Download or read book Jane Airhead written by Kay Woodward and published by Galaxy. This book was released on 2011 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte is obsessed with Jane Eyre. She dreams of living in a mansion in the Yorkshire countryside instead of attending HarrabyComp. Charlotte's love life is pretty much non-existent, So she decides to look for a Mr Rochester for her mum.
Download or read book Solace of the Road written by Siobhan Dowd and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly’s story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her. Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school, and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. She’s not Holly anymore, she’s Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the supersharp talk. She’s older, more confident—the kind of girl who can walk right out of her humdrum life, hitch to Ireland, and find her mum. The kind of girl who can face the world head-on. So begins a bittersweet and sometimes hilarious journey as Solace swaggers and Holly tiptoes across England and through memory, discovering her true self and unlocking the secrets of her past.
Download or read book Showstopper written by Lisa Fiedler and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of her sister and friend Austin, 12-year-old Anya puts together a kids' summer theater troupe, the Random Farms Kids' Theater, recruiting area kids as actors and crew members for a musical revue. Acting as director, Anya navigates the ups and downs of a showbiz life, including preparing scripts, finding a venue, and handling ticket sales, not to mention calming the actors' insecurities and settling conflicts. It's a lot of responsibility for a 12-year-old but Anya pulls it off. Book 2 opens two days later. Now after a successful first show, Anya turns her attention to the troupe's second show. But trouble rears its head almost immediately when their beloved barn venue is jeopardized. How can they put on a production without a theater? Is the second show doomed before they ever start rehearsal? This series is closely based on the real-life experience of Anya Wallach, who began a summer theater "camp" in her parents' basement when she was just sixteen years old.
Download or read book The End of the World Is Bigger than Love written by Davina Bell and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtakingly original novel about love and destruction, from an award-winning Australian children’s author.
Download or read book Vestigial Surreality Omnibus One Coincidence Episodes 1 28 written by Douglas Christian Larsen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-19 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality, what a concept. Is life a puppet show and are we nothing but puppets? A hidden world all about us, angels and demons, or is what we can touch and sense all there is? And now, the Simulation Hypothesis plagues us. Could we really be living in a computer simulation? Through the ages, the conundrum of Reality has messed with the collective consciousness of humanity. The Allegory of Plato's Cave down through the ages to The Matrix. A chance meeting in the park leads two strangers to discover strange connections between themselves and the world, and in truth both had felt that perhaps there was something not quite right with the world, something different. They have both noticed improbable coincidences popping up in their lives, at an almost alarming regularity, and now, meeting, they witness strange signs in the heavens, and find themselves on a bizarre path that will make them question their very reality, and the reality of the world about them, and the universe itself.
Download or read book Charlotte Bront written by Amber K Regis and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë’s life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Brontë’s first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts. This book brings the story of Charlotte Brontë’s legacy up to date, analysing the intriguing afterlives of characters such as Jane Eyre and Rochester in neo-Victorian fiction, cinema, television, the stage and, more recently, on the web. Taking a fresh look at 150 years of engagement with one of the best-loved novelists of the Victorian period, from obituaries to vlogs, from stage to screen, from novels to erotic makeovers, this book reveals the author’s diverse and intriguing legacy. Engagingly written and illustrated, the book will appeal to both scholars and general readers.
Download or read book Why Women Read Fiction written by Helen Taylor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how precious fiction is to contemporary British fiction readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Draws on over 500 interviews with and questionnaires from women readers and writers.
Download or read book Tale Spins Stories for the High Minded written by Will Richan and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided tour of America from coast to coast, with many stops along the way. For example, you look in on a man trying to live up to his father’s heroic image, only to find it’s based on an illusion. And meet a teacher bringing out the best in a student who has been written off by other teachers. You suddenly find yourself in the middle of a racial brouhaha and have to come to the rescue. Best part is, you can zig zag around the country at your leisure without having to worry about catching a plane.
Download or read book HALLOWEEN 2018 written by Julian Henson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're ready to start celebrating Halloween 2018 again, even though it already came, this book is for you! So get into the Halloween spirit with this Halloween joke book! Filled with hundreds of jokes for all ages, pictures, funny scenarios, tongue twisters, and more, this book is the secret to having the most unique and exciting Halloween ever: HALLOWEEN 2018! Get ready to experience Halloween like you've never experienced it before! A word of caution, though: there may be some forms of humor that catch people off guard, causing quite a fantastic shock! Before you read the adult section, even if you are an adult, make sure you can handle the shocking sense of humor that you've never heard before. If you preview the book, the pictures will appear in color, but in the actual printed book, they'll be in ghostly black and white! Halloween comes and Halloween goes... but out of this book, the fun grows!
Download or read book Vestigial Surreality Omnibus Two Saturn s Rings Episodes 29 56 written by Douglas Christian Larsen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omnibus 2: Saturn's Rings. Episodes 29-56. Reality, what a concept. Is life a puppet show and are we nothing but puppets? Could we really be living in a computer simulation? Through the ages, the conundrum of Reality has messed with the collective consciousness of humanity. The Allegory of Plato's Cave down through the ages to The Matrix. A chance meeting in the park leads two strangers to discover strange connections between themselves and the world, and in truth both had felt that perhaps there was something not quite right with the world, something different. They have both noticed improbable coincidences popping up in their lives, at an almost alarming regularity, and now, meeting, they witness strange signs in the heavens, and find themselves on a bizarre path that will make them question their very reality, and the reality of the world about them, and the universe itself. Do we live in a computer simulation?
Download or read book Wasted Thyme written by Karen C. Whalen and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice-widowed Jane Marsh ties the knot for the third time with longstanding fiancé Dale Capricorn. Jane's ready for a celebratory reception at her uber-trendy condo in downtown Denver with champagne toasts, fancy dress, and her family and dinner club friends. Everyone knows she and Dale's prettier and younger ex-wife Polly are "frenemies," but Jane starts fresh and asks Polly to cater the event. However, after the last guest leaves, Jane discovers the ex-wife dead—and Jane's the obvious suspect. If Jane doesn't find the real killer, her third marriage certainly won't be the charm.
Download or read book The President s Ladies written by Bernard F. Dick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating story of Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, and Nancy Davis
Download or read book Venom Epic Collection Symbiosis written by Danny Fingeroth and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #258, 300, 315-317, 332-333, 346-347, 388 (B story); Web of Spider-Man (1985) #1; Avengers: Deathtrap – the Vault (1991); Darkhawk (1991) #13-14; material from Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) #25-26; Web of Spider-Man Annual (1985) #7-8; Spectacular Spider-Man Annual (1979) #12. Venom goes Epic! When Spider-Man learns that his black costume is secretly an alien symbiote, he rejects the suit — and the spurned creature soon finds a new host! Disgraced reporter Eddie Brock has reasons of his own to hate Spider-Man, and together the two merge into the twisted engine of revenge known as Venom —and a rivalry for the ages begins! Venom has the same powers as Spider-Man — but he’s bigger, stronger and doesn’t trigger his spider-sense. And he knows Spidey’s secret identity! Against such a dangerous, determined and deadly foe, how far will Spider-Man have to go to survive?
Download or read book Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies written by Howard Good and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions--and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and the public alike worry that journalism has lost its way, Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies is available to provide much-needed, accessible guidance. Its twelve chapters, written by some of the nation's leading journalism scholars, explore issues that should concern anyone who aspires to a career in journalism, who works in the field, or who relies on news for daily information. Best of all, as the title suggests the contributors conduct their dynamic and engaging investigations at the movies, where sportswriters, war correspondents, investigative reporters, crime reporters, spin doctors, TV anchors, and harried city editors tackle these pressing issues. Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies isn't your typical textbook. Using popular movies from Wag the Dog to Good Night, and Good Luck to illustrate the kind of ethical dilemmas journalists encounter on the job, this student-friendly book is sure to spark interest and stimulate thinking.
Download or read book The Slings Arrows Comic Guide written by Frank Plowright and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on 2003 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews and analyses of over 5000 titles from the 1930s to date. ... Every comic of note from the past fifty years is included in this comprehensive guide to American comics. From the underground to children's comics, autobiography to fantasy.
Download or read book Primeval A Rip in Time written by none and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the thrill of the chase, the terror of the unknown, the brilliance of Cutter and his team in these fantastic novelisations from Puffin. Hugely collectable these books will be tracked down by Primeval fans.
Download or read book MARVEL Spider Man written by Matthew K. Manning and published by Becker & Mayer. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MARVEL Spider-Man: A History and Celebration of the Web-Slinger, Decade by Decade encapsulates all of the history, art, and memories of everybody’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
