Author: Daniela Landsberg
Publisher: Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752625600
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Daniela Landsberg, born on February 29, 1980 in Mainz, studied Biology and German as a teacher and psychology. Her first short story came about while she was studying to be a teacher when she wanted to show her university lecturer that Christmas doesn't always mean "perfect world" and "big family". When she was writing the short story, she found that she enjoyed writing it and decided to just keep writing. When she is not writing, she likes to play with her cats, try to teach the piano to herself and get her chocolate addiction under control. As a former tournament dancer, you don't see her addiction. Daniela is an absolute night person and as an Asperger Autist she enjoys the peace and quiet when all other creatures are sleeping.
Winnie and Lilly Two Christmas Grouches Celebrate Christmas
Author: Daniela Landsberg
Publisher: Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752625600
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Daniela Landsberg, born on February 29, 1980 in Mainz, studied Biology and German as a teacher and psychology. Her first short story came about while she was studying to be a teacher when she wanted to show her university lecturer that Christmas doesn't always mean "perfect world" and "big family". When she was writing the short story, she found that she enjoyed writing it and decided to just keep writing. When she is not writing, she likes to play with her cats, try to teach the piano to herself and get her chocolate addiction under control. As a former tournament dancer, you don't see her addiction. Daniela is an absolute night person and as an Asperger Autist she enjoys the peace and quiet when all other creatures are sleeping.
Publisher: Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752625600
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Daniela Landsberg, born on February 29, 1980 in Mainz, studied Biology and German as a teacher and psychology. Her first short story came about while she was studying to be a teacher when she wanted to show her university lecturer that Christmas doesn't always mean "perfect world" and "big family". When she was writing the short story, she found that she enjoyed writing it and decided to just keep writing. When she is not writing, she likes to play with her cats, try to teach the piano to herself and get her chocolate addiction under control. As a former tournament dancer, you don't see her addiction. Daniela is an absolute night person and as an Asperger Autist she enjoys the peace and quiet when all other creatures are sleeping.
The Snowman
Author: Raymond Briggs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780194220255
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Ideal for the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780194220255
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Ideal for the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Life After Life
Author: Kate Atkinson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552779687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifeâe(tm)s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552779687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifeâe(tm)s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.
Everything I Know About Pirates
Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689826257
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A collection of made-up facts about pirates.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689826257
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A collection of made-up facts about pirates.
Songs in the Key of Z
Author: Irwin Chusid
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 156976493X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy—and presents their strange life stories along with photographs, interviews, cartoons, and discographies. About the only things these self-taught artists have in common are an utter lack of conventional tunefulness and an overabundance of earnestness and passion. But, believe it or not, they're worth listening to, often outmatching all contenders for inventiveness and originality. A CD featuring songs by artists profiled in the book is also available.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 156976493X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy—and presents their strange life stories along with photographs, interviews, cartoons, and discographies. About the only things these self-taught artists have in common are an utter lack of conventional tunefulness and an overabundance of earnestness and passion. But, believe it or not, they're worth listening to, often outmatching all contenders for inventiveness and originality. A CD featuring songs by artists profiled in the book is also available.
Barney's Night Before Christmas
Author: Stephen White
Publisher: Barney Publishing
ISBN: 9781570644627
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
When Baby Bop asks who fills Santa's Christmas stocking, Barney takes a group of young friends to the North Pole
Publisher: Barney Publishing
ISBN: 9781570644627
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
When Baby Bop asks who fills Santa's Christmas stocking, Barney takes a group of young friends to the North Pole
Letters to Santa Claus
Author: The Elves
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253017947
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A “poignant” collection of real letters sent to Santa Claus—a town in Indiana—from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, from both children and adults (The New York Times). For countless Christmases, children—and sometimes adults—have stuffed their dreams, wishes, and promises into envelopes. Over many decades, millions of these letters have poured into Santa Claus, Indiana. Arriving from all corners of the globe, the letters ask for toys, family reunions, snow, and help for the needy—sometimes the needy being the writers themselves. They are candid, heartfelt, and often blunt. Many children wonder how Santa gets into their chimneyless homes. One child reminds Santa that she has not hit her brothers over 1,350 times that year, and another respectfully requests two million dollars in “cold cash.” One child hopes to make his life better with a time machine, an adult woman asks for a man, and one miscreant actually threatens Santa’s reindeer! Containing more than 250 actual letters and envelopes from the naughty and nice reaching back to the 1930s, this moving book will touch hearts and bring back memories of a time in our lives when the man with a white beard and a red suit held out the hope that our wishes might come true. “Often very affecting . . . also offers an unusual window into American history.” —Library Journal “The letters . . . are alternately silly and somber, hilarious and heartfelt.” —The Weekly Standard
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253017947
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A “poignant” collection of real letters sent to Santa Claus—a town in Indiana—from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, from both children and adults (The New York Times). For countless Christmases, children—and sometimes adults—have stuffed their dreams, wishes, and promises into envelopes. Over many decades, millions of these letters have poured into Santa Claus, Indiana. Arriving from all corners of the globe, the letters ask for toys, family reunions, snow, and help for the needy—sometimes the needy being the writers themselves. They are candid, heartfelt, and often blunt. Many children wonder how Santa gets into their chimneyless homes. One child reminds Santa that she has not hit her brothers over 1,350 times that year, and another respectfully requests two million dollars in “cold cash.” One child hopes to make his life better with a time machine, an adult woman asks for a man, and one miscreant actually threatens Santa’s reindeer! Containing more than 250 actual letters and envelopes from the naughty and nice reaching back to the 1930s, this moving book will touch hearts and bring back memories of a time in our lives when the man with a white beard and a red suit held out the hope that our wishes might come true. “Often very affecting . . . also offers an unusual window into American history.” —Library Journal “The letters . . . are alternately silly and somber, hilarious and heartfelt.” —The Weekly Standard
The Varmint
The Years with Ross
Author: James Thurber
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063075784
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross “Extremely entertaining. . . . life at The New Yorker emerges as a lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of practical jokes, of feuds and foibles. It is an affectionate picture of scamps playing their games around a man who, for all his brusqueness, loved them, took care of them, pampered and scolded them like an irascible mother hen.” —New York Times With a foreword by Adam Gopnik and illustrations by James Thurber At the helm of America’s most influential literary magazine from 1925 to 1951, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and Dorothy Parker. But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically than James Thurber, whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex literary giant but a historic friendship and a glorious era as well. "If you get Ross down on paper," warned Wolcott Gibbs to Thurber," nobody will ever believe it." But readers of this unforgettable memoir will find that they do. Offering a peek into the lives of two American literary giants and the New York literary scene at its heyday, The Years with Ross is a true classic, and a testament to the enduring influence of their genius.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063075784
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross “Extremely entertaining. . . . life at The New Yorker emerges as a lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of practical jokes, of feuds and foibles. It is an affectionate picture of scamps playing their games around a man who, for all his brusqueness, loved them, took care of them, pampered and scolded them like an irascible mother hen.” —New York Times With a foreword by Adam Gopnik and illustrations by James Thurber At the helm of America’s most influential literary magazine from 1925 to 1951, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and Dorothy Parker. But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically than James Thurber, whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex literary giant but a historic friendship and a glorious era as well. "If you get Ross down on paper," warned Wolcott Gibbs to Thurber," nobody will ever believe it." But readers of this unforgettable memoir will find that they do. Offering a peek into the lives of two American literary giants and the New York literary scene at its heyday, The Years with Ross is a true classic, and a testament to the enduring influence of their genius.
DC's Very Merry Multiverse (2020-) #1
Author: Tom King
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Joy to all 52 worlds-it’s time to celebrate the holiday season across the DC Multiverse! In ten stories that will light your yule log and spike your eggnog, Batman decks the gaslit halls, Lobo goes Old Testament in space, Ragman learns the true meaning of Saturnalia, President Superman attempts to figure out how Bizarro stole Christmas, and Harley Quinn tries her hand at interdimensional caroling. These seasonal sagas are sure to help you have yourself a very merry Multiverse!
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Joy to all 52 worlds-it’s time to celebrate the holiday season across the DC Multiverse! In ten stories that will light your yule log and spike your eggnog, Batman decks the gaslit halls, Lobo goes Old Testament in space, Ragman learns the true meaning of Saturnalia, President Superman attempts to figure out how Bizarro stole Christmas, and Harley Quinn tries her hand at interdimensional caroling. These seasonal sagas are sure to help you have yourself a very merry Multiverse!