The Big Book of Engines (Thomas & Friends)

The Big Book of Engines (Thomas & Friends)
Author: Random House
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593127617

Meet all of the engines in this Thomas & Friends board book with a padded cover! Train-loving boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love to discover fascinating facts about Thomas, Nia, Bertie, Harold, and all their favorite Thomas & Friends characters in this sturdy board book with padded cover. In the early 1940s, a loving father crafted a small blue wooden train engine for his son, Christopher. The stories that this father, the Reverend W Awdry, made up to accompany the wonderful toy were first published in 1945 and became the basis for the Railway Series, a collection of books about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends--and the rest is history. Thomas & Friends(TM) are now a big extended family of engines and others on the Island of Sodor. They appear not only in books but also in television shows and movies, and as a wide variety of beautifully made toys. The adventures of Thomas and his friends, which are always, ultimately, about friendship, have delighted generations of train-loving boys and girls for more than 70 years and will continue to do so for generations to come.

The First Year

The First Year
Author: Maria R. Coady
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2016-06-24
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1504355458

On December 6, 2014, Maria Coadys only son, Thomas, died unexpectedly after a tragic motorcycle accident left him with irreversible brain injuries. The passenger on his bike also died of similar injuries. He was 22 years old and a promising pre-medicine Biology major at the university where Maria worked as a professor. Thomas was her closest ally, voice of reason, and teacher of life. Most days, Maria found it impossible to believe that Thomas was gone. Her life became divided into two parts: before Thomas died and after Thomas died. As she struggled through shock, anguish, heartbreak, and deep despair, Maria tried to make sense of her world. She wondered how other parents dealt with their grief and how life could go on without her son in it. This is Marias unique story. It is about what she experienced the first year after the loss of her son, and the ways that she tried to cope, and the strategies she used to survive. This is a story that offers affirmation and hope to parents who have faced a similar loss, and insight to those who seek to understand the loss of a child.

Don't Go Up Haunted Hill...or Else!

Don't Go Up Haunted Hill...or Else!
Author: Random House
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2013-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307983420

CHRIS, COSBY, AND their dog Foster are going trick-or-treating. But the big kids tell them not to go up to the house on Haunted Hill. “It’s haunted!” they say. But when Foster chases a cat up that very hill, Chris and Cosby are forced to follow! What will they find in the spooky old house on Haunted Hill?

The World's Best Thin Books, Revised

The World's Best Thin Books, Revised
Author: Joni Richards Bodart
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2000-05-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1461733510

The book report is due and panic sets in. A THIN book is the ticket. But perhaps a THINNER book? Or the THINNEST book of all? And how to pick one (quickly) that will be interesting? Students, teachers, and librarians will love this handy little volume that describes 100 titles recommended for middle and high school students. Readable, attention-grabbing—all are less than 200 pages. Each entry lists title and author, provides information on characters, plot, and action, and even suggests topics to cover in a book report. Librarians and teachers will appreciate the inclusion of curricular areas and readability indexes, and students will find the appendix on approaches to writing a book report or booktalk a real gold mine. Five indexes make locating the perfect title a breeze.The genre index guides you to the kind of book you want to read. The subject index lists dozens of subjects, from adoption to writing, divorce to time travel. The readability index guides you to the "quick reads" or "thoughtful novels." If you have a favorite author or already know of a novel you want to read, there is the author or title index. Finally, the curriculum index allows you to look for a book for a particular class.

We Are Not Alone

We Are Not Alone
Author: Karen S. Dolan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2010-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1452001081

Have you ever heard a voice telling you something, and you know that it did not come from you? Some people call it premonition, intuition or is it something else? Are we surrounded by unseen forces? Forces that communicate with us constantly, but we are too busy to hear them? "We Are Not Alone - A Journey of Self-Discovery" are the real-life stories of people who have experienced these unseen forces in their lives. The story begins with Kaydee, a traveler through time who encounters many situations supernaturally prepared for her from outside of the time dimension. Other travelers through time and their encounters are woven into the fabric of the artwork that is dynamically being painted by the Creator Himself. Scientists are discovering that we live in a multi-dimensional world. We only perceive 4 dimensions; width, length, depth or height and time. Like a straight line trying to understand the dimensionality of a square, we can't always understand the dimensions outside of the four we live in; or can we? Is it possible to perceive what it is like outside of time? Could these be the spiritual dimensions that the Bible talks about? Could this be what God is talking about when He says, "Those who have ears will hear and those who have eyes, will see?"

Reframing Singapore

Reframing Singapore
Author: Derek Thiam Soon Heng
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9089640940

Over the past two decades, Singapore has advanced rapidly towards becoming a both a global city-state and a key nodal point in the international economic sphere. These developments have caused us to reassess how we understand this changing nation, including its history, population, and geography, as well as its transregional and transnational experiences with the external world. This collection spans several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and draws on various theoretical approaches and methodologies in order to produce a more refined understanding of Singapore and to reconceptialize the challenges faced by the country and its peoples.

Dering Letters Volume 1

Dering Letters Volume 1
Author: Patricia and Edward Shillingburg
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-11-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 131270313X

The Dering letters involve members of the family from 1733 to 1838. Henry Dering arrived in America in the mid-1600. He began as a bar keep in a small village in New Hampshire and ended up as a merchant in Boston, a business that he left to his only son, who in turn left it to his two sons. The business was lost to fire and bad credit and Thomas took his wife and child to the 1,000 acre estate on Shelter Island the wife and her sister had inherited.Three generations lived and worked there through the Revolution and the beginnings of a new nation before a tragic death caused the family to sell.