forbidden by her father to marry the man she loves, Emma resigns herself to marrying Walpole, her father's autocratic choice of a husband. The novel's other unfortunate attachment concerns Colonel Sutton, who falls prey to the "low" machinations of the confirmed flirt Harriet Courtney. Like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Georgiana's Emma explores the dangers of first impressions and arranged marriages, but does so from the vantage point of a woman who would suffer the long-term consequences of both. Originally published when the author was only sixteen, and long out of print, Emma anticipates many of the major events of Georgiana's own life, and taken together with her second novel, The Sylph, it offers significant insights into the outlook of aristocratic women in the late eighteenth century. An Introduction by Jonathan David Gross sets the novel in the context of its time and explores the questions surrounding its authorship.
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Download or read book Memoirs of an unfortunate son of Thespis a sketch of the life of E C Everard comedian written by himself written by Edward Cape Everard and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection Books 1 13 written by Lemony Snicket and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched and will most likely fill you with deep despair. From The Bad Beginning to The End, this comprehensive collection with unfortunate bonus material that may or may not include trivia questions, character profiles, and several very sad sentences is the only choice for people who simply cannot get enough of a bad thing!
Download or read book Unfortunate Sons written by Larry Don James and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of one of the most devastating ambushes of the Vietnam War. Unfortunate Sons goes inside the killing zone of an ambush of 92 American soldiers that in just 8 minutes leaves 49 of them dead and 28 wounded. The current war in Iraq provides a compelling reason to revisit this ambush to show what war is like so that the next time Americans are called upon to decided whether to go to war, they will know what they are asking of their sons and daughters.
Download or read book The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes written by Jennifer Crusie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three magically talented Fortune sisters--Dee, a shape-shifter; Lizzie, who possesses the power to transform objects; and telekinetic Mare--find love with three seductive and unusual men, while struggling to cope with a villain who will do anything to steal their magical gifts, in a novel by three popular romance novelists.
Download or read book The Unfortunate Crack in the Universe written by Ralph Bourne and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her real name is Mariah, but she has asthma and a hoarse voice, so everyone calls her Wheezy. Wheezy is an abandoned child, left at her grandfather's trailer by parents who simply disappear one day (Wheezy thinks they were taken by aliens). When her grandfather's crop duster plane crashes (Wheezy was flying), she is sent to a care home to be under the thumb of the tyrannical Velma Bodely. Meanwhile, she attends Hope Special Day School (called "Hopeless Day" by many), because she is different. For example, she finds walking and learning difficult, she has seizures, she hears strange voices, and worse-she sometimes sees monsters no one else sees. In fact, people think she's crazy. She often thinks she is crazy too, until she realizes she is not the only person who sees what she sees. Maybe she isn't crazy? With the help of some new friends, Wheezy finds the universe has been torn, and she is one of the few who can see the result-everything is messed up. She realizes it is now up to her and her friends to save the universe. She isn't sure she is up to the task. "How can I save the universe? I'm still in bonehead math." But no matter what obstacles confront her, Wheezy Tweet will always try her best.
Download or read book The Unfortunate Englishman written by John Lawton and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British agent is drawn to Berlin’s bridge of spies in this “superlative Cold War espionage story” from the author of the acclaimed Inspector Troy Novels (The Seattle Times). It’s the summer of 1961, and the inscrutable Khrushchev is developing plans for something that could change the course of the Cold War. As he and Kennedy gamble with the fate of millions of lives, Cockney East-Ender-turned-spy Joe Wilderness is thrust into the conflict. Enlisted by MI6 to set up shop in Berlin, Wilderness returns to the city where he spent his postwar years, where a former paramour is under threat, and where the dividing line between the West and the Soviets will soon be crossed. As the Russians start building the wall, two agents find themselves trapped on opposing sides: an unfortunate Englishman in the Lubyanka in Moscow, and a KGB operative in London’s Wormwood Scrubs. Now, Wilderness has a new mission: Swap the prisoners on Berlin’s bridge of spies. But, as a former black marketer, Wilderness is also working a personal angle—just to make it interesting, just to make it profitable, just to make it a little more dangerous. What can possibly go wrong? Named by the Daily Telegraph as one of “50 Crime Writers to Read before You Die,” John Lawton is “quite possibly the best historical novelist we have” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). “[The Joe Wilderness novels] are meticulously researched, tautly plotted, historical thrillers in the mold of . . . Alan Furst, Phillip Kerr, Eric Ambler, David Downing and Joseph Kanon.” —The Wall Street Journal “Rich, inventive, surprising, informed, bawdy, cynical, heartbreaking and hilarious. However much you know about postwar Berlin, Lawton will take you deeper into its people, conflicts and courage. . . . Spy fiction at its best.” —The Washington Post
Download or read book A Day in the Life of Becky the Unfortunate written by Carrie Cobb and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shy, teenaged Becky finds life changing for the worse when a false rumor circulates throughout the school.
Download or read book The Unfortunate Lovers written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
