Books with author Charles Thomson

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny--it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's powers of observation have never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future.

Gabby was your average nine year-old girl. She loved playing princess and castles, she loved taking baths, and she never wanted to listen. Her mommy would say her voice went in one ear and out the other when she told Gabby anything. Despite this, Gabby still wouldn't listen to her mommy and would want to play or do other things that her mommy would tell her not to do."Gabby, don't eat any of the cookies. You need to eat dinner first." She still ate the cookies."Gabby, I need you to clean your room before your grandma gets here." Her room was still a mess and things were shoved underneath her bed."Gabby, you need to finish your homework before you go outside." Homework wasn't done until after she came inside and so she had to stay up late to finish.No matter what happened or what her mommy said she just wouldn't listen. She didn't want to listen. After all, it was no fun listening to her mommy and not having any fun. Listening usually meant she had to do work of some kind that took time out of her playing.

It is 1933 and Percy Poole, the fourteen-year-old son of Detective Inspector Brian Poole, is in Birmingham's Snow Hill Station - trainspotting. Suddenly a train hurtles through the station at breakneck speed, with a sound like the buzzing of a huge swarm of bees. It is unlike any train Percy has ever seen, black and bullet-shaped, without cylinders, funnel or smoke. The appearance of the train coincides with a series of daring robberies of priceless art treasures; and when Inspector Poole goes missing, Percy and the ghost of his sister Julia have to follow the clues to solve the mystery of the Ghost Train and rescue his father from the ruthless criminal mastermind Count Frederick de Lille.

Gabby was what you would call your average 7-year-old girl. Or at least, she was average when you first met her. She had a big brother, she loved her mommy and daddy, she hated going to bed, and she definitely hated brushing her hair.It was always the same every morning. She would put her clothes on and eat breakfast, but she just refused to brush her hair. No matter how much her mommy told her to do it, she didn't want to. She liked her hair being extra bushy and curly in the mornings. She called herself the little lion queen with her big mane.

First published in the 1700’s and documenting the most important biographies ever to inspire the outlooks of The Golden Age of Piracy, Captain Charles Johnson’s A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PIRATES remains the most significant work in piracy research. The 17th-century early-modern English text has been reproduced in an easier-to-read way – though still completely accurate and true to the original – with extra galleries and information as well as additional content like sea shanties and historical discoveries. Reconstructed from our first edition copy; we’ve paid attention to the detail and restructured the book the way it deserves to be. This is one of the most important pieces of non-fiction to have ever graced the Earth – and we wanted to resurrect it! Though attributed to a mysterious author known as Captain Charles Johnson, A GENERAL HISTORY carries its own cunningness with the author often attributed as a potential pseudonym of Robinson Crusoe writer Daniel Defoe.

Hunter Mason has had a tough life somewhat, having lost his father three years ago. He lives with his mother, Charlene Mason but finds himself to be lonely most of the time, due to her working full time and going to school. He is proud of her, but also wishes she would spend more time with him. she promises to go out with him many times, but the promise never came through until he got a project at school which required him to write about one of the Presidents of the United States. This project has brought about changes in his life that he has been wishing and hoping for a long time now. After Spending a day touring the National Constitution Center with his mom, Hunter has gotten intrigued by the current President, Barack Obama's life, and decided to make a change in his own life and those around him, like the President did.

There was once a boy named Bobby and just like any 10-year-old named Bobby, he loved to go running outside and playing sports. He loved to ride bikes with his friends. He loved his mommy and daddy and kind of liked his sister. Most importantly, though, was he didn't like to share.He wouldn't share his toys with his sister, Gabby. He never did his share of the homework with his class for group work. He never even shared his food when he got a bigger plate than anyone else, even if he knew he couldn't eat it all.