Download or read book Pawprints Dinner Time at the Zoo written by Pioneer Valley Educational Press, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A learn-to-read book about zoo animals.
Download or read book Strange Things Happened on My Way to the Zoo written by Mike Thomas and published by Alison Hodge Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rome Zoo written by Pascal Janovjak and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome, too, wants the sound of roaring as evening falls ... The Rome Zoo: a place born of fantasy and driven by a nation’s aspirations. It has witnessed – and reflected in its tarnished mirror – the great follies of the twentieth century. Now, in an ongoing battle that has seen it survive world wars and epidemics, the zoo must once again reinvent itself, and assert its relevance in the Eternal City. Caught up in these machinations is a cast of characters worthy of this baroque backdrop: a man desperate to find meaning in his own life, a woman tasked with halting the zoo’s decline and a rare animal, the last of its species, who bewitches the world. Drifting between past and present, The Rome Zoo weaves together these and many other stories, forming a colourful and evocative tapestry of life at this strange place. It is both a love story and a poignant juxtaposition of the human need to classify, to subdue, with the untameable nature of our dramas and anxieties. Spellbinding and disturbing, precise and dreamy, this award-winning novel, translated by Stephanie Smee, is unlike any other. Winner of the Swiss Literature Award, the Prix Michel-Dentan and the Prix du public de la RTS “Like all truly great literary allegories, The Rome Zoo is both innocent and wise, filled equally with tenderness and darkness. A gorgeous, dream-like fable of Italy's past and present.” —Ceridwen Dovey
Download or read book Paw Prints in the Moonlight written by Denis O'Connor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A snowy January night. A cat that beat the odds. A man whose life would be forever changed. This is the remarkable story of Toby Jug, the extraordinary cat who thought he was human. Paw Prints in the Moonlight is the truly special tale of one kind man and the cat that changed his life. Set in the rural splendor of Northumberland, England, this heartwarming and classic book will be cherished by people of all ages. When Denis O'Connor rescues a three-week-old kitten from certain death during a snowstorm, little does he know how this tiny creature will change his life forever. Against all odds the kitten-whom he names Toby Jug-survives and turns out to be a wondrous Maine Coon Cat extraordinaire. Life with Toby is never dull, and Denis and Toby embark on a series of sometimes comical, sometimes poignant adventures that bring them ever closer together. From the massive invasion of bees at Owl Cottage to the mysterious case of the disappearing tomatoes, Denis and Toby form an extraordinary bond, and the cat that no one thought would live through the night ends up altering the lives of everyone he meets. With spectacular watercolor illustrations depicting Toby's many hijinks, this timeless story about the power of pets will captivate readers of Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog, and Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love.
Download or read book The Gemini Mysteries The Cat s Paw The Gemini Mysteries Book 2 written by Kat Shepherd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The teen banter is quirky and amusing and keeps the reader interested...Readers who enjoy Stuart Gibbs's "Fun Jungle" series or Carl Hiaasen's novels might enjoy the environmental and animal rights aspects of this mystery."-School Library Journal "With characters who grab your attention, illustrations that invite you to play along, and a plot with more twists than a country road, get ready for a fast and fun mystery that will keep you guessing until the end. How do I sign up to join the Gemini Detective Agency?" - James Ponti, Edgar-award winning author of the FRAMED! mystery series "The North Star is mystery and intrigue at its best. I loved putting my observational skills to the test as I searched for clues in the illustrations at the end of every chapter. Captivating. Clever. Compulsively readable. A must-have for all emerging detectives!" - Lauren Magaziner, author of Case Closed series When Martin the red panda goes missing from the zoo, the Gemini Detective Agency takes it upon themselves to crack the case. Join them and help the teenage sleuths solve their next mystery! Twins Zach and Evie Mamuya and their friends Vishal Desai and Sophia Boyd make up the Gemini Detective Agency. They've helped solve the case of the stolen diamond necklace known as the North Star, and now they've got an even bigger mystery to solve. During a dinner at the zoo, Martin the red panda goes missing. And even worse, there's a bobcat's paw print located in his enclosure! But what first looked like an unfortunate incident in the animal kingdom starts to look more like foul play when the Gemini Detective Agency finds a crumpled flier that says "Free Martin." Then they learn about local dealings in an online exotic black market where people can buy rare animals. Could Martin have been set free by extreme animal activists, or is this the work of someone involved in the black market for rare animals and will they be able to find Martin before it's too late? The Gemini Detective Agency is on the case! Readers will love this interactive mystery where clues can be found in the illustrations that appear at the end of each chapter! The Gemini Mysteries is an action-packed series full of twists and turns that will keep readers guessing until the very end.
Download or read book Mountain Time written by Ivan Doig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitch Rozier is a middle-aged environmental reporter in Seattle, estranged from the cyber-culture that surrounds him. A summons from his dying father, who has one last scheme up his sleeve, takes Mitch back to the family land and to the unanswered questions at the heart of the long-standing rift between them.
Download or read book Killing Them Gently A Supernatural Mystery written by Thomas Fincham and published by Thomas Fincham. This book was released on with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: READ THE COMPLETE SERIES! Detective Peter Murphy has been given a second chance when he is shot twelve times. He must return as Detective Alex Weller and solve strange and unexplainable crimes that will push him to the limits. If he successful he may be able to return to his wife and son. What he doesn't realize is there are hidden forces working to destroy him. HUNTING THEM GENTLY: 1 A woman is shot in the head while sitting in her car. Her baby is missing. Detective Weller must find who did it before any more babies are kidnapped. CHOPPING THEM GENTLY: 2 A man's body is found in the dumpster. His right arm has been sawed off. Detective Weller must investigate before any more dismembered bodies are discovered. BREAKING THEM GENTLY: 3 A family is missing from their home. They are eventually discovered buried in their backyard. Detective Weller must search before the killers strike again. TEARING THEM GENTLY: 4 A high school coach is found dead in a bloody swimming pool. Chunks of meat are missing from his body. Detective Weller must search for who or what is behind the killing. SLICING THEM GENTLY: 5 A jogger's headless body is found on a bridge. His head is later discovered down in a ravine. Detective Weller must find who is behind this before there are any more headless victims. BOILING THEM GENTLY: 6 A chef of an upscale restaurant is found dead in his condo apartment. He has apparently been poisoned. Detective Weller must search for the killer behind this senseless murder. BURNING THEM GENTLY: 7 A woman and man are found burned alive at a dollar store. The perpetrator is revealed to be the woman's husband. Detective Weller races to find the husband before there are any more murders. STABBING THEM GENTLY: 8 A woman is found drowned in the bathtub of a hotel. None of the witnesses saw anyone leave her room. Detective Weller must search for a killer that may or may not exist. BLEEDING THEM GENTLY: 9 A teenage girl is found with her face melted off.There is nothing in her room to indicate how it happened. Detective Weller must find who did it before there are any more faceless victims. RIPPING THEM GENTLY: 10 A young man is found ripped to pieces in his home. Bloody paw prints are discovered at the crime scene. Detective Weller races to find who or what is behind the killing. CUTTING THEM GENTLY: 11 A detective is discovered dead in a hospital bed.The sign 666 is written in blood across from him. Detective Weller is faced with the most dangerous case of his life. KILLING THEM GENTLY: 12 The man who shot Peter Murphy is still out there. The search begins to find him before he harms Peter Murphy's family. The stunning conclusion to the Gently Series. KEYWORDS: supernatural mystery, supernatural mystery thriller, supernatural detective series, supernatural detective mysteries, horror thriller novels, horror collections, crime thriller boxed set, ghost stories, crime fiction, detective fiction, police procedural
Download or read book Diary of the Cat Named Carrot written by Erin Merryn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate a year in the life of The Cat Named Carrot, as she goes from humble beginnings in a shelter to a loving home with a family of three adorable little girls and internet stardom. Bailey was certainly no ordinary cat—an orange tabby who gained fans around the world when his humanlike antics went viral. Sadly, when 14-year-old Bailey died, his family grieved their loss. They’d never find a cat quite like him—or would they? Then along came Carrot, an orange tabby kitten born as a stray, who appeared just as Erin Merryn and her young girls Abby, Hannah, and baby Claire were mending their broken hearts. Written in the voice of Carrot, follow her remarkable journey from shelter cat to top Instagram celebrity feline. Much like Bailey did, she loves spending time with her human family: making mischief with her girl gang; going joyriding in a pint-sized pink Barbie Jeep; doing arts-and-crafts projects; modeling a pink tutu and flowery headband; enjoying a spa day complete with fluffy robe and cucumber eye treatments; celebrating Christmas, Easter, and every holiday in between. It’s no wonder that Carrot’s videos have gone viral—garnering millions of views on Ellen, the Dodo, Good Morning America, Access Hollywood, People, and many more. Complete with four-color photos that will leave readers purring with delight, the journal of this sweet, adorable kitty with personality to spare shows us that the human-animal bond runs more than fur deep. It is love that will last a lifetime!
Download or read book Genesis of a Duck Cop written by Terry Grosz and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his seventh book, award-winning author Terry Grosz takes the time to reflect on the events in his life that led him to a career defending wildlife, and the milestones that occurred within that career. With the characteristic blend of outrage and humor that his readers have come to expect, this book takes a look at the stories behind the man. Learn how a boy who pitched hay, worked as a logger, played high school and college football, and discovered the beauty of the outdoors became the man who worked in state and federal wildlife enforcement for 32 years. And discover why, as people like him become more rare, we find that we need them more than ever.
Download or read book Grumpy Cat Goes to School Mini Coloring Book written by John Kurtz and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grumpy Cat would rather stay in bed but you'll have a ball following in the cantankerous cat's paw prints throughout a busy day at school. Sixty ready-to-color scenes feature Grumpy giving the bus driver a cactus for a gift, hanging out at gym class, having a miserable time at recess, forcing down yet another toxic lunch, and more.
Download or read book Priestdaddy written by Patricia Lockwood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: The Washington Post * Elle * NPR * New York Magazine * Boston Globe * Nylon * Slate * The Cut * The New Yorker * Chicago Tribune WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR “Affectionate and very funny . . . wonderfully grounded and authentic. This book proves Lockwood to be a formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.” – The New York Times Book Review From Booker Prize finalist Patricia Lockwood, author of the novel No One Is Talking About This, a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about balancing identity with family and tradition. Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met—a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates “like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972.” His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church’s country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents’ rectory, their two worlds collide. In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence—from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group—with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents’ household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother. Lockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the deeply serious, exploring issues of belief, belonging, and personhood. Priestdaddy is an entertaining, unforgettable portrait of a deeply odd religious upbringing, and how one balances a hard-won identity with the weight of family and tradition.
Download or read book The Loneliest Polar Bear written by Kale Williams and published by Crown. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A moving story of abandonment, love, and survival against the odds.”—Dr. Jane Goodall The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own Six days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and walked away from her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny squealing cub to fend for herself. Hours later, Aurora still hadn’t returned. The cub was furless and blind, and with her temperature dropping dangerously, the zookeepers entrusted with her care felt they had no choice: They would have to raise one of the most dangerous predators in the world by hand. Over the next few weeks, a group of veterinarians and zookeepers worked around the clock to save the cub, whom they called Nora. Humans rarely get as close to a polar bear as Nora’s keepers got to their fuzzy charge. But the two species have long been intertwined. Three decades before Nora’s birth, her father, Nanuq, was orphaned when an Inupiat hunter killed his mother, leaving Nanuq to be sent to a zoo. That hunter, Gene Agnaboogok, now faces some of the same threats as the wild bears near his Alaskan village of Wales, on the westernmost tip of the North American continent. As sea ice diminishes and temperatures creep up year after year, Agnaboogok and the polar bears—and everyone and everything else living in the far north—are being forced to adapt. Not all of them will succeed. Sweeping and tender, The Loneliest Polar Bear explores the fraught relationship humans have with the natural world, the exploitative and sinister causes of the environmental mess we find ourselves in, and how the fate of polar bears is not theirs alone.
Download or read book Callings written by Gregg Michael Levoy and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1998-09-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we know if we're following our true callings? How do we sharpen our senses to cut through the distractions of everyday reality and hear the calls that are beckoning us? is the first book to examine the many kinds of calls we receive and the great variety of channels through which they come to us. A calling may be to do something (change careers, go back to school, have a child) or to be something (more creative, less judgmental, more loving). While honoring a calling's essential mystery, this book also guides readers to ask and answer the fundamental questions that arise from any calling: How do we recognize it? How do we distinguish the true call from the siren song? How do we handle our resistance to a call? What happens when we say yes? What happens when we say no? Drawing on the hard-won wisdom and powerful stories of people who have followed their own calls, Gregg Levoy shows us the many ways to translate a calling into action. In a style that is poetic, exuberant, and keenly insightful, he presents an illuminating and ultimately practical inquiry into how we listen and respond to our calls, whether at work or at home, in our relationships or in service. Callings is a compassionate guide to discovering your own callings and negotiating the tight passages to personal power and authenticity.
Download or read book Fortean Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal of strange phenomena.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology written by Michael Newton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On every continent and in every nation, animals unrecognized by modern science are reported on a daily basis. People passionately pursue these creatures--the name given to their field of study is cryptozoology. Coined in the 1950s, the term literally means the science of hidden animals. When the International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC) was formed in 1982, the founders declared that the branch of science is also concerned with "the possible existence of known animals in areas where they are not supposed to occur (either now or in the past) as well as the unknown persistence of presumed extinct animals to the present time or to the recent past...what makes an animal of interest to cryptology is that it is unexpected." This reference work presents a "flesh and blood" view of cryptozoology. Here, 2,744 entries are listed, the majority of which each describe one specific creature or type of creature. Other entries cover 742 places where unnamed cryptids are said to appear; profiles of 77 groups and 112 individuals who have contributed to the field; descriptions of objects and events important to the subject; and essays on cryptotourism and hoaxes, for example. Appendices offer a timeline of zoological discoveries, annotated lists of movies and television series with cryptozoological themes, a list of crypto-fiction titles and a list of Internet websites devoted to cryptozoology.
Download or read book Essential Skills and Practice Grade 1 written by Brighter Child and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Skills and Practice for your first grade child supports Common Core State Standards and provides essential practice in language arts, math, science, and social studies. Fun and educational pages include important first grade topics such as nouns and verbs, punctuation, addition and subtraction, and telling time. YouÕll find all the skills and practice your first grader needs for school success! --Essential Skills and Practice is your all-in-one source for school success! A variety of learning activities support Common Core State Standards and provide academic enrichment for young children in pre-kindergarten through grade 2. Black-and-white pages include high-interest reading passages, math challenge questions, science experiments, crossword puzzles, word searches, and more. 320 pages.
Download or read book Last Chance on Moonlight Ridge written by Catherine Mann and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their fairy-tale wedding business Desperately needs a happily-ever-after of its own Though their love was never in doubt, fertility issues and money problems have left Hollie and Jacob O’Brien’s marriage in shambles. So once the spring wedding season at their Tennessee mountain ranch is over, they’ll part ways. But the nuptial whirlwind has unexpected effects. Jacob is inspired to romance Hollie with picnics and stolen kisses. And then Hollie's long-buried maternal instincts are revived by four orphaned children visiting the ranch. Will their hope for a future together be resurrected, too? From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. Top Dog Dude Ranch Book 1: Last-Chance Marriage Rescue Book 2: The Cowboy's Christmas Retreat Book 3: Last Chance on Moonlight Ridge Book 4: The Little Matchmaker
