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Bill Griffith
Nobody's Fool follows the story of Schlitzie's long career--from Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small-town carnivals and big-city sideshows--which is one of legend. Today, Schlitzie is most…
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The funniest, most thrills and spills new adventure series from legendary Andy Griffiths, the author of the bestselling, sales-smashing Treehouse series
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Andy Griffiths
An all-new, laugh-out-loud chapter book adventure series full of irreverent, kid-friendly humor from the New York Times-bestselling author of the Treehouse series.
Bill Griffiths
"Abackabeyont, bait-poke, drucken, fettle, guissie pigs, marra, nyen, plote, queen-cat, yem, zookers!" If you enjoy finding out about dialect words - how and where and when they were used -…
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Pitmatic brings together a wonderful regional pit language - its words, jokes, stories and songs that are fast disappearing from our culture. This book helps attest to the remarkable vitality…
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of Roman experimental archaeology, exploring its key themes, methodologies and applications through a diverse array of international case studies. Experiments, simulations and reconstructions…
From the author of the worldwide bestselling Treehouse series comes a completely new and exciting adventure series where the sky's the limit.
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin
Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial…
Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field The Post Colonial Studies Reader provides the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge…
The diversity and development of early English law is sampled here with a selection of several law-codes in translation; the laws of Ethelbert of Kent, the first code to be…
Spud Tatum, a native of South Louisiana, was given a second chance! He was physically re-engineered and endowed with World Class Speed. With this talent he traveled to Savannah, Georgia…
After fifty years together, Diane Noomin's death left her husband Bill Griffith alone. He processed her death by doing the same thing he did every day of their shared life…
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Nobody’s Fool follows the story of Schlitzie’s long career-from Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small-town carnivals and big-city sideshows-which is one of legend.
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From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody's Fool, comes Three Rocks, a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy.
Zippy returns in this new collection which takes the series down some unexpected paths.
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2016 Eisner Award Winner for Best Writer/Artist! Underground and Zippy the Pinhead cartoonist Bill Griffith uncovers his mother’s hidden past in his first graphic memoir.
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Contains some 3,500 of the commonest words in Old English (OE) arranged by consonant order, plus an introduction to the OE language and a selection of representative OE texts. This…
Stotty 'n' Spice Cake brings together wonderful regional recipes with a humorous helping of regional dialect and a generous serving of social history to give an insight into the North…
This book is more than just a collection of mining terms. It is an heartfelt attempt to bring together the words spoken by miners of the North East pits and…
Combining dialect vocabulary and literature as a way of explaining the North Sea Coast including scenery, weather, wildlife, boats and fishing, communities and people.
Contributions by leading archaeologists and historians pay tribute to Paul Bidwell, admired for his ground-breaking work both in the south-west and the military north of Roman Britain. This collection will…
Reality Street published Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) in 2010. This successor volume collects work from the following decade, bringing back into print poetry that appeared in hard-to-obtain small…
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This is the third, and projected to be the final, volume of Reality Street’s edition of Bill Griffiths’ Collected Poems, which began with Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) in 2010 and…
Colin Griffiths
The third and Final chapter in the Fenton Saga as Daniel, Madison and Todd are faced once more with their evil father. Who will perish as they try to rid…
Collected poems from the period 1966-80 by Bill Griffiths, one of England’s premier experimental poets (1948-2007).
Corinne Griffith
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
William Griffith
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
Griffith Ogden Ellis
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…
Bill Laar,Jackie Holderness,Neil Griffiths
Give your young children the best start to learning English with Jamboree Storytime’s interactive, play-based approach!
Jamboree Storytime is an exciting new series designed to introduce the English language to…
Stuart Kerr,Ralph Griffith
Based on the series of novels from Frank L. Baum. Return to the incredible land of OZ after Dorothy and Toto had their famous adventure. However OZ is no longer…
Ralph Griffith
Jackie Holderness,Neil Griffiths,Bill Laar
Ralph Griffith,Stuart Kerr
A mini-series tale set in the fabled OZ Universe and based on the works of L. Frank Baum. Returning to the days of the Nome King’s rule over the land…
Boasting new extracts from major works in the field, as well as an impressive list of contributors, this second edition of a bestselling Reader is an invaluable introduction to the…
Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths (University of West Australia),Helen Tiffin
A guide to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism.
Ted Maher,Bill Hayes,Jennifer Thomas
As featured on 60 Minutes, Dateline, Inside Edition, and 48 Hours, the shocking true story of banker Edmond Safra’s death and the man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for the crime…
Bill Ashcroft (University of New South Wales, Australia),Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin
This was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most…
Robert Griffith Williams, Gainsford Bruce
This comprehensive guide to the law and practice of the High Court of Admiralty in England and Wales, written by legal experts Gainsford Bruce and Robert Griffith Williams, provides detailed…
This volume combines the diverse talents of an impressive range of writer-critics in an engaged and lively response to the poetry of Geraldine Monk. Monk’s reputation as one of the…
