Books with author Bob George

Marmalade August's life seemed ordinary, like everyone else’s, like her friends. But after a disaster on the set of a school play, things begin to change. Strange dreams, a spectral storm, and a day in which every superstition and myth has seemed to come true. With the help of her friends Marmalade must find out if she is the cause of all these phenomenon and if she can change the course of events that have released tornados, curses, and even the legend of Scary Mary on her school. On her journey she will discover that this is only the beginning, and that she is destined for something far greater than she could have ever imagined.

Wales is a country interesting in many respects, and deserving of more attention than it has hitherto met with. Though not very extensive, it is one of the most picturesque countries in the world, a country in which Nature displays herself in her wildest, boldest, and occasionally loveliest forms. The inhabitants, who speak an ancient and peculiar language, do not call this region Wales, nor themselves Welsh. They call themselves Cymry or Cumry, and their country Cymru, or the land of the Cumry. Wales or Wallia, however, is the true, proper, and without doubt original name, as it relates not to any particular race, which at present inhabits it, or may have sojourned in it at any long bygone period, but to the country itself. Wales signifies a land of mountains, of vales, of dingles, chasms, and springs. It is connected with the Cumbric bal, a protuberance, a springing forth; with the Celtic beul or beal, a mouth; with the old English welle, a fountain; with the original name of Italy, still called by the Germans Welschland; with Balkan and Vulcan, both of which signify a casting out, an eruption; with Welint or Wayland, the name of the Anglo-Saxon god of the forge; with the Chaldee val, a forest, and the German wald; with the English bluff, and the Sanscrit palava—startling assertions, no doubt, at least to some; which are, however, quite true, and which at some future time will be universally acknowledged so to be.

The autobiography of one of the UK’s most flamboyant and charismatic stars, guaranteed to shock, amuse and tantalize.In the thirteen years since the conclusion of the first part of his memoirs, Take It Like a Man, Boy George has reinvented himself. As that story closed, George was coming to terms with the fall-out from his drug addiction, the failure of his relationship with Jon Moss and the collapse of Culture Club. For lesser men this would have been the end, but for George it became the start of a period of startling personal and creative reinvention. Told with George’s trademark biting wit, brutal honesty and sparkling insight, this new book will bring his remarkable story up to date: from his role as a world-class DJ spearheading the dance music revolution in clubs all over the world, to his cutting-edge record label, and his role in the theatrical sensation Taboo.Tracing the momentous twists and turns of Boy George’s personal and artistic life over the last decade-and-a-half, Straight will not just be a riveting companion volume to the bestselling Take It Like a Man, but a truly fascinating book in its own right.From the Hardcover edition.

Marmalade August's life seemed ordinary, like everyone else’s, like her friends. But after a disaster on the set of a school play, things begin to change. Strange dreams, a spectral storm, and a day in which every superstition and myth has seemed to come true. With the help of her friends Marmalade must find out if she is the cause of all these phenomenon and if she can change the course of events that have released tornados, curses, and even the legend of Scary Mary on her school. On her journey she will discover that this is only the beginning, and that she is destined for something far greater than she could have ever imagined.

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