A vivid July day at the Saginaw Children's Zoo with Cam. Cam can mean two things: Cam, my son and Cam: my iPhone, my camera. All the pictures in this book were taken on one vivid July day at the Saginaw Children's Zoo Yes, just ONE DAY My intent of making this book is to illustrate that you don't have to go to Detroit or Toledo to go to a great zoo. There is one right here in Saginaw. All the pictures were manipulated to make them "Vivid". To make the image more "colorful". To illustrate to the viewer how I "see" the Zoo. To look at the Zoo in a "Vivid" light. To experience the wonder and beauty that you can see here. Thanks for looking I hope you can have YOUR OWN VIVID JULY DAY AT THE SAGINAW CHILDREN'S ZOO.
A Haiku Garden contains 104 selections from the Everyday Photo Haiku Project, a personal art project that spanned 365 days. Each day, a photo was taken and a haiku was written. Words, ideas, stories and emotions were explored within seventeen syllables.All photography and haiku created on an iPhone by Patrick J. Harris.
Do you believe in ghosts? No? Maybe this book will change your mind... What happened at The Forest Hotel one hundred years ago? What do the ghostly sisters do to young Jimmy Kinsella when he stays in The Old Dark House all night? What does the mysterious Night Visitor want from one of America's richest men? These questions will be answered in The Lighthouse, a collection of six ghost stories that is sure to entertain and frighten you. The Lighthouse is published by Hippo Books, a publisher dedicated to producing interesting, readable and fun books. This book is suitable for English students with pre-intermediate English or higher. Be sure to check out our other Hippo Graded Readers. About the Author: Patrick Kennedy is the chief editor at Hippo Books. He is also one of Hippo's principal writers. He is a DELTA qualified English teacher with over ten years' experience teaching in Europe and Asia. Patrick has also written three English language textbook series. He is the author of the Mahoney Green mysteries and has contributed to many of Hippo's short story collections.
What is going on in the building? Strange things have been happening in the eight story apartment block lately - the lift decides who it takes up and down; the heating and lights go on and off whenever they want; and doorways grow larger and smaller. The caretaker seems to know what is happening and why, but will she tell anyone? Set in an ice cold winter in the capital of Mongolia, Eight Stories follows some of the inhabitants of the block as they try to solve the mystery of why they are being helped and punished... but will the building let them? 8 Stories is published by Hippo Books, a publisher dedicated to producing interesting, readable and fun books. This book is suitable for English students with intermediate English or higher. Be sure to check out our other Hippo Graded Readers. About the Authors: Patrick Kennedy is the chief editor at Hippo Books. He is also one of Hippo's principal writers. He is a DELTA qualified English teacher with over ten years' experience teaching in Europe and Asia. Patrick has also written three English language textbook series. He is the author of the Mahoney Green mysteries and has contributed to many of Hippo's short story collections. Cooper Baltis is one of the writers and founders of Hippo Books. He is a former Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at the National University of Mongolia and is TESOL certified. He has taught English in Asia for five years and has published stories in several literary magazines in America. His Hippo books include Hassan and Lulu and My Brother the Giant, as well as many short story collections.
Pull up a chair and sit quietly in the corner. Try not to draw attention to yourself. We all know gods, even the benign ones, react in anger if interrupted when holding court. Order a drink and relax while you are regaled with this satirical tale. Just imagine it, Jesus retelling how his father created the world. You have never heard this version before. Listen to his breathtaking story of addiction and redemption as he recounts the lost years of his life. Take this trip with him, and some friends you never knew he had. Witness it all as he recounts it all for the first time, in all of time. Patrick Elliott ordains you as a priest in the order of the Lord's Confessors. The offering? Exalted stories, denied by any official record, too wonderful to be true. They come encased in a faux-faux-leather tome, but only for a Brief and Literal History of the World.
It is the year 2000 and Sir Jerald Noakes, a leading City of London business tycoon, has fallen foul of both his own and the prevailing institutional greed. Very much a 21st century phenomenon, it seems that he has been chosen as a scapegoat by the British establishment, and soundly trounced for his misdemeanours. The fact that he is not from an old established UK family might have something to do with it, or that he is the upstart son of an migr family emanating from somewhere in central Europe. The play begins in court, where it appears Sir Jerald, having been found extremely guilty on all counts, is now awaiting his sentence. The play makes a mockery of money and the way it alters people's attitudes towards one another; in this case, the piffling sum of 50 million. As the play progresses, the audience is introduced to the fictional actors who all have their own stories to tell, and who are all baffled by the amount of money and greed involved. It also juxtaposes a previous court case - experienced by a member of the fictional cast - which happened during the dark days prior to the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. The play within the play - written by a fictional Irish member of the Socialist Workers Party - is being performed at Reading University. It is one of the few places in the UK that still accepts and enjoys left-wing theatre and, as the play progresses, The Theatre of the Absurd.The director of the play has misgivings about the way it is progressing and both he and the writer - who seems to be permanently full of angst - are at loggerheads over the message the play is sending out to the audience. The director is worried about its political correctness, but the writer is not concerned at all with controversy, because of the emotional baggage he is carrying around, his working class roots, and his life experience.By halfway, it is discovered that Sir Jerald is terminally ill, and - out of compassion - he is released from prison by the Home Secretary. On release, and due to his rapid decline, everywhere he looks he is surrounded by treachery and humbug. No longer a tough nut, with his dictatorship now seemingly over, and in despair, he comes to realise that - during a lifetime in big business - he has only been loved for his money. But however much Sir Jerald's tormentors believe they have him at their mercy, he still preserves a powerful and humiliating weapon, a final card, which he believes will allow him to die in peace.Patrick Brigham
