Download or read book A Wild Ride Through The Night written by Walter Moers and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using twenty-one drawings from the work of Gustave Dor-, the most successful illustrator of the 19th century, Walter Moers has created a wondrous and utterly delightful tale. In a world between legend and dream, in a time between childhood and adulthood, A Wild Ride Through the Night describes the exhilarating and comic adventures of 12-year-old Gustave, a boy who aspires one day to be a great artist. But before he can achieve this, Gustave must first tackle Mysterious Giants and a Siamese Twins Tornado; he also finds himself encountering the Greatest Monster of All, freeing a maiden from the claws of a dragon, riding through a forest full of ghosts, navigating a Galactic Gully and meeting a dream princess, a talking horse, scantily-clad Amazons and even his own self. Having made a wager with death for nothing less than his life and his soul, he must travel from the earth to the moon and back in a single night.
Download or read book A Wild Ride Through the Night written by Walter Moers and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young adventurer embarks on a surreal quest to escape the clutches of Death in this tale inspired by—and featuring—beautiful woodcuts by Gustave Doré. In a world between legend and dream, A Wild Ride Through the Night describes the exhilarating and comic adventures of its twelve-year-old protagonist Gustave, a boy who aspires one day to be a great artist. When a disaster at sea puts Gustave in the uncompromising hands of Death, he has the choice to give up the ghost or take on a series of six impossible tasks. Gustave embarks on a strange and perilous journey during which he must save a princess from an angry dragon, pull a tooth from the Most Monstrous of All Monsters, fly over the moon, and even, somehow, meet his own self. Armed only with the power of his imagination, Gustave must save himself from a terrible fate.
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Download or read book Wild Ride written by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Ride is ... [an] investigation of the fast-track, multibillion-dollar thoroughbred industry racing what the New York Yankees are to baseball- a sporty dynasty. From Library Journal.
Download or read book Wild Ride to Heaven written by Leander Watts and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something strange is out in the woods. Something Hannah has never seen before. Good or evil, she can"t tell. But she knows she must go out and meet it.Hannah lives in the lonely frontier backwoods. Her mother has abandoned her for reasons she can only guess. And her father spends all his time hunting for some mythical treasure she knows he"ll never find. So for food and shelter and the warmth of a fire, Hannah must do all the work.Then her father sells her to be a house servant and she is sent away. For a whole year she"s condemned to work like a slave for the brutal, cruel Barrow brothers.There, in the dead of night, she sees a strange white figure. And she begins a curious friendship and starts her adventure of escape, discovery, and reclaiming what is rightfully hers.
Download or read book Stanley s Wild Ride written by Linda Bailey and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley discovers a way out of his yard and five other dogs join him in a night out, ending with a wild ride.
Download or read book Martina the Beautiful Cockroach written by Carmen Agra Deedy and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful Martina Josefina Catalina Cucaracha doesn't know coffee beans about love and marriage, so when suitors come calling, what is she to do? Luckily, she has her Cuban family to help! While some of the Cucarachas offer Martina gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her some useful advice: spill coffee on his shoes to see how he handles anger. At first, Martina is skeptical of her Abuela's suggestion, but when suitor after suitor fails the Coffee Test, she wonders if a little green cockroach can ever find true love. After reading this award-winning retelling of the Cuban folktale, readers will never look at a cockroach the same way again. Carmen Agra Deedy delivers a delightfully inventive Cuban twist on the beloved Martina folktale, complete with a dash of café Cubano.
Download or read book Wild Ride written by Kim Loraine and published by Kim Loraine LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas… Unless that includes waking up married, tattooed, and in bed with a reality TV star. Marrying the woman of my dreams shouldn’t be an issue, right? But it's a huge problem since my wife belongs on the other side of the long-running feud between the Ryker and the Wilde families. Yes, TV viewers around the world, I'm Sutton Wilde and my new bride is none other than Sera Ryker. Oops. The easy solution is to get a quickie divorce and move on...until the video of our wedding pops up all over social media the next day. Time for plan B -- stay married for thirty days to satisfy her TV contract and prevent a PR nightmare. Trouble is, I’ve carried a torch for Sera Ryker for a long time, and she doesn't want to have anything to do with me. Guess that means I have thirty days to make my wife fall in love with me. Game on.
Download or read book Lady Katherne s Wild Ride written by Jeane Westin and published by Signet. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For years, Lady Katherne Lindsay's uncle has denied her noble heritage and treated her like a servant. But the night she foils his lecherous plan to steal her virtue, she becomes a suspected murderess with a bounty on her head. To avoid hanging from the king's gallows, she is forced to take shelter with a dashing actor and play along as his leading lady, despite the constant threat of capture."--Publisher
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