Search results for ""Author Miller""
Christian Publishers LLC Small Stage Sets on Tour
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Josef Weinberger Plays Elegy for a Lady
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Christian Publishers LLC Self-Supporting Scenery
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Josef Weinberger Plays Mr Peters' Connections
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Josef Weinberger Plays Danger: Memory!
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Troubador Publishing The Clown Prosecutor
Sam Harvie, son of a circus manager, causes mayhem in court and is eventually dismissed from the Prosecution service. He tries his hand at a variety of jobs, but they all result in a sacking. To recall his youth, he returns to Mediterranean France where the circus had several seasons in the past. There he meets Carole, the English correspondent of Le Figaro, and they fall in love. But can their love be sustained as Sam continues to fall foul in comical ways. He is the victim of an attempted murder and gives evidence in court at a murder charge too. Sam follows Carole to Paris only to be trapped in a service lift. Will marriage to Carole and a fresh career be the answer? This is a truly hilarious story which will have you laughing page after page.
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Clink Street Publishing Caught In A Cold War Trap
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Troubador Publishing A Reluctant Spy
Hilda Campbell was born in the north of Scotland in 1889. She married a German national, Dr. Willy Buntner Richter in 1912. They honeymooned in Scotland and lived in Hamburg. Dr. Richter died in 1938. Later that year she decided to visit her ailing parents in Scotland. 1938. After visiting her ailing parents, she returned to Germany just before the Second World War began. She became a double agent, controlled by Gerhard Eicke in Germany and Lawrence Thornton in Britain. How could she cope under the strain, with her son Otto in the German Army?Hilda went on to give evidence against her German handler at the Nuremburg trials. Soon after, she married a British Ambassador in Helsinki and joined her husband abroad. Hilda died in 1956.This is an extraordinary story based on the life of the author's great aunt, Hilda, including several authentic accounts.
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Dover Publications Inc. My Book House--Story Time
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Troubador Publishing Gonnae No Dae That
Gonnae no dae that? This is a Scots expression imploring someone to stop doing something. Advice Miller H Caldwell definitely didn't follow. In his memoir, Miller goes back to the beginning to 1950, growing up in the manse at Kirriemuir, in the north east of Scotland. After some troubling experiences, he finished schooling in Glasgow determined to lead a humanitarian life. And so he did. After many years of humanitarian work in Ghana, Scotland and Pakistan, meeting the world's most wanted terrorist and bringing an African dictator to his knees in tears, not to mention being mistaken for a German International footballer, Miller's life has been most unusual to say the least. The memoirs of this author are behind most of his thirty-two previous books, proving that truth can be stranger than fiction and authors definitely write what they know. For twenty years, he has been an author with stories to tell. This, he feels, will be his last as the symptoms of his diagnosed Parkinson's disease take root. From Scotland to Ghana, from lows to highs to lows again, Gonnae no Dae That is a celebration of a life lived to the full, one that took meaning from personal experiences and used them to better other lives. Inspirational reading for anybody who feels the need for greater meaning and greater adventures.
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Troubador Publishing The Boy with 12 Fingers
Billy Hansen was born with Polydactyly. He has extra fingers, twelve fingers instead of ten.His parents aren't wealthy, and they can't afford the expensive surgery to fix his hands, but they do love him and try their best to make him forget about his disability. But when he ties his shoelaces or holds his fork, those extra fingers always get in the way, making it difficult to forget.When Billy starts school, the other children make fun of him and call him names, which makes him feel sad and alone. But when Billy finds a piano in his classroom, he realises that he can use his extra fingers to his advantage.Can Billy defy the odds and become the piano player he dreams to be?
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HarperCollins Publishers The Beginning of Spring
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is March 1913, and the grand old city of Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. Change is in the air, and nowhere more so than at 22 Lipka Street, the home of English printer Frank Reid. One day Frank’s wife Nellie takes the train back to England, with no explanation, leaving him with their three young children. Into his life comes Lisa Ivanovna, a country girl, untroubled to the point of seeming simple. But is she? And why has Frank’s accountant Selwyn, gone to such lengths to bring them together? And who is the passionate Volodya, who breaks into the press at night? Frank sees, but only dimly, that he is a rational man in Moscow, a city where love, and friendship, power and politics, are at their most unfathomable.
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Oxford University Press National Theatre Playscripts: Emil and the Detectives
Working in partnership with the National Theatre, these new playscripts bring the theatre alive in the classroom. Each play has been carefully selected to ensure maximum impact and relevance to students, while the activities and teaching support are underpinned by National Theatre strategies so that teachers can feel confident using these approaches. Vibrant production images and the 'Making the play' section show how the play is brought to life on stage while the activities combine a focus on English skills with the play as a perfomance. Set in the 1920s, Emil and the Detectives tells the tale of Emil, a young boy sent alone by train to Berlin. Excited to be travelling on his own for the first time, he becomes suspicious of a fellow passenger who later robs him. Not to be outdone, Emil teams up with a band of children turned detectives and sets out to track the robber and get his money back, leading to a hair-raising chase across Berlin.
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