Author: Don Featherstone Publisher: Splendor on the Grass ISBN: 9780764309632 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
If you have never seen a pink plastic flamingo, you will not buy this book. Everyone else should. Over 100 color photos of pink plastic flamingoes in amazing, funny, and strange settings appear here to provide fun and a lot of humor. "In 1957, Don Featherstone sculptured the first three-dimensional pink plastic flamingo, thereby making affordable bad taste accessible to the American public." This is a great gift book.
Author: Elaine Viets Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. ISBN: 1625673450 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 309
Book Description
From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author of the Dead-End Job mysteries—a gritty series featuring a no-nonsense female journalist who follows her stories wherever they may lead...especially if they lead to big trouble. Francesca Vierling is always on the lookout for new fodder for her human-interest column in the St. Louis City Gazette. So she couldn’t be happier when a story unfolds in her own neighborhood. The grand—if slightly run-down—old houses of the South Side have become highly coveted overnight and renovators have sought to spruce them up. But one renovator—known as Caroline the Rehab Wonderwoman—is a little overzealous and has been making more than home improvements. She has enemies all over the South Side, from disgruntled neighbors to intruding drug dealers to anyone who she considers not up to her standards. When those enemies start turning up dead, Caroline comes under suspicion—that is, until her own lifeless body is found with a gaudy pink flamingo lawn decoration planted in her chest. With that many murders in a row, it doesn’t take Francesca long to discover that a tangled web of vendettas, backbiting, and gossip lies beneath the freshly painted facades. Note: The author has made some minor revisions to the original text for this edition of the book.
Author: Donna Andrews Publisher: Minotaur Books ISBN: 1466807938 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
Every year, Yorktown, Virginia, relives its role in the Revolutionary War by celebrating the anniversary of the British surrender in 1781. This year, plans include a re-enactment of the original battle and a colonial craft fair. Meg Langslow has returned to her home town for the festivities--and to sell her wrought-iron works of art. Except, of course, for the pink-painted flamingos she reluctantly made for her mother's best friend--she's hoping to deliver them secretly, so she won't get a reputation as "the blacksmith who makes those cute wrought-iron flamingos." Besides, she has taken on another responsibility--making sure none of her fellow crafters ruin the historical authenticity of the fair with forbidden modern devices--like wrist watches, calculators, or cell phones. She's only doing it to keep peace with the mother of the man she loves. And Michael himself will don the white-and-gold uniform of a French officer for the re-enactment--what actor could resist a role like that? Meg's also trying to keep her father from scaring too many tourists with his impersonation of an 18th century physician. And to prevent a snooping reporter from publishing any stories about local scandals. Not to mention saving her naive brother, Rob, from the clutches of a con man who might steal the computer game he has invented. It's a tough job--at least, until the swindler is found dead, slain in Meg's booth with one of her own wrought-iron creations. Now Meg must add another item to her already lengthy to do list: "Don't forget to solve the murder!" Fortunately, the more trouble Meg faces, the more fun the reader will have--and Meg faces plenty of trouble in this lighthearted and funny novel.
Author: John Waters Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374715572 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste, from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, how to cheat death itself. Through it all, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: “Whatever you might have heard, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.” Studded with cameos, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and illustrated with unseen photos from the author's personal collection, Mr. Know-It-All is Waters’ most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book—another instant Waters classic. “Waters doesn’t kowtow to the received wisdom, he flips it the bird . . . [Waters] has the ability to show humanity at its most ridiculous and make that funny rather than repellent.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post “Carsick becomes a portrait not just of America’s desolate freeway nodes—though they’re brilliantly evoked—but of American fame itself.” —Lawrence Osborne, The New York Times Book Review
Author: M. T. Anderson Publisher: Speckled Egg Press ISBN: 9781620065471 Category : Languages : en Pages : 24
Book Description
Pink Flamingos All Around is a fantastic frolic full of fabulous flamingo fun. The text, which is rhyming in nature, contains some factual information about the birds, as well as some general silliness. The images are bright and attractive, containing cartoon flamingos that are designed to capture both the beautiful and unique nature of these amazing birds. The book is designed to be both educational and entertaining for children and their parents. Dr. Matthew J. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia, PA) where he teaches and investigates various aspects of animal behavior, with a particular interest in flamingos. He is the director of SJU's interdisciplinary minor in Animal Studies, and has authored numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Pink Flamingos All Around is his first children's book. 24 pages of color illustrations
Author: Susan E. Greisen Publisher: ISBN: 9780999804841 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
A young Nebraska farm girl defies her parents and joins the Peace Corps in 1971 as a health educator in a remote village in Liberia. Her determination and commitment to the people she loves take her an adventurous journey of self-discovery.
Author: Becky Carlson Publisher: ISBN: 9780759638099 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
?Can Pink Flamingos Fly? is an imaginative, uplifting work from the bright new poet Becky B. Carlson. The poems are written in concrete style, using a bold and visual format. Even those who are ?poetry-impaired? will enjoy this first collection.
Author: N. J. Collar Publisher: ISBN: 9780789206688 Category : Flamingos Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume presents a dramatic photographic celebration of the gathering together of East Africa's elegant pink flamingos. Nature photographer Mari, and Collar (BirdLife International in Cambridge) document the private lives of these aristocratic birds in their nesting colonies, during mating rituals, and with their offspring. Oversize: 10x13". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: Don Featherstone
Author: Elaine Viets
Author: Donna Andrews
Author: John Waters
Author: M. T. Anderson
Author: Susan E. Greisen
Author: Becky Carlson
Author: N. J. Collar
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Author: John Waters