Archway publishing aug 2015 (9 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Martha arrives at her weekly appointment at the neighborhood beauty salon, her hairdresser, Betty, is amazed to see her black hair has gone white. What has happened Did Martha try to dye her own hair The secret, it seems, is that Martha has a grandson named Joe, and Joe has a pet mouse named Delmar. As Martha tells her story to Betty, the hairdresser continues to cut Martha's hair. But she isn't paying very close attention to what she's doing. What will happen to Martha's brand-new white hair In this children's book, one woman's new hairdo goes from bad to worse as she recounts the story of how her hair changed from black to white.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many of us like things the way they are. We hesitate to accept any kind of change or difference. When things are always the same, we feel safe. As much as we may dread change--change is all around us--whether we like it or not. Toni W. Heller's A Visit to Syrup Creek: Making New Friends tells the story of what happens when change comes to Syrup Creek. J. R. is a young blue duck. He and his blue duck family live on Syrup Creek. When they return to their home, they are surprised to find green ducks living on their creek. J. R. is upset at these new ducks because they don't look or sound like him and his family. Discover how J. R. and the other blue ducks eventually overcome fear and suspicion and welcome the family of green ducks to Syrup Creek. The lessons learned in A Visit to Syrup Creek: Making New Friends are relevant to the human world as well. Heller provides discussion suggestions to guide you in talking to your children about discrimination. Through the story and discussion questions, children will learn change is not always something to fear.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When author Edmund R. Johnson was born on his grandparents' farm in 1942, it was a unique time and place to witness the clashing of a passing age and the introduction of a new age. In The Bridge at Cromer's Mill, Johnson shares a collection of stories set in rural Georgia in the 1940s and early 1950s.Taking place in the time before electricity and on the cusp of the new age after electricity, he narrates stories about his early life when his grandparents shaped his world. With his mother away teaching and his father in the service in World War II, Johnson was allowed to roam and explore the woods, fields, and streams of the countryside, developing a sense of independence and self-reliance. His young life was pure Americana, a blending of the nineteenth and twentieth century. It was a time of sunny days and adventure, a time of bare feet and fishing trips, a time of exploration and fun.The Bridge at Cromer's Mill provides insight into rural Georgia, the people who lived in that time and place, and the experiences that molded their lives. It shares a story of a special bond between a grandson and his grandparents.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the 1970s, international financier Saul Mammon is king. He's enigmatic, charismatic, and, one could argue, evil. Nobody plays the game like Saul. His obsessive motivations are practically erotic in nature. He got what he wanted when he wanted it without even trying, but a sensational life lived so precariously on edge can never last.He was once a young boy in New York, born to a modest family, with dreams of climbing the gilded ladder to riches and fame. He achieves all this and more with direct connection to leaders not only in the United States but also in the Soviet Union, Paris, and beyond. His only daughter, Sara, watches from the sidelines as her father inches ever closer to the world of power and deceit.Saul's brilliance and dark side eventually lead to his mysterious death and a rapid cover-up. Perhaps it was inevitable that such an ambitious man would fall, but Sara is haunted by questions, most of which will never be answered. Based on a true story, the rise and fall of Saul Mammon shows what happens when ambition turns malicious and when money is never enough. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - John Smyth, accustomed to a life of privilege and ease in eighteenth-century England, drops out of school to take charge of his family's shipyard, leasing out its beloved schooner, 'My Glorious C' for quick profit, when his father dies.The young heir also finds himself drawn to Lady Sideris Douglas, who is betrothed to Aldin 'Ali' Langford, son of the baron who arranged the lease of Glorious. Against the objection of his closest adviser, he and Ali join the ship's crew on what is supposed to be a routine channel crossing to France.John soon faces agonizing consequences from his misguided decisions. The schooner disappears, the trustees are arrested for fraud, and his shipyard is seized, soon to be auctioned. Even worse, Ali realizes what's going on between John and Sideris. Driven to correct his wrongs, John embarks on The Fourth Ship--the same ship whose mast crushed his father to death and that he vowed never to set foot upon. 'With its intriguing plot, competent prose and engaging characters, there's much to recommend this story. It builds enough suspense to keep readers glued to the pages.'-Kirkus Reviews.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It had started out to be such a good year - until he screwed things up. As a determined employee headed toward Edison Shaw's office at the IRS Service Center in Fresno, California, he knows what he must do to protect his interests. A few moments after he enters Shaw's office and closes the door for their meeting, the man pulls out a gun, points it at Shaw's temple, and pulls the trigger - just as planned. In this compelling crime thriller, Dick Hartmann is a seasoned FBI agent who heads up San Francisco's Violent Crime Squad. When he and his elite squad are assigned to investigate a suspicious death at the IRS Service Center in Fresno, they're soon led into the bowels of the city's largest street gang - the Bulldogs. As the case grabs the attention of America's president, the squad travels to Los Angeles and then to Mexico where they must infiltrate a drug cartel to take down a gang member with the power to ruin the lives of millions of American taxpayers. Now only time will tell if they can stop him before it is too late.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mary Bernadette is a Vietnamese girl born on November 22, 1963--the day John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Raised in an orphanage, she finds herself unwittingly involved in an international incident at the age of six, when a Russian man who claims to be the second gunman on the grassy knoll during the assassination of JFK stumbles into the orphanage looking for help.Mary Bernadette is then witness to the opening rounds of Operation Excalibur, the CIA code name for the mission to capture this second gunman alive. In the late spring and early summer of 1971--while Americans are unaware of the potential for a major international incident that might bring their country to the brink of war with the Soviet Union or China--Operation Excalibur plays itself out in Vietnam. What Mary does not know is that one unintended consequence of this action will be the senseless massacre of orphaned children by an errant North Vietnamese captain--and that she herself will be among the dead. This CIA thriller and tragic tale of love and intrigue, set during the Vietnam War, describes the attempt to capture JFK's other assassin, now a Russian advisor, as told by an innocent victim from her grave.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An intimate history of the Getty Museum from its early relatively modest days until it unexpectedly received the endowment that made it the world's wealthiest museum and eventually a private foundation of worldwide influence. Following the death of Getty in 1976 it was necessary to adapt the institution to radically different circumstances and much higher expectations, virtually none of which had been anticipated. This evolution was guided by some of the most prominent managers and historians available, but was also marred by some unfortunate and widely publicized mis-steps that made the transition unusually erratic. Institutional histories are normally written and published by the institutions themselves, with the result that its blunders or mistakes are normally glossed over. The present memoir is meant to be an objective and relatively frank appraisal of the history of this exceptional institution by an early participant in the process.…