Books with author James A Owen

This personal memoir volume was published in1903.Excerpts from the Introduction:This is the life story of a man who, in the seventy- six years he has traveled about the world, has proven the old saying that truth is stranger than fiction. Un- like the novelist, who draws upon a vivid imagination for his tales of adventure, the hero of this story has but to draw upon his memory of events he has seen — in most of which he has been an actor. The events herein recorded are mostly incidents jotted down in leisure moments the past few, years for the amusement of children and grandchildren, and they may also find much to instruct them in the ways of the world fifty, and even seventy years ago. Ireland was my birthplace, and the date was April lo, 1827. That was in County Derry, near Curran. My father's people were of Welsh stock, and my mother Scotch, though both were born in Ireland. Shortly after my arrival in the family my parents moved to Entrem, where father took charge of John McChesney's Blichgreen. I was my father's name- sake and he was very fond of me. The first incident I can remember was one day I was sitting on his knee. He was smoking, and ashes fell from his pipe and burned my little body. He was sorely grieved, and threw away his pipe, declaring he would never smoke again. And he never did. That was an incident that showed the strength of his character. When he took a line of action he kept to it to the end, and I believe that that strength of char- acter was my chief inheritance, and in fact it was my only inheritance, except life and health, for almost from the first I made my own way in the world. A little incident, wrong though it was, or would be for one who had reached years of discretion, occurred when I was about four years old, and it shows that, like my father, I went through with whatever I undertook. I took a fancy to a pigeon belonging to a neighbor named Brown, and I caught it and took it home. Mother did not know whose it was, and allowed me to keep it, thinking it was only a stray bird. But one day a little later, Mr. Brown was passing and saw the bird. He told my mother, who compelled me to'carry the pigeon back, liberally using a willow switch on my back and legs until we met a neighbor woman, Mrs. McChes- ney, whose pleading in my behalf saved me further pun- ishment. The following Sunday, while my father and mother and the Browns were at church, I went to the Brown home, got the pigeon again, brought it home, killed it and hid it under a stone pile. It was missed of course, and they blamed me for having taken it. Mother often questioned me, but I never would admit that I knew anything about its disappearance. Whenever I saw Mr. Brown, I would imagine that he was thinking about that pigeon, but I was too stub- born to ever admit the crime and ask forgiveness. I felt that the whipping I got for taking the bird waspunishment enough for both offenses, and really the whipping was the motive for the second crime, and I am not a believer in the old adage, "Spare the rod and spoil the child," for many a boy has been spoiled by too lib- eral application of the rod.

The Illuminati is a terrible creature that destroys entire planets. The Illuminati is collecting subjects, mainly kids. He makes them write what happened to them before they were captured. They write in a journal, that can talk to The Illuminati's dead wife. The Illuminati and his son write in it too. Can the kids escape? Why is The Illuminati doing this? Only you can find out by reading this book.

The Crusade has begun... "There's an old myth in the Archipelago," he said softly, shaking his head."A legend really...I recall it mentioned a Crusade, but those events happened eight centuries ago...We always thought it was only a story..." It has been nine years since John, Jack, and Charles had their great adventure in the Archipelago of Dreams, and became the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica. Now, they have been brought together again to solve a mystery: someone is kidnapping the children of the Archipelago. And their only clue is a mysterious message delivered by a strange girl with artificial wings: "The Crusade has begun." Worse, they discover that all of the legendary Dragonships have disappeared as well. The only chance they have to save the world from a centuries-old plot is to seek out the last of the Dragonships -- the Red Dragon -- in a spectacular journey that takes them from Sir James Barrie's Kensington Gardens to the Underworld of the Greek Titans of myth. With friends both familiar and new, they will travel through an extraordinary landscape where history, myth, and fable blend together to tell the oldest story in the world. And along the way, the Caretakers of the Geographica will discover that great deeds alone do not make heroes, and that growing up may be unavoidable...but growing old doesn't have to be...

"Answer the questions unanswered for more than two millennia, and perhaps you might still restore the world." On a September evening in 1931, John and Jack, two of the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica, discover a plea for help on a medieval manuscript -- which seems to have been written by their friend, Hugo Dyson! When they rush to warn him, Hugo walks through a door in time -- and vanishes into the past. And in that moment, the world begins to change. The Frontier, which separates our world from the Archipelago of Dreams, has fallen. Dark and terrible beasts roam throughout England. No one can be summoned from the Archipelago. All the world lies under the reign of a cruel and terrible king. The only hope to restore the proper order of things lies on a forgotten island, where a time travel device left by Jules Verne must be used to race through history itself -- from the Bronze Age, to ancient Alexandria and the founding of the Silver Throne -- in one night. And in that single night, John and Jack will find that the only way to save their friend and stop the chaos destroying the world is to solve a two-thousand year-old mystery: Who is the Cartographer?

Bob Fever has swept the globe, with A Street Cat Named Bob vaulting its way to #7 on The New York Times bestseller list in its first week on sale. With rights sold to 27 countries around the globe and a top spot on the British bestseller list for more than a year, this book has been a smashing success around the world. Now, James Bowen and Bob are back in The World According to Bob―a touching and true sequel about one man and the cat that changed his life. As James struggles to adjust to his transformation from street musician to international celebrity, Bob is at his side, providing moments of intelligence, bravery, and humor and opening his human friend's eyes to important truths about friendship, loyalty, trust - and the meaning of happiness. In the continuing tale of their life together, James shows the many ways in which Bob has been his protector and guardian angel through times of illness, hardship, even life-threatening danger. As they high-five together for their crowds of admirers, James knows that the tricks he's taught Bob are nothing compared to the lessons he's learnt from his street-wise cat. Readers who fell in love with Dewey and Marley, as well as the many fans who read A Street Cat Named Bob, will be eager to read the next chapters in the life of James and Bob.

Bob Fever has swept the globe, with "A Street Cat Named Bob" vaulting its way to #7 on "The New York Times" bestseller list in its first week on sale. With rights sold to 27 countries around the globe and a top spot on the British bestseller list for more than a year, this book has been a smashing success around the world. Now, James Bowen and Bob are back in "The World According to Bob"--a touching and true sequel about one man and the cat that changed his life. As James struggles to adjust to his transformation from street musician to international celebrity, Bob is at his side, providing moments of intelligence, bravery, and humor and opening his human friend's eyes to important truths about friendship, loyalty, trust - and the meaning of happiness. In the continuing tale of their life together, James shows the many ways in which Bob has been his protector and guardian angel through times of illness, hardship, even life-threatening danger. As they high-five together for their crowds of admirers, James knows that the tricks he's taught Bob are nothing compared to the lessons he's learnt from his street-wise cat. Readers who fell in love with Dewey and Marley, as well as the many fans who read "A Street Cat Named Bob," will be eager to read the next chapters in the life of James and Bob.