Author: Serge Bloch Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company ISBN: 1402741588 Category : Figures of speech Languages : en Pages : 36
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An award-winning artist offers a child's-eye look at such idiomatic expressions as ants in your pants and cat got your tongue, providing a unique and sympathetic perspective on a boy's first day of school. Full color.
Author: Harold Cogger Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING ISBN: 1486309712 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 1797
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Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia is a complete guide to Australia’s rich and varied herpetofauna, including frogs, crocodiles, turtles, tortoises, lizards and snakes. For each of the 1218 species there is a description of its appearance, distribution and habits. These descriptions are also accompanied by distribution maps and, in many cases, one of the book's more than 1000 colour photographs of living animals. The book also includes 130 simple-to-use dichotomous keys, accompanied by hundreds of explanatory drawings, that in most cases allow a specimen in hand to be identified. In addition, it has a comprehensive list of scientific references for those wishing to conduct more in-depth research, an extensive glossary, and basic guides to the collection, preservation and captive care of specimens. This classic work was originally published in 1975. The updated seventh edition contains a new Appendix that discusses recent changes and lists over 80 new or resurrected species and genera that have been added to the Australian frog and reptile fauna since the 2014 edition.
Author: Michael J. Tyler Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801484995 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 200
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Australia is home to some of the most interesting and unusual frogs in the world, and Michael J. Tyler is acknowledged to be the foremost expert on them. This lavishly illustrated new edition of Australian Frogs is the definitive resource on the subject, with updated tables and supplementary text on the fossil record which is vital to historical understanding. Tyler covers the origins, environment, nomenclature, habits, and biology of frogs. The topic of declining frog populations, noted in American newspapers as a harbinger of ecological distress, has become the subject of a new chapter. Tyler discusses dietary studies and explains the effect on frogs of herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and heavy metals. He provides information, as well, on an unprecedented study to control populations of the Cane Toad, Bufo marinus.
Author: Jo Baker Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0307958361 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 342
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The American debut by the bestselling author of Longbourn—a vivid, indelibly told novel that follows four generations of a family against the backdrop of a century of turmoil. • “Gripping.... Emotionally powerful…. You can’t walk away from her book.” —The New York Times Book Review The Undertow traces the lives of the Hastings family, from the eve of the First World War to the present day: William, a young factory worker preparing to join the navy; his son Billy, who cycles into the D-Day landings; his grandson Will, an Oxford professor in the 1960s; and his great-granddaughter, Billie, an artist in contemporary London. Here Jo Baker reveals the Hastings’ legacy of choices made, chances lost, and truths long buried in what is an enthralling story of inheritance, fate, passion, and what it means to truly break free of the past.
Author: Florence Gonsalves Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0316436747 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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A wildly witty and deeply profound chronicle of teenage anxiety and yearning, perfect for fans of Jesse Andrews and Robyn Schneider. It's senior year, and Chamomile Myles has whiplash from traveling between her two universes: school (the relentless countdown to prom, torturous college applications, and the mindless march toward an uncertain future) and home, where she wrestles a slow, bitter battle with her father's terminal illness. Enter Brendan, a man-bun-and tutu-wearing hospital volunteer with a penchant for absurdity, who strides boldly between her worlds--and helps her open up a new road between them. Dear Universe is the dazzling follow-up to Florence Gonsalves's debut, Love and Other Carnivorous Plants, hailed by School Library Journal as "a must-have sharp, powerful, and witty immersion into the complexities of . . . mental health."
Author: Anthony Butler Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1365537994 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 92
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An Urban Love Story. Joe is young and on his way to success. He lived the player lifestyle and now that he wants to find a good woman he is hitting obstacles left and right. All his friends and family seem to have an opinion on what he should do, but what counts is what he thinks. Was Love right under his nose all this time?
Author: Claire L. Fishback Publisher: Dark Doorways Press, LLC ISBN: 1970121041 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 187
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In these pages you'll find Lump, a tortured soul who only wants one thing. You'll find a recording of the future, a cult that worships tools, faces in windows, haunted mirrors and doors. You'll find a hotel in which time is of no consequence. It's a book where the spare parts store isn't what you think, and an auction is for more than just the deceased's estate. It's a book full of creatures and beasts of all shapes and sizes, as well as a few aliens. This is a book in which you can swap your brain into a new body and live forever, and if you have dementia, you can close your eyes and remember. It's a book full of stories to fill the silences.
Author: Anne Enright Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1446484998 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 226
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'It was a tough, wiry wig with plenty of personality. It rode around on his head like an animal. It was a vigorous brown. I was very fond of it as a child. I thought that it liked me back.' Anne Enright's extraordinary first novel is narrated by Grace, a TV producer, whose life is transfigured when she answers the door to a fully-fledged angel. Stephen was a bridge-builder in Canada before he killed himself, but now that he has come to stay with Grace he spends the night hanging by the neck in her shower, to help himself think. Needless, to say, she falls in love, moving steadily from the spiritual to the anatomical. Meanwhile as her TV day job on the 'Love Quiz' begins to spiral out of control, on the other side of her life is her father, benign, bewigged and stricken by a stroke -apparently mad but probably the sanest person in her life. As the three worlds meet and merge in a forest of contradictions, we watch Grace take the pacific path from cynicism to innocence, as all around her the novel thinders to a conclusion.
Author: Gary Stevenson Publisher: Crown Currency ISBN: 0593727223 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 353
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#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • A “vivid” (Financial Times) rags-to-riches memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a “darkly funny” (Guardian) tale of Citibank’s one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up “Darker than [Liar’s Poker], but if anything even more of a rollicking read . . . the clearest account I’ve ever read of how trading desks really work.”—Felix Salmon, Axios In development as a limited series • Longlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year If you were gonna rob a bank and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around? Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken soccer balls on the run-down streets of East London, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. As luck would have it, he was good at numbers. At the London School of Economics, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, Stevenson shocked his posh classmates by winning a competition called “The Trading Game.” The prize?: a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader at Citibank. A place where you could make more money than you’d ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional geniuses and insecure bullies yet start to feel like family. Where against the odds you become the bank’s most profitable trader, closing deals worth nearly a trillion dollars. A day. Soon you are dreaming of numbers in your sleep—and then you stop sleeping at all. But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? You’re making a killing betting on millions of people becoming poorer—like the very people you grew up with. The economy is slipping off a precipice, and your own sanity starts slipping with it. You want to stop, but you can’t. Because nobody ever leaves. Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything? The Trading Game is an outrageous, unvarnished, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world—the trading floor—from someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open.
Author: Michael Spires Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1796090158 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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Blake is just a fourteen-year-old boy who wants to spend his birthday having a small party with the few friends he knows. To get there though, he must avoid his bullies at school who torment him because of his sexuality, deal with Jenifer, his bossy twin sister who gets whatever she wants, and figure out why he’s been having this recurring dream about a talking wolf. When the wolf from his dreams shows up on his home street, Blake saves her from the group known as Castle using the power of Aura. Set on retrieving this wolf, Blake must now learn how to fight like and Aurae, gaining allies and enemies along the way. Will Blake and his friends be ready for the battle that’s about to be set in their hometown?
Author: Serge Bloch
Author: Harold Cogger
Author: Michael J. Tyler
Author: Jo Baker
Author: Florence Gonsalves
Author: Anthony Butler
Author: Claire L. Fishback
Author: Anne Enright
Author: Gary Stevenson
Author: Michael Spires