Books with author WILLIAM D. BURT

Excerpt from Life in New York, in Doors and Out of Doors: Illustrated by Forty EngravingsThe tailoress has been at work - how long does the reader think Since six o'clock in the morning, and now it is half past twelve at night. Eighteen hours, with an intermis sion of only a few minutes, since though the rich man may pleasantly pass two hours at his dinner, as many minutes are more than enough for the tailoress' scanty meal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Jonny, his Siamese cat, Mister E, and their young friend, Cindi, wake up from a time travel jump on a space ship bound for the planet Ilo in the Orion cluster. It is the year 3999. They are discovered by the pilot, EG 7714, who is happy to have them as company but terrified of what his superiors will do when stowaways are found on his ship. Traveling at speeds beyond comprehension, it takes only weeks to span 900 light years from Earth to Ilo. Arrested as aliens, they are tried and convicted, narrowly escape, and have many harrowing adventures trying to get back to where they had hidden the magical litter box needed for a return to Earth. Will Jonny's Nexus 7 tablet and the magic litter box work from such an unfathomable distance and 2000 years in the future to get them back home to Atlanta in 2013?

Jonny, his Siamese cat, Mister E, and Cindi, a young girl they had befriended on a previous trip to the future, wake up after a time jump from the Orion cluster and the year 3999. Dazed and frightened from such a huge jump in time and space, they wander down city streets which look to Jonny like his neighborhood in 2013 just where he wanted to go. Happily reunited with his mother, she and Jonny teach Cindi about Christmas which had been discarded in her civilization four hundred years in the future. They go Christmas shopping, buy a tree which makes her cry at seeing a living thing cut down, and go to a Christmas pageant at church. After opening presents, they go out on their new bike and scooter. Cindi falls and gets hurt. A man comes from his house and helps. His name is Zirnat, the Fourteenth. He tells them he is the inventor of the magical icon and had secretly given it to Jonny because he was too old to travel any more in space. At his request, Jonny, Cindi, and Mister E take a time jump to Zirnat's home planet in the Andromeda cluster where they meet his sister on her wedding day. Discovered as forbidden time travelers, they are helped by his sister to escape, recover the magic litter box, and time travel to ....

Excerpt from Life in New York, in Doors and Out of Doors: Illustrated by Forty EngravingsThe tailoress has been at work - how long does the reader think Since six o'clock in the morning, and now it is half past twelve at night. Eighteen hours, with an intermis sion of only a few minutes, since though the rich man may pleasantly pass two hours at his dinner, as many minutes are more than enough for the tailoress' scanty meal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Behind the Scenes of NASCAR Racing lifts the curtain on America's fastest-growing spectator sport. Author Bill Burt updates his 1997 best-seller and zeroes in on the processes that bring the show to the tracks and to the fans. Learn all about the ever-changing rules, aerodynamic advances, new tracks, and the sweeping current of high-tech engineering that have transported the sport from shade-tree wrench-turning to the computer age. Meet the behind-the-scenes people who make it all happen, learn how the cars are built, understand the complex operations in the garage, and experience the dramatic lead-up to race morning. Behind the Scenes takes the reader, in detail, from sponsor dollars to checkered flag, NASCAR-style. New edition.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Excerpt from The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor, Vol. 2: Containing Choice and Characteristic SelectionsOnce more on the path, Robin again mounted, Sparing neither the mare nor the halter; while the mare, at every five or six paces, entertained him with a bray so loud, with its accompanying nicker, that every one made the hills ring again.There is scarcely any thing a man likes worse than this constant neighing of the steed he rides upon, especially by night. It makes him start as from a reverie, and puts his whole frame in com motion.. Robin did not like it more than other men. It caused him inadvertently to utter some imprecations on the mare, that he confessed he should not have uttered; but it also caused him to say some short prayers for preservation; and to which of these agencies he owed the following sin gular adventure, he never could divine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor, Vol. 2: Containing Choice and Characteristic SelectionsOnce more on the path, Robin again mounted, Sparing neither the mare nor the halter; while the mare, at every five or six paces, entertained him with a bray so loud, with its accompanying nicker, that every one made the hills ring again.There is scarcely any thing a man likes worse than this constant neighing of the steed he rides upon, especially by night. It makes him start as from a reverie, and puts his whole frame in com motion.. Robin did not like it more than other men. It caused him inadvertently to utter some imprecations on the mare, that he confessed he should not have uttered; but it also caused him to say some short prayers for preservation; and to which of these agencies he owed the following sin gular adventure, he never could divine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.