The Mumper

The Mumper
Author: Mark Baxter
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780220464

Seven drinking buddies decide to buy a racehorse and embark on the journey of a lifetime in the book that inspired the film Outside Bet. It's 1985 - Thatcher is in power, Sade is on the radio and the print workers have gone on strike. A motley rabble of seven firm friends: Thimble, Gudger, O'Sh, Fred the Shoe, Dave, Alfie and Bax meet every Sunday in their favourite South London boozer for banter of the highest order and a lot of taking the mick. Then, out of the blue, one of their number receives some news which knocks him and his merry band for six. Reeling from this shock and confused about how to deal with it, the boys meet and rally in standard fashion, in the Dutchman with a few light ales and an aim to set the world to rights. One day an unknown character approaches the crew and asks them a most intriguing question...'Does anyone here want to buy a racehorse?!' From that simple but surreal question unfolds the story of seven likely lads who embark on a unique journey in the name of their mate, and what happens when they just decide to go the whole bifta.

Removing College Price Barriers

Removing College Price Barriers
Author: Michael Mumper
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780791427033

Presents the political, economic, and demographic factors that interact to produce and perpetuate increasing college price barriers.

North and North Again

North and North Again
Author: David Brian Plummer
Publisher: Tideline Books/Tideline Publ
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2006
Genre: Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN: 0955217911

Making Nonfiction and Other Informational Texts Come Alive

Making Nonfiction and Other Informational Texts Come Alive
Author: Kathy Pike
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004
Genre: Content area reading
ISBN:

Offering a fresh approach, this much-needed text mirrors the features that are traditionally found in nonfiction texts—illustrations, diagrams, insets, boxed materials—to help clarify and explain the concepts being presented. This is a perfect complement to reading methods courses, which includes a wealth of nonfiction titles that teachers can readily use effectively in a balanced literacy program. Packed with ideas and suggestions for the classroom, Pike and Mumper offer everything one needs to know in order to use nonfiction texts in the classroom, from using them in literature circles, and as models for writing or for research purposes--Publisher's description.

25 Totally Terrific Social Studies Activities

25 Totally Terrific Social Studies Activities
Author: Kathy Pike
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Social sciences
ISBN: 9780439498302

Showcase students’ learning with these 25 fun and easy-to-make presentation formats for any social studies topic! This collection of motivating projects, features the Timeline Tube, Biography Hanger, Fact Fan, and many more hands-on ways for students to share what they’ve studied in class or researched on their own. Includes step-by-step directions, photographs of sample projects, and 150+ topic ideas. For use with Grades 3–6.

Corpus Delicti

Corpus Delicti
Author: Diane Wagner
Publisher: St Martins Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1986
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780312170165

Chronicles the true story of the disappearance of Evelyn Throsly Mumper, a wealthy widow who married Leonard Ewing Scott, a man she barely knew, and the eventual trial of her husband for her murder

The Adventure of Black Drop

The Adventure of Black Drop
Author: Radkris
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-09-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1456780549

A gunshot leaves a dead man in an East End alley. A beautiful woman lies dead on the lawns of Windsor Castle. The only certain aspect of a beadles death is its precipitation by gravity. A mere bump into a gentleman sends an old man to his death amidst Piccadillys evening throngs. Did the gunshot echo through time and claim the three other souls or had their time simply run out? One mans calibre matches these crimes. A mathematicians ingenious deviance compounds Londons smog as he surpasses his past transgressions and discovers the means to control the future. But his plan is plagued by one man brave enough to play in the web in his criminal parlour. Coerced to alter his modus operandi, this man works on more than one case simultaneously, navigating smoke and mirrors, while trying to earn back a trusted friend, trusting reluctantly in a mysterious Indian and evading death at every corner of London. Can this man emerge a victor in a fight to save something as whimsical as the future of the world? But above all else, will he emerge alive body, mind and soul? Who is this man? He is Sherlock Holmes!

Hard Lines: A Novel

Hard Lines: A Novel
Author: Hawley Smart
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2024-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385316022

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Hard Lines

Hard Lines
Author: Hawley Smart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1883
Genre:
ISBN: