Books with author Oliver

Al Oliver is a former Major League Baseball player. Over the course of his eighteen year career, he has been blessed to be able to play for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1968-77), Texas Rangers (1978-81), Montreal Expos (1982-83), San Francisco Giants (1984), Philadelphia Phillies (1984), Los Angeles Dodgers (1985) and Toronto Blue Jays (1985). From 1970 to 1976, he played for five Pirates division champions, including the team that defeated the Orioles in the 1971 World Series. Al Oliver was a career .303 hitter with 219 home runs and 1326 RBI's in 2368 games. He batted .300 or more eleven times and retired with 2,743 hits (45th on the all-time list). He is ranked among the all-time top 50 in games played (2368), total bases (4083), RBI (1326) and extra-base hits (825). Oliver was among the league's top ten in doubles nine times and among the league's top ten in hits nine times as well and finished in the top ten in batting average nine times. During his career, five times he was among the league's top ten in total bases and four times he was in the top ten in RBIs. Oliver is a seven time All Star player, a three time Sliver Slugger Award winner, and has won the 1982 National League Batting Title. Oliver's autobiography covers his faith and determination on both on and off the diamond. It also discuss Olivers life from overcoming hardships as a child to his eventual triumph of becoming a Major League Baseball player. His inspiring story will touch the hearts of many.

“A Fish Named Ed” is a book for children ages 6 and up. Many adults get a great deal of insight from reading such a simple and profound work as well. As you read this book, you will find the themes of life: Life, Death/Separation, Disorientation, Isolation, Loneliness, Emptiness, and Reorientation. This book is for any child or adult who is going through grief and wants to awaken into soul. It is about how eternal relationships are formed, and how the process of healing can move us through our most difficult challenges.I have written this book in hopes of helping children deal with the 7 phases of grief. My goal is to help counselors use this tool as a guide, seeing from the child’s viewpoint, during these interactive sessions. - Sam Oliver

The gang is finally back!As evil once again strikes the Washington Heights area of uptown Manhattan, Sofie and her friends will hold the fate of humanity and all they hold dear in the balance!After defeating the demon Salazar Montenegro almost an entire year ago Sofie, Bas, along with the rest of the young witches- find themselves in a similar predicament- except this time the power of the witches might not be enough to stop the evil that has been unleashed. As destinies unfold, new friendships will be made, truths will be revealed and promises will be broken. Join them on their supernatural journey as they search for magic of the old, in hopes of saving the world as they know it.In this new adventure, follow right along, as these young witches continue to transform uptown Manhattan into nothing less than a supernatural sanctuary.

When given a golden doubloon Ole Pirate Scribble-Beard dreams of finding a lost treasure. Join him on his great sea adventure, when he fishes up a strange talking skull that shares a secret treasure map. The pirate sets sail to sea encountering many wonderful things on his journey to find the lost treasure, that turns out to be not exactly what the pirate had expected.

A festive colouring and activity book with 50 pages of puzzles and colouring fun based around a festive character theme. Created as a simple gift or stocking filler for my own children and others in our family to keep a yuletide tradition and value that a small gift such as a colouring book and pencils is a time honoured tradition of a gift that many have their fondest festive memories, a simple colouring book, the perfect gift.

She's young, beautiful and is the daughter of the Butterfly Bee Lady, who was once a Queen of dragonflies, along with her twin sister Sindeena; but by fate and malice and a mysterious form of magic was changed into the first Butterfly.She is pursued by her evil twin sister Sindeena and her minions in a never-ending search for her and her daughter, who hold in their hands a power to change life and open doors to a very different world, and more... which can also bring the most terrifying and beautiful creatures out of the woodwork...

Numbers, cards, coins, and shapes: with these, and a few mathematical principles, you'll turn into a magician! Just gather a few very ordinary, easy-to-find items (paper, pens, a calculator, dice, pennies, scissors), practice your patter a little, step in front of an audience--friends, family, maybe even your teachers at school--and prepare to amaze them. Guess the number someone will choose; try some math telepathy; make Mobius strips out of paper, and move "from one end to another"--a routine that uses a stack of cards for a very unique effect. Do an "incomplete prediction," a trick that seems as if it's going wrong.until you produce a surprise ending. Every one is easy to master-but no one else has to know that!

A fun, exciting young-adult supernatural adventure, The Brujita of Washington Heights takes you inside the fantastical world of a sixteen-year-old Latina girl living in the Washington Heights area of New York City. Sofie Rios has grown up listening to the stories of how her family was once tied to a clan of powerful witches. But to Sofie the stories so often shared were exactly that, stories with nothing remotely real about them. That was until she experiences her very first awakening—an awakening prompted by the return of Salazar Montenegro, the demon responsible for the family’s magical demise. With the lives of her loved ones hanging in the balance, Sofie—along with the help of Sebastian, her crazy cousin Leslie, and her newly discovered witch friends—must reclaim her family’s power and stop Salazar in his tracks. These young witches will take you on a supernatural journey through many of the Washington Heights landmarks, such as the Cloisters museum, the Little Red Lighthouse, and so much more. They will transform uptown Manhattan into nothing less than a supernatural sanctuary.