Books with author Robert P.

Ready-made high quality KS3 history lessons on the Industrial Revolution – topic booklet perfect for a half term’s work. Give every student access to high quality KS3 History textbook content with this topic booklet on the Industrial Revolution. Chapter 1: Ancien RegimeChapter 2: Execution of Louis XVIChapter 3: Rise of NapoleanChapter 4: Napoleonic WarsChapter 5: Wellington and Waterloo • Fits into the school timetable with ease with 5 high quality lessons, perfect for a half term • Ignites an interest in history through extraordinary people, amazing facts, and a distinctly engaging narrative • Helps all students to think critically about the past by focusing on the knowledge they need and then checking their understanding • Aids pupil memory with a ‘knowledge organiser’ at the back with key dates, vocabulary and significant people. • Delivers excellent lessons and saves time planning with the Teacher Guide available free on Collins.co.uk, containing teaching ideas, suggested sources, assessment, answers, essay titles and extended writing examples

Tales from a Second-Hand Wand Shoppe (Book 2): Gnomes, and Halflings, and Assassins! Oh My! Aution lay in ruins. Charred, smoldering ruins. The Gnomes, Rat, and Nulu make their way out to Big Julie’s School of Magic. They’re looking for a place to hide out until things cool down. News hasn’t spread about Grimbledung being responsible for the town-wide fire and they want to keep it that way. The gang decides that a new town is in order, and it will be built around Julie’s school. Julesville is founded and everything seems to be moving along smoothly. Until a certain newly-unemployed werewolf, and a newly-put-out-of-business Haberdashery owner show up. With Akita and Pozzuoli in town, things aren’t looking good for Grimbledung. Fortunately for him, the impending Halfling invasion gets everyone’s attention. Mostly. Bent on revenge against Grimbledung for cheating them out of the fun of razing Aution, a group of Halflings arrive in Julesville and declare Martial Law. Meanwhile, the Army of the Lord High Priest of Halflings masses on the other side of the Anti-Ogre Wall. Prost Garrison and Frank's Keep prepare for the inevitable attack that they fully expect will wipe them out. Working together, thanks to Grimbledung, the gang tricks the Halflings into leaving Julesville (intact even), repels the Halfling invasion, and restores peace to the lands. Well, not really those last two...

Avery Overman has a very high temperature. In fact, his mom says he's "burning up" and makes him stay in bed in the middle of the day. Avery doesn't like being treated like a baby, but he has to admit he isn't feeling very good; he's dizzy and he's sweating a lot. When he accidentally falls out of his covers, he notices how much nicer it looks under the bed: darker, quieter, and cooler. So he shimmies beneath the box spring...and discovers that Underbed is actually a bigger place than he ever imagined—a strange world filled with cattle rustlers and mobsters and robots and alligators, and a slippery menace called Copperhead who seems to be after Avery himself. His only hope of survival is a charming but mysterious protector who is never quite what he seems to be. ~ Wickedly funny, fast-paced and suspenseful, Avery Overman's Adventures In Underbed is a 21st-century descendant of Alice In Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, with more crazy changes of scene than you can get from flipping TV channels. It's a wild ride through sheer imagination, with an ending that warms the heart.

"... (Payne) has the gift, as does John Keegan, of using prose to elevate facts, figures, dates and events into the realms of the dramatic." -Amazon Reviewer NO ONE LIVING IN NEW YORK CAN escape from George Gershwin. His music still comes in unrestrained and sometimes paralyzing abundance through the radio. Its gaiety, its flippancy, its violence, its electrifying "blues" passages, though written in the twenties and early thirties, still reflect the prevailing mood of New York. No other city could have produced him, and no other city has taken him so much to its heart. Robert Payne's first motive for writing his story was because he planned to write a long novel about New York, and wanted to get to grips with that strange, effervescent period when New York was still young and reckless. Gershwin was, he thought, the best symbol of the twenties. In the novel someone very like him was to grow old and grey with the weariness of his eternal youth, dying at last in a quarrel in a Bowery doss-house. It was a satisfying ending, but Gershwin's ending was still more satisfying. George Gershwin was larger than life, and no one was ever so demanding. They said of him that he was like a young Prince, and nothing he ever asked for was refused him. Perhaps that was the tragedy, for certainly the stereotype of the brilliantly successful composer was not entirely satisfactory. So Robert Payne has painted him in the limelight, but also as he walked through the Shadows. Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (4 December 1911-3 March 1983), was a novelist, historian, poet, and biographer. Born in Cornwall, the son of an English naval architect, and with a French mother. He worked as a shipbuilder and then for a time with the Inland Revenue. In 1941 he became an armament officer and chief camouflage officer for British Army Intelligence at Singapore. In the summer of 1946, Payne traveled to China and visited with and interviewed Mao Zedong in Yenan. During the interview Mao correctly predicted that it would only take the Communist forces a year and a half to conquer China once the armistice with Chiang Kai-shek and his followers was broken. Payne had more than 110 books published, novels, histories and biographies.

"I came here to kill you," Tara said. "It is no more than I deserve," Alabastor answered. "And death will come as a relief. My affairs are in order. You may proceed." There is a house outside of Aurora, Ontario, they call the Marsden House. Who knows what is inside? Tara learns of the House from her friend Christie and sets off that night to explore the decaying old place. What she finds there will lead her on a quest across an ocean to catch a killer and heal horrible wounds. Her quest will test her courage, her family, and her friendships in ways she had not imagined possible. Do you have as much courage as Tara? Will you enter the haunted house? This edition of Book Two of the Gentle Tara Tales features the ghost story "The Creeps"; is edited by Kevin Babcock; and was published on April 3, 2012. IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS BOOK IS UNFINISHED, but you may buy it if you like. You will get to see the book in process.

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.

It is a time of celebration as Julesville plans a Victory over Halfling Day. The V-H jubilee planning committee does Not need Grimbledung's help. Across town, Big Julie is having a theft problem. Wands are disappearing at an alarming rate from her students. At wit's end, she hires Grimbledung to go undercover at the school as a transfer student to ferret out the thief. Grim Noir is on the case! It doesn't go as planned. Love is in the air! Chéri settles down with her long lost love. Akita sets his eyes on the mysterious Elf, Maca. Then, just when there couldn't (or shouldn't) be more romance- two Dwarfesses arrive in town. They're interested in Grimbledung and Drimblerod. Really, really interested. Of course that probably isn't what it seems. However, as Akita says "Every pot has its lid", so maybe it will work out in the end. Spoiler Alert: It doesn't.