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The Pinballs

Author : Betsy Byars
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062239440

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From Newbery-winning author Betsy Byars comes a story full of "poignancy, perception, and humor" (The Chicago Tribune), about three foster kids who learn what it takes to make a family. You can't always decide where life will take you—especially when you're a kid. Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled, somebody puts another coin in the machine and off you go again. But against her will and her better judgment, Carlie and the boys become friends. And all three of them start to see that they can take control of their own lives.

The Way Things Were.

Author : Aatish Taseer
Publisher : Dylan Fazel
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Delhi (India)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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When Skanda's father Toby dies, estranged from Skanda's mother and from the India he once loved, it falls to Skanda to return his body to his birthplace. This is a journey that takes him halfway around the world and deep within three generations of his family, whose fractures, frailties and toxic legacies he has always sought to elude. Both an intimate portrait of a marriage and its aftershocks, and a panoramic vision of India's half-century - in which a rapacious new energy supplants an ineffectual elite - 'The way things were' is an epic novel about the pressures of history upon the present moment. It is also a meditation on the stories we tell and the stories we forget; their tenderness and violence in forging bonds and in breaking them apart. Set in modern Delhi and at flashpoints from the past four decades, fusing private and political, classical and contemporary to thrilling effect, this book confirms Aatish Taseer as one of the most arresting voices of his generation.

Pilots, Pinballs, and Politics

Author : Nancy B. Fesseden Ph. D.,Nancy B. Fessenden
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1412008352

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Pilots, Pinballs, and Politics by Nancy B. Fesseden Ph. D.,Nancy B. Fessenden Pdf

During the early days of aviation in Collier County, Florida, planes landed on a golf course or on the beach. But, that all changed in December 1943. World War II clamored for more pilots, more gunners, and more aircraft. The Naples Airdrome was built and suddenly the skies over Naples, Florida were filled with P-39s, P-40s, B-17s, and RP-63s. The orange "Pinball" (RP-63) participated in the Army Airforce's flexible gunnery training program. Hundereds of pilots and gunners were trained for combat and sent to the Pacific or European fronts. Here is the story of an airport and it's people. Follow the making of an airfield, hollowed out in the sawgrass and swamps of Collier County. From alligator wrestling, bivouacs and beach parties to tragedies, hurricanes, and disasters, learn all about the life at Naples Airdrome. Here is the sweeping story of an airport, from military occupation in 1941 to aviation's premier destination for the rich and famous in the 1980s. Here is a rich fascinating history of the Naples Municipal Airport's spirit and mission to the world of aviation.

Tornado

Author : Betsy Byars
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062265388

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Tornado by Betsy Byars Pdf

From Newbery Medal-winning author Betsy Byars comes a sweet, entertaining story that will touch the heart of dog lovers at any age. A tornado appears in the distance, and the family quickly gathers into the storm cellar. The storm rages outside, but Pete, the farmhand, knows this is the perfect time to tell his stories about a dog named Tornado. Blown into their lives by a twister when Pete was a boy, Tornado was no ordinary dog—he played card tricks, saved a turtle’s life, and had a rivalry with the family cat. Forgetting their fear, the family hangs on every word of Pete’s stories—both happy and sad—of this remarkable dog.

Shanghai Grand

Author : Taras Grescoe
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443425551

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From award-winning and bestselling author Taras Grescoe comes a highly compelling new book about the twilight of Shanghai before the Second World War Finalist for the 2016 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the 2017 British Columbia's National Award for Non-Fiction On the eve of the Second World War, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the 20th century’s most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily Hahn was a legendary New Yorker writer who would cover China for nearly fifty years, and play an integral part in opening Asia up to the West. But at the height of the Depression, “Mickey” Hahn had just arrived in Shanghai nursing a broken heart after a disappointing affair with an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter, convinced she would never love again. After entering Sassoon’s glamorous Cathay Hotel, Hahn is absorbed into the social swirl of the expats drawn to pre-war China, among them Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Harold Acton and the colourful gangster named Morris “Two-Gun” Cohen, who had once lived in Saskatoon and Edmonton and later retired to Montreal. When she meets Zau Sinmay, a Chinese poet from an illustrious family, she discovers the real Shanghai through his eyes: the city of rich colonials, triple agents, opium-smokers, displaced Chinese peasants and increasingly desperate White Russian and Jewish refugees - a place her innate curiosity will lead her to discover first-hand. But danger lurks on the horizon and Mickey barely makes it out alive as the brutal Japanese occupation destroys the seductive world of pre-war Shanghai and Mao Tse-tung’s Communists come to power in China. Taras Grescoe, with his trademark style and verve, brings this rich history to life in all its beautiful and intimate detail.

Under the Wave at Waimea

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780358446286

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From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.

Pinball Machines

Author : Norbert Snicer
Publisher : Ticketflex.com Tech Training
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780646111261

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Pinball Machines by Norbert Snicer Pdf

Take a step by step journey through the circuitry of a pinball machine and learn the most effective troubleshooting techniques the professionals use. If you are new to pinball machines you can quickly learn how the pinball machine works and what to do about problems. For the experienced technicians this book provides invaluable references, test points and pinouts for effective troubleshooting. This book refers to the Williams/Bally WPC System and the System 11 however, many troubleshooting techniques and principles of operation will apply for pinball machines of different systems and manufacturers.

The Complete Pinball Book

Author : Marco Rossignoli
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Pinball machines
ISBN : 0764310038

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Galactic Hot Dogs 1

Author : Max Brallier
Publisher : Aladdin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534477971

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Galactic Hot Dogs 1 by Max Brallier Pdf

From the creator of the bestselling series The Last Kids on Earth, this hilarious middle grade adventure follows a young boy thrust into the world of selling hot dogs in space! Over the course of one very strange night, Cosmoe went from being an adventure-seeking, thirteen-year-old Earthling orphan to a hot-dog-slinging space traveler. He has all the adventure he once craved and more aboard the Neon Wiener—part spaceship, part food truck—selling their trademark “Galactic Hot Dogs.” Cosmoe and the rest of the crew journey to food competitions across the universe serving up the wildly popular wieners…until they gain a troublesome stowaway. The half-evil, half-awesome Princess Dagger doesn’t plan on going anywhere, and her presence on the ship means her all-evil mother is gunning for the Neon Wiener. Cosmoe rallies his friends to fight space jerks in all their many forms and vows to protect the princess. But can a group of hot dog enthusiasts face down an evil space queen?

The Cartoonist

Author : Betsy Byars
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781453294208

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The Cartoonist by Betsy Byars Pdf

DIVAlfie only feels comfortable when he’s drawing comics in the attic—but soon his safe haven will be off limits/divDIV Alfie is perfectly content to spend his time drawing alone in the attic. Nobody bothers him, and he has his door sealed tight against interruption. Up under the roof, he illustrates amazing cartoon strips about heroes and space adventures, from “Super Caterpillar” to “Super Bird”—even though his own life is anything but exciting. One day, Alfie’s mom calls him from the attic to tell him his older brother Bubba will be moving home and will take over the attic as his own apartment. Suddenly Alfie’s private world is turned inside out, and he’ll need to find a new “home,” even if that means spending time around his weird, argumentative family./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Betsy Byars including rare images from the author’s personal collection./div

When the Road Ends

Author : Jean Thesman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0380720116

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Three foster children, all with problems of their own, spend the summer with an unusual and unexpected companion, a woman recovering from an accident that killed her husband. Together they struggle to create an "absolutely perfect family."

The Moon and I

Author : Betsy Byars
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780688137045

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The Moon that inspires Betsy Byars's memoir isn't the one in the sky, but a huge, harmless blacksnake she finds in the rafters of her porch. This meeting begins an exploration of the writing process. With energy, wit, and delight, the Newbery medalist shows how "the good scraps" of her life, from a bully named Bubba to a gift-wrapped dime, weave into her work.

Lady Hotspur

Author : Tessa Gratton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008281953

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Tessa Gratton's latest epic adult fantasy, Lady Hotspur, is a sweeping, heart-stopping Shakespearean novel of betrayal and battlefields and destiny.

Pinball Compendium the Electro-mechanical Era

Author : Michael Shalhoub
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0764330284

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Pinball Compendium the Electro-mechanical Era by Michael Shalhoub Pdf

This comprehensive new book showcases the most desirable electro-magnetic pinball games ever built. Over 1,000 colour photographs, arranged in decades from the 1930s to the 1990s, display some of the most popular pinballs ever built. Also, rare photos show Gordon Hasse with some of the most sought-after and popular Gottlieb and Parker games. This book breaks new ground in documenting this classic era. It greatly augments the author's three earlier works on pinball history and rounds out the most up-to-date research in the field.