Author: Janet Quin-HarkinPublisher: Minstrel
ISBN: 9780671510190
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When Emily's stepsister Sam comes for a visit, Emily and her friends find Sam an obnoxious guest.
Four's a Crowd
Author: Janet Quin-HarkinPublisher: Minstrel
ISBN: 9780671510190
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
When Emily's stepsister Sam comes for a visit, Emily and her friends find Sam an obnoxious guest.
The White Headhunter
Author: Nigel RandellPublisher: Constable
ISBN: 1472113322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Shanghaied in San Francisco in 1868, teenage Scots sailor Jack Renton then found himself on a voyage into the heart of darkness. Escaping from his floating prison in an open whaleboat, Renton drifted for 2000 miles, only to be washed up on the shores of a Pacific island shunned by 19th-century mariners, Malaita in the Solomon Islands. There he was stripped of his clothes by headhunters and forced to 'go native' to survive. Initially a slave to their chief, Kabou, he eventually became the man's most trusted warrior and adviser. Renton's own account of his eight-year exile, published after he was rescued, remains the only authenticated account of a mental and physical ordeal that still haunts the imagination to this day. It caused a sensation at the time, though it is now clear that it airbrushed out most of the key events. Researching the Renton legend, Nigel Randell spent several years talking to the Malaitans and piecing together a very different account from Renton's sanitised version. The ultimate irony is that a man so keen to conceal his 'crimes' should have bequeathed their evidence - a necklace of 60 human teeth - to a collector who donated it to a national museum.
The Crowd
Author: John PlotzPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520219171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This text sets out to demonstrate the influence of street crowds and political riots on literature in the period between 1800 and 1850. Notable works from the period are used to highlight the author's argument that crowds became a rival for the representational claims of the texts themselves.
Noses Are Red
Author: Richard ScrimgerPublisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 1770490442
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Nominated in the fiction category for the 2004/2005 Red Cedar Book Awards (British Columbia's Young Reader's Choice book award) Norbert’s back, and Alan’s got him! In the third of Richard Scrimger’s wildly popular Nose books, Alan is off on a camping trip with his good friend, Victor. Fun, right? Not if the person who is taking you camping happens to be Christopher, your mother’s new boyfriend. And not if you aren’t exactly a fan of the great outdoors, with its bugs and swamps and bears. The woods are full of dangers, and the boys seem to encounter them all in one hilarious misadventure after another. It’s up to Norbert, the alien from Jupiter, to help Alan find his way out of the forest.
Conjoined for Life: Four's a Crowd
Author: Cary BrielPublisher: Goat House Books
ISBN: 0983845808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Sheila and Sally Peidamont were sisters. Twins. But they weren't like any twins that you've ever known. Besides each girl's ownership of her own head and face, the two shared everything else on their body. They shared two arms and two legs, two hands and two feet. They even shared a single heart. So whether they took a simple walk across the street or a trip to the bathroom, they did it together. They had no choice in the matter, and each was always polite. Until, that is, the blind Stephen Hobbs entered their lives. Sheila and Sally saved the blind Stephen as he stood in a crosswalk, confused and distressed, at their school, and when they did everything changed. The prospect of sharing their body became far more complicated in light of what would have to be shared for Stephen. What ended up happening was something that could easily drive normal sisters apart. But as was obvious to anyone looking, Sheila and Sally were anything but normal.
Understanding Personality Types
Author: The Casablanca Man
Author: Dr James C RobertsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136158448
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Michael Curtiz (1888-1962) was without doubt one of the most important directors in film history, yet he has never been granted his deserved recognition and no full-scale work on him has previously been published. The Casablanca Man surveys Curtiz' unequalled mastery over a variety of genres which included biography, comedy, horror, melodrama, musicals, swashbucklers and westerns, and looks at his relationship with the Hollywood studio moguls on the basis of unprecedented archive research at Warner Brothers. Concentrating on Curtiz' best-known films - Casablanca, Angels With Dirty Faces, Mildred Pearce and Captain Blood among them - Robertson explores Curtiz' practical creative struggles and his friendships and rivalries with other film celebrities including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis and James Cagney, and his discovery of future stars. Casablanca Man is the first comprehensive critical exploration of Curtiz' entire career and, linking his European work and his subsequent American work into a coherent whole, Robertson firmly re-establishes Curtiz' true standing in the history of cinema.
The Film Weekly
Author: Four Fish
Author: Paul GreenbergPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101442298
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
“A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why.” —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish that dominate our menus: salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. Investigating the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, Greenberg reveals our damaged relationship with the ocean and its inhabitants. Just three decades ago, nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today, rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex marketplace. Four Fish offers a way for us to move toward a future in which healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.
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