Books with author Andrew Franks

For martial arts Master Chapton Ito, life is good―until it isn't. His business, Fat Whack, is the South's premiere weight-loss company. People love the concept of hiring a personal ninja to leap out of the bushes to knock junk food out of their hands, helping to "whack the fat right off". But what happens when the ninjas start killing clients instead of calories?Master Ito's business takes a hit, and people start to whisper about a mysterious Fat Master. Who is he? Why is he kidnapping obese teenagers and stashing them in the woods? And will the world accept a hero who also happens to be a ninja?Fat Whack is a skinny story that's fat with drama!

Fat Whack is back!It's New Year's Eve, 1999. Time to celebrate the beginning of a new millennium! Instead, people all around the globe are waiting in trepidation for computers to rise up and take over the world. It's a silly thing to fear—or is it?Meanwhile, Carina Lopez is still on the road to recovery after a traumatic experience involving a fat man pumped full of demons and medication. Ninja #5's daughter, Kumiko, has begun training her in the Fat Whack Way. She will be the clan's first trainee in over a decade.Steven, also known as Ninja #5, has decided to take a well-deserved break, and everyone's surprised when Alda decides to go with him.Billy Ito and Drew have taken on the monumental task of rebuilding the Fat Whack brand from the ground up. It will take hard work, patience, and some imagination to get the public back on board after all these years.The Fat Whack family are all moving forward with their new responsibilities. Unknown to them, a new threat is on the rise. People are being torn apart like cheese in a grater. A path of severed limbs and gruesome death leads the Fat Whackers into a violent confrontation—one that they might not all be able to survive. This murderous machine is fat with evil, and some fat is harder to whack than others.

Fat Whack is back!It's New Year's Eve, 1999. Time to celebrate the beginning of a new millennium! Instead, people all around the globe are waiting in trepidation for computers to rise up and take over the world. It's a silly thing to fear―or is it?Meanwhile, Carina Lopez is still on the road to recovery after a traumatic experience involving a fat man pumped full of demons and medication. Ninja #5's daughter, Kumiko, has begun training her in the Fat Whack Way. She will be the clan's first trainee in over a decade.Steven, also known as Ninja #5, has decided to take a well-deserved break, and everyone's surprised when Alda decides to go with him.Billy Ito and Drew have taken on the monumental task of rebuilding the Fat Whack brand from the ground up. It will take hard work, patience, and some imagination to get the public back on board after all these years.The Fat Whack family are all moving forward with their new responsibilities. Unknown to them, a new threat is on the rise. People are being torn apart like cheese in a grater. A path of severed limbs and gruesome death leads the Fat Whackers into a violent confrontation―one that they might not all be able to survive. This murderous machine is fat with evil, and some fat is harder to whack than others.

In a compilation of essays, Early Republic: People and Perspectives explores the varied experiences of many different groups of Americans across racial, gender, religious, and regional lines in the early years of the country.Written by expert contributors drawing on extensive new research, Early Republic: People and Perspectives ranges across the broad spectrum of society to explore the everyday lives of Americans from the birth of the nation to the beginning of Jacksonian Age (roughly 1830).In a series of chapters, Early Republic provides vivid portraits of the farmers, entrepreneurs, laborers, women, Native Americans, and slaves who made up the population of the United States in its infancy. Key events, such as the two-party political system, the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, and the expansion into the Ohio Valley, are seen through the eyes of the ordinary citizens who helped make them happen, in turn, making the United States what it is today.• Primary sources give readers an opportunity to hear the real voices of the people of the United States in its formative decades• A bibliography provides an exhaustive list of relevant social history works over the past 40 years

How one boy and an army of children overthrow the worst Prime Minister in British history. When bonkers Colonel Spackman becomes Prime Minister, his England for Adults party set about making sure that children are seen but not heard. But when every teenager in the land disappears overnight, Lewis Spottiswood decides it’s time to make a stand. His freedom march to the Isle of Wight Correction Zone attracts disaffected children from every town they pass. But, with government assassins hot on his trail, can Lewis lead his rebel army to victory?

For more than two centuries, Newfoundlanders took their small native horse for granted, but a basic question is whether the Newfoundland exists as a true breed. This fascinating and well-researched book tells how the pony has been bred exclusively in this insular location, without significant introduction of fresh blood fo a hundred years. It is, therefore, a distinct breed of horses in all senses except for the existance of a stud book. Pedigree did not make a horse work better - performance was everything, papers were nothing in the reality of old Newfoundland life. Newfoundland ponies apparently have New Forest, Connemara, Welsh, Galloway and Highland influence showing in some individuals; Exmoor and Dartmoor in most. They represent a potpourri of Mountain and Moorland breeds fron the old British isles. Their physique and temperament are particularly well-suited to the environment; the rocky ground, the long winter, the strong winds off the cold Atlantic Ocean. In 1980 the Newfoundland Pony Society was officially formed. At that time it was estimated that the whole island had a population of about six thousand ponies; estimates in 1995 place the numbers remaining at below 200. This remarkable pony remains on the edge of extinction. Chapter content includes: Old Times Distant Pony Ancestry The Travelling Horse The Moorland Pony A Diffuse Equine Family The Newfoundland Pony Breed The Working Newfoundlander Pony Tales Raised In Newfoundland The Ways Of The Pony The Newfoundlands Future

To avoid a summer wasted on boring family business, William Dyer, a shy withdrawn and aimless fourteen-year-old, finds himself working unexpectedly as a volunteer at Taverton Park, a state-of-the-art wildlife captive breeding centre. There, working among tigers, gorillas, snakes and – most terrifyingly of all – “other people” – he discovers a whole new world that he never imagined. Rewarding and challenging, William’s adventure leads him to a new understanding of human and animals relationships.