Author: Tim Cronin
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1922830542
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Life for Pino the Pup is just how he wants it with his human Mum and Dad – yummy snacks, plenty of toys, and lots of fresh air on his daily walks. Until Mum and Dad arrive home one day with a gurgling guest, who grabs all of their attention, and most of Pino’s play space. The snacks come far and few between, and Pino has to almost beg for his walks. What’s to be done? But then young Billy shares a special treat with him, and all is forgiven. And Pino’s bravery is put to the test in the park when a stray dog threatens the family. Will he be up to the challenge?
Billy Belly and the Lonely Plight of Pino the Pup
Author: Tim Cronin
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1922830542
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Life for Pino the Pup is just how he wants it with his human Mum and Dad – yummy snacks, plenty of toys, and lots of fresh air on his daily walks. Until Mum and Dad arrive home one day with a gurgling guest, who grabs all of their attention, and most of Pino’s play space. The snacks come far and few between, and Pino has to almost beg for his walks. What’s to be done? But then young Billy shares a special treat with him, and all is forgiven. And Pino’s bravery is put to the test in the park when a stray dog threatens the family. Will he be up to the challenge?
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1922830542
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Life for Pino the Pup is just how he wants it with his human Mum and Dad – yummy snacks, plenty of toys, and lots of fresh air on his daily walks. Until Mum and Dad arrive home one day with a gurgling guest, who grabs all of their attention, and most of Pino’s play space. The snacks come far and few between, and Pino has to almost beg for his walks. What’s to be done? But then young Billy shares a special treat with him, and all is forgiven. And Pino’s bravery is put to the test in the park when a stray dog threatens the family. Will he be up to the challenge?
Billy Belly and the Lonely Plight of Pino the Pup
Author: Tim Cronin
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Life for Pino the Pup is just how he wants it with his human Mum and Dad - yummy snacks, plenty of toys, and lots of fresh air on his daily walks. Until Mum and Dad arrive home one day with a gurgling guest, who grabs all of their attention, and most of Pino's play space. The snacks come far and few between, and Pino has to almost beg for his walks. What's to be done? But then young Billy shares a special treat with him, and all is forgiven. And Pino's bravery is put to the test in the park when a stray dog threatens the family. Will he be up to the challenge?
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Life for Pino the Pup is just how he wants it with his human Mum and Dad - yummy snacks, plenty of toys, and lots of fresh air on his daily walks. Until Mum and Dad arrive home one day with a gurgling guest, who grabs all of their attention, and most of Pino's play space. The snacks come far and few between, and Pino has to almost beg for his walks. What's to be done? But then young Billy shares a special treat with him, and all is forgiven. And Pino's bravery is put to the test in the park when a stray dog threatens the family. Will he be up to the challenge?
I Love You Book
Author: Libby Hathorn
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921479892
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A child discovers the smell, sound, excitement and magic of reading books. Suggested level: junior.
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921479892
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A child discovers the smell, sound, excitement and magic of reading books. Suggested level: junior.
In the Time of the Butterflies
Author: Julia Alvarez
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616200995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times) Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "This Julia Alvarez classic is a must-read for anyone of Latinx descent." —Popsugar.com "A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion." —People "Shimmering . . . Valuable and necessary." —Los Angeles Times "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” —St. Petersburg Times "Alvarez does a remarkable job illustrating the ruinous effect the 30-year dictatorship had on the Dominican Republic and the very real human cost it entailed."—Cosmopolitan.com
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616200995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times) Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "This Julia Alvarez classic is a must-read for anyone of Latinx descent." —Popsugar.com "A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion." —People "Shimmering . . . Valuable and necessary." —Los Angeles Times "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” —St. Petersburg Times "Alvarez does a remarkable job illustrating the ruinous effect the 30-year dictatorship had on the Dominican Republic and the very real human cost it entailed."—Cosmopolitan.com
Rosie and the Worry Whisperer
Author: Matthew Cunningham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922332745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922332745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Lyli Meets the Stone-Muncher
Author: Céline Eimann
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921869003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Annotation Lyli wants to know what's over the mountains that surround her crowded city. She's not scared of the ferocious Stone-Muncher that is rumoured to live in a tunnel nearby. She doesn't believe in monsters!But when Lyli sets out on her expedition, she finds much more than she expected. Were the legends true all along? And what's really over the mountains?A lively story of friendship, adventure and extending your horizons.
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921869003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Annotation Lyli wants to know what's over the mountains that surround her crowded city. She's not scared of the ferocious Stone-Muncher that is rumoured to live in a tunnel nearby. She doesn't believe in monsters!But when Lyli sets out on her expedition, she finds much more than she expected. Were the legends true all along? And what's really over the mountains?A lively story of friendship, adventure and extending your horizons.
Friction
Author: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of cultures, developing friction as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. Tsing focuses on the rainforests of Indonesia, where in the 1980s and 1990s capitalist interests increasingly reshaped the landscape not so much through corporate design as through awkward chains of legal and illegal entrepreneurs that wrested the land from previous claimants, creating resources for distant markets. In response, environmental movements arose to defend the rainforests and the communities of people who live in them. Not confined to a village, province, or nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforests includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, United Nations funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students—all drawn into unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out. Providing an invaluable portfolio of methods for the study of global interconnections, Friction shows how cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter and reveals how much is overlooked in contemporary theories of the global.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of cultures, developing friction as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. Tsing focuses on the rainforests of Indonesia, where in the 1980s and 1990s capitalist interests increasingly reshaped the landscape not so much through corporate design as through awkward chains of legal and illegal entrepreneurs that wrested the land from previous claimants, creating resources for distant markets. In response, environmental movements arose to defend the rainforests and the communities of people who live in them. Not confined to a village, province, or nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforests includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, United Nations funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students—all drawn into unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out. Providing an invaluable portfolio of methods for the study of global interconnections, Friction shows how cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter and reveals how much is overlooked in contemporary theories of the global.
Plato the Platypus Plumber (Part-Time)
Author: Hazel Edwards
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921479507
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Plato, an eco-warrior and part-time plumber, fixes watery problems like leaking taps, and he also fixes grumpy people with jokes or a smile spray. Despite ferals along the creek bank, Plato is on call to help Zanzibar and his family who are renovating their old creekside house. Teaches children about Australian wildlife, geography and conservation.
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921479507
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Plato, an eco-warrior and part-time plumber, fixes watery problems like leaking taps, and he also fixes grumpy people with jokes or a smile spray. Despite ferals along the creek bank, Plato is on call to help Zanzibar and his family who are renovating their old creekside house. Teaches children about Australian wildlife, geography and conservation.
Christina's Matilda
Author: Edel Wignell
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
ISBN: 9781459615274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?' Everyone knows the words. Many people know that the Australian poet 'Banjo' Paterson wrote them. But how may people know the origin of the tune? In 1895 a young woman named Christina Macpherson sat down and played a marching tune she'd heard. 'Banjo' Paterson, who was visiting Christina's brother, liked it and wrote the words of a song to it. That song was 'Waltzing Matilda'. 'Banjo' became famous, and so did 'Waltzing Matilda'. But Christina's part in the song's creation was forgotten and she disappeared from history until the 1970s. Come a-waltzing with Christina now and discover her story beginning in the first year of her life, when she encountered the ruthless bushranger Dan Morgan..
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
ISBN: 9781459615274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?' Everyone knows the words. Many people know that the Australian poet 'Banjo' Paterson wrote them. But how may people know the origin of the tune? In 1895 a young woman named Christina Macpherson sat down and played a marching tune she'd heard. 'Banjo' Paterson, who was visiting Christina's brother, liked it and wrote the words of a song to it. That song was 'Waltzing Matilda'. 'Banjo' became famous, and so did 'Waltzing Matilda'. But Christina's part in the song's creation was forgotten and she disappeared from history until the 1970s. Come a-waltzing with Christina now and discover her story beginning in the first year of her life, when she encountered the ruthless bushranger Dan Morgan..
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Author: John Perkins
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576755126
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576755126
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.