Author: Jacques & Lise
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782692851
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The stunningly illustrated story of a hunter who decides to change his ways after he dreams of being a cheetah One night, a hunter dreams he is a cheetah on the savannah... When he wakes up, he doesn't want to be a hunter anymore, but how can he make amends for all the hunting he has done? A gorgeously illustrated picturebook that will appeal to children and parents alike.
Victor
Author: Jacques & Lise
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782692851
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The stunningly illustrated story of a hunter who decides to change his ways after he dreams of being a cheetah One night, a hunter dreams he is a cheetah on the savannah... When he wakes up, he doesn't want to be a hunter anymore, but how can he make amends for all the hunting he has done? A gorgeously illustrated picturebook that will appeal to children and parents alike.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782692851
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The stunningly illustrated story of a hunter who decides to change his ways after he dreams of being a cheetah One night, a hunter dreams he is a cheetah on the savannah... When he wakes up, he doesn't want to be a hunter anymore, but how can he make amends for all the hunting he has done? A gorgeously illustrated picturebook that will appeal to children and parents alike.
Victor Hugo
Author: Graham Robb
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393045789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Critical biography previously unavailable documents, correspondence and journals including an encrypted private, journel to expose Hugo's private life politics and his poetry.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393045789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Critical biography previously unavailable documents, correspondence and journals including an encrypted private, journel to expose Hugo's private life politics and his poetry.
The Victor Book of the Opera
Author: Samuel Holland Rous
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Victor Lustig
Author: Christopher Sandford
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750998237
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The period after the First World War was a golden age for the confidence man. 'A new kind of entrepreneur is stirring amongst us,' The Times wrote in 1919. 'He is prone to the most detestable tactics, and is a stranger to charity and public spirit. One may nonetheless note his acuity in separating others from their money.' Enter Victor Lustig (not his real name). An Austro-Hungarian with a dark streak, by the age of 16 he had learned how to hustle at billiards and lay odds at the local racecourse. By 19 he had acquired a livid facial scar in an altercation with a jealous husband. That blemish aside, he was a man of athletic good looks, with a taste for larceny and foreign intrigue. He spoke six languages and went under nearly as many aliases in the course of a continent-hopping life that also saw him act as a double (or possibly triple) agent. Along the way, he found time to dupe an impressive variety of banks and hotels on both sides of the Atlantic; to escape from no fewer than three supposedly impregnable prisons; and to swindle Al Capone out of thousands of dollars, while living to tell the tale. Undoubtedly the greatest of his hoaxes was the sale, to a wealthy but gullible Parisian scrap-metal dealer, of the Eiffel Tower in 1925. In a narrative that thrills like a crime caper, best-selling biographer Christopher Sandford draws on newly released documents to tell the whole story of the greatest conman of the twentieth century.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750998237
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The period after the First World War was a golden age for the confidence man. 'A new kind of entrepreneur is stirring amongst us,' The Times wrote in 1919. 'He is prone to the most detestable tactics, and is a stranger to charity and public spirit. One may nonetheless note his acuity in separating others from their money.' Enter Victor Lustig (not his real name). An Austro-Hungarian with a dark streak, by the age of 16 he had learned how to hustle at billiards and lay odds at the local racecourse. By 19 he had acquired a livid facial scar in an altercation with a jealous husband. That blemish aside, he was a man of athletic good looks, with a taste for larceny and foreign intrigue. He spoke six languages and went under nearly as many aliases in the course of a continent-hopping life that also saw him act as a double (or possibly triple) agent. Along the way, he found time to dupe an impressive variety of banks and hotels on both sides of the Atlantic; to escape from no fewer than three supposedly impregnable prisons; and to swindle Al Capone out of thousands of dollars, while living to tell the tale. Undoubtedly the greatest of his hoaxes was the sale, to a wealthy but gullible Parisian scrap-metal dealer, of the Eiffel Tower in 1925. In a narrative that thrills like a crime caper, best-selling biographer Christopher Sandford draws on newly released documents to tell the whole story of the greatest conman of the twentieth century.
Victor
Author: C. L. Stone
Publisher: Arcato Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Publisher: Arcato Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
The Sleepless
Author: Victor Manibo
Publisher: Erewhon Books
ISBN: 1645660710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In a hyper-capitalist near future, a grieving journalist investigates his mentor’s death—while grappling with unintended consequences of biohacking that just might implicate him in it. A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world to permanently lose the ability to sleep—without any apparent health implications. The outbreak creates a new class of people who are both feared and ostracized, most of whom optimize their extra hours to earn more money. Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can’t sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the eve of a controversial corporate takeover, Jamie doesn’t buy the too-convenient explanation of suicide, and launches an investigation of his own. But everything goes awry when Jamie discovers that he was the last person who saw Simon alive. Not only do the police suspect him, Jamie himself has no memory of that night. Alarmingly, his memory loss may have to do with how he became Sleepless: not naturally, like other Sleepless people, but through a risky and illegal biohacking process. As Jamie delves deeper into Simon’s final days, he tangles with extremist organizations and powerful corporate interests, all while confronting past traumas and unforeseen consequences of his medical experimentation. But Jamie soon faces the most dangerous decision of all as he uncovers a terrifying truth about Sleeplessness that imperils him—and all of humanity.
Publisher: Erewhon Books
ISBN: 1645660710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In a hyper-capitalist near future, a grieving journalist investigates his mentor’s death—while grappling with unintended consequences of biohacking that just might implicate him in it. A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world to permanently lose the ability to sleep—without any apparent health implications. The outbreak creates a new class of people who are both feared and ostracized, most of whom optimize their extra hours to earn more money. Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can’t sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the eve of a controversial corporate takeover, Jamie doesn’t buy the too-convenient explanation of suicide, and launches an investigation of his own. But everything goes awry when Jamie discovers that he was the last person who saw Simon alive. Not only do the police suspect him, Jamie himself has no memory of that night. Alarmingly, his memory loss may have to do with how he became Sleepless: not naturally, like other Sleepless people, but through a risky and illegal biohacking process. As Jamie delves deeper into Simon’s final days, he tangles with extremist organizations and powerful corporate interests, all while confronting past traumas and unforeseen consequences of his medical experimentation. But Jamie soon faces the most dangerous decision of all as he uncovers a terrifying truth about Sleeplessness that imperils him—and all of humanity.
The Killer
Author: Tom Wood
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312547028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
After a routine job turns into a fight for his life, professional killer Victor races across Europe to find out who bought his services and why they now want him dead, a trip that causes him to stumble into an international conspiracy that spans four continents.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312547028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
After a routine job turns into a fight for his life, professional killer Victor races across Europe to find out who bought his services and why they now want him dead, a trip that causes him to stumble into an international conspiracy that spans four continents.
Jesus is Victor
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN: 9780800751760
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN: 9780800751760
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Victor
Author: Babette Mann Huber
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738546445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Victor tells the unique story of a historic community in the Finger Lakes region, just south of Rochester. It chronicles Victor's past as a Seneca Indian capital to the coming of Massachusetts settlers in the 18th century through to life as it was in the 20th century. With over 200 photographs, this book shows how people in rural upstate New York lived, played, studied, worked, and worshiped. The images are from the town and village archives, the Victor Historical Society, the Ontario County Historical Society, and private collections. Many are previously unpublished photographs, and several are by Fred Locke, an amateur photographer who is considered to be "the father of porcelain insulators."
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738546445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Victor tells the unique story of a historic community in the Finger Lakes region, just south of Rochester. It chronicles Victor's past as a Seneca Indian capital to the coming of Massachusetts settlers in the 18th century through to life as it was in the 20th century. With over 200 photographs, this book shows how people in rural upstate New York lived, played, studied, worked, and worshiped. The images are from the town and village archives, the Victor Historical Society, the Ontario County Historical Society, and private collections. Many are previously unpublished photographs, and several are by Fred Locke, an amateur photographer who is considered to be "the father of porcelain insulators."
Victor Feldbrill
Author: Walter Pitman
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459721551
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This is an account of the life and cultural contribution of one of Canadas most talented conductors. He was known for his limitless enthusiasm and support of Canadian music and young musicians, as well as for his insistence on playing music by Canadian composers.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459721551
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This is an account of the life and cultural contribution of one of Canadas most talented conductors. He was known for his limitless enthusiasm and support of Canadian music and young musicians, as well as for his insistence on playing music by Canadian composers.