Download or read book Small Gods written by Terry Pratchett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.' In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: 'Hey, you!' This is the Discworld, after all, and religion is a controversial business. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods, of every shape and size, and all elbowing for space at the top. In such a competitive environment, it's certainly not helpful to be reduced to appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation far below god-like status in anyone's book. In such instances, you need an acolyte, and fast: for the Great God Om, Brutha the novice is the Chosen One – or at least the only One available. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please... Now adapted into graphic novel form with new artwork by Ray Friesen.

Download or read book Pirate Penguin vs Ninja Chicken Vol 1 written by Ray Friesen and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirate Penguin vs. Ninja Chicken (Book 1): Troublems with Frenemies. So what is this book about? It's about a Pirate Penguin named Pirate Penguin and a Ninja Chicken who isn't (ninjas are too sneaky to let you know their real names. Hint: It isn't Harold.) They are the bestest of friends and also the worstest of enemies all at the same time (just like in real life! Only more cartoony of course.) I think you'll like this book, there are about a bajillion jokes inside, and it's filled with action, adventure and arguments. Sometimes the stories are really teeny, about stuff like ice cream or origami, and sometimes the story gets really epic-tastic, filled with spaceships and giant monsters and evil koalas and stuff (just like real life!). Plus, being about pirates, there are at least 17 swordfights (that's the rule with pirates). You'll just have to go ahead and read it to see if you like it, I've run out of back cover room to convince you how awesome it is anyway. (How awesome? SO AWESOME!)

Download or read book The Common Core Approach to Building Literacy in Boys written by Liz Knowles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with a focus on the English Language Arts Common Core Standards, this book provides a complete plan for developing a literacy program that focuses on boys pre-K through grade 12. Despite the fact that reading and literacy among boys has been an area of concern for years, this issue remains unresolved today. Additionally, the emphasis and focus have changed due to the implementation of the English Language Arts Common Core Standards. How can educators best encourage male students to read, and what new technologies and techniques can serve this objective? The Common Core Approach to Building Literacy in Boys is an essential resource and reference for teachers, librarians, and parents seeking to encourage reading in boys from preschool to 12th grade. Providing a wide array of useful, up-to-date information that emphasizes the English Language Arts Common Core Standards, the bibliographies and descriptions of effective strategies in this book will enable you to boost reading interest and performance in boys. The chapters cover 16 different topics of interest to boys, all accompanied by a complete bibliography for each subject area, discussion questions, writing connections, and annotated new and classic nonfiction titles. Information on specific magazines, annotated professional titles, books made into film, websites, and apps that will help you get boys interested in reading is also included.

Download or read book Pirate Penguin vs Ninja Chicken Book 2 Escape from Skull Fragment Island HC written by Ray Friesen and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set phasers for maximum silly: Ray Friesen, the non-stop sugar rush called by BOOKLIST ''a manic blend of mayhem and adventure,'' is back for more! When Pirate Penguin and Ninja Chicken stumble across a mystical lost sword, a rip-roaring aquatic adventure ensues, with appearances by cousin Privateer Puffin, the terrifying Pirate Queen, and two unforgettable "mermaids." PLUS: our heroes get trapped in a Swedish furniture store, and a dozen more wacky short stories!

Download or read book Pirate Penguin vs Ninja Chicken Book 3 Macaroni and Bees written by Ray Friesen and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’re telling me this pirate is a penguin?? That’s not all, buddy. This ninja is a chicken. And in their THIRD ridiculous book together, they’re even funnier than ever! Your favorite Flightless Fighting Friends, those Bouncy Battle Birds are back! They never left! They’ve been standing right behind you this whole time! But in a fun way, not a creepy way. Don’t turn around. Or do! I’m not the boss of you. PIRATE PENGUIN VS NINJA CHICKEN (BOOK 3): MACARONI AND BEES?!? contains: a big pile of random comics on important topics such as werewolf shampoo, frivolous time travel, and anti-gravity popcorn! Absolutely no Macaroni OR Bees! The Top Secret Long Lost origin story of Pirate Penguin (hint: he’s probably from space)! AND finally, after all this time, the ultimate versus, to decide who will win the friendship once and for all! (hint: Ninja Chicken) Also! As a bonus, using state of the art inflatable-origami-technology, this book can transform into over 8 types of hats, to help you express your entire personality through headgear, the Pirate Penguin Way. Note: any folding or inflating of this book may cause it to get ruined forever, but it’s totally fine, don’t worry about it.

Download or read book Of Canoes and Crocodiles written by Tony Robinson-Smith and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Canoes and Crocodiles is a story of adventure in the remote and threatened landscapes of Papua New Guinea. In 2018, Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife Nadya Ladouceur bought dugout canoes and paddled down the Sepik, the country’s longest river. Traveling with local guides and staying in their villages, Tony and Nadya ate smoked piranha and sago pancakes, heard tales of river gods and sorcerers, marvelled at rainbow bee-eaters and cat-size flying foxes, sank in a tropical storm, got lost in mosquito-infested swamplands, and hid from pirates in mangroves near the sea. As the narrative follows the bends of the river, Robinson-Smith incorporates into its flow descriptions of crocodile initiation rites, village “big men,” the barter system, raskolism, and sing-sings. He reflects on clan loyalty, colonization, Christian missionaries, bride price, the environmental impacts of foreign logging and mining, and the joys and fears of following the current down a long, snaky waterway in a volatile Australasian country.

Download or read book The Television Treasury written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only of its kind, this book is a straightforward listing of more than 25,000 trivia facts from 2,498 TV series aired between 1947 and 2019. Organized by topic, trivia facts include everything from home addresses of characters, to names of pets and jobs that characters worked. Featured programs include popular shows like The Big Bang Theory and Friends and more obscure programs like A Date with Judy or My Friend Irma. Included is an alphabetical program index that lists trivia facts grouped by series.

Download or read book Healthy Snacks for Kids written by Penny Warner and published by Nitty Gritty Cookbooks. This book was released on 1989-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This snack cookbook is designed to provide creative ways to get children to eat healthful foods.

Download or read book In Search of Monster Fish written by Mark Spitzer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Monster Fish is an action-packed, knee-slapping ride into and out of the belly of the beast. Join extreme angler Mark Spitzer as he encounters man-eating catfish, ruthless barracuda, lacerating conger eels, berserk tarpon, and blood-curdling sharks in locales as exotic as the Amazon, Catalonia, the Dominican Republic, Senegal, and even in our own backyards. But this eco-odyssey isn't just about meeting and releasing some of the most grotesque lunkers in the world. It's about implementing solutions for problems as behemoth as global warming and issues as common as choosing what to eat for dinner. And as the ice caps melt at the rate of 1 percent annually, Spitzer battles his most epic goliath: a leviathan that dwells in the depths of us all, making us ask who the real monsters are, what our responsibilities truly are, and what we can possibly do to sustain our planet and ourselves when faced with such demonic disenlightenment. Spitzer then beats this whopper into submission by reframing his call to action and finding his own way. A new portal to the underworld has been opened in the cutting-edge literature of monster fish, and this is your entry ticket.

Download or read book Burning Book written by Jessica Bruder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Bruderis a reporter for theOregonian.Her writing has also appeared in theNew York Times,theWashington Post,and theNew York Observer.She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Download or read book All My Days Are Saturdays written by Sam Pickering and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2014-07-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times article once stated that “the art of the essay as delivered by [Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble.” As Pickering himself puts it, “Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more and more to me. And if I’m on the front porch, I am in a rocking chair.” All My Days Are Saturdays offers fifteen new pieces in which he ponders a world that has changed and, in new ways, still delights him. This collection features Pickering writing about teaching and his recent retirement, visits to various locales, and, as he tell us, “the many people I meet...who tell me their stories, small tales that make one laugh and sigh.” Distinctive and unmistakable, Pickering’s style deftly mixes the colloquial language of everyday life with references to a lifetime of extensive reading. The seamless blend of these two worlds in his writing is indicative of how they fuse together in his daily life. As Pickering puts it, “All my life I have roamed libraries, almost as much as I have roamed the natural world. I try to get at many truths, but when I tell the truth, I ‘tell it slant.’ I do so to describe life as it is and indeed celebrate that ‘as it is.’” “Pickering is a master of his craft, one of the finest of personal essayists around, and these essays bear many of the characteristics of his other volumes—reflections on his everyday activities and on individuals around him, humorous exchanges with his wife, and so forth. But this volume seems to have something else as well. We find here a thoughtful meditation on time and self and relative old age demonstrating a close attention to the natural world—a tone not unlike Thoreau’s at times.” -- Fred C. Hobson, Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author or editor of fourteen books, most recently A Southern Enigma: Essays on the U.S. South

Download or read book Tiri written by and published by Felicity Loveday. This book was released on with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trouble written by Leonie Pratt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Aaron willingly signs on to be the pretend father of Hannah's unborn baby, he is looking for redemption from a past that has a stranglehold on him. Hannah, more simply, needs support in the absence of the real father, but she'll discover so much more"--

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1962-09-07 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Download or read book The Magic Land Journeys and Beyond written by Mark Nickells and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adventure Tourism written by R. Buckley and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure tourism is a new, rapidly growing area at both practical and academic levels. Written at an introductory level, Adventure Tourism provides a basic background and covers commercial adventure tourism products across a range of adventure tourism sectors.

Download or read book Savage Wild written by Hope Gordon and published by Eclectic Art by Hope. This book was released on 2024-05-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badger and his friends live a peaceful life in Pantmawr Valley, but sometimes they like to cause a little mischief. Its the exploration season in the Vast United Continent, and the group of four decides to steal and consume a mysterious plant called Wild Fruit. After the scheme nearly causes his death and leaves him with bizarre side effects, Badger must journey north to the Savage Wilds to meet with a Divine specialist. Along the way, the band of friends encounters dangerous people and unexpected truths about the unique world they inhabit.