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Brooker’s Village-On-Sea takes a light, humorous look into the life of a small British coastal community, post World War II. The townspeople’s lives suddenly swing into a peaceful routine, breaking the habits of war-time Britain. They no longer need Home Guards, Civil Defense, the Ladies’ Auxiliary, and black curtains over the windows at night. As the village comes together to celebrate the end of the war, some of the community’s good traits and some that are not so good are revealed. The happier time also brings together couples, some smoothly, while others find difficulties along the way. Brooker’s Village-On-Sea is a home to people who lost loved ones in the London blitz, or were otherwise forever changed by the war years. Even so, romance still manages to survive in this fictional town.
A sweeping international thriller that explores the geopolitical faultlines of South Asia. Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, India's legendary spymaster, has zeroed in on a new threat emanating from the borderlands over which he keeps watch from his surveillance center in the Himalayan foothills. An elusive warlord—faceless, nameless, and known only by his nom de guerre Guldaar, meaning "leopard" in Urdu—has built an illicit empire throughout the lands that Alexander the Great once conquered, based on extortion, money laundering, corruption, and murder. His reach extends across national boundaries, and with support from elements in the CIA and Pakistan's ISI, he plays tribal factions and sovereign ...
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Learn about the history of video games in this non-fiction level three reader. In this book readers will learn all about how video games came to be, from Pong to Pac-Man and everything in between!