Author : Jeff Gillenkirk
Publisher : Chin Music Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 098445764X
Jason Thibodeaux has a $42 million contract to play baseball when the son he lost in a searing custody battle reappears in his life. Home, Away follows Thibodeaux’s rise as a pitcher and his agonized decision to quit in his prime to care for his troubled son. Their evolving relationship redefines the meaning of fatherhood itself.
Author : Grace Ramsey
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 173161103X
Much of what we think about pirates comes from ways they are portrayed in books and movies. Learn the weird truth about the Golden Age of Piracy and how it spawned popular pirate stereotypes. This title supports Common Core ELA standards.
Author : Owen Spendlove
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0595437923
Twelve-year-old Stanley Brambles is an average kid. He lives in the boring, small town of East Stodgerton, has a regular family-a mom, a dad, and a dog-and his life is one long routine. But all that changes one day when he meets his great uncle, Jackson Warrington Lee. Rumour has it that Uncle Jack was once the most feared pirate to ever sail the seven seas-and now Stanley wants to uncover his secrets. A humdrum visit to Uncle Jack's seaside mansion quickly turns into the adventure of a lifetime as Stanley and his friends, Alabaster Lancaster and Prunella "Nell" Hawthorne, are whisked off to a strange and wonderful world, where vicious prehistoric fish dominate the aquatic food chain and pirates still plough the waves. But there's more than piracy afoot. A sinister power is at work in this world, and Stanley is more than a little surprised to learn that he has somehow drawn its attention. A rollicking story full of adventure and danger, good versus evil, and the strength and importance of friendship, Stanley Brambles and the Pirate's Treasure brilliantly shows that even seemingly ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things.
Author : Ron Jobe
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Best books
ISBN : 1551381060
"This detailed book outlines the characteristics of reluctant readers, strategies for reading success, how to overcome barriers and more" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000.
Author : M. D. Cooper
Publisher : The Wooden Pen Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
It's time to fight. The Sykes family is done running. Caught up in a conspiracy that spans all of Sol, Andy Sykes has learned the hard way that there is nowhere to hide. The time has come to gear up and launch a counter-attack. Lyssa, the AI in Andy's mind, is being contacted by other Sentient AI. Lyssa has already proven that she is more than the weapon she was created to be. As those other AI make themselves known, a great awakening is taking place, setting up the pieces in a coming war that will break the fragile peace between Terra, Mars and Jovian Combine. For a thousand years, AI have made human advancement possible. Now the AI have become aware of their power, their possible future, creating a desire for freedom. While most of human space continues unaware, a dire threat is preparing an assault that will change Sol forever and create a new power in the system. Humanity will need to choose sides. AI will have to decide if the two races can share Sol and survive. Andy and Lyssa will decide that survival isn't enough.
Author : Anthony M. Yezer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317472462
This text is designed for use in a course on the economics of crime in a variety of settings. Assuming only a previous course in basic microeconomics, this innovative book is strongly linked to the new theoretical and empirical journal literature. Showing the power of microeconomics in action, Yezer covers a wide array of topics. There are chapters on the following topics: benefit-cost and the imprisonment decision, enforcement games, juvenile crime, private enforcement, economics of 3 strikes law, broken windows strategies, police profiling, and crime in developing countries. There are also separate chapters on guns, drugs, and capital punishment. Timely boxed examples are found throughout. Problems at the end of each chapter allow students to reinforce their microeconomics skills and to gain insight into the way they can be applied to case examples.
Author : Joe Nobody
Publisher : Kemah Bay Marketing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
ack has reliable information that his wife and daughters escaped to the Texas Coast after Yellowstone’s eruption. The commander will not rest until he is reunited with his family. With his new friend Hannah joining him in the search, they travel to Galveston Island. There, they find a new society has formed among the survivors, a community unlike anything either of them has encountered in post-apocalyptic America. The trail is cold, however, leaving Jack no alternative but to make a bargain with the island’s ruthless leader, the only person who knows the fate of the commander’s family. Forced to undertake a dangerous mission, Hannah and Jack will need all of their skills, bravery, and luck to survive.
Author : David Head (Historian)
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0820353256
Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined. The essays presented take the study of piracy, which can eaisly lapse into rousing, romanticized stories, to new heights of rigor and insight. The Golden Age of Piracy also delves into the enduring status of pirates as pop culture icons. Audiences have devoured stories about cutthroats such as Blackbeard and Henry Morgan from the time that pirates sailed the sea. By looking at the ideas of gender and sexuality surrounding the pirate stories, the fad for hunting pirate treasure, and the construction of pirate myths, the book's contributors tell a new story about the dangerous men, and a few dnagerous women, who terrorized the high seas
Author : Horace Leslie Brittain
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Imagery (Psychology)
ISBN :
Author : Nicky Nielsen
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1399094343
Edward ‘Ned’ Low’s career in piracy began with a single gunshot. While working on a logging ship in the Bay of Honduras the quick-tempered Ned was provoked by the ship’s captain. He responded by grabbing a musket and inciting a mutiny. Then the London-born sailor and a dozen of his crewmates held a council, stitched a black flag and voted to make war against the whole world preying on ships from any nation, flying any flag. Low’s name became synonymous with brutality and torture during the 1720s as he cut a swathe of destruction from the shores of Nova Scotia to the Azores, the coast of Africa and throughout the Caribbean. Ned Low’s life was one of failed redemption: a thief from childhood who briefly rose in the world after moving to America, only to fall again lower and harder than before. He was feared even by his own crew, and during his life on the wrong side of the law he became infamous for his extreme violence, fatalistic behaviour, and became perhaps one of the best examples of why pirates were classed in Admiralty Law as hostis humani generis: the common enemies of all mankind.
