Kitchi's New Year's Resolution

Kitchi's New Year's Resolution PDF Author: Linda Di Luzio-Poitras
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 145202152X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47

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Kitchi, a seven year old boy, just had his one and only Christmas wish come true. Now, with Christmas over and a new year just beginning, Kitchi makes a new year's resolution which he chooses to keep secret. But when his secret is revealed, Kitchi has some explaining to do.

Kitchi's New Year's Resolution

Kitchi's New Year's Resolution PDF Author: Linda Di Luzio-Poitras
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 145202152X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47

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Kitchi, a seven year old boy, just had his one and only Christmas wish come true. Now, with Christmas over and a new year just beginning, Kitchi makes a new year's resolution which he chooses to keep secret. But when his secret is revealed, Kitchi has some explaining to do.

Squirrel's New Year's Resolution

Squirrel's New Year's Resolution PDF Author: Pat Miller
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807593257
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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2013 Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award nominee Squirrel knows that New Year's Day is a great day for making resolutions! But what does it mean to make a resolution, anyway? As she makes visits around the forest she learns about New Year's resolutions and helps her friends get started on theirs. If only she can think of a resolution of her very own.

Chill Factor

Chill Factor PDF Author: Chris Rogers
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307573052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 519

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Former prosecutor Dixie Flannigan is fearless when it comes to facing down lowlifes and bail jumpers — but her checkbook is another story. Determined to straighten out a big hole in her account, Dixie heads for the bank ... only to find herself in the middle of a holdup, watching in disbelief as sweet, middle-aged Edna Pine, the neighbor she loves like family, makes off with three bags of loot. When Edna dies in a violent shoot-out with cops, she's branded the latest in a string of "granny bandits." Wracked by guilt for not trying to stop her, Dixie digs for the truth, and soon she's on the trail of a master manipulator who has set in motion a devastating plot. Now Dixie's about to discover that a smile is the most chilling weapon of all.... From the Paperback edition.

Squirrel's New Year's Resolution

Squirrel's New Year's Resolution PDF Author: Pat Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545434065
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages :

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New Year's day is a great time to make resolutions. If only Squirrel could think of one!

Children of the New World

Children of the New World PDF Author: Alexander Weinstein
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250098998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Includes "After Yang," the basis for the acclaimed A24 film After Yang, starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Haley Lu Richardson, and directed by Kogonada. A New York Times Notable Book “A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago. In “The Cartographers,” the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In “After Yang,” the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become. Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary and singular voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.

The New Voices of Science Fiction

The New Voices of Science Fiction PDF Author: Nino Cipri
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
ISBN: 1616962925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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In this daring anthology of cutting-edge short stories, new science fiction luminaries including Rebecca Roanhorse, Amal El-Mohtar, and Sam J. Miller, are showcased with the rising stars that are transforming their genre. Discover exciting writers who are already out of this world, in this space-age sequel to the 2018 World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, The New Voices of Fantasy. [STARRED REVIEW] “Superlative.” —Publishers Weekly Your future is bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your father has joined the alien hive-mind, and your dinner will be counterfeit 3D-printed steak. Even though your worker bots have staged a mutiny, and your tour guide speaks only in memes, you can always sell your native language if you need some extra cash. In The New Voices of Science Fiction, you’ll find the rising stars of the last five years: Rebecca Roanhorse, Amal El-Mohtar, Alice Sola Kim, E. Lily Yu, Rich Larson, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Sarah Pinsker, Darcie Little Badger, Nino Cipri, S. Qiouyi Lu, Kelly Robson, and more. These extraordinary stories have been hand-selected by cutting-edge and award-winning author Hannu Rajaniemi (The Quantum Thief, Summerland) and genre expert, World Fantasy Award winner, Jacob Weisman (Invaders, The Sword & Sorcery Anthology). So go ahead, join the interstellar revolution. The new kids already hacked the AI. “These authors show us the new new things, from global cataclysms to personal transformations that get us lost in entirely unprecedented landscapes. They are here to wake us, by giving us new waking dreams. Read them, and be changed.” —Hannu Rajaniemi, editor

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 PDF Author: John Joseph Adams
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544973984
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories from 2016

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Languages : en
Pages : 1542

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Incorrigibles and Innocents

Incorrigibles and Innocents PDF Author: Lara Saguisag
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813591783
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Nominated for Eisner Award | Winner of the 2018 Ray and Pat Browne Award | Winner of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the CSS Histories and criticism of comics note that comic strips published in the Progressive Era were dynamic spaces in which anxieties about race, ethnicity, class, and gender were expressed, perpetuated, and alleviated. The proliferation of comic strip children—white and nonwhite, middle-class and lower class, male and female—suggests that childhood was a subject that fascinated and preoccupied Americans at the turn of the century. Many of these strips, including R.F. Outcault’s Hogan’s Alley and Buster Brown, Rudolph Dirks’s The Katzenjammer Kids and Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland were headlined by child characters. Yet no major study has explored the significance of these verbal-visual representations of childhood. Incorrigibles and Innocents addresses this gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips. Drawing from and building on histories and theories of childhood, comics, and Progressive Era conceptualizations of citizenship and nationhood, Lara Saguisag demonstrates that child characters in comic strips expressed and complicated contemporary notions of who had a right to claim membership in a modernizing, expanding nation.

A Christmas Cornucopia

A Christmas Cornucopia PDF Author: Mark Forsyth
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 024197755X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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The unpredictable origins and etymologies of our cracking Christmas customs For something that happens every year of our lives, we really don't know much about Christmas. We don't know that the date we celebrate was chosen by a madman, or that Christmas, etymologically speaking, means "Go away, Christ". Nor do we know that Christmas was first celebrated in 243 AD on March 28th - and only moved to 25th December in 354 AD. We're oblivious to the fact that the advent calendar was actually invented by a Munich housewife to stop her children pestering her for a Christmas countdown. And we would never have guessed that the invention of crackers was merely a way of popularising sweet wrappers. Luckily, like a gift from Santa himself, Mark Forsyth is here to unwrap this fundamentally funny gallimaufry of traditions and oddities, making it all finally make sense - in his wonderfully entertaining wordy way.