Books with author John Rogerson

1969: As the investiture of the Prince of Wales approaches, sixth former Geraint joins a secretive organisation - The Liberation Army of Wales - which believes in direct action to win freedom from English dominance and exploitation. After bombing pipelines, LAW members begin to plan a daring mission to stop the investiture from taking place. However, Geraint's girlfriend begins to suspect he is in grave danger and decides to take some action of her own... Young adults will enjoy this lively romantic fiction which is rooted in the deep resentment and poitical divisions in Wales surrounding the investiture.

Seventeen year-old David Coulter throws the ultimate temper tantrum just before graduation and his eighteenth birthday. Following the rejection of his best buddy and girl friend as a "stray dog", he jumps the first bus leaving town, and ends up in Las Vegas with no phone, very little money, and no friends. ""Las Vegas! I'll show my dad that I can do better without his carrot and stick discipline!" And then his real troubles begin when he is robbed, arrested, and rejected by the military recruiters. David meets Sarah - another street person - and the two approach the owner of a failing photo shop with a scheme to get rich. But when David takes a photo of a hitman at the Luxor Casino, everything unravels into chaos.

At the back of the fair on a stall sits a bear. He stares out each day, hoping that the people passing by would stop and try to win a prize and perhaps once, just once, he will be that prize. In all the time he has been there, which is a long time, no matter how hard people try, the cans just don't drop. Enough is enough--he must take this in his own hands so he can finally leave and go to a home.

A signing gorilla named Bobo who is running for his life in the coastal forest of Oregon becomes the answer to Tommy and Rusty Caldwell's fervent prayer to send somebody who will bring their missing father back from the Muslim Wars. The boys decide to defy the authorities and run away with Bobo while they try to learn why a hunter is trying to kill him. A deaf woman and the boy's amnesiac father collaborate in an unlikely search effort that culminates on a precarious cliff where the hunter holds his rifle at Bobo's head...

Excerpt from Looking Forward: Or the Story of an American FarmRecently it has been revised and partly rewritten however, changing the design and arrangement of k, or the character of the narrative, which, as mav be 3d, is largely drawn from actual experiences among ners of Kansas.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Looking Forward: Or the Story of an American FarmRecently it has been revised and partly rewritten however, changing the design and arrangement of k, or the character of the narrative, which, as mav be 3d, is largely drawn from actual experiences among ners of Kansas.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

At the back of the fair on a stall sits a bear. He stares out each day, hoping that the people passing by would stop and try to win a prize and perhaps once, just once, he will be that prize. In all the time he has been there, which is a long time, no matter how hard people try, the cans just don’t drop. Enough is enough—he must take this in his own hands so he can finally leave and go to a home.

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