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| Author | : Terry Deary |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 33 |
| Release | : 2017-07-13 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 147295226X |
From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps _______________ Ideal for readers aged 7+ In a tunnel under the Thames, an urchin named Jenny and the young Queen Victoria dream of a wonderful new idea – underground trains! Twenty years later, the dream is finally becoming a reality. However, the construction of the Underground is tearing London apart and destroying the home of Jenny and her family. When Jenny comes face-to-face with the Queen again – will she tell her about the human cost of the 'dream'? Terry Deary's Victorian Tales explore the fascinating world of the Victorians, including many of the incredible achievements and breakthroughs that took place, through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning and exploration of the historical period. _______________ 'Bubbling with wit, language play and robust dialogue....just the right mix of ingredients to trigger young readers' interest in all things historical' - Books For Keeps
| Author | : Terry Deary |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 66 |
| Release | : 2017-07-13 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1472952251 |
From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps _______________ Ideal for readers aged 7+ In a tunnel under the Thames, an urchin named Jenny and the young Queen Victoria dream of a wonderful new idea – underground trains! Twenty years later, the dream is finally becoming a reality. However, the construction of the Underground is tearing London apart and destroying the home of Jenny and her family. When Jenny comes face-to-face with the Queen again – will she tell her about the human cost of the 'dream'? Terry Deary's Victorian Tales explore the fascinating world of the Victorians, including many of the incredible achievements and breakthroughs that took place, through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning and exploration of the historical period. _______________ 'Bubbling with wit, language play and robust dialogue....just the right mix of ingredients to trigger young readers' interest in all things historical' - Books For Keeps
| Author | : Matthew O'Brien |
| Publisher | : Huntington Press Inc |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2007-03-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0929712390 |
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.
| Author | : Sheldon Russell |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2012-06-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250010586 |
Dead Man's Tunnel is the third installment in Sheldon Russell's 1940s series featuring yard dog Hook Runyon. Near the end of WWII, Hook Runyon, railroad bull, and his dog, Mixer, are sent to the West Salvage Yard in the high desert of Arizona. Not far away is the Johnson Canyon Tunnel. Though remote and ordinary as tunnels go, it is the gateway to the steepest railroad grade in North America and a potential bottleneck for the delivery of war supplies. So vital is this tunnel to the war effort that a twenty-four hour military guard has been assigned for the duration. Hook's orders are to catch copper thieves and to stay out of sight and out of trouble. But things go awry when Hook receives a call that one of the guards has been killed mid-tunnel by an oncoming train. Lieutenant Allison Capron from the Army Transportation Department is called in to help with the investigation. At first, suicide by train is suspected, but the evidence soon suggests homicide resulting from a love triangle. Unable to fit his own findings into either of these theories, Hook suspects something more sinister.
| Author | : Klaas Jan Bakker |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 971 |
| Release | : 2005-12-22 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0415889669 |
A valuable source of reference on the current practices of analysis, design and construction of tunnels and underground structures in soft ground. This collection of reviewed papers covers a wide range of tunnelling practice, from deep excavations in Singapore to the construction of a new metro line in Barcelona. The international scope of the cont
| Author | : Tim Flanagan |
| Publisher | : Tim Flanagan |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2012-09 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1479279412 |
THE NUMBER ONE SCI-Fi / DYSTOPIAN SERIES FOR TEENS "If The Hunger Games and Veronica Roth's Divergent Series have left you eager for more, The Moon Stealers is the next big Urban Fantasy series..." The science fiction adventure series continues into a fantasy land After finding the magical Silver Bough in the first Moon Stealer book, the portal to the underworld opens enabling Sir Edgar and the children; Max, Joe and Scarlet to jump through. They find themselves in a world at war and quickly become involved in an uprising against the Faerie Queen. Their quest to find Peter Crisp continues, but the threat of the alien bacteria back home looms over them. Sir Edgar's attempt at gaining the Faerie Queens help in ridding the Moon Stealers from Earth looks like it may be a fruitless task. In such an unchartered land it's difficult knowing who is friend and who is foe. Danger lurks in the most innocent of places. Also by Tim Flanagan Read the complete Moon Stealer series: The Moon Stealers and the Quest for the Silver Bough (Book 1) The Moon Stealers and the Queen of the Underworld (Book 2) The Moon Stealers and the Everlasting Night (Book 3) The Moon Stealers and the Children of the Light (Book 4) Tim is also the author of the acclaimed illustrated detective book: The Curious Disappearance of Professor Brown Review "It was really well written and had such rich detail that made the book shine and come to life .... an amazing jigsaw that slowly comes together." (Anne Marie, Best Books) "One of the best books I have read on the subject so far! I think it will be a big hit with boys." (Jennifer Moody, Addicted To Books) "This is a very entertaining book that anyone can enjoy. I can't wait for the next one." (Crystal Trent Dotson, All My Book Finds) "I was drawn into this book literally from the very first paragraph." (Maria Foley, Book Junkies) "This is a fun adventure filled fantasy book. I would think any kid would enjoy this series, I know I did and I'm an adult." (Heather Alexander, Young Adult and Teens Readers Community) A Personal Note from the Author The idea for the Moon Stealers arrived, quite unexpectedly one morning when myself and my son were getting ready. He asked me to tell him a story so I randomly said, 'Have you heard the one about the Moon Stealers?' Only a wild and exciting story would be good enough for my son, so during our time in the bathroom we threw loads of ideas at each other and concocted an early form of the story. Later, as I started to write it down so that he could draw some pictures to go with it, I found the ideas grew organically and two years later, the four book series was complete.
| Author | : American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 700 |
| Release | : 1910 |
| Genre | : Tunnels |
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| Total Pages | : 872 |
| Release | : 1952 |
| Genre | : Labor unions |
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| Author | : Ned Zeman |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2011-08-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1101543418 |
A journalist faces his toughest assignment yet: profiling himself. Zeman recounts his struggle with clinical depression in this high- octane, brutally funny memoir about mood disorders, memory, shock treatment therapy and the quest to get back to normal. Thirty-five million Americans suffer from clinical depression. But Ned Zeman never thought he'd be one of them. He came from a happy Midwestern family. He had great friends and a busy social life. His career was thriving at Vanity Fair where he profiled adventurers and eccentrics who pushed the limits and died young. Then, at age thirty-two, anxiety and depression gripped Zeman with increasing violence and consequences. He experimented with therapist after therapist, medication after medication, hospital after hospital- including McLean Hospital, the facility famed for its treatment of writers, from Sylvia Plath to Susanna Kaysen to David Foster Wallace. Zeman eventually went further, by trying electroconvulsive therapy, aka shock treatment, aka "the treatment of last resort." By the time it was over, Zeman had lost nearly two years' worth of memory. He was a reporter with amnesia. He had no choice but to start from scratch, to reassemble the pieces of a life he didn't remember and, increasingly, didn't want to. His girlfriend was gone; friends weren't speaking to him. His life lay in ruins. And the biggest question remained, "What the hell did I do?" By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, profane and hopeful, The Rules of the Tunnel is a blistering account of Zeman's twisted ride to hell and back-a return made possible by friends real and less so, among them the dead "eccentrics" he once profiled. It's a guttural shout of a book, one that defies conventional notions about those with mood disorders, unlocks mysteries within mysteries, and proves that sometimes everything you're looking for is right in front of you.
| Author | : Colum McCann |
| Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2013-06-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1466848707 |
From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City. In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Above ground, the sandhogs--black, white, Irish, Italian--keep their distance from each other until a spectacular accident welds a bond between Walker and his fellow diggers--a bond that will bless and curse the next three generations. Years later, Treefrog, a homeless man driven below by a shameful secret, endures a punishing winter in his subway nest. In tones ranging from bleak to disturbingly funny, Treefrog recounts his strategies of survival--killing rats, scavenging for discarded soda cans, washing in the snow. Between Nathan Walker and Treefrog stretch seventy years of ill-fated loves and unintended crimes. In a triumph of plotting, the two stories fuse to form a tale of family, race, and redemption that is as bold and fabulous as New York City itself. In This Side of Brightness, Colum McCann confirms his place in the front ranks of modern writers.
