![]() ![]() Piranha are very skeptical about being ‘good guys’ but they give it a go with hilarious results! This graphic novel for youngsters is laugh out loud, roll on the floor funny! The bit with setting the dogs free was funny, but, the best part was the gang trying to rescue a kitten in a tree! Can you imagine being stuck in a tree and seeing a wolf, shark, snake and a piranha come to your rescue? All the kitten does is SCREAM!!!!! It’s just too funny!!! Your kittens will love reading this book to themselves or to their younger siblings. ![]() Wolf decides he’s tired of being a bad guy so he finds some very reluctant recruits to help him become one of the ‘good guys’. The Bad Guys are ready to do some good … whether you want them to or not!” The Bad Guys face 100 floors of KUNG FU CHAOS in a HIGH-RISE of HORROR Review Quotes. And they’re going to prove it by breaking every last dog out of the pound. From the back of the book, “The Bad Guys…They’re scary and dangerous and well … just BAD. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We all think it’s because we can relate to our favourite characters because we’ve been in their situations before. ![]() ![]() Our favourite part of the story is when Finn, Mouse and Dizzy go for a day in town and then to the beach because we think it sounds like a perfect day! We have our own favourite characters, Emily and Milly love Mouse because they say he’s so cute, Ava and Ellie like Finn, they say he sounds really cute and Kelsie loves Dizzy because she says that she’s the strongest most believable character she’s met yet. She introduced the rest of us to Ava and we gradually formed the great friendship we have now! Emily met with her and instantly sparked a conversation about the book. we actually met in a library over this book! We’d all heard of the book and then Ava was reading it in the school library at lunchtime. Readers Kelsie, Ava, Ellie, Milly and Emily share their personal review of CC book DIZZY and how it helped to form their friendship! ![]() ![]() I’m sorry, but this book was not good at all. But if she ever finds out what he’s done, he may not have a choice… He doesn’t want to hurt his new girlfriend-he wants to be with her forever. And when he finds it in a darkened room in Soho House, he’s more desperate than ever to keep his secrets buried. They re-emerge, like dark thoughts, multiplying and threatening to destroy what Joe wants most: true love. ![]() The problem with hidden bodies is that they don’t always stay that way. But while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe can’t stop looking over his shoulder. He eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. Now he’s heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him. ![]() In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. ![]() In the compulsively readable sequel to her widely acclaimed debut novel, You, Caroline Kepnes weaves a tale that Booklist calls “the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman.” THE RIVETING SEQUEL TO THE HIT BOOK YOU, NOW A NETFLIX SERIES ![]() ![]() ![]() McFarland and his sister grew up secure in the knowledge that they would be able to attend private colleges without having to take out loans, though McFarland wouldn’t end up making it past his freshman year at Bucknell.īut despite his comfortable upbringing, McFarland had a laser focus on making money-and he didn’t seem to care whether any of it was aboveboard. They had the requisite shore house, annual vacations to resorts in places like Aruba, and nice cars to drive around town. ![]() McFarland’s parents, Irene and Steve, made their money in the loosely defined arena of real-estate development. Like most of the families who sent their kids to the then-$30,000-a-year private school, the McFarland family lived in suburban comfort. With his squinting, pinched smile, athletic build, and preppy style, he certainly blended in physically with the other primarily white, affluent kids at the Pingry School, the coed prep school in Short Hills, New Jersey, from which he was flung into the unsuspecting world in 2010. He was tall, stocky, and, one might say, sort of handsome-adjacent. In the beginning, Billy McFarland seemed average in every way. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the cult leader is nothing like she suspected, and Kai might not need rescuing after all. With the aid of a motley collection of allies, Maggie must battle body harvesters, newborn casino gods and, ultimately, the White Locust himself. Her search leads her beyond the Walls of Dinétah and straight into the horrors of the Big Water world outside. She vows to track down the White Locust, then rescue Kai and make things right between them. The Goodacres are convinced that Kai’s a true believer, but Maggie suspects there’s more to Kai’s new faith than meets the eye. ![]() Then the Goodacre twins show up at Maggie’s door with the news that Kai and the youngest Goodacre, Caleb, have fallen in with a mysterious cult, led by a figure out of Navajo legend called the White Locust. Only her latest bounty hunt has gone sideways, she’s lost her only friend, Kai Arviso, and she’s somehow found herself responsible for a girl with a strange clan power. It’s been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie, Diné monster hunter, is trying to make the best of things. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bracken's book can serve as a primary reference for parents and can be used as well by health care professionals and teachers. "A remarkable job.The technical information is clearly stated, up to date and accurate.But most of all, this is a human book."-Los Angeles Times "Comprehensive, well written, accurate, and compassionate. It also includes an appendix of common medical tests, a glossary of terms, and comprehensive lists of organizations, clinics, and cancer centers, complete with names and addresses. Describing in detail the whole range of childhood cancers, Bracken explores how they affect the child, the treatments available, how to cope with the changes this diagnosis will bring to the entire family, and where to go for both medical and emotional help. The information ranges from sophisticated, hard-to-find medical facts to practical tips on how to handle side effects, and much more. ![]() Written honestly, yet in a reassuring tone, by a reference librarian whose child has survived cancer, Children with Cancer draws together a wealth of up-to-date information essential for anyone who wishes to help a child or family through this ordeal-including relatives, friends, teachers, and clergymen, as well as doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Children With Cancer: A Comprehensive Reference Guide. Children can and do survive cancer the last decade has seen many major advancements in treatment. Children with Cancer by Jeanne Munn Bracken, May 2001, Replica Books edition, Hardcover in English. ![]() ![]() ![]() "We have been friends for many years now," Vidal said, "and I admire the novel that he based on our school days, A Separate Peace." Vidal states that Knowles told him that the character Brinker, who precipitates the novel's crisis, is based on Vidal. Gore Vidal, in his memoir Palimpsest, acknowledges that he and Knowles concurrently attended Phillips Exeter, with Vidal two years ahead. Knowles took to his grave the secret of whether Finny was all a part of his imagination, or an actual friend whose true identity was never spoken. The secondary character Finny (Phineas) was the best friend of the main character, Gene. There was only friendship, athleticism, and loyalty. The only elements in A Separate Peace which were not in that summer were anger, violence, and hatred. In his essay, "A Special Time, A Special Place," Knowles wrote: The plot should not be taken as autobiographical, although many elements of the novel stem from personal experience. The setting for The Devon School is a thinly veiled fictionalization of Phillips Exeter. A Separate Peace is based upon Knowles' experiences at Exeter during the summer of 1943. Fairmont, West Virginia, was an American novelist, best known for his novel A Separate Peace.Ī 1945 graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, Knowles graduated from Yale University as a member of the class of 1949W. John Knowles (SeptemNovember 29, 2001), b. ![]() ![]() Harry's cousin said Harry was 'always' a late bloomer. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.Ĭheers for the late bloomers in life!!! A man after my own heart!!! ![]() The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man-a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined-but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson-and dramatic events. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian. ![]() The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the regulars will nest here, others passing through to breed in Canada. Soon to follow are 28 other warbler species, with a half-dozen additional rarities waiting in the wings (sorry) for possible cheers. ![]() There also are yellow-throated subspecies known as Audubon's warbler, wanderers from the west. Locally, yellow-rumped warblers, always early arrivals and antidote for winter bird blahs, were abundant, often at suet feeders, a menu sub for insects. undefined SUMMARY OF COME AS YOU ARE BY EMILY NAGOSKI Ph.D.: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Mary S. The reader expects the author to shape the experience, but there is no shape to the experience of reading How Far You Have Come. ![]() A hermit warbler was seen in Duluth (a West Coast bird), and a tufted duck, usually seen on the Alaskan coast, also spent time in Duluth. Read reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Both are birds of the southeastern U.S.Īlso reported in the metro area were Lazuli bunting (from South Dakota possibly), and Kentucky warbler (again, southeast). Then came a warbler with a perfect warbler name - worm-eating warbler - seen here on average of once a year. Warblers are the highlight of spring migration season for many birders, so we are off to a flying start this year (sorry).Ī bird never before recorded in Minnesota - Swainson's warbler - made not one but two metro area visits this spring. ![]() ![]() ![]() Greer arranged the gardening records by location (orchard, woods), plant type (bulbs, roses, rhododendrons), equipment type (greenhouse, mowers, cages), service (landscaping, tree surgery) or garden-related memberships (Royal Horticultural Society). They were not filed in chronological order. ![]() ![]() The car records were stored in either drawer 195 or drawer 184 in Greer’s office and the archivist has also recorded these locations in the title of each item. ![]() For instance, a folder labelled MLP 852D documents the care and maintenance of a Blue Morris Minor Tourer 1000 convertible made in 1966 and owned by Germaine Greer from 1984 until 1989. Greer arranged the car records in folders labelled with a vehicle registration number. The car and gardening records have been catalogued in received order. Most of the records document Greer’s gardening and driving in England but there are also some papers generated by driving in Italy and by her work as a gardener at Pianelli, her home in Cortona, Tuscany (1973-1994), notably her distillation of wild plants and aromatics. This small series of records (5 units) contains booklets, order forms, hand-drawn plans, instruction manuals, correspondence and other ephemera relating to Germaine Greer’s creation and maintenance of a wood, an orchard and other gardens at The Mills (Stump Cross) Essex and to her car ownership and her behaviour as a motorist. ![]() |