Download or read book Bibi s Got Game written by Bianca Andreescu and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first picture book written by and based on real-life tennis star Bianca Andreescu, a young athlete learns how to work through life's toughest moments through inner strength and meditation. From the moment she wakes up, Bibi is very busy. Even before school begins, there are cartwheels to do, world records to break (38 minutes balancing a spoon on your nose), and her dog, Coco, to snuggle. Bibi's mother suggests she try a sport, but nothing feels right. Until she tries tennis. On the court, she feels strong and powerful. Her serve is like lightning, her backhand booms like thunder and her forehand is as fierce as a hurricane. But one day, everything changes when she is injured on the playground. Bibi is heartbroken, sad, frustrated and angry — she decides to quit tennis! But her mother, with a little help from Coco, shows her how to meditate and dispel the self-doubt and negativity. Bibi learns to focus on all the things that make her grateful and happy. And when her body is ready to go back to tennis, so is her mind. "Now every morning, I picture myself strong and powerful on the court. Just me and the fuzzy ball."
Download or read book A Friendly Game of Murder written by J.J. Murphy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should Dorothy Parker’s friends be the only ones making “enviable names” in “science, art, and parlor games”? Dorothy can play with the best of them—as she sets out to prove at a New Year’s Eve party at the Algonquin Hotel. Since the swanky soiree is happening in the penthouse suite of swashbuckling star Douglas Fairbanks, some derring-do is called for. How about a little game of “Murder”? Each partygoer draws a card to be detective, murderer, or victim. But young Broadway starlet Bibi Bibelot trumps them all when her dead body is found in the bathtub. No one knows who the killer is, but one thing is for sure—they won’t be making gin in that bathtub. When more partiers are put in peril, it becomes clear the game is indeed on, and it’s up to Dorothy, surprise guest Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the members of the Round Table to stay alive—and relatively sober—long enough to find the killer…
Download or read book Got Game written by Leisl Grimm and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books about board games are boring. This is not that book. It's games through the lens of family, psychology, archaeology, art, design, culture, and race. It's about bad rulebooks (and some are really bad). It's about how hexagons became the foundation of many contemporary games. It explains how the polio epidemic sparked the idea for Candyland. It asks: Why do we have house rules in Uno? Why are narratives of imperialism SO prominent? How do games reflect our cultural perspectives on gender, race, money, and history? Maybe you're more interested in art. No problem. I discuss layout, fonts, grids, color choice and cohesion. There's a reflection on how bananas are the perfect user design experience. But don't worry, games are there all along, rattling memories of your own nights playing Sorry, Yahtzee, Uno, Monopoly, Scrabble, Settlers of Catan, or any tabletop game you love. It's time with family, friends, lovers, acquaintances, and total strangers who play to pass time, to share history, to teach, to challenge, to strategize, and to comfort us in the face of our own struggles. This is the world of games I love. Open the book and have fun.
Download or read book Bibi written by Benjamin Netanyahu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s “compelling” (The Economist) and “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestselling autobiography, the prime minister of Israel tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his unceasing commitment to defending his country and securing its future. From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holocaust at the dawn of Israel’s independence and raised in a family with a prominent Zionist history, they understood that the Jewish state was a hard-won and still precarious gift. All three studied in American high schools—where they learned to appreciate the United States—before returning to their cherished homeland. The brothers joined an elite special forces outfit of the Israeli Defense Forces known as “the Unit.” At twenty-two, Bibi was wounded while leading his team in the rescue of hostages from a hijacked plane. Four years later, in 1976, Yoni was killed in Entebbe, Uganda, while leading his men in one of the most daring hostage-rescue missions in modern times. Yoni became a legend; Bibi felt he would never recover from his grief. Yet, inspired by Yoni’s legacy and guided by the wisdom of his visionary historian father, Bibi thrust himself into the international struggle against terrorism, ultimately becoming the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history—an honor he further cemented by winning reelection in 2022. In this memoir Bibi weaves together his gripping personal story with the dramatic history of Israel and the Jewish people. Through a host of vivid anecdotes, he narrates his own evolution from soldier to statesman, while providing a unique perspective on leadership, the fraught geopolitics of the Middle East, and his successful efforts to liberate Israel’s economy, which helped turn it into a global powerhouse of technological innovation. Netanyahu gives colorful, detailed, and revealing accounts of his often turbulent relationships and negotiations with Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Trump. With eye-opening candor, he delves into the back channels of high diplomacy—including his struggle against the radical forces that threaten Israel and the world at large, and the decisive events that led to Israel’s groundbreaking 2020 peace agreements with four Arab states. Offering an unflinching account of a life, a family, and a nation, Netanyahu writes from the heart and embraces controversy head-on. Steely and funny, high-tempo and full of verve, this autobiography will stand as a defining testament to the value of political conviction and personal courage.
Download or read book The Dark Road Further Adventures of Cheri Bibi written by Gaston Leroux and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dark Road" with the aid of Gaston Leroux is a gripping tale that plunges readers right into a shadowy international of thriller and intrigue. Leroux, renowned for his mastery in crafting suspenseful narratives, weaves a spellbinding story that unfolds alongside an enigmatic and treacherous route. As the characters traverse this darkish avenue, they come upon secrets and techniques concealed in the shadows and confront the complexities of the human soul. Against a backdrop of atmospheric tension, Leroux introduces a solid of compelling characters, each harboring their personal clandestine pasts and motivations. The narrative navigates thru unexpected twists and turns, retaining readers on the threshold of their seats as they delve deeper into the mysteries that shroud the journey. Leroux's clever prose and eager expertise of psychological intensity add layers of complexity to the narrative. Themes of love, betrayal, and redemption intertwine with the ominous attraction of the darkish avenue, creating a charming mixture of romance and suspense. Throughout the novel, Leroux invites readers to question the nature of reality and illusion, hard them to get to the bottom of the intricacies of the human enjoy. "The Dark Road" stands as a testomony to Gaston Leroux's storytelling prowess, offering a compelling exploration of the human condition in the gripping embrace of a mysterious and unpredictable adventure.
Download or read book The Dark Road further adventures of Ch ri Bibi written by Gaston Leroux and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is one of a series of thrilling adventures of Leroux's genius criminal Chéri-Bibi. The novel covers Chéri-Bibi's stay in a penal colony of the French empire and his relationship with other prisoners, the chief, warders, and the executioner.
Download or read book Bibi s Rainbow Hilarious Ordeals of Assimilation written by Majid Amini and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibi's Rainbow is a delightfully narrated novel centered around a large Iranian immigrant family and their old, wise and faithful nanny, Bibi, a talented cook armed with inexhaustible secret recipes, who is resolutely determined to ease the transition of four generations of her "family" into American society. Using her wits and miraculous recipes as weapons, she ultimately manages to avert a "Clash of Civilizations" in their Beverly Hills neighborhood, winning over the hearts and souls of her extended family and their neighbors during the tumultuous period between 1979-2008. It is a tale of the long, sometimes tragic, often-hilarious, journey to assimilation.
Download or read book Alibi written by Lynda La Plante and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE UNFORGETTABLE LEGAL THRILLER FROM THE LEGENDARY LYNDA LA PLANTE Identical and brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man. But three of his employees admit to the crimes, and Morton's wife and girlfriend each provide him with an alibi. They all declare Damon Morton innocent. The police know he did it. But if people lie under oath in a court of law - who can the jury believe? PRAISE FOR LYNDA LA PLANTE 'The UK's most celebrated female crime author' DAILY MAIL 'Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller' KARIN SLAUGHTER
Download or read book The Great Celestial Cow written by Sue Townsend and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers When Sita and her children leave India to join her husband in England, she is forced to sell her cow, but she keeps her milking bucket in the hope that she will be able to buy another cow in Leicester. But England is nothing like she expected: faced with prejudice from the English and restrictions of tradition from her family, Sita clings to the dream of the cow and some sense of her own identity."The Great Celestial Cow is a little gem...It's very funny, touching, telling and moving...here is a story with much to say...I kept bursting into spontaneous applause." Robin Thornber, Guardian
Download or read book Jamaica Football written by Aldwyn McGill and published by Caribbean Stars Inc.. This book was released on 2012-05-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaica Football is Stars Soccer Review magazine third national issue. It is based on Jamaica’s present domination of Caribbean football and the country’s feat as the first English speaking Caribbean country to ever qualify for a FIFA World Cup in “Reggae Boyz History”.
Download or read book Townsend Plays 1 written by Sue Townsend and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers Bazaar and Rummage brings together a neurotic do-gooder, a trainee social worker and three agoraphobics who have been persuaded to venture out of their homes to run a jumble sale. "As a study of agoraphobia, Bazaar and Rummage...is written with great verve, style and wit." (Benedict Nightingale); Set in an adult literacy class where the student's fear of ignorance is as much of a handicap as their inability to read, Groping for Words is a "close up of the social scrap-heap, written in a fine vein of comic indignation and giving a voice to people whose lives are mainly spent in queues and waiting rooms." (Irving Wardle, The Times); Womberang shows free spirit Rita Onions bringing joy and anarchy to the grim waiting-room of a gynaecology clinic. "A daydream of mastered fear" (New Society)
Download or read book So I Married a Werewolf written by Kristen Strassel and published by Kristen Strassel. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I married a wolf for "the good of the pack." Ask me how that worked out. Now I'm a rejected mate with three kids, and a wolf in sequins and fierce heels is on my doorstep, promising she can breathe life into the dreams that died that day... if I’m willing to put my fate in her well-manicured claws. I’ll get three questions. Why did my ex tuck tail and leave me with a giant mess? What is he trying to prove by coming back? And am I brave enough to defy my pack and choose myself? Oh, enough about him already. He had his chance. I’m ready for a new life. Bibi le Bonnet is my fairy dragmother. The fabulous wolf will give me a total life makeover and the mating ceremony of my dreams... All I have to do is become a contestant on The Mating Game and choose a mate sight unseen after asking a few flirty questions in front of a live audience. Three potential suitors. After a shocking twist on stage, my chosen wolf is revealed as none other than superstar Logan Mathis. I’ve spent so many nights fantasizing about the famous actor, and now he's on The Mating Game wooing the biggest homebody mom ever: me. Can I trust this wolf when he says he’s willing to claim me, or is it all an act to revive his career? And three dates to find my forever. Every date with Logan is time in the spotlight. I want to believe the fantasy, but am I fooling myself? Because my ex is back, and he'll drag my pack into open war before he lets any other wolf have me. The Mating Game is a brand-new series brought to you by the team that created The Real Werewives! Get ready for a season full of fun and flirty episodes finding fated mates where you least expect them. Anything can happen when the cameras are rolling, but don’t worry, these books don’t fade to black.
Download or read book So I Won a Werelion written by Kristen Strassel and published by Kristen Strassel. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My obsession with shifters has only gotten me in trouble. So why on Earth would I go through with being a contestant on The Mating Game? My self-appointed fairy dragmother is determined to make my life sparkle. Bibi le Bonnet swears she can find my forever shifter, the one who will finally claim me. She might be fabulous, but she’s got her work cut out for her. I’ll get three questions. Why have all the local shifters had their claws out when it comes to me? Can Bibi really fix my life with a wave of her bejeweled wand? And will my past come back to bite me when I least expect it? Three potential suitors. Bibi doesn't mess around when it comes to finding the hottest eligible shifters. My first two options would get anyone's attention. But I'm shocked when lion shifter Gabe Wylde walks out from behind that curtain. Gabe’s been my best friend forever. He can't be my shifter – can he? No matter how this turns out, I’m about to see a completely different side of him. And three dates to find my forever. When my everyday life collides with ancient shifter secrets, I land in the crosshairs of Gabe's pride. Will he keep his promise to claim me as his mate, or will my fierce lion shifter leave me at the altar? I must be on reality TV, because no one could write an episode this tense.
Download or read book The Anger Meridian written by Kaylie Jones and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young widow must face the truth about her family—and herself: “At once a suspenseful mystery and a superlatively gripping story of self-discovery.” —Shelf Awareness When Merryn Huntley is told by Dallas police that her wealthy husband has been killed in a car accident, along with a local waitress, her first instinct is to flee in order to protect her nine-year-old daughter. And the only place that feels safe enough is her mother’s beautiful, isolated home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Merryn’s mother used to tell her: When you tell a lie, make sure you keep it as close to the truth as possible, because it will be easier to remember. Now, from the moment Merryn arrives, she’s forced into twisting the truth—about how much she knew of her husband’s shady business affairs; about her own secret lovers; and most importantly, about how she is beginning to doubt the one person who’s always been the greatest influence in her life: her mother. When two FBI agents show up and ask Merryn questions, it only intensifies her compulsion to lie. But as her perfect life begins to crumble, she must decide whether she can face the most painful reality of all—that she has been lying to herself her entire life. “A compulsively readable novel . . . With engaging characters, a compelling story, and a seductive sense of place, this is a literary treat.” —Booklist “This fascinating novel bases its mystery not so much on unfolding events, although these are well paced, but instead on how a person can live a life parallel to the truth, based on an ever-shifting set of lies and misrepresentations. There’s real danger is remaking the truth to avoid conflict, and that is never more apparent than in this well crafted book.” —Reviewing the Evidence “A seething portrait of a narcissistic mother . . . Jones keeps the action churning . . . but perhaps the novel’s greatest feat is Bibi, an all-too-real toxic monster.” —Publishers Weekly “An impossible-to-put-down book.” —Ann Hood
Download or read book Trust Me written by Rachel Grant and published by Janus Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken hostage by terrorists, an archaeologist must risk everything when a SEAL attempts to rescue her too soon… Archaeologist Diana Edwards is on a mission to uncover the link between artifact trafficking and terrorism. Just when she’s making progress, she’s kidnapped and forced to work for the very people she’s trying to stop. The nightmare deepens when she discovers the man who arranged her abduction is a terrorist everyone believes to be dead. A team of SEALs is sent in to save her, forcing her to make an impossible choice if she wants to stop looted artifacts from being used to fund brutal attacks across the globe. Navy SEAL Chris Flyte has one job to do, but the hostage won’t cooperate, endangering him and everyone on his team. After he completes the mission and Diana is safely on American soil, her story of abduction and being forced to dig becomes suspect. But when she shows up on his doorstep saying she’s seen one of her abductors, Chris has to wonder if the archaeologist is lying, or if a terrorist has followed her home. “Grant’s thrillers never disappoint with her strong characters, masterful plotting, and sharp attention to archaeological detail. A gripping, tightly-plotted military thriller with heat!” - New York Times Bestselling Author Christina Dodd
Download or read book Invisible Planets written by Hannu Rajaniemi and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindblowingly inventive and beautifully written short stories from the most exciting new name in SF Hannu Rajaniemi exploded onto the SF scene in 2010 with the publication of his first novel The Quantum Thief. Acclaimed by fellow authors such as Charles Stross, Adam Roberts and Alastair Reynolds and brilliantly reviewed everywhere from Interzone to the Times and the Guardian he swiftly established a reputation as an author who could combine extraordinary cutting edge science with beautiful prose and deliver it all with wit, warmth and a delight in the fun of storytelling. It is exactly these qualities that are showcased in this his first collection of short stories. Drawn from antholgies and magazines and online publication and brought together in book form for the first time in this collection here is a collection of seventeen short stories that range from the lyrical to the bizarre, from the elegaic to the impish. It is a collection that shows one of the great new imaginations in SF having immense fun.
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Gaston Leroux Illustrated written by Gaston Leroux and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 4282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous for his enduring horror masterpiece ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, Gaston Leroux was also an accomplished author of detective fiction. Featuring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille, his intelligently structured stories of ‘The Mystery of the Yellow Room’ and ‘The Perfume of the Woman in Black’ have enthralled readers for over a hundred years. This eBook features the largest collection of Leroux’s tales ever compiled in English translation, with many rare works appearing for the first time in digital print, accompanied with informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Leroux’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 19 novels with individual contents tables — many appearing here for the first time * Features six Joseph Rouletabille novels * The complete Chéri Bibi novels * Includes Leroux’s last novel, ‘Mister Flow’ (The Man of a Hundred Faces), first time in digital print * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories available in no other collection * The majority of translations were made by Hannaford Bennett * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres * UPDATED with the rare novel 'The Amazing Adventures of Carolus Herbert' - first time in digital print Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Adventures of Rouletabille The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) The Perfume of the Woman in Black (1908) Secret of the Night (1913) The Slave Bangle (1921) The Sleuth Hound (1922) Chéri Bibi Series The Wolves of the Sea (1913) Chéri-Bibi and Cecily (1916) The Dark Road (1921) The New Idol (1926) Other Novels The Man with the Black Feather (1903) The Phantom of the Opera (1909) Balaoo (1911) The Bride of the Sun (1912) The Amazing Adventures of Carolus Herbert (1917) The Veiled Prisoner (1917) The Kiss That Killed (1923) The Son of Three Fathers (1924) The Adventures of a Coquette (1924) The Man of a Hundred Faces (1927) Lady Helena; or, The Mysterious Lady by Louis Latzarus (1929) The Short Fiction Miscellaneous Short Stories Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
