Fireman Sam - The Runaway from Zoo
Fireman Sam - The Runaway from Zoo

Author: Mattel

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2021-12-09

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 872680686X

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Norman and Mandy are at the beach when they spot a penguin! Realising it must have escaped from the Zoo, Mandy wants to return it, but Norman has other ideas and decides to take it home. He soon discovers that looking after a penguin is more work than he realised though, and trouble starts when the penguin goes missing after he tries to take it to the swimming pool. Luckily, Fireman Sam and the firefighting team are soon on their way to the rescue! © 2022 Prism Art & Design Limited. The Fireman Sam name and character are trademarks of Prism Art & Design Limited. Based on an original idea by D. Gingell, D. Jones and original characters created by R.M.J. Lee. Join Fireman Sam on exciting adventures with his colleagues Station Officer Steele, Elvis, Tom, Penny, and everyone else from Pontypandy. He greets people that he meets when driving down the busy streets with Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, and the other cool rescue vehicles. When he hears that fire-bell chime, Fireman Sam is there on time when a penguin escapes the zoo, a giant pumpkin causes trouble, and when a concert and a soccer game goes up in flames. He’s always on the scene, and you cannot ignore, Sam is the hero next door. Fireman Sam is a British animated TV series created by two former firefighters Dave Gingell and Dave Jones, and developed by artist and writer Rob Lee. It first aired on British television in 1987 and has since become hugely popular around the world – airing in more than 35 languages in 155 countries. Set in the fictional rural Welsh village of Pontypandy, brave Fireman Sam and his fellow firefighters have had all sorts of adventures together over their 30 year history, and are always close at hand to help out. © 2022 Prism Art & Design Limited. The Fireman Sam name and character are trademarks of Prism Art & Design Limited. Based on an original idea by D. Gingell, D. Jones and original characters created by R.M.J. Lee.

The Circle
The Circle

Author: Dave Eggers

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0385351402

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

Boston Riots
Boston Riots

Author: Jack Tager

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781555534615

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The fascinating story of Boston's violent past is told for the first time in this history of the city's riots, from the food shortage uprisings in the 18th century to the anti-busing riots of the 20th century.

Antler, Bear, Canoe
Antler, Bear, Canoe

Author: Betsy Bowen

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2002-08-26

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 054753101X

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In this companion to Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book Betsy Bowen again captures the vibrant magic in each northwoods day through effortless prose and colorful woodcuts. While the canoe waits beneath the heavy snow and the river freezes over, bears turn in for long winter naps and people spend time reading by the fire or bundled up in layers. But when spring comes, it’s time for kayaking, fishing, and listening to the quiet pond sounds of the new season. All of this and more is celebrated in Bowen’s warm and unusual alphabet book that introduces children to the cyclical rhythms of life in our country’s northern states.

Working
Working

Author: Studs Terkel

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2011-07-26

Total Pages: 867

ISBN-13: 1595587667

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A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book provides a “brilliant” and enduring portrait of people’s feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). “Splendid . . . Important . . . Rich and fascinating . . . The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us.” —Business Week “The talk in Working is good talk—earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.” —The Washington Post

Speaking with Vampires
Speaking with Vampires

Author: Luise White

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0520922298

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During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked. Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction. White conducted more than 130 interviews for this book and did research in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to presenting powerful, vivid stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, the book presents an original epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory, and into their relationship to the writing of history.

Red Eagles
Red Eagles

Author: Steve Davies

Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Published: 2008-09-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846033780

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From the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, culminating in a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy technology and tactics. Red Eagles tells the story of this squadron from the first tests of MiGs following the Vietnam War when the USAF had been woefully under-prepared in aerial combat. These initial flights would develop into the "black" or classified program known internally as Constant Peg. At a secret air base in Nevada, ace American fighter pilots were presented with a range of differnet MiG jets with a simple remit: to expose "the threat" to as many of their brethern as possible. Maintaining and flying these "assets" without without spare parts or manuals was an almost impossible task, putting those flying the MiGs in mortal danger on every flight. Despite these challenges, in all more than 5,900 American aircrews would train against America's secret MiGs, giving them the eskills they needed to face the enemy in real combat situations. For the first time, this book tells the story of Constant Peg and the 4477th Red Eagles Squadron in the words of the men who made it possible.