Author : Caroline Jayne Church
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0007519877
The first book in a great new series all about Ruff. Meet Ruff the dog and his friends, and join in all their adventures!
Author : Kate Dopirak
Publisher : Beach Lane Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534424970
A busy boy and his dog learn to slow down and enjoy life together in this lyrical, rhyming picture book perfect for hurried families everywhere. For one busy boy, life is all hurry up, hurry down, hurry round and round and round! That is until he takes a big breath...and a big break...and slows down to see all the wonderful things in the world around him. From celebrated picture book creators Kate Dopirak and Christopher Silas Neal, this playful yet powerful picture book reminds us to be present, to be mindful, and to appreciate each moment.
Author : Matt Ruff
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802193625
From the author of Lovecraft Country: Myth and reality collide on a college campus “in a comic fantasy of wonderful energy, invention, and generosity of spirit” (Alison Lurie). Stephen Titus George is a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University in upstate New York. A bestselling author in search of a new story, he sees his life as a modern-day fairy tale starring himself as a would-be knight trying to woo a lovely maiden—or, actually, two: the bewitching Calliope and his guiding light, Aurora Borealis Smith. But he’s not quite in control of the narrative. There’s another writer with even greater influence on campus. The unseen Mr. Sunshine is an eternal, semi-retired deity who’s been fashioning his own story for centuries. He has all his characters in place: dragons, sprites, gnomes, and villains. And now, finally, his hero. As Mr. Sunshine’s world comes to fabulous and violent life, how can Stephen decide his own fate if it’s already being plotted by a god? An epic of life and death, good and evil, love and sorcery, Fool on the Hill lands Matt Ruff happily on the shelf between Tom Robbins and J. R. R. Tolkien for every lover of the “funky and fantastical” (New York magazine). “Inspired . . . rich in flavorful language . . . [a] dazzling tour de force.” —San Francisco Chronicle “The plot comes together like a brilliant clockwork toy.” —Locus
Author : Susan Garrett
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 9781892694065
A handbook for the Ruff Love dog training program developed by "pre-eminent canine sports instructor and competitor," Susan Garrett. Includes quick reference charts.
Author : Robert W. Chambers
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734029902
Reproduction of the original: Athalie by Robert W. Chambers
Author : Sara Lövestam
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1952535913
A feel-good story of an unconventional friendship between an old retired jazz musician and a young girl who is trying to find her place in the world. What can a bullied teenager learn from an old man spending his days in a retirement home? For a start, she'll learn that it ain't got a thing, if it ain't got that swing... Passing by a retirement home on her way from yet another awful day at school, she hears a familiar song playing through an open window. An old man is playing her musical idol Povel Ramel - a quirky jazz musician from the 1940s - and it sparks a new stage of her life. The man's name is Alvar and just like Steffi, he has a huge interest in music. Before long he starts telling her his story. In his youth, as the Second World War tore across Europe, he travelled to Stockholm. Young, innocent and quite naive, Alvar began his life in the big city, struggling to become a famous jazz musician. Or at least someone who was in a band. Or at the very least someone who could dance the jitterbug and talk to girls. Intrigued and inspired by Alvar's story, Steffi spends more and more time at the retirement home, learning about jazz and forgetting about school. She begins to realize that she doesn't have to be the Steffi other people know; instead, as Alvar did, she can recreate herself through music.
Author : Rhys A. Jones
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Haunted houses
ISBN : 9781937053741
A young boy discovers a secret about the house he and his mother inherited from his father, and must work against a ruthless businessman to protect it.
Author : Anne Marie Ruff
Publisher :
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983249801
Praise for Through These Veins With a cinematic sweep, "Through These Veins" has a colorful, broad, beautiful feel to it with characters that come so alive I can see them. - Lisa Napoli, author of "Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth" Enthralling. "Through These Veins" doesn't just call plants by their names; it sings their praises. There is no better case for conservation than this vivid account of how our wellbeing is so intertwined with the secret lives of plants. - Calestous Juma, Director, of Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and former Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity A real pleasure. Very dramatic with a wide range of vivid descriptions and an important reminder of the relationship between science and nature. - Warren Olney, Host of Public Radio International's To The Point Summary In the coffee-growing highlands of Ethiopia, an Italian scientist on a plant collecting expedition discovers a local medicine man dispensing an apparent cure for AIDS. As the medicine man's teenage daughter reveals the plants behind the cure, their lives become irrevocably intertwined. Through These Veins weaves together the dramatically different worlds of traditional healing, U.S. government funded AIDS research, and the pharmaceutical industry in an intensely personal, fast-paced tale of scientific intrigue and love, with both devastating and hopeful effect. "All profits from the sale of this book will be distributed to the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines of Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders and the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation in Ethiopia."
Author : Heidi Lang
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1683354052
A girl learns how to walk dogs—and walk tall—in this charming, coming-of-age novel Twelve-year-old Jessie is in for a long, lonely summer at her aunt and uncle’s house. Her uncle is clueless, her aunt is downright frosty, and worst of all, her cousin Ann thinks Jessie isn’t cool enough to hang out with anymore. But Jessie is industrious, and—not content with being ignored all summer—she convinces Wes, a grouchy neighborhood dog walker, to take her on as his apprentice. Sure, dog walking turns out to be harder than she expected, but she has Wes’s dog-walking code, the Rules of the Ruff, to guide her, and soon, she’s wrangling her very own pack like the best of them. But when Monique, a charming rival dog walker, moves to town, she quickly snatches up most of Wes’s business—and Jessie decides she isn’t going to take this defeat with her tail between her legs.
Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 18177 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This unique and meticulously edited collection of E. Phillips Oppenheim's greatest works includes:_x000D_ NOVELS_x000D_ The Great Impersonation_x000D_ The Double Traitor_x000D_ The Battle Of Basinghall Street_x000D_ Murder At Monte Carlo_x000D_ The Yellow House_x000D_ The Black Box_x000D_ The Devil's Paw_x000D_ A Maker Of History_x000D_ The New Tenant_x000D_ Mr. Grex Of Monte Carlo_x000D_ A Monk Of Cruta_x000D_ The Cinema Murder_x000D_ A Modern Prometheus_x000D_ Exit A Dictator_x000D_ The Yellow Crayon_x000D_ The Wrath To Come_x000D_ The Grassleyes Mystery_x000D_ The Golden Beast_x000D_ The Dumb Gods Speak_x000D_ The Peer And The Woman_x000D_ To Win The Love He Sought_x000D_ False Evidence_x000D_ Master Of Sinister House_x000D_ Mr. Marx's Secret_x000D_ The Great Secret_x000D_ The Man Who Changed His Plea_x000D_ The Double Life Of Mr Alfred Burton _x000D_ The Amazing Judgment_x000D_ The Postmaster Of Market Deignton_x000D_ Mysterious Mr. Sabin_x000D_ A Millionaire Of Yesterday_x000D_ The World's Great Snare_x000D_ Enoch Strone_x000D_ The Great Awakening_x000D_ The Survivor_x000D_ The Traitors_x000D_ A Prince Of Sinners_x000D_ Anna The Adventuress_x000D_ The Master Mummer_x000D_ The Betrayal_x000D_ The Malefactor_x000D_ A Lost Leader . . ._x000D_ SHORT STORIES & COLLECTIONS_x000D_ Peter Ruff And The Double Four_x000D_ Michael's Evil Deeds_x000D_ The Tiger On The Mountains_x000D_ The Seven Conundrums_x000D_ False Gods_x000D_ The Money-Spider_x000D_ The Girl From Manchester_x000D_ The Road To Liberty_x000D_ One Luckless Hour_x000D_ One Shall Be Taken_x000D_ No Questions Asked_x000D_ The Actor's Romance_x000D_ A Prince Of Gamblers_x000D_ The Siren Of The Madrid_x000D_ And Still I Cheat The Gallows_x000D_ The Little Grey Lady_x000D_ The Restless Traveller_x000D_ The Café Régal, The Mistral And The Lady_x000D_ The Three Thieves_x000D_ General Besserley's Puzzle Box_x000D_ The Amazing Partnership_x000D_ The Human Chase_x000D_ Nicholas Goade, Detective . . ._x000D_ REMINISCENCES & MEMOIRS_x000D_ The Prince Of Storytellers Tells His Own Story_x000D_ ..._x000D_ E. Phillips Oppenheim, the Prince of Storytellers (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.
