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Books with author Tom Powers

  • Special Effects in the Movies

    Tom Powers

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Oct. 1, 1989)
    Describes various techniques used by moviemakers to create "impossible" situations and creatures that appear real to the audience. Discusses mattes, glass painting, explosions, rear screen projection, computer-enhancement, and make-up.
  • Horror Movies

    Tom Powers

    Paperback (First Avenue Editions, Sept. 1, 1990)
    Describes the characteristics and appeal of horror movies and discusses the plot and the making of some of the more famous of the genre
  • Special effects in the Movies

    Tom Powers

    Hardcover (Lucent Books, March 15, 1989)
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  • The Pack

    Tom Pow

    eBook (Roaring Brook Press, June 24, 2014)
    In Tom Pow's The Pack, Bradley, Victor, and Floris live with wild dogs on the dark, forgotten edge of a devastated city. Haunted by memories and abandoned by society, they have learned to survive on their own. But when Floris is kidnapped the others must venture into the unknown to save their friend. It is a dangerous journey--violent gangs walk the streets, and corrupt warlords viciously guard their territories. But it is also a journey of discovery...
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  • Joys & Glooms, a Book of Drawings

    Tom E Powers

    Hardcover (Wentworth Press, Aug. 26, 2016)
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
  • Captives

    Tom Pow

    eBook (Roaring Brook Press, June 24, 2014)
    In Tom Pow's Captives, Martin and his family are enjoying a sun-filled vacation on a beautiful Caribbean island--until they are stopped at gunpoint, blindfolded, and bundled into a truck that heads for the dense forest of the island's interior. Pushed to their physical and emotional limits as they are forced deeper into the wild terrain, the hostages come to understand something of the harsh political backdrop of life on sunny Santa Clara, and the events that have shaped the lives of their captors and fueled their actions.
  • Scabbit Isle

    Tom Pow

    eBook (RHCP Digital, June 30, 2011)
    The first time Sam sees the mysterious figure of Janet she vanishes into the deserted fields beyond the town where nothing has ever been built. Sam learns that centuries before this was the place to which plague victims were banished - Scabbit Isle - a place of terror. With the help of Mr Carruthers, the old curator of the local museum, Sam gradually uncovers the horror of Janet's story - consigned to Scabbit Isle by her cruel father and abandoned by her weak lover, Janet suffers without hope. She will continue to do so, if she can't find someone who, for love, will risk all to enter the plague colony to release her. Janet seems to be beckoning Sam to help her and a tragedy within Sam's own family brings Sam even closer to Janet's fate. Janet is the same age that Sam's twin sister Alice would have been had she not been killed in an accident. It is a loss from which Sam's father, in particular,has never recovered. Can Sam summon up the courage to face the terrors of Scabbit Isle and, like Orpheus, venture into the underworld to bring Janet peace?
  • When the Rains Come

    Tom Pow

    eBook (Polygon, Sept. 6, 2012)
    When the Rains Come is a lively story for children that highlights some of the challenges facing Malawi and how they are being met, simultaneously drawing on the folk tales of the country. It will be a response from the writer and illustrator to the situation in Malawi with the aim of raising money for MUMs' work and raising awareness among children and adults everywhere.
  • When the Rains Come

    Tom Pow

    Paperback (Birlinn, Aug. 20, 2012)
    When the Rains Come is a lively story for children that highlights some of the challenges facing Malawi and how they are being met, simultaneously drawing on the folk tales of the country. It will be a response from the writer and illustrator to the situation in Malawi with the aim of raising money for MUMs' work and raising awareness among children and adults everywhere.
  • The Pack

    Tom Pow

    Hardcover (Roaring Brook Press, May 30, 2006)
    Bradley, Victor, and Floris live with wild dogs on the dark, forgotten edge of a devastated city. Haunted by memories and abandoned by society, they have learned to survive on their own. But when Floris is kidnapped the others must venture into the unknown to save their friend. It is a dangerous journey--violent gangs walk the streets, and corrupt warlords viciously guard their territories. But it is also a journey of discovery...
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  • Tell Me One Thing, Dad

    Tom Pow

    Hardcover (Gardners Books, May 31, 2004)
    There's one thing - one very important thing - that Molly and Dad both know about polar bears that live on the Arctic ice, crocodiles with their whip crack tails, dinosaurs whose jaws could swallow a school. Young children should love joining in their bedtime game to see if they can guess what the one thing is.
  • Captives

    Tom Pow

    Hardcover (Roaring Brook Press, May 1, 2007)
    Martin and his family are enjoying a sun-filled vacation on a beautiful Caribbean island--until they are stopped at gunpoint, blindfolded, and bundled into a truck that heads for the dense forest of the island's interior. Pushed to their physical and emotional limits as they are forced deeper into the wild terrain, the hostages come to understand something of the harsh political backdrop of life on sunny Santa Clara, and the events that have shaped the lives of their captors and fueled their actions.
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