Adventure Walks and Monkey Talks details the life lessons that a man learns while spending time caring for and bonding with a four year old boy. Some of the lessons are deep and thought provoking while others are whimsical and will make you laugh. All of the lessons are aimed to teach how to make your life and the lives of those you encounter better.
Adventure Walks and Monkey Talks details the life lessons that a man learns while spending time caring for and bonding with a four year old boy. Some of the lessons are deep and thought provoking while others are whimsical and will make you laugh. All of the lessons are aimed to teach how to make your life and the lives of those you encounter better.
**Wallace named the Harper Lee Award winner for 2019 by the Alabama Writers' Forum** **One of PopSugar’s Best 2017 Spring Books for Women** A large-hearted and optimistic novel, Extraordinary Adventures is the latest from the New York Times bestselling Daniel Wallace. Edsel Bronfman works as a junior executive shipping clerk for an importer of Korean flatware. He lives in a seedy neighborhood and spends his free time with his spirited mother. Things happen to other people, and Bronfman knows it. Until, that is, he gets a call from operator 61217 telling him that he’s won a free weekend at a beachfront condo in Destin, Florida. But there’s a catch: the offer is intended for a couple, and Bronfman has only seventy-nine days to find someone to take with him. The phone call jolts Bronfman into motion, initiating a series of truly extraordinary adventures as he sets out to find a companion for his weekend getaway. Open at last to the possibilities of life, Bronfman now believes that anything can happen. And it does.
Four brothers embark on a journey,takes them to a world that they have never heard of before. They become more and more intrigued, especially when they find that the citizens of Kavosava already know who they are, and treat them like royalty. After travelling to different parts of the land, they realize they have returned to Kavosava to assist the people in ridding themselves of the evil Lord Whipstein and his minions.
You’ve seen the movie, now PLAY the movie! Long before gaming came to the big screen, cinema arrived in the homes of millions in the form of licensed video games; playable merchandise that tied in to some of the major tentpoles of cinematic history. Many of these games followed the storylines of the movies on which they were based, as well as providing supplementary adventures to major franchises. Collected in this book are some of the biggest games to come from Hollywood adventures during the '80s and '90s. In this comprehensive book, you’ll find over 300 games across 18 chapters, with sections dedicated to major movie franchises such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Top Gun, Pixar, Aliens and Indiana Jones, along with nearly 200 full-color screenshots of major releases. Showcasing the highs and lows of early computer gaming through the 16-bit era and onto the advent of 3D console gaming, A Guide to Movie Based Video Games: 1982 - 2000 covers two decades of video games with trivia, analysis and recommendations. Grab your controller, step into the silver screen and get ready to play!
Life in Maasai Mara is just perfector so it seems to Punkey, Lankey, Shulley, and Sankeyfour little monkeys who reside with their respective parents in the Kenyan natural game reserve. Because Punkey and Shulley are red-tailed monkeys and Lankey and Sankey are vervets, their parents do not want them to play with each other. Although the monkeys do not see the differences between them, they are soon swayed by their parents advice and distance themselves from each other. Although the Maasai Mara might be the coolest place on earth, it is not all peace and tranquility in the game reserve. As the plucky primates eyes are opened to the undercurrent of fear and distrust that grips Maasai Mara, they find the value in friendship, despite their differences. Now they are left to decide whether to allow the rampant monkeyism in the game reserve to destroy its progress or forge a new future where there is equality and opportunity for all. As the curious and playful monkeys encounter danger, mischief, heartache, and excitement in their journey to the truth, now only time will tell if they will ever discover the joy of unity. In this enchanting young adult tale, four monkeys living in a beautiful African wildlife reserve navigate life and adventure together while searching for acceptance and harmony.
Follow the mischievous and hilarious adventures of four grammar school–age boys growing up in the late 1920s. The good, not-so-good, and hilarious situations the four boys became involved in on a day-to-day basis are insights into what city boys did to keep themselves busy during school days, after school was out for the summer and on weekends in Berwyn, Illinois. Lacking the many entertainment forms of modern society, the young boys of the late 1920s spent much of their time roaming the city streets and parks, riding the elevated train, finding other forms of entertainment, and sometimes seeking scary adventures.
The Adventures of Freddy Fabulous is a six story depiction of a youth, Amir Fred Fox, who obtains super powers and uses them to protect the town in which he lives from wrong doings. Evil never rests and neither does our young hero, Freddy Fabulous, as he constantly locks away all who bring trouble to the streets of Forress Town.
