Download or read book Busy Monsters written by William Giraldi and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this “very funny, very inventive début novel” (The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.
Download or read book Big and Busy Animals written by Roger Priddy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on animals, discussing their classification, family life, skills, and relationship with humans, and invites young readers to lift flaps, turn wheels, and slide back tabs to learn more. On board pages.
Download or read book Big and Busy Body casebound written by Priddy Books and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the human body, its skeletal, muscular, nervous, and digestive systems, and the five senses. On board pages with interactive parts.
Download or read book The Busy Beaver written by Nicholas Oldland and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clueless beaver discovers the impact his actions have on others.
Download or read book A Busy Creature s Day Eating written by Mo Willems and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mo Willems delivers a smorgasbord of hunger, hubris, regret, and redemption as a Busy Creature hilariously chomps and chews its way through the alphabet now in board book format.
Download or read book 10 Busy Brooms written by Carole Gerber and published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate Halloween with this fun and festive counting book, perfect for fans of Room on the Broom! Young readers will want to fly the night sky with the ten little witches in this bright and adventurous Halloween story. Whether zooming past rattling skeletons, buzzing by pie-stealing mummies, or soaring over a werewolf with bad breath, this exciting group of witches and their high-flying Halloween adventures will have readers cheering! Plus, play a game of I Spy and find the cat and owl on every page! "An enjoyable celebration of witchy sisterhood."—Publisher's Weekly "Bright and cheerful."—School Library Journal
Download or read book The Hero s Body A Memoir written by William Giraldi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi’s father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for The Hero’s Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus III’s Townie, this is a deep-seeing investigation into two generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi’s own forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his family’s pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by The New Yorker for his “unrelenting, perfectly paced prose,” Giraldi writes here with daring, searing honesty about the fragility and might of the American male. An unflinching memoir of luminous sorrow, a son’s tale of a lost father and the ancient family strictures of extreme masculinity, The Hero’s Body is a work of lasting beauty by one of our most fearless writers.
Download or read book If You re A Monster And You Know It written by Rebecca Emberley and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new monster twist on a classic song by Caldecott Medalist Ed Emberley and his daughter, Rebecca Emberley. Children will stomp their paws, twitch their tails, snort and growl, and wiggle and wriggle along with this bright and bold picture book twist on "If You're Happy and You Know It." Rebecca Emberley has written a rollicking text, which she has illustrated in collaboration with her father, Caldecott Medalist Ed Emberley. Includes a fun sing-along song by Adrienne Emberley which can be downloaded at www.scholstic.com/ifyouramonsterandyouknowit
Download or read book Busy Bugs Lazy Bugs written by David A. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction ot the concept of opposites, such as "busy" and "lazy."
Download or read book Busy School written by Angie Rozelaar and published by Campbell Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novelty book about going to school, with push, pull and slide mechanisms.The school bell's rung, let's start the day! With something to push, pull or slide on every spread, this is the perfect book for little children who are about to start school or nursery. Turn the wheel to find new words and pictures, clamber up the climbing frame, make dough models and have a fun-filled day at school. Busy School has easy-to-handle mechanisms making it perfect for young, inquisitive fingers and minds! This board book is beautifully illustrated by Angie Rozelaar.
Download or read book 10 Little Monsters Visit New York City written by Jess Smart Smiley and published by 10 Little Monsters. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Central Park and the Empire State Building, these 10 Little Monsters discover some of the most unique and interesting things about New York City and what it has to offer.
Download or read book Busy Pandas written by John Schindel and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved Busy Animals board book series has an irresistible new look! Busy, busy pandas will have you hiding, sliding, clapping, and napping. Vivid color photographs capture these captivating animals doing things toddlers can do, too. Join the fun!
Download or read book Hello Monster written by Clementine Beauvais and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whimsical story about childhood imagination and the freedom to be oneself. Parents always tell their children to go play with other children on the playground. When the mother in Hello, Monster! tells her son to join another boy in the sandbox while he is happily playing by himself, he rebels. His mother never talks to strangers, and what if the other boy is a monster disguised as a child that will trap him in his underground kingdom with all the other children who cook his meals and look after his pet moles? The boy hatches a plan for all of them to escape, but when they do, they encounter a black panther. Luckily, the panther prefers to eat monsters over children, and after his dinner, he tells the children stories of the jungle until five in the morning. The children watch the sun rise as they return home to their worried parents, who feel guilty and let them stay home and eat cake all day, never telling them to “go play with that boy” ever again. With lively and whimsical illustrations, Hello, Monster! is a creative story about respect for the imagination, solitude, and children’s inner worlds.
Download or read book Busy Ants written by Kristin L. Nelson and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the behavior, life cycle, and physical characteristics of ants and describes how ant colonies work.
Download or read book Busy Grow written by Campbell Books and published by Campbell Books. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first novelty board book all about how things grow, with push, pull and turning mechanisms.
Download or read book Busy Ants written by Pulak Biswas and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two ants cooperate in their struggle to bring home a tasty morsel.
Download or read book About Face A Novel written by William Giraldi and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragicomic novel of a fame-obsessed American society yet again on the brink. Evoking such classics as Elmer Gantry and The Day of the Locust, William Giraldi’s About Face boldly transfers the perennial literary themes of celebrity, ambition, and obsession to twenty-first-century Boston. There we meet Val Face, a charismatic self-help guru who captivates multitudes with his uncanny ability to heal adherents using only the power of his words, the mysterious touch of his hands, and the transcendent beauty of his face. Assigned to write a profile of Val Face during his much-hyped New England tour, thirty-year-old impoverished journalist Seger Jovi pens a brutal hatchet job. But Seger, at once curious and incredulous, is soon sucked into the mystic’s vortex of fame, becoming a devotee himself as he contends with the machinations and absurdities of Face’s many protectors, from beefcake bodyguards to helicoptering handlers to Face’s unwavering spouse, Nimble. At first unwilling to sacrifice his principles to fulfill his own ambition and rise from privation, then touched by Face’s unexpected humanity, Seger oscillates between acting as Face’s cynical foil and becoming his unlikely ally. Just as the exalted guru appears to be reaching the apex of his powers, danger threatens from the periphery in the form of an obsessive stalker who wants Face dead. To curb this stalker before he can do harm, Face’s security team enlists the aid of Jackie Jaworski, an ex-Marine and resourceful Boston detective who moonlights as a novelist of thrillers. And so About Face, building to a denouement that will astonish readers, takes us into the convergence of violence and fame that has come to define so much of American popular culture over the last half-century. With its indelible array of characters, hypnotic pacing, and shocking conclusion—and “a mesmerizing prose style that is downright pyrotechnic in its brilliance” (Andre Dubus III)—About Face is a novel in the grand tradition that dances along the tenuous line between the sacred and the profane.
