Author: Hatsue Nakawaki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701384
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A young child learns that although creatures that appear can also disappear, parents will always be there.

Author: Carl Kasell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985067342
Category : Radio journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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A memoir by the most beloved man in public radio, Carl Kasell. From his earliest radio days in North Carolina, to his rockstar-like fame on the NPR quiz show, "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" you'll read amusing and touching anecdotes from Carl and many of public radio's biggest names.

Author: Jacquelyn Reinach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937524008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Responsible Rabbit has trouble coping with having to wait for things, especially when standing in line.

Author: Peter Sagal
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1451696256
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runner’s World, shares “commentary and reflection about running with a deeply felt personal story, this book is winning, smart, honest, and affecting. Whether you are a runner or not, it will move you” (Susan Orlean). On the verge of turning forty, Peter Sagal—brainiac Harvard grad, short bald Jew with a disposition towards heft, and a sedentary star of public radio—started running seriously. And much to his own surprise, he kept going, faster and further, running fourteen marathons and logging tens of thousands of miles on roads, sidewalks, paths, and trails all over the United States and the world, including the 2013 Boston Marathon, where he crossed the finish line moments before the bombings. In The Incomplete Book of Running, Sagal reflects on the trails, tracks, and routes he’s traveled, from the humorous absurdity of running charity races in his underwear—in St. Louis, in February—or attempting to “quiet his colon” on runs around his neighborhood—to the experience of running as a guide to visually impaired runners, and the triumphant post-bombing running of the Boston Marathon in 2014. With humor and humanity, Sagal also writes about the emotional experience of running, body image, the similarities between endurance sports and sadomasochism, the legacy of running as passed down from parent to child, and the odd but extraordinary bonds created between strangers and friends. The result is “a brilliant book about running…What Peter runs toward is strength, understanding, endurance, acceptance, faith, hope, and charity” (P.J. O’Rourke).

Author: Lindsay Price
Publisher: Theatrefolk
ISBN: 1926533070
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Matt Stanton
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460707885
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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'AN EXCELLENT READ ALOUD, FUNNY, QUESTIONING AND MIND BOGGLING' -- ReadPlus For the Grown-Ups: 'Wait! Just wait!' You find yourself saying this all the time, right? Well, we're sorry, but you're gonna hate this book! This book is going to make you wait too. Once you and the kids start reading it, you can't do anything else until it's finished. You'll just have to ... wait. And the kids will love it! From the brilliant brains behind This Is a Ball, Did You Take the B from My _ook? and The Red Book comes a brand-new giggle-inducing bestseller! PRAISE FOR THE BOOKS THAT DRIVE KIDS CRAZY SERIES 'The kids are having a ball (whoops, having fun) and a discussion is born.' -- 4 stars, Good Reading 'Funny, clever, deliciously dry ... this book encourages kids to think outside the square, and hopefully, somewhere deep in that unlimited subconscious, understand that what we see is all about perception. What a powerful thought.' -- Kids' Book Review

Author: Roy Blount, Jr., Jr.
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN: 0374712883
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Our best-laid plans will yield to fate. And we will say, “We lived. We ate.” Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from “a work of art” (Robert W. Creamer, The New York Times Book Review) to “a book to read till it falls apart” (Newsweek). Now, in Save Room for Pie, he applies his much-praised wit and charm to a rich and fundamental topic: food. As a lifelong eater, Blount always got along easy with food—he didn’t have to think, he just ate. But food doesn’t exist in a vacuum; there’s the global climate and the global economy to consider, not to mention Blount’s chronic sinusitis, which constricts his sense of smell, and consequently his taste buds. So while he’s always frowned on eating with an ulterior motive, times have changed. Save Room for Pie grapples with these and other food-related questions in Blount’s signature style. Here you’ll find lively meditations on everything from bacon froth to grapefruit, Kobe beef to biscuits. You’ll also find defenses of gizzards, mullet, okra, cane syrup, watermelon, and boiled peanuts; an imagined dialogue between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; input from Louis Armstrong, Frederick Douglass, and Blaze Starr; and of course some shampooed possums and carjacking turkeys. In poems and songs, limericks and fake (or sometimes true) news stories, Blount talks about food in surprising and innovative ways, with all the wit and verve that prompted Garrison Keillor, in The Paris Review, to say: “Blount is the best. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence.”

Author: Antoinette Portis
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596439211
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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"A ... picture book about the joys of waiting and taking in what is around you"--

Author: David Levinson Wilk
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9781452123318
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Filled with puzzles and trivia taken directly from NPR's popular news quiz show Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!©, this crossword puzzle book is for every fan who's been itching to put their own trivia powers to the test!

Author: Christa Crewdson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Madcap, chaotic hilarity ensues when Jason hires a troupe of local actors to play the part of a perfect family to impress Sheila, his new girlfriend. This elaborate ruse nearly goes as planned, only to backfire when Jason's real family comes home unexpectedly. The actors remain in character and do their best to keep their act together, but things quickly unravel. From overhearing a murder plot to meeting the "ghost" of General Washburn, Sheila decides she's seen enough of Jason and his families.