Books with author John Mitchelson

Author: John Mitchelson Language: EnglishThe story is told from the viewpoint of a young cabin-boy, who had run away to sea from a good vicarage home. There is a most unpleasant captain, from the American "Down-East". The first-mate is pretty nasty too, while the second-mate has a very strong Danish accent, but is a good man, as is the ship's carpenter. The ship's cook, a black man from Jamaica, is the protagonist, the ghost.The ship is wrecked intact on Abingdon Island in the Galapagos, being carried ashore by a tsunami. There is a lot of treasure on the island, dating from the buccaneers' time.

Noah Willows never asked to have the most powerful ghosts at school. All he wants—all he has ever wanted—is to grow up normal like all the other children, and to play video games rather than study books. Yet life isn’t so simple when you’re the twelve-year-old son of Jon and Sara Willows, two of the most respected and well-known ghostmasters in all of Astoria. Greatness isn’t an option—it’s a requirement. And even though Noah’s ghosts are formidable, they are wild and rebellious too, and Noah can see the disappointment etched in his father’s eyes. But everything changes for Noah when he decides to sneak into the Teacher’s Lounge one day after school. While hiding out of sight Noah overhears his Principal, the forever-surly Mr. Shnelding, plotting to expel him. What’s more, Noah’s hero Mr. Matthews has unexpectedly returned to the school, and he’s carrying a mysterious golden briefcase at his side. Inside it is a secret so dangerous that parents across town are beginning to vanish, and rumors speak of the legendary Shadows returning from the north….Noah fears the reports, but he finds solace in his ghosts and his video games, like usual…until he learns a devastating truth that catapults him into the middle of an unlikely—yet vitally important—adventure: The Shadows, more than anyone else, are after him!

Was the most famous poet and writer of all time a fraud and a plagiarist? Was Shakespeare the 'upstart crow' described by Greene as strutting in borrowed feathers, or Jonson's 'Poet-Ape' who patched plays together from others' work? Was his name merely a pseudonym for a well-known contemporary figure?These questions have been furiously debated ever since the eighteenth century, when the writing styles of Marlowe and other playwrights were discerned in plays such as Titus Andronicus. The orthodox view is that the author of the works of Shakespeare was, of course, the actor and businessman of Stratford-upon-Avon. But the known facts about this man are surprisingly meagre, and contrast puzzlingly with the learned, courtly philosopher revealed in the Sonnets and plays - the universal genius and supreme stylist.Respected scholars and obsessive eccentrics have devoted years to the search for evidence, and many different theories have been put forward. Some believe that the great lawyer Francis Bacon may have used the name of an obscure actor to disseminate his philosophy. Many others, including Freud, see the Earl of Oxford mirrored in Hamlet. Yet others suggest that Marlowe was not killed, as thought, in a drunken brawl, nor even in a secret service execution, but lived on to write secretly as Shakespeare.John Michell's enthralling investigation of the many claims and counter-claims reads like a series of detective stories. He lays out the evidence and the arguments for the various candidates, not forgetting Shakespeare himself, and provides a drily humorous commentary on the research and prejudices of their champions while adding new insights of his own. By the end of the book, even the most faithful disciples of the Bard will find themselves questioning 'Who Wrote Shakespeare?'

Peter, fifteen, and his Dad leave Boston for a cross country drive to their new home in Portland, OR. Peter’s Dad is the director of the US Army’s Deep Space Exploration lab and is being transferred to the new, more sophisticated lab in Oregon. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, the signals sent out by the lab’s proprietary satellites and antennae have alerted deep space aliens, who send four of their number to earth to assess the technology and threat potential. These aliens, blindingly white, stocky four foot creatures have the capacity to reduce themselves to the size of a pea by eliminating the atomic distances in each atom of their makeup. Once on earth, they can recharge--in much the same way as electric eels produce a charge—their atoms and regain their original stature. The also possess the ability to extract DNA from any individual earthly life form and assume the size and shape of that individual, including its mind. For this mission, the aliens choose human beings to act as their Trojan Horses. They intercept Peter and his Dad, making his Dad one victim. Peter escapes. Then they randomly select two others to help with the effort in Portland. However, since they do not understand human society, the resultant trio make for a strange, ill-matched group. Further, they have no concept of human psychology or emotion, which proves their undoing. In this fast-paced novel for young adults, Peter and his sister Jessica, together with their friends and contemporaries Andrew and Victoria, the children of the African-American assistant director, they foil the aliens.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Noah Willows never asked to have the most powerful ghosts at school. All he wants—all he has ever wanted—is to grow up normal like all the other children, and to play video games rather than study books. Yet life isn’t so simple when you’re the twelve-year-old son of Jon and Sara Willows, two of the most respected and well-known ghostmasters in all of Astoria. Greatness isn’t an option—it’s a requirement. And even though Noah’s ghosts are formidable, they are wild and rebellious too, and Noah can see the disappointment etched in his father’s eyes. But everything changes for Noah when he decides to sneak into the Teacher’s Lounge one day after school. While hiding out of sight Noah overhears his Principal, the forever-surly Mr. Shnelding, plotting to expel him. What’s more, Noah’s hero Mr. Matthews has unexpectedly returned to the school, and he’s carrying a mysterious golden briefcase at his side. Inside it is a secret so dangerous that parents across town are beginning to vanish, and rumors speak of the legendary Shadows returning from the north…. Noah fears the reports, but he finds solace in his ghosts and his video games, like usual…until he learns a devastating truth that catapults him into the middle of an unlikely—yet vitally important—adventure: The Shadows, more than anyone else, are after him!