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Book When the Siren Wailed

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  • Author : Noel Streatfeild
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

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Book When the siren wailed

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  • Author : Noel Streatfeild
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book When the siren wailed written by Noel Streatfeild and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When the siren wailed

Download or read book When the siren wailed written by Crystal Elizabeth Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When the Siren Wailed

Download or read book When the Siren Wailed written by Noel Streatfeild and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suddenly there were no secrets anymore. Everyone knew there was going to be a war, which meant that all children in danger areas like London were to be sent to the country. Then on Friday 1st September 1939, it happened. As war was about to be declared, Laura, Andy and Tim Clark with their name and address pinned to them, joined the straggling procession of evacuees to the station. Operation Pied Piper was under way.

Book When the Sirens Wailed

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  • Author : Noel Streatfeild
  • Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 1976-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780394931470
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book When the Sirens Wailed written by Noel Streatfeild and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than stay with a new family, three young evacuees try to return to their home in London after their country host dies suddenly.

Book Reading Sounds

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  • Author : Sean Zdenek
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-12-23
  • ISBN : 022631278X
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Reading Sounds written by Sean Zdenek and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of writing closed captions for television and DVD is not simply transcribing dialogue, as one might assume at first, but consists largely of making rhetorical choices. For Sean Zdenek, when captioners describe a sound they are interpreting and creating contexts, they are assigning significance, they are creating meaning that doesn t necessarily exist in the soundtrack or the script. And in nine chapters he analyzes the numerous complex rhetorical choices captioners make, from abbreviating dialogue so it will fit on the screen and keep pace with the editing, to whether and how to describe background sounds, accents, or slurred speech, to nonlinguistic forms of sound communication such as sighing, screaming, or laughing, to describing music, captioned silences (as when a continuous noise suddenly stops), and sarcasm, surprise, and other forms of meaning associated with vocal tone. Throughout, he also looks at closed captioning style manuals and draws on interviews with professional captioners and hearing-impaired viewers. Threading through all this is the novel argument that closed captions can be viewed as texts worthy of rhetorical analysis and that this analysis can lead the entertainment industry to better standards and practices for closed captioning, thereby better serve the needs of hearing-impaired viewers. The author also looks ahead to the work yet to be done in bringing better captioning practices to videos on the Internet, where captioning can take on additional functions such as enhancing searchability. While scholarly work has been done on captioning from a legal perspective, from a historical perspective, and from a technical perspective, no one has ever done what Zdenek does here, and the original analytical models he offers are richly interdisciplinary, drawing on work from the fields of technical communication, rhetoric, media studies, and disability studies."

Book Suddenly  as the Result of an Accident

Download or read book Suddenly as the Result of an Accident written by Edward D. Hill and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What We Knew

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  • Author : Barbara Stewart
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2015-07-14
  • ISBN : 1466867140
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book What We Knew written by Barbara Stewart and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I was little, I imagined a monster: Scaly hands. Pits for eyes..." When Tracy and her best friend, Lisa, were kids, stories about a man-a creep who exposes himself to little girls-kept them out of the woods and in their own backyards. But Tracy and Lisa aren't so little anymore, and the man in the woods is nothing but a silly story. Right? But someone is in the woods. Someone is watching. And he knows all their secrets, secrets they can't tell anyone-not even each other. "Monsters don't exist." Lisa's just being paranoid. At least that's what Tracy thinks. But when a disturbing "gift" confirms her worst fears, it sets the girls on a dangerous journey that takes them beyond the edge of the woods. They swiftly learn however that reality is more terrifying than the most chilling myth, and what they find will test the bonds of friendship, loyalty, and love. "Once upon a time, two girls were lost in the woods." In Barbara's Stewart's What We Knew, Tracy and Lisa can't destroy the evil they'll face, but can they stop it from destroying each other?

Book Step by Step

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  • Author : Virginia Russell
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 1996-03-16
  • ISBN : 1459717252
  • Pages : 115 pages

Download or read book Step by Step written by Virginia Russell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-03-16 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an icy evening in December, Kimberley Jamieson's world is shattered by a careless drunk driver who skids into her mother's car. In the three months since the accident, Kim has turned away from her old pursuits — she quit swimming, then the orchestra, and now she's even skipping school. Kim's father is no help either; a policeman constantly on call, he cannot spare a moment to listen. The road to recovery seems endless. Slowly, Kim does get back in step with the help of her friends. Mike, a gangly sleuth for the local paper is hot on the trail of a breaking story involving a runaway boy, a scoop which even makes the pages of the Vancouver Sun! Even Sylvia, a friend of her mother's recently returned to Ladner, draws Kim out of her own world and helps her to heal. Slowly ... step by step ... Kim finds that life can go on, that she can revisit the local sites she shared with her mother — the dike paths along the river and the Reifel bird sanctuary.

Book Talking about Motion

Download or read book Talking about Motion written by Luna Filipovi? and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy’s typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that affect habitual presence or absence of information in motion expressions crosslinguistically as well as “pattern clashing” in translation. This fresh look at issues regarding linguistic typology, lexical and construction meaning and spatio-temporal construals in language and experience results in a more finely grained classification of verbalized motion events. The study offers an eclectic overview of different theoretical approaches and insists on theoretically unbiased set of tools and principles that can be used in studies of any cognitive domain in any language. It provides an in-depth discussion of current issues in cognitive linguistics in particular and suggests systematic implementation of the research findings in applied and interdisciplinary studies of language.

Book In The Air Tonight

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  • Author : Lori Handeland
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
  • Release : 2015-06-02
  • ISBN : 1250019745
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book In The Air Tonight written by Lori Handeland and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four centuries ago, in a small Scottish village, three baby girls escaped the wrath of a witch hunter. Today, one young woman will learn about her secret history, her heart's destiny, and the sisters she never knew she had... With her blue-black hair and dark eyes, Raye Larsen has never fit in with the Scandinavian community of New Bergin, Wisconsin. Being adopted is part of the reason she feels like an outsider, but what really sets Raye apart is her ability to see dead people. Everywhere. She's learned to keep her visions to herself...until she stumbles onto the ghost of a murder victim who needs Raye's help. Enter Bobby Doucet, a distractingly handsome homicide detective who has been tracking a killer all the way from New Orleans. Could this be the break in his case he's been looking for all along? Meanwhile, the deeper Raye gets involved with the case-and with Bobby-the closer she comes to unlocking the mystery of her own origins. What she discovers about herself could destroy everything she knows...and everyone she loves. Is finding the truth worth the risk? Filled with dark magic, dazzling romance, and dire suspense, In the Air Tonight is the first book in a thrilling new series by New York Times bestselling author Lori Handeland.

Book Brandishing a Crown

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  • Author : Rita Herron
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2011-01-01
  • ISBN : 1426879660
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Brandishing a Crown written by Rita Herron and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He'd come to Wyoming on business, but the moment Prince Stefan Lutece met the beautiful forensics expert, all he could think about was pleasure. Unfortunately, Jane Cameron had a job to do—one that involved missing evidence and possibly murder—and she wasn't falling for Stefan's royal charms. But everything changed when Jane became the target of her own investigation and Stefan, with his military training and commanding presence, her self-imposed guardian. Protecting her 24/7 guaranteed Jane's survival…and stirred up the attraction practically burning between them. Stefan guaranteed he'd keep Jane out of the line of fire—but not out of his big, lonely bed.

Book Free Fall

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  • Author : Catherine Mann
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2013-03-05
  • ISBN : 1402274971
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Free Fall written by Catherine Mann and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Catherine Mann writes an amazing combination of keen suspense, unique characters, and heart-stopping romance. I'm a fan!"—Lori Foster, New York Times bestselling author of Savor the Danger On This Mission, There Are No Accidents... Pararescueman Jose "Cuervo" James is the guy they call for the most dangerous assignments. He lives for his job. On a high-risk rescue deep in the African jungle, Jose encounters sexy, smart Interpol agent Stella Carson. They'd once had an affair that burned hot and fast, but family is everything to Stella, and Jose just can't go there. Fate has thrown them into the deadly hot zone together, and sparks will fly...but only if they can live to tell about it. Praise for Under Fire: "A thrilling ride that will have readers hanging on the edge of their seats."—RT Book Reviews Top Pick of the Month, 4 1⁄2 Stars "Mann once again gives the reader a spellbinding story with special super heroes."—Long and Short Reviews

Book Rebel  Bully  Geek  Pariah

Download or read book Rebel Bully Geek Pariah written by Erin Jade Lange and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Breakfast Club meets Breaking Bad in a high-octane story about four very different teens and the night that will change their lives forever.

Book Smoke Filled Rooms

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  • Author : Kris Nelscott
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2002-06-17
  • ISBN : 9780312982904
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Smoke Filled Rooms written by Kris Nelscott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to "A Dangerous Road, " P.I. Smokey Dalton escapes Memphis with 10-year-old Jimmy, a witness to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Their new beginning in Chicago is shattered by the events leading up to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Smokey does all he can to protect Jimmy from the police--and the rogue FBI agent Smokey feels is following them. Martin's Press. (June)

Book The Maggie Hope Series 5 Book Bundle

Download or read book The Maggie Hope Series 5 Book Bundle written by Susan Elia MacNeal and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 1715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd will feast on this riveting series chronicling Britain’s own ‘Greatest Generation,’” raves Julia Spencer-Fleming. “You’ll be [Maggie Hope’s] loyal subject, ready to follow her wherever she goes,” predicts O: The Oprah Magazine. With a seamless blend of mystery, real-life historical figures, and World War II drama, this award-winning, New York Times bestselling series features a whip-smart secretary who defies expectations to become England’s most daring spy. Now her first five adventures are collected in one thrilling ebook bundle: MR. CHURCHILL’S SECRETARY PRINCESS ELIZABETH’S SPY HIS MAJESTY’S HOPE THE PRIME MINISTER’S SECRET AGENT MRS. ROOSEVELT’S CONFIDANTE Also includes a preview of Susan Elia MacNeal’s next Maggie Hope novel, The Queen’s Accomplice! London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. Her indefatigable spirit and remarkable gifts for code breaking, though, rival those of even the highest men in government, and Maggie finds that working for the prime minister affords her a level of clearance she could never have imagined—and opportunities she will not let pass. In troubled, deadly times, with air-raid sirens sending multitudes underground, access to the War Rooms also exposes Maggie to the machinations of a menacing faction determined to do whatever it takes to change the course of history. Praise for the Maggie Hope series “Delightful may seem a strange word to describe a novel that takes place against the backdrop of the bombings of London during World War II, but it’s appropriate for this debut novel. . . . As sweet as it is intriguing.”—USA Today, on Mr. Churchill’s Secretary “A captivating, post-feminist picture of England during its finest hour.”—The Denver Post, on Mr. Churchill’s Secretary “With false starts, double agents, and red herrings . . . MacNeal provides a vivid view of life both above and below stairs at Windsor Castle.”—Publishers Weekly, on Princess Elizabeth’s Spy “A heart-pounding novel peopled with fully drawn real and fictional characters . . . provides the thrills that readers have come to expect from MacNeal.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch, on His Majesty’s Hope “A treat for WWII buffs and mystery lovers alike.”—Booklist, on The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent “MacNeal paints an engrossing portrait of a country on the verge of war, with many laws suspended and prejudice rife—a world not that much different from today.”—Kirkus Reviews, on Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante

Book Grave Cold

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shannon Knight
  • Publisher : Winter Moon Press
  • Release : 2023-05-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Grave Cold written by Shannon Knight and published by Winter Moon Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyle doesn’t want to be there. But something is very wrong in the District of Portland, and the cold call of death forces his arrival. If he can’t lay the dead fast enough, his long life, begun in Anglo-Saxon England, will end. Portland’s electronic walls do more than keep the mutants out. The government is using them to block Nyle and his kind, the ravens, who roam the world, freeing the dead from their bodies where they remain trapped till a raven’s arrival. Cait, a Portlander working as a beautician, has her own troubles, dodging the GM (genetic modification) police and struggling with rent. But the dead are invading her dreams. Nyle tells Cait that she’s not genetically modified. She’s a necromancer. In the District of Portland, the dead are being trapped indefinitely and used as energy sources. Nyle and Cait must stop the technology from spreading before the abuse of the dead becomes a worldwide menace and they themselves end up on a laboratory table or trapped in a machine. Grave Cold is a biopunk novel about the value of life and the power of taking a stand in a grim near-future world of exploitation and authoritarianism.