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Get the Summary of Ron Howard's The Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Ron Howard's memoir details his early life and career, shaped by his parents, Rance and Jean Howard. His father's acting career and mother's support led to Ron's early acting roles, including "The Andy Griffith Show." Despite his father's conservative values and the family's financial prudence, Ron pursued acting and later directing. His...
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"'What was it like to grow up on TV?' Ron Howard has been asked this question throughout his adult life. In The Boys, he and his younger brother, Clint, examine their childhoods in detail for the first time. For Ron, playing Opie on The Andy Griffith Show and Richie Cunningham on Happy Days offered fame, joy, and opportunity—but also invited stress and bullying. For Clint, a fast start on such programs as Gentle Ben and Star Trek petered out in...
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"When we were very young, published in 1924, was A.A. Milne's first book for children. The poems in it are inspired by the childhood of his son, Christopher Robin....[This edition] features the original illustrations by E.H. Shepard, couloured by the artist Mark Burgess." --book jacket
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Keith and Joe, military veterans, survived a murder attempt from an old friend. The two men, who grew up in scouting, try their hand with a new generation of young men to teach survival skills. Power struggles lie in the presidency of the United States. Murder lies in wait for the current president. Joe's sons, now helicopter pilots in the military, learn facts and join in the battle. The boys deal with school demands, athletics, girls, foes and scouts....
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The Dick Hamilton series chronicles the adventures of a boy who struggles to keep the family fortune after his mother's death. Fortune-seekers, a greedy uncle, and other perils await Dick around every corner.
Although it's not always politically correct by current standards, the stories are rollicking adventures. Fans of the original Hardy Boys, Rover Boys, Motor Boys, and other similar series will enjoy them.
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DICK HAMILTON'S FORTUNE
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Since 1980, Social Anarchism: A Journal of Theory and Practice has developed into a premier anarchist periodical, a feat that is honored in this anthology that showcases the journal's finest pieces. Dividing its focus equally between theoretical works and descriptions of contemporary practice, the anthology boasts such notable contributors as Noam Chomsky, Colin Ward, Kingsley Widmer, Murray Bookchin, and Richard Kostelanetz, and all contributions...
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"The White Crystals: Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys" by Howard Roger Garis. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all...
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Larry Dexter and The Stolen Boy is a children's adventure novel written by Howard Roger Garis. The story follows Larry Dexter, a young reporter, as he investigates a case involving the kidnapping of a young boy. Larry, who works for a newspaper, is assigned to cover the story and he quickly becomes determined to solve the case and find the missing boy. Along with his friend Jack, Larry sets out to uncover clues and gather the information that will...
9) Don't blink
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Join reporter Nick Daniels as he uncovers deadly secrets in a page-turning thriller from the "unstoppable" James Patterson (USA Today).
Seated at New York's Lombardo's Steak House, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy when an assassin strikes. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian...
Seated at New York's Lombardo's Steak House, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy when an assassin strikes. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian...
10) Roseblood
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Sent to the Roseblood Conservatory to study voice, Rune German develops a friendship with Thorn, a mysterious masked boy, but Thorn is torn between his feelings for Rune and his loyalty to his father, the Phantom, who haunts Roseblood and has sinister plans for Rune.
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"Nothing is as fun as snow. At least that’s what one little boy thinks. But while he stares up at the sky, he misses all the excitement down on the street. There goes a fire engine and a monster truck! And are those monkeys!? Just SNOW Already! captures children’s love of snow and their frustration with waiting....[I]t offers a humorous observation about living in the moment and noticing what’s around you." --publisher's website
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Before he becomes the famed horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, young Howard Lovecraft is a curious and imaginative boy living with his mother, because his father is locked up in Arkham Sanitarium. But after his mother unwittingly gave Howard the Legendary Necronomicon, Howard went to a dangerous and frozen land where he saved and befriended a monstrous creature he named Spot. Howard thought that was behind him, but now there is a new threat, and only...
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"A pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert and encounters a strange young boy who calls himself the Little Prince. The Little Prince has traveled there from his home on a lonely, distant asteroid with a single rose. The story that follows is a beautiful and at times heartbreaking meditation on human nature."--publisher's website.
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"Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. On the other side, it’s the same valley, the same town. Except to the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t...
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"Around the dark edges of reality lurk unknown beings with unknowable intentions: Ordinary objects can become cursed possessions, entities who seem like friends can become mounstrous, and those who seem monstrous can become the truest companions. Five stories show what happens when one is desperate enough to seek solace in the unnatural, and what hapens when the world of humans collides with that of something...else. Have caution when reaching into...
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"Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed...
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"Full Dissidence is a collection of essays focusing on the corporate assault on civil liberties, collisions of race and identity, and the kleptocracy of the Trump White House has forced America to ask itself if its beliefs of freedom and democracy are more than just words"--Provided by publisher.
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