Books with author W.T. Hamilton

UPSIDEDROWN is a coming of age story set against an Earth whose days are numbered by a large meteor that threatens to hit it. Amidst the chaos of the world ending, people of influence and wealth have left Earth for a colony on Ganymede, leaving those who can't afford the trip to fend for themselves. One such person is a boy named ASHER and even though his parents are wealthy, he's decided to stay behind in a large tower with only a Holographic companion, named SARA, for company. He's doing this in defiance to his father, who is the head of a large corporation.ASHER is content to stay in his tower waiting out the end of the world in an attempt to be noticed by his father. His plans are cut short when 8 foot tall robots start to fall from the sky and a Looter name GEN comes for ASHER to try and draw his father, ARTHUR, out.She leads ASHER through the city as these robots and corporate hitmen come after them. A friendship develops between the two and ASHER comes into his own when he's swallowed by one of these robots and learns that he's able to control it.

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, 'Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Now newly reimagined by gifted artist Tim Hamilton who has previously worked on illustrations for several high profile publications including The New York Times and Puffin's graphic novelization of Treasure Island. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

Sail the seas with Captain Jack Sparrow and his crew of pirates, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and a host of ghostly seamen, as they embark on a suspense-filled search for the secret of the Dead Man's Chest. Readers will feel like they're sailing with Captain Jack Sparrow and his crew, too, as they use their special spyglass and ten movie disks to view 40 colorful scenes from the movie!Based on Pirates of the Caribbean Search for the Dead Man's Chest opening in theaters July 7, 2006. Complete with your own spyglass to view the 40 movie images and to pretend to be a pirate! * Exciting story takes readers on a thrilling voyage into adventure and mystery!* Includes cool spyglass and 10 discs to view scenes from the movie!* Includes 10 disks 4 images each. 40 images from Dead Man's Chest.

The town of Plantsville takes great pride in their junior league baseball team. Coach Mathis doesn't believe girls should play or coach baseball. The first day of practice for the summer junior league baseball season Jennifer Nelson the high school girl's softball coach asks Mathis can she help coach the team. Mathis rejects her offer laughing that she is out of her league trying to coach boys. Lisa Douglas new to town comes out to try out but is turned away by Mathis saying girls are not allowed on the team. Jennifer decides to start a Junior baseball team. Jennifer was surprised to find out there were a lot of kids not allowed to play on Mathis team. Jennifer's team and is the only team in the league with a team mixed with girls and boys. Mathis didn't want another team from Plantsville, so he did all he could to keep her team off the field. Jennifer sets out to prove all the critics wrong about her team as they battle to prove they belong on the field.

Sparkling like an aged emerald, the wolf's eyes glistened under the moonlight. He stared down the mountain into the snowy depths of the valley before him. 'What does it mean?' His snout raised to the broken clouds, 'What does it mean?' Hidden from man. Ruled by wolves. Watched by gods. This is the Kingdom of Vaal. Short of food and with the weather closing in, the Silver Manes must decide whether or not to leave their home and hunt farther afield - But, starvation is not the only thing that threatens them... Discover the truth, the treachery and the dark secrets behind the legend of the Howling Throne. The journey begins...

Thirteen-year-old Wendy and her two younger sisters love to lounge about reading books lazily. Their father wants land in the bush so his girls can experience their pioneering heritage. The girl's mother is not keen on the bush but she thinks fifty acres would be a good investment. After a disastrous trip to the Hokianga they finally find their dream property in a range of hills close to Whangarei. The dream has the potential to turn into a nightmare when they erect a tiny shed on the neighbour's land by mistake. Buying the wrong land is only the start of hilarious misadventures for this family and their cat, as each weekend they plunge into primitive living. The girls' soft life is suddenly filled with bush hikes, possums, and manual labour. Antoinette (who is convinced she is a princess and kidnapped at birth) resents the lack of running water or electricity more than the rest of the family The ultimate horror is when she drops her lipstick and prized nighty down the long-drop-toilet by accident. Yet despite Taranaki gates, endless rain, and mud, the girls are won over to country living by fourteen steers, an old horse, and a naughty pet lamb. When the trees next to their house in town are cut down, even their mother decides the bush is where she most wants to live. Children who enjoy the Little House on the Prairie series will love this distinctly New Zealand version of pioneering in the 1970s.