This book, "Tom's Poetry: from back when to right now", is a collection of poems I've written over several decades. Many have been published in anthologies, newspapers and magazines, and my own books. They address five different time periods and themes, starting with early days, e.g. "Growing up," to " Family and friends" to "The world we live in now.". My poems cover a variety of topics and experiences: my youth, relationships, where I lived and hung out, our special San Diego natural worlds, and holidays. They're all in the rhyming class and many are humorous..
Petersburg, that "sleepy little village" we read about in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, awakes to the news of Huckleberry Finn's presumed murder, and the escape of Miss Watson's Jim. A confrontation is evoked between Jimmy Finn, and Judge Thatcher, when widow Douglas is given the rights to Huck's money. Jimmy swears revenge against Judge Thatcher, and nearly kills Widow Douglas. Without Huck, Tom Sawyer turns his attention to Becky Thatcher as his new bosom friend. She proves to be a willing comrade and participant. The two embark on an expedition of an old home-The Stantan Home-to look for a rumored treasure. They discover a passageway that has been filled with dirt. Believing the treasure to be on the other side, they begin removing dirt. Their adventure is interrupted when Jimmy takes out his revenge on Judge Thatcher by kidnapping Becky, with the help of two accomplices. Becky knows she must remain strong in order to overcome her ordeal. Tom, believing he is to blame for her kidnapping, goes in search for her. After Becky's escape, she and Tom resume their adventure within the Stantan Home. What they discover at the end of the tunnel both amazes and mystifies them. And it has nothing to do with the rumored treasure!
Colonel Tom Kelly, author of the Tenth Legion, is proud to announce the release of THE BEST OF TOM KELLY. This collector's edition contains 34 chapters of Tom's best Wild Turkey hunting stories. The chapters were picked by Jim Spencer and Jim Casada, two of America's most prolific outdoor writers. Each chapter comes from a previous Tom Kelly book. Each chapter was picked especially for the Wild Turkey story content. This is pure turkeys and pure Tom Kelly. The 336 page collector's edition is green leather bound, signed and numbered with gold gilded edges, marbled end pages and a red silk marking ribbon.
As a child he was taught to respect nature by an Apache elder he called Grandfather, now as a bestselling author and master tracker Tom Brown, Jr., shares his secrets for nurturing and saving our planet. Tom Brown, Jr., is America's most acclaimed outdoorsman, tracker, and teacher. When he was eight he met Stalking Wolf, an Apache elder who taught the young man how to survive in the wild, and more importantly, how to value our place in the natural order. For more than three decades, Tom Brown, Jr., has shared these insights with the world through teaching, writing, and film. Now, for the first time, he has detailed actions that each of us can take to help heal our ailing planet.
This book is not only about tom. It’s about all of our children. I am proud of my parents; they tried their best to teach me how to live in this world. They taught me how to work. They taught me how to respect other people, and they also told me I had to get an education. Not only my mother and father but my grandmother, uncles and aunts taught me about everyday life.
Tom Sawyer, a mischievous young boy, lives in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri with his Aunt Polly and half-brother Sid. Together with his friend Huckleberry Finn, the son of a drunk, ruthless father, he accidentally witnesses a murder. What unfolds in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is a series of exhilarating events: both friends identify Injun Joe, the real murderer, in court; testify to the innocence of the person wrongly accused and find buried treasure in a haunted house. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Huck escapes from the clutches of his father and encounters Jim, a runaway slave. They embark on an exciting journey along the Mississippi River, meeting different people and participating in their unusual lives. With time, Huck finds himself in a moral dilemma over societal values and his own friendship with Jim. With The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain presents a sharp social commentary on 19th-century American life through scathing satire, folksy humour, colloquial speech and coarse language.
This book is Tom Cantor's journal of how he was lost and defiled to become found and cleansed. He was a grandson of an orthodox Rabbi from the Lithuanian Kantorovich Rabbinical line. His father and mother were Jewish. His father was a prominent Beverly Hills Obstetrician Gynecologist and his mother worked for notable Hollywood celebrities. As successful as they were professionally, his parents were not good at marriage: his father was married five times and his mother, three times. By the time he was 15, Tom yearned for a stable home, a place to belong. Expelled from schools, he managed to graduate from a high school in Switzerland. However, while in Europe, he broke through the boundaries of morality and plunged into sexual defilement. In order to rescue himself from the guilt and shame of his sexual defilements he chose to form a relationship with a pure and wholesome girl. But he was disillusioned and devastated when, at the time he proposed, he learned that his wife-to-be had been raped and was pregnant.
In 2008 Tom Kelly Inc produced an "all turkey" book of essays, which included 34 chapters devoted to turkey hunting. These chapters came from Tom Kelly's early books. Tom continued to write and published 9 more books through 2017. THE BEST OF TOM KELLY II contains 29 Wild Turkey chapters from those new volumes. Black leather bound, gold foil stamping, marbled end pages, and red silk marking ribbon.
HO, HO, HEY! There's an ELF in YOUR Christmas book! Get ready for another lively, interactive read-aloud in the Who's In Your Book series! Do you have what it takes to make Santa's Nice List? An elf is here to test you in this participatory read-aloud. Don't let the elf trick you into being naughty! Just follow his instructions to sing a Christmas carol, clap, BURP... Hey, wait a second! Children will be delighted to join in on the holiday fun. Bestselling author and musician Tom Fletcher, the creator of the successful West End show The Christmasaurus, has once again paired up with illustrator Greg Abbott to create a creature that readers will fall in love with--and want to play with--again and again! Don't miss a single story in the Who's In Your Book series! There's a Monster In Your Book There's a Dragon In Your Book There's an Elf In Your Book There's an Alien in Your Book ...and more books to come!
LOOK OUT! An adorable ALIEN has crash-landed in YOUR book. Get ready for another lively, interactive read-aloud in the Who's In Your Book series! Readers will enjoy jiggling, bouncing, and turning their book around as they try to launch Alien back up into space--because aliens don't belong on Earth...do they? Packed full of interactive fun, with a gentle message about openness, acceptance, and inclusion that will speak to the very youngest readers. Bestselling author and musician Tom Fletcher and illustrator Greg Abbott have once again created a creature that readers will fall in love with--and want to play with--again and again! Don't miss a single story in the Who's In Your Book series! There's a Monster In Your Book There's a Dragon In Your Book There's an Elf In Your Book There's an Alien in Your Book ...and more books to come!
Whoosh! A SUPERHERO has landed in YOUR book! Get ready for another lively, interactive read-aloud in the Who's In Your Book series! Use the power of your imagination to unlock this adorable Superhero's powers. But you'd better act fast before The Scribbler ruins your book completely! Readers will enjoy interactively tapping, stretching, and whizzing this book around as they help Superhero defeat the villain and save the day--while discovering the real power of kindness. Bestselling author and musician Tom Fletcher and illustrator Greg Abbott have once again created a creature that readers will fall in love with--and want to play with--again and again! Don't miss a single story in the Who's In Your Book series! There's a Monster In Your Book There's a Dragon In Your Book There's an Elf In Your Book There's an Alien in Your Book ...and more books to come!
Help defeat the Big Bad Wolf in this interactive tale from Tom Fletcher - an extended edition of the bestselling World Book Day story! LOOK! Who's that in your book? It's Monster, Dragon, Alien, and Witch. And... WOW! They have made you a book! A book inside your book! Shall we read it together? Explore this interactive adventure and help the friends as they try and get rid of the BIG BAD WOLF that has taken over their book! This engaging and playful story is a true celebration of reading, performing, and storytelling from bestselling children's author Tom Fletcher. Who's in Your Book? Interactive adventures for big imaginations Also in this series: There's a Monster in Your Book: makes reading interactive and fun There's a Dragon in Your Book: explores empathy and responsibility There's an Alien in Your Book: explores acceptance and inclusion There's an Elf in Your Book: explores following instructions and good/bad behaviour There's a Superhero in Your Book: explores the power of kindness There's a Witch in Your Book: makes tidying up fun There's a Unicorn in Your Book: explores soothing your worries through sharing them There's a Bear in Your Book: makes the bedtime routine fun There's a Dinosaur in Your Book: explores inside and outside voices
Book history has emerged in the last twenty years as one of the most important new fields of interdisciplinary study. It has produced new interpretations of major historical events, has made possible new approaches to history, literature, media, and culture, and presents a distinctive historical perspective on current debates about the future of the book. The Broadview Introduction to Book History provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this field. Written in a lively, accessible style, chapters on materiality, textuality, printing and reading, intermediality, and remediation guide readers through numerous key concepts, illustrated with examples from literary texts and historical documents produced across a wide historical range. An ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in book history, it offers a road map to this dynamic inter-disciplinary field.
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