Download or read book Annika the Babushkas written by Bo Gunnar Grundberg and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Annika sets out to change America's prison system with the help of babushka-wearing blueberry peddlers imported from the Old World, and in the process finds much more to change here at home and abroad.
Download or read book written by Bo Gunnar Grundberg and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the average attention span these days could best be measured in nanoseconds, I have created a tale with two story lines with the focus switching intermittently like a TV screen. One story is about Annika from the backwoods of Maine being sent out into the wild world with admonition from her father that if she wants to leave this world with a smile on her face, she had better add at least a smidgen of additional knowledge to what we now know about our universe. In her attempt to do that, she stumbles upon the fact that our civilization's justice system, going back even before Christ, is a 2,000-year ritual unimpeded by improvements. Criminals are caught, convicted, and warehoused with their board, room, medical expenses, and supervision all paid for by us. After having been stacked away for a while, they are released and then they return; and this takes place in an enlightened society. Only a dim-witted people would allow anything that stupid to happen. Annika hits on an idea that would solve the mess, but to accomplish this, she needs money. Billions. The alternate story is about how, through sheer ingenuity, she manages to earn that money, thanks to a method so simple that somebody should have thought of it long ago. But nobody did.
Download or read book Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia written by Laura Siragusa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority’s heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars and policy-makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies.
Download or read book The Conclave of Death written by Antony Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contains material originally published in magazine form as Codename Baboushka #1-5."
Download or read book Codename Baboushka The Conclave Of Death 5 written by Antony Johnston and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The END OF STORY ARC The plot is revealed! The gauntlet is thrown down! Everything explodes or at least, it will if Baboushka can't stop it! Don't get in her way!uth about the pirates' plan is revealed or is it?! Can Baboushka trust anyone? Or is it just safer to shoot everyone and ask questions later? Take a wild guess.
Download or read book Babayaga written by Toby Barlow and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Sharp Teeth, a novel of love, spies, and witches in 1950s Paris—and a cop turned into a flea Will is a young American ad executive in Paris. Except his agency is a front for the CIA. It's 1959 and the cold war is going strong. But Will doesn't think he's a warrior—he's just a good-hearted Detroit ad guy who can't seem to figure out Parisian girls. Zoya is a beautiful young woman wandering les boulevards, sad-eyed, coming off a bad breakup. In fact, she impaled her ex on a spike. Zoya, it turns out, has been a beautiful young woman for hundreds of years; she and her far more traditionally witchy-looking companion, Elga, have been thriving unnoticed in the bloody froth of Europe's wars. Inspector Vidot is a hardworking Paris police detective who cherishes quiet nights at home. But when he follows a lead from a grisly murder to the abode of an ugly old woman, he finds himself turned into a flea. Oliver is a patrician, fun-loving American who has come to France to start a literary journal with the help of friends in D.C. who ask a few favors in return. He's in well over his head, but it's nothing that a cocktail can't fix. Right? Add a few chance encounters, a chorus of some more angry witches, a strung-out jazzman or two, a weaponized LSD program, and a cache of rifles buried in the Bois de Bologne—and that's a novel! But while Toby Barlow's Babayaga may start as just a joyful romp though the City of Light, it quickly grows into a daring, moving exploration of love, mortality, and responsibility.
Download or read book How Do You Do it Anyway written by Morena Azbel Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sharp Teeth written by Toby Barlow and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down and out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will—and they're bent on domination at any cost. Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kind-hearted, besotted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack. Anthony has no idea that she's more than she seems, and she wants to keep it that way. But her efforts to protect her secret lead to murderous results. Blending dark humor and epic themes with card-playing dogs, crystal meth labs, surfing, and carne asada tacos, Sharp Teeth captures the pace and feel of a graphic novel while remaining "as ambitious as any literary novel, because underneath all that fur, it's about identity, community, love, death, and all the things we want our books to be about" [Nick Hornby, The Believer].
Download or read book Sprout Seed Sprout written by Annika Dunklee and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cheerful book about the patience it takes to grow a seed into a tree One day, when a boy sees his dad cut an avocado in half, he decides to plant the fruit's seed and grow it into ... an avocado tree! One glass of water, two careful hands, and three pointy toothpicks later, it's time to wait ... and wait ... and wait ... for it to grow. At long last, the boy and his faithful pet cat see one root, two roots, three roots emerge! Three scoops of soil, three sprinkles of water, and a lot more waiting ... lead to one sturdy stem, two clapping hands, and three grateful cheers. The avocado tree starts to appear! One, two, and three years later, the tree grows taller still. This charming story, now in paperback, is told with lots of rhythm and repetition, paired with playful illustrations full of funny details about the trials of coaxing a seed into a plant. Readers will come away with a sense that the struggle to be patient and stick it out can be worthwhile, even when a result seems impossibly far away.
Download or read book Veit Harlan written by Frank Noack and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veit Harlan (1899-1964) was one of Germany's most controversial and loathed directors. The first English-language biography of the notorious director, Veit Harlan presents an in-depth portrait of the man who is arguably the only Nazi filmmaker with a distinct authorial style and body of work.
Download or read book A Fire Truck for Chuck written by Annika Dunklee and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rhyming read-aloud perfect for preschoolers At a yard sale with his mom, among the toys for sale, Chuck spots a fire truck. It only costs a buck--what luck! Mom buys Chuck the truck, and he loves everything about it. At home, he plays with it nonstop: in the sandbox, the yard, and the mud. But after bath time, once Chuck is squeaky clean, his fire truck is nowhere to be seen! Dumbstruck, Chuck hunts all over the house. Where is his truck?! Was it sucked up into the vacuum, now stuck? Finally, Chuck and his truck are reunited, just in time for bed. Told not in verse but with plenty of fun rhyme and repetition, this story's bright, cartoon-like art conveys Chuck's full range of emotions. With humor and warmth, it's a lovable read-aloud that captures a child's joy for their favorite toy.
Download or read book Annika Riz Math Whiz written by Claudia Mills and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Soduko contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.
Download or read book Manners Are Not for Monkeys written by Heather Tekavec and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the old zookeeper moved the monkeys to a cage next to the picnic area, she didn't know the trouble it would cause. The little monkeys are fascinated by the children's behavior, and before long they are imitating the children! They play quietly, pick up their banana peels and chew with their mouths closed. Mother Monkey can't stand it! "Try to behave like monkeys!" she shouts, but to no avail. The children who visit the zoo aren't happy either: watching well-behaved monkeys is no fun at all. WhatÕs a zookeeper to do? Children will go ape over the way the tables are turned in this playful picture book. Always topical, the theme of manners and behavior is an essential element of school readiness preparation for preschoolers. A laugh-out-loud tale that is sure to bring out the monkey in everyone!
Download or read book How the War Was Won written by Phillips Payson O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important new history of air and sea power in World War II and its decisive role in Allied victory.
Download or read book Subject Guide to Children s Books In Print 1996 written by R R Bowker Publishing and published by Reed Reference Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Coldest Winter written by Antony Johnston and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer ANTONY JOHNSTON and artist STEVEN PERKINS return to Cold War-era Berlin for this prequel to THE COLDEST CITY. After a string of botched assignments for MI6 in Berlin, David Perceval is being sent home. Even his final mission before leaving — the defection of a Soviet scientist — goes badly wrong, as the coldest winter for 30 years descends on Europe. With transport out of Berlin impossible, and the KGB searching everywhere for their lost scientist, Perceval must improvise a deadly game of cat and mouse through the frozen city to keep the Russians at bay, and deliver his own unique brand of revenge!
