Author: Tom Jamieson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192769725
Category : Aztecs
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
On a school trip, Charlie suddenly travels back in time and meets the Aztecs! Can she beat them at their own game?Books with short chapters are a great way for children who are beginning to read independently to extend reading stamina and progress to the next step of their reading journey. This Read with Oxford Stage 5 book has short chapters, an engaging story and exciting colour illustrations. Tips forparents and fun after-reading activities help you to get the most out of the story.Featuring much-loved characters, great authors, engaging storylines and fun activities, Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence.Find practical advice, free eBooks and fun activities to help your child progress on a href=" https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/"oxfordowl.co.uk/a. Let's get them flying!
Charlie and the Aztecs
Author: Tom Jamieson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192769725
Category : Aztecs
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
On a school trip, Charlie suddenly travels back in time and meets the Aztecs! Can she beat them at their own game?Books with short chapters are a great way for children who are beginning to read independently to extend reading stamina and progress to the next step of their reading journey. This Read with Oxford Stage 5 book has short chapters, an engaging story and exciting colour illustrations. Tips forparents and fun after-reading activities help you to get the most out of the story.Featuring much-loved characters, great authors, engaging storylines and fun activities, Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence.Find practical advice, free eBooks and fun activities to help your child progress on a href=" https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/"oxfordowl.co.uk/a. Let's get them flying!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192769725
Category : Aztecs
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
On a school trip, Charlie suddenly travels back in time and meets the Aztecs! Can she beat them at their own game?Books with short chapters are a great way for children who are beginning to read independently to extend reading stamina and progress to the next step of their reading journey. This Read with Oxford Stage 5 book has short chapters, an engaging story and exciting colour illustrations. Tips forparents and fun after-reading activities help you to get the most out of the story.Featuring much-loved characters, great authors, engaging storylines and fun activities, Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence.Find practical advice, free eBooks and fun activities to help your child progress on a href=" https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/"oxfordowl.co.uk/a. Let's get them flying!
Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks: Oxford Level 8: Charlie and the Aztecs
Author: Tom Jamieson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198356554
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
'Story Sparks' is an emotionally engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations. These original stories will get children thinking, and develop and deepen their comprehension skills.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198356554
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
'Story Sparks' is an emotionally engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations. These original stories will get children thinking, and develop and deepen their comprehension skills.
The Promise of Happiness
Author: Justin Cartwright
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596913797
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A powerful elegy to the intimacies and idiocies of family, this is a stunning novel that transcends British and American cultures as it dissects them. Told in five voices, it's the story of an apparently ordinary family reunited by the return of its prodigal daughter.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596913797
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A powerful elegy to the intimacies and idiocies of family, this is a stunning novel that transcends British and American cultures as it dissects them. Told in five voices, it's the story of an apparently ordinary family reunited by the return of its prodigal daughter.
Beyond 101
Author: Allen Rubens
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481733575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Summertime in San Marito, California was slow as usual, and 10 year-old Charlie Taggs was bored. All he wanted was a little excitement. He got it when he walked into an antique store. What he saw was so exciting it scared the hell out of him. On the other side of town summer school was in session and the students taking Psychology 101 were thrilled they would soon be learning the dynamics of hypnosis. For some lucky students class would be fun. For others it would be deadly. A 10 year-old boy and an enigmatic professor, two different people with one common thread, take you on a journey of murder, lies, and mind-bending suspense that will leave you wondering just how safe your mind is when someone wants to take it. Full of unexpected twists and turns, Beyond 101 will introduce you to the fragmented mind of a diabolical killer you'll never forget.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481733575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Summertime in San Marito, California was slow as usual, and 10 year-old Charlie Taggs was bored. All he wanted was a little excitement. He got it when he walked into an antique store. What he saw was so exciting it scared the hell out of him. On the other side of town summer school was in session and the students taking Psychology 101 were thrilled they would soon be learning the dynamics of hypnosis. For some lucky students class would be fun. For others it would be deadly. A 10 year-old boy and an enigmatic professor, two different people with one common thread, take you on a journey of murder, lies, and mind-bending suspense that will leave you wondering just how safe your mind is when someone wants to take it. Full of unexpected twists and turns, Beyond 101 will introduce you to the fragmented mind of a diabolical killer you'll never forget.
The Blackbird That Wasn't
Author: Herman Bruebaker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524550469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
What happens when Satan decides to invade Mexicos ancient deities? This takes place during World War II, so its savageness is hidden by the political war raging across the globe. Bruce Sherman and a small band of United States Marines are thrown into the clash with Satans evils. Not only are they fighting evils in Mexico but they are also contesting Mexico City, Washingtons indifference, and Aztec deities who refuses to fight the forces trying to dominate their domains. Bruces own men often refuse to believe what they are fighting.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524550469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
What happens when Satan decides to invade Mexicos ancient deities? This takes place during World War II, so its savageness is hidden by the political war raging across the globe. Bruce Sherman and a small band of United States Marines are thrown into the clash with Satans evils. Not only are they fighting evils in Mexico but they are also contesting Mexico City, Washingtons indifference, and Aztec deities who refuses to fight the forces trying to dominate their domains. Bruces own men often refuse to believe what they are fighting.
Poor Charlie’s Almanack
Author: Charles T. Munger
Publisher: Stripe Press
ISBN: 1953953247
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
From the legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lessons in investment strategy, philanthropy, and living a rational and ethical life. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up,” Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of eleven talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between 1986 and 2007 has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to absorb the enduring wit and wisdom of one of the great minds of the 20th and 21st centuries. Edited by Peter D. Kaufman, chairman and CEO of Glenair and longtime friend of Charlie Munger—whom he calls “this generation’s answer to Benjamin Franklin”—this abridged Stripe Press edition of Poor Charlie’s Almanack features a brand-new foreword by Stripe cofounder John Collison. Poor Charlie’s Almanack draws on Munger’s encyclopedic knowledge of business, finance, history, philosophy, physics, and ethics—and more besides—to introduce the latticework of mental models that underpin his rational and rigorous approach to life, learning, and decision-making. Delivered with Munger’s characteristic sharp wit and rhetorical flair, it is an essential volume for any reader seeking to go to bed a little wiser than when they woke up.
Publisher: Stripe Press
ISBN: 1953953247
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
From the legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lessons in investment strategy, philanthropy, and living a rational and ethical life. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up,” Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of eleven talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between 1986 and 2007 has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to absorb the enduring wit and wisdom of one of the great minds of the 20th and 21st centuries. Edited by Peter D. Kaufman, chairman and CEO of Glenair and longtime friend of Charlie Munger—whom he calls “this generation’s answer to Benjamin Franklin”—this abridged Stripe Press edition of Poor Charlie’s Almanack features a brand-new foreword by Stripe cofounder John Collison. Poor Charlie’s Almanack draws on Munger’s encyclopedic knowledge of business, finance, history, philosophy, physics, and ethics—and more besides—to introduce the latticework of mental models that underpin his rational and rigorous approach to life, learning, and decision-making. Delivered with Munger’s characteristic sharp wit and rhetorical flair, it is an essential volume for any reader seeking to go to bed a little wiser than when they woke up.
Glutch and the Triple Stuff
Author: Dick Browning
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132979690X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Twelve year old Charlie Dumont fits the description of Savant. Gifted with special mental abilities and a drive to make a difference in this world, Charlie has come up with a new fuel, Triple Stuff to power our cars and airplanes Cursed with a life situation where he has lost his parents and is pursued by some very bad people, Charlie teams up with an ex-navy helicopter pilot and a hard drinking ex-navy chief to prove the advantages of Triple Stuff by flying around the world in a beat up old helicopter, the Glutch They are challenged by the most modern, state of the art helicopter, piloted ba a lady who is determined to prove to the world that women can out-do men at anything. It is a race to circle the globe. The first to fly under the arch at St Louis wins.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132979690X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Twelve year old Charlie Dumont fits the description of Savant. Gifted with special mental abilities and a drive to make a difference in this world, Charlie has come up with a new fuel, Triple Stuff to power our cars and airplanes Cursed with a life situation where he has lost his parents and is pursued by some very bad people, Charlie teams up with an ex-navy helicopter pilot and a hard drinking ex-navy chief to prove the advantages of Triple Stuff by flying around the world in a beat up old helicopter, the Glutch They are challenged by the most modern, state of the art helicopter, piloted ba a lady who is determined to prove to the world that women can out-do men at anything. It is a race to circle the globe. The first to fly under the arch at St Louis wins.
Playing for Uncle Sam
Author: David Tossell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 178057472X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A coach transported to the field in a hearse as he played dead. An English manager taken at gunpoint to an Argentinian jail after trying to sign that country's World Cup captain. The hero of 1966 who talked his team out of going on strike on the eve of a title decider. All are part of the British professionals' story of life in the North American Soccer League (NASL) in the 1970s and early '80s, when star turn and unsung journeyman alike had the chance to play alongside Pelé, Cruyff, Beckenbauer and Eusebio in the greatest galaxy of world stars ever assembled in one league. Playing for Uncle Sam recalls the British players and coaches who were part of an organisation that changed the face of football with its shoot-outs, offside rule and wacky marketing methods. It began with Stoke City and Wolverhampton Wanderers spending a bizarre summer posing as the Cleveland Stokers and Los Angeles Wolves in 1967. The late '70s saw the NASL, run by a former Welsh international, reach its peak, drawing crowds of 70,000 and featuring names like Banks, Moore, Hurst and Ball. Rodney Marsh pitched his tent in America by declaring famously that English football had become a grey game, while George Best used the NASL as an escape from the fishbowl of his life in Britain. Typically, the pair delighted and exasperated teammates and coaches in equal measure. Through approximately 60 interviews with members of the British contingent who accepted the offer of the Yankee dollar, Playing for Uncle Sam recalls one of the most fascinating episodes in football history: the remarkable rise and chaotic collapse of the NASL.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 178057472X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A coach transported to the field in a hearse as he played dead. An English manager taken at gunpoint to an Argentinian jail after trying to sign that country's World Cup captain. The hero of 1966 who talked his team out of going on strike on the eve of a title decider. All are part of the British professionals' story of life in the North American Soccer League (NASL) in the 1970s and early '80s, when star turn and unsung journeyman alike had the chance to play alongside Pelé, Cruyff, Beckenbauer and Eusebio in the greatest galaxy of world stars ever assembled in one league. Playing for Uncle Sam recalls the British players and coaches who were part of an organisation that changed the face of football with its shoot-outs, offside rule and wacky marketing methods. It began with Stoke City and Wolverhampton Wanderers spending a bizarre summer posing as the Cleveland Stokers and Los Angeles Wolves in 1967. The late '70s saw the NASL, run by a former Welsh international, reach its peak, drawing crowds of 70,000 and featuring names like Banks, Moore, Hurst and Ball. Rodney Marsh pitched his tent in America by declaring famously that English football had become a grey game, while George Best used the NASL as an escape from the fishbowl of his life in Britain. Typically, the pair delighted and exasperated teammates and coaches in equal measure. Through approximately 60 interviews with members of the British contingent who accepted the offer of the Yankee dollar, Playing for Uncle Sam recalls one of the most fascinating episodes in football history: the remarkable rise and chaotic collapse of the NASL.
The House of Great Spirit
Author: Tom Foran Clark
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 151440172X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The locales of these stories range from California and Utah to Massachusetts and Vermont. The characters seek a paradise of one kind or another but have to make do with the world such as it is -- and all attendant twists and turns. Had this book a motto, it would be, Dont let the bastards grind you down. In The House of Great Spirit, the title story in this collection, the narrator lives in a small room in a big three-story red brick boarding house in Salt Lake City where the live-in-manager was Jon Severs. Already, only in his mid-twenties, lanky Severs had found his calling. It was his job to scold the tenants at Jack Mead's house in Mead's stead to bawl them out. On rent day he went room to room to collect money. If you didn't pay at once, he screwed his face up in a look of almost crushing contempt. Though there are also incidences of grace, courage, and joy along the way, things generally go from bad to worse. They say its always good to touch bottom, in order to start over again. A female narrator once married to the character Eben Anders, admits there were times I wished we'd never met. When we did first meet, I fell for him. She tells the story of how, as a younger man, Eben had found a treasure not only of money, but also of revelations. Finding himself in the role of prophet, Eben was denounced as a madman, liar, scoundrel, false prophet, and the rest. He'd be accused of witchcraft, wizardry, demonism, and Freemasonry, with a mind to eventual world subjugation. He'd even be called the living Anti-Christ. Dont kill the messenger, is all Eben would ever say to all of that. They say you cant win for losing. His ex-wife, having divorced Eben and renounced Ebenism, is now accused of destroying uncounted sacred privileges and worlds and futures. Shes having none of that. In With a View to The Sea, librarian Lars Donnelly tells the story of his voyage from his west coast roots to his marriage and years of parenting in the east. Lars had explained it to his wife, "I don't want my kids to be asking me in future years, 'What did you do in the Internet Revolution, daddy?' and have to tell them that I'd just played it safe. He proposes going, with his teenage son Sean, to an important conference, eBooks and Libraries, taking place in southern California, right on the oceanfront. They reached the convention center around half past eight, giving them plenty of time to take advantage of the free Continental Breakfast while hobnobbing, or not, with the growing throngs of librarians, library trustees, heads of library Friends groups, chief executive officers, directors of operations, product managers, senior and junior business development managers, senior and junior systems analysts, and a broad swath of consultants, hackers, geeks, and gawkers. And maybe a ghost from the past. They say what goes around comes around, but what could possibly go wrong?
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 151440172X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The locales of these stories range from California and Utah to Massachusetts and Vermont. The characters seek a paradise of one kind or another but have to make do with the world such as it is -- and all attendant twists and turns. Had this book a motto, it would be, Dont let the bastards grind you down. In The House of Great Spirit, the title story in this collection, the narrator lives in a small room in a big three-story red brick boarding house in Salt Lake City where the live-in-manager was Jon Severs. Already, only in his mid-twenties, lanky Severs had found his calling. It was his job to scold the tenants at Jack Mead's house in Mead's stead to bawl them out. On rent day he went room to room to collect money. If you didn't pay at once, he screwed his face up in a look of almost crushing contempt. Though there are also incidences of grace, courage, and joy along the way, things generally go from bad to worse. They say its always good to touch bottom, in order to start over again. A female narrator once married to the character Eben Anders, admits there were times I wished we'd never met. When we did first meet, I fell for him. She tells the story of how, as a younger man, Eben had found a treasure not only of money, but also of revelations. Finding himself in the role of prophet, Eben was denounced as a madman, liar, scoundrel, false prophet, and the rest. He'd be accused of witchcraft, wizardry, demonism, and Freemasonry, with a mind to eventual world subjugation. He'd even be called the living Anti-Christ. Dont kill the messenger, is all Eben would ever say to all of that. They say you cant win for losing. His ex-wife, having divorced Eben and renounced Ebenism, is now accused of destroying uncounted sacred privileges and worlds and futures. Shes having none of that. In With a View to The Sea, librarian Lars Donnelly tells the story of his voyage from his west coast roots to his marriage and years of parenting in the east. Lars had explained it to his wife, "I don't want my kids to be asking me in future years, 'What did you do in the Internet Revolution, daddy?' and have to tell them that I'd just played it safe. He proposes going, with his teenage son Sean, to an important conference, eBooks and Libraries, taking place in southern California, right on the oceanfront. They reached the convention center around half past eight, giving them plenty of time to take advantage of the free Continental Breakfast while hobnobbing, or not, with the growing throngs of librarians, library trustees, heads of library Friends groups, chief executive officers, directors of operations, product managers, senior and junior business development managers, senior and junior systems analysts, and a broad swath of consultants, hackers, geeks, and gawkers. And maybe a ghost from the past. They say what goes around comes around, but what could possibly go wrong?
At the Actor's Boarding House
Author: Helen Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description