CHIT! Venting at it's best! A no non-sense, hard hitting, raw, from the street, gritty, and to the point true story of a man Venting! A fast read from open to close! A true account! Riveting, fascinating! True! Vent before you hit your breaking point!
CHIT! Venting at it's best! A no non-sense, hard hitting, raw, from the street, gritty, and to the point true story of a man Venting! A fast read from open to close! A true account! Riveting, fascinating! True! Vent before you hit your breaking point!
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn are in Arkansas when they learn of a local legend-a mythical wild pig that's the size of a calf known as "Haggard Hoofs." Tom brashly claims he and Huck can catch this legendary swine and makes a large bet with a local townsman. But Huck knows it's a bad bet-because he knows "Haggard Hoofs" doesn't actually exist! Has Tom Sawyer finally bet off more than he can chew? This exciting adventure also includes real science facts and a bonus activities section! Super Science Showcase. Smart Adventures for Smart Kids.
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn are two of classic literature’s greatest characters, and they're back to their wild and rambunctious ways in this all new adventure! Tom & Huck’s fun summer of cricket races is threatened when Tom’s younger half-brother Sid enters with an unbeatable hopper. Can the legendary Tom Sawyer scheme up a way of winning an unwinnable race? This exciting adventure also includes real science facts and a bonus activities section! Super Science Showcase. Smart Adventures for Smart Kids.
In 1938, Civilian Conservation Corps cadet John Patton Jr. found the key to our darkest secret-an anomalous skeleton neither animal nor man. Uncertain of its implications, Patton hid the discovery away from the world-though never forgetting what he found. Seventy years later, his grandson Gardner is forced to come to terms with his grandfather's past, a man he never knew but in whose footsteps he inevitably follows. When his cousin, controversial documentarian Bart Thompson, arrives for a seemingly routine shoot, Gardner is eager to lend a hand. He soon learns, however, that Bart isn't back just to make a movie-he wants to find the "discovery" their grandfather buried nearly seventy years before, and prove what he claimed was true.
The Shocklosers head to the baseball field for a little league matchup against an opponent that hasn't lost a game all year. They don't see much hope of winning-until Caleb suggests science might provide an answer. Can the gang use Newton's Laws of Motion to hit a game-winning home run? This exciting adventure also includes real science facts and a bonus activities section! Super Science Showcase. Smart Adventures for Smart Kids.
They may just be five boys from the middle of nowhere, but the Shocklosers are ready to take on the world! In these five fun and science-filled stories, meet the gang as they start their YouTube channel; explore an abandoned water park; survive Christmas Court; unlock the secret to hitting home runs; make a monster movie; and blast model rockets to the troposphere! Experience the earliest adventures of the stars of the new movie Surviving Camp Analog in this amazing collection! This exciting collection also includes real science facts and a bonus activities section! Super Science Showcase. Smart adventures for smart kids.
ALIBI FOR A DEAD MAN A Bug and Roche Mystery You'd think robbing a bank would be an easy way to make money. Outside of the occasional shot fired at you, a bank is where the money exists, and is yours for the having. While this idea may be okay for the casual robber, it doesn't hold true for the professional. If you want the bucks, but don't want to get shot or do time in the nearest pen, then robbing banks is very hard. The best way to rob a bank is to be there when other people ain't and to leisurely load the dough into the handy bag you brought for the occasion. To be there when people ain't means a lot of planning, cause there are often people there, people with guns. So, if you want to make a living on other people's money then don't ever, and I mean ever, rob a bank during banker's hours, or even during waking hours. Rob a bank at night...
Graduate School'¬ ;the Final Frontier. Or'¬ ;well'¬ ;maybe the Next-to-Final-Frontier (sorry Doctors). Or, um, well-- after Law School-- maybe the Alternate-Route-Beside-and/or-Perpendicular-to-the-Next-to-Final-Frontier?Though nowadays '¬Scontinuing'¬ education might best be described as '¬Snever ending'¬, Graduate School is still the first, alienating step of overachievers everywhere into the void of ceaseless education. For countless generations, this epoch-defining entrance into the unknown has been ritualistically taken alone; but now, as if a phoenix rising up from its ashes, a Graduate Student GRADUATE has returned from the dark realm to give you first years a much needed lifeline, guide, and'¬ ;yes'¬ ;friend to help you navigate through this treacherous red-tape jungle we lovingly call Grad School."The Only Thing Lower than a Slave" is Wilson Toney'¬"s hilarious-yet-informative personal tale of survival from the trenches of higher education. Written in highly personable, and highly populist prose (a rarity for Engineering grads), Toney presents his own experiences and universal observations of how to succeed and/or survive Graduate School-- even while taking 24-credit hours and with a wife and kids back home.Rife full of tricks, tips, laments, warnings and tall-tales, "The Only Thing Lower than a Slave" is both a comment on, and a humorous dissection of, the reasonless insanity that'¬"s such an inherent part of the bureaucratic, overly-legalistic experience of the modern Graduate School. Though its intention of keeping you AWAY from tertiary education altogether might not succeed, if nothing else, it'¬"s a welcome companion and source of affirmation to you ever-juveniles we call Grads.And, if really for nothing else, this book is worth it for the intriguing title-- though if you'¬"ve erroneously stumbled onto it in the '¬SSex and Bondage'¬ section, you might want to ask for your money back.
In this brand new Tom and Huck adventure, Tom and Huck are still in Arkansas following the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. After Tom learns of a local legend-- a mythical wild pig the size of a calf called "Haggards Hoofs"-- Tom bets a local man he can catch it and win a special medal from the county fair. But Huck knows there's no guarantee the pig even exists-- let alone something he and Tom can capture in two days. Has Tom finally bet off more than he can chew? Fully illustrated throughout with photographs of the cast of Super Science Showcase's Tom & Huck adventures, this brand new adventure also includes an exciting real fact article about the true science featured in the story, written by the Super Science Showcase staff, as well as educational discussion questions! First published in Super Science Showcase Stories #1. Also available in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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In this brand new Tom and Huck adventure, Tom and Huck are hot on the trail of a con artist who's robbed half the town of St. Petersburg! Having tracked the criminal to a mosquito infested hollow on Jackson's island, the duo have to keep sharp-- and use some science know how-- to avoid the criminal's many traps and alarms to have any hope of catching him! Fully illustrated throughout with photographs of the cast of Super Science Showcase's Tom & Huck adventures, this brand new adventure also includes an exciting real fact article about the true science featured in the story, written by the Super Science Showcase staff, as well as educational discussion questions! Also available in Tom Sawyer Detective.
To most people, one’s mother is the first person they ever form a lifelong bond with. She is the source of life and nourishment, love and compassion, and the person who provides the foundation for an individual’s worldview and core values. Author and veteran sociologist Velma Benson-Wilson pays tribute to her mother, a remarkable woman born Fannie Bradley, through a book titled, What’s In The Water? Imagine a mother of seventeen living children, all single births and the majority born during the tumultuous times of the 1950s and 60s in rural Mississippi. How did she balance and cope with their spiritual, educational, financial and overall upbringing to insure that all became productive members of this society? Fannie Bradley had tenacious faith, resilience, and perseverance in overcoming adversities and pain that would have made most an indignant human being. Fannie's mother was mentally retarded; she had no stable father figure or family, and an elementary education. Although she only lived to be 57 years of age, Fannie's legacy of love and parental principles are indelible in each of her living seventeen offspring. Book Event: I have a book signing scheduled for Saturday, February 11, 2012 form 11:00 a.m. to 12 noon at Jackson Madison County Library, Jackson, Tennessee.
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