Books with title The Dream Catcher

"Toast? Dream-deck? It didn't exactly sound like the most inviting idea considering the last dream he had woken up from propelled him into a secret world of talking upper-crust rats, friendly green frog-people and lanky strangers trying to poison him with cubes of cyanide." The Catcher is a fantasy/adventure novel for middle-graders set in a land beyond the Bermuda Triangle where nightmares are reality. Someone has kidnapped the Sandman, and it has fallen upon the scrawny shoulders of teenager Jack Masters to set the sleep world right. Together with a blonde super-spy and toffee-nosed rat, he must venture out in search of the mysterious Drake and a father lost.

Émile François Zola is one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, and one of France’s best known citizens. In his life, Zola was the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. Around the end of his life, Zola was instrumental in helping secure the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, a victim of anti-Semitism. The Dreyfus Affair was encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse. More than half of Zola's novels were part of this set of 20, collectively known as Les Rougon-Macquart. Unlike Honore de Balzac, who compiled his works into La Comedie Humaine midway through, Zola mapped out a complete layout of his series. Set in France's Second Empire, the series traces the "environmental" influences of violence, alcohol and prostitution which became more prevalent during the second wave of the Industrial Revolution. The series examines two branches of a family: the respectable Rougons and the disreputable Macquarts for five generations. Zola explained, "I want to portray, at the outset of a century of liberty and truth, a family that cannot restrain itself in its rush to possess all the good things that progress is making available and is derailed by its own momentum, the fatal convulsions that accompany the birth of a new world."

The Dream: The Ruach Ami Series (Hardcover). by Avner Gold. The Dream is the set in the southern provinces of Poland during the first half of the seventeenth century, shortly before the devastating pogroms of Bogdan Chmielnicki and his Cossack hordes. During this period the Jewish population of Poland enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and privileged status, but the cold winds of change were already in the air. The historical background, the political climate and the descriptions of Krakow are all authentic. This volume, like The Promised Child, deals with a critical period in the lives of the fictitious Pulichever family.. ISBN: 9781560623373. Hardcover Publisher / 120 Pages. Publisher: C.I.S.

Struggling to adjust to his new life in the country with his mother and brother after his father's death, thirteen-year-old Fran adopts an orphaned raccoon and befriends a part-Iroquois girl named Jo, who helps him discover a new source of strength and understanding.Struggling to adjust to his new life in the country with his mother and brother after his father's death, thirteen-year-old Fran adopts an orphaned raccoon and befriends a part-Iroquois girl named Jo, who helps him discover a new source of strength and understanding

During the severe winter of 1860 the river Oise was frozen over and the plains of Lower Picardy were covered with deep snow. On Christmas Day, especially, a heavy squall from the north-east had almost buried the little city of Beaumont. The snow, which began to fall early in the morning, increased towards evening and accumulated during the night; in the upper town, in the Rue des Orfevres, at the end of which, as if enclosed therein, is the northern front of the cathedral transept, this was blown with great force by the wind against the portal of Saint Agnes, the old Romanesque portal, where traces of Early Gothic could be seen, contrasting its florid ornamentation with the bare simplicity of the transept gable.