Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749748159
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Harry Hawkins doesn't like his new step-father Bill Wesley, nor his bossy step grandmother, who constantly finds fault with him. His mother seems to have forgotten his father, a pilot who died in the war, in her new marriage and new baby. Being bullied at school, picked on by teachers, Harry just feels he has no place to go. The day he finds Ocky, an escaped chimpanzee from the circus he decides to look after her in his secret den on the bombsite, glad to have a friend at last. But an unexploded bomb is discovered, and with it, Harry's den and his hiding place for Ocky. Harry trusts Father Murphy with his secret, but Father Murphy passes on the information to the other adults, and Harry and Ocky are forced to run. After a roadside adventure with gypsies, Harry makes his way with Ocky to Aunty Ivy, the owner of a sea-side boarding house where he had his last holiday, where he last felt happy. Ivy too betrays him, calling his parents and the police, who catch up with Harry. To escape their pursuers, Ocky jumps off the pier, and Harry after her, and as Bill jumps in after his step-son, Harry realises how much he's cared for. owner needs her more than he realised - he's a blind clown called Mr Nobody, who can only do his act with Ocky as his eyes.
Mr Nobody's Eyes
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1780311583
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Mr Nobody’s Eyes is a compelling animal story from Britain’s best-loved children’s author, Michael Morpurgo.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1780311583
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Mr Nobody’s Eyes is a compelling animal story from Britain’s best-loved children’s author, Michael Morpurgo.
Mr. Nobody
Author: Catherine Steadman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593159489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
He wants to remember. She needs to forget. . . . Memento meets Sharp Objects in a gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water and The Disappearing Act. “Twisty . . . highly imaginative . . . deliciously provocative.”—The Washington Post Who is Mr. Nobody? When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him, to international medical experts who are baffled by him, to the national press who call him Mr. Nobody, everyone wants answers. Who is this man? And what happened to him? Some memories are best forgotten. Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Emma Lewis is asked to assess the patient in a small town deep in the English countryside. This is her field of expertise, this is the chance she’s been waiting for, and this case could make her name known across the world. But therein lies the danger. Emma left this same town fourteen years ago and has taken great pains to cover all traces of her past since then. Places aren't haunted . . . people are. But now something—or someone—is calling her back. And the more time she spends with her patient, the more alarmed she becomes that he knows the one thing about her that nobody is supposed to know.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593159489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
He wants to remember. She needs to forget. . . . Memento meets Sharp Objects in a gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water and The Disappearing Act. “Twisty . . . highly imaginative . . . deliciously provocative.”—The Washington Post Who is Mr. Nobody? When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him, to international medical experts who are baffled by him, to the national press who call him Mr. Nobody, everyone wants answers. Who is this man? And what happened to him? Some memories are best forgotten. Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Emma Lewis is asked to assess the patient in a small town deep in the English countryside. This is her field of expertise, this is the chance she’s been waiting for, and this case could make her name known across the world. But therein lies the danger. Emma left this same town fourteen years ago and has taken great pains to cover all traces of her past since then. Places aren't haunted . . . people are. But now something—or someone—is calling her back. And the more time she spends with her patient, the more alarmed she becomes that he knows the one thing about her that nobody is supposed to know.
Mr Nobody's Eyes
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780008640927
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A tale of fun and friendship from former Children's Laureate and author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo. Harry heard the key turn in the lock. He had already made up his mind to run. Harry is in trouble at school, and doesn't like his stepfather or the new baby. Then he befriends Ocky, a chimpanzee from the circus. Ocky's owner won't mind if Harry borrows her for a bit, will he? But then Harry's stepfather and the police find out. Harry and the chimp are soon on the run! A gripping and poignant animal adventure from the master storyteller of An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Shadow, and An Elephant in the Garden. Michael Morpurgo has written more than a hundred books and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780008640927
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A tale of fun and friendship from former Children's Laureate and author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo. Harry heard the key turn in the lock. He had already made up his mind to run. Harry is in trouble at school, and doesn't like his stepfather or the new baby. Then he befriends Ocky, a chimpanzee from the circus. Ocky's owner won't mind if Harry borrows her for a bit, will he? But then Harry's stepfather and the police find out. Harry and the chimp are soon on the run! A gripping and poignant animal adventure from the master storyteller of An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Shadow, and An Elephant in the Garden. Michael Morpurgo has written more than a hundred books and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times.
Mr Nobody's Eyes
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749748159
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Harry Hawkins doesn't like his new step-father Bill Wesley, nor his bossy step grandmother, who constantly finds fault with him. His mother seems to have forgotten his father, a pilot who died in the war, in her new marriage and new baby. Being bullied at school, picked on by teachers, Harry just feels he has no place to go. The day he finds Ocky, an escaped chimpanzee from the circus he decides to look after her in his secret den on the bombsite, glad to have a friend at last. But an unexploded bomb is discovered, and with it, Harry's den and his hiding place for Ocky. Harry trusts Father Murphy with his secret, but Father Murphy passes on the information to the other adults, and Harry and Ocky are forced to run. After a roadside adventure with gypsies, Harry makes his way with Ocky to Aunty Ivy, the owner of a sea-side boarding house where he had his last holiday, where he last felt happy. Ivy too betrays him, calling his parents and the police, who catch up with Harry. To escape their pursuers, Ocky jumps off the pier, and Harry after her, and as Bill jumps in after his step-son, Harry realises how much he's cared for. owner needs her more than he realised - he's a blind clown called Mr Nobody, who can only do his act with Ocky as his eyes.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749748159
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Harry Hawkins doesn't like his new step-father Bill Wesley, nor his bossy step grandmother, who constantly finds fault with him. His mother seems to have forgotten his father, a pilot who died in the war, in her new marriage and new baby. Being bullied at school, picked on by teachers, Harry just feels he has no place to go. The day he finds Ocky, an escaped chimpanzee from the circus he decides to look after her in his secret den on the bombsite, glad to have a friend at last. But an unexploded bomb is discovered, and with it, Harry's den and his hiding place for Ocky. Harry trusts Father Murphy with his secret, but Father Murphy passes on the information to the other adults, and Harry and Ocky are forced to run. After a roadside adventure with gypsies, Harry makes his way with Ocky to Aunty Ivy, the owner of a sea-side boarding house where he had his last holiday, where he last felt happy. Ivy too betrays him, calling his parents and the police, who catch up with Harry. To escape their pursuers, Ocky jumps off the pier, and Harry after her, and as Bill jumps in after his step-son, Harry realises how much he's cared for. owner needs her more than he realised - he's a blind clown called Mr Nobody, who can only do his act with Ocky as his eyes.
Tourniquet
Author: John Vanderhoef
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595278566
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Your father's murdered in his office, a girl has been kidnapped, her voice box removed, drowning every time you're forced to complete another job for her psychotic abductors, or she's starving, her soulless captors refusing to feed her, she's shivering in a freezer somewhere, left to congeal, or she's burning in a tin box, under the sun, boiling like a skinned chicken, trapped and waiting, always waiting. Her life is perpetually at stake. She's incentive; she's a reason to obey. She's not even human anymore. She's a breathing obligation. She's your best friend's sister and you think you love her, but you don't understand the word love, because all you can feel, all you can sense, is antipathy lingering around your lifeless, yet animated cadaver, a slave to misanthropists, a confused fragile frame, caught between conflicting philosophies of freedom and despair. She's lost her liberty, you've lost your mind, and her brother, your best friend, has lost his ability to rationalize. Tourniquet, a morbid love story of freewill, responsibility, suffering, and anguish, a world where nothing matters, a world where everything is at stake, a hopeless, desolate world where everybody's missing something, and human tenderness festers on the crushed wings of houseflies.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595278566
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Your father's murdered in his office, a girl has been kidnapped, her voice box removed, drowning every time you're forced to complete another job for her psychotic abductors, or she's starving, her soulless captors refusing to feed her, she's shivering in a freezer somewhere, left to congeal, or she's burning in a tin box, under the sun, boiling like a skinned chicken, trapped and waiting, always waiting. Her life is perpetually at stake. She's incentive; she's a reason to obey. She's not even human anymore. She's a breathing obligation. She's your best friend's sister and you think you love her, but you don't understand the word love, because all you can feel, all you can sense, is antipathy lingering around your lifeless, yet animated cadaver, a slave to misanthropists, a confused fragile frame, caught between conflicting philosophies of freedom and despair. She's lost her liberty, you've lost your mind, and her brother, your best friend, has lost his ability to rationalize. Tourniquet, a morbid love story of freewill, responsibility, suffering, and anguish, a world where nothing matters, a world where everything is at stake, a hopeless, desolate world where everybody's missing something, and human tenderness festers on the crushed wings of houseflies.
Nobody's Secret
Author: Michaela MacColl
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452108609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
When 15-year-old Emily Dickinson meets a charming, enigmatic young man who playfully refuses to tell her his name, she is intriguedNso when he is found dead in her family's pond in Amherst she is determined to discover his secret, no matter how dangerous it may prove to be.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452108609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
When 15-year-old Emily Dickinson meets a charming, enigmatic young man who playfully refuses to tell her his name, she is intriguedNso when he is found dead in her family's pond in Amherst she is determined to discover his secret, no matter how dangerous it may prove to be.
Spying in High Heels
Author: Gemma Halliday
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
ISBN: 0984857400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
L.A. shoe designer, Maddie Springer, lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfriend disappears - along with $20 million in embezzled funds - and her every move is suddenly under scrutiny by the LAPD's sexiest cop. With the help of her post-menopausal bridezilla of a mother, a 300 pound psychic and one seriously oversexed best friend, Maddie finds herself stepping out of her stilettos and onto the trail of a murderer. But can she catch a killer before the killer catches up to her.
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
ISBN: 0984857400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
L.A. shoe designer, Maddie Springer, lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfriend disappears - along with $20 million in embezzled funds - and her every move is suddenly under scrutiny by the LAPD's sexiest cop. With the help of her post-menopausal bridezilla of a mother, a 300 pound psychic and one seriously oversexed best friend, Maddie finds herself stepping out of her stilettos and onto the trail of a murderer. But can she catch a killer before the killer catches up to her.
The Nobody
Author: Diane Farr
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101572906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
“Diane Farr strikes all the romantic chords” (The Romance Reader) in this award-winning Signet Regency Romance classic, available digitally for the first time! Publicly humiliated by a society snob, Caitlin Campbell flees unescorted into the London streets. When a stranger kisses her to cause a distraction and evade a gang of scoundrels, she’s aghast at his audacity. Then she discovers his identity as the dashing nobleman engaged to the very woman who insulted her! Now she finds herself drawn into a web of dangerous romantic intrigue, in which the only way out is to trust her heart.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101572906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
“Diane Farr strikes all the romantic chords” (The Romance Reader) in this award-winning Signet Regency Romance classic, available digitally for the first time! Publicly humiliated by a society snob, Caitlin Campbell flees unescorted into the London streets. When a stranger kisses her to cause a distraction and evade a gang of scoundrels, she’s aghast at his audacity. Then she discovers his identity as the dashing nobleman engaged to the very woman who insulted her! Now she finds herself drawn into a web of dangerous romantic intrigue, in which the only way out is to trust her heart.
Mr. Nobody
Author: Michael J. & Mary Ellen Rasmussen
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 161346133X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Born in rural Wisconsin on a dairy farm, Michael Rasmussen learned the importance of working hard at an early age. He was one of twelve children and was responsible for chores that contributed to the family's livelihood. Living in a small town didn't stop Michael from dreaming of a life on the road, traveling and seeing all the wonders of the world. When Michael dreamed of seeing the world, he hadn't envisioned seeing it while fighting in a war. However, in 1968, he enlisted in the army during the Vietnam War. Michael found himself a driver in convoys, stationed in Long Binh, Vietnam. Instead of sights full of wonder, Michael, or 'Raz' as his army buddies knew him, saw destruction in his three tours served. Michael watched countless friends killed in convoy attacks and came very near death himself. Once he returned from the war, Michael was not the same. His home did not feel like home anymore, and it certainly wasn't a welcome homecoming. Fueled by his wanderlust, Michael became a trucker. He fell in love with the business, but the life of a trucker didn't always cater to families especially when dealing with demons of the past. After three broken marriages, Michael married the love of his life, Mary Ellen. Together, they faced one of the most difficult obstacles of Michael's life: multiple myeloma, an incurable bone marrow cancer. Thirty years after leaving Vietnam, Michael faced the consequences of Agent Orange. Michael's story is one of strength, a story of encouragement to beat seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Discover that Michael isn't just a Mr. Nobody, and learn your own lessons from his stories of hard knocks.
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 161346133X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Born in rural Wisconsin on a dairy farm, Michael Rasmussen learned the importance of working hard at an early age. He was one of twelve children and was responsible for chores that contributed to the family's livelihood. Living in a small town didn't stop Michael from dreaming of a life on the road, traveling and seeing all the wonders of the world. When Michael dreamed of seeing the world, he hadn't envisioned seeing it while fighting in a war. However, in 1968, he enlisted in the army during the Vietnam War. Michael found himself a driver in convoys, stationed in Long Binh, Vietnam. Instead of sights full of wonder, Michael, or 'Raz' as his army buddies knew him, saw destruction in his three tours served. Michael watched countless friends killed in convoy attacks and came very near death himself. Once he returned from the war, Michael was not the same. His home did not feel like home anymore, and it certainly wasn't a welcome homecoming. Fueled by his wanderlust, Michael became a trucker. He fell in love with the business, but the life of a trucker didn't always cater to families especially when dealing with demons of the past. After three broken marriages, Michael married the love of his life, Mary Ellen. Together, they faced one of the most difficult obstacles of Michael's life: multiple myeloma, an incurable bone marrow cancer. Thirty years after leaving Vietnam, Michael faced the consequences of Agent Orange. Michael's story is one of strength, a story of encouragement to beat seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Discover that Michael isn't just a Mr. Nobody, and learn your own lessons from his stories of hard knocks.
Out of the Ashes
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447227794
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This story is not a story at all. It all happened. On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary. By March, her world has changed for ever. Foot-and-mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morleys' Devon home, but soon the nightmare is a few fields away. Local sheep are infected and every animal is destroyed. Will the Morleys' flock be next? Will their pedigree dairy herd, the sows with their piglets, and Little Josh, Becky's hand-reared lamb, survive? Or will they be slaughtered too? The waiting and hoping is the most agonizing experience of Becky's life . . .
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447227794
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This story is not a story at all. It all happened. On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary. By March, her world has changed for ever. Foot-and-mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morleys' Devon home, but soon the nightmare is a few fields away. Local sheep are infected and every animal is destroyed. Will the Morleys' flock be next? Will their pedigree dairy herd, the sows with their piglets, and Little Josh, Becky's hand-reared lamb, survive? Or will they be slaughtered too? The waiting and hoping is the most agonizing experience of Becky's life . . .