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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author: ZZ PackerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781573223782
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The acclaimed debut short story collection that introduced the world to an arresting and unforgettable new voice in fiction, from multi-award winning author ZZ Packer Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decide where his allegiance lies; an international group of drifters in Japan, who are starving, unable to find work; a girl in a Baltimore ghetto who has dreams of the larger world she has seen only on the screens in the television store nearby, where the Lithuanian shopkeeper holds out hope for attaining his own American Dream. With penetrating insight, ZZ Packer helps us see the world with a clearer vision. Fresh, versatile, and captivating, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a striking and unforgettable collection, sure to stand out among the contemporary canon of fiction.
AKC Gazette
Author: Five Minute Mum: Give Me Five
Author: Daisy UptonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241443636
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Ideal for early years to KS1 children who are learning at home. Daisy Upton has two little kids. She loves them - but they drive her mad. So, to try and keep her sanity she started to come up with quick, easy games using stuff from around the house. And @FiveMinuteMum was born. In her first book, she has collected 150+ games that take 5 minutes to set up & 5 minutes to tidy up. From pasta posting to alphabet knock down, it's a recipe book for guilt free parenting! And as Daisy was a teaching assistant, your little ones will be learning while they play! What could be better? GIVE ME FIVE is the perfect companion for anyone who wants five minutes peace. Also available: Five Minute Mum: Time For School Five Minute Mum: On the Go "I love Five Minute Mum. She's managed to come up with a huge array of activities for kids that are fun and educational yet don't require an Art degree or Diploma in Patience to execute."Sarah Turner, aka Unmumsy Mum
Catch You Later
Author: Lise St. GermainPublisher: GeneralStore PublishingHouse
ISBN: 1897508026
Category : Nightmares
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Love Behind the Lies
Author: Raj LowensteinPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490788425
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In Love Behind the Lies: Book One of the OConnor Sisters Trilogy, Catlan Orlando Teresa OConnor, a.k.a. Cat Connors, is reunited with her first love, Haneul Palan Song. Now an FBI agent and going by Nathan Song, he is assigned to protect Cat from the drug lord looking to keep her silent. Her heart may be in more danger from Agent Song than from the cold-blooded killer trying to find her.
Collier's
Author: HansiThe Best Little Cat House in Maryland
Author: Kathy RudePublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449008852
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
It was the pathetic mews of a hungry mother cat, scrounging in a dumpster to feed her kittens that first caught Bob and Kathy Rude's attention. They found the hungry cat and several more hungry felines while helping out at the family restaurant one summer. The chance meeting between the hungry strays and two government computer programmers led to the creation of Rude Ranch Animal Rescue, one of the United States' hardest working No-Kill Animal Sanctuaries. Read on to meet these original Rude Cats and find what can go right and wrong when you try to help a few stray animals and inadvertently start an animal sanctuary.
Nick Heller: The Beginning, Books 1 & 2
Author: Joseph FinderPublisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250174236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 957
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder brought private investigator and ex-Special Forces Nick Heller to life in a critically acclaimed series. Here is Nick Heller’s beginning, in a down-priced bundle of the first two thrillers. Vanished Lauren Heller and her husband are attacked in Georgetown, but when he disappears completely, she calls her brother-in-law—Nick Heller—to investigate. Thrown into a desperate chase, Nick digs up secrets about his estranged brother and finds himself pitted against Washington’s most influential forces to protect his family. Buried Secrets Approached by an old friend whose daughter has been abducted, Nick lands in the middle of a life-or-death situation that’s both high-profile and intensely personal—and uncovering a conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels of government.
Across the Universe
Author: Beth RevisPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101486082
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Passengers! WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE ABOARD A SPACESHIP FUELED BY LIES? Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed. She has left her boyfriend, friends--and planet--behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. Amy and her parents believe they will wake on a new planet, Centauri-Earth, three hundred years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, cryo chamber 42 is mysteriously unplugged, and Amy is violently woken from her frozen slumber. Someone tried to murder her. Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. Godspeed's 2,312 passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader. And Elder, Eldest's rebellious teenage heir, is both fascinated with Amy and eager to discover whether he has what it takes to lead. Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she put her faith in a boy who has never seen life outside the ship's cold metal walls? All Amy knows is that she and Elder must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again.
A Little Life
Author: Hanya YanagiharaPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.