Vroom by the Sea

Author: Peter Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840247374
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
It was a 1972 Rally 200 in the same shade of orange as Donatella Versace with white, go-fast stripes down each side. It was bright and brash and made every other Vespa in the workshop look dull. Even sitting on its stand it had a swagger.Best-selling writer and traveller Peter Moore decides to go on an adventure through Sicily,Sardinia and the Amalfi Coast as a last fling before the onset of fatherhood.Riding his bright orange Vespa, Marcello, through some of the world’s most stunning scenery, Peter meets a multitude of interesting characters and discovers a side of Italy that tourists rarely see. Eliciting free beers from barmen, swoons from young women and beeps and whistles from other drivers, Peter finds that this most Italian of machines draws him deep into the heart of this fascinating and fun-loving country.

Vroom with a View

Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553816373
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Readers will fall for a side of Italy rarely seen with the just-turned-forty Peter Moore rattling around the country on the back of an ageing Vespa scooter — like himself, a little rough around the edges, and a bit slow in the mornings perhaps, but basically still OK.

Visions of the Sea

Author: Margarita Russell
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004069381
Category : Marine painters
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description

Vroom!

Author: Barbara McClintock
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 162672217X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
From beloved author and artist Barbara McClintock comes Vroom!, a playful picture book following a little girl's imaginative journey in a race car. Join a little girl as she zooms— past fields and forests, up mountains, over rivers, through deserts, home again, and into bed in this playful picture book about the power of imagination, from award-winning author and artist Barbara McClintock.

The Full Montezuma

Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553817019
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Peter Moore’s wicked sense of humour and eye for the bizarre add to the pleasure of this cautionary tale for anyone planning to cross a continent with their significant other. From Mexico to Jamaica, Honduras to ancient Mayan sites and golden beaches, follow the highs and lows of one couple’s journey.

Animals Go Vroom!

Author: Abi Cushman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984836668
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
With a nod to Richard Scarry, this inventive picture book surprises readers with every turn of the page! Hiss! Screech! Roar! It's a noisy day in Bumperville! But are the sounds what you think they are? That Honk! must surely be a goose. But turn the page and it's the taxi that a goose is driving! Using cleverly placed die-cuts, this inventive book hints at what is making the sound, but with each turn of the page, it's an eye-opening surprise and part of an unfolding story that is part guessing game and part giggle-inducing caper. Abi Cushman is the master of surprise and silliness in this absolutely delightful picture book.

Discovering Sharlie

Author: Craig Vroom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941420119
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
A Nasty old zookeeper, shifty and mean.Sea serpent monsters, longish and green.Vanishing -- gone -- without leaving a trace.Yes, this would be a most difficult case!Olivia and "Jenny the Great" team up with Scotland Yard when Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, goes missing. Using their Super Transducer Blaster to search for underwater clues, the girls discover more than a missing sea serpent. Can the "Lucky Penny Detectives" solve this aquatic mystery?

My Friend Fear

Author: Meera Lee Patel
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143131575
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
From the bestselling author of Start Where You Are comes a vibrantly inspiring look at making peace with fear--to become our truest selves On the heels of her bestselling journal Start Where You Are, author and illustrator Meera Lee Patel takes us deeper into her artistic vision and emotional journey in this stunning new four-color book. A mix of personal reflections, inspirational quotes, questions for reflection, and breathtaking watercolor visuals, My Friend Fear asserts that having big fear is an opportunity to make big changes, to discover the remarkable potential inside ourselves.

The Authority of Law in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism

Author: Jonathan Vroom
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004381643
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
In The Authority of Law in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism, Vroom identifies a development in the authority of written law that took place in early Judaism. Ever since Assyriologists began to recognize that the Mesopotamian law collections did not function as law codes do today—as a source of binding obligation—scholars have grappled with the question of when the Pentateuchal legal corpora came to be treated as legally binding. Vroom draws from legal theory to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the nature of legal authority, and develops a methodology for identifying instances in which legal texts were treated as binding law by ancient interpreters. This method is applied to a selection of legal-interpretive texts: Ezra-Nehemiah, Temple Scroll, the Qumran rule texts, and the Samaritan Pentateuch.

Swahili for the Broken-hearted

Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553814524
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Question: What do you do when you're dumped by the Girl Next Door? Answer: Throw yourself into another madcap adventure and travel from Cape Town to Cairo... A week after breaking up with the GND (his travelling companion through Central America) Peter Moore heads off to Africa to lose himself for a while. In the grand tradition of 19th-century scoundrelas, explorers and romantics, Africa strikes him as the ideal place to find solitude and anonymity in the face of a personal crisis. What follows is Peter's journey from one end of the Dark Continent to the other. Travelling the fabled Cape Town to Cairo route by any means of transport he can blag (or if he must, pay) his way onto, it's an epic trek that sees our intrepid Antipodean experience everything from the southernmost city in Africa to the Pyramids, vast game parks and thundering falls, cosmopolitan cities and tiny villages as he journeys through the very heart of Africa. And travelling on his own, it's inevitable that Peter falls in with a motley cast of characters and has a myriad misadventures: including coming face to face with a wild Hyena with very bad breath, crossing the treacherous Sani Pass, the highest in Africa, narrowly escaping a riot by hiding in a coffin shop, saving oil-covered Penguins in South Africa, acting as an extra in a WW2 epic, not to mention dodging 20,000 single woman trying to catch the eye of the king of Swaziland during the annual Reed Dance. And then there was the time when he was kicked out of Robert Mugabe's birthday bash at gunpoint...