Download or read book Nooks and Grannies written by Sandy Anderson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book There are lots of kinds of grannies. Sometimes my granny is a baking granny, or a walking granny, or a shopping granny. Best of all, my granny is a reading granny. Granny likes to find quiet, cozy little places to read stories to me. She calls those places book nooks. My granny can find "the best nooks you ever saw!" About the Author Sandy Anderson was a fortunate child whose parents loved to read. Every two weeks, they took her to the public library where they all checked out books. Later, she held a children's story hour in the same library. She became an elementary school teacher in Arizona. After raising her two sons in California, Anderson worked with special education high school students. Now she lives again in Arizona where she is still reading and writing.

Download or read book Nooks Crannies written by Jessica Lawson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir.

Download or read book Just Kill Me written by Adam Selzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Play Me Backwards and I Kissed a Zombie and I Liked It comes a “narrative brimming with delightfully macabre irreverence” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about one teen’s unusual summer job as a ghost tour guide in Chicago. Megan Henske isn’t one to heed warnings… When the last letters in her alphabet cereal are D, I, and E, she doesn’t crawl right back into bed. When her online girlfriend won’t text a photo, she just sends more of herself. And when she realizes that Cynthia, her boss at a Chicago ghost tour company, isn’t joking about making stops more haunted by euthanizing people there, she doesn’t quit her job—she may even help. But soon she learns people in the murdermonger industry are being murdered, and doesn’t know who it is doing it. Could it be the head of the rival tour company? Or could it be someone near and dear to Megan? After she realizes she has an uncanny resemblance to a flapper who disappeared in 1922, Megan receives a warning she can’t ignore: the next ghost on the tour might be her…

Download or read book CatherineHennessey com written by Catherine Hennessey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these pages you will find reproduced the entire contents of the CatherineHennessey.com, written over three years from 2000 to 2003. While the archive of the weblog continues to live online, this is not an easy medium for contemplative reading and, as Catherine would tell you if you asked, itâs liable to just up and disappear one day, electrons and computers being what they are. So, if nothing else, in committing Catherineâs words to paper I hope to provide them with a longer-lasting home.The notion of a âblogâ was very new in 2000: Catherine was one of the first âbloggers,â on PEI or anywhere. So what you read here, on top of everything else, is part of the shaping of a new medium.These words provide so much insight into Catherine and the Charlotte Town she loves so dearly.

Download or read book Out of Balance written by Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two novelettes in the book Out of Balance refer to two almost impossible situationsone between heaven and the underworld and the other between two brothers about the house of their father. Each has a hero or heroine who has to work his or her way through the imbalance. In the novelette Out of Balance, it is St. Michael, and in the Odd House, it is Sally Biskaier.

Download or read book Wisconsin Off the Beaten Path written by Martin Hintz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wisconsin Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Wisconsin Off the Beaten Path takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Wisconsin that other guidebooks just don't offer.

Download or read book The One That Got Away written by Zoë Wicomb and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short stories from the award-winning South African author “combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider’s intimate warmth” (J. M. Coetzee). Zoë Wicomb’s debut short story collection, You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, won critical acclaim across the globe as well as high praise from fellow authors including Toni Morrison, J. M. Coetzee, Bharati Mukherjee, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Now, after two novels, Wicomb returns to the genre that first brought her international acclaim. Set mostly in the South African city of Cape Town, where Wicomb is from, and the Scottish city of Glasgow, where she now lives, this new collection of short stories straddles two worlds. With an array of expertly drawn characters, these twelve tales explore a range of human relationships: marriage, friendship, family, and the fraught yet often intimate relations between those who serve and those who are served. Full of ironic twists, ambiguities, and moments of startling insight, The One That Got Away showcases this Windham Campbell Award–winning author at the height of her powers. “An extraordinary writer . . . seductive, brilliant, and precious, her talent glitters.” —Toni Morrison

Download or read book Adobe Photoshop CS2 Studio Techniques written by Ben Willmore and published by Adobe Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready to learn not just the "how," but also the "why" behind the most powerful features of Photoshop? Adobe Photoshop CS2 Studio Techniques goes beyond conventional step-by-step instruction to deliver an under-the-hood understanding of the world's leading image-editing application. This award-winning, best-selling guide leads you through essential new features and useful techniques in a fun, easy-to-read format. Book jacket.

Download or read book The Raging Grannies written by Carole Roy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women fought against slavery and offered shelter to hunted runaways, demanded economic justice for the starving or working poor, raised their voices when rights were trampled, raised their fists when their children were murdered. Women's collective acts of resistance have played, and continue to play, a vital but often unacknowledged role in humanizing social, political, and economic policies. To death, danger, and oppression women have frequently responded in life-affirming ways, their contributions concealed in invisibility and silence for too long, without stories of resistance and opposition. But no more. This is the tale of the Raging Grannies. Their beginning and growth, the invention of their identity, the educational and bold potential of their activism, the values expressed in their actions and songs, and their impact on issues, stereotypes, media, and people. At a time when environmental destruction and war threatened, when the growing chasm between poor and rich endangered justice, a group of women stood up with courageous irreverence to denounce government lies, corporate greed and short-sightedness, and in the process, created a new cultural figure that challenged authority as well as stereotypes of women. The Grannies' distinctive approach is surprisingly popular and effective: in sixteen years, more than fifty groups of Raging Grannies exist across Canada, in the United States, and as far away as the UK, Australia and Greece (Greek Grannies call themselves Furies). Their popularity reveals the power of creativity and humour, which allow them to claim their space on the political scene, refusing to be dismissed or ignored. The Raging Grannies both records and celebrates this vibrant activism. Bursting with adventures, this is the tale of the Raging Grannies: their beginning, the invention of their identity and their impact on issues, stereotypes, media and people.

Download or read book Shanghai Boy written by Stevan Eldred-Grigg and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever and compelling novel about illicit love and raw passion with unexpected twists and poignant depth. Manfred Morse has just hit fifty, and also the wall. Life seems empty. His marriage is long since over, his leathery old father is in his tenth year of dying of cancer, while his colleagues play games of petty politics. Seeking stress leave from his New Zealand university, he takes a job as guest lecturer at a university in Shanghai. Here he suddenly comes face-to-face with raw passion, but in the shape of one his students, aged only eighteen. He ducks this way and that, fending off love and, when he can no longer hold out, he lashes out. The young student goes missing. The police come knocking on Manfred's door. Who is the killer? Manfred? Or is he a victim? As the story slips back and forth between the southern and northern hemispheres, Shanghai increasingly takes centre stage: a pulsing city of crowded streets and clouding smog; motley smells and mindless noise; a complex and contradictory place that leaves Manfred both horrified and aroused. This is a clever and compelling novel from a prize-winning author.

Download or read book The Bears Famous Invasion of Sicily written by and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dino Buzzati's classic tale chronicles the terrible winter that sent the starving bears down into the valley in search of food, as well as their struggles with an army of wild boars, a wily professor who may or may not be a magician, snarling Marmoset the Cat, and, worse still, treachery within their own ranks. Over all this, the bears triumph with bravery, ingenuity, humility, and high spirits.

Download or read book Back to the Shops written by Rachel Bowlby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and mortar' survivals of a pre-online retail world. But behind the bleak appearance, there is more to see. Back to the Shops offers a set of short and surprising chapters, each one a window into a different shop type or mode of selling. Old shopping streets are seen from new angles; fast fashion shows up in eighteenth-century edits. Here are pedlars and pop-ups, mail order catalogues and mobile greengrocers' shops. Here too are food markets open till late on a Saturday night, and tiny subscription libraries tucked away at the back of the sweet shop. Over time, shops have occupied radically different places in cultural arguments and in our everyday lives. They are essential sources of daily provisions, but they are also the visible evidence of consuming excess. They are local community hubs and they are dreamlands of distraction. Shops are inherently spaces of imagination as well as of practicality. They belong with their own surrounding streets and town; they bring back the times and places of our lives. They linger in stories of all kinds, whether far-fetched or round the corner. From butcher to baker and from markets to motor vans—after reading this book, you will want to go back to the shops.

Download or read book Life for Dogs and Other People written by Deirdre Golden and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years Deirdre Golden has been writing poems and publishing them in booklets, under the pen name P.D.Pemberton. These have been enjoyed by her friends so it seemed that there could be many others who would be equally entertained by her perceptive wit, with its insights into the variety of life. Most of the illustrations on the covers of the booklets were done by Peter Lavender, whilst the drawings of dogs, several of which are distributed within this Anthology, are by her late husband, Paul Golden. The current cover is by Nigel Corlett. The title for the Anthology recognises Deirdre's love, and support, for animals, and the care and concern which she believes should be extended equally to all creatures.

Download or read book White written by Derek Peter Thornton and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'White' is the first book of a trilogy with 'Red' and 'Blue', which together make up 'Purple'. They concern familiar known elements and reveal stronger, popular notions belonging to my views of the world we inherit. Love and peace to all my readers. 'White' is dedicated to my mother, who is not too well and who has had a very strong and 'smashing' life there in Yorkshire. I miss her and with these 'Purple Prose Poems', I can show her I am trying to behave myself in a world of literature.

Download or read book The Glasgow Dragon written by Des Dillon and published by Des Dillon. This book was released on 2004 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Christie Devlin goes into business with a triad to take control of the Glasgow drug market little does he know that his downfall and the destruction of his family is being plotted. As Devlin struggles with his own demons the real fight is just beginning. Nothing is as simple as good and evil. Des Dillon is a master story-teller and this is a world he knows well. Key Features Nationwide author publicity Dillon is currently working on the film script for FilmFour Vibrant, poetic language

Download or read book All Old People Must Die written by Roderick Edwards and published by Roderick Edwards. This book was released on 2023-11-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep-dive look at how new generations are not a continuance of previous generations but have sworn off the common bonds that held generations together. It is not about old people dying so much is it is about how the traditions, the mindset, even the shared generational values of previous generations no longer are part of new generations. ALL OLD PEOPLE MUST DIE is the book to help the older and younger generations understand each other.

Download or read book The Birds of the Thai Malay Peninsula Vol 2 written by David R. Wells and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-illustrated volume covers the passerines of Singapore, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and the tip of Tenasserim (Burma) with their associated island archipelagos. David Wells' historically complete accounts draw on a full range of recent field and museum research. Over 380 species are described, including topics such as systematics, distribution, plumage, biometrics, status, habitat, food and foraging, voice, behaviour, breeding biology, moult and conservation. Along with an accompanying volume, on nonpasserine species, it brings together the most complete modern summery of field survey work and other research on all the birds found in the peninsula.