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Author: Nathan Hopp
Publisher:
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781732051164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1899, Peter Gray, a young orphaned wolf is coming of age in the urban alleys of New York City. Peter's mischievous, happy-go-lucky attitude gets him in trouble between running from bullies and annoying the local baker. Peter realizes something is missing in his life. Will he accept the circumstances or run from the truth of wanting a family?
Author: B. A. Williamson
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 163163173X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Marvelous Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray is part fantasy, part dystopia, part steampunk, and all imagination as dreamer Gwendolyn evades thought police, enters a whimsical world, befriends world-jumping explorers and ragtag airship pirates, and fights the evil threatening to erase the new world she loves and her old world that never wanted her.
Author: D Skelton
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-09-14
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1780577249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Indian Peter is the remarkable story of Peter Williamson, who, in 1743 at the age of 13, was snatched from an Aberdeen quayside and transported to the burgeoning American colonies to be sold into indentured servitude. Unlike many others who found themselves in similar circumstances, Peter was fortunate to be bought by a humane man who left him money when he died, enabling him to buy his own farm after marrying. According to Peter's own account, his farm was attacked in 1754, during what became known as the French and Indian War, and he was captured by the Indians, who forced him to travel with them as a slave. After escaping, he joined the British Army to fight the French and their Indian allies but his regiment was forced to surrender and he was taken to Canada as a prisoner of war. When he was eventually freed, Peter made his way back to Scotland and tracked down the men who were behind his initial kidnapping. He accused them publicly and took them to court in a landmark case that exposed the scandal of slave trading. Once settled in Edinburgh, Peter became a publican, writer, publisher and entrepreneur. He developed Edinburgh's first Penny Post system, launched a weekly magazine and shamelessly exploited his experiences for profit. Brimming with action and adventure, Indian Peter is a true-life tale of abduction, war and courtroom drama. It is an inspiring story of courage, fortitude and one man's determination to survive against seemingly insurmountable odds.
Author: P. J. HarteNaus
Publisher:
Published: 2023-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781737445029
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First book in a four book anti-bullying series for children... "Meet Peter McDugal...Same story, same pranks but different time. Peter' and bully Frank's adventures happen in and around a one-room rock schoolhouse named Belden, tucked deep in the hills and valleys near the Mississippi River. More than a school, Belden is a friend to peter and is community through good times and bad.
Author: Thomas H. Pauly
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0252092112
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of thirty. He went on to become the most successful American author of the 1920s, a significant figure in the early development of the film industry, and a central player in the early popularity of the Western. Thomas H. Pauly's work is the first full-length biography of Grey to appear in over thirty years. Using a hitherto unknown trove of letters and journals, including never-before-seen photographs of his adventures--both natural and amorous--Zane Grey has greatly enlarged and radically altered the current understanding of the superstar author, whose fifty-seven novels and one hundred and thirty movies heavily influenced the world's perception of the Old West.
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-09-03
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 0804152608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Faulks's first novel since the extraordinary success of Birdsong is written with the same passion, power and breadth of vision. Set in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war. It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the occupying Nazi forces encroach ever closer in a tense waiting game. Charlotte Gray, a volatile but determined young woman, travels south from Edinburgh. Working in London, she has a brief but intense love affair with an RAF pilot. When his plane is lost over France, she contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and to search for him--but then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take control of her life. Faulks's novel is an examination of lost paradises, politics without belief, the limits of memory, the redemptive power of art and the existence of hope beyond reason. It is also a brilliant evocation of life in Occupied France and, more significantly, a revelation of the appalling price many Frenchmen paid to survive in unoccupied, so-called Free France. As the men, women and children of Charlotte's small town prepare to meet their terrible destiny, the truth of what took place in wartime France is finally exposed. When private lives and public events fatally collide, the roots of the characters' lives are torn up and exposed. These harrowing scenes are presented with the passion and narrative force that readers will recall from Birdsong. Charlotte Gray will attract even more readers to Faulks's remarkable fiction.
Author: Ian Nathan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-05-03
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0008192480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive history of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and lows of making the films, to fan adoration and, finally, Oscar glory.
Author: George F. Worts
Publisher: Steeger Books
Published: 2019-12
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781618274373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Peter the Brazen returns! Wireless operator Peter Moore continues his adventures in Len Yang as he battles the sinister figure of power and evil, the mysterious Gray Dragon. Written by long-time Argosy author George F. Worts under his primary pen-name, Peter the Brazen made a marked impression on Argosy reader Lester Dent when he co-created Doc Savage. The saga of Peter the Brazen is amongst the best adventure series in the history of pulp fiction.
