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Book The Petting Zoo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Carroll
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2010-11-04
  • ISBN : 1101445262
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book The Petting Zoo written by Jim Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving, vividly rendered novel from the late author of The Basketball Diaries. When poet, musician, and diarist Jim Carroll died in September 2009, he was putting the finishing touches on a potent work of fiction. The Petting Zoo tells the story of Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty- eight-year-old artist who has become a hot star in the late-1980s New York art scene. As the novel opens, Billy, after viewing a show of Velázquez paintings, is so humbled and awed by their spiritual power that he suffers an emotional breakdown and withdraws to his Chelsea loft. In seclusion, Billy searches for the divine spark in his own work and life. Carroll's novel moves back and forth in time to present emblematic moments from Billy's life (his Irish Catholic upbringing, his teenage escapades, his evolution as an artist and meteoric rise to fame) and sharply etched portraits of the characters who mattered most to him, including his childhood friend Denny MacAbee, now a famous rock musician; his mentor, the unforgettable art dealer Max Bernbaum; and one extraordinary black bird. Marked by Carroll's sharp wit, hallucinatory imagery, and street-smart style, The Petting Zoo is a frank, haunting examination of one artist's personal and professional struggles.

Book The Petting Zoos

    Book Details:
  • Author : K.S. Covert
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2022-05-24
  • ISBN : 1459748824
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book The Petting Zoos written by K.S. Covert and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Speculative Fiction In a virus-fearing world, skin hunger can drive you crazy — and human petting zoos can return you to yourself. Ten years after the deadly virus nicknamed Henny Penny, the world has largely recovered — there’s an interim government as well as law and order, and life is returning to normal for the greatly reduced population. But despite effective vaccines, the law still requires people to wear protective masks and gloves at all times in public, and many still fear a resurgence of the virus. On top of this, people who haven’t been touched in years are going crazy from skin hunger. Lily has lived in fearful isolation for ten years, afraid to rejoin the world. But a return-to-work order and an invitation to go to a petting zoo — a highly illegal club where people go to touch and be touched — start to bring her back to life. A post-apocalyptic sex adventure and a woman’s journey of self-discovery, The Petting Zoos is an erotic love story for an age of extreme caution, in which the value of safety itself is questioned.

Book The Basketball Diaries

Download or read book The Basketball Diaries written by Jim Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-07-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960s, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City. During these years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowling New York City--playing basketball, hustling, stealing, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure. The Basketball Diaries was the basis for the film of the same name starring Leonardo DiCaprio. "I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation. . . . The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty." -- Patti Smith

Book Petting Zoo Sticker Activity Book

Download or read book Petting Zoo Sticker Activity Book written by Cathy Beylon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spend an exciting day in the country at an animal park populated by a pony, cow, piglets, ducks, zoo employees, and more. 25 stickers.

Book Instrument Petting Zoo

Download or read book Instrument Petting Zoo written by Anastasia Suen and published by Rourke Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Campers Go To A Outdoor Music Festival And Learn About The Many Kinds Of Instruments. Leveled Phonics Picture Book Reader. Contains Comprehension And Word Study Activities, Words To Know Before You Read, Picture Glossary, Pronunciation Guide, Definition, And Tips For Reading. Inside Front And Back Cover Teacher And Parent Support.

Book DK Super Readers Pre Level A Day at the Petting Zoo

Download or read book DK Super Readers Pre Level A Day at the Petting Zoo written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about all the fun that can be had at the petting zoo with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress. DK Super Readers Pre-Level: A Day at the Petting Zoo will introduce kids to a parade of different animals from the petting zoo–including guinea pigs, rabbits, and more–and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for children ready to enter the riveting world of reading. DK Super Readers take children on a journey through the wonderful world of nonfiction: traveling back to the time of dinosaurs, learning more about animals, exploring natural wonders and more, all while developing vital nonfiction reading skills and progressing from first words to reading confidently. The DK Super Readers series can help your child practice reading by: - Covering engaging, motivating, curriculum-aligned topics. - Building knowledge while progressing key Grades Pre-K and K reading skills. - Developing subject vocabulary on topics such as the petting zoo and popular petting animals. - Boosting understanding and retention through comprehension quizzes. Each title, which has been leveled using MetaMetrics®: The Lexile Framework for Reading, integrates science, geography, history, and nature topics so there’s something for all children’s interests. The books and online content perfectly supplement core literacy programs and are mapped to the Common Core Standards. Children will love powering up their nonfiction reading skills and becoming reading heroes. DK Super Readers Pre-level titles are visually engaging, full of fun facts, and introduce children to the wonderful world of nonfiction. Perfect to help children ages 3 to 5 (Grades Pre-K and K) who are ready to enter the world of reading.

Book The Dimetriuses

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leeana Matthews
  • Publisher : leeana matthews
  • Release : 2007-07
  • ISBN : 1424175283
  • Pages : 127 pages

Download or read book The Dimetriuses written by Leeana Matthews and published by leeana matthews. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book entitled The Dimetriuses is the first of many childrenas novels. The Dimetriuses are the type of fiction family that anybody can relate to, especially with the trials and tribulations of everyday family and school life. And following the first book, "The Dimetriuses," be sure to find coming soon their very first family vacation entitled The Dimetriuses Go to Shady Beach.

Book Zooland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Irus Braverman
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2012-11-28
  • ISBN : 0804784396
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Zooland written by Irus Braverman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seventy interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland. Zooland begins and ends with the story of Timmy, the oldest male gorilla in North America, to illustrate the dramatic transformations of zoos since the 1970s. Over these decades, modern zoos have transformed themselves from places created largely for entertainment to globally connected institutions that emphasize care through conservation and education. Zoos naturalize their spaces, classify their animals, and produce spectacular experiences for their human visitors. Zoos name, register, track, and allocate their animals in global databases. Zoos both abide by and create laws and industry standards that govern their captive animals. Finally, zoos intensely govern the reproduction of captive animals, carefully calculating the life and death of these animals, deciding which of them will be sustained and which will expire. Zooland takes readers behind the exhibits into the world of zoo animals and their caretakers. And in so doing, it turns its gaze back on us to make surprising interconnections between our understandings of the human and the nonhuman.

Book Welcome to the Multiverse

Download or read book Welcome to the Multiverse written by Ira Nayman and published by Elsewhen Press. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hilarious science-fiction comedy novel follows the first case for Noomi Rapier, rookie investigator with The Transdimensional Authority - the organisation that regulates travel between dimensions. When a dead body is found slumped over a modified transdimensional machine, Noomi and her more experienced partner, Crash Chumley, must find the dead man's accomplices and discover what they were doing with the technology. Their investigation leads them to a variety of realities where Noomi comes face-to-face with four very different incarnations of herself, forcing her to consider how the choices she makes and the circumstances into which she is born determine who she is. Ira Nayman's new novel is both an hilarious romp through multiple dimensions in a variety of alternate realities, and a gentle satire on fate, ambition and expectation. Welcome to the Multiverse (Sorry for the Inconvenience) will appeal to comedy fans who have been bereft of much good science-fiction fare these last eleven years. Ira's style is at times surreal, even off-the-wall, with the humour flying at you from unexpected angles; he describes it as fractal humour. Anyone who has read his Alternate Reality News Service stories will know how funny Ira is. The characters we meet from around the multiverse deserve to become firm favourites with all fans of science fiction comedy.

Book Let s Take The Kids

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Barile
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1997-05-15
  • ISBN : 9780312155698
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Let s Take The Kids written by Mary Barile and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-05-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised by NEW YORK magazine, and now fully updated and revised, this all-season guide lists hundreds of family activities for an afternoon, a weekend, or a whole week in 16 Hudson Valley counties, organized by region with detailed entries, including special events for kids ages 2 to 12. Maps.

Book The Pearson Guide To Mba Entrance Examinations  2 E

Download or read book The Pearson Guide To Mba Entrance Examinations 2 E written by Thorpe and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seattle Giant Chicken Riding Tours

Download or read book Seattle Giant Chicken Riding Tours written by Robert T. Belie and published by Robert T. Belie. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many ways to see many places in this vast and varied world. Seattle is no exception. The Emerald City has long been a prime destination and gateway for all walks of travelers and tourists. The only problem with stopping by for a visit is that you might not want to leave! Nestled along Elliot Bay as the shining star of the Great Northwest, and always at the forefront of technology, coffee, music, e-commerce, and aviation, the Puget Sound’s Finest is proud to bring you the latest in city exploration, the one of a kind, Seattle Giant Chicken Riding Tours.

Book The Great Indoorsman

Download or read book The Great Indoorsman written by Farkas Andrew (author) and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword INDIES Gold Winner in Humor Many authors have traveled and explored the out-of-doors, both in life and then in their books, proving themselves stalwart, audacious, even heroic; Andrew Farkas is not among them. He is brave enough to admit that the outdoors isn't for him. Instead, in these essays Farkas reports on his bold explorations of a very different territory: the in-of-doors, the waiting rooms, kitchens, malls, bars, theaters, roadside motel rooms, and other places that feature temperature control, protection from rampaging predators, and a higher degree of comfort than can be found outside. Farkas discovers that, just as the mannered and wonderfully (gloriously) artificial indoors influences us greatly, our lives are also controlled much more by fiction than by anything "real." So come in out of the weather (it's always terrible) and join the Great Indoorsman on his adventures, where he makes fun of pretty much everything, most of all himself.

Book Hog Manure Management  the Environment and Human Health

Download or read book Hog Manure Management the Environment and Human Health written by Tiffany T.Y. Guan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a current look at how development of intensive live stock production, particularly hogs, has affected human health with respect to zoonotic diseases primarily transmitted by food but also by water, air and oc cupational activity. While information presented focuses on the development of increasing livestock production in Canada, examples are given and compar isons are made with other countries (Denmark, Taiwan, the Netherlands and the United States) where the levels of livestock production are much more intense and where the industry is more mature. Canada is also searching for solutions to enable handling the growing volume of its livestock waste properly. Lessons learned from the experience of those who have gone before are invaluable and are drawn together in this volume to serve as useful guidance for others in plot ting the courses of action possible to avoid serious environmental setbacks and negative human health effects through foodborne illness. A significant portion of the text is devoted to a discussion of enteric illness in humans caused by zoonotic pathogens. The second chapter deals with sur vival of pathogens (which cause foodborne illness) in manure environments. An evaluation of the human health hazard likely to occur from the use of ma nure as fertilizer is important because of the recent trend toward an increase in foodborne illness from the consumption of minimally processed fruits and vegetables that may have been fertilized with animal-derived organic materials.

Book Farm Friends Escape   Animal Planet Adventures Chapter Books  2

Download or read book Farm Friends Escape Animal Planet Adventures Chapter Books 2 written by Animal Planet and published by Time Inc. Books. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During summer vacations, cousins Luke and Sarah help out at their grandparents' petting zoo. But what happens when the animals get loose overnight? Can Luke and Sarah use their knowledge of animals and their awesome problem-solving skills to get the animals back to safety? Perfect for reluctant, challenged, and newly fluent readers, the Animal Planet Adventures chapter book series combines fun animal mysteries with cool nonfiction sidebars that relate directly to the stories, bringing the best of the animal world to young readers. With full-color illustrations and photographs throughout. Collect all of the Animal Planet Adventures, including Maddie and Atticus's story Dolphin Rescue.

Book Harlequin Love Inspired January 2021   Box Set 1 of 2

Download or read book Harlequin Love Inspired January 2021 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Vannetta Chapman and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: AN AMISH WINTER By USA TODAY Bestselling Author Vannetta Chapman and Carrie Lighte Amish hearts are drawn together in these two sweet winter novellas, where an Amish bachelor rescues a widowed single mother stranded in a snowstorm, and an Amish spinster determined never to marry falls for her friend’s brother-in-law when her trip south for the winter is delayed. OPENING HER HEART (A Rocky Mountain Family novel) By Deb Kastner Opening a bed-and-breakfast is Avery Winslow’s dream, but she’s not the only one eyeing her ideal location. Jake Cutter is determined to buy the land and build a high-end resort. Can his little girl and a sweet service dog convince him and Avery that building a family is more important? A FUTURE FOR HIS TWINS (A Widow’s Peak Creek novel) By Susanne Dietze Tomás Santos and Faith Latham both want to buy the same building in town, and neither is willing to give up the fight. But Tomás’s six-year-old twins have plans to bring them together. After all, they want a mom…and they think Faith is the perfect fit! For more stories filled with love and faith, look for Love Inspired January 2021 Box Set—2 of 2

Book Opening Her Heart

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deb Kastner
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2021-01-01
  • ISBN : 1488070857
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Opening Her Heart written by Deb Kastner and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting for her dream could have unexpected consequences… She can handle the Texan threatening her plans… But can she resist his adorable little girl? The Colorado mountain cabin is perfect for Avery Winslow’s dream—a B and B for service dogs and their families. Except fast-talkin’ Texan Jake Cutter wants the land for a luxury resort. Now Avery’s fighting for her dream and her town. But Jake and his sweet little girl have already charmed Avery’s favorite service dog…and her guarded heart might just be next. From Harlequin Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope. Rocky Mountain Family