Author: James McClure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Steam Pig
Author: James McClure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Steam Pig
Author: James McClure
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569476527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why?
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569476527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why?
Steam Pigs
Author: Melissa Lucashenko
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702229350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A racy, thoughtful tale of love and abuse, survival and triumph.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702229350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A racy, thoughtful tale of love and abuse, survival and triumph.
The Steam Pig
Author: James McClure
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569478961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why?
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569478961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why?
Pigskins to Paintbrushes
Author: Don Tate
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647004977
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
From acclaimed author and illustrator Don Tate, the rousing story of Ernie Barnes, an African American pro football player and fine artist He realized how football and art were one and the same. Both required rhythm. Both required technique. Passing, pulling, breaking down the field—that was an art. Young Ernie Barnes wasn’t like other boys his age. Bullied for being shy, overweight, and uninterested in sports like boys were “supposed” to be, he instead took refuge in his sketchbook, in vibrant colors, bold brushstrokes, and flowing lines. But growing up in a poor, Black neighborhood during the 1930s, opportunities to learn about art were rare, and art museums were off-limits because of segregation laws. Discouraged and tired of being teased, Ernie joined the school football team. Although reluctant at first, he would soon become a star. But art remained in Ernie’s heart and followed him through high school, college, and into the NFL. Ernie saw art all around him: in the dynamic energy of the game, the precision of plays, and the nimble movement of his teammates. He poured his passion into his game and his craft, and became famous as both a professional athlete and as an artist whose paintings reflected his love of the sport and celebrated Black bodies as graceful and beautiful. He played for the Baltimore Colts (1959–60), Titans of New York (1960), San Diego Chargers (1960–62), and the Denver Broncos (1963–64). In 1965, Barnes signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Canada, but fractured his right foot, which ended his professional football career. Soon after, he met New York Jets owner Sonny Werblin, who was impressed by Barnes and his art. In 1966, Barnes had a debut solo exhibition in New York City, sponsored by Werblin at the Grand Central Art Galleries; all the paintings were sold. Barnes became so well-known as an artist that one of his paintings was featured in the opening credits of the TV show Good Times, and he was commissioned to create official posters for the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics. From award-winning author and illustrator Don Tate, Pigskins to Paintbrushes is the inspiring story of Ernie Barnes, who defined himself on his own terms and pushed the boundaries of “possible,” from the field to the canvas. The back matter includes Barnes’s photograph and his official Topps trading card. Also included are an author’s note, endnotes, a bibliography, and a list of websites where Barnes’s work can be seen.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647004977
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
From acclaimed author and illustrator Don Tate, the rousing story of Ernie Barnes, an African American pro football player and fine artist He realized how football and art were one and the same. Both required rhythm. Both required technique. Passing, pulling, breaking down the field—that was an art. Young Ernie Barnes wasn’t like other boys his age. Bullied for being shy, overweight, and uninterested in sports like boys were “supposed” to be, he instead took refuge in his sketchbook, in vibrant colors, bold brushstrokes, and flowing lines. But growing up in a poor, Black neighborhood during the 1930s, opportunities to learn about art were rare, and art museums were off-limits because of segregation laws. Discouraged and tired of being teased, Ernie joined the school football team. Although reluctant at first, he would soon become a star. But art remained in Ernie’s heart and followed him through high school, college, and into the NFL. Ernie saw art all around him: in the dynamic energy of the game, the precision of plays, and the nimble movement of his teammates. He poured his passion into his game and his craft, and became famous as both a professional athlete and as an artist whose paintings reflected his love of the sport and celebrated Black bodies as graceful and beautiful. He played for the Baltimore Colts (1959–60), Titans of New York (1960), San Diego Chargers (1960–62), and the Denver Broncos (1963–64). In 1965, Barnes signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Canada, but fractured his right foot, which ended his professional football career. Soon after, he met New York Jets owner Sonny Werblin, who was impressed by Barnes and his art. In 1966, Barnes had a debut solo exhibition in New York City, sponsored by Werblin at the Grand Central Art Galleries; all the paintings were sold. Barnes became so well-known as an artist that one of his paintings was featured in the opening credits of the TV show Good Times, and he was commissioned to create official posters for the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics. From award-winning author and illustrator Don Tate, Pigskins to Paintbrushes is the inspiring story of Ernie Barnes, who defined himself on his own terms and pushed the boundaries of “possible,” from the field to the canvas. The back matter includes Barnes’s photograph and his official Topps trading card. Also included are an author’s note, endnotes, a bibliography, and a list of websites where Barnes’s work can be seen.
Three Little Pigs
Author: Public Domain
Publisher: HarperFestival
ISBN: 9780060082369
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Follow three little pigs as they outsmart a very hungry wolf!
Publisher: HarperFestival
ISBN: 9780060082369
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Follow three little pigs as they outsmart a very hungry wolf!
High Five
Author: Adam Rubin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525428895
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller from the creators of the beloved Dragons Love Tacos comes a rollicking, rhyme-tastic, interactive high five competition--starring YOU! Discover the lost art of the high five and improve your slapping skills just in time for the annual high five contest! From hand-limbering stretches to lessons on five-ing with finesse, readers are guided through a series of interactive challenges, each goofier than the next. Acclaimed creative duo Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri have dreamed up another one-of-a-kind, laugh-out-loud book that kids will beg to read again and again.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525428895
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller from the creators of the beloved Dragons Love Tacos comes a rollicking, rhyme-tastic, interactive high five competition--starring YOU! Discover the lost art of the high five and improve your slapping skills just in time for the annual high five contest! From hand-limbering stretches to lessons on five-ing with finesse, readers are guided through a series of interactive challenges, each goofier than the next. Acclaimed creative duo Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri have dreamed up another one-of-a-kind, laugh-out-loud book that kids will beg to read again and again.
All Aboard!
Author: Monica Kulling
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
ISBN: 0887769454
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the Canadian-born black American who developed an oil cup that allowed train engines to be oiled while the train was running, as well as many other inventions.
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
ISBN: 0887769454
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the Canadian-born black American who developed an oil cup that allowed train engines to be oiled while the train was running, as well as many other inventions.
Christmas with Peppa (Peppa Pig)
Author: Scholastic
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338184881
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Join Peppa Pig and her family for a very Merry Christmas celebration in this board book story based on the hit animated TV show. Peppa Pig and her family have many special Christmas traditions. They mail letters to Santa, decorate their Christmas tree, and leave milk and cookies for Santa by the fireplace on Christmas Eve. Will Peppa and George sneak a peek at Santa this year?Find out in this board book based on the hit animated TV show, as seen on Nick Jr.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338184881
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Join Peppa Pig and her family for a very Merry Christmas celebration in this board book story based on the hit animated TV show. Peppa Pig and her family have many special Christmas traditions. They mail letters to Santa, decorate their Christmas tree, and leave milk and cookies for Santa by the fireplace on Christmas Eve. Will Peppa and George sneak a peek at Santa this year?Find out in this board book based on the hit animated TV show, as seen on Nick Jr.
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig
Author: John Gimlette
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307806529
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across Paraguay–South America's darkly fabled, little-known “island surrounded by land.” Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a mystery to outsiders. Think of this small nation and your mind is likely to jump to Nazis, dictators, and soccer. Now, John Gimlette’s eye-opening book–equal parts travelogue, history, and unorthodox travel guide–breaches the boundaries of this isolated land,” and illuminates a little-understood place and its people. It is a wonderfully animated telling of Paraguay's story: of cannibals, Jesuits, and sixteenth-century Anabaptists; of Victorian Australian socialists and talented smugglers; of dictators and their mad mistresses; bloody wars and Utopian settlements; and of lives transplanted from Japan, Britain, Poland, Russia, Germany, Ireland, Korea, and the United States. The author travels from the insular cities and towns of the east, along ghostly trails through the countryside, to reach the Gran Chaco of the west: the “green hell” covering almost two-thirds of the country, where 4 percent of the population coexists–more or very-much-less peacefully–with a vast array of exotic wildlife that includes jaguars, prehistoric lungfish, and their more recently evolved distant cousins, the great fighting river fish. Gimlette visits with Mennonites and the indigenas, arms dealers and real-estate tycoons, shopkeepers, government bureaucrats and, of course, Nazis. Filled with bizarre incident, fascinating anecdote, and richly evocative detail, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig is a brilliant description of a country of eccentricity and contradiction, of beguilingly individualistic men and women, and of unexpected and extraordinary beauty. It is a vivid, often riotous, always fascinating, journey.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307806529
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
A wildly humorous account of the author's travels across Paraguay–South America's darkly fabled, little-known “island surrounded by land.” Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a mystery to outsiders. Think of this small nation and your mind is likely to jump to Nazis, dictators, and soccer. Now, John Gimlette’s eye-opening book–equal parts travelogue, history, and unorthodox travel guide–breaches the boundaries of this isolated land,” and illuminates a little-understood place and its people. It is a wonderfully animated telling of Paraguay's story: of cannibals, Jesuits, and sixteenth-century Anabaptists; of Victorian Australian socialists and talented smugglers; of dictators and their mad mistresses; bloody wars and Utopian settlements; and of lives transplanted from Japan, Britain, Poland, Russia, Germany, Ireland, Korea, and the United States. The author travels from the insular cities and towns of the east, along ghostly trails through the countryside, to reach the Gran Chaco of the west: the “green hell” covering almost two-thirds of the country, where 4 percent of the population coexists–more or very-much-less peacefully–with a vast array of exotic wildlife that includes jaguars, prehistoric lungfish, and their more recently evolved distant cousins, the great fighting river fish. Gimlette visits with Mennonites and the indigenas, arms dealers and real-estate tycoons, shopkeepers, government bureaucrats and, of course, Nazis. Filled with bizarre incident, fascinating anecdote, and richly evocative detail, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig is a brilliant description of a country of eccentricity and contradiction, of beguilingly individualistic men and women, and of unexpected and extraordinary beauty. It is a vivid, often riotous, always fascinating, journey.