Download or read book Enter the Aardvark written by Jessica Anthony and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's a long time since I have enjoyed a novel so much. Fresh, witty and smart it also has a heart.' KATE ATKINSON 'Sizzles with uproarious fun, from its snout to the sting in its tale.' INDEPENDENT 'The perfect tonic for testing times.' GUARDIAN We all know politics is absurd. But could a Republican be brought down by a stuffed aardvark? Republican congressman Alexander Paine Wilson is determined that nothing will stop him in his campaign for re-election. Not the fact that he is a bachelor, not the fact that his main adversary Nancy Beavers - married, with children - is rising in the polls. Nothing. That is, until one hot day in August, he receives a large parcel via FedEx. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. This aardvark has a surprising history - from the Victorian naturalist who discovered it to the taxidermist who deemed it his finest creation. But for Wilson, the entrance of the aardvark sets off a chain of events that threaten to ruin his entire career. Constantly surprising, brilliantly comic and piquantly provocative, Enter the Aardvark is a tale for our times, a biting satire with a tender underbelly. ____________________________________________ 'Sometimes, a paragraph near the start of a novel is so perfect and funny that you read it over and over, laugh every time, and know you're in for a treat...I'm loving this. Completely insane but utterly hilarious'. JOHN BOYNE 'Spry, slim, clever...the inventiveness is impressive and the story has heart' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'What begins as a topical takedown of the American political system deepens into a hugely enjoyable romp through history.' OBSERVER 'Fresh, astute and mouthwateringly sharp, this is a rare thing; a political satire that tugs on the heartstrings in unconventional ways.' IRISH TIMES 'Sharp, inventive and very funny, it's an entertainingly bizarre political satire.' TATLER 'Part 21st-century political satire, part unexpectedly affecting 19th-century love story...It's every bit as strange as it sounds, and yet somehow it works' DAILY MAIL 'Old, dead creature brings down flash, vain senator... Out in front as the most fizzing and amusing novel of the year.' STRONG WORDS magazine 'A blisteringly innovative and outrageous novel.' NY OBSERVER 'Weird, wonderful, and very much of the moment, Enter the Aardvark is a landmark political novel of the Trump era...With heart and humor, Anthony expertly skewers our current political climate.' ESQUIRE 'Inventive and darkly funny...as Anthony connects characters from today with those from 19th-century England, she offers an original and unsettling lens through which to view male power as it has evolved over time.' TIME 'Enter Jessica Anthony. With her highly inventive, ever attentive, and morally serious (as all great comedy must be) Enter the Aardvark, she estranges all over again our deplorable political moment, and thereby helps make it bearable.' JOSHUA FERRIS 'Mischievously zoological and darkly satirical - a brilliant novel' JOHN IRONMONGER, author of NOT FORGETTING THE WHALE 'A feverish, rollicking beast of a book. Totally assured, completely unpredictable, Jessica Anthony has created a true original.' SIMON WROE, author of CHOP CHOP and HERE COMES TROUBLE
Download or read book Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope written by Donna R. O'Toole and published by Compassion Press. This book was released on 1989-12-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope" by Donna O'Toole. This read-aloud story for people of all ages is about loving and losing friendship and hope. Through it readers will learn how healing and growing through even the most devastating losses is possible. "Seldom does a book come along that has unique appeal and offers something meaningful for all ages. AARVY AARDVARK FINDS HOPE is such a book."--The Grief Support and Education Center, Canton, Ohio. "This is the most wonderful book I have seen - and I have been doing 'death and dying' work for over 15 years."--Helen Fitzgerald, Fairfax, Virginia. "This story has strength, wisdom and beauty. It shows how long it can take to "be yourself" after you've lost so much of importance. Yet it is hopeful - permission giving to open to one's imagination - to once again play in a world so charged by life!"--John Schneider, Ph.D. Dept. of Psychiatry, M.S.U. "A fine book. It belongs in every home, classroom and library."--Ann Isaacs, Publisher The Creative Child and Adult Quarterly. "I love Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope!"--Elizabeth Kuebler Ross.
Download or read book Awkward Aardvark written by Mwalimu and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aardvark's snoring keeps the other animals awake night after night. Something has got to be done! Mongoose calls on the others for help, but it is not until the termites get involved that the problem is solved. This is the story of how Awkward Aardvark came to sleep during the day and eat termites at night.
Download or read book Can an Aardvark Bark written by Melissa Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Melissa Stewart and Caldecott honoree Steve Jenkins comes a noisy nonfiction exploration of the many sounds animals make. Can an aardvark bark? No, but it can grunt. Lots of other animals grunt too… Barks, grunts, squeals—animals make all kinds of sounds to communicate and express themselves. With a growling salamander and a whining porcupine, bellowing giraffes and laughing gorillas, this boisterous book is chock-full of fun and interesting facts and is sure to be a favorite of even the youngest animal enthusiasts.
Download or read book Edwina the Aardvark written by Tony Collingwood and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwina the Aardvark hates her looks -- her nose is too big, her eyes are too small and her skin is blue. But when she sets out to change them, she finds love instead. Edwina the Aardvark is one of a series of small format storybooks for preschool children, based on the hugely popular TV animation series Animal Stories. Each title -- based on a single TV episode -- follows the amusing antics of an animal character who is struggling to overcome a particular burden in life, such as baldness in the lion, bad breath in the dog, ugliness in the aardvark and slowness in the snail. The stories are told in delightful rhyming verse, accompanied by bold colourful illustrations derived from the animation. Funny and appealing, this series of eight titles will enthral fans of the TV programme and newcomers alike, and makes a charming set for young children to collect.
Download or read book Andr the Aardvark s Adventure written by Robyn Williams and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming rhyming picture book tells the tale of Andre, a timid young aardvark who decides to extend himself by going on an adventure. He ventures into the night but is frightened by all the night noises and scurries back to his burrow. He then realises he needn't be afraid of the dark.
Download or read book Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington written by Thomas Cathcart and published by Abrams Image. This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses jokes, cartoons, and philosophy to expose what politicians really mean, analyzing quotations from everyone from Condoleeza Rice to Al Sharpton.
Download or read book Enter the Aardvark written by Jessica Anthony and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a journey to find out what it means in this "weird, wonderful" novel about the secrets we keep from ourselves and their history-shaping consequences (Esquire). It's early one morning on a hot day in August, and millennial congressman Alexander Paine Wilson (R), planning his first reelection campaign and in deep denial about his sexuality, receives a mysterious, over-sized FedEx delivery on his front stoop. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. This outrageous, edge-of-your-seat novel hurtles between contemporary Washington, D.C., where Wilson tries to get rid of the unsightly beast before it destroys his career, and Victorian England--where we meet Titus Downing, the taxidermist who stuffed the aardvark, and Richard Ostlet, the naturalist who hunted her. Our present world, we begin to see, has been shaped in profound and disturbing ways by the secret that binds these men. At once a ghost story, a love story, and a stunningly prescient political satire, Enter the Aardvark confronts the consequences of repressed male love meeting oppressive male power, and is a searing condemnation of our current American blindness. It is also that rarest of creatures: a work of art so utterly original and masterfully built that it seems to have spring fully formed from its visionary maker's head.
Download or read book High Society written by Dave Sim and published by [Kitchener, Ont.] : Aardvark-Vanaheim. This book was released on 1986 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wealthy city-state of Iest, Cerebus the Aardvark finds himself being manipulated into the fast-paced world of business and politics, especially at the hands of the mysterious Astoria, who takes him under her wing for unclear reasons of her own.
Download or read book AA Is for Aardvark written by Mark Shulman and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double the letters--double the fun! You've never seen an ABC book quite like this. Each page features words or phrases where the letters of the alphabet "double up." Two by two the letters come, in a riot of inventive language, fun sounds, and witty images: DD is for puddle, but that's not all. The illustration shows a crazy, chaotic street full of animals, including ducks enjoying a swim, plus a sign that says "No waddling in the middle of the muddy road" and a "Daddy-O" license plate. It's an unusual approach that's really irresistible, and perfect for parents, teachers, and librarians who'd like a new and entertaining way to teach the alphabet to little ones.
Download or read book When the Aardvark Parked on the Ark written by Calvin Miller and published by W Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whimsical verses present wisdom from the Bible and advice for living in the real world.
Download or read book THE AARDVARK S NOSE written by Warren Ackhurst and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a beautiful valley, in a beautiful land, lay a paradise that belonged to the animals. For many years nothing had ever gone wrong. The forests were thick with trees. The plains were thick with grass. A mighty river ran through the valley and water was everywhere. All the animals were friends. Gaby the Giraffe talked to Zanti the Zebra. Luke the Lion and Dominic the Duiker walked side by side. Ester the Elephant swam with Clive the Crocodile. This was Paradise.
Download or read book Aardvarks written by Megan Borgert-Spaniol and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aardvarks specialize in pest control. The hard shell of a termite home is no match against the spade-like claws of the aardvark. Once their walls have been breached, the termites have little hope of dodging the aardvarkÕs sticky foot-long tongue. Learn how these exterminators do their job in this fun title for new readers.
Download or read book Aardvarks Disembark written by Ann Jonas and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 1990-10-17 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the flood, Noah calls out of the ark a variety of little- known animals, many of which are now endagered.
Download or read book The Convalescent written by Jessica Anthony and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most amusing and poignant anti-heroes since Gunter Grass’s The Tin Drum” lives up to his misfit heritage in this ribald debut (Spike Magazine). Ask Rovar Ákos Pfliegman about himself and he’ll say: “I have no life. I have no known relatives, no known friends. I’m barely human. I’m a hairy little Hungarian pulp. I am a sorry gathering of organs. That is all.” But there is more to Rovar than meets the eye. He has a pet beetle named Mrs. Kipner, he is a butcher plagued by rare ailments, he sells meat out of a broken-down bus next to a river in suburban Virginia, and he is the last of the Pfliegman line, a not-too-bright pagan clan that reaches back to pre-medieval Hungary. He also believes he’ll fulfill the ignoble destiny of inbred self-destruction that has wiped out all Pfliegmans before him. But against all odds, and the cruel laws of nature, this unlikely loner, seller of fresh mutton at unbeatable prices, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant is still capable of being reborn in the most extraordinary way. “Innocent and wise, grave and hilarious, bleak and hopeful, fast-paced and meditative, heartbreaking and heart healthy, evanescent and concrete” (Heidi Julavits), The Convalescent “nods to all sorts of greats—Kafka, Rushdie, Darwin and Grass, to name a few. But Anthony’s style—funny, immediate and unapologetically cerebral—carves out a space all its own” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Download or read book Marty Aardvark written by Barbara deRubertis and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let’s Read Together books merge rhyme and vowel sounds in delightfully zany stories kids will want to read again and again. Each of the 15 books in this classic series by award-winning author/educator Barbara deRubertis will give your child a jumpstart on reading success. "Story lines are silly and inventive, and recall Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat for the building of rhythm and rhyming words." —School Library Journal Marty Aardvark sets off to sea - and finds more excitement than she expected! (This easy-to-read story features the "ar" vowel combination.)
Download or read book The Aardvark written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
