Author: James Michael Perkins
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524651605
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
In this magical land, deep within a grass forrest, your lost, unwanted candy comes to life. We explore two characters from different cultures faced with a decision of either doing the right thing, or defying their community. This story teaches us acceptance, and how one person can motivate others to do what is right. This message is too important to ignore. As parents, it is extremely important to teach our children about acceptance. That great people come from all different nationalities, gender, religion, class, etc. This book inspires bravery and standing up for what is right. All too often, we see something wrong and do nothing out of fear. Hopefully this book can inspire at least one person to do the right thing. Who knows, maybe even save a life. The author has left this book without color so the kids can decide how they want their characters to look. Enjoy!
The Lost Knight
Author: Candy Atkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988901223
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The story of Agatha Stone, the last remaining Knights Templar who travels to Ashra to save it and Earth from Stratagor Ziras.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988901223
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The story of Agatha Stone, the last remaining Knights Templar who travels to Ashra to save it and Earth from Stratagor Ziras.
Toto in Candy Land of Oz
Author: Roger S. Baum
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9781570722240
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Indeed there is a Candy Land in Oz. Although it is not very well known, it truly does exist. Candy Land produces most of the confectionery for the Emerald City shops. The ruler of Candy Land is His Highness, The Giant Royal Marshmallow, and he has a problem. We’ll see what happens when Dorothy and Toto arrive in this delicious land.
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9781570722240
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Indeed there is a Candy Land in Oz. Although it is not very well known, it truly does exist. Candy Land produces most of the confectionery for the Emerald City shops. The ruler of Candy Land is His Highness, The Giant Royal Marshmallow, and he has a problem. We’ll see what happens when Dorothy and Toto arrive in this delicious land.
The Lost Daughter
Author: Lucy Ferriss
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 042524556X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Brooke O’Connor—elegant, self-possessed, and kind—has a happy marriage and a deeply loved young daughter. So her adamant refusal to have a second child confounds her husband, Sean. When Brooke’s high school boyfriend Alex—now divorced and mourning the death of his young son—unexpectedly resurfaces, Sean begins to suspect an affair. For fifteen years Brooke has kept a shameful secret from everyone she loves. Only Alex knows the truth that drove them apart. His reappearance now threatens the life she has so carefully constructed and fortified by denial. With her marriage—and her emotional equilibrium—at stake, Brooke must confront what she has been unwilling to face for so long. But the truth is not what Brooke believes it to be. Lucy Ferriss’s haunting novel reveals the profound ways in which remorse over the past can not only derail lives but also—sometimes—redeem them.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 042524556X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Brooke O’Connor—elegant, self-possessed, and kind—has a happy marriage and a deeply loved young daughter. So her adamant refusal to have a second child confounds her husband, Sean. When Brooke’s high school boyfriend Alex—now divorced and mourning the death of his young son—unexpectedly resurfaces, Sean begins to suspect an affair. For fifteen years Brooke has kept a shameful secret from everyone she loves. Only Alex knows the truth that drove them apart. His reappearance now threatens the life she has so carefully constructed and fortified by denial. With her marriage—and her emotional equilibrium—at stake, Brooke must confront what she has been unwilling to face for so long. But the truth is not what Brooke believes it to be. Lucy Ferriss’s haunting novel reveals the profound ways in which remorse over the past can not only derail lives but also—sometimes—redeem them.
How the Indians Lost Their Land
Author: Stuart BANNER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Between the early 17th century and the early 20th, nearly all U.S. land was transferred from American Indians to whites. Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers--time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Between the early 17th century and the early 20th, nearly all U.S. land was transferred from American Indians to whites. Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers--time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.
Who's in the Game?
Author: Terri Toles Patkin
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476676917
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Some board games--like Candy Land, Chutes & Ladders, Clue, Guess Who, The Game of Life, Monopoly, Operation and Payday--have popularity spanning generations. But over time, updates to games have created significantly different messages about personal identity and evolving social values. Games offer representations of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, ability and social class that reflect the status quo and respond to social change. Using popular mass-market games, this rhetorical assessment explores board design, game implements (tokens, markers, 3-D elements) and playing instructions. This book argues the existence of board games as markers of an ever-changing sociocultural framework, exploring the nature of play and how games embody and extend societal themes and values.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476676917
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Some board games--like Candy Land, Chutes & Ladders, Clue, Guess Who, The Game of Life, Monopoly, Operation and Payday--have popularity spanning generations. But over time, updates to games have created significantly different messages about personal identity and evolving social values. Games offer representations of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, ability and social class that reflect the status quo and respond to social change. Using popular mass-market games, this rhetorical assessment explores board design, game implements (tokens, markers, 3-D elements) and playing instructions. This book argues the existence of board games as markers of an ever-changing sociocultural framework, exploring the nature of play and how games embody and extend societal themes and values.
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream
Author: Wade Rouse
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307451909
Category : Gay men
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Finally fed up with the frenzy of city life, Rouse decides to make either the bravest decision or the worst mistake since a botched Ogilvy home perm: uproot his life and try to live a rustic existence. Writing in the vein of David Sedaris . . . [Rouse is] laugh-out-loud funny."--"St. Louis Magazine."
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307451909
Category : Gay men
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Finally fed up with the frenzy of city life, Rouse decides to make either the bravest decision or the worst mistake since a botched Ogilvy home perm: uproot his life and try to live a rustic existence. Writing in the vein of David Sedaris . . . [Rouse is] laugh-out-loud funny."--"St. Louis Magazine."
Uncle John's Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader
Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1607106701
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Long ago, Bathroom Reader fans everywhere cried out in terror when Uncle John’s legendary 5th, 6th, and 7th editions were taken out of print. But then they rejoiced at the release of this ginormous book: Uncle John’s Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader! Weighing in at a whopping 673 pages, the entire texts of those long-lost editions have been reanimated into one of the BRI’s all-time best sellers. You’ll be rewarded with thousands of amazing facts, hundreds of incredible quotations, and dozens of short, medium, and long articles (and a few extra-long ones, too), covering history, sports, politics, origins, language, blunders, and more. Find out what half a million readers already know: Legendary Lost is quintessential Uncle John. A few examples: * Pizza history * The Godzilla quiz * How Wall Street got rich * The strange fate of the Dodo bird * The best of the worst country song titles * People who were famous for 15 minutes * Miss Piggy’s timeless wisdom * Accidental discoveries * The king of farts And much, much, much, much more!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1607106701
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Long ago, Bathroom Reader fans everywhere cried out in terror when Uncle John’s legendary 5th, 6th, and 7th editions were taken out of print. But then they rejoiced at the release of this ginormous book: Uncle John’s Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader! Weighing in at a whopping 673 pages, the entire texts of those long-lost editions have been reanimated into one of the BRI’s all-time best sellers. You’ll be rewarded with thousands of amazing facts, hundreds of incredible quotations, and dozens of short, medium, and long articles (and a few extra-long ones, too), covering history, sports, politics, origins, language, blunders, and more. Find out what half a million readers already know: Legendary Lost is quintessential Uncle John. A few examples: * Pizza history * The Godzilla quiz * How Wall Street got rich * The strange fate of the Dodo bird * The best of the worst country song titles * People who were famous for 15 minutes * Miss Piggy’s timeless wisdom * Accidental discoveries * The king of farts And much, much, much, much more!
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: J. W. Ocker
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581576765
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical! Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe’s legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe’s homes, examining artifacts from his life—locks of his hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, his boyhood bed—and visiting the many memorials dedicated to him. Along the way, Ocker meets people from a range of backgrounds and professions—actors, museum managers, collectors, historians—who have dedicated some part of their lives to Poe and his legacy. Poe-Land is a unique travelogue of the afterlife of the poet who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with a mastery over the macabre that is arguably still unrivaled today.
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581576765
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical! Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe’s legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe’s homes, examining artifacts from his life—locks of his hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, his boyhood bed—and visiting the many memorials dedicated to him. Along the way, Ocker meets people from a range of backgrounds and professions—actors, museum managers, collectors, historians—who have dedicated some part of their lives to Poe and his legacy. Poe-Land is a unique travelogue of the afterlife of the poet who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with a mastery over the macabre that is arguably still unrivaled today.
Timeless Toys
Author: Tim Walsh
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740755714
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The book Why Didn't I Think of That! includes the passage "If a toy has magic, when people see it they say, 'Oooh! What is that?' . . . It appeals to the kid in everybody." That same kind of magic captures "the kid in everybody" when they pick up Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them. Timeless Toys represents one of the finest documentaries and displays of modern toys ever written. Author Tim Walsh, a successful toy inventor himself, reveals a world of commerce, toys, and wonder that is equally fun, fascinating, and nostalgic. Readers of every age and background will find it impossible to pick up this book, turn a few pages, and not become spellbound by its insightful stories and the personal memories that the text and 420 brilliantly colored photographs bring forth. Slinky, Lego, Tonka trucks, Monopoly, Big Wheel, Frisbee, Hula Hoop, Super Ball, Scrabble, Barbie, Radio Flyer Wagons: All of these and many, many more are featured in this fascinating tome, along with the toys' histories, insider profiles, and rare interviews with toy industry icons. It's simply magic!
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740755714
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The book Why Didn't I Think of That! includes the passage "If a toy has magic, when people see it they say, 'Oooh! What is that?' . . . It appeals to the kid in everybody." That same kind of magic captures "the kid in everybody" when they pick up Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them. Timeless Toys represents one of the finest documentaries and displays of modern toys ever written. Author Tim Walsh, a successful toy inventor himself, reveals a world of commerce, toys, and wonder that is equally fun, fascinating, and nostalgic. Readers of every age and background will find it impossible to pick up this book, turn a few pages, and not become spellbound by its insightful stories and the personal memories that the text and 420 brilliantly colored photographs bring forth. Slinky, Lego, Tonka trucks, Monopoly, Big Wheel, Frisbee, Hula Hoop, Super Ball, Scrabble, Barbie, Radio Flyer Wagons: All of these and many, many more are featured in this fascinating tome, along with the toys' histories, insider profiles, and rare interviews with toy industry icons. It's simply magic!
Sweet Tooth
Author: Kate Hopkins
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250011191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A cultural history of candy-how it evolved from medicine and a luxury to today's Kit Kat bars and M&M's Told through the Kate Hopkins' travels in Europe and the U.S., Sweet Tooth is a first-hand account of her obsession with candy and a detailed look at its history and development. The sugary treats we enjoy today have a prominent past entertaining kings, curing the ill, and later developing into a billion-dollar industry. The dark side of this history is that the confectionery industry has helped create an environment of unhealthy overindulgence, has quelled any small business competition that was deemed to be a risk to any large company's bottom line, and was largely responsible for the slave trade that evolved during the era of colonization. Candy's history is vast and complex and plays a distinct part in the growth of the Western world. Thanks to the ubiquity of these treats which allows us to take them for granted, that history has been hidden or forgotten. Until now. Filled with Hopkins' trademark humor and accompanied by her Candy Grab Bag tasting notes, Sweet Tooth is a must-read for everybody who considers themselves a candy freak.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250011191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A cultural history of candy-how it evolved from medicine and a luxury to today's Kit Kat bars and M&M's Told through the Kate Hopkins' travels in Europe and the U.S., Sweet Tooth is a first-hand account of her obsession with candy and a detailed look at its history and development. The sugary treats we enjoy today have a prominent past entertaining kings, curing the ill, and later developing into a billion-dollar industry. The dark side of this history is that the confectionery industry has helped create an environment of unhealthy overindulgence, has quelled any small business competition that was deemed to be a risk to any large company's bottom line, and was largely responsible for the slave trade that evolved during the era of colonization. Candy's history is vast and complex and plays a distinct part in the growth of the Western world. Thanks to the ubiquity of these treats which allows us to take them for granted, that history has been hidden or forgotten. Until now. Filled with Hopkins' trademark humor and accompanied by her Candy Grab Bag tasting notes, Sweet Tooth is a must-read for everybody who considers themselves a candy freak.