With a week before Christmas, everything seems to be falling apart for Santa. Will Santa be able to deliver presents this year? Is it possible that Mike has the solution to all of Santa's big problems?
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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Mike Ciccotello
If you're having a bad travel day, read a section or two of this book as part of your therapy. If you're constipated or the opposite of constipated, read this book while sitting on your throne, because it will make whatever isn't or is happening more fun.For the past forty years, bad things have been happening to the author and/or those around him when he leaves his home. Go back in time with him and ask yourself, "How can all of this happen to one guy?Is he still alive?"It happened on a boat without a goat, but there was a goat on that plane he rode. He did drive his car to the bar, but it wasn't the car that shoved that hook through his hand. It didn't rain on his train, but he got soaked on that bird he flew. He's just your average, middle-aged, overweight, white American who averages more than his share of bad luck. Somehow, he finds humor in his misadventures. Brighten your day at his expense.Tired of trying to follow the plot with too much character development? Don't worry, this book has none of that. Just short stories and quips that will make you laugh out loud, groan at the author's expense, and look over your shoulder as you stand in the transportation line comparing his picture to those around you. Trust us, if you see him, cancel your reservation or confirm you are up to date on your insurance premiums.
What would happen if an elementary school bully decided to stop bullying and instead use his strength to help peers overcome depression?Welcome to the exciting world of Big Bully Mike This cautionary story follows the journey of a good boy who turns into a bully at school due to jealousy and envy.Big Bully Mikeis an exceptional piece creatively crafted by Tawanda Marbury Ed S, an experienced teacher and published author. This book is written with all children in mind and enforces the following principles: Anti BullyingHow to treat othersFriendshipManaging emotionsGood communicationSchool etiquetteDisciplineHealthy eatingProblem-solvingForgivenessBig Bully Mike is an invaluable resource that will help children understand the importance of making good choices. With engaging illustrations and a relatable story, this book is a must-have for every child's library.
What would happen if an elementary school bully decided to stop bullying and instead use his strength to help peers overcome depression?Welcome to the exciting world of Big Bully Mike This cautionary story follows the journey of a good boy who turns into a bully at school due to jealousy and envy.Big Bully Mikeis an exceptional piece creatively crafted by Tawanda Marbury Ed S, an experienced teacher and published author. This book is written with all children in mind and enforces the following principles: Anti BullyingHow to treat othersFriendshipManaging emotionsGood communicationSchool etiquetteDisciplineHealthy eatingProblem-solvingForgivenessBig Bully Mike is an invaluable resource that will help children understand the importance of making good choices. With engaging illustrations and a relatable story, this book is a must-have for every child's library.
Ike and Mike are once again tired of sitting on the back of the sofa in author Rick Daniels' house. The two decide to come alive and go shopping to buy ingredients to make a pizza. Lucky, their tiger cub friend, who has never been on an adventure with Ike and Mike, asks if he can tag along. While shopping for pizza ingredients, they also buy fruit. The three play a game of counting fruit which teaches basic math skills.
It is the coldest winter the North Pole has ever had. Santa and all his helpers are in bed sick, with the worst cold they have ever had. Santa doesn't know how he will deliver toys to all the children around the world this year. He calls his friends Ike and Mike, to see if they will come to the North Pole to help save Christmas.
On the Road with Mike Drew
Rocky Mountain Books
2017
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Destined to become a classic photography collection capturing the natural beauty of Alberta's foothills and grasslands, On the Road with Mike Drew brings together - for the first time - some of Drew's best work from the past twenty years. Photojournalist Mike Drew has been touring the backroads of central and southern Alberta since 1991, taking photographs and writing stories for the Calgary Sun that have been enjoyed and shared by hundreds of thousands of readers. His travels take him out of the city to the wide Alberta skies where the foothills are sparsely treed and the prairie vista takes precedence over just about everything. Whether driving lonesome highways, hiking along coulees, tramping through sagebrush or fly-fishing bright streams, Drew patiently documents this enormous landscape and becomes one with its unique and varied environments. The resulting stories and images are always infused with Mike's characteristic sense of joy, wonder and excitement. Drew's adventures cover a variety of regions along the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains, including the upper Oldman River valley, Waterton, Kananaskis, the Porcupine Hills, the wild-horse country west of Sundre and on up through the Ya-Ha-Tinda, as well as more prairie-tinged locales such as Dry Island Buffalo Jump, Dinosaur Provincial Park, the Red Deer River valley, Milk River Ridge, the Pinhorn grazing reserve, the Cypress Hills and the windswept grasslands between Lethbridge and Medicine Hat.
Jeeves and Psmith Collection - Mike, Psmith in the City, Psmith, Journalist, the Man with Two Left Feet, My Man Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves
P G Wodehouse
Oxford City Press
2012
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This first-ever biography of of Lt. Cdr. Mike Cumberlege DSO & Bar, Greek Medal of Honour, murdered in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Feb/March 1945, recalls a man who was `truly Elizabethan in character-a combination of gaiety and solidity and sensitiveness and poetry with daring and adventurousness-and great courage.' Cumberlege came from a maverick sea-going family. He was highly resourceful and lived by his wits, skippering ocean-going yachts for wealthy Americans before the war. In 1936 he married Nancy; their relationship was close and, with the sea, forms a thread in the book. From 1940 Cumberlege and served in undercover roles in the Royal Navy in Marseilles and Cape Verde and was on the staff of General de Gaulle in London. Posted to Egypt in 1941 in the SOE, he formed a para-naval force of fishing vessels, took part in fighting in Greece, attacked the Corinth Canal, escaped from Crete, was wounded and returned three times to Crete clandestinely. On a second operation to destroy the Corinth Canal in 1943 he was captured. Tortured in Mauthausen concentration camp, he was transferred to Sachsenhausen and spent 21 months in solitary confinement. The book contains unique material gathered from the family and from well-wishers in places as far apart as Ukraine, Australia and the USA.
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: The Night I Died
Mickey Spillane; Max Allan Collins
Titan Comics
2018
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Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private detective Mike Hammer returns to comics in this thrilling noir series, based on an original plot by Mickey Spillane, written by Max Allan Collins. When a chance encounter with a captivating femme fatale leads to a violent mob retaliation, hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer finds himself dodging both bullets and hard broads as he undertakes the most dangerous case of his career.
"Then Johnny paused a moment to take the cigarette to his mouth and light it, breathing in that first precious drag of smoke inhalation. After savoring the stilted yellow flavor, he looked back at Mike and said, 'Face it kid. You were good while it lasted, but one false move and everything else begins to crumble in your wake.'"Big Mike and Johnny Gunn were hired enforcers for the Christopher Crime Syndicate. When they decide to break out on their own and commit a string of petty crimes to get by, they run into all manner of problems from both their current and former life. From an old boss seeking to unleash trouble from Mike's past, to Johnny's fumbling attempts to keep his partner's rage in check, nothing is kept on the back-burner for long as our not so heroic duo attempts to carve out a not quite redemptive niche into the dark side of the American dream.By the time that it all comes to a head, Big Mike and his buddy Gunn have to decide to either give it all up...or be taken in by the tragic justice that their actions so desperately demand.Poet and author James Lawson Moore has sought to bring this story, the first in a planned litany of self-contained crime and thriller novels to you the reader. He hopes that this crime thriller will bring you many hours of entertainment. Includes the short story "Ghosts At The Door."
Percy and Mike's Big Adventure
Susannah Weston; Peter Weston
GROSVENOR HOUSE PUBLISHING LTD
2023
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Percy the Piebald Pony is settled in his new home. A new pony, a miniature Shetland Pony called Mike, arrives at the stables and is put in the same field with Percy. Mike is mischievous and, soon bored, he persuades Percy that they should escape. They manage to get out of their field and make it to the town's high street, causing attention and mayhem even when trying to fit in. After the town they enter the forest and meet a family of deer and make friends and have something to eat before heading back to the stables. Thankfully they have not been missed but have had a great adventure.
Percy and Mike go to The Beach
Susannah and Peter Winfield-Weston
GROSVENOR HOUSE PUBLISHING LTD
2024
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Percy, the Piebald Pony, and Mike, the mini Shetland Pony, have a surprise trip to the seaside. Percy gets to ride along the beach and Mike creates havoc by releasing some donkeys and crashing into a candy floss stall on the Promenade. After their excitement they both have a swim in the sea. Both have fun on their day out and return home tired out. Enjoy their story.
Mike Tucker was born into a life of farming and horses. His passion and hard work enabled him to progress from international groom to successful international event rider, top level Eventing official and television commentator. The pinnacle of Mike's career as a commentator was covering Nick Skelton's Gold Medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016 for the BBC. In `The Man Behind the Mike' we learn about Mike's family history and the connection with the Badminton Estate where his grandfather farmed; The Beaufort Pony Club, a huge influence in his life with many top level riders being members; a visit to Australia, staying with the Roycroft family, which proved to be a pivotal moment in his efforts to become a successful event rider; and about Mike's second place at Badminton, which laid the foundations of his credibility as a rider and commentator. The `voice behind the microphone' had the experience and knowledge to commentate with authority and to command respect from the listening public at venues of not just horse trials but also show jumping, dressage, and shows in general. The wealth of experience and lifetime involvement in the world of equestrian sport has enabled him to travel all over the world meeting many different people and sharing his expertise. We are told many funny, revealing, fascinating and sometimes sad anecdotes of his experiences of the successes and failures along the way and we are given a true insight into the real stories behind the headlines, and `The Man Behind the Mike'.
MY LIFE AS MIKE BALDWIN
BLAKE PUBLISHING
2001
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Johnny Briggs's portrayal of Coronation Street's Mike Baldwin has made the wheeler-dealing, womanizing rogue the man the nation loves to hate. In this account of his life, Johnny shows a rare wit as he recalls hilarious escapades with stars old and new.
A keen observer of manners and mores, Mike Leigh has been hailed as a celebrator of "ordinary" people, yet it wasn't until relatively recently that audiences have been able to appreciate the full body of his work. In discussing all his films from Bleak Moments and High Hopes through Naked, the Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies and Topsy Turvy to All or Nothing, Garry Watson considers this claim, examining the films' influence and their effect. At the same time, he takes on the very concepts of "the real" and "the ordinary" in regard to Leigh's work, challenging much perceived thinking among critics and moviegoers alike. To what category does the director's work really belong? Is it British Realism? The avant garde? Through careful textual detail and wider social and literary comparison with the works of Charles Dickens and T.S. Eliot, he argues ultimately for the aritistic and cultural significance of Leigh's work as one of Britian's most respected filmmakers.
A keen observer of manners and mores, Mike Leigh has been hailed as a celebrator of "ordinary" people, yet it wasn't until relatively recently that audiences have been able to appreciate the full body of his work. In discussing all his films from Bleak Moments and High Hopes through Naked, the Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies and Topsy Turvy, to All or Nothing, Garry Watson considers this claim, examining the films'influence and their effect. At the same time, he takes on the very concepts of "the real" and "the ordinary" in regard to Leigh's work, challenging much perceived thinking among critics and moviegoers alike. To what category does the director's work really belong? Is it British Realism? The avant garde? Through careful textual detail and wider social and literary comparison with the works of Charles Dickens and T. S. Eliot, he argues ultimately for the aritistic and cultural significance of Leigh's work as one of Britian's most respected filmmakers.
Mike is unsettled. He knows that something odd is happening at home because his parents are whispering all the time. But, being a detective, Mike is quickly on the case. He enlists his friend Ikem to help him get to the bottom of the mystery. Mike and his family are moving to another country, making him confused and fearful. What will happen to his toys, his room, his friends, his house? How will he learn to talk in a new language and how will he ever make new friends? As his mission gathers momentum, Mike and Ikem find the answers to his questions and solutions to his problems. One of the authors is a psychologist, both are experienced expatriates, parents, storytellers and interculturalists. The Mission of Detective Mike: Moving Abroad will allay the fears of every relocating family member as this sensitive story, written in words and terms that make sense to young children, shares rock solid strategies and advice that anyone will find easy to apply.
Mike Carter has been a lecturer at Streetbridge College of Further Education for 30 years. He has been the leader of the pack, scourge of college management, seducer of students, colleagues and wives of colleagues. But now, approaching 60, things are going awry. The younger lecturers are no longer in thrall to him, his powers of seduction are declining, and those whom he has offended over the years, sensing his diminishing influence, are seeking to exact revenge.Meanwhile, Marcia Martell, the young, newly appointed Principal, is determined to drag the institution into the 21st century in the face of foot-dragging by the older members of her management team and opposition from the lecturers' union. She issues a memorandum to staff imposing a new code of dress and behaviour: this is seized on by Mike Carter as an opportunity to re-assert his waning influence by leading the fight against her.However, the politics of the workplace are muddied by events in the personal lives of the protagonists, and by antagonisms and jealousies between individuals, generations and competing interest groups. When sexual tension is added to the mix, the outcome is unpredictable.The author began working in Colleges of FE in 1968. He was a lecturer, an Adult Education organiser, Head of Department and finally a Vice-Principal, before retiring in 1995.