The Leap Year Book

Author: Barbara Sutton-Smith
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
ISBN: 9781550415988
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
What is leap year? How many have we had since the calendar was reformed in 1582? If you were born on February 29, 1944, how old would you be? When would you celebrate your golden birthday? Why are leap years dangerous for single men? Find the answers to these questions and more in The Leap Year Book, a collection of leap year trivia and lore. Discover what earth-shattering events occurred on February 29, what famous personalities share this erratic birth-rate, and why the advent of the leap year sent bachelors everywhere into a tailspin. With full-colour illustrations throughout, The Leap Year Book is the perfect birthday wish for all our leap year sons and daughters.

Leap Year

Author: Helen Russell
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473634997
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE YEAR OF LIVING DANISHLY - How to make big decisions, be more resilient, and change your life for good. Having spent the last few years in Denmark uncovering the secrets of the happiest country in the world, Helen Russell knows it's time to move back to the UK. She thinks. Maybe. Or maybe that's a terrible idea? Like many of us, she suffers from chronic indecision and a fear of change. So she decides to give herself a year for an experiment: to overhaul every area of her life, learn how to embrace change, and become a lean, mean decision-making machine. From how to cope with changing work lives and evolving relationships, to how we feel about our bodies, money and well-being, Helen investigates the benefits of new beginnings, the secrets of decisive people and what makes changes last - and uncovers the practical life lessons we can all use thrive when change is afoot - and inject some freshness and magic if it's not.

Leap Day

Author: Wendy Mass
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316028738
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
On her fourth Leap birthday, when she turns sixteen, Josie has a number of momentous experiences, including taking her driver's test, auditioning for a school play, and celebrating with her family and friends.

A Leap Year of Firsts

Author: Keith Baldwin
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781667812960
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
When Keith Baldwin started his innocent and fun quest of firsts on January 1st, 2020, it ended up turning into a year like no other. A year where he did something EVERY day for the first time in his life. A year that turned into chaos, opportunity and a few unthinkable firsts. Ride along as Keith takes you on a journey where we experienced a pandemic like 1918, unemployment and depression like the Great one in 1929, Civil unrest like the 1960s, and an election that brought back images of our Civil War. Although it was a year with firsts, it also was a year when the author discovered his WHY.

The Leap Year Boy

Author: Marc Simon
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1611874963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Set in Pittsburgh in the early 1900s, The Leap Year Boy is the story of a working class family and an extraordinary boy named Alex Miller, born in the family's home on February 29, 1908. What makes Alex so remarkable is that even though he's full-term at birth, he weighs just two pounds one ounce, and is nine inches long. Despite his size, Alex is perfectly healthy. However, his body grows at one-fourth the rate of a normal child-so that after one year, he's the size of a three-month-old-but his mind grows much quicker. Eventually, so do certain parts of his body and his ability to do various and unusual things with them. As Alex's special abilities become apparent, those around him see him as both a miracle child and a freak of nature-a freak to exploit. How Alex saves himself from the designs of others-his religious fanatic grandmother, who sees him as the new Messiah; his money-grubbing immigrant doctor, who wants to put him on display; his unstable nanny, who believes Alex is her lost child; and his father and father's mistress, who are eager to tap Alex's commercial potential-is at the heart of the novel. Ultimately, a family that has been fractured by ambition and circumstance rediscovers loyalty and love, thanks to Alex's courage.

The Five Thousand Year Leap

Author: W. Cleon Skousen
Publisher: Verity Publishing
ISBN: 0934364656
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America created the first free people in modern times. They wrote a new kind of Constitution which is now the oldest in existence. They built a new kind of commonwealth designed as a model for the whole human race. They believed it was thoroughly possible to create a new kind of civilization; giving freedom, equality, and justice to all. The Founders created a new cultural climate that gave wings to the human spirit. They built a free-enterprise culture to encourage industry and prosperity. They gave humanity the needed ingredients for a gigantic 5,000-year leap in which more progress has been made in the past 200 years than all of prior recorded human history. All of this came about because of 28 basic principles the Founders discovered, upon which all free nations must be built in order to succeed. This eBook includes the original index, footnotes, table of contents and page numbering from the printed format, and also new illustrations.

It's My Birthday Finally! a Leap Year Story

Author: Michelle Whitaker Winfrey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972717953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Miles was born on 29th February. On Saturday he will be celebrating his birthday. Although he is happy about his birthday there seems to be some confusion about how old Miles will be. Will he be eight or will he be just two?

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Author: William B. Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Leap Year Project

Author: Victor Saad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989223027
Category : Active learning
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Victor Saad is an ordinary guy who took an extraordinary leap - quitting his job to create his own Master's program through 12 experiences in 12 months that, together, proved to be the most challenging, enlightening, and transformational year of his life. He invited others to leap with him, charging them with the question, "What risk would you take to change your life, your community, or your world for the better?" These are their stories.

February 29 Born to Be Different

Author: Leap Year Birthday Gifts Press House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
Use This Paperback Journal To Record Your Thoughts, Goals and Dreams.100 pages 6*9 trim size