Books with author Robert B

Along the same line as a young Indiana Jones, a new star is brought to life, Max Harris. This is a fictional account of the early years of a boy whose life is turned upside down when it is revealed he carries the family secret except the effects are magnified. Come follow the adventures of Max Harris as he progress from discovery to training to application of unknown powers and to the ultimate pinancle.

Sunny and Carolyn are very different eleven-year-olds. While Carolyn is dainty and petite, Sunny struggles with her height and weight. It’s hard to stop comparing herself to Carolyn, but Sunny tries not to let it distract her from their special friendship.Sunny is ecstatic when Carolyn decides to join the cross-country team with her but worries when Carolyn begins pushing herself very hard. After a shocking event sends Carolyn to the hospital, Sunny begins learning about Carolyn’s past and about the promise that is causing her so much anguish. This nuanced tale of the bonds between best friends and the scars left by abuse raises awareness about the struggles children face in every school in America. Author and psychiatric nurse B. E. Sowah believes that it is important to include children in certain conversations about abuse and other issues. As long as abuse remains a taboo topic, only discussed by adults, children will feel scared of sharing their own stories. Sowah hopes that this book will encourage you to think about the people in your life and the pains they may be hiding. Being a good listener like Sunny can make an amazing difference in someone’s life.

Sunielia Daniels is a stocky 12 year old girl of Afro Caribbean parents who is already struggling with the emotional difficulties of having almost lost her beloved mother to an accident. A sudden and unexpected knock on the household door sees her world blown apart by the unwelcome entry of her ten year old half-sister, Chloe who was born after her father had a relationship with an ex-girlfriend. Sunny takes an instant dislike to her father’s daughter.None of her friends or family understands the crushing fears which haunt her thoughts day and night. Now her nights are invaded with frightening nightmares where her life and family are under threat from a demonic serpent with a strikingly familiar face, and terrifying parasitic creatures. High school has barely started, and brings with it even more worries and problems. Feeling lonely, she makes her own new friends. But unbeknown to Sunny they each have terrible secrets of their own, and one of them has the whole school gossiping about her...Sometimes Sunny wants to scream out loud; "I'm too young for all this!"

When I look back upon a certain hour of my life it fills me with wonder that I should have been so peacefully happy. Strange as it may seem, utter despair is not without its alloy of joy. The man who daintily picks his way along a muddy street is anxious lest he soil his polished boots, or turns up his coat collar to save himself from the shower that is beginning, eager then to find a shelter; but let him inadvertently step into a pool, plunging head over ears into foul water, and after that he has no more anxiety. Nothing that weather can inflict will add to his misery, and consequently a ray of happiness illumines his gloomy horizon. He has reached the limit; Fate can do no more; and there is a satisfaction in attaining the ultimate of things. So it was with me that beautiful day; I had attained my last phase.I was living in the cheapest of all paper houses, living as the Japanese themselves do, on a handful of rice, and learning by experience how very little it requires to keep body and soul together. But now, when I had my next meal of rice, it would be at the expense of my Japanese host, who was already beginning to suspect,—so it seemed to me,—that I might be unable to liquidate whatever debt I incurred. He was very polite about it, but in his twinkling little eyes there lurked suspicion. I have travelled the whole world over, especially the East, and I find it the same everywhere. When a man comes down to his final penny, some subtle change in his deportment seems to make the whole world aware of it. But then, again, this supposed knowledge on the part of the world may have existed only in my own imagination, as the Christian Scientists tell us every ill resides in the mind. Perhaps, after all, my little bowing landlord was not troubling himself about the payment of the bill, and I only fancied him uneasy.If an untravelled person, a lover of beauty, were sitting in my place on that little elevated veranda, it is possible the superb view spread out before him might account for serenity in circumstances which to the ordinary individual would be most depressing. But the view was an old companion of mine; goodness knows I had looked at it often enough when I climbed that weary hill and gazed upon the town below me, and the magnificent harbor of Nagasaki spreading beyond. The water was intensely blue, dotted with shipping of all nations, from the stately men-of-war to the ocean tramps and the little coasting schooners. It was an ever-changing, animated scene; but really I had had enough of it during all those ineffective months of struggle in the attempt to earn even the rice and the poor lodging which I enjoyed.

This carefully crafted ebook: "DEATH COMETH SOON OR LATE: 35+ Tales of Mystery & Revenge in One Volume (Thriller Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Face and the MaskDeath Cometh Soon or Late The Woman of Stone The Chemistry of AnarchyThe Fear of It The Metamorphoses of Johnson The Reclamation of Joe Hollends The Type-Written Letter The Doom of London The Predicament of De Plonville A New Explosive The Great Pegram Mystery High Stakes "Where Ignorance Is Bliss" The Departure of Cub Mclean Old Number Eighty-Six Playing With Marked Cards The Bruiser's Courtship The Raid On Mellish Striking Back Crandall's Choice The Failure of Bradley Ringamy's Convert A Slippery Customer The Sixth BenchRevenge!An Alpine Divorce Which Was The Murderer? A Dynamite Explosion An Electrical Slip The Vengeance of the Dead Over The Stelvio Pass The Hour and the Man "And the Rigour of the Game" The Bromley Gibberts Story Not According to the Code A Modern Samson A Deal on 'Change Transformation The Shadow of the Greenback The Understudy "Out Of Thun" A Dramatic Point Two Florentine Balconies The Exposure of Lord Stansford PurificationRobert Barr (1849–1912) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. His famous detective character Eugéne Valmont, fashioned after Sherlock Holmes, is said to be the inspiration behind Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.

When I say I am called Valmont, the name will convey no impression to the reader, one way or another. My occupation is that of private detective in London, but if you ask any policeman in Paris who Valmont was he will likely be able to tell you, unless he is a recent recruit. If you ask him where Valmont is now, he may not know, yet I have a good deal to do with the Parisian police. For a period of seven years I was chief detective to the Government of France, and if I am unable to prove myself a great crime hunter, it is because the record of my career is in the secret archives of Paris. I may admit at the outset that I have no grievances to air. The French Government considered itself justified in dismissing me, and it did so. In this action it was quite within its right, and I should be the last to dispute that right; but, on the other hand, I consider myself justified in publishing the following account of what actually occurred, especially as so many false rumours have been put abroad concerning the case.

King Arthur & The Holy Grail vividly tells the story of the greatest adventure in history. As with other epics, Gregg’s illusory world is filled with strong moral conflict. Ride with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as they battle the evil Saxons, led by Lord Goron, in a deadly quest to rescue the Fisher King and The Holy Grail, Christ’s Cup from the Last Supper. Live the twists and turns, plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and defeat, and the terror of demons, phantoms, dragons, and the Devil himself as they try to stop Arthur and his men of the roundtable as they race against evil in a quest for the most powerful relic in Christendom. This is a story of kings and queens, knights and maidens, wizards and witches, assassins and saints, hate and love. And, in a spectacular finish, the age-old question, “Where is the Holy Grail?” is finally answered.

Robert Barr, a teacher, journalist, editor and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland and educated in Canada. In 1876 he became a member of the staff of the Detroit Free Press, in which his contributions appeared under the signature "Luke Sharp." In 1881 he removed to London, to establish the weekly English edition of the Free Press, and in 1892 he joined Jerome K Jerome in founding the Idler magazine, from whose co-editorship he retired in 1895. He was a prolific author, producing many popular novels of the day.* *...summary from Fantastic Fiction