The Call of the Swamp
Title | The Call of the Swamp PDF eBook |
Author | Davide Calì |
Publisher | Eerdmans Books For Young Readers |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780802854865 |
"Boris, a swamp creature who was adopted by human parents, starts to question where he truly belongs"--
The Secret of the Swamp King
Title | The Secret of the Swamp King PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Rogers |
Publisher | B&H Publishing Group |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | 9780805431322 |
King Darrow sends Aidan Errolson on an impossible quest, hoping he will never return, and although Aidan has enough friends to succeed on the journey, even he might not be able to defeat the powerful enemy that awaits him at its end.
Tator's Swamp Fever
Title | Tator's Swamp Fever PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Shapley-Box |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014-05-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780692208472 |
Tator the Gator discovers the value of reading books while helping cure his sick mother in the swamplands.
The Swamp
Title | The Swamp PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Bolling |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2017-06-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1250150191 |
When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again. In The Swamp, bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an infuriating, amusing, revealing, and outrageous history of American politics, past and present, Republican and Democrat. From national political scandals to tempests in a teapot that blew up; bribery, blackmail, bullying, and backroom deals that contradicted public policies; cronyism that cost taxpayers hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars; and personal conduct that can only be described as regrettable, The Swamp is a journey downriver through the bayous and marshes of Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. The presidential election of 2016 was ugly, but it exposed a political, media, industry, and elite establishment that desperately wanted to elect a politician who received millions of dollars from terror-funding states over a businessman willing to tell the corrupt or incompetent, “You’re fired.” The book concludes with a series of recommendations for President Trump: practical, hard-headed, and concise ways to drain the swamp and force Washington to be more transparent, more accountable, and more effective in how it serves those who have elected its politicians and pay the bills for their decisions. Last year President Trump declared Wake Up America to be a "huge" book; Eric Bolling's second book is sure to build on that success. Entertaining and timely, The Swamp is the perfect book for today's political climate.
Swamplandia!
Title | Swamplandia! PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Russell |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2011-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307595447 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. "Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.
The Swamp Fox
Title | The Swamp Fox PDF eBook |
Author | John Oller |
Publisher | Da Capo Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2016-10-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0306824582 |
This comprehensive biography of Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, covers his famous wartime stories as well as a private side of him that has rarely been explored In the darkest days of the American Revolution, Francis Marion and his band of militia freedom fighters kept hope alive for the patriot cause during the critical British "southern campaign." Employing insurgent guerrilla tactics that became commonplace in later centuries, Marion and his brigade inflicted enemy losses that were individually small but cumulatively a large drain on British resources and morale. Although many will remember the stirring adventures of the "Swamp Fox" from the Walt Disney television series of the late 1950s and the fictionalized Marion character played by Mel Gibson in the 2000 film The Patriot, the real Francis Marion bore little resemblance to either of those caricatures. But his exploits were no less heroic as he succeeded, against all odds, in repeatedly foiling the highly trained, better-equipped forces arrayed against him. In this action-packed biography we meet many colorful characters from the Revolution: Banastre Tarleton, the British cavalry officer who relentlessly pursued Marion over twenty-six miles of swamp, only to call off the chase and declare (per legend) that "the Devil himself could not catch this damned old fox," giving Marion his famous nickname; Thomas Sumter, the bold but rash patriot militia leader whom Marion detested; Lord Cornwallis, the imperious British commander who ordered the hanging of rebels and the destruction of their plantations; "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, the urbane young Continental cavalryman who helped Marion topple critical British outposts in South Carolina; but most of all Francis Marion himself, "the Washington of the South," a man of ruthless determination yet humane character, motivated by what his peers called "the purest patriotism." In The Swamp Fox, the first major biography of Marion in more than forty years, John Oller compiles striking evidence and brings together much recent learning to provide a fresh look both at Marion, the man, and how he helped save the American Revolution.
Deep in the Swamp
Title | Deep in the Swamp PDF eBook |
Author | Donna M. Bateman |
Publisher | Lerner Publishing Group |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1430129948 |
With the rhythm of the familiar poem "Over in the Meadow", this vibrant book introduces animals native to the Okefenokee Swamp, and highlights much of the flora and fauna that is recognizable in swamps and bayous elsewhere. Colorful, detailed illustrations and additional facts round out this appealing, rhyming exploration of a fascinating eco-system.