Books with author Robert P.

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.

“... (Payne) has the gift, as does John Keegan, of using prose to elevate facts, figures, dates and events into the realms of the dramatic.” —Book ReviewerNO 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.Robert Payne (1911-1983) was born in Cornwall, U.K. His father was English, his mother French. He was educated at St. Paul's School in London and at the universities of Liverpool, Capetown in South Africa, Munich and The Sorbonne. During his lifetime he had over a hundred books published on a wide range of subjects, the widest range of any known author. He was known chiefly for his biographies and history books, among them Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Gandhi, Leonardo, Chaplin, the Christian Centuries, The World of Art. He also wrote novels and poetry. Librarians loved him; critics raved about him. Orville Prescott of The New York Times referred to him as “a literary phenomenon of astounding versatility and industry.”

After looking at an automobile part, have you ever wondered what is was or what it was for? Chances are you have. And if you haven't, you probably will at some point in your life. This book, L & R's Parts and Characters, was written to help children learn just what a car is made of and even a little of how it works. It is meant for young children but can be useful to others of any age. It will help those who are just learning the alphabet and how to read short and easy sentences, but it is also geared toward older kids and the parents and grandparents who want to read to their little ones. This book is a great way to strengthen that lifelong bond. In addition, you and your children will find that the characters within may attach themselves to your hearts as well.

I seriously began writing down many of the John Robert and Bobby Lyon stories when grandchildren started arriving. But I began telling them to my children, Bobby, Greer, and Andy over 25 years ago. The main characters, Bobby Lyon and John Robert, were the imaginary friends of Bobby. Soon Greer told me of Sally, Cappie ("Cathy"), and the twins, Tina and Sasha. In time, John Robert and Bobby Lyon evolved into cousins, raised on the family farm and the girls became Bobby Lyon's sisters. By the time Andy came along the stories had seasoned and each character possessed his own individuality. This book is made up of a series of loosely-related short stories, which can stand alone or read as one to create a larger narrative. Grownups pass down stories of the family, the land, the community, and their faith. Four generations presently live on and work this land. Few people today believe a place exists like the farm Bobby Lyon, John Robert and their families live on; though it is not the ground, the terra firma, that is special, but the people who have chosen this small corner of the whole, big world as home I hope I have done the stories my family enjoyed justice.

Silly interactive bedtime stories for you and your family to enjoy about a fabulous village school in the countryside.Great Ousebottom by-the-sea Village School By Robert Rock (aged 36). I’m a modern working dad, who it striving (and failing sometimes) to strike the right work/ travel/ home life balance. I felt inspired to write these stores by my two children (Josh 6 years old and Lily 3 yrs old) because I believe that bedtime stories should be special time at the end of a hard day when you can show your love and share your humour with your children. These stories are supposed to be a bit silly and I encourage the parents to get involved with some play along actions and drama. It’s often the only uninterrupted time that you’re able to dedicate to your children and hopefully these stories will provide some great memories for your children. x

One boy in a frantic search for a hidden enigma, delves into a world on an adventure to answer the questions that have plagued him his entire life. Toby Ripwood was living a normal life until he meets a mystery woman. She introduces him to a prodigious secret world where he discovers he is definitely not like everyone else. He learns of a hidden sphere to which he has a deep puzzling connection to. He encounters new friends and foes as he embarks on a challenging journey desperately avoiding the sinister Dominus Mortifus. A truly vindictive master of the darkness who, unknown to Toby, has caused misery in his life long ago. Toby has to overcome his fears if he has any chance of saving his loved ones by solving the mystery that surrounds him and The Dark Sphere.

The Roman epoch is unsurpassed in history. What has endured to our own time is the empire's great cultural legacy—in law, language, architecture, and government—and the fascination of Rome's story. Ancient Rome presents the history and heritage of the remarkable Roman era, presenting an all-around introduction to the politics, people, culture, and everyday life of the world ruled by Rome. Unlike most general histories of the subject, it enables the reader to know the Romans not only from reading about them, but by hearing directly from them through the words of orators, philosophers, historians, poets, playwrights, and satirists.

The most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war.Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of the war, the derelict ship, the HMS Jersey, was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of disloyalty. Crammed below deck--a shocking one thousand at a time--without light or fresh air, the prisoners were scarcely fed food and water. Disease ran rampant and human waste fouled the air as prisoners suffered mightily at the hands of brutal British and Hessian guards. Throughout the colonies, the mere mention of the ship sparked fear and loathing of British troops. It also sparked a backlash of outrage as newspapers everywhere described the horrors onboard the ghostly ship. This shocking event, much like the better-known Boston Massacre before it, ended up rallying public support for the war.Revealing for the first time hundreds of accounts culled from old newspapers, diaries, and military reports, award-winning historian Robert P. Watson follows the lives and ordeals of the ship's few survivors to tell the astonishing story of the cursed ship that killed thousands of Americans and yet helped secure victory in the fight for independence.