Frank Cottrell Boyce's Millions is the tale of a not-so-great train robbery.Two brothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to joining the Euro. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have just one glorious, appalling dilemma - how to spend it in the few days before it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying a million pizzas and the virtues of ending world poverty, the boys soon discover that being rich is a mug's game. For not only is the clock ticking - the bungling bank robbers are closing in too.Pizzas or World Peace - what would you choose?
This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices, and a critical introduction as well as all the illustrations from the original French edition.
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Twelve-year-old Marco's love for travel and for his younger sister Lilly, who has psychic powers, leads him to journey to other universes, gaining the ability to go wherever he wishes without growing old.
Max discovers an entire, living world on the floor of the bedroom of the eccentric janitor who disappeared from his boarding school, and must protect from the evil headmaster.
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And so, he is in for a big surprise at the playground one day, when he hears "Max, time to go home!" and two other kids come running. He's not the one and only after all! How many Maxes are in the world?! Millions of Maxes?
I have found that the way to go from zero cash to property worth millions in three years is : • Start small with a building you can finance with 100 % borrowed money Improve the value of this property by having it repaired and painted ...
There are millions of things to measure . . . and almost as many ways to measure them!
2 Kashmir Muslims (Indian army Captured at Guns point 1955 to till now 3 Sept 2012): Any one can see these talks are true to take place at Kashmir (Collapse of North Block ,PMO for humanity), ...
In Mad by the Millions, Harry Y-Jui Wu examines the WHO's ambitious project, arguing that it was shaped by the postwar faith in technology and expertise and the universalizing vision of a "world psyche.