A Wild Ride Through The Night

Author : Walter Moers
Publisher : Random House
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448138197

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A Wild Ride Through The Night by Walter Moers Pdf

Using twenty-one drawings from the work of Gustave Dor-, the most successful illustrator of the 19th century, Walter Moers has created a wondrous and utterly delightful tale. In a world between legend and dream, in a time between childhood and adulthood, A Wild Ride Through the Night describes the exhilarating and comic adventures of 12-year-old Gustave, a boy who aspires one day to be a great artist. But before he can achieve this, Gustave must first tackle Mysterious Giants and a Siamese Twins Tornado; he also finds himself encountering the Greatest Monster of All, freeing a maiden from the claws of a dragon, riding through a forest full of ghosts, navigating a Galactic Gully and meeting a dream princess, a talking horse, scantily-clad Amazons and even his own self. Having made a wager with death for nothing less than his life and his soul, he must travel from the earth to the moon and back in a single night.

Author : Linda Bailey
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781553379607

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Stanley's Wild Ride by Linda Bailey Pdf

Stanley discovers a way out of his yard and five other dogs join him in a night out, ending with a wild ride.

Author : Keith Calabrese
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338797756

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Wild Ride by Keith Calabrese Pdf

Swindle meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in this action-filled comedy! No parents. No rules. No curfew. Things are about to get dangerous... The grownups are out-of-town, and for Charley Decker that means one thing: a last epic weekend with her older brother Greg before he leaves for college. Bring on the burgers, milkshakes, and movie marathons! So when Greg ditches Charley for a date night downtown, she’s kind of crushed. Worse, he gets their mom's boyfriend’s super-expensive, super-rare Mustang towed and needs Charley’s help to get it back. What's an unsupervised seventh grader to do? Grab her best friends, sneak into the city, pull off the ultimate car heist, and then make Greg pay, of course! Only now the Mustang has a new feature in the trunk: a stowaway named Mitch who’s guarding a world-changing secret. And a pair of seriously big, seriously scary dudes are after him. What follows is an all-night race around the clock as Charley and her friends try to dodge the twin terrors, save Mitch, fix a sibling squabble...and get the Mustang home before morning!

Author : Carmen Agra Deedy
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781682631416

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Martina the Beautiful Cockroach by Carmen Agra Deedy Pdf

The beautiful Martina Josefina Catalina Cucaracha doesn't know coffee beans about love and marriage, so when suitors come calling, what is she to do? Luckily, she has her Cuban family to help! While some of the Cucarachas offer Martina gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her some useful advice: spill coffee on his shoes to see how he handles anger. At first, Martina is skeptical of her Abuela's suggestion, but when suitor after suitor fails the Coffee Test, she wonders if a little green cockroach can ever find true love. After reading this award-winning retelling of the Cuban folktale, readers will never look at a cockroach the same way again. Carmen Agra Deedy delivers a delightfully inventive Cuban twist on the beloved Martina folktale, complete with a dash of café Cubano.

Author : Curt Weiss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781540004949

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Stranded in the Jungle by Curt Weiss Pdf

STRANDED IN THE JUNGLE: JERRY NOLAN'S WILD RIDE---A TALE OF DRUGS FASHION THE NEW YOR

Author : M. Suddain
Publisher : Random House
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448130917

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Hunters & Collectors by M. Suddain Pdf

John Tamberlain is The Tomahawk, the universe’s most feared food critic – though he himself prefers the term ‘forensic gastronomer’. He’s on a quest, in search of the much-storied Hotel Grand Skies, a secretive and exclusive haven where the rich and famous retreat to bask in perfect seclusion. A place where the waiters know their fish knife from their butter knife, their carotid from their subclavian artery, and are trained to enforce the house rules with brutal efficiency. Blurring the lines between detective story, horror and sci-fi, Hunters & Collectors is a mesmeric trip into the singular imagination of M. Suddain – a freewheeling talent whose poise, invention and sensational sentences have already earned him comparisons to Vonnegut, Pynchon and Douglas Adams.

Author : Sophie McCartney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008542341

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Tired and Tested by Sophie McCartney Pdf

Author : Ulrich Raulff
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241257616

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Farewell to the Horse by Ulrich Raulff Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 'A beautiful and thoughtful exploration of the role of the horse in creating our world' James Rebanks 'Scintillating, exhilarating ... you have never read a book like it ... a new way of considering history' Observer The relationship between horses and humans is an ancient, profound and complex one. For millennia horses provided the strength and speed that humans lacked. How we travelled, farmed and fought was dictated by the needs of this extraordinary animal. And then, suddenly, in the 20th century the links were broken and the millions of horses that shared our existence almost vanished, eking out a marginal existence on race-tracks and pony clubs. Farewell to the Horse is an engaging, brilliantly written and moving discussion of what horses once meant to us. Cities, farmland, entire industries were once shaped as much by the needs of horses as humans. The intervention of horses was fundamental in countless historical events. They were sculpted, painted, cherished, admired; they were thrashed, abused and exposed to terrible danger. From the Roman Empire to the Napoleonic Empire every world-conqueror needed to be shown on a horse. Tolstoy once reckoned that he had cumulatively spent some nine years of his life on horseback. Ulrich Raulff's book, a bestseller in Germany, is a superb monument to the endlessly various creature who has so often shared and shaped our fate.

Author : Ann Hagedorn Auerbach
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0805042423

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Wild Ride by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach Pdf

Wild Ride is ... [an] investigation of the fast-track, multibillion-dollar thoroughbred industry racing what the New York Yankees are to baseball- a sporty dynasty. From Library Journal.

Author : Jayne Rylon
Publisher : Happy Endings Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947093010

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Wild Ride by Jayne Rylon Pdf

Can a marriage of convenience turn into true love? Maybe...with the help of the right man. Quinn has made mistakes—like sleeping with the wrong people. It’s taken him time to figure out what he wants in bed and out of it. Understandable, since he’s attracted to both men and women and surrounded by a network of friends who seem to have no trouble finding love in any combination. When he meets Trevon—the sexiest man ever—on the side of the road, only one thing keeps Quinn from pursuing him: Trevon’s even sexier wife, Devra. Like Quinn, Trevon and Devra have led rough lives. Financial and safety concerns forced them into a marriage of convenience they both secretly wish was more. The lessons Quinn’s past taught him should put the brakes on his fantasies of propositioning Trevon and Devra for a one-night ménage. But the need to atone for his previous transgressions, along with pure temptation, drives him to bring the struggling couple closer, even if it means breaking his own heart in the process. This is a standalone book in the Hot Rides series and includes an HEA with no cheating. The series is part of the greater universe where both the Powertools and Hot Rods books are also set, so you can visit with many of your previous favorite characters and see what they’re up to now!

Author : David Quantick
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785658600

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Night Train by David Quantick Pdf

"David Quantick is one of the best kept secrets in the world of writing. He's smart, funny and unique. You should let yourself in on the secret." - Neil Gaiman From Emmy-Award winning author David Quantick, Night Train is a science-fiction horror story like no other. A woman wakes up, frightened and alone. The room shaking and jumping like it's alive. The noise is terrifying. Where is she? Stumbling through a door, she realizes she is on a train carriage. A carriage full of the dead. A personal hell unfolding in an apocalyptic future. This is NIGHT TRAIN. A terrifying ride set on a driverless locomotive, heading for a collision somewhere in the endless night. How did the woman get here? Who is she? And who are the dead? As our heroine makes her way through the train trying to find out what happened to her, she meets a former strongman, a trained killer, and a collection of strange and terrifying creatures. Each step takes her closer to finding out the secret of the Night Train.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : J & L Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0999365541

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Matthew Beck: Event by Anonim Pdf

A cultural history of the sublime first image of a black hole, in photographs and documents "Peering into Light's Graveyard: The First Image of the Black Hole," read the New York Times' April 11 cover story. The headline, like many others that day, was accompanied by an image of a glowing celestial ring framed by infinite blackness: the first image of a black hole. In his first book, New York photographer Matthew Beck (born 1986) focuses on the unveiling of this previously unseeable image by following it into the depths of the New York City subway. The book suggests the notion that the cosmos is not something to simply be observed from our vantage point as humans, but more a system that we are intrinsically a part of; and the true nature of the black hole seems to be as elusive as the answer to humanity's most pressing question of "why."

Author : Hao Jiang Tian,Lois B. Morris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780470056417

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Along the Roaring River by Hao Jiang Tian,Lois B. Morris Pdf

The operatic bass vocalist describes his life in Communist China during the Cultural Revolution and how he found success as the first renowned native Chinese opera singer outside his country.

Author : Jens Voigt,James D. Startt
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781623365202

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Shut Up, Legs! by Jens Voigt,James D. Startt Pdf

Beloved German cyclist Jens Voigt isn't a superstar in the traditional sense of the word. Although he won three stages of the Tour De France--and wore the yellow jersey twice--Voigt never claimed an overall victory. He became a star because he embodies qualities that go beyond winning and losing: sacrifice, selflessness, reliability, and devotion. European and American crowds were drawn to his aggressive riding style, outgoing nature, and refreshing realness. Voigt adopted a tireless work ethic that he carried throughout his career. In Shut Up, Legs! (a legendary Jensism), Voigt reflects upon his childhood in East Germany, juggling life as a professional cyclist and a father of six, and how he remained competitive without doping. Shut Up, Legs! offers a rare glimpse inside his heart and mind.

Author : Michael Blouin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1772141186

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Skin House by Michael Blouin Pdf

Oh my goodness. Did you ever get to thinking that "down on your luck" isn't just an expression? And that what we need here is a bigger statement? Something that adequately describes the scope of the situation? Like when your ex-wife spends all of her time angrier than a five-dollar pistol at everything on the planet, but mostly at you (well, really only at you, and she brings back your record collection, but she sets fire to it on your porch and the flames spread to your house and that just proves what you've said all along: that she is crazier than a box of frogs. Or when your ninety-year-old stick of a father uses his gnarled up knuckly fingers to apply "the nut twister" on you every chance that he gets. And you haven't been with a woman for a very long time and about the only chance you will ever have of getting laid again is to crawl up a chicken's ass and wait.This shit is dire. Well, what I mean is that "down on your luck" doesn't quite cut it when bad luck has become a way of life. You just have to remember: You can have everything you want in this life. Provided all you want is a stained mattress and a hangover.Skin House is a story about two guys who end up in the same bar they started out in. Maybe they're slightly better off than they were at the start. Or maybe not. One has a girlfriend though. They both have a little extra cash, enough to order nachos whenever they want to without going through their pockets first. They're not dead, and that's something right there. And they're not arrested, which is the quite surprising part.