Three Years with Thunderbolt

Three Years with Thunderbolt PDF Author: William Monckton
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Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Three Years with Thunderbolt

Three Years with Thunderbolt PDF Author: William Monckton
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Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom

Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom PDF Author: Joan Holub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442452633
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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When ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped, he discovers he can defend himself with a magical thunderbolt.

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid PDF Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767926315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s. Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American history—the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood with an old football jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers (and morons)—in his head—as "The Thunderbolt Kid." Using this persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality—a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his father, a gifted sportswriter for the local paper and dedicated practitioner of isometric exercises, and of his mother, whose job as the home furnishing editor for the same paper left her little time for practicing the domestic arts at home. The many readers of Bill Bryson’s earlier classic, A Walk in the Woods, will greet the reappearance in these pages of the immortal Stephen Katz, seen hijacking literally boxcar loads of beer. He is joined in the Bryson gallery of immortal characters by the demonically clever Willoughby brothers, who apply their scientific skills and can-do attitude to gleefully destructive ends. Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wondrous a book as Bill Bryson has ever written. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young.

The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf, the chace, and every other diversion interesting to the man of pleasure and enterprize

The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf, the chace, and every other diversion interesting to the man of pleasure and enterprize PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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The Sportsman

The Sportsman PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Sporting Magazine

Sporting Magazine PDF Author:
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Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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The English Catalogue of Books

The English Catalogue of Books PDF Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1630

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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

The Spectator

The Spectator PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1054

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Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard

Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard PDF Author: Robert W. Black
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 081174955X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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Noted Ranger historian Robert W. Black turns his attention to a trio of the Confederacy's--and America's--most infamous raiders and cavalrymen: John Singleton Mosby, John Hunt Morgan, and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Combining speed, mobility, and boldness, these three soldiers struck critical blows against the Union during the Civil War, including Morgan's notorious 1863 raid that penetrated farther north than any other uniformed Confederate force. While not overlooking their flaws, Black believes these men revolutionized warfare and sees them as forerunners of the Rangers and Special Forces of the modern era.

The Lone Hand

The Lone Hand PDF Author:
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Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 846

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