Herbert the Brave Sea Dog
Title | Herbert the Brave Sea Dog PDF eBook |
Author | Robyn Belton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Children's stories |
ISBN | 9781921529306 |
The heart-warming true story of a remarkable dog's voyage at sea. Herbert was a small dog who lived by the sea. Everybody loved him, but the person who loved him most was Tim. One day, Herbert set off on a boat trip with Tim's father but the short journey soon turned into the biggest adventure of Herbert's life.
Herbert
Title | Herbert PDF eBook |
Author | Robyn Belton |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0763647411 |
Herbert, a beloved, small dog who lives in New Zealand near the sea, sets out one fine day with his boy Tim's father on a boat that is beset by a sudden storm, which washes Herbert overboard. Based on a true story.
Weka Haka
Title | Weka Haka PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Powell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780995129245 |
Ooo-ee! ooo-ee!¿ called the weka. Run Maia run, before it gets ya! Maia is afraid of the weka in her garden. One evening her Dad asks her to pick some tomatoes for dinner. What will Maia do when the weka appears? He toa ahau! A uniquely New Zealand story, Weka Haka is about facing your fears head-on. Powell weaves in Te Reo and includes an illustrated glossary for unfamiliar words and concepts.
Paikea
Title | Paikea PDF eBook |
Author | Robyn Kahukiwa |
Publisher | Penguin Books |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1994-01 |
Genre | Folklore |
ISBN | 9780140509120 |
This is Kahukiwa's resplendent retelling of the age-old myth (popularised by Witi Ihimaera in his The Whale Rider, in which the protagonist, Paikea, travels from Hawaiki, and atop a whale, to Aotearoa - indicating, in many ways, the genesis of so many other great Maori folktales.
Fluke
Title | Fluke PDF eBook |
Author | James Herbert |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2011-05-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1447203364 |
Fluke is the moving story of a dog with the memories of a human, with the signature twisting plot Master of Horror James Herbert is famed for. A dog wanders the streets, compelled by a ravenous hunger. Hunting a prey he cannot not define, driven by a primal instinct he cannot ignore. He is more than he thinks, more than he can remember and in the depths of his brain the memory of what he once was is clawing for release . . .
The Mountain in the Sea
Title | The Mountain in the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Nayler |
Publisher | MCD |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2022-10-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374605963 |
*WINNER OF 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL * FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA AWARD, and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES RAY BRADBURY PRIZE “The Mountain in the Sea is a wildly original, gorgeously written, unputdownable gem of a novel. Ray Nayler is one of the most exciting new voices I’ve read in years.” —Blake Crouch, author of Upgrade and Dark Matter Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. She travels to the islands to join DIANIMA’s team: a battle-scarred securityagent and the world’s first (and possibly last) android. The octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. As Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves. But no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. Or what they might do about it. A near-future thriller, a meditation on the nature of consciousness, and an eco-logical call to arms, Ray Nayler’s dazzling literary debut The Mountain in the Sea is a mind-blowing dive into the treasure and wreckage of humankind’s legacy.
Hoover
Title | Hoover PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Whyte |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 770 |
Release | 2018-11-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 030774387X |
"An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street Journal The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century—a wholly original account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, his battle against the Great Depression, and their own history. An impoverished orphan who built a fortune. A great humanitarian. A president elected in a landslide and then resoundingly defeated four years later. Arguably the father of both New Deal liberalism and modern conservatism, Herbert Hoover lived one of the most extraordinary American lives of the twentieth century. Yet however astonishing, his accomplishments are often eclipsed by the perception that Hoover was inept and heartless in the face of the Great Depression. Now, Kenneth Whyte vividly recreates Hoover’s rich and dramatic life in all its complex glory. He follows Hoover through his Iowa boyhood, his cutthroat business career, his brilliant rescue of millions of lives during World War I and the 1927 Mississippi floods, his misconstrued presidency, his defeat at the hands of a ruthless Franklin Roosevelt, his devastating years in the political wilderness, his return to grace as Truman's emissary to help European refugees after World War II, and his final vindication in the days of Kennedy's "New Frontier." Ultimately, Whyte brings to light Hoover’s complexities and contradictions—his modesty and ambition, his ruthlessness and extreme generosity—as well as his profound political legacy. Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times is the epic, poignant story of the deprived boy who, through force of will, made himself the most accomplished figure in the land, and who experienced a range of achievements and failures unmatched by any American of his, or perhaps any, era. Here, for the first time, is the definitive biography that fully captures the colossal scale of Hoover’s momentous life and volatile times.