Author: Katy Kit
Publisher: Boxer Books
ISBN: 9781907152245
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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A missing magical pony, lost treasure, a mysterious sea monster and a vanished princess. When there’s a mystery to be solved, the young mermaid detectives are always right on the case! The mermaid friends are excited about the annual carnival that is to be held in Mermaid Bay, especially as the team who put on the best display will win a beautiful pearl necklace. Rosa comes up with the idea of using magic to create a water-pony and plans to perform a series of amazing tricks on its back. But just before the carnival is due to start, the magical pony is stolen. Who is trying to sabotage the friends’ performance and why?

Author: Eugene Yelchin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429949953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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A Newbery Honor Book. Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism. A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience. A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings. But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. This moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility. One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011

Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763691348
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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“If James Marshall's George and Martha were not hippos and were both girls, they would be much like best friends Bink and Gollie. . . . More, please!” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Meet Bink and Gollie, two precocious little girls — one tiny, one tall, and both utterly irrepressible. Setting out from their super-deluxe tree house and powered by plenty of peanut butter (for Bink) and pancakes (for Gollie), they share three comical adventures involving painfully bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion. Full of quick-witted repartee, this brainchild of Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and award-winning author Alison McGhee is a hilarious ode to exuberance and camaraderie, imagination and adventure, brought to life through the delightfully kinetic images of Tony Fucile.

Author: Raymond Chandler
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Scott Nicholson
Publisher: Haunted Computer Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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"One of the best writers working today. Miss him at your peril." - Blake Crouch, DARK MATTER The first book in the AFTER post-apocalyptic thriller series from an international bestselling author. For fans of post-apocalyptic, zombie, and doomsday thriller fiction. AFTER: THE SHOCK A massive solar storm erases the world's technological infrastructure and kills billions. While the remaining humans are struggling to adapt and survive, they notice that some among them have...changed. Rachel Wheeler finds herself alone in the city, where violent survivors known as "Zapheads" roam the streets, killing and destroying. Her only hope is to reach the mountains, where her grandfather, a legendary survivalist, established a compound in preparation for Doomsday. Other survivors are fleeing the city, but Zapheads aren't the only danger. Rogue bands of military soldiers want to impose their own order in the crumbling ruins of civilization. When Rachel discovers a 10-year-old boy, she vows to care for him even if it means her own chances of escaping are lower. And the Zapheads that were once simple to evade are evolving, developing communal skills even as they lay waste to the society they will eventually replace. ------------------ keywords: free ebook, free book, post-apocalyptic thriller, dystopian dark fantasy, horror books, action, adventure, free science fiction books, technological, technothriller, zombie fiction, survival horror, dystopian suspense, military thrillers, end times fiction, solar storms, Max Brooks, Walking Dead, World War Z, Stephen King, mutant zombies, EMP, Andy Weir, mutants, Hugh Howey, Edward W. Robertson, T.W. Piperbrook, Bobby Adair, Jonathan Maberry, Brian Keene, Joe McKinney, Wool, Divergent, David Moody, Scott Sigler, Justin Cronin, Sylvain Neuvel, Nicholas Sansbury Smith, freebie "Nobody thrills like Nicholson does. Nobody." - J.A. Konrath "Like Stephen King, he knows how to summon serious scares." - Bentley Little, The Mailman

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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 882

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Author: Katy Kit
Publisher: Albert Whitman
ISBN: 9780807550809
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The friends volunteer to help the water fairies tend to their underwater gardens. While they work, a fairy tells the sad tale of the beautiful mermaid Aroona and her human love, Sir Topaz. All the mermaids believe the tale - except for Jasmine, who thinks its just a silly story. But when Jasmine discovers the trail that leads to Aroona's lost treasure, she sets off to discover the truth.

Author: Tom Frist
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475952278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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It is 1980 when Tennessean Stan Hollins and his family arrive in Nicaragua, where the government has just been overthrown. Seeking to make amends for the 1854 destruction of a Nicaraguan town by his U.S. Navy captain ancestor, Stan founds Accin, an organization that provides medical services to poor rural communities. Proud of the good he is doing, Stan thinks that he has finally attained his lifes ambition. Unfortunately he could not be more wrong. Four years later, on a visit to one of Accins health centers on the Ro San Juan, Stan and his group are asleep when explosions suddenly rock the farm where they are staying. Stan is caught in the middle of a vicious surprise attack by Contra rebels and his life is changed forever. Wounded and hailed as a hero, Stan soon makes choices that lead to loss and humiliation. To escape his pain, he starts life anew in the tiny, isolated costal town once destroyed by his ancestor. In this adventurous tale set in one of the wildest, most beautiful, and historic regions of Nicaragua, a man struggles to redeem himself and his family name as both he and his adopted country fight for their futures.

Author: Golden childhood
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Andrew Blauner
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598536176
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us--from a stellar array of writers and artists Over the span of fifty years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture—hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some twenty years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. In The Peanuts Papers, thirty-three writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture. These enchanting, affecting, and often quite personal essays show just how much Peanuts means to its many admirers—and the ways it invites us to ponder, in the words of Sarah Boxer, “how to survive and still be a decent human being” in an often bewildering world. Featuring essays, memoirs, poems, and two original comic strips, here is the ultimate reader’s companion for every Peanuts fan. Featuring: Jill Bialosky Lisa Birnbach Sarah Boxer Jennifer Finney Boylan Ivan Brunetti Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell Rich Cohen Gerald Early Umberto Eco Jonathan Franzen Ira Glass Adam Gopnik David Hajdu Bruce Handy David Kamp Maxine Hong Kingston Chuck Klosterman Peter D. Kramer Jonathan Lethem Rick Moody Ann Patchett Kevin Powell Joe Queenan Nicole Rudick George Saunders Elissa Schappell Seth Janice Shapiro Mona Simpson Leslie Stein Clifford Thompson David L. Ulin Chris Ware