Books with author Michael Levy

The polished veneer of a boys boarding school in Northern England masks a cadre of wickedness. Seniors viciously torment any junior they deem unfit. Jonathan Simon, in his first term at Blackleigh School in 1955, is warned: 1) There are three monsters in his dorm: seniors Flicker, Sleeth, and Tunk; and 2) A code of conduct mandates no snitching.Simon befriends two other juniors; pixie-faced Ian Gracey; and witty, grossly overweight Arthur Crown. Juniors are required to clean seniors studies and Crown panics when he s assigned to Flicker, who was under suspicion by the police a year earlier after a junior fell from the church bell tower in the off-limits cemetery. During a cross-country run, the three friends take a shortcut and stumble into the cadet rifle range. Corps Sergeant Sleeth puts them through a degrading punishment using human excrement. The three juniors swear a blood oath never to allow another bully to abuse them.Will this oath be their downfall, or will they make it through the school year? Snitching could have serious consequences, but keeping silent will break their blood oath. As Simon, Gracey and Crown try to survive this perilous journey, the constant threat of harm brings their friendship ever closer...

Emotional distress arises from a variety of causes. Anna was uprooted by a move to a distant town. Connor's activity was limited by an injury that refused to heal. Carli waited for new feet. Each withdrew from social contacts, into prolonged self-pity. Each encountered Grandma Scoggins, and each was sent on a search for a rare white robin. Was there magic in that misfit bird? How could a glimpse of a creature, so different from its peers, change even one of these suffering in isolation? Join the quest for the white robin, and discover its magic.

A #1 New York Times BestsellerWhen the U.S. stock market crash became public knowledge in the fall of 2008‚ it was already old news. The real crash‚ the silent crash‚ had taken place over the previous year in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't bother to tread: bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent securities to profit from the misery of those who can't pay their debts. The crucial question is: Who got it right? Who saw it coming‚ and made billions?

Kitty Gordon was a famous musical theatre actress, singer, vaudevillian, silent film star and beauty who was active in the entertainment field from 1901-1921. The sculptor Auguste Rodin considered her the most beautiful woman in the world. Her films were played alongside those of Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. One of her 21 silent films, “Tinsel” (1918), still exists for viewing. Her colourful husbands included Michael Levenston, a Victorian theatre manager and Captain Beresford, brother of Lord Decies. This book brings to light a long-forgotten star of another era.