The Family Tree: The Night of the Storm

The Family Tree: The Night of the Storm PDF Author: Laurie Copmann
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483445151
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Book Description
Many years ago, strong hands planted a tiny tree into the ground. Throughout the years, the tree grew and grew and became a wondrous sight. Its many branches offered shade in the summer and provided a home to birds and shelter to animals. It became known as the family tree with its branches representing each person in the family. One night a strong wind tore a branch from the family tree. The loving hands that planted the tree helped ease the feeling of loss by coming up with a creative plan for the broken branch. A picture book for all ages, The Family Tree shares an inspiring promise of hope in the aftermath of a storm.

The Family Tree: The Night of the Storm

The Family Tree: The Night of the Storm PDF Author: Laurie Copmann
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483445151
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Book Description
Many years ago, strong hands planted a tiny tree into the ground. Throughout the years, the tree grew and grew and became a wondrous sight. Its many branches offered shade in the summer and provided a home to birds and shelter to animals. It became known as the family tree with its branches representing each person in the family. One night a strong wind tore a branch from the family tree. The loving hands that planted the tree helped ease the feeling of loss by coming up with a creative plan for the broken branch. A picture book for all ages, The Family Tree shares an inspiring promise of hope in the aftermath of a storm.

Last Night When I Was Young

Last Night When I Was Young PDF Author: Geoffrey Littlefield
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839758988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Book Description
Last Night When I Was Young saw me riding thoroughbred racehorses as if I were Doug Smith and Fred Winter. In the same vein, I played football as Jimmy Greaves did for Chelsea and I was a Test Match batsman emulating the great PBH May. I hit the biggest serve as Mike Sangster in the Davis Cup, as well as bobbing and weaving in the boxing ring exactly like my favourite Dick Tiger, the world middleweight champion. I was unstoppable behind the wheel of a racing car as Britain's first world champion Mike Hawthorn but on the speedway track I rode with stylish aplomb interpreting my hero, Ronnie "Mirac" Moore. Swinging a mashie niblick as Peter Alliss was no handicap. Rugby Union at Twickenham when my body swerve was very sharp - Richard Sharp. When the Olympics came around, I ran the race of my life both over long distances and over one lap hurdles respectively as Gordon Pirie and the great David Hemery. With eyes open, I loved watching the upright Dorothy Hyman dip and throw herself over the line whilst I fell in love with Mary Rand hitch-kicking her way into Olympic history. Fantasy is then mixed with fact. The jockeys' journeys from completing exacting apprenticeships to becoming champions on the Flat and the National Hunt. Smith riding two-year-olds on the edge in the One Thousand Guineas and the Two Thousand Guineas. Whereas Winter was jumping off the edge of the world in The Grand National. The trials and tribulations with the relative success of the 1960's Chelsea football team from Drake's ducklings morphing into Docherty's uncut diamonds. A fourteen-year-old boy from New Zealand leaves home to become the first speedway superstar. The fight of the week from the USA brings us a Nigerian boxer who confounds convention and fights his way to the top of two weight divisions. A classical English batsman, an amateur as such who set records as a captain and whose impact on Test cricket is second to one. Birdies and bogeys abound, yet our golfing hero is a true British legend. 152 miles per hour as a world record was a cannonball service that belonged to a British no.1 tennis star that left us far too early. The first British world motor racing champion whose play-boy antics on and off the track caused his untimely death. A brief yet scintillating career as England's fly-half sees a jaw-dropping piece of rugby played over and over - sixty years later. The hackles on the neck rise again through an Olympic television commentary that almost matches the magnitude of the performance and the world record that was set. All are sporting yesterday's, worthy of repeat, a young boy's memory listing every feat.

Tippy's Story

Tippy's Story PDF Author: Lucy Postgate
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839756128
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Book Description
The unsung hero of the equestrian world is the riding school horse or pony. Whether you are an Olympic showjumper, a long-distance riding competitor, a horse racing jockey or a mum who plods out on a Sunday, you most likely began your career on a riding school horse. Tippy joined my riding school in 2005. This is her true story.

A Song in the Night

A Song in the Night PDF Author: Julie Maria Peace
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1781480516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Book Description
Their births separated by almost a century ... Rosie Maconochie - a young woman with a dark secret Sam - an infantryman fighting to survive on the notorious Western Front A chance discovery in an old bookshop seems, at first, quite insignificant. But when Rosie's circumstances take a sudden, terrible turn, her tenuous hold on life is shaken to its roots. Soon she begins to find her journey uncannily mirrored in a manuscript penned by an unknown soldier. Both of them struggling with the issues of mortality and meaning, both staggering helplessly towards breaking point - what awaits them as they go over the top?

He's Behind You

He's Behind You PDF Author: Jon Bradfield
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839753706
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1624

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Book Description
"Screamingly funny, utterly filthy and unexpectedly moving" – Mark Gatiss "Jon and Martin's pantomimes have huge heart. I haven't missed one for years" – Matthew Todd Above The Stag Theatre's adult pantomimes are a London institution, selling out every year. Celebrating a decade of laughter, He's Behind You! makes these acclaimed theatre scripts available for the first time, placing queer characters front and centre in popular fairytales, myths and legends. Reimagined versions of Cinderella, Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, Treasure Island, Jack and the Beanstalk and more combine wit, wonder and social satire with the best traditions of the great British panto.

Letters to X

Letters to X PDF Author: Sofia Kassidy
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1786236974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57

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Book Description
How does one move on when such high hopes are instilled in them by love? How does one cope when questions are unanswered? This book is dedicated to a beautiful young girl lost to suicide. It gives the reader a strong message that no matter how much pain one may be in, or how difficult circumstances seem, there is always a way to move on, and a beautiful bold light at the end of the road.

501

501 PDF Author: Robert Field
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 178623131X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Book Description
Every Monday the six players for the George Inn ladies dart's team meet for their league match but behind the camaraderie of the occasion each has their own story to tell.

The Story of Our Amazing Universe

The Story of Our Amazing Universe PDF Author: Athar Shareef
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839759364
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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Book Description
Our Universe is amazing. This is its story, told in simple language. The story tells how the Universe came to be what it is today. It starts with the Big Bang and describes how stars, black holes, and our solar system developed. It explores the evolution of life on Earth and investigates the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. It peers into the future and wonders about the Universe's likely old age and death, or whatever else may be its end. The challenge the book takes up is to explain all of this, including some of the astonishing concepts we have in science, such as Einstein's theories of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, using virtually no mathematics and without dumbing-down. All are described narratively and explained using examples and anecdotes. The book is written for young people with a thirst for learning about the science of space, as well as for 'grown-ups' who want a better understanding of this fascinating subject.

Brothers of Justice

Brothers of Justice PDF Author: Stewart Jeens
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1781482055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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Book Description
An uncompromising thriller set in the last decade of the 20th Century. Criminality is reaching epidemic proportions. The combination of a vociferous liberal lobby, the breakdown of family and school disciplines over three generations and a weak judicial system have produced a society living in fear. A seemingly average rape murder case sets Detective Sergeant Phil Queen on an apparently straightforward investigation, when the suspect is swiftly apprehended. For Gary Hart, the wheels of justice begin to turn. In the country at large, a series of random assaults and deaths are occurring. However, due to their sporadic nature, they merge into the general crime figures and, therefore, no connections are made...

A Kansas Adventure

A Kansas Adventure PDF Author: Jane Renfrew
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839758864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
These letters sent back home to the family in England give a vivid, detailed account of the ups and downs of setting up and running a farm on the Kansas prairie in the 1880s and 1890s. Due to a setback in the family fortunes in the Manchester cotton trade, John and Marian Whitworth made the enterprising decision to take their family of five children and emigrate to the Mid West of America. Although they were not at all experienced in farming they enjoyed the freedom and less stressed country life. Despite many difficulties including the destruction of their house by fire, they were determined to make a success of this venture, and it was personal tragedies, not external circumstances, which brought it to an abrupt end.