Download or read book The Adventures of Ranald the Rugby Player written by K. Hall and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranald Rames is eight and loves his rugby training. He is very fast and yet he is never picked for the team. He overhears Graham, the team captain, saying that he is too small. He decides to give up. Can anything or anyone persuade Ranald to follow his heart and play rugby again?
Download or read book The Doctor and the Detective written by Martin Booth and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining, smart biography of Arthur Conan Doyle presents a modern day interpretation of the man who, contrary to his best efforts, will always be known as the creator of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was, however, much more, as Booth shows us in this intriguing study of a man who thrived on the times in which he lived. While Holmes fans will be captivated by the various tidbits that offer insight into their hero's creation; others will be fascinated by this living embodiment of the Victorian masculine ideal.
Download or read book The Life of Ronald Poulton written by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ugly written by Robert Hoge and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beaut story about one very ugly kid. Robert Hoge was born with a tumour in the middle of his face, and legs that weren't much use. There wasn't another baby like him in the whole of Australia, let alone Brisbane. But the rest of his life wasn't so unusual: he had a mum and a dad, brothers and sisters, friends at school and in his street. He had childhood scrapes and days at the beach; fights with his family and trouble with his teachers. He had doctors, too: lots of doctors who, when he was still very young, removed that tumour from his face and operated on his legs, then stitched him back together. He still looked different, though. He still looked ... ugly. UGLY is the true story of how an extraordinary boy grew up to have an ordinary life, and how that became his greatest achievement of all.
Download or read book Mythmaker written by Anne E. Neimark and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Long before Harry Potter and J. K. Rowling, there were Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, and J. R. R. Tolkien . . . This will bring the creator to vivid life” (Booklist). A philologist of world renown, a professor at Oxford, and the author of academic treatises, J.R.R. Tolkien was far more than a fantasy book writer. His lifelong fascination with medieval texts and languages gave him a unique vision and endless inspiration for his tales. His broad interests made possible his creation of faery worlds and entire races of beings, as well as the languages, cultures, and characters that make his books as engaging today as they were fifty years ago. This clear and thoroughly researched biography of the creator of The Hobbit is accompanied by magical illustrations that recall the mystery of Tolkien’s imaginary worlds. “Give[s] some interesting insight into the power Tolkien’s work has had on people over the years.” —School Library Journal
Download or read book John Ronald s Dragons The Story of J R R Tolkien written by Caroline McAlister and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating picture book biography of a boy who imagined a world full of dragons and grew up to be beloved author J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ronald loved dragons. He liked to imagine dragons when he was alone, and with his friends, and especially when life got hard or sad. After his mother died and he had to live with a cold-hearted aunt, he looked for dragons. He searched for them at his boarding school. And when he fought in a Great War, he felt as if terrible, destructive dragons were everywhere. But he never actually found one, until one day, when he was a grown man but still very much a boy at heart, when he decided to create one of his own. John Ronald's Dragons, a picture book biography by Caroline McAlister and illustrated by Eliza Wheeler, introduces the beloved creator of Middle Earth and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to a new generation of children who see magic in the world around them.
Download or read book Heartland written by Joe Gorman and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 40 years, rugby league has embodied all the hopes and dreams, contradictions and tensions of life in the Sunshine State. The game speaks to Queenslanders' sense of being the underdog and the outsider &– a powerful undercurrent that sweeps through politics, business, the arts, and sport. The enduring appeal of State of Origin is that it allows Queensland to balance the scales, at least for 80 minutes.In Heartland, journalist Joe Gorman chronicles a tale of loss and rebirth &– from the decline of the Brisbane Rugby League competition and North Queensland's Foley Shield to the extraordinary rise of the Broncos and the Cowboys in the NRL. Weaving together stories of diehard supporters and game-changing players, from Arthur Beetson to Johnathan Thurston, this is a revealing account of Queensland's coming of age, both on and off the field.
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of T S Eliot Volume 9 written by T. S. Eliot and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the London wartime blackout, he travels the country, attends meetings of The Moot, delivers talks, and advises a fresh generation of writers including Cyril Connolly, Keith Douglas, Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins. Major correspondents include W. H. Auden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, Tambimuttu, Allen Tate, Michael Tippett, Charles Williams and Virginia Woolf. Four Quartets, Eliot's culminating masterpiece, is discussed in detail.
Download or read book Punch written by Henry Mayhew and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Playboys and Mayfair Men written by Angus McLaren and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking true story of a diamond theft gone wrong offers a fascinating glimpse at the cultural currents of 1930s London. In December 1937, four young men, all products of elite English schools, lured a Cartier diamond salesman to the luxurious Hyde Park Hotel. There, the “Mayfair men” brutally bludgeoned the man and made off with eight rings that today would be worth approximately half a million pounds. The press had a field day with the story, playing to the public’s insatiable appetite for news about upper-crust rowdies and their unsavory pasts. In Playboys and Mayfair Men, Angus McLaren recounts the violent robbery and sensational trial that followed. Using the case to explore the world of interwar London, he sheds light on key social issues, from masculinity and cultural decadence to broader anxieties about moral decay. In his gripping depiction of Mayfair’s celebrity high life, McLaren describes the crime in detail, as well as the police investigation, the suspects, their trial, and the aftermath of their convictions.
Download or read book London Calling written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Social History of English Rugby Union written by Tony Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of the English game, leading rugby historian Tony Collins traces the development of rugby union from its origins at Rugby School through to the modern era of professionalism and World Cup victory, and explains why the game has come to have such a profound influence on the emergent English middle class.
Download or read book Oil Brat written by Jonathan Bennett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil Brat is a coming-of-age story you probably won't want your kids to read. Join Dylan, wannabe James Bond style lover, in his raunchy romp through childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood - as he learns to survive, he sometimes gets the girl, but usually she comes with a lot more than he bargained for! An irreverent look at growing up in the dysfunctional world of international oil camps. A picaresque novel about alienation, set in an age when parents allowed kids the freedom to make their own mistakes...and Dylan Douglas is hard-wired for trouble! Oil Brat is also the story of the females that combine to make the boy a man. Dylan's loves - Genevieve, Bridget, Gabriela, Poppy, Megan...and others - each play a special role in transforming a confused three-year-old into a more arrogant, but just as confused twenty-something.
Download or read book The Musical Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New 20th century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge written by Robert G. Clouse and published by Baker Publishing Group (MI). This book was released on 1991 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Class written by Paul Fussell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.
