Theo: Growing Up Fast

Author: Theo Walcott
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446464067
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
When the name of Theo Walcott was included in the England squad for the 2006 World Cup, shock waves ran through the football world. But no one was more surprised than Theo himself. Five years later, Theo Walcott is one of the most recognizable names in football. As the English heart of the brilliant young Arsenal team, he has become a firm favourite at the Emirates Stadium. He represents everything that is good about the beautiful game: a player with his feet on the ground, but lightning quick on the field. He carries the expectations of the nation on his shoulders, especially since one night in Croatia made him the youngest player in history to score a hat-trick for England. It has been an incredible adventure, an unbelievable story for a quiet boy from a small village who only started playing football when he was 10. But how does it feel for your dreams to come true? In Theo: Growing Up Fast, Theo Walcott takes you right inside his world.

Naptime with Theo and Beau

Author: Jessica Shyba
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250075017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17

Book Description
The only thing better than naptime is naptime with a friend. Theo the puppy (part-Boxer, part-Shepherd, part-Labrador, part-Sharpei) was rescued by Beau, a twenty-three-month-old toddler, and his family from an animal shelter in Santa Cruz. The two of them instantly became best friends. And every day at naptime, Theo waits for Beau to fall asleep, then curls up next to him. Theo and Beau were already a viral sensation thanks to the "unbearably adorable," "utterly charming" photos that author (Beau's mother) Jessica Shyba has been posting on her popular blogMomma's Gone City. And now, she's matched the very sweetest of them to a charming bedtime text to make a board book that is (as Alyssa Milano said of the blog) "so cute it hurts."

Second Yellow

Author: John Smith
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1785317520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373

Book Description
Second Yellow: More Adventures of our Footballing Heroes brings you more funny, fascinating and downright baffling tales gleaned by authors John Smith and Dan Trelfer from their unflagging research of over 240 footballer autobiographies. Together, they have pored through the works of genuine legends, cult heroes and players they can only dimly recall from their 1983 Panini sticker albums to find stories and facts that will delight, shock and confuse - sometimes all at once. There's the chairman who owned a ventriloquist's dummy called Algernon. There's the Liverpool legend who set a team-mate's wife's hair on fire. There's the Arsenal star who confronted some innocent fans with a samurai sword. And there's the Ipswich hero who took on Sylvester Stallone in an arm-wrestling contest - possibly inspiring Stallone's half-forgotten epic Over The Top. This book covers all the bases of the typical footballer's life: love, violence, gambling, horrific injury, banter (it's mostly banter) and, apparently, pigeons.

Vincent and Theo

Author: Deborah Heiligman
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 0805093397
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465

Book Description
Beautifully told, this is the true story of the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh.

The Fairest Show

Author: Gregory Ashe
Publisher: Hodgkin and Blount
ISBN: 1636210384
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 435

Book Description
A murdered coach. His missing daughter. A sadistic killer. After a summer apart, Theo and Auggie reunite at the beginning of another school year, determined to make a relationship work in spite of their age difference—and other obstacles. When Wroxall College’s athletic director strongarms Theo into tracking down the school’s missing football coach, though, Theo is determined to keep Auggie safe no matter how much Auggie hates it; Theo has lost too much already. Everywhere Theo and Auggie go, someone seems set on stopping their search. First, a masked man attacks them and steals important financial paperwork. Then a small-town cop tries to run them off. Even the football players seem determined to keep their silence. And the deeper Theo and Auggie dig, the more they suspect that something much darker is taking place. An attack on Auggie’s roommate raises a terrifying possibility—that the killer has targeted Auggie as his next victim. Theo and Auggie must hurry to uncover the truth before the killer can silence them, but even if they succeed, the pressure of the investigation and the danger to Auggie’s life may shatter the fragile bond they are building.

Windy City Dying

Author: Eleanor Taylor Bland
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1466840277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her husband Johnny MacAlister is long-buried, but now someone from Johnny's past is back, looking for him, and Marti fears she knows who it might be. In the meantime, her work as a suburban Chicago homicide detective has taken her back in time in another way, to a group of children she once counseled, each now four years older and with four more year's worth of problems. There's LaShawna, now seventeen and with her own four-year-old daughter; Padgett, all grown up at twelve but still living with his alcoholic mother; and then Jose, fifteen, who's in the most trouble of them all. He's been accused of murder, but the Jose that Marti remembers could not have committed such a terrible crime. Her first step is to find out what could have happened in the past four years to lead Jose to such a desperate act, and she hopes her second step will be to prove his innocence. It won't be easy, though; just what's going on with this tight group of kids, and how does it relate to the increasingly foreboding sense of doom Marti gets about the mystery man who's nosing around the remnants of her distant past? She's not sure, but she knows she must figure it all out, and soon, before another of the children, or even Marti herself, falls into grave danger. Windy City Dying is another taut, absorbing read from one of the masters of mystery fiction.

All the Year Round

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ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 680

Book Description

Behind Our Lives

Author: Charlene Carr
Publisher: Coastal Lines
ISBN: 1988232066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
Broken by love, Lincoln Fraser is back in the city of his birth. He’s been abandoned, betrayed, and doesn’t see how he can ever trust again. Kali Johnson is stuck in a world that feels too much for her. Her husband’s gone, her son won’t talk, and her apartment is full of rats. Fearful she's failing at life, all she wants is a second chance to make things right. When a freak accident places Kali and her son in Lincoln’s path, he feels compelled to help this single mother and her child. Unprepared for the challenge of letting anyone back into his life, Lincoln is faced with a question—continue to shut himself out from the world or let someone in? Raw, heartbreaking, but full of hope, Behind Our Lives, Book One in the Behind Our Lives Trilogy, is a story that will leave you wanting more.

Against All Odds: A Friends to Lovers Pregnancy Romance

Author: Ajme Williams
Publisher: Ajme Williams
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
We loved each other... only as friends. We married each other... only in Vegas. A fake ring and a cheap dress didn’t mean anything to me. But the feelings in my heart were real. They were more intense than I wanted them to be. Because Chris and I... could never work. My brother hates him even though he’s always been my BFF. And more than anything? Chris might have said “I do” in Vegas but he only wants to be friends. It’s one thing to suppress my emotions. It’s another to hide my pregnancy. Chris can’t find out. It’ll ruin whatever it is that we have left. My focus needs to remain on the annulment. And on mending my own heart. Am I being stupid? Probably. But there’s no way that this could end in a happily ever after... could it? A full length friends-to-lovers accidental wedding romance where everything goes so wrong and is yet so right. The perfect HEA and absolutely no cliff-hanger! ‘Against All Odds’ is a part of the Heart of Hope series but stands alone. Books do not have to be read in order.

New Beginnings at Wildflower Lock

Author: Hannah Lynn
Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1805496425
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
The start of a BRAND NEW series from Hannah Lynn, bestselling author of the Holly Berry Sweet Shop series! New starts and hopeful hearts... At 25, Daisy May’s life is not living up to expectations. Her childhood dreams of being an artist feel as unachievable as a committed relationship or managing to save enough money for a deposit on a house. But a surprise inheritance could change all that. After Daisy learns she’s now the new owner of a forty-foot narrow boat, she sets out for Wildflower Lock, where the fresh country breeze and the calm water is enough to assure her everything will be okay. With the help of the ruggedly attractive, yet grumpy riverman, Theo, she begins to work on her new home, the September Rose. Can she breathe new life into the old boat and learn to navigate not only the canals themselves, but also the people who live there? Or will the whole venture pull her under?