Books with author Robert Sanford

FOREWORD“It was a game of life and death, of good and evil.” A nine year old girl becomes the pawn of an intricate game between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in which Romania’s oil fields are the prize. While her extended family is destroyed, she survives the war as an illegal with her mother and stepfather at Bucharest, always in fear. Her stepfather, a member of an opposition party to post war Communist Romania, must flee in order to join a government in exile abroad. Now fifteen, she is to follow with her mother, a seventeen year old boyfriend and an uncle who had made arrangements for them to cross illegally into Hungary and from there to Vienna. The uncle is arrested, while they continue to Budapest without money, documents, or the knowledge how to get to Vienna. The boyfriend becomes the leader and they succeed, against all odds, to join the stepfather. From there the girl and her family are taken over by the American occupation authority, while the boyfriend has several more borders to cross before rejoining the girl. They marry at Paris and visit her parents at New York, where her stepfather is a member of the Romanian government in exile.As fate would have it, her young husband receives a draft notice to report to the local draft board, even though on a visitor’s visa. He is drafted, trained in intelligence and ends up in Korea during the war. He receives an Honorable discharge, but an Immigration agent is waiting at the camp gate with a warrant of arrest and deportation as visitor without legal residence in the United States. U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman champions their cause and they are allowed to remain and join in a creative and fruitful life living the American Dream.

From the author of The Compound, and Samson and Denial, comes a tale of love and revenge. HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR THE ONE YOU LOVE? In his line of work, he’s simply known as “Just”. His projects are bloody, and he chooses the ones that mean something to him. It’s been years since Just has been back to the town where he met his first and only love. His patience is about to pay off. After all, revenge is best served cold.

My name is Sasha, and I'm a tiger from Eden.As a cub, I found myself embarking on an adventure that lasted a lifetime!Ahoy!In 1897 I was a small tiger cub living in the jungle of Siam, a country in Asia now called Thailand.I lived with my brother Saalah, my mother Maiarta, and twenty other tigers. We were the tigers of Eden, from the direct bloodline of the first tigers who walked the earth. As such we had the gift of our ancestors, the ability to communicate with the voice of Man. We were guarded by a group of holy men called monks. They kept us safe from poachers, bad people who hurt animals for money!One day these poachers found us and chased us into the jungle. I was separated from my family and got lost, but was saved by the crew of the American merchant ship, The Solaris.My name is Sasha, and this is the story of my life on the Solaris - The Legend of the Tigris!Read about Sasha, the little tiger cub that grew to become a legend!It's time for a bedtime story! Buy The Legend of the Tigris and embark on a wondrous adventure.

Children's rhymes, children's games, children's songs, children's stories : a book for bairns and big folkby Ford, Robert, 1846-1905Publication date 1904Topics Children's literature -- Scotland, Nursery rhymes, Children's songs -- Scotland, Games -- Scotland, Games with music, Singing games -- ScotlandPublisher Paisley : GardnerCollection newyorkpubliclibrary; iacl; americanaDigitizing sponsor MSNLanguage EnglishRhymes of the nursery -- Counting-out rhymes -- Children's rhyme-games -- Children's songs and ballads -- Children's humour and quaint sayings -- Schoolroom facts and fancies -- Children's storiesBookplateleaf 0005Camera Canon 5DExternal-identifier urn:oclc:record:1041792668Foldoutcount 0Identifier childrensrhymesc00fordIdentifier-ark ark:/13960/t1mg7jg8wOcr ABBYY FineReader 8.0

FOREWORD“It was a game of life and death, of good and evil.” A nine year old girl becomes the pawn of an intricate game between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in which Romania’s oil fields are the prize. While her extended family is destroyed, she survives the war as an illegal with her mother and stepfather at Bucharest, always in fear. Her stepfather, a member of an opposition party to post war Communist Romania, must flee in order to join a government in exile abroad. Now fifteen, she is to follow with her mother, a seventeen year old boyfriend and an uncle who had made arrangements for them to cross illegally into Hungary and from there to Vienna. The uncle is arrested, while they continue to Budapest without money, documents, or the knowledge how to get to Vienna. The boyfriend becomes the leader and they succeed, against all odds, to join the stepfather. From there the girl and her family are taken over by the American occupation authority, while the boyfriend has several more borders to cross before rejoining the girl. They marry at Paris and visit her parents at New York, where her stepfather is a member of the Romanian government in exile.As fate would have it, her young husband receives a draft notice to report to the local draft board, even though on a visitor’s visa. He is drafted, trained in intelligence and ends up in Korea during the war. He receives an Honorable discharge, but an Immigration agent is waiting at the camp gate with a warrant of arrest and deportation as visitor without legal residence in the United States. U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman champions their cause and they are allowed to remain and join in a creative and fruitful life living the American Dream.

This book is an illustrated version of the original Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories by Robert Ford. The earlier pages are occupied with a commentary, textually illustrated, on the generally puerile, but regularly fascinating Rhymes of the Nursery, the vitality and universal use of which have been at once the wonder and the puzzle of the ages. This is followed in turn by a chapter on Counting-out Rhymes, with numerous examples, home and foreign; which is succeeded, appropriately, by a section of the work embracing description of all the well-known out-door and in-door Rhyme-Games—in each case the Rhyme being given, the action being portrayed. The remaining contents the title may be left to suggest. I may only add that the Stories—including "Blue Beard," and "Jack the Giant Killer," and their fellow-narratives—ten in all—are printed verbatim from the old chapbooks once so common in the country, but now so rare as to be almost unobtainable.

From the author of The Compound, and Samson and Denial, comes a tale of love and revenge.HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR THE ONE YOU LOVE?In his line of work, he’s simply known as “Just”. His projects are bloody, and he chooses the ones that mean something to him.It’s been years since Just has been back to the town where he met his first and only love. His patience is about to pay off. After all, revenge is best served cold.

FOREWORDThis is about my birthplace, a town of about 100,000 in the northeast corner of Romania. What is interesting about this town called Botosani (pronounced Botoshani) is that by comparison with Bucharest, the country’s capital with ten times as many inhabitants, Botosani had roughly half as many famous people born there. What factor(s) may be responsible for such an outstanding pedigree for this small town stuck in the northeast corner of the country? it is undoubtedly related to individual intelligence, talent and being born there, rich or poor and maybe also to some specific factor(s) related to the place, call it the “Ghenghis Khan” factor. After all, he proved to be a genius and his grandson is reputed to have started the settlement. Botoșani (pronounced Botoshani) is first mentioned in 1439, in one chronicle that makes the mention that "the Mongols came and pillaged all the way to Botușani". The town was reportedly established by Botu Khan, the grandson of Ghenghis Khan. The town is then mentioned during the conflicts between Moldavia and Poland in the fifteenth century. There is also mention of the arrival of settlers from Transylvania, probably Germans and Hungarians and others migrating along the trade roads extending from the Baltic countries, Poland and Belarus to the Danube and the Black Sea.Below are examples of famous personalities born in Botosani, many with international reputation:•Grigore Antipa (1867-1944) Biologist•Max Blecher, (1909-1938), Jewish writer•Demostene Botez (1893-1973), Poet and prose writer•Pascal Covici (1885–1964), Jewish-American book publisher and editor•Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889, born Mihail Eminovici), outstanding poet, novelist and journalist•George Enescu (1881-1955) World famous composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is regarded by many as Romania's most important musician. (Born in Judetz Dorohoi now Botosani).•Reuven Feuerstein (1921–2014) Israeli clinical, developmental, and cognitive psychologist•Alexandru Graur (1900–1988) Jewish, linguist•Nicolae Iorga (1871–1940), historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright•Isidore Isou (1925–2007, born Isidor Goldstein) Jewish, French poet, dramaturge, novelist, economist, and visual artist•Mime Misu (1888-1953, born Mișu Rosescu) ballet dancer, pantomime artist, film actor and director•Octav Onicescu (1892–1983) mathematician and founder of the Romanian school of probability theory and statistics•Henric Sanielevici ((1875–1951), Jewish journalist and literary critic•Ion Sân-Giorgiu (1893–1950), modernist poet, dramatist and essayist, and far-right politician•Artur Stavri (1869-1928), poet•Adolf Josef Storfer (1888–1944), Jewish Austrian lawyer turned journalist and publisher(Source:Wikipedia)Botosani is on the road extending from Lithuania, Letonia and Estonia and the Jewish Pale of the Tsarist time, down along the Siret and Prut rivers that empty in the Danube and the Black Sea. In fact, it served as a sort of a caravan route for merchants trading northern goods from the Baltic for exotic wares from Constantinople. Along this route, also came the Jews after the pogroms that liquidated some, and motivated others to search for luck elsewhere. The town’s main street was called Calea Nationala (National Way) for good reason. On one such caravan was an orphan child, both of whose parents had been killed in a pogrom in Lithuania. As was the custom, local rabbis and rebs (learned men) attended to those passing through with food, clothing and helping them as best they could in their suffering. The baby in question was offered for adoption to any family that wanted him. One barrel maker by the name of Bodnar picked up the baby and looked at the boy with moist eyes.

In offering to the public this collection of Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, and Children's Stories, the multitudinous items of which at least, as were not living in my own memory, have been gathered with patient industry, albeit with much genuine delight, from wide and varied sources. I anticipate for the work a hearty and general welcome, alike from old and young. It is the first really sincere effort to collect in anything like ample and exclusive fashion the natural literature of the children of Scotland, and meets what has long appealed to me as decidedly a felt want. The earlier pages are occupied with a commentary, textually illustrated, on the generally puerile, but regularly fascinating Rhymes of the Nursery, the vitality and universal use of which have been at once the wonder and the puzzle of the ages. This is followed in turn by a chapter on Counting-out Rhymes, with numerous examples, home and foreign; which is succeeded, appropriately, by a section of the work embracing description of all the well-known out-door and in-door Rhyme-Games. In each case the Rhyme being given and the action being portrayed. The remaining contents the title may be left to suggest. I may only add that the Stories, including Blue Beard and Jack the Giant Killer and their fellow-narratives—ten in all —are printed verbatim from the old chap- books once so common in the country but now so rare as to be almost unobtainable.

Ahoy! In 1897 I was a small tiger cub living in the jungle of Siam, a country in Asia now called Thailand. I lived with my brother Saalah, my mother Maiarta, and twenty other tigers. We were the tigers of Eden, from the direct bloodline of the first tigers who walked the earth. As such we had the gift of our ancesters, the ability to communicate with the voice of man. We were guarded by a group of holy men called monks. They kept us safe from poachers, bad people who hurt animals for money! One day these poachers found us and chased us into the jungle. I was lost from my family but saved by the crew of the American merchant ship, The Solaris. My name is Sasha, and this is the story of my life on the Solaris - The Legend of the Tigris!

Perfect for lap-time reading! The clever ending to this humorous tale about a very busy little dog will surprise and delight preschoolers – all while they enjoy the counting and “adding-on” features. My Doggie Brought to Me is easily set to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” this inviting story will quickly become one that preschoolers will know by heart! Join Noodlebug and friends in four delightful Noodlebug® Story Books , perfect for lap time reading! Preschoolers will “use their noodle” to discover the clever twist in each of these engaging stories. Playfully told in rhyming, rhythmic language, each story can also be sung to familiar, traditional children’s songs, such as “On Top of Old Smokey.” In addition to lively, captivating art and the irrepressible Noodlebug as narrator, each story features important early literacy themes, making Noodlebug stories a favorite among parents and children alike! Collect all four stories for your library! Also look for the Noodlebug® DVDs and CDs and Noodlebug® Activities for Hands-On Learning books!