Author: Ellen A. Kelley Publisher: Dutton Juvenile ISBN: 9780525461425 Category : Bicycles Languages : en Pages : 0
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Eight-year-old Todd needs the help of his pet lizard and the support of his family to overcome his fear of his new bicycle in time for the Bike Derby at school.
Author: Peggy Scott Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1546248056 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 39
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A favorite folktale is retold when a little Arizona lizard and his friends scurry across the hot, hot sand of the desert. The five desert creatures are in a hurry because they are very worried. There is a frightening problem with the sky: a piece of it has fallen, and it has left a hole where once there was bright-blue sky! What should they do? Who can fix it? They are hurrying to tell their king, whom they trust will most certainly have some answers. The tale of Lucky Lizard Little will enchant those who read it. Facts about cacti and creatures found in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona are intertwined with the fun and fantasy of the desert friends as they seek answers to their dilemma.
Author: William W. Johnstone Publisher: Pinnacle Books ISBN: 0786021039 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 344
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A battle over a silver mine may have to be settled with lead in this action-packed Western by the USA Today bestselling author . . . Gunslinger Frank Morgan serves as marshal of his Nevada town, where the mine known as the Lucky Lizard is full of silver. But now a stranger named Dex Brighton has ridden in from the East, saying he has a claim to it. Morgan sends for help from San Francisco to sort the problem out and determine the rightful owner. But the lawyers don't make it there alive, and Morgan's growing suspicions about the stranger have him reaching for his gun . . .
Author: Stephen Chensue Publisher: Chen Tzu Creations ISBN: 1411638093 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 284
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The Zama Codex is a fictional novel set in Central America and structured as alternating chapters describing parallel stories, one set during the fall of the Mayan classic age and the other at a present day archaeological excavation. The reader is drawn into the life of Zama, a scribe and noble living in a highland Mayan city-state (circa 800 A.D). When the city's high priest prophesizes the demise of Mayan civilization, Zama becomes apprentice and scribe to Chaco, a sorcerer with an ambitious plan to save the best of Mayan mystical knowledge from oblivion. The parallel story follows events surrounding the discovery of Zama's codex containing instructions for the acquisition of mystical power on a cosmic scale.
Author: William W. Johnstone Publisher: Pinnacle Books ISBN: 078601976X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 417
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From the harsh, windswept prairies to the rough and bare-knuckle mountain towns, USA Today bestseller William W. Johnstone has chronicled one man's epic journey of survival, justice and a longing for a place to call home. Now, Frank Morgan is a lone lawman in a living hell. Buckskin, Nevada, was once a boomtown, then died a peaceful death. But when a fresh vein of silver is struck, Morgan lets himself get pinned with a tin badge at the worst possible time. It's not the crooked gamblers, the petty swindlers, or the stray murderer or two that will give Morgan problems. Instead, the governor sends his militia unbidden, an iron fisted military commander has an agenda of his own, and an outlaw gang decides the time is ripe for an all-out assault on Buckskin. Now, to put out the fire that's stoking a murderous cauldron, the last gunfighter will break rules of law and God--and duel the men who've come to make a killing of their own--with Morgan their first target.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 152
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author: Daniel Pinkwater Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681371847 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 161
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An ALA Notable Book Kids ages 9-12 will “delight in [the] oddness” of this Home Alone-style tale set in the 1970s—from a prolific children’s author who captures “a magic that’s not like anyone else’s” (Neil Gaiman). With Victor’s parents out of town, he is free to investigate the mysterious lizard musicians who have recently appeared on TV . . . Things Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news. And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to indulge himself and to try a few things he’s been curious about. Exploring the nearby city of Hogboro, he runs into a curious character known as the Chicken Man (a reference to his companion, an intelligent hen named Claudia who lives under his hat). The Chicken Man speaks brilliant nonsense, but he seems to be hip to the lizard musicians (real lizards, not men in lizard suits) who’ve begun appearing on Victor’s television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Are the lizards from outer space? From “other space”? Together Victor and the Chicken Man, guided by the able Claudia, journey to the lizards’ floating island, a strange and fantastic place that operates with an inspired logic of its own.
Author: Jennifer Johnson Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477322779 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 222
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For about a decade, one of the most influential forces in US anti-immigrant politics was the Minuteman Project. The armed volunteers made headlines patrolling the southern border. What drove their ethno-nationalist politics? Jennifer L. Johnson spent hundreds of hours observing and interviewing Minutemen, hoping to answer that question. She reached surprising conclusions. While the public face of border politics is hypermasculine—men in uniforms, fatigues, and suits—older women were central to the Minutemen. Women mobilized support and took part in border missions. These women compel us to look beyond ideological commitments and material benefits in seeking to understand the appeal of right-wing politics. Johnson argues that the women of the Minutemen were motivated in part by the gendered experience of aging in America. In a society that makes old women irrelevant, aging white women found their place through anti-immigrant activism, which wedded native politics to their concern for the safety of their families. Grandmothers on Guard emphasizes another side of nationalism: the yearning for inclusion. The nation the Minutemen imagined was not only a space of exclusion but also one in which these women could belong.
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