Author : Chelsea O'Byrne
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Limited
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 071126404X
Thomas is fed up of spending so much time with his annoying family. But after a night of particularly strong wishing, he wakes up a king and can do anything he wants! But life is not quite as he expected. If I Were King is a heartwarming story about the power of imagination and the even greater power of home.
Author : Justin Huntly McCarthy
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2004-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1421802635
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Author : Danny Abelson
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780030710872
An overworked Prince Gorg dreams of being king.
Author : Justin H. McCarthy
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
If I Were King explores the story of a real-life poet, Francois Villon, who shows impressive character development when given a chance to win his love and save France. The story starts when Villon gets himself in trouble by giving his negative opinions of the king too freely. Unfortunately, King Louis was present in the tavern in disguise, and Villon got arrested. He is made Grand Constable of France for a week as a challenge to do a better job running the kingdom. However, he would be executed after a week of service unless he succeeds in an impossible task. McCarthy maintains suspense till the end of the story keeping the readers curious about Villon and his ability to escape execution and win the woman he loves. As the main character of this historical romance is based on the real-life poet François Villon, it acts as a window to 15th century France under the rule of Louis XI during a time of tension and turmoil between King Louis and the Duke of Burgundy. The Shakespearean undertones used to present the love story of the vagabond poet makes this work a remarkable romance.
Author : Randa Handler
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 149766070X
One rainy day in the jungle, unlikely friends—Zebra, Lion, Leopard, Giraffe, Monkey, Elephant, and Chameleon—gather to lament how boring their daily activities are. Zebra, with her imagination and fun-loving nature, convinces the other animals to escape their mundane lives by pretending they are kings. Playing this game teaches them about their many differences and, more important, their own likes and dislikes. Zebra, upon discovering this information, realizes that it’s okay not to always want to play with other zebras as long as she listens to her inner voice and yields when it warns her of dangers or cautions her to maintain clear boundaries. Immediately she learns that Lion can stop being her friend when he’s angry or hungry. Along her quest, she learns about everyone’s likes and dislikes, including her own, and discovers the true meaning of friendship.
Author : Peggy Noonan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0142001686
No one has ever captured Ronald Reagan like Peggy Noonan. In When Character Was King, Noonan brings her own reflections on Reagan to bear as well as new stories—from Presidents George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, his Secret Service men and White House colleagues, his wife, his daughter Patti Davis, and his close friends—to reveal the true nature of a man even his opponents now view as a maker of big history. Marked by incisive wit and elegant prose, When Character Was King will both enlighten and move readers. It may well be the last word on Ronald Reagan, not only as a leader but as a man.
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387315368
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 034580760X
A National Book Award Finalist, a New York Times bestseller and one of the most highly-acclaimed books of the year, A Hologram for the King is a sprawling novel about the decline of American industry from one of the most important, socially-aware novelists of our time. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment--and a moving story of how we got here.
Author : Thomas King
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0887846963
Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
Author : Justin Huntly McCarthy
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 1901
Category : France
ISBN :
