Ruff Life
Ruff Life

Author: Donna Harris

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2011-04-15

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1456750801

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Bob and Mickeys peaceful retirement on Anna Maria Island, Florida is disrupted when their grandchildren from Indiana spend the summer. While the kids confront young local bullies, their grandparents face senior citizen bullies as their Condo Homeowners Association board uses rules and fines to force them to move away from this tropical Paradise. Sabra is a precocious deaf, ten-year old who flirts with college boys and pressures her grandparents to learn American Sign Language. Davids twelve, yearning for teenage independence while still dealing with childish fears. Island boys Bone and Heath just want to make everyone miserable. Reading this book is like living for a summer on the island. Readers will feel the sea breeze, enjoy meeting the AMI Privateers and walk the beach with Turtle Watch volunteers. Youll spend time at the Community Center and party with families at Deaf Service Center events. Come and enjoy real island locations, take a cruise to Egmont Key, and meet rescued dogs, veterans, cowards, heroes and villains.

Ruff Love
Ruff Love

Author: Susan Garrett

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781892694065

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A handbook for the Ruff Love dog training program developed by "pre-eminent canine sports instructor and competitor," Susan Garrett. Includes quick reference charts.

The Ruff
The Ruff

Author: Johan G. Van Rhijn

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-10-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1408136775

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The Ruff is a fascinating species whose elaborate breeding behaviour has captivated ornithologists for decades. Their communal display grounds, or leks, provide an extreme example of a social system widespread in birds and other animals, in which brilliantly plumaged males seemingly compete for the attention of passing females. In this book, Johan van Rhijn explores this complex and intricate drama, both to lay bare the details of the players' private lives, and to provide a means of exploring the wider variety of wader breeding systems. Strands of evidence for all aspects of the Ruffs life, in and out of the breeding season, come together to give a thought-provoking insight into this important area of biology. Specialists and birdwatchers alike will have much to learn from this intriguing story and the insights it provides. Illustrated by Ian Willis.

Rules of the Ruff
Rules of the Ruff

Author: Heidi Lang

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1683354052

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A girl learns how to walk dogs—and walk tall—in this charming, coming-of-age novel Twelve-year-old Jessie is in for a long, lonely summer at her aunt and uncle’s house. Her uncle is clueless, her aunt is downright frosty, and worst of all, her cousin Ann thinks Jessie isn’t cool enough to hang out with anymore. But Jessie is industrious, and—not content with being ignored all summer—she convinces Wes, a grouchy neighborhood dog walker, to take her on as his apprentice. Sure, dog walking turns out to be harder than she expected, but she has Wes’s dog-walking code, the Rules of the Ruff, to guide her, and soon, she’s wrangling her very own pack like the best of them. But when Monique, a charming rival dog walker, moves to town, she quickly snatches up most of Wes’s business—and Jessie decides she isn’t going to take this defeat with her tail between her legs.

US Marine Corps
US Marine Corps

Author: Gail Radley

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2020-08-01

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1098210190

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This book highlights a wide range of careers in the US Marine Corps, from snipers to intelligence specialists to combat photographers. The title discusses the required training and duties of each career, along with the branch's history and overall mission. Features include a glossary, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

It's a Puppy's Life
It's a Puppy's Life

Author: Seth Casteel

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1426330693

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"Photographs of puppies with explanations of their daily routine, for young children"--

Peter Ruff and the Double Four
Peter Ruff and the Double Four

Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-04

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13:

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'Peter Ruff and the Double Four' is a novel that follows Peter Ruff, who in the midst of danger, decides to transform from a criminal to a private investigator with the help of his underworld connections and mastery of disguise. Teamed up with his assistant, Violet Brown, Ruff becomes a successful sleuth, even gaining the admiration of a conglomerate of reformed criminals. However, Ruff's success attracts enemies, including a former flame's new husband and a German spy. In a collection of thrilling short stories, readers will follow Ruff's adventures as he outwits his foes and possibly falls in love.

Peter Ruff
Peter Ruff

Author: Edward Phillips Oppenheimer

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2021-10-21

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 8726924439

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Accompanied by his trusty and beautiful companion Violet Brown, Peter Ruff decides to turn his back on his former life of crime and become a private investigator. With his established links to the criminal underworld and his skilful disguises, Ruff is hugely successful in his new venture. However, along with success comes jealousy, and Ruff soon finds himself with a wealth of enemies thanks to his new career. A thrilling tale of sleuths and crime from E. Phillips Oppenheim, which readers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will enjoy. E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was a hugely prolific and highly popular British author of novels and short stories. Born in Tottenham, London, Oppenheim left school as a teenager and worked for his leather-merchant father for 20 years prior to launching his literary career. Oppenheim published five novels under the pseudonym ‘Anthony Partridge’ before establishing his reputation as a writer under his own name. An internationally successful author, Oppenheim’s stories revolved mainly around glamourous characters, luxurious settings, and themes of espionage, suspense, and crime. He is widely regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of the thriller and spy-fiction genre as it is recognised today. Oppenheim’s incredible literary success meant that his own life soon began to mirror that of his opulent characters. He held lavish, Gatsby-style parties at his French Villa and was rumoured to have had frequent love affairs aboard his luxury yacht. Oppenheim’s success earned him the cover of Time magazine in 1927. Some of his most well-known novels include ‘The Great Impersonation’, ‘The Long Arm of Mannister’ and ‘The Moving Finger’.

Lovecraft Country
Lovecraft Country

Author: Matt Ruff

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-02-16

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0062292080

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Now an HBO® Series from J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer of Westworld), Misha Green (Creator of Underground) and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out) The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors—they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours. At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his—and the whole Turner clan’s—destruction. A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.