Best Selling Books by Alan Armstrong

This Newbery-Honor winning tale introduces Whittington, a roughneck Tom who arrives one day at a barn full of rescued animals and asks for a place there. He spins for the animals—as well as for Ben and Abby, the kids whose grandfather does the rescuing—a yarn about his ancestor, the nameless cat who brought Dick Whittington to the heights of wealth and power in 16th-century England. This is an unforgettable tale about the healing, transcendent power of storytelling, and how learning to read saves one little boy.

An adventurous new work from Newbery Honor-Winning author, Alan Armstrong. In the spring of 1947, outer space was an unexplored realm. But eleven year-old Alexis (Alex) Heart and her impulsive brother, Chuck, believe that the stars are within reach. In the midst of building their own rocket, Alex befriends Captain Ebbs, and an army scientist who is working to create food for future space travelers, and who is also a descendent of Captain John Smith. Alex soon introduces Chuck to her new friend, and the trio''s shared interest in space travel sets off a series of adventures that the three will never forget. From meeting pioneering German rocket scientist Dr. Wenher von Braun, and a thrilling sailing trip down the Potomac to an island on the Chesapeake where a top secret rocket launch is about to take place, Alex and Chuck are about to have their lives forever changed.

ANDREW HAS grown up near the Plymouth docks hearing the sailors talk about America. Knowing that Andrew''s heart is set on going to the new world, his father sends him up to London to serve as page in the house of Walter Raleigh. In Queen Elizabeth''s court, Raleigh''s the strongest voice in favor of fighting with Spain for a position in the New World, and everyone knows that it''s just a matter of time before Her Majesty agrees to an expedition. Can Andrew prove himself fit to go on an expedition to the New World? Meticulously researched and brilliantly crafted, combining fictional characters with historical, Andrew''s tale offers up a vivid look at the cloakand- dagger politics of the time and a genuine feel for what it must have been like for the first Europeans to set foot on the beautiful, bountiful, savage shores of America.

Newbery Honor–winning author Alan Armstrong’s latest book! Eleven-year-old Mark''s anthropologist father has disappeared in the Gobi desert while tracing Marco Polo’s ancient route from Venice to China. His mother decides they must go to Venice to petition the agency that sent Mark’s father to send out a search party. Anxious about his father and upset about spending Christmas away from home, Mark gets a bad asthma attack in the middle of the night. That’s when Doc Hornaday, an old friend of Mark’s father, makes a house call, along with a massive black Tibetan mastiff called Boss. To distract Mark from his wheezing and to pass the long Venetian night, the Doc starts to spin for Mark the tale of Marco Polo. Doc describes Marco’s travels and the boy finds himself falling under the spell of the story that has transfixed the world for centuries. Marco’s journey bolsters Mark’s courage and whets his appetite for risk and adventure, and for exposure to life in all its immense and fascinating variety.

The untold story of a plan that would have prevented Pearl Harbor--and perhaps World War II

A detailed study of York, one of Britain''s most notable historic towns, during the Industrial Revolution.

Compares the characteristics and costs of the principal systems of urban public transportation.

Maori Games and Haka is a popular and much loved guide to haka and action songs, poi, stick games, powhiri, haka weapons and much more. First published in 1964, it is still in demand as an informative and comprehensive resource. It includes the Maori words for songs and a guide to pronunciation, as well as to concert presentation. The many drawings in the book illustrate the actions. This new edition has a revised introduction and clear layout.

This volume presents the results of the long-term co-operation of archaeologists from the University of Ghent and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago to establish the ceramic chronology for Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C. Drawing only upon pottery found in good context in well-conducted excavations, going back to the 1930s, but relying especially on the collaboration of other excavators who were working in southern Iraq from the 1960s onward, James Armstrong and Hermann Gasche, with the participation of cuneiformist Steven Cole and ceramic specialists Abraham Van As and Loe Jacobs, have created a typology of all major forms, showing the subtle changes that occurred in individual shapes through time at one site and at related sites. It also shows regional variations in shapes. Their graphic presention of the forms makes visible a centuries-long break in occupation of numerous sites in southern Iraq beginning in the time of Samsuiluna, the successor to Hammurabi of Babylon, and another break at the end of the millennium. There are detailed discussions of the forms and their geograhical distribution, as well as a treatment of the historical implications of the evidence.

This book seeks to distil the experience of some 5 million people over two centuries in four contexts - the home and the workplace, the local community and the wider social environment, in order to produce a picture of farming life as experienced by individual workers and their families.

Monograph examining changes in the economic structure of the UK from 1948 to 1968, based on input output analysis - includes a bibliography pp. 163 to 169, graphs and statistical tables.

This fast-moving, hard-hitting novel is based on fact. It is told by an active participant in and witness to the fall of the Khmer Republic to Pol Pot and his murderous Khmer Rouge forces. It challenges the reader to confront the actions of the Nixon Administration and contemplate those of the Trump era.

This is my personal statement of conversion to Jesus Christ as my Savior and Redeemer within the context of my membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was baptized when I was fifteen years old. I came from what I would call a pseudo-Christian background. I knew the stories of Christmas and Easter and assumed they represented real events, but I had no relationship with Christ, no prayer life, and no knowledge of the Bible. I was converted initially not to Christ but to Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. My search for and conversion to Christ did not come until later in my life. I recount in the book how my recognition of my need for a Savior and of Jesus as that Savior came about. The structure of the book follows the chronology of the Gospel of Matthew. My focus is not on the sermons and preaching of Jesus, but on his actions. I believe every act of Christ was intentional and designed to reinforce his teachings. Rather than discuss Jesus''s parables, I discuss His life as a series of informative, living parables. I then relate incidents in my life where those living parables have played a role in bringing me to Jesus.

People are not Edward''s forte, but despite his best efforts, people are unavoidable. An autistic adult, Edward finds his routine life disrupted by events that force him to face uncomfortable changes. First, he receives an unusual job assignment that requires him to make monthly visits to a cantankerous old man. Then his widowed mother''s stroke forces Edward to become her caregiver. When the old man overcomes his drug addiction, he tries to make Edward his friend, and Edward is forced to learn to interact. The old man''s recently divorced daughter comes to live with him, and Edward experiences his first romantic infatuation. His crush blossoms into love, which he struggles to express with his limited emotional intelligence. More changes tear Edward out of his routine existence as the old man, now his friend, develops cancer and passes away. He comes to grips with a world of changes and leaves the safety of the old man''s porch to enter the doorway to love and a new life.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Actors: Telling the Story is a significant achievement in documenting the preparation of stellar performances of a group of talented actors who have worked within this renowned, Tony-Award-winning repertory company. The authors have interviewed these artists about their early training and mentors and their methods of character creation. The result is detailed commentary about the roles they have played as well as information about the act of performance in the theater spaces at the Festival. What emerges is a personal history and memoir of each actor''s work that is eminently readable for theater patrons, experienced and novice actors, and educators who teach Shakespeare.

Letters from a dog in France to his pen pal in Massachusetts.