Author: J.B. Morrison
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1743537999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Frank Derrick is eighty-two. He lives with his cat, Bill, in a cluttered flat in the typically English seaside town of Fullwind-on-Sea. Every morning Frank is wakened by aeroplanes passing overhead on the way to far more exciting destinations, leaving him behind to spend another day searching for giraffe figurines in the charity shop to add to what was already Britain's 'fourth largest mantelpiece zoo'. When Frank receives a telephone call from his daughter Beth informing him that her life is falling apart on the other side of the Atlantic, Frank is determined to go to her rescue. After and an unexpected and timely change in fortune he buys a plane ticket and leaves the monotony of his life behind to visit his beloved family in America. Deftly navigating the obstacle course provided by airport security checks and suitcases on wheels, and after surviving his first long-distance flight, Frank arrives in LA dressed in an appropriately bright tourist shirt, ready to embrace everything Hollywood has to offer. This is his opportunity for the holiday of a life time. While taking in the sights, Frank joins forces with his feisty granddaughter Laura and together they begin work on The Reunion Project in an attempt to bring some happiness back into Beth's life. This is THE book that you'll want to pack in your suitcase this year. Filled with moments of great sadness, joy and humour Frank Derrick's Holiday of A Life Time reminds us all to make the most of every day and to appreciate those closest to us.
Frank Derrick's Holiday of A Lifetime: Frank Derrick Book 2
Author: J.B. Morrison
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1743537999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Frank Derrick is eighty-two. He lives with his cat, Bill, in a cluttered flat in the typically English seaside town of Fullwind-on-Sea. Every morning Frank is wakened by aeroplanes passing overhead on the way to far more exciting destinations, leaving him behind to spend another day searching for giraffe figurines in the charity shop to add to what was already Britain's 'fourth largest mantelpiece zoo'. When Frank receives a telephone call from his daughter Beth informing him that her life is falling apart on the other side of the Atlantic, Frank is determined to go to her rescue. After and an unexpected and timely change in fortune he buys a plane ticket and leaves the monotony of his life behind to visit his beloved family in America. Deftly navigating the obstacle course provided by airport security checks and suitcases on wheels, and after surviving his first long-distance flight, Frank arrives in LA dressed in an appropriately bright tourist shirt, ready to embrace everything Hollywood has to offer. This is his opportunity for the holiday of a life time. While taking in the sights, Frank joins forces with his feisty granddaughter Laura and together they begin work on The Reunion Project in an attempt to bring some happiness back into Beth's life. This is THE book that you'll want to pack in your suitcase this year. Filled with moments of great sadness, joy and humour Frank Derrick's Holiday of A Life Time reminds us all to make the most of every day and to appreciate those closest to us.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1743537999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Frank Derrick is eighty-two. He lives with his cat, Bill, in a cluttered flat in the typically English seaside town of Fullwind-on-Sea. Every morning Frank is wakened by aeroplanes passing overhead on the way to far more exciting destinations, leaving him behind to spend another day searching for giraffe figurines in the charity shop to add to what was already Britain's 'fourth largest mantelpiece zoo'. When Frank receives a telephone call from his daughter Beth informing him that her life is falling apart on the other side of the Atlantic, Frank is determined to go to her rescue. After and an unexpected and timely change in fortune he buys a plane ticket and leaves the monotony of his life behind to visit his beloved family in America. Deftly navigating the obstacle course provided by airport security checks and suitcases on wheels, and after surviving his first long-distance flight, Frank arrives in LA dressed in an appropriately bright tourist shirt, ready to embrace everything Hollywood has to offer. This is his opportunity for the holiday of a life time. While taking in the sights, Frank joins forces with his feisty granddaughter Laura and together they begin work on The Reunion Project in an attempt to bring some happiness back into Beth's life. This is THE book that you'll want to pack in your suitcase this year. Filled with moments of great sadness, joy and humour Frank Derrick's Holiday of A Life Time reminds us all to make the most of every day and to appreciate those closest to us.
The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81
Author: J. B. Morrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781471281792
Category : Accident victims
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Frank Derrick is 81 ... and he's just been run over by a milk float. It was tough enough to fill the hours of the day when he was active, but now he's broken his arm and fractured his foot, it looks set to be a very long few weeks ahead. He watches DVDs, spends his money frivolously at the local charity shop and desperately tries to avoid the cold callers knocking on his door. Emailing his daughter in America on the library computer and visiting his friend Smelly John used to be the highlights of his week. Now he can't even do that. Then a breath of fresh air comes into his life in the form of Kelly Christmas, home help. With her little blue car and appalling parking, her cheerful resilience and ability to laugh at his jokes, Kelly changes Frank's life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781471281792
Category : Accident victims
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Frank Derrick is 81 ... and he's just been run over by a milk float. It was tough enough to fill the hours of the day when he was active, but now he's broken his arm and fractured his foot, it looks set to be a very long few weeks ahead. He watches DVDs, spends his money frivolously at the local charity shop and desperately tries to avoid the cold callers knocking on his door. Emailing his daughter in America on the library computer and visiting his friend Smelly John used to be the highlights of his week. Now he can't even do that. Then a breath of fresh air comes into his life in the form of Kelly Christmas, home help. With her little blue car and appalling parking, her cheerful resilience and ability to laugh at his jokes, Kelly changes Frank's life.
God's Gold
Author: John T. Flynn
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164113
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164113
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Bulk Carrier Practice
Author: Jack Isbester
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781915488008
Category : Bulk carrier cargo ships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides comprehensive, practical guidance on every aspect of bulk carrier operations. It takes the reader through a typical voyage – from paperwork, hold preparation and loading to cargo care on the voyage and discharging. Carriage of both typical and unusual cargoes is detailed. An important new section highlights the dangers of liquefaction and dynamic separation. The various vessel types are described, along with their construction, maintenance, equipment, Rossand safety considerations, with particular attention paid to hatch covers, stability and trim.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781915488008
Category : Bulk carrier cargo ships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides comprehensive, practical guidance on every aspect of bulk carrier operations. It takes the reader through a typical voyage – from paperwork, hold preparation and loading to cargo care on the voyage and discharging. Carriage of both typical and unusual cargoes is detailed. An important new section highlights the dangers of liquefaction and dynamic separation. The various vessel types are described, along with their construction, maintenance, equipment, Rossand safety considerations, with particular attention paid to hatch covers, stability and trim.
Crude Existence
Author: Kristin Reed
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520258223
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520258223
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.
Historic Beaumont
Author: Ellen Walker Rienstra
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1893619281
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
An illustrated history of Beaumont, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1893619281
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
An illustrated history of Beaumont, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography
Author: Ida M. Tarbell
Publisher: Ravenio Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This autobiography of the great female journalist and muckraker Ida M. Tarbell includes the following chapters: 1. My Start in Life 2. I Decide to Be a Biologist 3. A Coeducational College of the Eighties 4. A Start and a Retreat 5. A Fresh Start—A Second Retreat 6. I Fall in Love 7. A First Book—On Nothing Certain a Year 8. The Napoleon Movement of the Nineties 9. Good-Bye to France 10. Rediscovering My Country 11. A Captain of Industry Seeks My Acquaintance 12. Muckraker or Historian? 13. Off With the Old—On With the New 14. The Golden Rule in Industry 15. A New Profession 16. Women and War 17. After the Armistice 18. Gambling With Security 19. Looking Over the Country 20. Nothing New Under the Sun
Publisher: Ravenio Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This autobiography of the great female journalist and muckraker Ida M. Tarbell includes the following chapters: 1. My Start in Life 2. I Decide to Be a Biologist 3. A Coeducational College of the Eighties 4. A Start and a Retreat 5. A Fresh Start—A Second Retreat 6. I Fall in Love 7. A First Book—On Nothing Certain a Year 8. The Napoleon Movement of the Nineties 9. Good-Bye to France 10. Rediscovering My Country 11. A Captain of Industry Seeks My Acquaintance 12. Muckraker or Historian? 13. Off With the Old—On With the New 14. The Golden Rule in Industry 15. A New Profession 16. Women and War 17. After the Armistice 18. Gambling With Security 19. Looking Over the Country 20. Nothing New Under the Sun
Lethal Passage
Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679759271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. "Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." --San Diego Union-Tribune "One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years." --Washington Post Book World It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another. In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679759271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. "Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." --San Diego Union-Tribune "One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years." --Washington Post Book World It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another. In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.
From Pole to Pole
Author: Sven Hedin
Publisher: Pentagon Press
ISBN: 9788186505441
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher: Pentagon Press
ISBN: 9788186505441
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Boys' Ambition
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Mark Twain relates the boyhood experiences on the Mississippi that led to his ambition to be a river-boat pilot.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Mark Twain relates the boyhood experiences on the Mississippi that led to his ambition to be a river-boat pilot.