Download or read book Patrick s Polka Dot Tights written by Kristen McCurry and published by Capstone Editions. This book was released on 2021 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick loves his sister's tights, using them as a slingshot or dog leash, or wearing them to feel comfortable and warm, so when his sister accidentally ruins them, he is brokenhearted.
Download or read book Patrick s Polka Dot Tights written by Kristen McCurry and published by Capstone Editions. This book was released on 2021 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Better Angels written by Charles McCarry and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this political thriller by the author of The Secret Lovers, Paul Christopher’s cousins tinker with an election while a reporter chases a lead. Originally published in 1979, The Better Angels is set close to the end of the twentieth century in a drastically changed America. The CIA has been dissolved into the Foreign Intelligence Service. It is an election year. In Washington, D.C., an Englishman crashes a cocktail party at the home of TV anchorman Patrick Graham with a secret that could shake up an already deeply polarized nation. Soon, Graham is traveling the globe in search of the explosive truth . . . From the writer the New York Times Book Review called “the genuine article,” The Better Angels is a thrilling and relevant masterwork. Praise for The Better Angels “A thinking man’s thriller with a frightening finale.” —Newsweek
Download or read book Birdie and Me written by J. M. M. Nuanez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotional and uplifting debut about a girl named Jack and her gender creative little brother, Birdie, searching for the place where they can be their true and best selves. After their mama dies, Jack and Birdie find themselves without a place to call home. And when Mama's two brothers each try to provide one--first sweet Uncle Carl, then gruff Uncle Patrick--the results are funny, tender, and tragic. They're also somehow . . . spectacular. With voices and characters that soar off the page, J. M. M. Nuanez's debut novel depicts an unlikely family caught in a situation none of them would have chosen, and the beautiful ways in which they finally come to understand one another.
Download or read book Reggie My Rhinoceros A gentle children s book on grief written by Werner Holzwarth and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends are together through thick and thin—and forever in memory For Hopper the oxpecker bird, life is just perfect. He lives on top of his best friend, Reggie the rhino, where there are lots of yummy flies to eat. Reggie keeps Hopper safe when lions are lurking, and dry in the rainy season. Hopper wouldn’t change a thing! But Reggie isn’t young anymore, so he wants to prepare Hopper for life without him. He helps Hopper remember all their good times together—their lazy days and exciting escapes, their teasing nicknames and corny jokes. The only problem is Hopper’s habit of exaggerating! Hopper keeps watch by starlight as Reggie lies down for the last time. And at daybreak, he takes flight to find his own way in the world. When Hopper meets a new crew of oxpeckers, he can hardly wait to tell them all about his rhinoceros. Remember when Reggie chased off three—no, three hundred—sneaky lions?
Download or read book The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan written by Cecily McMillan and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecily McMillan didn't come from much: she had a hardscrabble life bouncing between the members of a broken family scattered from Texas to Atlanta. Her relationship with her parents became increasingly strained, and at sixteen she was legally emancipated and taken in by a beloved teacher. She became politically active at a young age, leading walkouts against the Iraq War in high school and protesting against union busting in college. When she moved to New York for a masters degree at the New School, she found herself planning what would later become Occupy Wall Street. On St. Patrick's Day, 2012, her life changed forever. Cecily swung by Zuccotti Park to pick up friends on her way to meet others at a nearby Irish pub—but she never made it out. The celebration was cut short by a police raid that cleared the square. In the melee, she was grabbed from behind by a police officer. Two years later she faced a Kafkaesque trial and was sentenced to three months at Rikers Island. Inside Rikers, Cecily grew close to her fellow inmates, women with precarious lives who took her under their wings and taught her how to navigate life in prison. Through them, she remembered where she came from and who she was fighting for. And through them, she found her voice. The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan is an intimate, brave, bittersweet memoir of a remarkable young woman trying to make sense of her place in the world.
Download or read book Handmade Hostess written by Kelly Lee-Creel and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume captures the heart and soul of social gatherings for special occassions - expressing your love for family and friends in the DIY spirit of decorating, baking, and sewing. The authors show you how easy and stress-free it can be to plan and create stylishly themed parties for all ages without breaking the bank.
Download or read book Raising My Rainbow written by Lori Duron and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron’s frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her family's adventures of distress and happiness raising a gender-creative son. Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, Lori's younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around in a pink sparkly tutu, with a Disney Princess in each hand while singing Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi." C.J. is gender variant or gender nonconforming, whichever you prefer. Whatever the term, Lori has a boy who likes girl stuff—really likes girl stuff. He floats on the gender-variation spectrum from super-macho-masculine on the left all the way to super-girly-feminine on the right. He's not all pink and not all blue. He's a muddled mess or a rainbow creation. Lori and her family choose to see the rainbow. Written in Lori's uniquely witty and warm voice and launched by her incredibly popular blog of the same name, Raising My Rainbow is the unforgettable story of her wonderful family as they navigate the often challenging but never dull privilege of raising a slightly effeminate, possibly gay, totally fabulous son. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content
Download or read book Don t Wear Polka Dot Underwear with White Pants written by Allison Gutknecht and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-year-old Mandy Berr learns life lessons with patriotic pizazz in the first adventure of a new chapter book series. Eight-year-old Mandy Berr has a lot going on. She has to share her parents’ attention with her newborn twin siblings, who are always crying, and her little brother, Timmy, who is constantly in her way. And she also has to find a way to deal with her nemesis, Dennis, who has a knack for getting under her skin. At least Mandy has the upcoming Presidential Pageant to look forward to at school. She is determined to be President George Washington—she is perfect for the lead part, after all. But when Mandy’s teacher makes a surprising choice, it looks like Mandy will have to keep sharing the spotlight. Can she find her own way to shine? Mandy has some valuable life lessons to learns in this adorable chapter book—including the fact that white pants and polka dot underwear are never a good combination.
Download or read book A Moment of Grace written by Patrick Dillon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick and Nicola were together for 28 years. This is the searing but uplifting tale of her illness, and their last 13 months. In May 2015, Patrick Dillon, award-winning architect and writer, and Nicola Thorold OBE, a leading theatre producer and former chief executive of the Independent Theatre Council, had been married for more than two decades. They had two children and the future looked bright. That month, Nicola was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia. Thirteen months later - after several rounds of treatment, and hopes raised and cruelly dashed - she died, aged 51. A Moment of Grace is Patrick's searing account of that year and the months that followed it. But it is not, at heart, a sad book. Rather, it is a tale of humanity - of warmth, home, family - and above all, it is a story of love.Praise for A Moment of Grace: 'Raw, gracious, candid and true ... It manages to be an uplifting book about tragedy' - Kate Leaver, British Vogue 'A profoundly moving and impassioned account of a 28-year romance.' - The Observer 'A breath taking ode to a life well loved.' - Laura Jane Williams, author of Becoming 'This book is perfect - excruciatingly well-written, poignant, tender. My heart breaks and then gets fuller every time I open it.' - Kate Leaver, author of The Friendship Cure Patrick Dillon is an award-winning architect and writer, whose published work includes The Story of Buildings.
Download or read book Living On written by Alice Burgenshore and published by Alice Burgenshore. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a trip down memory lane Daisy is drawn back to her hometown where she has refused to be since moving away for school after a hard goodbye with Felix. Little does Daisy know that fate has drawn Felix back to their little town at the same time as her. Will these two lovers admit to their feelings? Can fate be so easy to grasp and hold on to?
Download or read book So You Want to Build a Library written by Lindsay Leslie and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2021 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader is put in charge of building a fantastical library where everything is possible including a waterslide, zip line, really large ladders, and of course, a full-service sudae bar.
Download or read book First Day of Unicorn School written by Jess Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milly is thrilled to be accepted into the elite Unicorn School, although she is a donkey in disguise, but her first day reveals she has much in common with her fellow newcomers.
Download or read book The Paper Garden written by Molly Peacock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Delany was seventy-two years old when she noticed a petal drop from a geranium. In a flash of inspiration, she picked up her scissors and cut out a paper replica of the petal, inventing the art of collage. It was the summer of 1772, in England. During the next ten years she completed nearly a thousand cut-paper botanicals (which she called mosaicks) so accurate that botanists still refer to them. Poet-biographer Molly Peacock uses close-ups of these brilliant collages in The Paper Garden to track the extraordinary life of Delany, friend of Swift, Handel, Hogarth, and even Queen Charlotte and King George III. How did this remarkable role model for late blooming manage it? After a disastrous teenage marriage to a drunken sixty-one-year-old squire, she took control of her own life, pursuing creative projects, spurning suitors, and gaining friends. At forty-three, she married Jonathan Swift's friend Dr. Patrick Delany, and lived in Ireland in a true expression of midlife love. But after twenty-five years and a terrible lawsuit, her husband died. Sent into a netherland of mourning, Mrs. Delany was rescued by her friend, the fabulously wealthy Duchess of Portland. The Duchess introduced Delany to the botanical adventurers of the day and a bonanza of exotic plants from Captain Cook's voyage, which became the inspiration for her art. Peacock herself first saw Mrs. Delany's work more than twenty years before she wrote The Paper Garden, but "like a book you know is too old for you," she put the thought of the old woman away. She went on to marry and cherish the happiness of her own midlife, in a parallel to Mrs. Delany, and by chance rediscovered the mosaicks decades later. This encounter confronted the poet with her own aging and gave her-and her readers-a blueprint for late-life flexibility, creativity, and change.
Download or read book Sadiq and the Bridge Builders written by Siman Nuurali and published by Capstone. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Hide a Ghost written by MacKenzie Haley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since ghosts are really good at hiding, little ones can lift the flaps to find them, in this interactive Halloween board book.
Download or read book How to Apologize written by David LaRochelle and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award–winning creators of See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog comes a funny and handy guide that explains just how (and how not!) to say “I’m sorry.” Wouldn’t the world be a better place if everyone knew how to apologize? Luckily, this humorous guidebook is full of practical tips about when, why, and how to say you’re sorry. From a porcupine who accidentally popped his friend’s balloon to a snail who was running so fast he stepped on a sloth’s toes, hilarious examples and sweet illustrations abound. For both listeners who are just learning and older readers who need a refresher, this book will come as a welcome reminder that even though apologizing can be hard, it doesn’t have to be complicated.
