Author: Paul J. Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781865045665
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 121
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Fiction for young readers and first in a series featuring characters Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid. No sooner is Billy named the Umbrella Kid, than super villain Dr Daffodil threatens the Metropolis of Maxburg with flesh-eating fungi, deadly carrot spears, kamikaze fruit, and his Bellicose Banana Beast. Can Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid save the citizens of Maxburg? Includes illustrations and cut-out Captain Cat mask. Other titles in the series include 'Revenge of the Refrigerators' and 'Cards of Chaos'.
Author: Paul Shaw
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499004222
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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THE GREED OF GOLDFEVER: Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid go for gold!! From a strawberry farm infested with North American Apache Attack snails; to hanging from a zeppelin high above Maxburg City; to a tropical isle guarded by Giant Robot Crabs, the Tremendous Two have no time to catch their breaths, let alone hold them. Someone’s made all the gold in the Lockstock Stockade Gold Depository smell Absolutely Stinky. But is this only the First Step in a pongy plot to plunder the gold vaults? Who can be behind it? Sultry saboteur Dinah Myte? Evil mad scientist Dr von Feendkraven? Surely it can’t be Eddie Goldfever the world famous rock star? Join the Captain and the Kid as they tackle head-on the all-consuming Greed of Goldfever! THE SARDINES OF SUSPICION: Captain Cat’s penthouse HQ is flooded and pumped full of piranha!! A seemingly unprovoked attack by gross gangster Fish-Face. But this is only a pulse-pounding prelude. Greater perils await...Beneath the dark, placid waters of the Squidd Sardine Farm something stirs. An enormous sardine-guzzling sea-serpent! But surely such things don’t exist? Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid investigate *and discover Mystery upon Mystery. Who is the sinister man in black weaving a Tibetan ghost-trap around the lake? Who is the face-swapping traitor behind all the sabotage at the Sardine Farm? Diving-bells are attacked, Ye Olde Country Tea-Roomes are machine-gunned, and assorted heroes are sucked up by giant vacuum-cleaners before one thing is finally made clear: the Sardines of Suspicion cast their sinister shadow over everyone, and No One Can Be Trusted * not even Captain Cat!
Author: Paul J. Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781865045672
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Fiction for young readers in a series featuring characters Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid. In the height of summer, the Massive Metropolis of Maxburg has been plunged into a winter wasteland by an invasion force of refrigerators under the control of the villain Snowman. Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid must combat vampire penguins, robotic polar bears, and freezing phalanxes of fridges. Includes illustrations and cut-out Captain Cat mask. Other titles in the series include 'Fruit of Fury' and 'Cards of Chaos'.
Author: Paul Shaw
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 150350610X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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2 Excitement-packed Escapades!! FEAR CAN BE FATAL: Beware the moor at night when the moon is high, the shadows long and the pub’s closed – that’s when the Phantom Fiery Giraffe haunts the land! The sinister Snakecharmer strikes – leaving the Umbrella Kid stricken with a slight case of Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). He is packed off to the exclusive mountain-top Phobia Clinic of famous Doctor Balthazar Batkiss, where he discovers all manner of mystery: mountainside ghost-train rides, an exiled dictator laden with the stolen Crown Jewels of Qvania, not to mention a Giant Brain throbbing away in the basement! Meanwhile, Captain Cat is up to his wire whiskers in even more mystery: why have all the workers at a fly-spray factory been replaced with gangsters armed with tubas and trombones? Why is an African witchdoctor dancing out on the moors in the dead of night? And just why are all the locals so afraid of the eerie Phantom Fiery Giraffe? Before this Harrowing Adventure is over, Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid will learn that Fear Can Be Fatal! THE AUNT FROM THE BLOOD LAGOON: Acid peach-bombs pelt Captain Cat’s penthouse HQ, an unprovoked attack by perfidious gangster The Peach! A berserk robot postman batters at the front door! A giant gorilla kidnaps Aunt Titania! What does it all mean? The trail leads Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid to murky Blood Lagoon – and the Horrors stirring within the submerged, seemingly long-abandoned Tix Top Toaster factory... Sinister sextuplets, the Tix Brothers, are hatching an Insane Plot: to appropriate (ie steal) the amazing Captain Cat Crime Catalogue Computer! To achieve this goal, they unleash the Greatest Horror to Ever Walk the Earth – an army of android aunts, marching up out of Blood Lagoon and invading Maxburg City. Will Captain Cat be able to put a spanner in their works? Will the Umbrella Kid, cornered by bossy aunts, finally be forced to tidy his room – or will he have to take the only means of escape: leaping out of the window of the thirteenth tallest building in the world? The Aunt From the Blood Lagoon – Captain Cat and the Umbrella Kid’s Most Awesome, Epic Adventure ever!!
Author: Paul J. Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781865045696
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Novel for primary school age readers. The fourth title in a series about Captain Cat and his sidekick the Umbrella Kid. In this instalment, super villain Dr Daffodil joins forces with The Peach, who plans to steal a peach topaz with the aid of Dr Daffodil's hybrid plants.
Author: Paul Fussell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671792253
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.
Author: Sid Fleischman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060521228
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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A Prince and a Pauper Jemmy, once a poor boy living on the streets, now lives in a castle. As the whipping boy, he bears the punishment when Prince Brat misbehaves, for it is forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. The two boys have nothing in common and even less reason to like one another. But when they find themselves taken hostage after running away, they are left with no choice but to trust each other.
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061804819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Author: Alan Gratz
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545880874
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Alan Gratz tells the timely--and timeless--story of three different kids seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning, this highly acclaimed novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers' lives with its meaningful takes on survival, courage, and the quest for home.
Author: Tim O'Brien
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547420293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Look for O’Brien’s new book, American Fantastica, on sale October 24th A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
