Author: Nancy Krulik
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534453997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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"Learning is an adventure in Ms. Frogbottom's class, because she's got a magic map - one that takes her students all over the world to do battle with mythical monsters no one believes are real. All Ms. Frogbottom has to do is take out the map, tap a country and ... off they go to a place somewhere far, far away. When Ms. Frogbottom's crew lands in Scotland, they come nose to nose with the legendary Loch Ness Monster!"--
Author: Portia MacIntosh
Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1804266671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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A laugh-out-loud love triangle, second chance holiday romance from MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Portia MacIntosh. There’s trouble in paradise... Moving home in her 30s was not the life plan Jas had in mind. So when her best friend gets in touch to say she's arranging a long overdue reunion with their high school friends, Jas is very much up for the escape. Oh, and it's all expenses paid to Italy - so that's a bonus! But while being whisked away to the beautiful Italian coast may seem idyllic, Jas has to come face to face with not only her ex-boyfriend, but the one that got away too! It's a week of sun, sea and unravelling secrets, and as the love triangle from the past starts to develop once again, this trip is not panning out exactly as Jas imagines... Should the past be left where it is, or could there be a second chance at love on the horizon..? MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Portia MacIntosh's laugh-out-loud romantic comedies are guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Praise for Portia MacIntosh: 'Smart, funny and always brilliantly entertaining, every book from Portia becomes my new favourite rom com.' Shari Low 'I laughed, I cried - I loved it.’ Holly Martin 'The queen of rom com!' Rebecca Raisin ‘This book made me laugh and kept me turning the pages.' Mandy Baggot 'A fun, fabulous 5 star rom com!' Sandy Barker on Your Place or Mine? 'Loved the book, it's everything you expect from the force that is Portia! A must read' Rachel Dove on Your Place or Mine? 'Fun and witty. Pure escapism!' Laura Carter on Fake It Or Leave It 'A hilarious, roaringly fun, feel good, sexy read. I LOVED it!' Holly Martin on Honeymoon For One 'A heartwarming, fun story, perfect for several hours of pure escapism.' Jessica Redland on Honeymoon for One 'A feel good, funny and well written book. I read it in 2 days and enjoyed every second!' A.L. Michael on Honeymoon for One 'Super-romantic and full of festive spirit. I loved it!' Mandy Baggot on Stuck On You
Author: Nancy Krulik
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534453962
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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"Learning is an adventure in Ms. Frogbottom's class, because she's got a magic map - one that takes her students all over the world to battle with mythical monsters no one believes are real. All Ms. Frogbottom has to do is take out the map, tap a country, and - SHAZAAM! - off they go to a place somewhere far, far away. When Ms. Frogbottom whisks the class away to Egypt, they not only come face to face with a mummy, but have to solve the riddle of his ancient curse! This book approaches geography in a new way, as kids learn about the places they visit while fighting, fleeing, or in some cases rescuing monsters."--
Author: Chloe Aridjis
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Winner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, this intoxicating story of a teenage girl who trades her a middle–class upbringing for a quest for meaning in 1980s Mexico is “a surreal, captivating tale about the power of a youthful imagination, the lure of teenage transgression, and its inevitable disappointments” (Los Angeles Review of Books). One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen–year–old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking―recklessness, impulse, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisa’s surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca. Surrounded by hippies, nudists, beachcombers, and eccentric storytellers, Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will “promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery.” It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite, the “Beach of the Dead.” Meanwhile, her father has set out to find his missing daughter. A mesmeric portrait of transgression and disenchantment unfolds. Set to a pulsing soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sea Monsters is a brilliantly playful and supple novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us. "Aridjis is deft at conjuring the teenage swooniness that apprehends meaning below every surface. Like Sebald’s or Cusk’s, her haunted writing patrols its own omissions . . . The figure of the shipwreck looms large for Aridjis. It becomes a useful lens through which to see this book, which is self–contained, inscrutable, and weirdly captivating, like a salvaged object that wants to return to the sea." ―Katy Waldman, The New Yorker
Author: Geoff Tibballs
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1849017735
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 587
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The biggest and best collection of jokes for all the family to enjoy. 8,000 rib-ticklers, covering every subject under the sun from Aardvarks to Zombies, including chicken jokes, doctor-doctor jokes, elephant jokes, horror jokes, knock-knock jokes, excruciating puns, riddles, school jokes, sports jokes and waiter jokes. Most of the jokes are sharp one-liners but there is also a scattering of slightly longer stories.
Author: Joseph Nigg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226925188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired
Author: Nikki Bataille Lange
Publisher: Brighter Minds Children's Publishin
ISBN: 9781577911814
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Author: Alice Weaver Flaherty
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547528892
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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Once upon a time, on a long, slow trip to Scotland, a little girl named Katerina-Elizabeth tossed her oatmeal overboard—again, and again, and again. She was a picky eater, and oatmeal was her least favorite food. And once upon a time, a small worm, no bigger than a piece of thread, swam alongside an ocean liner bound for Scotland and ate bowl after bowl of tossed oatmeal. He had never tasted anything as wonderful as oatmeal in his whole life. A. W. Flaherty and Scott Magoon unravel the Loch Ness legend in this whimsical picture book for the picky (and not-so-picky) eater in all of us.
Author: Richard Ellis
Publisher: Globe Pequot
ISBN: 9781592289677
Category : Cryptozoology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Few creatures have captured the imaginations of so many for so long as have monsters of the deep. Their history has been surprisingly consistent, the author notes. Most began as myths and then acquired a sense of reality when the existence of creatures resembling those chronicled in legend was documented. Ellis (Men and Whales) gives a superb account of marine monsters and their attendant myths, sightings, scientific discovery and biology. He describes only the best known and the best documented. He traces the mermaid to the manatee and dugong, Leviathan to the sperm whale, kraken to the giant squid and polyp to the octopus (sharks, however, remain sharks). He examines these monsters in art, literature and film, taking Jules Verne and Victor Hugo to task for their ignorance of biology, hysterical fantasy and unmitigated malice. Herman Melville, Arthur C. Clarke and Peter Benchley get better ratings. Of all the sighted monsters, only the giant squid (Architeuthis) retains its mythological and cryptozoological status, for its very existence is shrouded in mystery. Sharks have had a bad reputation throughout history, but until Jaws (1974) they did not figure prominently in literature. At the end of this engaging book, Ellis confesses to skepticism: "monsters, if they exist, have more to fear from us than we do from them.
Author: Mary M. Cerullo
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 162065007X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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