Author: Janey Levy
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1538212595
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Giant wetas can't jump, which is a good thing because they're gigantic. This ancient animal is the heaviest insect ever found and can weigh as much as a mouse. Its name means 'God of ugly things.' Though these creepy-crawlies are huge and scary-looking, readers learn they aren't dangerous to humans. In fact, these giant insects mostly love carrots. Through colorful photographs of these supersized insects, readers get an up close and personal look at these oversized but harmless bugs.
Giant Wetas Shock!
Author: Janey Levy
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1538212595
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Giant wetas can't jump, which is a good thing because they're gigantic. This ancient animal is the heaviest insect ever found and can weigh as much as a mouse. Its name means 'God of ugly things.' Though these creepy-crawlies are huge and scary-looking, readers learn they aren't dangerous to humans. In fact, these giant insects mostly love carrots. Through colorful photographs of these supersized insects, readers get an up close and personal look at these oversized but harmless bugs.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1538212595
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Giant wetas can't jump, which is a good thing because they're gigantic. This ancient animal is the heaviest insect ever found and can weigh as much as a mouse. Its name means 'God of ugly things.' Though these creepy-crawlies are huge and scary-looking, readers learn they aren't dangerous to humans. In fact, these giant insects mostly love carrots. Through colorful photographs of these supersized insects, readers get an up close and personal look at these oversized but harmless bugs.
Janey
Author: Inez Haynes Gillmore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
JANEY
Author: Janey Godley
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1399728040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
'A great comedian and an extraordinary life' - Billy Connolly Comedy legend and national treasure Janey Godley shares her extraordinary life with candour and humour as she faces cancer head-on. Janey has been a determined fighter all her life - from her tough Glasgow childhood to becoming the much-loved comedian she is now. It was the strength she needed to survive as a sweary-mouthed woman in the male-dominated comedy clubs of the 1990s. She needed it again when she brought a case against the uncle who'd abused her as a child. A terrifying ordeal - but she won. From rocky beginnings, Janey started to gain big audiences at home and internationally. Awards rolled in for her acting and writing too. She was at her height, and with a soaring online following for her hilarious political voice-overs, when in 2021 hurtful, historic tweets were unearthed which shook her to the core. In the eye of the media storm, her spirit was nearly broken, but her fanbase stayed strong. At the end of the long sell-out tour which followed she received the devastating news she had ovarian cancer. Her future hung in the balance, but even in treatment, a new tour went ahead, called Not Dead Yet. Janey now faces her fears head on and shares the tumultuous journey she's on, continuing to find humour even in her darkest moments. Inspiring, funny, open-hearted, Janey celebrates everything this hilarious and defiant woman is - against the odds - and confirms just why we'll never want her to shut up.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1399728040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
'A great comedian and an extraordinary life' - Billy Connolly Comedy legend and national treasure Janey Godley shares her extraordinary life with candour and humour as she faces cancer head-on. Janey has been a determined fighter all her life - from her tough Glasgow childhood to becoming the much-loved comedian she is now. It was the strength she needed to survive as a sweary-mouthed woman in the male-dominated comedy clubs of the 1990s. She needed it again when she brought a case against the uncle who'd abused her as a child. A terrifying ordeal - but she won. From rocky beginnings, Janey started to gain big audiences at home and internationally. Awards rolled in for her acting and writing too. She was at her height, and with a soaring online following for her hilarious political voice-overs, when in 2021 hurtful, historic tweets were unearthed which shook her to the core. In the eye of the media storm, her spirit was nearly broken, but her fanbase stayed strong. At the end of the long sell-out tour which followed she received the devastating news she had ovarian cancer. Her future hung in the balance, but even in treatment, a new tour went ahead, called Not Dead Yet. Janey now faces her fears head on and shares the tumultuous journey she's on, continuing to find humour even in her darkest moments. Inspiring, funny, open-hearted, Janey celebrates everything this hilarious and defiant woman is - against the odds - and confirms just why we'll never want her to shut up.
I Battled a Giant Otter
Author: Zanzibar McFate
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595480543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Chainsaws! Pantyhose! Moonshine! Oprah?.Opium! A Dead Whale! Air Force One! Manly Electroluxing & Brownie, the Adorable Dachshund Grandma Sews the Hangman's Hood.12 Tips for Climbing Cheops. Almost Shot by the Secret Service.The Black Rubber Dress.Smuggling 'Tea' in Arabia.Big Cheese TV Guy Eats a Baby Duck.Jerry Garcia Forced to Play 'Truckin'.Revenge of the Octo-Dog Converter.I Hijack the Sunsphere .8 Soul Crushing Job Interviews.6 Airsquid Sex Secrets.What Happened When I Glued My Eyes Shut. My Wife Killed the Mole Baby & I Laughed.Hot 'n' Spicy Hair Dye Sex. Did I Mention Oprah?.Oose: Your Body's Magic Mystery Stuff.Wattle Biting.Attack on the USS Devil Dog.Secret Shame That Ruins Marriages: Can You Find Your Wife's 'Vestibule'? (I Can). Selling 'The Magic Belt'.I Spy on the Mystery Woman of the Sahara! Plus! Your Quicky Guide to the Lacy Brassiere Films of Isabella Rossellini Originally Published in San Francisco as "I Am Satan's Slave" Zanzibar "Buck Buck" McFate battled a giant otter. He had the strength of 10 men, X-ray eyes, and the fingers of a concert pianist. He had what it took to keep one woman satisfied and coming back for more. McFate lived in exotic Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and New Jersey. Hoping that the deep puncture wounds would start healing soon, he moved to the quiet unspoiled village of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Upon his return to the Congo, he was dismembered, disemboweled and scalped.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595480543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Chainsaws! Pantyhose! Moonshine! Oprah?.Opium! A Dead Whale! Air Force One! Manly Electroluxing & Brownie, the Adorable Dachshund Grandma Sews the Hangman's Hood.12 Tips for Climbing Cheops. Almost Shot by the Secret Service.The Black Rubber Dress.Smuggling 'Tea' in Arabia.Big Cheese TV Guy Eats a Baby Duck.Jerry Garcia Forced to Play 'Truckin'.Revenge of the Octo-Dog Converter.I Hijack the Sunsphere .8 Soul Crushing Job Interviews.6 Airsquid Sex Secrets.What Happened When I Glued My Eyes Shut. My Wife Killed the Mole Baby & I Laughed.Hot 'n' Spicy Hair Dye Sex. Did I Mention Oprah?.Oose: Your Body's Magic Mystery Stuff.Wattle Biting.Attack on the USS Devil Dog.Secret Shame That Ruins Marriages: Can You Find Your Wife's 'Vestibule'? (I Can). Selling 'The Magic Belt'.I Spy on the Mystery Woman of the Sahara! Plus! Your Quicky Guide to the Lacy Brassiere Films of Isabella Rossellini Originally Published in San Francisco as "I Am Satan's Slave" Zanzibar "Buck Buck" McFate battled a giant otter. He had the strength of 10 men, X-ray eyes, and the fingers of a concert pianist. He had what it took to keep one woman satisfied and coming back for more. McFate lived in exotic Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and New Jersey. Hoping that the deep puncture wounds would start healing soon, he moved to the quiet unspoiled village of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Upon his return to the Congo, he was dismembered, disemboweled and scalped.
Janie and the Giant
Author: Sarah Barchas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Giants
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A young girl outsmarts a giant who threatens to eat her.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Giants
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A young girl outsmarts a giant who threatens to eat her.
The Giant Collection of the Continental Op
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504051823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
Essential tales from the files of San Francisco’s hard-bitten, prototypical PI—penned by the undisputed “master of the detective novel” (The Boston Globe). Before Dashiell Hammett introduced such iconic sleuths as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon or Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man, he put to work the most influential detective ever to scour America’s hard-boiled literary landscape. An operative of San Francisco’s Continental Detective Agency, the Continental Op was a world-weary, pragmatic, and inelegant company man—and though always nameless, he has remained as distinctive as a fingerprint. Informed by Hammett’s own work with the Pinkertons, the twenty-three stories collected here—originally published between 1923 and 1930—introduced a bracing, jaded, dry-witted realism to the genre. Written with “the precision of a diamond cutter,” they are seminal masterworks in the legacy of a genuine original (Newsweek).
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504051823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
Essential tales from the files of San Francisco’s hard-bitten, prototypical PI—penned by the undisputed “master of the detective novel” (The Boston Globe). Before Dashiell Hammett introduced such iconic sleuths as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon or Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man, he put to work the most influential detective ever to scour America’s hard-boiled literary landscape. An operative of San Francisco’s Continental Detective Agency, the Continental Op was a world-weary, pragmatic, and inelegant company man—and though always nameless, he has remained as distinctive as a fingerprint. Informed by Hammett’s own work with the Pinkertons, the twenty-three stories collected here—originally published between 1923 and 1930—introduced a bracing, jaded, dry-witted realism to the genre. Written with “the precision of a diamond cutter,” they are seminal masterworks in the legacy of a genuine original (Newsweek).
The Time Bind
Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429963069
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author. When The Time Bind was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. In the short time since, the crisis has only become more acute. Arlie Russell Hochschild, bestselling author of The Second Shift, spent three summers at a Fortune 500 company interviewing top executives, secretaries, factory hands, and others. What she found was startling: Though every mother and nearly every father said "family comes first," few of these working parents questioned their long hours or took the company up on chances for flextime, paternity leave, or other "family friendly" policies. Why not? It seems the roles of home and work had reversed: work was offering stimulation, guidance, and a sense of belonging, while home had become the place in which there was too much to do in too little time. Today Hochschild's findings are more relevant than ever. As she shows in her new introduction, the borders between family and work have become even more permeable. With the Internet extending working hours at home and offices offering domestic enticements -- free snacks, soft music -- to keep employees later at their jobs, The Time Bind stands as an increasingly important warning about the way we live and work.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429963069
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author. When The Time Bind was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. In the short time since, the crisis has only become more acute. Arlie Russell Hochschild, bestselling author of The Second Shift, spent three summers at a Fortune 500 company interviewing top executives, secretaries, factory hands, and others. What she found was startling: Though every mother and nearly every father said "family comes first," few of these working parents questioned their long hours or took the company up on chances for flextime, paternity leave, or other "family friendly" policies. Why not? It seems the roles of home and work had reversed: work was offering stimulation, guidance, and a sense of belonging, while home had become the place in which there was too much to do in too little time. Today Hochschild's findings are more relevant than ever. As she shows in her new introduction, the borders between family and work have become even more permeable. With the Internet extending working hours at home and offices offering domestic enticements -- free snacks, soft music -- to keep employees later at their jobs, The Time Bind stands as an increasingly important warning about the way we live and work.
Janey's Giants
Author: Nick Warburton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199168965
Category : Cricket matches
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Treetops is the Oxford Reading Tree series of fiction with built-in progression for pupils aged seven to 11. Specially written for children who need the support of carefully monitored language levels, the stories are accessible, motivating and humorous. The series is organized into Oxford Reading Tree stages (from stage ten to stage 14), with each stage introducing more complex narrative forms, including: flashbacks and changes in viewpoint; descriptive writing; extended reading vocabulary; and more pages, more text, and fewer illustrations. Each stage is supported by the Teacher's Guide, which offers guidance on using Treetops to assess children's reading ability, and includes a variety of activities, many on photocopiable sheets.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199168965
Category : Cricket matches
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Treetops is the Oxford Reading Tree series of fiction with built-in progression for pupils aged seven to 11. Specially written for children who need the support of carefully monitored language levels, the stories are accessible, motivating and humorous. The series is organized into Oxford Reading Tree stages (from stage ten to stage 14), with each stage introducing more complex narrative forms, including: flashbacks and changes in viewpoint; descriptive writing; extended reading vocabulary; and more pages, more text, and fewer illustrations. Each stage is supported by the Teacher's Guide, which offers guidance on using Treetops to assess children's reading ability, and includes a variety of activities, many on photocopiable sheets.
His Best Stories
Author: Witi Ihimaera
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742288715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In this definitive collection by one of New Zealand's best-loved authors, Witi Ihimaera offers his personal choice of twenty-four stories from throughout his illustrious career. The pieces span more than thirty-five years - since his first collection, Pounamu Pounamu (1972), was published - and showcase the range, originality and humanity of this truly amazing writer. 'Ihimaera is an inspired voice' - David Eggleton, Metro 'One of our most important and influential writers . . . his subject matter, as much as his distinctive lyrical writing style, demand[s] attention.' - Eleanor Black, Weekend Herald
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742288715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In this definitive collection by one of New Zealand's best-loved authors, Witi Ihimaera offers his personal choice of twenty-four stories from throughout his illustrious career. The pieces span more than thirty-five years - since his first collection, Pounamu Pounamu (1972), was published - and showcase the range, originality and humanity of this truly amazing writer. 'Ihimaera is an inspired voice' - David Eggleton, Metro 'One of our most important and influential writers . . . his subject matter, as much as his distinctive lyrical writing style, demand[s] attention.' - Eleanor Black, Weekend Herald
Janey's Arcadia
Author: Rachel Zolf
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1552452956
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
An unflinchingly subversive, aversive, conversive poetic look at the underbelly of Canadian settler-colonial experience.
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1552452956
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
An unflinchingly subversive, aversive, conversive poetic look at the underbelly of Canadian settler-colonial experience.