Books with author Christopher Carley

The Sub-Heroes, a team of superpowered fourth graders, have already saved the city once. Since that day, they've been training harder than ever to be ready for the day another supervillain rises. That day has come, and they are not ready.Investigating a robbery at a local school, the team learns the theft was part of something much more sinister. Even their incredible powers may not be enough to battle the entire team of supervillains known as The Nightwatch.All hope may already be lost.They are Sub-Heroes. They must succeed. The entire city depends on it.

Rogue regimes have extracted an inordinate amount of energy, blood, and treasure from the world’s militaries in the past century. Overthrowing these regimes is a major policy decision - fraught with peril and unknown downstream implications. The United States painfully re-learned these lessons following the invasion in Iraq and after deposing the Taliban in Afghanistan. Unconventional warfare (UW) is the flip side of counter-insurgency, in which external military elements enable surrogate guerrilla forces against an incumbent government. An updated concept for UW campaigns may offer a more palatable option for regime change in certain situations. Global instantaneous communications, social media, and the application of precision munitions from conventional forces have radically altered this age old method of warfare. Recent UW campaigns in Libya and Syria demonstrated the pros and cons of jump-starting a revolution and how non-state actors have made these already chaotic conflicts even more so. Unconventional Warfare 2.0 describes how demographic trends, rapid technological changes, and an adaptive enemy will drive new and innovative UW approaches. UW 2.0 has served as mandatory reading at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Security Studies masters program and as an authorized reference for soldiers serving in the US Army's Special Operation Command and Canadian Special Operations Regiment.

The crew of Seventy-Seven should be basking in glory, back at Command. They achieved the impossible: Victory. An indomitable phalanx of Soviet armor had thundered down from the mountains and broke against Gunny and the tanks of Fate Troop. They should be celebrating, but they’re up to their elbows in grease and muck. A stray bullet through the radiator has knocked their tank out of commission. They’re helpless, stranded in the lazy town of Brigham Field, as the Reds escape back across the mountains. They're thinking the War is over for them.But a sniper in a clock tower is a unkind reminder that it's not.The War has followed them to Brigham Field. TANK: The Broken Sickle is the second installment in the exciting action/adventure series TANK. Follow Gunny and the crew of number Seventy-Seven as they battle the Soviets in an alternate Twenty-First Century.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ <title> Hide And Seek<author> Christopher Morley<publisher> George H. Doran company, 1920

Audrey Anderson is unlike her peers. She has returned from the grave after an absence spanning decades. The 1980s seemed like a pleasant era to re-establish herself, but there is always evil where she least expects it. Her boyfriend is infatuated with her and Audrey is the center of attention among her girlfriends. Will she be able to separate her role as an angel from her life as a high school teen? Or, will her destiny have already been decided for her.

Sir Thomas Browne said that Eve was "edified out of the rib of Adam." This little book was edified (for the most part) out of the ribs of two friendly newspapers, The New York Evening Post and The Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. To them, and to The Bookman, Everybody's, and The Publishers' Weekly, I am grateful for permission to reprint.Tristram Shandy said, "When a man is hemm'd in by two indecorums, and must commit one of 'em let him chuse which he will, the world will blame him." Now it is one indecorum to let this collection of small sketches go out (as they do) unrevised and just as they assaulted the defenceless reader of the daily prints; and the other indecorum would be to take fragments of this kind too gravely, and attempt by more careful disposition of their pallid members to arrange them into some appearance of painless decease. As Gilbert Chesterton said (I wish I could say, on a similar occasion): "Their vices are too vital to be improved with a blue pencil, or with anything I can think of, except dynamite."[Pg viii]These sketches gave me pain to write; they will give the judicious patron pain to read; therefore we are quits. I think, as I look over their slattern paragraphs, of that most tragic hour—it falls about 4 p. m. in the office of an evening newspaper—when the unhappy compiler tries to round up the broodings of the day and still get home in time for supper. And yet perhaps the will-to-live is in them, for are they not a naked exhibit of the antics a man will commit in order to earn a living? In extenuation it may be pleaded that none of them are so long that they may not be mitigated by an accompanying pipe of tobacco.THE AUTHOR.

Sara Robinson is unlike other twelve year-olds. She is orphaned, on the run and searching for answers to her existence. Follow her as she navigates through post-apocalypse America. Her journey takes her through the waste-land and into harms way. On her trip, Sara meets up with an unlikely survivor and friend that helps her achieve her goal. Brooklyn waits...2200 miles away.

Gissing lived alone (except for his Japanese butler) in a little house in the country, in that woodland suburb region called the Canine Estates. He lived comfortably and thoughtfully, as bachelors often do. He came of a respectable family, who had always conducted themselves calmly and without too much argument. They had bequeathed him just enough income to live on cheerfully, without display but without having to do addition and subtraction at the end of the month and then tear up the paper lest Fuji (the butler) should see it. It was strange, since Gissing was so pleasantly situated in life, that he got into these curious adventures that I have to relate. I do not attempt to explain it. He had no responsibilities, not even a motor car, for his tastes were surprisingly simple. If he happened to be spending an evening at the country club, and a rainstorm came down, he did not worry about getting home. He would sit by the fire and chuckle to see the married members creep away one by one. He would get out his pipe and sleep that night at the club, after telephoning Fuji not to sit up for him. When he felt like it he used to read in bed, and even smoke in bed. When he went to town to the theatre, he would spend the night at a hotel to avoid the fatigue of the long ride on the 11:44 train. He chose a different hotel each time, so that it was always an Adventure. He had a great deal of fun. But having fun is not quite the same as being happy. Even an income of 1000 bones a year does not answer all questions. That charming little house among the groves and thickets seemed to him surrounded by strange whispers and quiet voices. He was uneasy. He was restless, and did not know why. It was his theory that discipline must be maintained in the household, so he did not tell Fuji his feelings. Even when he was alone, he always kept up a certain formality in the domestic routine. Fuji would lay out his dinner jacket on the bed: he dressed, came down to the dining room with quiet dignity, and the evening meal was served by candle-light. As long as Fuji was at work, Gissing sat carefully in the armchair by the hearth, smoking a cigar and pretending to read the paper. But as soon as the butler had gone upstairs, Gissing always kicked off his dinner suit and stiff shirt, and lay down on the hearth-rug. But he did not sleep. He would watch the wings of flame gilding the dark throat of the chimney, and his mind seemed drawn upward on that rush of light, up into the pure chill air where the moon was riding among sluggish thick floes of cloud. In the darkness he heard chiming voices, wheedling and tantalizing. One night he was walking on his little verandah. Between rafts of silver-edged clouds were channels of ocean-blue sky, inconceivably deep and transparent. The air was serene, with a faint acid taste. Suddenly there shrilled a soft, sweet, melancholy whistle, earnestly repeated. It seemed to come from the little pond in the near-by copses. It struck him strangely. It might be anything, he thought. He ran furiously through the field, and to the brim of the pond. He could find nothing, all was silent. Then the whistlings broke out again, all round him, maddeningly. This kept on, night after night. The parson, whom he consulted, said it was only frogs; but Gissing told the constable he thought God had something to do with it

A World Without WaterA World Without Water is an illustrated story-poem for young readers that illuminates how we can all help solve today's growing water crisis. Get washed away on this fanciful journey to a time and place in which the water has run out and see what can be done to conserve our most precious resource. Common themes in this picture book are saving water, conservation and tips for a cleaner environment.Your child or students will learn the importance of saving the earth and valuing one of its most precious resources.Trailer (Copy and Paste the link to watch): www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoJF0Ve47FU5 Star Reviews (More under reviews) Djohnson-I read this book at bedtime to my seven year old boy and asked him to rate the book on a scale of one to five how he liked it. He said definitely a five….I asked him why…his response was “the book is true and it tells kids what they need to know to live in this world.”With that.. I would say that author Mr. Holley hit this one out of the ballpark! Mr. Zues¬-I purchased this book for my young nephews and nieces, to help them learn the importance of conservation. I was not disappointed upon receiving the book. The story is expressed clearly, with good, relatable examples for children. It also rhymes throughout, which should help keep them engaged in the story. Though this book specifically talks about conserving water, the same basic lesson has a broader application, allowing you to bring the conversation to other areas where you might want to discuss avoiding wastefulness. The quality of the book itself is good, with the text easy to read, and the pictures are expressive and do an excellent job of illustrating the points the text touches on. Overall, I am very happy with this book. Water conservation, books by holley, picture book, story, children's books, kids books, climate change, earth day, save the earth, books for boys, books for girls, read aloud, storytime, save the planet, environmentally friendly, eco books, new picture books

He felt himself slipping. "Ayanah!" He screamed. "I'm falling! Slow down! Slow down! I'm falling off!"The big buffalo did not seem to hear him. Instead, he ran faster. "Please, Ayanah!" Askee pleaded.It was no use. His grip on the thick hair was giving. Each movement of the buffalo below him pushed him further backward until he felt himself leaving the buffalo. In slow motion seconds seemed like minutes. He saw his buffalo disappearing. When he hit the ground, he turned to see twenty thousand hooves seeking to devour him. The thundering roar boomed in his ears.